This free emery-go-round bus has about 10x as many riders on it as the AC Transit 57 bus on the same route that I took an hour ago. Feel like there's something important to learn here. It's also more comfortable.

Passed an early 80's Cutlass Classic station wagon today, spewing aromatic unburnt hydrocarbons. Are nostalgic memories of the aromas of rampant pollution a trauma response?

Maps of the home/destination of BART travelers (from 2015) is breaking my brain (in a good way). h/t @bryanculbertson.com

Why doesn't clippercard.com have anything about the Clipper 2.0 launch? Asking for a friend.

Rest in peace to a San Francisco legend, Claude the albino alligator 🐊🤍

Awkward!

About what I expected. From Oakland GIS.

OMG finally

Considering starting a personal crusade against 3-lane streets in Oakland. Few (if any) have enough vehicle traffic to justify 3 lanes, and they all seem to have speeding problems.

This spread of non-Cavendish bananas at Berkeley Bowl in Berkeley, CA reminded me of @hankgreen.bsky.social 's video about bananas a few weeks ago.

Cycling on freeways is... oddly fine. Yes, cars make a tremendous amount of noise at 70 mph, but freeways have a 12 ft shoulder that puts a larger buffer between me and a car than nearly all other roads. Prefer that to someone dragging a boat off the pavement around a tight corner.

Really excited about the new striping at Fruitvale and Alameda Ave, but I'm hoping the remaining work includes a beg button for the bike crossing. Or retiming of the signal to include a southbound bike phase. Otherwise there isn't a good way to get a green signal.

I have 13 lockable doors and gates around the house, with the important ones all having keypads. So I never use keys. Instead they are all sitting in a drawer along with spare keys for friends and neighbors houses, and some unknowns, all dubiously labeled.

Now I want a garden railway.

Good for a laugh during a cousin walk. IYKYK.

Approve!

So weird to see GOP house members resign rather than vote for what they want. It's like... did you not listen during orientation?

Heaven is a parking lot, or something.

The key to a really great pecan pie is to make a tart instead. And mix whole pecans with chopped. This allows you to decrease the corn syrup by about 75%, and the decreased height makes it easier to get the candy foam texture that properly suspends the pecan pieces.

When I say Waymo "doesn't scale," this is what I mean.

Ah, yes, just what Fresno needs: Even more single-family home-driven suburban sprawl that benefits local developers and probably no one else.

AI is a marketing term.

Amusing myself by watching my watch altimeter while on an airplane. It's wrong of course, since it's air pressure based, and the cabin is thankfully pressurized. Apparently to the same pressure as 1731 m altitude (5700 ft).

*gold-colored bars

Close Telegraph to cars immediately! Berkeley voted years ago to close it by rebuilding the street, but it can be closed to cars immediately with plastic posts and signs Safety can't wait any longer

What a specimen out in the forest today

My theory for the low sense of overdevelopment, at least in North Oakland, is that new buildings and construction have been common for so long that it's become part of the background. That, and you look silly for preferring an empty lot to a building identical to one block down.

Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, all former governors, with shirts that all have the Priority Parking logo, a parking lot owner in Sacramento. Why does Brown have "moonbeam" knuckle tats? Why does Reagan have "trust but verify?". Art makes you think. You thought. Art.

Mendocino Land Trust @mendocinolandtrust.bsky.social set a goal to build 30 miles of trails in the next 3 years, at least 15 of which will be part of the Great Redwood Trail. Mendocino county is full of great hiking and biking trails, but there are lots of gaps.

The city doesn't create permanent pedestrian spaces, and complains that creating temporary ones is a burden. Huh.

If you're paraphrasing or quoting the DSM as the "definition" of something politically topical in a comment, you should probably turn off the internet for a day.

Also you're wrong. I checked TrailForks and you can totally bike into Mordor. Probably need a mountain bike tho.

Always time for some doloricious cookie ipsum!

The sun, setting bisexually

November -- 1975 Gales are master of Gitche Gumee. Only the Edmund Fitzgerald stands before them. Lakes are now battlefields.

Thanks to everyone who came out for today’s @bikeeastbay.bsky.social ride across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. We have NOT given up the fight for 24/7 trail access. Visit BikeEastBay.org/RSR to learn more & stay involved.

Richmond San Rafael bike path 6th Anniversary ride. Beautiful day, lots of people out!

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

New-ish sign prohibiting bicycles at the southern end of the Antioch bridge on CA 160. This sign conflicts with all other information I've found, and the bridge has been historically open to bicycles. There's even a conflicting sign a mile earlier at the on ramp.

Golden hour on the Gold Runner

Hot take: new building designs that look mostly similar to any building with an historic designation should automatically be considered complaint with a city's design standards.

Did this calculation a few months ago when replacing a hot water heater in the house: increasing tank capacity to store more energy was slightly more cost effective than batteries, but a) not for long, and b) the extra control electronics and plumbing made it less cost effective.

Meanwhile his most significant accomplishment in life is being told to fuck off by two different popes in one year.

The longer SNAP stays in the news, the more times Republican congress members say absolutely unhinged horrific crap about SNAP recipients, for all to hear.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains

Hello! What are you doing there?

They really need a clearer version of the SHARE THE ROAD sign that means what it means, even if you're the dumbest lead-poisoned motorhead in the state.

Build a new gas peaker plant, or batteries? In 2025, the answer is astoundingly obvious (batteries), unless you spend (literally) 8x as much.