Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar

Still no typical coffee shop on Treasure Island, but adding “$3.50 Nespresso at Bay Padel” to my list of places where purchasing a coffee is at least sometimes possible.

Impressed with the Shellmound St bikeway in Emeryville, haven’t seen a speed bump used at a mixing zone before but I like it (and the channelization)

Bad journalism has real-life consequences.

Starting next week, riding this bus and most other buses to BART will be FREE! Clipper 2 rolls out on December 10, including free and low cost transfers between all transit agencies. Riders will automatically receive discounts up to $2.85 when transferring within a two hour window.

Investments in public transit have failed to provide the right incentives for infrastructure projects to get completed in an affordable and timely manner. Join this webinar to learn how reforms to the shape, type, and speed of investment can transform project delivery and service outcomes.

Blogged about the Treasure Island Ferry, including a couple service ideas. www.treasuredtidings.net/posts/ferry/

A difference between robot cars vs. regular cars is that with regular cars, drivers walk to where they park, spreading traffic out. With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line. bsky.app/profile/thew...

Bearistotle ass reasoning

I am studying for the American Planning Association's professional certification exam and I am kind of blown away by the planning profession's lack of faith in itself and confidence in its own judgment. We know that building more lanes does not fix traffic congestion. We've known this for 75 years!

Fire recall mode graphic for our fancy elevator call panels!

Transit Signal Priority is an umbrella term for multiple strategies that reduce delays for transit vehicles at signalized intersections, potentially down to zero. Here, I'm comparing the trade-offs between a "French-style" and an "in-phase" TSP strategy, more common in North America.

My bus operator, ending an emphatic explanation to a bus full of UC Berkeley students about moving to the back to make room: "I tell you what - the Stanford kids? They would have figured this out already."

Anybody have any favorite examples of world-class residential bike parking? Can be from anywhere...

this is awful. this man is so brave for testifying. Broadview is inhumane on every level

Hoping I get to see these in the wild!

many people are saying this (comparing right now to early Covid) lauriemerrell.com/posts/dispat...

"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."

Speaking of fast bike problems, did at least get TICD to fix this sightline with SFMTA's help.

It’s great to see misguided mandates on public transit emissions go from a policy wonk topic, to getting real attention. $$$ goes further getting more people on transit than switching to costly and unreliable battery-only buses. missionlocal.org/2025/10/sfmt...

Caught it live, this was a great speech.

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Riding BART on Saturday? We will have long trains. Parking is free. You can now pay for BART by tapping your contactless credit/debit card or using Apple Pay or Google Pay at the fare gates. No set up and no need to use a machine. Just Tap and Ride.

Always rewarding when we can enable analyses like this one, I'll pass it along to colleagues not on Bluesky. We'll keep producing and expanding this dataset to include more transit service attributes relevant to SB79 as well as visualizations of our process: github.com/cal-itp/data...

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide. So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

I've been working on a new video for a while. Starting a new series today! We're gonna explore all the technology you find in ordinary cars, and we're starting with the catalytic converter. youtu.be/Aytf6ARcs8s

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

I'm baffled that the governor could be considering a veto. If it isn't signed then there's no chance we turn around the state's housing crisis. If we don't fix the crisis then higher office is out of the question. The only path to the White House requires doing the right thing and signing it.

There's also an online form at www.gov.ca.gov/contact/ if you'd like another contact option

i got you, added a couple points

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning. This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

This rules so hard. It's been a longstanding conviction of mine that the best way to convince people to replace car trips with ebike trips is by letting them try out an ebike for free. Love the Oakland Public Library. oaklandside.org/2025/09/25/o...

Kavanaugh thinks this is a minor inconvenience, not something of concern under the 4th amendment

Wrote up a little trip report from my Olympic National Park hike with my sister: www.treasuredtidings.net/posts/olympi...

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Something to consider! I'm going in for my booster tomorrow (go California and Kaiser!), but have been shifting my behavior also.

Sotomayor's dissent strongly suggests that we've now reached the point where it is fair advice to tell any Latino citizen in Los Angeles to carry a passport or birth certificate (or picture of one on their phone) at all times with them now, in case they're stopped by DHS or their compatriots.

if you are looking for solid on the ground reporting in Chicago, I recommend: - @unraveledpress.com - @mulchy.bsky.social - @pgoyette.bsky.social please do not amplify people who have no record of posting accurate or timely information about events in Chicago

Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”

Singles got city planners pretty right.

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

Love to see it! California needs a thriving and affordable LA.