Local Public Transit Enthusiast Bart Man! #Hoodslam #SlamTown @Hoodslam @hoodslam.bsky.social @elbart-man.bsky.social

Didn’t take as long to get out of bed this morning as opposed to yesterday, but that’s because I had help transferring. Some mornings I know it just takes time and I can do it myself. Other times I know within minutes of waking up that I will need help. Always thankful that the help is there. #MS

'Even the notion of “quality of life” as a measurable standard is based on assumptions that a “good” healthy life is one without disability, pain, and suffering. I live with all three intimately and I feel more vital than ever at this point in time, because of my experiences and relationships.'

'I’m no expert but I know what it means to be dehumanized, rendered disposable, and oppressed,' Alice wrote of the imperative to be in solidarity with Palestine. 'I know that all people deserve freedom. I know that genocide is a mass disabling event and a form of eugenics.'

Too many lives have been cut short. Too many loved ones left behind. 💛 We show up with our collective grief and anger – and demand change. #WDoR2025 #VisionZeroSF #StreetSafetyActSF

The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis. "American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

For Your Consideration: QWI 2025 Match of the Year. Jess Reina Capablanca and @boynamedrichie.bsky.social capped off a historic outing at Petaluma Pride with a game of physical chess for the queerest prize in wrestling, the Princex of Pride! Link to vote in comments youtu.be/P9Ps7f0JVaQ?...

made a zine last month about the bus !!!! I love the bus!! 🚌 (1/2)

I love transit. jean-wei.tumblr.com/post/8001216...

@elbart-man.bsky.social the world wants new BART-man merch

i just want my kids to be able to walk to the store to get stuff so I don't have to.

First day of heavy rain and all along the newly constructed bike lanes on 14th you'll see them flooded and full of trash 😬

they are killing the Suica penguin. because of woke

This Friday at Seventh West in Oakland. Come through and rage with me. The home of higher learning always parties hard www.eventbrite.com/e/stoner-u-u...

TOMORROW and every Tuesday at hoodslam/youtube 7PM PST #SlamTown s #1 Popstar B3CCA v Our #1 OnlyFans Creater KEiTA + Newcomer/Outcast Anton Voorhees & Town Librarian Richard Shhhnary are looking for hidden knowledge - and it leads them to Sheikah and The Church! youtu.be/p7b2zQOA5EI?...

I mean, maybe it's just me, but I don't think this is how medical settings should work

Actually, the real problem in my humble opinion is that masks should be required in medical settings *year round* in *all* counties. I mean... why should you be allowed to spread your germs to other people who are sick?

For me it was the AC Transit Easy Pass I got as a freshman at UC Berkeley. I grew up in suburban LA and was terrified about moving to Berkeley without a car. Having access to unlimited bus rides included in tuition cost changed my world. I quickly discovered the freedom of living without a car.

without the Nov 2026 ballot measure approved, both BART and Caltrain are saying they will run 60-minute headways, 9pm closures, no weekend service, and close low-usage stations down. that's a regional death knell

Rob was a waterboy who grew in heart, and thus in size. When his friend died, he met God and went back in time to save him. When that world ended, his heart grew and he took his friend into his heart. The waves of change took out every star, he was alone. But then the stars came back. And now

Caltrain popularity among riders at all time high: https://blog.bayareametro.gov/posts/caltrain-popularity-among-riders-all-time-high!

A Better Path: Permanent Funding for E-Bikes. The state’s response to a wildly popular e-bike program? Cancel it and put the money towards cars. Take action: go.calbike.org/a/better-pat... (link in bio)

BIG DAVE & the CHAIN MAIDENS will be in combat FRIDAY NOV 7TH #Oakland #SlamTown 🤼‍♀️🤼‍♂️

‼️ "Roughly one in four @transit.app users has some form of accessibility need, spanning from low vision to mobility limitations."

Important service announcements: Next stop: SlamTown (@hoodslam.bsky.social), Friday 11/7 Purchase your fare here: www.eventbrite.com/e/slamtown-r...

This is how @hoodslam.bsky.social became SlamTown.

I was running early to an event so I got off BART a stop early at Powell Street for an extra walk. Instead I sat and listened to a wonderful pianist play for 20 minutes. At one point another person came up and asked if they could play together, and they did. I love music on transit ❤️🎶

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

As soon as I posted this, the Dodgers hit a home run. Let’s go tie game so we can get 20 innings!!!

Important Game 7 content

Essential research shows that particulate pollution—generated from motor fuels exhaust, tire wear, wildfires, factories, etc—is associated with dementia. More evidence that it is in the interest of public health to reduce pollution. (Gift link)

Do yourself a huge favor and get a true hepa air purifier in your bedroom

Ban cars lmao

🎃 Some lessons from Hallowe’en: 👻 Little kids should be able to walk in the streets, even at night, without worrying about cars. People who are well-off are expected to give out more candy. Candy is for anyone who asks — no means-testing. Whatever else we are, we are each other’s neighbors.

Shameful. I will never support Newsom for President or any other office. No matter how much he has done on housing, standing up to Trump, Prop 50 redistricting, gay marriage, or any other issue you care about, he cares more about where the political winds blow than about people or policy.

The event organizer, Unity Council, has an emergency preparedness plan in case of federal immigration enforcement activity.

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

“If someone was walking along the streets spraying poisonous fumes into people’s faces, they’d be arrested and probably locked up. But if you spray those fumes into people’s faces using a car, it’s somehow legal.” -Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.

Platform screen doors (PSDs) in Seoul were fundamentally a political issue. Once political support was secured, financial and engineering barriers quickly gave way. Loved this piece by @seung.bsky.social explaining how 200+ stations received PSDs in <10 years. www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...

day 3: the walking distance from the furthest parking spot to a dodger stadium entrance is nearly 760 m, or ~1/2 mi on a full-lot game day. it's so huge, you could lay the CN tower down horizontally from this corner and it would fit in the parking lot with room to spare!

👁🌀 @a3branden.bsky.social × #SlamTown // @hoodslam.bsky.social

I want to do that thing where I log off until I'm done writing my book, but holy hell. A venture capitalist and an AI chipmaker negotiating with a crypto billionaire president to stop a federal goon invasion of San Francisco...I'll be re-writing until midnight on deadline.

Free flu vaccines available today at Berkeley City College in downtown #Berkeley

Okay Libs, you want High Speed Rail? You want Red Vienna? Maybe you do… But do you have the strength to do what is necessary to achieve the levels of land value deflation experienced by Austro-Hungry and Imperial Japan? How committed are you to the Urbanist cause? Cowards.

@kevinriggle.bsky.social …I keep all my transit cards from around the world in a multipocketed plastic folder, alongside the corresponding foreign currency, for if and when I go back to that city? I don’t know if that makes me more or less of a transit nerd than displaying them would.

Kenny K is one of the best high flyers on the indies and should get a lot more love