From the hang time (~10 seconds from apex to ground), looks like this fountain is almost 500 meters high. Easily clears Eiffel Tower.

California shut down its last coal plant last week and nobody even noticed, it made so little little difference. Meanwhile solar is up 17% and gas is down 17% from 2024. I have a few highlights... www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

A display of pure power from Hurricane Melissa today. Remarkable satellite imagery.

It’s Sunday and I’m trying to catch an 8-minute connection from BART to Caltrain at Millbrae. BART arrived on time at SFO but departed 7 minutes late for Millbrae. Will there be enough time for the time-honored Millbrae escalator sprint?

Magnitude 8.0 upzoning - 0 km from Sacramento, CA - 2025-10-10 17:00:00 UTC - TSUNAMI of SB 79 housing expected in all urban areas of California. Nice new apartments will reach 6 stories over normal housing heights. RECOMMENDED ACTION stay in CA to enjoy affordable housing with great transportation

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus. It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions. Thank you, Governor!

@governor.ca.gov it’s time to sign SB 79. Are you a governor of the people, or of the landed gentry? Tell us.

They were sooooo close to getting it 🤪

London Underground greebles

Electrification + all-day frequency + return to office + freeway jams = Caltrain ridership ↗️

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

End of an era! Surprised they didn’t toss in the remains of 919 for spare parts

In German, “secret state police” translates as “Geheime Staatspolizei” which is kind of a mouthful so it can be shortened to Gestapo

Millions of Americans drive two-ton vehicles impaired, far above speed limits and play with phones—law-breaking causing tens of thousands of death and solvable with current tech and real enforcement. Anyone blathering about capping e-bike speeds in the name of public safety is not a serious person.

Exceptional deconstruction of NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon. A disaster waiting to happen, if it ever actually gets under way. idlewords.com/2024/5/the_l...

My Caltrain engineer is braking with air, as if operating an F40

Hello, tech support? My bridge is making strange tonal sounds

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Bay Area transit friends: I have thoughts about how to fix Caltrain in Santa Clara County.

I wonder which neighborhoods GenAI will recommend we destroy @segbydesign.bsky.social

After a power source reaches 100 TWh -- basically, after it gets out of the larval stage -- how long does it then take it to reach 10x, ie, 1000 TWh? How long to 20x, ie, 2000 TWh? Solar is the fastest. Ever.

By day and night he wrongs me, every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other That sets us all at odds. I’ll not endure it.

Who’s ready for Black Monday?

There are more of us.

An R3 (strong) solar flare peaked around 1520 UTC on 28 March, as captured by the SUVI instrument on #GOESEast. More info: www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/r3-stro...

Dough rounder.

MH370: search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight resumes after 11 years

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

What if we… 1. Taxed billionaires out of existence ($999M means you won), 2. Taxed capital gains at a higher rate than labor, 3. Set tax rates to achieve a target outcome of wealth distribution by quintile

This is why I ditched the NYT and subscribed to the Guardian. Calls a spade a spade, which is the very least you could expect from a news organization.

Footage from the cockpit of a commercial aircraft shows falling space debris from SpaceX’s Starship Flight 7, which broke up earlier tonight over the Atlantic near the Turks and Caicos Islands.

One of my favorite SFO historical bits: a remnant of the old Bayshore Highway, abandoned in the late 1940s to expand the airport. It’s by the threshold of runway 1R.

I thought I'd end 2024 with a 1-minute #GOESWest Near-Infrared (Vegetation Band 3) view of long shadows cast by the Alaska Range - particularly the peaks of Denali and Mount Foraker - due to the low post-solstice sun angle. #AKwx

A neat thought experiment about how safely you drive is “what would happen if everyone drove just like you.” Now we know how safely cops drive.

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Neighbors in East San Carlos just installed a ghost bike for 31-year-old Andrea Vallebueno, who was killed by a driver on November 16th in this “mixing zone.” There was supposed to be a bike/ped bridge here, but it was cancelled because US-101 was widened and there was no longer right-of-way.

Treat yourself by watching this loop for a while. A close-up of the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, seen by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS camera in 2016 and processed by @landru79.bsky.social. The "snow" is actually dust particles... in front of a moving ocean of stars.

This combo is faster than a car, and so much more pleasant!

I kinda wish I needed a motion compensated gangway, but upon reflection, I don’t

That CEO murder was a major violation of established class boundaries, and the reaction to it reveals this violation to be almost worse than murder.

Rocks near the Mars Curiosity Rover this weekend on Sol 4379. Over eons of wind erosion and other processes, the softer layers were removed, leaving this.

Stockton & Jackson, SF, on a Wednesday

Delicious satellite imagery alert! 🚨

Grey sky > Blue sky

Everybody follow @gocaltrain.bsky.social they’ll have to post something!

Okay let’s get our mind off the news, what is a good name for this?