Imagine telling Berkeley council members Kesarwani, Taplin, and Lunaparra that they are white gentrifiers...

Theo Gordon@theogordon.bsky.social · last wk.

Move over zucchini lady, this guy calling 'bike lanes white lanes' and calling the Terner Center the 'Gentrification Center' is my new favorite Berkeley Council moment. #berkmtg

Slowly lumbering zombies always seemed so unrealistic to me, but now I have a crawling baby who follows me everywhere I go at a relatively slow speed, and if I'm quick enough I can do things to stay ahead of him, but I very much understand zombie movies.

Hopkins was my first big bike battle after moving back to Berkeley. The initial Hopkins Council referral, from 2018, is itself old enough to ride a bike. If this very reasonable compromise doesn’t work, my fall-back plan is car-free Hopkins.

Robert Prinz@prinzrob.bsky.social · 3w ago

Info from @bikeeastbay.bsky.social & North Berkeley Now on how to get involved ahead of the July 28 council vote here: bikeeastbay.org/event/hopkin... Come to the free Summer Brake party on July 22 in Berkeley, & fill out a postcard that we'll mail to city council: bikeeastbay.org/event/summer...

Baby just stuck his finger in my nose and gave me a nosebleed. Not cool, kid.

I'm writing thank you notes to all of our daycare teachers, and my hand is cramping up terribly. I can't believe I used to longhand write out essays during exams. No wonder paper charts used to be so concise.

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

This is the new neighborhood association I'm helping start! We're having our first public event tonight to talk about housing in Elmwood.

Berkeley Neighbors for Housing and Climate Action@bnhca.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just sent out a jam packed mail! If you’re in the Elmwood area - join the community forum tonight (7 pm at the Willard Park Clubhouse)! www.wecan.city/housingforum

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

For those of you who never stop saying oh my god look at the moon. Poem Beginning With A Retweet by Maggie Smith #Voice by me.

I took a personal finance class as an undergrad at Stanford. The lady who taught it had worked in the financial aid department for decades. She said her best piece of financial advice was to buy a home in Palo Alto 30 years prior. That's what she'd done.

Next door in Silicon Valley@nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think the best thing to do right now is invest in Palo Alto real estate (not financial advice)

Thank you for the inspiration and also thanks to Aaron Rupar. I could not have done this without seeing your Trump quotes.

Return of the Cmonmacques@cmonmaque.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm at a local bar that has the most volume of green and yellow chartreuse in one place that I have seen in many years. They are doing flights of three different vintages of each color, for $15 each. I'm in heaven. 

The theme of our nurses week is evidently the Kentucky Derby, and they made a horse…

LAUREN GET OUT OF HERE WITH THIS YOU LOOK LIKE IF SOMEONE LEFT MADAME X IN THE SUN

Happy Beltane! It's the perfect day for this song: open.spotify.com/track/2pfvQp...

First of May

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Labyrinth, with David Bowie. I had a baby brother and I was terrified the goblins would come try to take him. Also the pain machine thing in The Princess Bride.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Name the film that scared your socks off as a kid.

The baby napped, I showered and did my hair and makeup, and the house cleaners came--all within the same two hours. I feel like a brand new woman.

My baby got an initial dose of the MMR vaccine early, and I can't even explain how grateful and relieved I am. Worrying that I was going to get exposed at work and then bring it home to him was horrible.

This is my favorite cathedral in NYC, and one of my favorite in the world. It's SO big and fun to get lost wandering through, and then you suddenly run into a Keith Haring triptych and it's modern and wonderful and touching.

@Above96th@above96th.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding

Some people have too much time on their hands.

Jeff Baker@jwbee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Local preservation guy has filed his 1000-page application to establish a historic district over the Elmwood, in an overt attempt to head off planned zoning changes that our duly adopted Housing Element promises. @markhumbert.bsky.social reminder: you can delete the LPC with 5 votes.

I frequently think of things as I'm writing my note that I hadn't fully considered previously. If I need to consider PE, it helps to write down that the patient is PERC negative--or maybe it prompts me to order a dimer. If I let AI do my MDM, I miss that valuable cognitive synthesis step.

blaine@jblainefoster.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"The act of writing it is itself a cognitive process: it forces synthesis, prioritisation, and reflection. It is, in a real sense, how we think. When we outsource that act to an AI, we ... are externalising a cognitive function that was doing clinical work we didn’t realise it was doing."

At the family camp we've gone to my whole life, they have a breakfast omelette bar. And my favorite is called the Avignon Papacy. It is billed as French influence over Italian ingredients: mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, and Italian sausage inside, with a smear of Dijon mustard and Brie melted on top.

One of my friends is a NICU nurse, and she told a story about when a teenager came in in active labor. I'm not the most comfortable managing a laboring patient in the ED, but I imagine the peds EM folks are even less so.

Naïna@killersumobunny.medsky.social · 4mo ago

An attending doc had the same reaction so like, just a PSA, try your best not to have an obstetric emergency in a pediatric ED.

We mustn't dwell. No, not today. We can't! Not on Rex Manning day! What's with today... today?

a man in a pink shirt says we mustn 't dwell no, not today we can 't not on rex manning day

Alt: A gift from the movie Empire Records, in which a young man says "we mustn't dwell. no, not today. we can't! not on rex manning day!"

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Happy match day! Happy Ostara! Eid Mubarak! It's spring everywhere, and it's springing all over.

Casually walking along the Strait of Hormuz (Seriously, I went camping in Oman's Musandam peninsula in 2011)

It feels all too rare nowadays to have a joyful surprise in a breaking news story

Jonny Morris@jonnymorris.bsky.social · 5mo ago

FUCKING HELL GET IN www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don’t care what we’re talking about; the goal should be zero dead children.

war is not healthy for children and other living things 🌼

Wow.