Join us Saturday, Aug 1st, from 3-5pm to party for transit at Barebottle Brewing Co in San Francisco! Funds raised will go toward our fight for better Bay Area transit! RSVP: luma.com/1e3wf341

Great piece in Esquire on the history of San Francisco's Mission District.

The San Francisco Church That Holds America’s Secrets

Mission Dolores was founded by Spanish missionaries the same year the U.S. declared its independence. It has borne witness to its own version of the American story—not the one you learned in school bu...

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A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Turns out all World Cup winners share a land border (in some way). HT @digimaps

Resurrected an ancient little side project; https://sfstreethistory.com is a fun little interactive history of San Francisco based on why streets have their names.

A GTFS-Based Dataset for the US Intercity Bus Network

A GTFS-Based Dataset for the US Intercity Bus Network

Presents a GTFS of 72 intercity bus operators providing service in the United States, including schedules and routes.

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Super Bowl LX Begins With Moment Of Silence For Failed Bay Area Startups

In a fascinating union of two of my interests, it turns out that the technology that built the special effects of star wars (motion control) was invented by UC Berkeley to research how Marin residents would react to development proposals if they could see realistic video renderings.

MTA Admits To Fabricating Large Parts Of Subway Map https://theonion.com/mta-admits-to-fabricating-large-parts-of-subway-map/

Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com

Pathfinder 1 airship flies by Downtown San Francisco. The largest aircraft in the world.

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

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Starting off the 2025 #ridecontest today with a MUNI ride on Market St. ridecontest.com

It’s the 75th anniversary today of a circus owner deciding that the best way to publicise his business would be to take an elephant on a suspension railway. ‘Tuffi’ responded by charging about in the suspended carriage, breaking through the side and falling 40 feet into the river below

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways? aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

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… What it feels like on @bart.gov taking the Yellow Line from Balboa Park to Antioch.

Cannot wait for San Francisco to finally unite around our greatest strength: preventing something from being built.

TRAINing top Arriving in 3, 15

Inspired by this, I made a website to easily create these types of visualizations. wbholland.github.io/trainspose

Gorton: a font that you probably haven’t heard of but definitely have seen on a daily basis. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

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You can run this accessibility check on any agencies GTFS using the web-based validator validator.blinktag.com or the library: github.com/BlinkTagInc/...

We wondered how the well Bay Area's 40+ transit agencies have implemented accessibility fields in GTFS, so created this dashboard to keep track. accessibility.bayareatransit.org It includes checks for wheelchair boarding info, color contrast, pathways and text-to-speech fields.

This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII

THE NUMBERS ARE IN. WE DID IT! 24 HOURS EXACTLY.

bsquiklehausen@bsquiklehausen.com · last yr.

But was it 24:00 or 24:01. That's genuinely the question.

"While our cross-border bond with the City of Detroit remains strong and important to us, as Mayor, I cannot in good conscience have Windsor taxpayers subsidize transit service to a country that is currently threatening our livelihood."

Joey Coleman@joeycoleman.ca · last yr.

The Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Bus will be no more. This was the only regular schedule local public transit bus to cross an international border control in the world. A sad day for Canada - US relations. www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

As you think about the CA fires, consider this:

Still our FAVOURITE line in any #Christmas movie: “I don’t want to be a princess. I want to be an urban planner!” In the 2005 movie “The Legend of Frosty The Snowman.” Later, the young girl creates a redesign for her home town made out of snow. Instant classic, obviously. #HappyHolidays

Caltrain's F40s and gallery cars are headed for Lima, Peru apparently www.trains.com/trn/news-rev...

Caltrain equipment is bound for Peru - Trains

SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Caltrain’s diesel-powered commuter rail trainsets will find a new life in Peru. The commuter rail operator announced that it has completed an agreement to send 19 locomotives and ...

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