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Berkeleyside@berkeleyside.org · yesterday

The activists who long lobbied to transform this former Santa Fe railroad line into green space are 'ecstatic' it's happening.

I love BayWheels so much, like this would be 35-40 minutes of my life every single day walking to and from Bart and instead if I e-bike both ways - 10 minutes total. That’s more time in the morning and evening with my kids, less time that my partner has to be solo, more she can sleep in, etc etc.

What if Flock is actually a very sophisticated system for surveillance and arresting police stalkers?

The Liberal BoJack@thelibbojack.bsky.social · yesterday

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

Watching this without audio it looks like a pro-wrestling promo (laudatory)

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d ago

Haley Stevens makes the case for why Michiganders should support her healthcare policies. "I'm the only person in this race…who has stood up to Big Pharma to lower the cost of prescription drugs."

Right, "we don't need to redesign our streets, we just need to enforce the laws" is code for "I don't really want to think about this and I certainly don't want to change anything about how I drive, and if nothing at all changed, well that's certainly better me having to change in any way."

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 3d ago

Right. By all means, PLEASE ticket drivers for phone use. But, among other problems with in-person enforcement, cops can't be deployed everywhere 24/7. That suggests a host of other solutions — such as design changes, automated enforcement, etc. — are needed and, yes, probably better.

oh you’re not gonna stop at the stop sign. ok well then you’re gonna hit me. and sugar you had just better hope you kill me

Median income in Alameda county is about $130,000. So assume it sells for the same up here, that's price to income of about 4. Average price-to-income in this area is closer to 12. Basically revolutionary for home ownership.

California YIMBY@cayimby.bsky.social · 3d ago

California's first standalone ADU sold as its own home for $530,000 — in a city where median home prices top $2 million. A 2023 law made this legal. It shows how small changes to existing rules can open a cheaper path to ownership. www.sfgate.com/realestate/a...

For 170 years we've railed against the newcomers to protect what we love. But what we love about SF isn't the buildings - it's the people. SF is just Santa Barbara unless we always welcome the next generation of misfits

When will we know we have Democratic leadership worthy of the name? When they can say “yeah, Uncommitted did the right the right thing, the way they were treated and talked about was stupid and awful, and we should be grateful to them for being a part of our party.”

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5d ago

Uncommitted did the inside outside strategy that liberals claim to worship to a T and will never be forgiven. There is unfortunately a pretty perverse lesson in there.

You know you’re not playing enough video games when it takes twenty minutes of updating things for everything to turn on

Hi everyone, it’s me, your local neighborhood convicted arsonist. Please enjoy my speech about the evils of sprinkler systems, and the mean mean people who advocate for them.

Welp deleted my Nextdoor account

I actually really like the idea of municipal grocery stores - I don’t think this is a good way to do it but I’m grateful to Mamdani for putting it into practice and letting the rest of see what happens. Hope it works and is replicable without too many unintended consequences.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.

At our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.

I was told yesterday that I was “so selfish” by an anti- bike lane person when I told them there was no room for compromise. To which I say - hell yes I am selfish on this one, and I will be selfish on this one every day of my life. Because this isn’t happening to my kid or any other kid in my town

Robert Prinz@prinzrob.bsky.social · last wk.

Sharrows and door zone bike lanes, even narrower than the one that resulted in the dooring death of 4 year old Maia Correia in 2023. Oakland is building a protected bikeway there right now, to eliminate this danger going forward. oaklandside.org/2025/07/25/l...

Working on a little chat bot to make it easy to look up information and stats on development projects, and I asked Claude to make a little consent modal for logging chat content, and just on its own it used this sketchy dark pattern. Not super cool Claude!

I haven’t been following local politics closely for tooooo long but this report is one of the wildest things I’ve seen. Truly cannot believe they put some of this in writing!

Jean Walsh@therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social · 2w ago

AC Transit should keep the focus on what matters to bus riders, not on recommendations from out of state consultants who fail to understand California law, elected boards, or governance. This embarrassing report never should’ve seen the light of day. Thank you for showing up to call out the BS!

Not great!

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 2w ago

Growing signs of prolonged & potentially intense heatwave across SW by early Aug. A broad Four Corners ridge will strengthen far beyond usual levels on its western flank, possibly due in part to indirect effects from a yet-to-develop East Pacific hurricane. Details TBD. #CAwx

Get rid of your imposter syndrome (which tends to afflict smart people more than dumb people anyway). NO ONE is a "real expert." You have every right to be there. And you can make an enormous difference if you're in the room at the right time. Get involved. Participate. You can matter.

I used to work with a bunch of Spanish people and I was very surprised to learn that the Spanish did not do colonialism, that was the Catholic Church. <touches finger to ear> hold on a second, I’m being told that joint rulers Isabella and Ferdinand had a nickname…

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · last mo.

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Spot the telltale indicator that Foreign Policy article was written by a robot

They used to say that Paul Ryan cwas a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person looked and sounded like. Very easy to see a similar dynamic here with Platner.

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · last mo.

Platner is what educated progressives think working class people want.

Top 10 US cities by share of workers commuting by bike: —Davis CA —Boulder CO —Palo Alto CA —Cambridge MA —Somerville MA —Corvallis OR —Santa Cruz CA —Arlington MA —Berkeley CA —Miami Beach FL www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/us-...

Hell yeah Berkeley, CA

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · last mo.

Top 10 US cities with the smallest share of workers commuting by driving alone: —Hoboken NJ —Cambridge MA —New York NY —Jersey City NJ —Berkeley CA —Washington DC —Brookline MA —San Francisco CA —West New York NJ —Somerville MA www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/us-...

When they say “don’t build in my neighborhood, build everything in west Berkeley”, they’re saying this is fine.

Bill Lindeke@blindeke.bsky.social · last mo.

“In 2024 alone more 41,800 premature deaths in the US were attributable to road pollution.” (Same number as are killed in crashes.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

You know you’re “parent of a small child” years old when you know that this results in Frog and Toad feeding Claude to a bunch of birds

Joshua Mask@joshuafmask.bsky.social · last mo.

Like 90% of Southern California is like this. With just a shred of imagination and spine local leaders could revolutionize transportation. Unfortunately that's about a shred more than most politicians (and to be fair, voters) down there have.

YIMBYonese Liberation Army@dingbattitude.bsky.social · last mo.

Most roads in the eastern San Gabriel Valley are twice as wide as they need to be. Here’s Loraine Ave and Sierra Madre Ave in Glendora (last two pictures) including a recently widened section that still has no sidewalk on one side. Many sidewalks easily don’t meet ADA at obstructions.

Ahh but is it Bird Safe? No? Sorry, can’t use it in the city of Berkeley!

@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · last mo.

Germany has successfully engineered a revolutionary transparent solar glass that generates clean electricity while remaining completely see-through from both sides, fundamentally transforming how buildings produce energy. #solarpower #ActOnClimate

“We have spent decades insisting that every department needs a custom-engineered apparatus. Custom pump configurations, custom cab heights, custom body layouts, custom compartmentation, custom paint…NFPA 1901 compounds the problem. Every revision cycle adds requirements…”

Fire Apparatus Costs Are a Procurement Problem, Not Just a Pricing Problem

Earlier this month, the IAFF published a detailed account of the fire apparatus crisis, covering the lawsuits filed by Los Angeles County and Milwaukee, the antitrust investigation launched by Texas, ...

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+1000 to this. It’s easy to be cynical and distrusting when you hear“we want new housing hit not big ugly boxes” but a lot of people really do mean it. Defanging that opposition vector by legalizing beautiful buildings will go a loooong way towards creating durable local pro-housing politics.

California YIMBY@cayimby.bsky.social · last mo.

CA YIMBY's Eduardo Mendoza argues ugly buildings turn housing-neutral voters into opponents, and the fix isn't more design review. Objective standards targeting coherent style, real materials, and street trees can make beautiful housing the by-right default. cayimby.org/blog/buildin...