How does Campus Burger offer food cheaper than water??
Idothethinking
@idothethinking.bsky.social
Anti fascist urbanist. My "bluesky posts" represent myself and do not represent my employer or any affiliated groups and organizations.
NEW: Chevron just gave $50,000 to support LA Mayor Karen Bass — and defeat Nithya Raman. "They view Karen Bass as someone who they can work with, someone who will protect their interests in L.A. And they view Nithya Raman as a threat to fossil fuels." www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/chevron-ka...
Chevron makes its choice for L.A. mayor
The oil giant is spending $50,000 to reelect Karen Bass — and defeat progressive challenger Nithya Raman.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
Plessy 2.0, worse than Jim Crow. SCOTUS now "believes" the 14th amendment affirmatively requires white supremacy
Mike Sacks@mikesacks.bsky.social · 22h agoSCOTUS making its first move to go after race-neutral high school admissions standards:
Ned Resnikoff argues that housing advocates can't skip political fights. Local rules that make developers add community benefits already exist, and opponents use them to stack costs until projects fail. Austin and Sacramento show zoning reform works. publiccomment.blog/p/sometimes-...
The new People's Park dorm facade looks ugly. Maybe when the landscaping is done it'll look better but it's just so uninspired to me. If you're going to do modern, I prefer an unapologetic chrome or glass look than paneling added to "mix up the colors." www.berkeleyside.org/2026/10/16/p...
Photos: See what People’s Park student dorm looks like with facade in place
Judith Heumann House will house about 1,100 UC Berkeley undergraduates, the centerpiece of a controversial plan for the long-contested land
berkeleyside.org
The fascist international is real, and silicon valley is one of its support beams
Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 3d agoMeta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish
Damn these nabalom peanut butter cookies are fucking good. Way better than my local bakeries in North Berkeley. Shit I wish i didnt find out on their very last day
Ome to Nabalom. Never been here before but worth getting these scones and cookies i heard about before its gone.
Warren Wells, AICP@warrenjwells.bsky.social · 2d agoThe owners of Nabolom posted a statement about the bakery's closure on FB. No reflection is given to the fact that they blame both (1) a boycott due to their opposing new housing nearby and (2) their workers not being able to afford to live in Berkeley
The owners of Nabolom posted a statement about the bakery's closure on FB. No reflection is given to the fact that they blame both (1) a boycott due to their opposing new housing nearby and (2) their workers not being able to afford to live in Berkeley
Warren Wells, AICP@warrenjwells.bsky.social · 6d agoBerkeley's 50-year-old bakery and pizza shop Nabolom is closing this Sunday. Absolutely heartbreaking, because they have what I believe to be the best pastries in town.
Hoping folks can join me for cake and treats at Temescal Brewing tonight at 6! (Note: if Line 51 Brewing were still open, it would've been there ...) I'm done with bus riding for the day, btw, but Temescal Brewing's on @rideact.bsky.social line 6 and a short walk from the 57, 18, and 51A lines
cars everywhere killing my neighbors: I sleep remote controlled not-car-but-toaster delivering things: real shit (yes yes I know, still)
PhillyVoice.com@phillyvoice.com · 4d agoA retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months in protest. This week, she was arrested for disorderly conduct
new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: within 12 years after the end of WWII, the streetcar networks of San Francisco and Oakland were swept away for buses and the promised Bay Area Rapid Transit train. I take a deep look into the local political economy that helped found BART, Muni, and AC Transit as we know it
How Bay Area public transit was born: 1945-1957
The resurrection of a region and its transit
substack-bahn.net
Last year at YIMBYtown I was lucky enough to convince organizers to let me do a panel on the insurance crisis. TL;DR, if you are an earth human who lives in a home, you are nowhere near sufficiently freaked out by the insurance crisis caused by sprawl housing in hazard zones. It is coming for you.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5d agoA memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models & that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.
Running into high school friends and they have kids now. Its over.
I dont know why Berkeley NIMBY groups feel the need to constantly re-brand themselves, I guess other than to create the impression of some mass uprising when in fact its always the same people. "Concerned N Berk Neighbors" is just the same Save Hopkins members on NextDoor.
Jeff Leyser@jeffleyser.com · 4d agoI would like to thank my “concerned North Berkeley Neighbours” for letting me know who not to vote for this coming election!
Is also a reminder that all these right-wing losers and the next generation of Republicans all grew up on 4chan where they swim in anti-Indian memes and saying nigger. Even Karl Rove is now realizing this—it's bleak.
Jason Linkins@dceiver.bsky.social · 5d agoChristopher Rufo has lately played a role in trying to get Indian-Americans killed krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-...
my gf went to go see this film with her friends and being three hours long + burned out from Elizabeth Holmes content I decided to skip it. Did I fuck up?
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 4d agoI’ve watched 118 movies this year and this was not only far and away my favorite, I think it may be one of my favorite docs of all time. It deserves Best Picture at the Oscars. Fielder and Oppenheim have produced something that basically advances documentary as a medium imo. Deeply troubling film.
The 2027 IBC has been officially published, and it allows single-stair apartment buildings up to four stories! See the new section 1006.3.3.2 codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2...
I love Berkeleyside but man they still have no district 4 & 8 profiles out yet.
Linus' opinion on AI writing code. Makes sense, I definitely think AI is basically the new high level language and traditional code is going the way of binary and assembly. But I still think pull request reviewers should understand the native code and not just defer to AI's review of it.
Building more lanes to reduce congestion is the definition of insanity: doing the same thing and expecting different results. It's time to stop the insanity.
Everyone hates congestion. So why do we keep making it worse? - Transportation For America
Traffic congestion is universally hated. It’s headache-inducing, reduces productivity, and wastes gas. That makes it easy for political leaders to say they’re against it and campaign on fixing it. But decades of building more lanes and increasing roadway capacity have only made the problem worse. So why do leaders keep supporting more of the same? […]
t4america.org
If you haven’t watched this yet, please watch and share. If you care about better or worse cities, transportation, bike-lanes, saving lives, calling out liars, and how to completely dismantle dishonest rage-farming politicians, watch it. Watch it to understand what Doug Ford is doing to Toronto.
The World's Dumbest Bike Lane Law Just Passed in Canada
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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You can drop "wealthy" from it. Gen X white men who spend all day on social media are fucking insane. The most obnoxious people alive by far in all levels of politics.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5d agoI consider myself a fairly compassionate & empathetic person, but the more I read about people in this particular demographic -- wealthy Gen X white men radicalized by social media & group chats -- the more I loathe them. I understand them *too well* to sympathize. They are contemptible & weak.
Major gotcha moment from the NBC Los Angeles mayoral debate: Mayor Bass says many supporters of Nithya Raman's campaign are advocates for bike lanes!! Duh!! Of course! Bike lanes save lives! 🚲🌴
God i wish Broadway in Oakland had a protected bike lane