Darrell Owens
@idothethinking.bsky.social
Anti fascist urbanist. My "bluesky posts" represent myself and do not represent my employer or any affiliated groups and organizations.
This is me. Hence why i dont post as much. Shit was cool in 2015 but now its dystopian, toxic and an absolute time waster. Empty calories of info nonstop with tons of IRL headache. Fuck it.
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 20h agohighly anecdotal, but I've been getting the growing sense that certain demographics are just kinda over social media more broadly
highly anecdotal, but I've been getting the growing sense that certain demographics are just kinda over social media more broadly
Sarah Perez@sarahp.bsky.social · 20h agoBluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app
"BlueSky can't read" is undefeated in these replies
Cool Bike Art@coolbikeart1.bsky.social · yesterdayIf you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.
I dont like that at a time of ever increasing importance in local news coverage that Berkeleyside is too scared to host any candidate opeds so policies can be laid out clearly If i just wanted to read local culture things i have the Berkeley Times and other weekly magazines
I dont understand why transfer are so hard for BART. An orange Berryessa just took off from MacArthur (next 17 mins) instead of waiting for the SFO train. No operator announcement or anything so DTO bound passagers could get back on board. Its not the Tokyo subway its a baby tier metro.
Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
Jim Swift@jimswift.bsky.social · 2d ago
Though incorporating Piedmont would realistically be a net drain on Oakland financially, since hills neighborhoods are high resource & low revenue due to the lack of density. Their voters would also skew the rest of Oakland more conservative.
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 2d agoThe Chromicle asks: "Are you saying that Piedmont does not have a right to exist?" www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
My friends are having a high profile, cross platform beef right now and i dont know why
tfw the body that writes America's building codes totally understand multifamily typologies and the distinctions between them www.iccsafe.org/committees/g...
Political spectrum chart comparing various ideologies on a scale of authoritarian to libertarian and bike to scooter.
Clint Eastwood movies are always so corny to me. He's always trying to be a tough guy in a strange world where nobody just swings at him while he's delivering his old man speech.
The trash management situation with bike lanes on Milvia is a bit bad. Like is there nowhere that dumpster can go but on the sidewalk? Meanwhile the dumpster on the left side is forcing riders out the trackeay.
Join @walkbikeberk.bsky.social for the Hopkins Bikeway Victory Party next weekend on Sunday, August 16, from 2-4pm at Cedar Rose Park!
AI companies purposely marketing themselves as evil and humble bragging about hacking other companies really deserve all the anti-AI, anti-data center backlash they get. Zero sympathy. Like why do you behave like that?
A driver hit me with their car today while making a right-turn-on-red. I’m uninjured, and also more angry than usual at how we let car drivers kill us with only the occasional, incremental, reactionary change to the street.
Do I know anyone who goes to the Northbrae Community Church? They've put some anti-upzoning signs up and I bet they haven't talked to anyone in favor. Would like to chat with them.
outsourcing our thinking abilities and spatial reasoning to technology is a very likely a public health issue.
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
theconversation.com
I just dont understand why Bridge Over the River Kwai is such a renowned classic.
Gender war discourse is so boring. When it peaked in 2022 i could only manage like 2 articles on the subject because the answer is so obvious (dont be a misogynist) and i dont know how many times you can say it till it gets repetitive.
Hyperlexic@hyperlexic.bsky.social · 4d agoI feel like 37 year old Dean is the worst person someone on here knows
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Do i know any pro housing neighbors in North Berkeley, particularly District 5 and 6 (Northbrae Thousand Oaks area)?
Sometimes I get annoyed by the amount of words we waste on the Trump Admin. It's some little nazi that runs all the social media accounts purposely appropriating pop culture and defiling it with the intent of pissing people off. It's not any more complicated than that.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5d agoThe White House tried to turn Spider-Man into an ICE mascot. There’s just one problem: a classic Marvel comic shows Spider-Man protecting undocumented migrants, condemning anti-immigrant rhetoric, and protesting a deportation arrest.
Sneering about the "faculty lounge" is deeply funny. Most departments don't have one, but if they do, it's like a wall of mailboxes, a coffee maker and maybe a mini-fridge. You're basically sneering about the break room on The Office. "Oooh, look who has a *vending* machine! Excuse me, m'lord!"
New research from Terner Center & @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social: Building homes per recently updated local housing plans would mean residents of new homes would drive over a mile less than existing residents each day—cutting statewide Vehicle Miles Traveled by 1% by 2030. ow.ly/v8s950Zs8Bw
Projected Transportation Impacts of California Housing Plans - Terner Center
Authors: Zack Subin, Associate Research Director, Housing and Climate Aaron Barrall, Housing Data Analyst, UCLA Lewis Center Quinn Underriner, Senior Data Scientist California has ambitious climate ta...
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"When properly regulated, [Automated Enforcement Technology] does not pose the same threats to privacy as license-plate-reader surveillance" "AETs are designed solely to capture information on cars that commit specific moving violations" taking photos only when a camera-enforceable violation occurs
onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 3mo agoHappy to finally publish this! Many object to automated enforcement legislation on privacy grounds, and invoke the ACLU's name. But those same people seem perfectly fine with dragnet surveillance of motorists conducted by license plate readers. Make it make sense. www.aclum.org/news/were-pr...
Anyone have that photo of Illhan Omar posing with a copy of The High cost of Free parking?