Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
George Spies
@georgespies.bsky.social
Safe streets, active transpo, dense urbanism, everybody in, nobody out. I like making stuff. Active member of Traffic Violence Rapid Response as well as Seamless Bay Area.
Cities aren’t dirty. Cars are dirty. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
Another variation of multi family housing density.
Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 2d agoFrog hotels IG: @_pollinatorsreserve Snohomish, WA
I invite you to the unpleasant experience of sitting with this for a few minutes and thinking it through. Comments in the thread surface the multiple purposes behind this campaign, all of them bad. Or worse.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Why do we let the cops decide how many cops get overtime for an event? Separate from the question of whether they are trying to make such events too hard to continue…
Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2d agoSummer Streets attendees were stunned by the sheer number of police and their vehicles clogging many intersections — in what one cop called "overkill."
A liberal arts education is the backbone of an enlightened society.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.
Contempt for the rights and freedoms of other people has no place in our society.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoSophie Cunningham is getting booed every time she touches the ball here in Minneapolis
What a phenomenal half. Miles has a fantastic far-side layup. Wow! Can’t wait to see the Lynx play our Valkeries later this month!
Leo S@yoleo.bsky.social · 3d agoOlivia Miles 1st half highlight tape 🍿📽️ (via @wnba.com)
Goddamit people! We need to make this happen!! Let’s help Tara find a way to *dismantle car culture*!
Tara Goddard@drtaragoddard.com · 6d agoIf there are any wealthy benefactors interested, I'm happy to run your research institute and help direct and oversee funded research in dismantling car culture. hmu! 😄
@rideact.bsky.social could have also mentioned that their own Board Director @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social is also going to be singing the National Anthem at the beginning of the game! She’s a great singer! I’m sure they’ll do better going forward with this gentle reminder.
AC Transit@rideact.bsky.social · 5d agoSaturday, be there for the @oaklandballers.bsky.social game, Public Transit Night: Ride The Rally! You'll get a Ride the Rally Commemorative Pin. Stop by our tent for exclusive stickers, temporary tattoos, and take a photo with the bus cutout. Get your tickets: https://actransit.us/4gTlNHV
RIP Louisa Gag, a transit planner who dedicated her career to making Boston’s streets safer for cyclists & pedestrians. She was killed while biking to work on July 9, 2026. Street safety improvements shouldn’t be delayed, watered down, or treated as a political inconvenience. Safe streets now!!
Jean Walsh is a fantastic singer and you should go to the game just to hear her sing! Plus the @oaklandballers.bsky.social games are fun! Tomorrow late afternoon!
Jean Walsh@therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social · 7d agoOK people what are you doing this Saturday night? Because YOURS TRULY will be singing the Star Spangled Banner at the Oakland Ballers game! 🎶🎤🥎
Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.
Please sign this letter to tell your state senator to support AB 2168. AB 2168 would make California's Active Transportation Funding better by improving access to transit, network-level improvements and alignment with other transportation funds. It faces a critical hearing in Committee on August 3
Fix ATP: Fund Real Connections - Support AB 2168 - CalBike
Electric bicycles are already clearly defined under state and federal law. But increasingly, high-powered “e-motos” — often exceeding 750 watts and capable of motorcycle-level speeds are being markete...
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Very cool project on the Geary Subway from @infrastructureweak.bsky.social, doing the kind of public analysis that gov should be doing. The public ought to be able to understand the tradeoffs of transit planning so they can push politicians to pursue the best ideas. medium.com/@infrastruc...
Geary metro, purpose-built for SF
Part 2: East Bay connection, downtown alignment, and the yard
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This is the correct stance, and you don’t even need the (b) part, tho that’s fine. Everyone gets the same damn rights and freedoms. Which do not extend to imposing on someone else’s.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 7d agoSquishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.
Area bike lane opponent comes this close 👉👈 to understanding the function of bike lanes, and the reason they should support them.
A great example of why the "make eye contact with drivers and wear reflective clothing" advice for pedestrians and cyclists is bad. Nothing short of physically limiting where and how drivers can operate their vehicles will work.
Drivers Have Run Over, Flipped Off And Cursed Out Chicago’s Traffic Aides For Doing Their Jobs
Traffic control aides are needed during big summer events, like Lollapalooza this weekend. But drivers often take out their frustration on them — and two aides were recently hospitalized after being h...
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Why is bare safety such a struggle? Hats off to Jean and everyone else who has worked for this for so long! I love you all!
Jean Walsh@therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social · last wk.SAFE HOPKINS!!! This is huge. Thanks to Berkeley Mayor and Council for their visionary leadership and to  everyone who has worked so hard on this for so many years.
This is pretty dark, but it’s always clarifying to look at results and work backward towards motives.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Blatant 4th amendment violation. If you feel capable when this happens to you, tell them no. Maybe even fuck no!
Eric Allix Rogers@ericallixrogers.com · last wk.These cops at the 57th Street underpass were still there nearly six hours later when I passed through, and I was forced to open my bag full of groceries for an inspection before I could bike home.
What is one to conclude about the culpability of this dastardly nine year old?
Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit.bsky.social · last wk.A driver hit & killed a 9-year-old boy riding an e-scooter at 5:30 pm on a Thursday in his townhouse court in Herndon, VA, where children are often playing. By the next day, Fairfax police had decided that the driver had done nothing wrong, and noted that the child was not wearing a helmet.
Another way to say "It could result in 100 lost parking spaces" is "It could result in safer streets for all street users, including drivers."
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 2w agoHere’s the latest salvo in a battle that’s spanned two mayoral administrations and endured endless rhetoric about the war on cars. It could result in 100 lost parking spaces in Berkeley.
this was such a great convo. saw stephanie pollack at a conference in june, where she ran hands-down the most interesting and dynamic panel of the event. give this a listen, and dream bigger for our transit future! <3
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w agoToday on Volts: the US pays more per mile of public transit than almost any country in the world, thanks in part to federal planning, funding, & contracting rules that practically mandate inefficiency. I discuss how to change that with two authors of the "Transit Abundance Playbook."
like I keep saying in all my emails and posts to @rideact.bsky.social, it'd be nice if the promises of Realign to be more efficient were actually real! how did we manage to get even worse service than their service-cutting schedule promised?
He was here on VACATION. He is not a criminal. He wasn't here trying to steal anything. And he was still targeted by ICE. His name was Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran.
Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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More noise needs to be made about the problem of dropped runs at AC Transit. Certain lines seem to be worse than others, and some days and times as well. Board policy is no back to back cancellations and no cancellations for runs more than 30 minutes apart (i think it’s 30) @kuanbutts.bsky.social
@politapotamus.bsky.social · 2w agoThree for three this week for canceled line O runs (30 minute frequency line) Unsustainable for riders
