It’s so unbelievably embarrassing to be a professional tech reporter whining about corporate greed because the treat phone you want is priced too high for your liking, but it is very on brand as a mark of our Treatler society.
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Sacramenno, California The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament
This is a related and expanded graphic which emphasizes an important point: Higher speeds reduce your visibility and reaction time, making it more likely you'll hit someone or something, and then when you *do* hit them, it's more likely to be fatal.
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3w agoMost speed cameras ticket at 11 mph over the limit. So I'm issuing my regular reminder that when it comes to a car hitting a pedestrian, each 10 mph increase in speed significantly raises the victim's risk of death. Chart source: walksf.org/our-work/cam...
Props to my friend @ansel.lundberg.com for bringing his son out to help advocate for automated red light cameras
Making them look our kids in the face because that’s who we’re fighting for
ansel@ansel.lundberg.com · 3w agoWas proud to get out and speak in support of City of Sacramento‘s automated red light camera enforcement program tonight with my son, representing a new group, “Parents with Kids on Bikes.” Cameras like these make our streets safer. The data will be managed by the Public Works Dept, not the police.
Our website: pwkb.org Staff report: sacramento.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=... Survey link to support the program, if you live or work in Sac: sacramentocityexpress.com/2026/08/20/s...
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I have been a huge fan of Abridged and have found their reporting to be such a great addition to the Sacramento region’s local news ecosystem. Definitely give them a follow if you’re a Sac/Yolo County local, they cover issues no one else devotes resources for anymore.
Abridged by PBS KVIE@abridged.org · 2mo agoHey, followers! Savanna here. I’m an editor at Abridged. We’re in the business of truth and transparency — and in that spirit, I want to share how we deliver the news on this Bluesky account 🧵
Every city, but especially Sacramento, should be replacing the status quo staff who continue push forward unprotected projects with people who actually care deeply about safety rather than their careers. With $36m a year around the corner 🤞, we need the right people @caitymapled5.bsky.social
Berkeleyside@berkeleyside.org · 2mo agoComing from Oakland and San Francisco, Jamie Parks will oversee Berkeley's infrastructure department.
Robert Caro Kim Stanley Robinson Adrian Tchaikovsky China Miéville SF grab bag depending on how you count novellas: Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie, N.K. Jemison, Martha Wells, John Scalzi
sick public transit, gloria@seung.bsky.social · 2mo agofive living writers that you've read five books each Hwang Sok-yong Han Kang Haruki Murakami Annie Ernaux Gerald Murnane
Pulisic’s Trump dance. Weah and McKennie staying silent in the Oval Office while Trump asks them whether they could play soccer with trans men. Pochettino sucking up to Trump on the phone. Among others. Even our best soccer writer is missing that this is a 2-way street. USMAGANT
Pablo Maurer@mlsist.bsky.social · 2mo agoUS president Donald Trump has done the whole of American soccer a disservice by involving himself in the Balogun red card saga. It's an unsusprising overreach that confirms the negative perceptions many already have about the USA. Me, on @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
If this team hadn’t already made itself a patsy over and over again to the worst of our present-day country, accepting this blatant corruption and cheating whose outcome will rightly be claimed by Trump has made them utterly pathetic. Unamerican and cowardly to their core. A victory would be a loss.
Mai Vang, endorsed by Sacramento’s local DSA chapter, was among the most enthusiastic votes for abolishing single family zoning in Sacramento asking “How can we get more plexes built in my district” Her incumbent opponent, Doris Matsui, wrote a letter to kill a bike lane project a few years back.
CAHSR's Strongest Soldier@emoscientist.bsky.social · 2mo agoProbably not a coincidence that the only CA city plausibly sending a socialist to Washington is Sacramento which builds a lot of housing
One calculation that blew my mind: When I push a pedestrian beg button to cross an arterial road w/ 40 mph spd limit. Wait of 90 sec means a car 1 mile away gets to priority to clear the intersection before I am allowed to cross the road. I am standing roadside breathing particulates
OB Cycler@obcycler.bsky.social · 3mo agoThey installed a full size traffic light on the new section of walk/bike path by the airport Drivers are much more likely to stop at a regular looking traffic light than a HAWK or RRFB But its timed so you have to wait 90 seconds in the hot sun while people sitting in air conditioning get priority
Always money for freeway expansions in Sacramento. Pennies for safer streets www.onsiteobserver.com/sacramento-a...
Sacramento advances $500 million I-5 toll lane project
The Sacramento Transportation Authority has approved a series of agreements and funding actions to advance a proposed managed-lane project on Interstate 5
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Water spills over the sea wall at the San Francisco Embarcadero amid a king tide. The tidal anomaly at the time of recording was 1.4 ft and www expected to increase to 1.7ft within the hour. A 2-foot anomaly, the highest summer tide on record, was forecast Sunday evening.
The USMNT would literally never do something like this, and that fucking sucks
Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · 3mo agoCalifornia politics has a lot of complete dumbos who think they are wiser than Solomon, but I don’t think there’s a bigger discrepancy across such a long period of time and across so many issues between how much of a dumbass Glazer is and how much he thinks his contrarianism makes him brilliant.
dereksagehorn.bsky.social@dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 3mo agoSteve Glazer (Orinda) is the face of opposition to Connect Bay Area in the media. His opinions about transit are incoherent. He wants flat fares for BART so trips to/from Antioch are cheaper, but he also wants BART to cut spending and opposes the regional measure. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
From Truckee to Miami, the pressure to socialize how climate change has made certain places unbelievably risky needs to be resisted by talking about how the changing climate will not go back. More warming and worsening extreme conditions are baked in for another 30 years at least.
Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · 3mo agoMore people need to understand that this is absolutely a cost of #climate change; one of many new costs because our politicians dawdled and did nothing despite decades of warnings from scientists.
On one hand, I’m so glad to see bills responding to the License to Kill reporting move forward. But even more infuriating than reading quotes from pro-murder advocates like Debt Free Justice is the fact that these conditions exist and are being reformed so minutely. calmatters.org/investigatio...
Eight bills related to License to Kill advance in the Legislature
California has experienced a surge of roadway deaths. CalMatters reporters found officials allowed dangerous drivers to stay on the road.
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66% is a huge undercount based on the number of cars that blow by me while I wait to cross the street in a school zone with a child in a stroller.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com
Now that is the sort of pop culture crossover that I can celebrate
Jackson O'Brien@sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 4mo agoGREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands
The overt and explicit climate arson wing of the Democratic Party seems to be taking over the whole party. It’s good to see an elected official talking sense (now let’s get the ones who aren’t most vocal climate champions to chime in)
Governor Jay Inslee@govjayinslee.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe House highway bill is completely backwards. It makes no sense to put new fees on EVs and cut funding for transit when Americans are paying more for gas and energy thanks to Trump’s disastrous policies—and while Big Oil pockets billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies.
too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes
Static maps will increasingly shield us from reality. 3-5 million years ago (the last time that atmospheric CO2 ppm was around 420ppm), sea levels were 50-80 feet higher. There will be a lag: we are physically changing the atmosphere much faster than other systems can respond. Just a matter of time.
Neil Lewis, Jr.@neillewisjr.bsky.social · 4mo ago“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
What will improve QoL and safety more: license plates for e-bikes or this?
Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4mo agoIt’s time.
