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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 18m

Unfortunately literally throwing plastic trash on the ground is also totally normalized among smokers of filtered cigarettes.

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 22m

This "well if I stop driving that doesn't solve climate change" attitude is so frustrating to me, like, I don't avoid throwing my trash on the ground because I think I will singlehandedly keep all of the plastic out of the ocean, I avoid it because I DONT WANT TO PUT MY FUCKING PLASTIC IN THE OCEAN

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 30m

Makes sense, I liked how he defended his no on Prop 36. Wish it were ranked choice. Betty Yee seems ok too, but we'll have to see where the polls are and vote strategically

Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 44m

Do you have a favorite at this point? Obviously not her...

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1h

Boy would I love it if we could scale them by vehicle value

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1h

Have there been attempts at the local level to ban police from using it?

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1h

CS is banned in warfare by treaty - a treaty the US itself has actually signed (the Geneva Gas Protocol). Yet we continue to allow police to use it.

If it's beyond the pale when used by militaries against other militaries, it should clearly be banned from use against civilians.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1h

He can start by ordering the Illinois State Police who he has direct authority over to stop attacking protesters and acting as security for ICE.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1h

Great to hear it's minuscule, Senator Booker, so you'll have no problem renouncing their money in the future? I assume they asked that next, right?

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1h

They wanted to send ten, but there's a staffing shortage, don't you know.

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Dan Federman @dfed.me · 1h

Just saw six SFPD officers respond to a single homeless person. Seems a bit excessive.

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 6h

BART is already the most efficient rail agency in the nation at providing service. It is unreasonable to squeeze even more cost savings than BART already has.

BART riders deserve more service, not less!

www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/data-pro...

Metrics from FTA's National Transit Database with BART as the most efficient rail service in the nation at $9 mile of service

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 20h

...and therefore doesn't require capturing the driver's face and identifying them, which some localities found impractical. Revenues over program costs must be spent on traffic calming.

leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 20h

It was hard to find info on exactly what #SB720, the red-light camera bill signed today by Newsom, actually did. Turns out it establishes a new kind of red-light camera program that uses civil rather than criminal penalties, has lower fines, tickets the car owner instead of driver...

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 20h

concepts of a plan for gravy

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks, this is the first explanation I've seen of what this bill actually does!

Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 20h

This person made it and sells official merch!

💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · Dec 29

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 22h

This one mansion sale will generate $2.5 million in real estate transfer tax intended for social housing thanks to the voters of SF passing Prop I in 2020.

San Franciscans have said loud and clear: tax billionaires to fund social housing.

San Francisco’s priciest home of 2025 sells off market for $42M on Billionaires’ Row

A mansion in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights sold for $42 million, marking the city’s most expensive home sale of 2025 as demand for luxury real estate skyrockets on the back of an AI wealth...

www.sfchronicle.com

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 20h

And tornado alley is getting California's afflictions. My friends in Minnesota were telling me about how they had a drought and terrible wildfire smoke last year

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 22h

So predictable. This thing passing was a tragedy. More people should listen to @katechatfield.bsky.social

Kate Chatfield, executive director of the California Public Defenders Association said the data proves that Prop. 36 “is a fail” — not because people are treatment resistant but because treatment is not available.

“There’s no indication that anything will change,” she said. “Meanwhile, proponents are spending precious county resources on prosecution and incarceration in local jails and saying — magically — some money will appear for treatment. Proponents are the ones preventing those resources from being spent on treatment.”

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 22h

Remember Prop 36? Which promised to "help everyone come indoors" through longer prison sentences and drug treatments?

Guess how many people completed the drug treatment in the first 6 months!

Did you guess... 25?

calmatters.org/justice/2025...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 23h

Clearly the world needs you to become an OpenStreetMap nerd and map the bus lanes

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1d

That Yeats line always makes me think of John Vanderslice's version

"The ones who had conviction were all the wrong types"

archive.org/details/JV20...

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1d

This kind of post always makes me think of all the once-common knowledge of how things worked in my grandparents' generation that's rapidly fading from living memory, just as one day those of us who can see this and say "what?! of course we memorized phone numbers" will die off too.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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