Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀
@aceckhouse.bsky.social
Sixplex enthusiast. Redwood irredentist. Lake Merritt booster. Erstwhile Prince of Prosciutto.
Cities are for people not cars. California is not full.
he etc
Cities are for people not cars. California is not full.
he etc
whoa, that was a jolt!
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
whoa, that was a jolt!
Application for historic designation:
Was there any notable historical event or trend associated with the property? No
Well is it especially attractive or interesting as a structure? No
Does it represent a particular local architectural style? Not really!
Recommend listing as a historical resource
Was there any notable historical event or trend associated with the property? No
Well is it especially attractive or interesting as a structure? No
Does it represent a particular local architectural style? Not really!
Recommend listing as a historical resource
December 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Application for historic designation:
Was there any notable historical event or trend associated with the property? No
Well is it especially attractive or interesting as a structure? No
Does it represent a particular local architectural style? Not really!
Recommend listing as a historical resource
Was there any notable historical event or trend associated with the property? No
Well is it especially attractive or interesting as a structure? No
Does it represent a particular local architectural style? Not really!
Recommend listing as a historical resource
she's right, and she should say it, and so should American Jewish institutions & politicians
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany."
December 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
she's right, and she should say it, and so should American Jewish institutions & politicians
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there are benighted lands on this planet where a child can be born into statelessness
but such barbarism is nearly unknown in the Americas, home of hummingbirds & redwoods, the great river & the great cordillera
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but such barbarism is nearly unknown in the Americas, home of hummingbirds & redwoods, the great river & the great cordillera
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I didn't actually realize it was nearly universal in the Americas
December 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
there are benighted lands on this planet where a child can be born into statelessness
but such barbarism is nearly unknown in the Americas, home of hummingbirds & redwoods, the great river & the great cordillera
bsky.app/profile/hann...
but such barbarism is nearly unknown in the Americas, home of hummingbirds & redwoods, the great river & the great cordillera
bsky.app/profile/hann...
What’s going on here AC Transit?
December 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What’s going on here AC Transit?
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“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify. Another agent, accompanied by a dog, was hiding nearby and released the dog on Wilmer shortly after he stepped outside.”
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify. Another agent, accompanied by a dog, was hiding nearby and released the dog on Wilmer shortly after he stepped outside.”
I’m proud to be an American, the continent of citizenship by birth rather than blood
You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.”
All how you choose to frame it.
All how you choose to frame it.
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I’m proud to be an American, the continent of citizenship by birth rather than blood
that's a lot of Californians for electric rail
Ridership on the Bay Area's Caltrain continues to rise in the wake of the route's electrification, hitting a new post-COVID high last month
Ridership through the first 10 months of 2025 is 45% higher than last year!
Ridership through the first 10 months of 2025 is 45% higher than last year!
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
that's a lot of Californians for electric rail
personally I think it's bad that RFK is trying to reverse this, and I'm still so f**king mad at Bill Cassidy about it
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
personally I think it's bad that RFK is trying to reverse this, and I'm still so f**king mad at Bill Cassidy about it
the dream of a full bike loop around Lake Merritt is ALIVE & THRIVING
Thank you Oakland City Council for voting unanimously to approve the construction contract for the Lake Merritt Blvd / Lakeside Dr protected bikeways & bus lanes project (yellow line on the map below), starting in 2026!
www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
the dream of a full bike loop around Lake Merritt is ALIVE & THRIVING
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If state/Feds were more comfortable spending relatively cheap planning resources earlier then agencies could actually engage communities early and get useful feedback about impacts and tradeoffs earlier.
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If state/Feds were more comfortable spending relatively cheap planning resources earlier then agencies could actually engage communities early and get useful feedback about impacts and tradeoffs earlier.
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There sometimes actual environmental impacts to prevent or mitigate but so much CEQA alternatives analysis is done as an ineffective proxy for planning, because the underlying presumption is avoiding harm rather than achieving goals
“Environmental review is not planning” is one of those statements that is so obviously true but nearly every thing about transportation institutions and environmental review in California/US pushes against it.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
There sometimes actual environmental impacts to prevent or mitigate but so much CEQA alternatives analysis is done as an ineffective proxy for planning, because the underlying presumption is avoiding harm rather than achieving goals
you're saying restrictive zoning is a tool to block housing and uphold segregation? wow, I didn't know that, you're telling me that now for the first time
What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
you're saying restrictive zoning is a tool to block housing and uphold segregation? wow, I didn't know that, you're telling me that now for the first time
something set in Tenochtitlan
they would have to build a live scale set
they would have to build a live scale set
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM
something set in Tenochtitlan
they would have to build a live scale set
they would have to build a live scale set
Top 3 cookbooks:
1) World Vegetarian, Madhur Jaffrey
2) The Wok, Kenji Lopez-Alt
3) Simple, Yotam Ottolenghi
1) World Vegetarian, Madhur Jaffrey
2) The Wok, Kenji Lopez-Alt
3) Simple, Yotam Ottolenghi
The world of cooking blog sites was a SEO-caused disaster before GenAI and a symptom of Google being a bad steward of the web.
Find some cookbooks! Here's my fav this year.
Find some cookbooks! Here's my fav this year.
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Top 3 cookbooks:
1) World Vegetarian, Madhur Jaffrey
2) The Wok, Kenji Lopez-Alt
3) Simple, Yotam Ottolenghi
1) World Vegetarian, Madhur Jaffrey
2) The Wok, Kenji Lopez-Alt
3) Simple, Yotam Ottolenghi
fucking BLEAK
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
fucking BLEAK
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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We can't expect rural areas to design and deliver intercity rail projects by themselves. Caltrans' understaffing of rail and transit hurts rural areas and outer suburbs - who seldom have well-staffed transit agencies of their own - the most.
Not only is 3% of CA's transportation budget for transit agencies, the vast majority of that huge Caltrans budget supports highway projects - while rail gets the scraps. We need a #JustTransitionForCaltrans that shifts those workers into delivering green rail projects quickly and cost effectively.
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We can't expect rural areas to design and deliver intercity rail projects by themselves. Caltrans' understaffing of rail and transit hurts rural areas and outer suburbs - who seldom have well-staffed transit agencies of their own - the most.
every traffic death is a policy choice
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
every traffic death is a policy choice
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I always think it's funny that the US developed pretty much the optimal--by revealed preference--kind of suburb (close-in streetcar suburbs) in the early 20th century and then spent the rest of the century trying furiously to undo that good idea
as will notes, people tend to *say* they want suburban living. they want a big house and a big yard and etc. this is not however what is suggested by their actual purchasing practices, which invariably result in something like this:
raincitymaps.com/maps/inspect...
raincitymaps.com/maps/inspect...
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I always think it's funny that the US developed pretty much the optimal--by revealed preference--kind of suburb (close-in streetcar suburbs) in the early 20th century and then spent the rest of the century trying furiously to undo that good idea
the ride between Fruitvale & Lake Merritt BART really is notably long
could use an infill station!
could use an infill station!
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
the ride between Fruitvale & Lake Merritt BART really is notably long
could use an infill station!
could use an infill station!
Redwood Coast: Humboldt
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Redwood Coast: Humboldt
a cool thing about redwoods is that they are older than the land on which they stand and even the Pacific Plate
their ancestors would have been browsed by sauropods
their ancestors would have been browsed by sauropods
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
a cool thing about redwoods is that they are older than the land on which they stand and even the Pacific Plate
their ancestors would have been browsed by sauropods
their ancestors would have been browsed by sauropods
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People who think mass deportations are a housing affordability strategy have no place in the YIMBY movement.
A reminder, a person who claims to be a YIMBY but backs the deportation of people to "solve" the housing crisis is just a NIMBY.
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
People who think mass deportations are a housing affordability strategy have no place in the YIMBY movement.