Vallery Lancey
@isthelaststop.bsky.social
📸🎞️ Photographer, 🚎 transit advocate, 💻 tech worker. I know way too much about Kubernetes. she/her
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We can restore at least 2019 service if we pass Muni Now, Muni Forever's community parcel tax proposal.
But Daniel Lurie is pushing his own version that would lock in cuts (in order to save millions for downtown companies like Marc Benioff's Salesforce who just got Trump tax cuts). Write a letter!
But Daniel Lurie is pushing his own version that would lock in cuts (in order to save millions for downtown companies like Marc Benioff's Salesforce who just got Trump tax cuts). Write a letter!
Speak Up — Muni Now, Muni Forever
muniforever.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
We can restore at least 2019 service if we pass Muni Now, Muni Forever's community parcel tax proposal.
But Daniel Lurie is pushing his own version that would lock in cuts (in order to save millions for downtown companies like Marc Benioff's Salesforce who just got Trump tax cuts). Write a letter!
But Daniel Lurie is pushing his own version that would lock in cuts (in order to save millions for downtown companies like Marc Benioff's Salesforce who just got Trump tax cuts). Write a letter!
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I know I sound like a broken record on this and that’s OK.
Montreal gets a lot right. But one of my biggest disappointments of this city’s political establishment is saying “no” to an amazing automated train for the underserved east end of the city for largely aesthetic reasons.
Montreal gets a lot right. But one of my biggest disappointments of this city’s political establishment is saying “no” to an amazing automated train for the underserved east end of the city for largely aesthetic reasons.
The REM is great, but the tragedy might be that expertise fading away without another project
REM de l'Est was rejected because some people disliked the elevated portion above a 6-lane road
When projects get derailed so easily, each new project takes a long time and you always lose your experience
REM de l'Est was rejected because some people disliked the elevated portion above a 6-lane road
When projects get derailed so easily, each new project takes a long time and you always lose your experience
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I know I sound like a broken record on this and that’s OK.
Montreal gets a lot right. But one of my biggest disappointments of this city’s political establishment is saying “no” to an amazing automated train for the underserved east end of the city for largely aesthetic reasons.
Montreal gets a lot right. But one of my biggest disappointments of this city’s political establishment is saying “no” to an amazing automated train for the underserved east end of the city for largely aesthetic reasons.
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In the glass-and-steel canyons
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In the glass-and-steel canyons
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Bad day for anyone who breathes air in Oakland & the East Bay. Remember to mask up if you go outside & also help dismantle the fossil fuel dependency which leads to dangerous air and an unstable climate
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Bad day for anyone who breathes air in Oakland & the East Bay. Remember to mask up if you go outside & also help dismantle the fossil fuel dependency which leads to dangerous air and an unstable climate
San Francisco: please sign and support a Muni funding plan that will improve transit service and keep San Francisco moving!
actionnetwork.org/letters/we-s...
actionnetwork.org/letters/we-s...
We support a fair and sustainable Muni funding measure!
San Francisco's transit system (Muni) is facing a $322 million annual deficit starting in 2027. If left unaddressed, this will have devastating effects on our community. We could lose bus lines and se...
actionnetwork.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
San Francisco: please sign and support a Muni funding plan that will improve transit service and keep San Francisco moving!
actionnetwork.org/letters/we-s...
actionnetwork.org/letters/we-s...
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A commendation goes a long way for Transit Operators, and this one got me out of a doldrums all on its own. If you find yourself recognizing and appreciating a Muni Operator for excellent service, consider submitting a commendation: www.sfmta.com/getting-arou...
Muni Feedback
In life-threatening situations, call 911 immediately. *Serious incidents and criminal activity should be reported to SFPD if comfortable doing so. 在危及生命的情況下，請立即撥打 911. 如果願意，應向三藩市警方報告嚴重事件和犯罪活動. En sit...
www.sfmta.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
A commendation goes a long way for Transit Operators, and this one got me out of a doldrums all on its own. If you find yourself recognizing and appreciating a Muni Operator for excellent service, consider submitting a commendation: www.sfmta.com/getting-arou...
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
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toronto looking magical this afternoon
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
toronto looking magical this afternoon
I wonder at what point do I make a fresh bluesky account to work around being delisted? Being un-Googlable ongoing sucks.
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I wonder at what point do I make a fresh bluesky account to work around being delisted? Being un-Googlable ongoing sucks.
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Being on the east coast is crazy. I wake up and there aren't any posts, and then I try to go to sleep but sports aren't done and a San Francisco politician is having another scandal and wait they've resigned?????
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Being on the east coast is crazy. I wake up and there aren't any posts, and then I try to go to sleep but sports aren't done and a San Francisco politician is having another scandal and wait they've resigned?????
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Violent rhetoric is not only strongly embedded in our cultural expression, it is an extremely well-known phenomenon that people consistently rate violent rhetoric used against them and people they like as significantly more severe than violent rhetoric used against people they dislike.
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Violent rhetoric is not only strongly embedded in our cultural expression, it is an extremely well-known phenomenon that people consistently rate violent rhetoric used against them and people they like as significantly more severe than violent rhetoric used against people they dislike.
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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These stories dropped on the same day
It's good-government reform to let the mayor unilaterally appoint department heads. By the way, he just appointed a supervisor who couldn't run a pet store
It's good-government reform to let the mayor unilaterally appoint department heads. By the way, he just appointed a supervisor who couldn't run a pet store
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
These stories dropped on the same day
It's good-government reform to let the mayor unilaterally appoint department heads. By the way, he just appointed a supervisor who couldn't run a pet store
It's good-government reform to let the mayor unilaterally appoint department heads. By the way, he just appointed a supervisor who couldn't run a pet store
Animal cruelty and creating a public health hazard should utterly disqualify someone from getting tapped as an inexperienced supervisor.
Mayor Lurie failed due diligence and should seek to reverse the appointment.
sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/s...
Mayor Lurie failed due diligence and should seek to reverse the appointment.
sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/s...
SF’s newest supervisor accused of leaving pet shop in squalor
Mayor Daniel Lurie’s pick for Sunset supervisor, Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz, is under scrutiny after the new owner of her former pet store says she found dead mice, filth, and trash left behind.
sfstandard.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Animal cruelty and creating a public health hazard should utterly disqualify someone from getting tapped as an inexperienced supervisor.
Mayor Lurie failed due diligence and should seek to reverse the appointment.
sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/s...
Mayor Lurie failed due diligence and should seek to reverse the appointment.
sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/s...
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All right, I've got it everybody: if it's AI, it's bad; if there's AI doing something good; it's not AI.
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
All right, I've got it everybody: if it's AI, it's bad; if there's AI doing something good; it's not AI.
“No negative externalities allowed” results in blanket anti-actionable-change politics, because the status quo is so good.
Never mind how real or unreal the negative externalities even are.
Never mind how real or unreal the negative externalities even are.
the congestion pricing thing was kinda a massive red flag here. even the median progressive believes that improving overall outcomes is bad if a single hypothetical poor person might be negatively effected
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“No negative externalities allowed” results in blanket anti-actionable-change politics, because the status quo is so good.
Never mind how real or unreal the negative externalities even are.
Never mind how real or unreal the negative externalities even are.
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country violently allergic to acknowledging the existence of policy trade-offs, and steadfastly convinced that this allergy is virtuous and even a skeptical rejection of the powers that be instead of a prolonged temper tantrum by the most privileged people to ever live on this earth
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
country violently allergic to acknowledging the existence of policy trade-offs, and steadfastly convinced that this allergy is virtuous and even a skeptical rejection of the powers that be instead of a prolonged temper tantrum by the most privileged people to ever live on this earth
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The Enterprise-D bridge we got is my favourite from all the shows, so things worked out well. But I've always found these ideas for a much more casual, democratic bridge to be very appealing. I'd still like to see something like this in a Star Trek series one day. /1
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Enterprise-D bridge we got is my favourite from all the shows, so things worked out well. But I've always found these ideas for a much more casual, democratic bridge to be very appealing. I'd still like to see something like this in a Star Trek series one day. /1
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people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
Caltrain's electric trains run faster and smoother - and people LOVE it. Make service better, and riders will come, which means more people will vote to support transit.
We love good news! 🤭
Survey Says: Riders Love Caltrain! Read more: https://www.caltrain.com/news/survey-says-riders-love-caltrain.
Survey Says: Riders Love Caltrain! Read more: https://www.caltrain.com/news/survey-says-riders-love-caltrain.
Survey Says: Riders Love Caltrain | Caltrain
2025 Customer Satisfaction Survey shows widespread exuberance over electric service
www.caltrain.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Caltrain's electric trains run faster and smoother - and people LOVE it. Make service better, and riders will come, which means more people will vote to support transit.
My Bluesky account will not show up in Google search results, and I’m entirely at a loss.
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My Bluesky account will not show up in Google search results, and I’m entirely at a loss.
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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
Bill Gates has a new memo out calling for a “strategic pivot” on climate change, downplaying “doomsday” talk to focus on filling enormous post-USAID budget gaps in global health and vaccine funding. I got an early glimpse of his thinking last week:
7 New Takes From Bill Gates on Climate ‘Doomsday’ Talk and Global Health
“I mean, God bless the Europeans for caring about climate.”
heatmap.news
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.