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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · Nov 18

in this city we love women, bikes, and the bus

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 1h

city government by billionaires who are all loosers

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👻👻👻boonoteat👻👻👻 @donoteat.bsky.social · 1h

gross, shortsighted, tasteless, just generally nasty. the nationwide War on Fountains continues

Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 1h

City of San Francisco and developer appear to have planned Vaillancourt Fountain demolition before proposal was made public r/brutalism

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 1h

Or we could skip the review and do what we know we need to for financial efficiency and to stop climate change:

1) Stop building new highways
2) Stop expanding highways
3) Remove highways, starting with 980, which has strong support for removal

Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 6h

oooh let’s do this but for highways

Second, SB 63 would require operators and programs receiving funding to undergo a financial efficiency review. This review would be undertaken by a third party under the guidance of a select committee and MTC, and it would seek to identify a menu of specific cost savings that operators and MTO could implement to reduce deficits or improve the financial performance of their services. Based on the results of the review, operators would be asked to develop and submit to MTC a plan documenting their commitment to follow through on identified efficiency actions.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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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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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 1h

you were supposed to do it last weekend smh
you better at least scan them before g finish developing and scanning my 8 rolls

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

i am literally never not tapping the "we need to fund public education and open the schools" sign. there is no moment or topic in which the dearth of basic reading comprehension is not a major force preventing any deeper discussion. a lot of people are functionally meat-based LLMs who parrot tokens.

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 1d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 4h

oh damn

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 4h

Funnel clouds over Salinas and San Juan Bautista today. 🌪️🌪️ #CAwx
www.ksbw.com/article/poss...

Tornado on hillside, photo by Kurt kurasaki

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 4h

It isnt fully approved to be on the ballot, it still has to collect signatures from bay area residents to be able to go on the ballot

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 11h

Trolleybuses pull power directly into efficient, hill-climbing engines without need for massive, pavement-crushing batteries. Next gen trolleys with in-motion charging offer significant off-wire travel, allowing incremental wire extension. SF and Seattle partnering:
www.sfmta.com/media/43118/...

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 11h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 5h

he has some of the least sex appeal of most right wing figures in the last 100 years
this is "journalistic" malpractice giving him amy sort of good faith argument
hes a nazi he deservers nothing

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 6h

amazed i can actually see some storm rotation on radar on the california coast

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone in the #Salinas (Monterey County) area seeing a funnel cloud? #CAwx

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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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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 7h

defund the police

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 7h

UPDATE: The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus from office Tuesday in a vote that marked a dramatic and historic culmination of a bitter saga.

San Mateo County supervisors unanimously vote to oust sheriff from office

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus from office after months of acrimony and scandal.

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Liam @wtyppod.com · 7h

Stop smoking on the El or you will be keelhauled

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 7h

i need videos of Liam dancing

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bsquiklehausen @bsquiklehausen.com · 7h

Make Liam have to dance (or better yet, dance with him)

Liam @wtyppod.com · 8h

givebutter.com/grooveforgoo...

This is Thursday! It would mean the world to me if you donated or even came and danced with me!

Groove for Good

A dance party to help end domestic violence

givebutter.com

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 8h

it has been visible since at least gamergate, the status quo was just too attached to "good debate" and being open to "all sides" as long as you werent a socialism

and in turn it means this young generation of white male fascists were ignored and not treated like an actual threat

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 8h

if you actually want to understand what the struggle for trans care looks like in a non-bourgois state, here's a paper on how Cuba came to offer full trans healthcare guaranteed by the state, and how it's become a world model for gender affirming care

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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In 2008, Cuba's minister of public health signed Resolution 126, an act that assured complete coverage for Cubans seeking sexual reassignment surgeries (also known as gender confirmation surgeries), the first of any country in Latin America to do so. Ten years later, Cuba is celebrated as having one of the most open and inclusive LGBTQ public health and education programs in the Americas. As illustrated throughout this article, the Cuban state approaches sexuality and sexual identity not as rights-based issues but rather as health-based challenges. Through the case study of Cuba's understanding of transsexuals' right to health, we argue that Cuba has provided an example of how the right to health for all moves toward breaking down the barriers of stigma by improving health outcomes for those with transsexual health needs.

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 10h

iced coffee is only good with espresso and cold brew imo because they are both basically more concentrated and bring the flavor out more

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BART @bart.gov · 12h

When will Caltrans start adding time via transit to their freeway signs? ⏳

BART @bart.gov · 12h

Take transit.

It’s safer, better for the environment and it will support our ability to fund service and make improvements.

Google Maps image showing a longer drive time (one hour and 14 minutes) from Walnut Creek to downtown SF compared to taking BART (39 minutes).

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 21h

The National Weather Service in OXNARD has issued a

* Tornado Warning for... West central San Luis Obispo County in southwestern California...

* Until 1145 PM PDT.

* At 1115 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Morro Bay, moving northeast at 20 mph.
#CAwx

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