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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 9h

Oh you're saying you ride a bike and bikes are Teslas and your bio says you're a reply guy, you're just a troll wasting people's time. Good job, I actually thought you might genuinely believe that stuff

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 9h

And we aren't talking about getting rid of it, we're just talking about amending it to be less pro car

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 9h

Like this is literally Reagan's version of environmental quality regulation. Do you really think Reagan is the final word on how environmental protection should be done

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 10h

You can easily look this up, it's well documented. But if you refuse to believe it what can I do. I wish I lived in your version of California where we have effective environmental legislation instead of highways everywhere and underfunded public transit and oil refineries poisoning people

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 14h

Like the entire problem with CEQA is considering private gas powered cars as being good for some abstract notion of an "environment" that has nothing to do with carbon emissions or environmentalism and encouraging the use of private cars over public transit

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, that's what I'm saying the problem with CEQA was. That it was written to encourage car pollution because inconveniencing cars was seen as worsening the driving environment. Instead of having a law about prioritizing the natural environment, the climate and our planet.

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 17h

We need entirely new environmental legislation that has as a goal reducing carbon emissions by considering the net effect of the project

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 17h

I think they've fixed this but for a while CEQA explicitly banned doing anything to reduce driving as a negative impact because it mandated maintaining a "level of service" for car traffic at the expense of transit and other means of transportation. It wasn't a loophole but a goal of the legislation

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

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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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible how he did this just before "oh now I remember Marc Benioff exists and I hate him" week

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine every single asshole downtown right now blocking busses and crosswalks because they can't drive also has a gun and is threatening to arrest you because you looked at them wrong

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 1d

As we, um, enjoy the presence of Dreamforce in downtown SF I find myself thinking about Marc Benioff's idea of "Dreamforce but for guys with guns and ski masks who like kidnapping children"

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 2d

sun almost completely set, on a concrete balcony type thing looking at the ocean

sunlight almost completely hidden behind very dark clouds. An almost invisible sign on a sand dune.

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 2d

incredible clouds

clouds over the beach at sunset, but looking to the left relative to the ocean

clouds over the beach at sunset, but looking to the right relative to the ocean

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 2d

sunset over a sand dune with a man with a large backpack silhouetted

sunset at beach reflected in large puddle

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Certified Good Neighbor @jcoltkelly.bsky.social · 2d

with the first real rain of the fall, California drivers are encouraged to glance up from their phones more frequently

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 2d

Rain in SF

Raindrops on a dirty window looking up at the sky through some power lines

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Since the Alien Registration Act of 1940, every noncitizen has been required to carry their documents with them at ALL times. That applies to every green card holder, every tourist, every foreign student, etc...

No admin in the modern era has EVER tried to enforce this law.

(e)Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 2d

This has always been *possible*, but this law has never been enforced (there's also room for enforcement of this law to get a lot worse)

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Heidi Schuster @heidischuster.bsky.social · 2d

This whole story is appalling, but the agent telling people to “just ask God” is truly evil.

spotlightdelaware.org/2025/10/13/b...

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 3d

Fleet week should always consist of a few boats from some other countries come over and you can go look at them

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 3d

the question of what is up with the ties seems utterly ungoogleable

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