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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 6h

Absolutely insane double rainbow, Precita Park is rocking it

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 7h

Last batch of legislation updates - of the 15 priority bills from the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus that made it to the Governor's desk, (lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/legislative-...) 12 signed, 3 vetoed www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/13/g...

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 12h

Rain is approaching San Francisco and will begin within the next 30 min. Downpours across the Bay Area could cause nuisance flooding, especially during the evening commute. Thunder and lightning is possible as the atmosphere becomes increasingly unstable this afternoon. #CAwx

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 1d

This may be the greatest post I’ve ever seen on this site.

Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 4d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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sara simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social · 1d

more work for mother, the twenty-first century edition

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 2d

incredible thread

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 2d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

One would think headlines couldn‘t get more abnormal, but they can. www.oregonlive.com

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 3d

"all these folks got in a bunch of group chats during the pandemic and echo chambered their brains together" remains the most logical theory of what happened here

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

Marc Benihoff, who has barely been in San Francisco since the pandemic, is just a red-pilled asshole like the rest of them. What a fucking disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

Spectacular

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 5d

Results from Brazil on fare free transit. While it did increase public transportation trips, the substitution was mostly changing walking to transit rather than car to transit.

Really cool research design as well.

Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 5d

A tarifa zero pode ser uma política eficaz para tirar as pessoas do automóvel privado e usarem o transporte público? A gente mostra que a resposta é não nesse estudo que saiu publicado hoje no @jeem-econ.bsky.social
Link para o estudo abaixo, segue o fio 🧵

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 5d

the issues isn’t so much whether it’s fair to treat e-bikes & mopeds as different things (sure, absolutely) as whether we can trust police to enforce the distinction without mass harassment of (non white) e-bike riders

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 5d

Then chaos reigns as everyone tries to accumulate speeding tickets before the bug is patched, culminating in a Cannonball Run across the country to cash the check at an LA bank and get across the border before the bank realizes it’s cancelled (please ignore that banks and checks don’t work that way)

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 5d

I’m very confused what actually happened here, but when they make a movie about this, it should be a signed int and getting too many speeding tickets would result in a large negative balance that causes the system to automatically send the driver a check for 2 billion dollars

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 5d

Guy out in DC doing QA testing on the speed camera system to find an integer overflow attack

From the washingtondc community on Reddit: If you go over 100K in speeding fines your total reverts to $0

Explore this post and more from the washingtondc community

www.reddit.com

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 6d

One of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission members who voted to close the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike path was zooming into the meeting from his Tesla Model Y.

Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 6d

I've been on two calls today with fire safety professionals where the topic was the safety of single-stair buildings. On both calls, somebody was driving while on the call – one a firefighter, the other a fire protection engineer.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 6d

Speaking of housing first, feds cutting supports for unhoused people in CA is a real telling illustration of their priorities.

California braces for ‘devastating’ expected cuts to federal homeless housing funds

Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.

calmatters.org

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6d

This study should be read by every policymaker and traffic engineer.

Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 7d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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ren they/them @renzaro.com · 6d

Wow dude you’re really sticking it to Trump aren’t ya

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 6d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Jason Wight @astrowright.bsky.social · 7d

Wow, this is amazing. Apparently the pictures Avi posted on Medium of 3I/ATLAS from Mars with his amateur image analysis and astrometry are

a) Wrong and

b) Not even of 3I/ATLAS!

Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 7d

No Avi, that Perseverance Navcam picture you posted isn't showing 3I/Atlas, it's just Phobos, the brighter one of Mars' moons.

If you were even half the expert you think you are, this possibility should have been quite obvious and worth mentioning.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 7d

Got rage and/or hope you want to translate into strategic action? Find the "perfect how-to guide" here islandpress.org/books/if-you...

Thanks Jeff for that glowing review!

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 7d

nice moon

Moonrise over Twin Peaks next to SutroTower

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 7d

For just 49.99 a month, we'll deliver a fresh French Prime Minister to your door every week.

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 8d

and as is tradition, closing it out with Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris playing a guitar on a stage

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