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on the bus.

This was going to be an account about bicycles but it seems to be about immigration now.
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It's no longer totally accurate to say this account is about bicycles so here's a new pinned post

I have a blog

blog.carfree.city
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Our riders put the ART in BART. We love seeing riders' interpretations of maps, train carts, stations, etc. This piece was created by @mousefists on Instagram "sometimes BART is a magical place" 🪄

We couldn't agree more!
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Love how waymos will just like block the bus for 5 minutes
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Connie Chan is going to be like, as a west side progressive, the main thing I disagree with Scott Weiner on is funding public transit
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I also had to get a tooth removed, do not recommend
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I spent a month playing a game and I stayed off social media and didn't see my friends very much and maybe the staying off social media part was good
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I got dragged into a conversation about LLMs and I am starting to understand that most of the pro llm people are operating off of a wildly incorrect understanding of how the human brain and people in general work
October 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I managed to cure myself of a social media addiction by getting way into discord based massively multiplayer play by post tabletop RPGs but now I feel like I should have actually spent the last 5 days doomscrolling in preparation for whatever happens tomorrow
October 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Older guy who is really into native plants at the community garden work day and complains about cars starts talking about chert and I realize I am seeing some people's final form
October 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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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
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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"
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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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
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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with the first real rain of the fall, California drivers are encouraged to glance up from their phones more frequently
October 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Rain in SF
October 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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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.
October 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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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.
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
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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
October 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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)
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
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This whole story is appalling, but the agent telling people to “just ask God” is truly evil.

spotlightdelaware.org/2025/10/13/b...
October 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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We need to stop pairing unrelated infrastructure upgrades with transit projects because everyone blames the transit project for construction even though 90% of the work is for a sewer replacement and then it makes future transit projects harder share.google/dr9blW4oQuZ3...
After controversial Muni upgrade, bus crashes have dropped significantly
Bus crashes are down 40% on the busy SF corridor.
share.google
October 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Seeing some rather blue looking planes?
October 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This is why the work of community watch groups is so important. It's not just capturing the faces of ICE agents, but also their vehicles. In Massachusetts we are already seeing them adapt and change their tactics in response to the work of community groups.
One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.
October 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
From what I've heard, people protesting outside the immigration court have basically entirely stopped abductions from that court for basically that reason - a constant presence makes it impossible to disappear people and hard for specific members of ICE to hide their crimes
One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.
October 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago
October 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
re: ICE, until pretty recently, all of its responsibilities either fell under customs and border patrol or under immigration services. ICE as an organization dates back to just after 9/11, it is probably one of the easiest possible government institutions to get rid of
October 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM