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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 25/08/2026

Just cracked open a book and the first page contains an improper use of "begging the question." :( xkcd.com/2039/

XKCD 2039. Three stick figures debate word usage. One says, “That food made me nauseous.” Another corrects them: “No, the food was nauseous. It made you nauseated.” A third says, “Come on, you’re just begging the question.” Caption: “I annoy people on all sides by using ‘beg the question’ to mean ‘fight a losing battle against changing usage.’”

ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 21/08/2026

Was proud to get out and speak in support of City of Sacramento‘s automated red light camera enforcement program tonight with my son, representing a new group, “Parents with Kids on Bikes.” Cameras like these make our streets safer. The data will be managed by the Public Works Dept, not the police.

Wide view of the City of Sacramento Active Transportation Commission meeting chamber. Commissioners sit in a curved dais beneath the city seal, with two projection screens behind them. In the foreground, OP holding a toddler speaks at the public-comment podium. An on-screen banner identifies the agenda item as “Automated Red Light Camera Program.”

parent holds a blond toddler at a public-comment microphone in the City of Sacramento’s Active Transportation Commission meeting room. An on-screen banner reads, “Automated Red Light Camera Program,” with the meeting time and date: 5:59 p.m., August 20, 2026.

Slide titled “Recommended Intersections,” showing a color-coded map of Sacramento City Council districts with red dots marking 20 proposed intersections, alongside a numbered list of the intersections.

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 10/07/2026

Just finished this one by @tomphilpott.bsky.social. As a CA water guy, I can confirm that it’s actually really good and I appreciate how he doesnt just fall back on some “small is beautiful“ drivel as most US food system critics tend to. www.bloomsbury.com/us/perilous-...

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 23/06/2026

125 years ago. Get with the times, Caltrans. “Superpower” by Russell Gold @calelectricrail.org

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 21/06/2026

Do you ever feel like Proctor & Gamble bamboozled an entire generation of Americans into thinking a markedly worse product was somehow better than a good old fashioned mop and bucket?

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 17/06/2026

New Tommy B polo. IslandZone please.

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 17/06/2026

One of the greatest gadflies to ever do it (Dan Allison, gettingaroundsac)

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 31/05/2026

Rollins Lake - Nevada Irrigation District

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 22/05/2026

Anyone on here going to Aftershock on Saturday? I’m considering getting a day pass.

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 22/05/2026

Feeling romantic about electric rail. (late spring edition)

SacRT gold line ROW facing west in Sacramento, CA USA

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 11/03/2026

I don’t know what this road feature is called, but I never want to see one on a surface road again. Traffic engineers really outdid themselves on this one. I pass like 4 of these dropping my kid off at daycare on my bike and they’re all death traps.

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 27/02/2026

In January, Sacramento's Planning & Design Commission approved a CUP for a Raising Cane's drive-thru in Natomas right next to a planned light rail station. This was in direct conflict with SacRT's AND the City's TOD ordinances. The crazy part: SacRT submitted a letter supporting the drive-thru.

project map showing the proposed drive thru site near the planned light rail/BRT stop

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 21/01/2026

Can we make THIS the default NPS question? "if asked" does a lot here.

windows notification from MS Edge asking the net promoter score question "would you recommend Microsoft Edge to others, if asked?"

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 26/12/2025

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julotta Now I’m tired and it’s time for bed.

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 26/12/2025

Julotta dawn church service - a Swedish American tradition - with my wife, dad, and son in Butte County this morning. Merry Christmas.

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 05/12/2025

Really enjoying listening to the musician Dijon. I am loving his 2025 album "Baby".

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 17/11/2025

In the process of looking for an answer to this prompt, I recalled the existence of OceanLab's Sirens of the Sea which is a truly incredible album (and lifechanging for me) but it technically came out the year I turned 15 (2008).

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 11/10/2025

Scenes from Washington, DC last month during the federal occupation.

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 05/10/2025

For the love of God @governor.ca.gov sign SB 79 so we can put a cherry on top of @tashcoug.bsky.social’s wedding this weekend

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 04/10/2025

Hanging out with my wife

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 13/09/2025

This bill will be transformative for ending the housing shortage in California and building more transit-oriented development.

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 13/09/2025

Very grateful for the support for SB 79 from Sacramento legislators Senator @angeliqueashby.bsky.social & Assemblywoman Maggy Krell. There is a strong coalition of pro-housing folks in Sacramento who will not forget your aye votes for this bill. Thank you! @sacyimby.bsky.social

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 07/09/2025

Book 2 down. I'm so glad there are twelve more of these.

cover of Robert Jordan's "The Great Hunt"

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 06/08/2025

Robert Smalls Appreciation Society

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 25/06/2025

Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 25/06/2025

We visited Charleston, South Carolina.

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 03/05/2025

Dudes have never rocked this hard

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 25/04/2025

I am looking forward to presenting on California ISO's flexible resource adequacy program at the latest EPRI @eprinews.bsky.social RA Forum alongside my colleague Clyde Loutan. Tune in on Monday at 8:30am PT! epri.webex.com/webappng/sit...

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 21/04/2025

this but for building all-electric houses with rooftop solar in the WUI

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 18/04/2025

Reading CA state senate housing committee analysis of SB 79 which legalizes housing near transit. There's a lot not to like in the analysis, but this sentence is particularly frustrating: this is the POINT of the bill! Yet the analysis frames the existing PROCESS as something worth protecting...

Highlighted text from a screenshot of the committee analysis: "Given the broad applicability of this bill, this bill could undermine the
housing element process local governments have endeavored to undertake in recent years."

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 05/02/2025

You have defied a legal limit. 😂

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 01/02/2025

Okay, so this looks cool. cal.streetsblog.org/2025/01/28/s...

advertisement for the accompanying linked podcast

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 16/01/2025

I’m on the 138 bus on the causeway coming back from Davis and I can SEE the fucking illegal new lanes that Caltrans is putting in with my own eyes. Enraging. Disband the district offices

a picture taken out a bus window of new freeway lanes added to I-80 in yolo county, CA

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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 14/01/2025

The University of California, Davis.

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