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he/him Living the car-free life in Oakland, CA. Don't make me drive. mastodon.social/@bryanculbertson

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026
"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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diego@estupido.fyi @estupido.fyi · 28/09/2026
🚨 great post alert 👇
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
The bizarre culture that’s sprung up around Silicon Valley AI companies - which overlaps hugely with rationalist and effective altruist circles - appears to be seriously pressuring some women into attending sex parties for the sake of networking. This is, needless to say, horrifying.
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Multiple things can be true at once
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The purpose of SlutCon is to help ease men who are scared of approaching women, and for women who simply enjoy flirting to be in an environment where that happens a lot, since there's generally a dearth of that
At the same time, many - probably most! - women do Not want to be flirted with or propositioned by men they don't know. When a small scene only has a handful of large, well-known events, each one has disproportionate impact on everybody's ideas of acceptable behavior among other members of their milieu.
Attending the same events = specific shared context. Means
you're somewhat on the same page.
I suspect that the men who publicly raised concerns about SlutCon's impact on the scene are being megaphones for private objections and distresses they've heard from women in the scene who would NOT be comfortable at an event like that, but who don't voice it publicly because they suspect they'd suffer socially for doing so. That going to SlutCon to be flirted with gives women social cachet, and squirming at the idea means you're [not cool, can't get with the program, are probably a wokescold or a prude etc etc other pejoratives] and therefore, that you'll be excluded or held at a distance
Now, if this scene were purely a social scene, that'd be perfectly fine. Don't go to parties that don't suit you!! The issue arises because it's NOT purely a social scene. This scene is inarguably tied up with Al safety, research, and the SF tech scene in general.
When consistently being invited to the right parties is professionally advantageous, and when SlutCon itself **is** going to be an excellent networking opportunity for people in those fields, it's not neutral that {sexual proclivities} are the filtering mechanism that determines who's in the room. It means that promiscuity & forwardness is explicitly professionally advantageous.
And, if the norms of SlutCon influence the norms of that milieu outside of the e…My suspicion is that men come out of the event more bold, more forward, and with the expectation that events attended by former flirt-girls are fair game for SlutCon-style forwardness. This creates a hostile environment for women who just want to socialize and work with these men, without being propositioned. And without pretending that they're cool with being sexualized for the sake of their inclusion in the scene.
I don't think we have solutions yet, but it's important that we can talk about it, at least.
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the purpose of SlutCon is to help men who are scared of women to start liking women, by putting them in proximity to women who like men and aren't scared of men
I'm not attending or involved in any way, but this is very aligned to my own mission and I'm rooting for their success
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 28/09/2026
I am impressed with York! They turned their two-way two-lane underpass into a two-way single-lane light controlled underpass in order to fit a cycle track so families could bike to the National Railway Museum 🤩
Underpass over the rail line with one lane for cars and a separated cycle track for bikes
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 28/09/2026
Tavistock has the best protected bike lanes and the best crosswalks 🏳️‍⚧️
Photo of Tavistock street with concrete bike lanes and trans flag
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Its insane how much housing isnt getting financing right now because lenders just dont want to fund it over other shiny object initatives. Truly bizarro world.
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 27/09/2026
Only tech bros would attempt to spin their partially automated fast food restaurant going out of business as "achieved its goals" 🙄
Common room: mission complete

Our living lab has achieved its goals and is now closed

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Kuan Butts @kuanbutts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spicy reporting from Oaklandside oaklandside.org/2026/09/24/a...
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AC Transit buses have become more unreliable this year, say riders and transit board
Canceled and delayed trips have become routine. A board member told the agency to “get a handle on this ASAP.”
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TL;DR, you are not relieved of moral agency simply because you don't know what the output of your system will be. If anything, there is elevated moral culpability because you didn't take that time to stop negative outcomes. Ie, you were careless.
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you create a system that goes around stealing personal data, *you* are the morally culpable agent, not the system. This should be very straightforward, but we've been under a public relations assault intended to waive AI companies of responsibility, anthropomorphizing code systems.
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 24/09/2026
AC Transit is in the middle of a reliability crisis with only 93% of service running, a fiscal crisis with a $50M budget shortfall, and an ethics crisis with majority of board covering up independently confirmed harassment of another board member And directors aren't even showing up to meetings 😲
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 21/09/2026
This could be Capital Corridor if CA upgraded the coastal track to run trains at 80mph like Great Western Railway in the UK
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sacramento might have California’s most logical sidewalk cycling law: 1) Prohibited only when there’s an on-street low stress bikeway provided, and 2) Only when there’s a demonstrated bike/walk conflict probability, and 3) Only when the sidewalk cycling prohibition is promoted via signage
“10.76.010   Riding bicycles on sidewalks.
   A.   No person shall ride a bicycle on a sidewalk where a sign is posted indicating that bicycling is prohibited. The city manager shall designate sidewalks where such signs are posted upon a finding that:
      1.   The sidewalk abuts a road that is designated a "Low Stress Bikeway" using the criteria for the Facility Selection Guidelines in the City of Sacramento Bicycle Master Plan; and
      2.   There is either a demonstrated or probable conflict between pedestrians and bicycles. This may be shown by information including, but not limited to: 311 reports, incident data, or estimated high pedestrian activity determined by counts or adjacent land uses and densities.”
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tschuy 🏳️‍🌈 @tsch.uy · 19/09/2026
Just heard that AB 1599 was signed into law! Once fully implemented, one physical stop on the ground will have one name and one ID in apps (and other datasets)! Data standardization is a *major* part of transit integration. This is wonky but so important! www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2026/6/...
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AB 1599: Seamless Interagency Stop Data - the California Transit Stop Registry — Seamless Bay Area
On June 23, the California Senate Transportation Committee is expected to hear and vote on a good bill to standardize bus stop data, making transit more convenient for riders and enabling smarter plan...
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The entire #Brussels-Capital Region will become Europe's largest #car-free zone on Sunday. #Pedestrians and #cyclists will have the opportunity to take over streets usually congested by traffic. www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/232... #cleanair #cycling #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow
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Brussels goes car-free on Sunday: Everything you need to know
Brussels will go car-free on Sunday, with free public transport, activities across the capital and special events marking 50 years of the Brussels Metro. Here's everything you need to know.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The driver’s behavior before and after the crash is sociopathic. But also, no car operated on public roads should be able to go 100 mph, much less 142 mph.
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 20/09/2026
Every time I travel I am reminded that SFO is the best airport
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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i think post regional measure we should be considering a full rebuild of ACtransit from the top down as an agency, governance, management, policy everything
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 20/09/2026
Imagine working as an employee of AC Transit knowing that upper management and a majority of the board are willing to blatantly lie to the public to cover up harassment
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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Welp, I guess the state forests will stay stuck with 1950's-era mandates to produce merchantable wood products instead of, I don't know, dealing with climate change. And, stay stuck with no reliable funding.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Huge thanks to everyone that came out to the Regional Transit Measure day of action! See you all door knocking soon!
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Connect Bay Area Transit on Instagram: "Yes on RTM Day of Action across the bay was a success! Thank you to all of our amazing supporters, advocates, and organizers who came out to support💚🚊"
68 likes, 1 comments - connectbayareatransit on September 18, 2026: "Yes on RTM Day of Action across the bay was a success! Thank you to all of our amazing supporters, advocates, and organizers who ...
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 20/09/2026
I feel so bad for the West Oakland station agents. Half of their time now is spent patiently listening to customers yell at them about the loss of parking, and explain that it is for affordable housing. @bart.gov can you give the West Oakland station agents hazard pay?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
Read this thread and share my incandescent fury. Years and years of effort, hundreds of hours of manpower, a ludicrous amount of grassroots organization, all to make rudimentary safety improvements for elementary school kids. This city is so dysfunctional, it's shameful.
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The kind of schedule that gets proposed when the policy environment dictates agencies plan service around finding a use for already purchased hydrogen trains instead of service-led business cases. granicus-aasmp-peak-files.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/atta...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That third vote is so important! I joined the BART Board as an outsider, but critically I was the third outsider, joining Radulovich and Raburn. Though we were still the minority, we frequently pulled together majority votes. And then we helped elect allies and became the rider focused majority.
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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mexico City by bike
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the real toxic cult.
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 16/09/2026
Potential cuts to San Francisco’s public transit system would be significantly worse for the city’s economy than the effects of a proposed parcel tax to fund it, according to a new analysis from the controller's office. via @kellywaldron.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...
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S.F. economy will take a hit if Muni measure fails, controller warns
A report from the controller's office San Francisco’s GDP would grow $310 to $400 million over 15 years by passing the parcel tax measure.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026
study: updated Covid vaccines provide a large reduction in the risk of infection, severe illness, and hospitalization, particularly for pregnant women and young children jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you’re an iOS user who has been leaving Apple Intelligence off, don’t upgrade to iOS 27. That’s essentially no longer a supported use.
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Friends Friends Tv
Alt: One of the _Friends_ characters saying, “It’s too late for me, but save yourselves!”
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 16/09/2026
Vote No on Prop 45 It fast tracks highways and data centers, but not high speed rail
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Chronicle gets it: the Bay Area will not work without public transit. We must pass the Regional Transit Measure, else we're looking at a future that may not have BART at all, and that will see drastic cuts to other services.
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Endorsement: The Bay Area cannot function without public transit. Yes on the Regional Transit Measure
OPINION: Basic geometry dictates that there are too many of us living in too narrow confines for everyone to drive. The Bay Area needs its transit systems solvent, the editorial board writes.
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@bikeeastbay.bsky.social opposes Prop 45, which would ease environmental reviews for freeway widenings, among other things. Bike, walk, & transit projects already have CEQA exemptions. Prop 45 isn’t the CEQA reform we need, vote NO. Read more at: BikeEastBay.org/election2026
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Bike the Vote to Win a Better Bay Area - Bike East Bay
Bike the Vote Help win a more bike-friendly Bay Area this election season. This November’s election will be critical for protecting the future of safe and equitable mobility both here […]
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just got my covid and flu vaccines at the West Berkeley Kaiser! No line at all! They were even giving out Pokemon cards, so I grabbed a Moltres for the kiddo.
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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Joel Young is running for re-election as an AC Transit Board member. Not only has he been found guilty of harassing a fellow board member, he's used the position for his own personal interest. He was censured by the Board he claims to serve. www.mercurynews.com/2013/07/10/a...
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AC Transit board member censured for alleged ethics conflict
AC Transit board member censured for alleged ethics conflict
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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This year, when the budget came before the Board, Joel Young contributed nothing. When the reliability report came, Young said nothing. He never brings any agenda items. When asked six years ago whether serving on the Board was worth it, he cited only the travel stipend. Why is he here at all?
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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping. momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Heads up that there is a bug with the BikeLink app today which prevents people from logging in, even if they already have a bike stowed in a locker. I have confirmed that simply deleting and reinstalling the app fixes the issue. Please share!
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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shame on this creepy asshole, and shame on his board allies for calling substantiated harassment "offering solace and support."
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 16/09/2026
Water hydrant at San Pablo and West Grand was just knocked over and the fountain is 5 stories high!
Water spout from broken water hydrant
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026
As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking.
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bro this guy needs to go, it's enough already. We have ghost buses, 30 minute headways and a dying bus system and this guy is stopping fixes at every opportunity while harassing people. Vote Adriana Valencia as soon as you can.
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
American railroads have refused to take electrification seriously for decades. Maybe after they go bankrupt we can buy the tracks for pennies on the dollar, adopt a European-style system of time slot leases, and electrify. Nahh, we'll just subsidize them and expect nothing in return.
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 16/09/2026
Central Valley has been unanimously passing datacenter bans and is already wary of CAHSR If CAHSR actually goes forward with their business plan to build datacenters using their access to land and power, then that will permanently doom the HSR project www.fresnobee.com/news/local/h...
The rail authority in its latest business plan floated allowing data centers to lease the future train’s land and power source since state law requires it to run without subsidies when it’s fully operational. The agency is working with private investors who could help develop the train’s corridor and it’s looking for others who could help develop a utility-grade power generation system. Those partners will also be tasked with helping the agency commercialize those assets and could officially pitch leasing resources for data centers as part of a development deal with the rail authority.
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 16/09/2026
A woman was just yelling at West Oakland BART agent at the top of her lungs that there is no parking for neighbors, and then proceeded to vandalize the construction cones I asked if she needed help finding a spot because there is guaranteed to be a one available within a block Lo and behold
Photo of a parking spot across the street from BART
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I got rid of my car ~20 years ago, shifting to a 1 car household with my girlfriend, now wife. If we had continued w/2 cars, we couldn’t have afforded to buy our current home or rent our last one. And there’s no way we could have afforded childcare. Moving to 1 car absolutely changed our lives.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This happens every time, folks. I wrote this a couple years ago. Too many traffic engineers just do not understand that people can (and do!) change their travel decisions when highway is added or taken away.
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What Will Happen to Traffic in the Wake of the Baltimore Bridge Collapse?
People are surprisingly good at adjusting when a road closes.
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