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Bicyclist, backpacker, beer drinker. Neighborhood organizer. North American Contingent of International Bollard Association. More Roundabouts!

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My faithful GF is patching me up and changing my bandages. See men, this is why its better to settle down than be a bachelor!
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Daniel Pucca @dpucca.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you start a story with “Trump said…”, you’re doing it wrong.
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Western Watersheds Project @westernwatersheds.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tomorrow will be the last day to submit comments on the Roadless Rule rescission and so we need you to take action today. These areas provide clean drinking water, store carbon and give wildlife a chance in increasingly fragmented habitats. Talking points and a way to submit:
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Talking Points: Roadless Rule - Western Watersheds Project
Click here to submit your comments Deadline: October 6, 2026 I oppose the Forest Service’s proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The Forest Service should strengthen the Roadle...
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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
really torn on Padres-Brewers but it must be hell for the Trappists
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Berkeleyan @bswp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Somebody at @acvote.bsky.social really screwed up the voter information guide… in our version the RTM pages are strewn about and mixed into candidate statements and other measures. Was their copy editor laid off?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ICYMI — Hegseth and Trump are turning the 🇺🇸 military into a Christian army. Seems like this should be a bigger deal 🤷🏼 (As we accuse other countries of being religious fanatics) (H/T @atrupar.com)
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 01/10/2026
"In returning to the White House press pool while CNN remains excluded, the press has repeated the cardinal sin of capitulating to a bully."
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You Can Help Improve Legacy Media
🚨33 Days to the Midterms🚨
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.
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Berkeleyan @bswp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just now came to understand that restaurants are charging to cancel reservations, and I guess it makes sense, but please… Belotti on College Avenue would have absolutely no trouble filling those seats. $75/person if within 24 hours of reservation! Thankfully we were comfortably outside that window
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am more convinced than ever that educational institutions should follow the lead of Berkeley Law and start from a default position of no AI use for student work. If an individual teacher or faculty member thinks differently and wants to allow it, that's fine!
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The dam removals that get the most press tend to be superlative western ones, like the Klamath and Elwha—big rivers, big fish. For @biographic.bsky.social, I wrote about some equally vital, under-the-radar projects now restoring eastern streams, one old mill dam at a time. #AlewivesAreTheNewSalmon
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is the most important story nobody but Washington insiders know. Russell Vought is the fount of tremendous human suffering, misery, and death. 7/
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now extended to Oct 6! But still urgent.
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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think I’ll avoid riding in the robot car that occasionally may imprison me and hand me over to the police for violating their TOS www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Kids arrested after Waymo reports a gun in self-driving car
The young people had an AR-style "ghost gun" and suspected marijuana in the self-driving car, police said.
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schmette.bsky.social @schmette.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Now I have a matched set😎
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Comms 101: do not give interviews to the disingenuous opposition propaganda shithose outlet
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Tf is "Regional Partner." Bro, put me in charge of all Bay Area wayfinding at MTC. BART needs all its wayfinding standardized immediately
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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 08/09/2026
Japan just made its streets safer overnight! Following Spain and Wales, the country just slashed the speed limit on more than two thirds of its streets, from 60 km/h to 30 km/h. Read more: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/09/2026
Two biologists were studying frogs in a remote national forest when a man allegedly took them hostage. Josh Partlow reports on what happened next:
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The Growing Lawlessness in California’s Forests
Two frog biologists were kidnapped in the woods. More bizarre situations may come.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.
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RiseUp!! (Formerly Maskup) @maskup.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lake America
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Berkeleyan @bswp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I guess UC frosh will just have to go to the Ashby Flea Market to buy stolen bicycles now that Karim’s is gone.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The only meeting Hakeem Jeffries should be having with Jared Kushner is to tell him he’ll be subpoenaed by the House for a corruption investigation on day one of Democratic control of the House. This is just pathetic stuff from the House Dem leader. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 22/08/2026
Here's some amazing Kavalier & Clay backstory.
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To the Kelvinator Station
Souvenir of an invisible expedition
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Berkeleyan @bswp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My daily salute to Cadet Poopypant Bonespurs.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/08/2026
Even if Democrats win back Congress, the damage won't all be reversible. Here's what can and can't be achieved in a post-MAGA America:
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Four Things Democrats Can Do with a Majority in Congress
Investigating corruption, blocking bad ideas, and fixing the damage already wrought should top the agenda.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Flock has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” The company has now built an AI system that does both. And @wired.com got the system's code -- allowing us to reconstruct it, and learn exactly how Flock's new tool is supposed to work:
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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The Overhead Wire @theoverheadwire.com · 18/08/2026
You might not be following this because it's not about cities per say, but the administration just repealed the 2001 roadless rule in National Forests. They want to open up for more logging and more building which messes with everyone's drinking water. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests
The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We're moving away from Shopify for [reasons below]. Stay tuned as we build out the rest of our new store. www.thenation.com/podcast/poli...
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Shopify’s Leaders Are Pushing Right-Wing Politics in Canada—With Rachel Gilmore
Paris Marx talks to Rachel Gilmore about how Canadian tech companies like Shopify are pushing terrible right-wing policy ideas while influencing Mark Carney’s agenda.
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Berkeleyan @bswp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Say @geology.bsky.social Andrew Alden I don’t know if you dabble in Wordle, but I thought of you today. Wordle 1,882 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Ken McLeod @kenmcld.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"the key to reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s was ... the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change" Honestly, this is an aspect of bicycling I enjoy, finding new routes, side streets, cut-throughs, and updating my mental map
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...
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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
MEDIA PSA: When you call it the $1.8 Billion “anti-weaponization fund” you’re helping Trump sane-wash it It’s an “insurrectionist slush fund” A “heist” or “theft” from taxpayers A “scheme” to enrich himself When you use his words you aren’t a journalist, you’re a stenographer
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
David Barton is a fake historian who wrote a book on Thomas Jefferson that was so inaccurate his publisher was forced to pull it from the shelves. Now Barton, and his son Tim, are advising Trump on his anti-Smithsonian crusade.
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Berkeleyan @bswp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Please, can we get Brent Blackaby to hide or minimize his video feed on the #berkmtg ???
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Republicans have been in control of the House for nearly 4 years, the presidency and senate for nearly 2, and they are going to go into the midterms blaming the current economy on Joe Biden and not Trump's tariffs, corruption & wars. Good luck with that. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Cartonaut @cartonaut.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Map of Santa Cruz area using a hand. By Polly Hill, ~1914 Casa Del Rey and Casino
Map of Santa Cruz area using a hand.
By Polly Hill, ~1914
Casa Del Rey and Casino
Showing drives between 17 and 25 miles from Casa Del Rey in Santa Cruz. Big Basin to the north and Watsonville to the south.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New: there is a major vulnerability with Apple’s Hide My Email feature that lets attackers discover peoples’ real emails. Verified it works on my own email. We’re not disclosing how it works because Apple has not fixed it. But Apple has known for more than a year www.404media.co/apple-hide-m...
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Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.
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The West Marin Feed @westmarinfeed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A trail cam between somewhere between Point Reyes Station and Bolinas spotted big healthy bear going about his or her business in the last couple of weeks (the time stamp is wrong). Thanks to @eric.persha for the video.
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Kateration @kateration.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂
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Berkeleyan @bswp.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
When will the scourge of SUV gun violence ever end? I've never heard of bicycles opening fire on innocent bystanders. #theabsentdriver strikes again.
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At least 12 shot after SUV pulls up and opens fire on a crowd, Chicago police say
The eight men and four women in the group ranged in age from 17 to 47.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Frenchman Meets with an Actual Surrender Monkey.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Eight people are presumed dead in the B-52 crash in California today. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is removing portraits of Black generals and spending millions of dollars on ribeye steaks and lobster tails.
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Eight presumed dead after B-52 bomber crashes at California air force base
B-52 crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards air force base in southern California’s Mojave Desert, officials say
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Berkeleyan @bswp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Stanley Kubrick summer at Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive! We saw 2001 last week, and have tickets for Dr. Strangelove on July 4th. I’m looking forward to his earlier anti-war films, and Lolita and A Clockwork Orange. Grateful for the best movie theater in the east bay @bampfa.bsky.social
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This might be hard for Americans to hear, but the USA getting humiliated by its abject failure as a power during this Iran War might be the best thing possible at this time. The country needs to understand there are consequences for electing a crook.
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