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My shirt that reads "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in. Testosterone testing for everyone," had people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. What a stupid, stupid, stupid timeline.

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Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 3h

Excellent summary from @weatherwest.bsky.social on the continuing confusion between absolute and relative measures of the ongoing 2026-27 El Niño. Key points: —Both absolute and relative scales have value, but they’re meant for different purposes. —This is now a record-strong event either way!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish there was a way to figure out which of my donations got me on all these spam lists so I could never donate to those causes again

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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve been phonebanking for this and I’d highly recommend it! Or just tell your friends - YES on RTM!

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The fundamental truth about successful companies -- that a lot of people spend their lives trying to avoid -- is that they will do whatever it takes to survive. That strongly informs my policy beliefs, and is why I see a regulatory state as a hard necessity (if insufficient).

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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026

The conditions in President Trump and Stephen Miller’s detention facilities remain inhumane. Demand immediate action from our elected leaders to prevent further loss of life at aclu.org/stop-ice_killings

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/09/2026

US isn’t taking climate change seriously when it comes to transport policy Other countries are demonstrating that they can (1) mode shift toward transit, walk, bike; (2) electrify; (3) densify. US failing on all fronts. Result is that US emissions from transport aren’t falling as they should

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

PDI is an utter pile of shit. It is hard for me to believe that anyone that works on it has done field work in at least a decade. The workflows are insane.

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SFMTA Muni Alerts (Official) @muni.sfmta.com · 25/09/2026

HeadsUp: The #MOceanView will have hybrid train and bus shuttle service this weekend due to track repair work. ➡️Bus shuttle svc btwn Balboa Park and Broad & Plymouth ➡️Train svc btwn Broad & Plymouth and Embarcadero. ➡️For more details: bit.ly/4yOnrjI

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The election campaign software space desperately needs a new entrant that cares about UX. Please, someone. Don't make me do it out of rage.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm sorry, my stupid quota is full for this decade, and I need everything to stop being so fucking dumb for the next four years. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Walk San Francisco @walksf.org · 24/09/2026

🚨 If we don’t pass measures H & RTM this fall, what will happen to traffic, climate, affordability, and accessibility in SF & the Bay will be a nightmare. 📈 SPUR's ‘Bumper to Bumper’ crunches the #s on this nightmare in a new report: spur.org/bumpertobumper

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The people who build a system are the responsible parties, not the system. The code doesn't have moral agency -- the humans that created the system do. In other words, OpenAI hacked the Australian government, not "OpenAI's system." OpenAI (and the humans therein) have the agency, not the LLM.

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 24/09/2026

Bernie’s “the Trump Administration gets to decide how much linear algebra you’re allowed to do” plan has a few potential flaws

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the things I learned working at a huge multinational (Amazon) is that functional realignment isn't likely to solve an output problem if political alignment doesn't exist. You can rearrange functional components all you want, but if the politics aren't aligned, you'll make little progress.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another great day to remember that two (or more!) things can be true at once, and they may even point in different directions. Wild and confusing stuff, I know.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I suspect one of Waymo's goals here is to create a permission structure for local politicians, one in which they can feel justified when they decide to not do the hard work to improve their local public transit agencies. "Look! Were part of the transit system!"

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 23/09/2026

This is the same railroad that is supposedly going to open the US's first high-speed line, between Las Vegas and Southern California in 2029....

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's plenty of corruption, crimes against humanity, and downright evil shit to focus on, but every so often it strikes me how thoroughly we USians have been exposed and disgraced on the world stage. A country who can elect such a man—twice!—is not a worthy country. We need radical reformation.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another Dem governor following Newsom’s lead in using transit funds to subsidize the fossil fuel industry due to “affordability” concerns.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026

US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z

Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 23/09/2026

Bay area: vote yes on RTM, and remind everyone you know to vote yes on RTM

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

William Shatner has, if nothing else, provided a great example of what thriving at 95 can look like.

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William Shatner Enter Sandman live 2026

YouTube video by Norbs metal super tv show

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In many ways, the new study from SPUR is a best case scenario: BART magically stabilizes after massive cuts and doesn't end up shutting down entirely. That doesn't seem likely for any agency -- cuts will lead to loss of ridership which will lead to more cuts.

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Bay Bridge Traffic Delays Would Double if Transit Tax Measures Fail, Report Finds | KQED

The new findings show that reduced public transit service and station closures would affect traffic and quality of life throughout the region.

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Lian Chikako @lian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SPUR analyzed what would happen if the Regional Transit Measure doesn't pass. Traffic delays would DOUBLE on the Bay Bridge and TRIPLE through the Caldecott Tunnel. We can't let that happen. Volunteer with us this weekend in San Francisco! Saturday: www.mobilize.us/scottwienerf...

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Urbanist Day of Action - For Scott Wiener and the Transit Funding Ballot Measures · Scott Wiener for Congress

Get Out the Vote for Scott Wiener and the Transit Funding Ballot Measures in the Inner Sunset, together with the Westside Family Democratic Club, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and Abundant San ...

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These types of transit service cuts are tantamount to surrendering to climate change. It doesn’t have to be this way, vote #YesOnRTM & volunteer now to multiply your impact. Opportunities every day here: luma.com/connectbayarea

Map of BART station closures if transit measure fails

“EXHIBIT 3
Potential Muni Cuts: Headaches for Riders and Only Temporary Cost Savings
Route cuts and reduced service hours would save Muni money in the short term but would also lower fare revenues and therefore are no fix for the agency's fiscal woes.
Source: SFMTA.
Photos: Sergio Ruiz.
CUT UP TO 20 MUNI
ROUTES
Corridors with multiple routes, downtown express, hilltop and nelghborhood connections
$70M-$150M
DOUBLE WAIT
TIMES
Metro train service, Rapid and
Frequent routes
END REGULAR
SERVICE AT 9 P.M.
Limited Owl network only from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
REDUCE OR CUT HISTORIC SERVICE
3 cable cars lines and F Market &
Wharves streetcars
$30M-$80M
$30M
$70M-$140M”

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is essentially the decision before voters. Except it should be a giant SUV not a trolley, because if the transit measure fails the SF cable car service will also be eliminated.

Trolley problem meme for “Bay Area regional transit measure”, with the options being “pass: higher sales tax” with one person on the tracks or “fail: wreck the entire local economy” with five people on the tracks

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kqed.org

Bay Bridge Traffic Delays Would Double if Transit Tax Measures Fail, Report Finds | KQED

The new findings show that reduced public transit service and station closures would affect traffic and quality of life throughout the region.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a promising introduction to a series! Institutional inertia is hard to imagine and measure, but it dominates so much of the current American experience.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can't wait to have these in SF. The current enforcement system doesn't work.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Imagine saying "I'm a Hobbesian accelerationist," in public. I'm sorry, what? You believe in the rapid, unchecked accumulation of power in the hands of a select few? Pretty sure there are other, less esoteric names for that ideology.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · 21/09/2026

Hello Bay Area! Come join me next Sunday, September 27 for the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour We’ll be sharing stories of immigrant freedom fighters, Desi feminists, and more—a totally different take on Bay Area history Details and registration at www.berkeleysouthasian.org

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Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour

Discover the secret histories of South Asian Americans in Berkeley and San Francisco, California. As seen in National Geographic and NPR.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

30/ Lots of cynicism about US frontier labs & Chinese govt's stated aims to avoid recursive self-improvement & cybersecurity risks. Global coordination on a moratorium seems a nonstarter… Matt Levine’s theory on the game theoretic dilemma www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today! Have some time this afternoon? Come show up and support the regional transit measure!

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/09/2026

JUST ADDED: Tonight’s Negativland concert at the Internet Archive is sold out, but you can still join us online! The livestream begins at 6:30pm PT and will only be available during the show. At the band’s request, there will be no replay. Watch live ➡️ youtube.com/live/qiQ39fM...

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NEGATIVLAND LIVE AT INTERNET ARCHIVE

YouTube video by Internet Archive

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bay Area transit advocates gathered signatures to save transit, and now they're delivering the vote. Want to make a difference for our region? No better place to invest your time than informing voters and networking with future leaders luma.com/connectbayar...

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Connect Bay Area · Events Calendar

View and follow events from Connect Bay Area on Luma. Organizing for the Regional Transit Measure on the November 2026 ballot. Vote Yes on RTM November 3rd! ConnectBayArea.com

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Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman @azul415.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

„This analysis suggests that the potential service cuts would be far worse for the local economy than the parcel tax,” the report states.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The 44 should have transit only lanes between Elk and Arlington. 5 minutes from West Portal to Elk, then we sit endlessly in traffic.

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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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