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Don Gibson

@dongibson.bsky.social
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Plant Scientist PhD. Dad to two small boys. Likes to talk about housing and land use. Strong takes on bike lanes and tomatoes. 📌 Natomas, Sacramento, CA

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The Sacramento Bee @sacbee.com · 7h
The measure calls for $8.4 billion in state borrowing for immunology research. Half would go to a UC institute.
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Proposition 38 is a sleeper on the ballot. California voters should beware | Opinion
The measure calls for $8.4 billion in state borrowing for immunology research. Half would go to a UC institute.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 21h
Victims of traffic collisions compensation varies so widely depending on the culprit. A public employee or local millionaire can lead to millions in compensation but someone on minimum insurance can hardly cover a funeral hospital bill www.kcra.com/article/wido...
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Widow awarded $15.8M after businessman Phil Oates sued for wrongful death in deadly crash
A Placer County jury awarded $15.8 million to the widow of a retired California Highway Patrol officer who was killed in a motorcycle crash involving the Sacramento businessman Phil Oates.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My dog decided to wake up the whole household because of this intruder:
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OB Chargn @obchargn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grim day for traffic violence in the Bay Area - snapshots of today's SF Chronicle headline
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Free tomatoes - Road 29 and Highway 113 in Davis CA
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Kevin Burke @burke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
California Prop 38: - authorizes $4B spending in a way that only one research center in the whole state qualifies - privately funded research center - founder of the research center has donated $22 million to support the ballot prop This is, like, pure corruption calmatters.org/politics/ele...
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Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?
Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.
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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Filipino party spreads 🤤
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bay Area Politicians be like: you can just ignore it.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The wine industry is free fall and wine country politics is killing off new hotels www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Wine Country luxury hotel project is abandoned after years of bitter debate
After years of fights over height, zoning and downtown development, a developer has told the city of Petaluma it is abandoning its approved 56-room hotel project and may sell the downtown property.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As much as I think California should find science it’s crazy that $4 billion will go to a single non profit and $8B for a single research field. I am a hard No on Prop 38 www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking at traffic fatality data in Sacramento vs homicides in 2025 Homicide: 36 people died Vehicle collisions: 32 people died
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love a big cup of jittery anxiety in the morning. Also known as coffee
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s ALIVE!!!!!
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Got a text poll on most important issue and really surprised housing isn’t listed as one option
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are in a golden age for new fruits with advances in plant breeding. It feel like every week there's a new varietal that tastes much better than the same crop a decade ago. Sweeter and cheaper strawberries, better apples, tomatoes, and stone fruit. slate.com/life/2026/09...
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Are We Making Fruit Too Delicious?
This brave new world isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They found a pic of me trying Taco Bell in Manchester
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My morning Facebook feed is on point. An apology from a local school board candidate followed up next by the news article of him what he did to lose endorsements.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do think deporting people to countries they are not citizens of against their will should be a crime against humanity leaving aside that this all is bad and illegal under US law, there should be no version of this allowed ever
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Facebook reminded me I have been doing Ag and Plant research for 15 years now. Thankfully I don’t have to get in a forklift to pollinate corn anymore
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My direct to consumer e-bike is “a giant paperclip” according to the repair shop 😭
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I volunteered a few times at a high school biology class at a local HS that has concentrations of poverty. Sadly the teacher spent about a 1/3rd of their time controlling the room due to 2 or 3 students who were constantly disruptive.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this article will enrage you like nothing else
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Tesla driver charged with murdering 2 in San Jose shows no remorse, prosecutors say
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — When Ivana Balistreri and her baby were trapped inside a “fireball,” a Tesla driver who had just crashed into the victims’ car on Highway 87 in San…
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why do we even allow cars to go 140mph?! www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m spending all afternoon trying to get an old bike in my garage fixed. I finally feel like a real cycling advocate.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
i thought this was very funny
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I need to tell myself. You’re the adult you don’t have to negotiate with your toddler.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just watched two teenagers riding on one E scooter together. They just wiped out at an intersection. Thankfully they laughed it off.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Listening to Barbara Tuchman book The Zimmerman Telegraph. In late 1916, the entire German leadership new they are unlikely to win WW1. But they needed significant war gains achieved before signing a peace treaty or they will all lose their power and decided to escalate as oppose to accept peace
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
We’re:
— Redesigning our most dangerous streets. 
— Regulating delivery apps. 
— Lowering speed limits where children play.
— Upgrading 1,000 intersections every year. 
— Cracking down on dangerous drivers and super speeders. 
— Improving our street lights.
— Building safe, beautiful public spaces.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just got a City email to apply for Urban Agriculture program. You get a tax cut to do urban agriculture in the city of Sacramento. This is an awful land use and subsidy. Keep farming to farmland.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My conversations with friends skyrockets now that fantasy football is back. That’s probably not healthy
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In the generational reversal, I’m trying to insist that my mother-in-law needs to eat before starting the day
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“That toy is for girls” I got this week from my toddler. So 3.5 years to declared toys and movies are gendered.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 12/09/2026
I now have a grocery that is 15 minutes from my house by bicycle. And not only are there dedicated bike lanes off of the main road, there are dedicated spots to lock up one's bike. I am extremely happy about this.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The only shop in the strip mall with bollards protecting the front happens to be a liquor store. I guess they know their clients.
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 10/09/2026
Shocking footage of high tides eroding Metrolink/Surfliner tracks in San Clemente - once again shutting down CA's 2 largest cities' only rail connection. Imagine if this happened to a highway? CA needs to move the tracks off the beach ASAP, but we don't even have a plan. youtube.com/shorts/wOoWR...
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High Tides on Tracks 🌊
YouTube video by Metrolink
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have a family member who did travel baseball in high school and every other weekend he was somewhere between Northern CA, AZ, or Reno. All his friends were on these teams. And when my two boys are older, I dread the thought of having to do travel sports at that scale. slate.com/life/2026/09...
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Your Kid’s Friends, Classmates, and Cousins Are All Doing It. If Your Kid Isn’t, It’s a Big Problem.
It’s tough to be friends with a kid whose weekend is filled with soccer—and driving to soccer.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 07/09/2026
“It is widely recognized that Class 2 bike lanes on high speed roadways will lead to fatalities. Such as this one.” - Dan Allison, Getting Around Sac RIP Norma Valdez. www.kcra.com/article/woma...
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Woman dies in Sacramento hit and run crash, police say
A woman died in a hit and run crash on Friday night, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Camping views
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Train nerds: the proposed extension of the ACE train and Gold Runner to Elk Grove and Sacramento does NOT connect to the Sac Valley Station. Anyone know why? sacramento.newsreview.com/news/to-get-...
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I see Arkansas is the only part of country that properly pronounces “Almond” it’s pronounced “am-men” it looses the “L” when it falls from the tree
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Most like: San Francisco, Los Angeles. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Another example why flexible are not sufficient for safety and pedestrian spaces. This black car ran over a flex post (img 1) and missed the hard yellow post and almost hit multiple people in a new pedestrian space in downtown Davis, California. Source www.instagram.com/reel/Dc37AkZ...
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