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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 16/09/2026

thanks. yeah, that's as far as I could find, although that page doesn't load well on mobile for me. But I couldn't find normal timetables so I could see when those lines actually come through the transit center.

A screenshot of the San Luis Obispo, CA public transit system website shows tiny images and print, not optimized for mobile viewing, despite the fact that most people would be trying to find their way using their phone.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 03/09/2026

I'm in an Ionna charger desert 😭. Hopefully soon. 🙏

A screenshot of a map of Ionna electric vehicle chargers showed a concentration of spots in the Bay Area, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego. There are none between Monterey and Santa Barbara.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 02/09/2026

Two big fires continue to burn along Highway 1 on the Central Coast. People are sheltering in place in some communities. The predicted very wet El Niño winter is going to collide, literally, with these burn scars. Highway 1 just reopened after a three-year landslide closure. Not great.

A screenshot of the Watch Duty app shows the Timver and Plaskett fires burning along the California coast.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 07/08/2026

My own version approves 😏

A striking looking female Belgian Malinois stands on the beach under foggy skies. Her face evokes the Egyptian god Anubis.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 01/08/2026

Not only could this person not work again, they had to change their name and move to a small island in the Pacific (I assume)

A post on Facebook, with the caption "Nevermind with the storm, where the hell did Mississippi go?" shows a map created by the person formerly known as Mark Nowlin for the The Seattle Times. The map, showing Hurricane Harvey's potential track, labels Alabama right next to Louisiana.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 26/07/2026

My Belgian Shepherd dog (Malinois) is very invested in The Sheep Detectives. 😂 I'm going to have to watch with earphones because she just barked at the TV. 🤦🏻‍♀️

A black dog, with her legs oddly pretzeled, sits on a couch staring intently at a TV out of frame. Her large pointy ears are rivaled by her long pointy muzzle.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 23/07/2026

This post will never not make me laugh when it pops up in my Facebook memories. Crazy (good) decision. 😏 Also, I can't believe that was 16 years ago! Of course, you could already tell it was a long time ago by the format of the post. 😆

In her Facebook post on July 23, 2010, the OP says she is considering leaving her salaried job to go back and get a PhD to teach and do research. She asks "Am I freakin' crazy?!". Fast forward 16 years (whoa), and she loves to do both those things.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 19/07/2026

You have to zoom in to see him, but I love this photo I took at a game in Barcelona of three young men all wearing Yamal jerseys, leaning forward to see Lamine Yamal on the field during a match at the Olympic Stadium

three young men all wearing Yamal jerseys lean forward to see Lamine Yamal on the field during a match at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 10/07/2026

When I said "near me", this is what I meant 😄🙉

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 25/06/2026

I just saw one of the most surreal things while I was walking my dog. I think maybe a rocket blew up? Maybe out of Vandenberg?

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 18/06/2026

You can get a sense of what a nightmare the SLO housing market is when the listing for a $700k condo includes a Google street view of the place tented for fumigation, and that won't cause the slightest hesitation for buyers.

A screenshot of a Zillow listing shows a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom condo listed for $699,000. There is a shot from Google streetview where the building is engulfed in a striped fumigation tent, suggesting a serious previous pest problem.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 16/06/2026

One nice thing about the World Cup being in North American time zones is that soon we will be able to go straight from the Tour to soccer for a full day of sportswatching. Good thing my summertime employer likes sports. 😄 (my supervisor, however, is less keen on watching sports than playing them)

The aforementioned supervisor, a slender Malinois mix, plays in the shallows of a wave breaking on the beach.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 16/06/2026

My dog does not appreciate how much soccer I've been watching. She keeps standing over me and dropping her toy in my lap. 😅

A bright-eyed black and brindle Belgian Malinois attempts to block the view of the TV, which has the World Cup on. Her expression clearly says "less TV, more play time"

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 13/06/2026

I took this video just now. Toward the end, you see a red SUV make a left out of the cul-de-sac. You can see why some neighbors (and the FD, I believe) want a full signal. These left turns out across the fast and sometimes non-stop traffic on South already happen, and won't be improved by a PHB.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 13/06/2026

Y'all. There is so much to unpack here that I'm going to take a nap before I attempt it. I can see the unsafe crossing from my living room. I've posted many times about this corridor. This flyer is bonkers. So much incorrect, but with terms to make it sound knowledgeable. Wonder who created these.

A flyer tacked to a pole weaponizes concerns about schoolkid safety to claim, incorrectly, that a pedestrian hybrid beacon will be safer for people walking and bicycling than a full signal would be. There are multiple incorrect or misleading statements on it.

The nicely done crossing in the photo on the flyer is nothing like the "successful" crossing treatment that the text references, nor will the proposed project, that the poster author wants to "save", look anything like this.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 07/06/2026

I ask students to do a reflective writing exercise about this quote every term.

A screenshot of a tweet by user @imjasondiamond that says

"There's this exchange between Bourdain and Iggy Pop during the Miami episode of Parts Unknown where Iggy tells Bourdain, "You seem like a curious person" and Bourdain answers, "It's my only virtue." I think about that all the time."

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 07/06/2026

I actually had to look up the term Mandarin! who talks like that??

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 31/05/2026

can you please go pick this up for me? kthx

A framed art piece in an estate sale listing. The illustration is muted colors with thin, intricate lines, reminiscent of John Lee or Arthur Rackham or Amy Brown.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 31/05/2026

Nothing like trying to grade final projects on Canvas 🙄 (yes, it is Saturday night. being a professor is v glamorous)

A photo of the grade box area on Canvas merely says "Sorry, something broke", with none of its usual functionality. You can see that none of the groups have been graded yet."

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 25/05/2026

This makes me want to cry. We need regulations against building multi-family housing by freeways and arterials, AND bans on building McMansions next to walkable towns and near beaches and parks. I thought these were condos, but no. What a disgrace. And I had no idea that surface parking was there.

A listing from realton.com shows a 4 bedroom 4 bath single family home listed in Avila Beach for 2.85 million dollars.

An aerial view of Avila Beach shows the expensive houses for sale, along with a truly astounding amount of surface parking, which is nearly empty.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 08/05/2026

As much as I want to see us get away from internal combustion engines, I can't say I love the uptick in people driving their Teslas again, or worse, buying new ones. But the real kicker was seeing this one stopped next to me at a light. wtf is wrong with people?

A grey Tesla stopped at a traffic light has a license plate that says "DOGE 'em". Like, personalized plates cost extra. Annually. You have to keep paying to be this much of a douche nozzle.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 01/05/2026

I took this video from my bed this morning. This street used to be four lanes, I can't imagine how it was to live on it. But I also can't imagine this is healthy now. I didn't happen to catch the semi trucks or big box trucks, but there are many, it is the state trucking route in town.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 23/04/2026

Advice needed from y'all crafty folks. I have an old Timbuktu bike bag (pannier), and the outside is like new but the waterproof interior is dried and crumbling. How would you rehab this? The waterproof is nice but not critical here (unlike Portland 😄). But the crumbling blue plastic is messy. TIA!

A black Timbuktu bike bag with a nearly flawless canvas outer.

The bright blue plasticized inside of a bag flap is crumbling away, revealing the inside of the canvas lining.

The interior of a bag is mostly blue plastic interior but the coating is crumbling off.

The back side of the bag has nice bike rack hooks for a pannier style bag.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 23/04/2026

I took this photo yesterday along the shared use path running from campus into town. We had discussed "desire lines" aka rabbit trails aka cow paths in class a couple weeks ago. This is one of the best examples I've seen. You gotta appreciate the use of materials at hand. 😏

A wrought iron fence between a path and railroad tracks has been bent between two rails to allow people to slide through and reach the housing on the far side of the track without going a mile or more out of their way. Someone has used a large chunk of concrete to wedge the opening wider.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 15/04/2026

My new ride. Thanks to the team at Foothill Cyclery, I decided on an Aventon Level REC. I tried to love a mid-drive, but couldn't, probably because I had a rear wheel motor for the last 13 years. I had to park in my office because every rack on every side of the building was full. 🤷🏻‍♀️

A dark champagne colored ebike with a low step through frame is parked in a messy office with framed t-shirts from the OP's parent's jobs and a metal bicycle art, a gift from her students when she had cancer.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 28/03/2026

Awesome to see so many people out for #NoKings. But oof, the Flock camera smack in the middle of the pro democracy demonstrators. Pretty sure there is a term for that.

In the foreground is a large chartreuse sign that says "ICE will face justice". A crowd holds numerous pro democracy and anti Trump and anti ICE signs. In the background rises a large red brick building with an American flag. In the middle of the crowd is a Flock or similar law enforcement camera station, with an overhead view of the crowd.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 17/03/2026

I was taking a picture to show how using a former streetcar for a parking structure security booth is a perfect ironic microcosm of US transportation, but the guy working in it was so nice and misunderstood my intent and insisted on getting a pic of me pretending to hang out the door. 😄🤷🏻‍♀️ #AAG2026

A former or model San Francisco street serves as a security booth in a hotel parking structure. A white woman with short salt and pepper hair, with a large conference badge around her neck, stands with one foot on the streetcar step and holds on with one hand.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 16/03/2026

Oops, here is said screenshot

A notification from Flixbus warns that the bus is non-branded and not a typical Flixbus, and may not have wifi, which would make working while traveling possible.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 14/03/2026

A fire truck, an ambulance, and then a fire engine went by code 3, headed west, I thought toward 101. Checked quickmaps. Don't like the look of this. This intersection is a dicey one.

A map of traffic conditions shows dark red in every direction approaching an intersection, suggesting a crash in the intersection. Those are often severe, being perpendicular, side-on or head-on crashes.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 12/03/2026

What German car company has new EV about to drop? Is there a big show like CES soon? Spotted these two zebras in the wild at Costco. I did confirm that they were indeed prototypes and not just a extra douchey wrap 😂. I'm sure I confused and probably annoyed the giant German dudes chaperoning them.

Two cars charge at Costco, wrapped with a very strange black and white pattern known as "car camo", which disguises new models from competitors and media before they hit the market.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 04/03/2026

Does anyone know anything about this Pallet Shelter place next to Van Nuys Amtrak? It must be fairly new, it is a parking lot on google maps. I had trouble finding info on their website. Looks like a cool tool for sheltering unhoused or evacuated people, especially near transit.

A picture of many small Pallet Shelters, small shelters with air conditioning units visible, sandwiched between a train station and some large industry.

The view of the area on a google maps aerial, showing an empty parking lot where a small community now seems to be.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 24/02/2026

I don't know what you mean [actual footage of my back deck]

A small back deck and its railing are covered in various small, medium, and large rocks. There is also a folding table with many rocks. There are two buckets and a colander for washing rocks. There are more rocks not pictured.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 07/02/2026

with a hint of the Labyrinth worm 😄

An adorable worm-like creature from the movie Labyrinth looks up at the camera, it's round white cheeks similar to the baby in the original post

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 05/02/2026

And this progressive pride flag Tesla emblem is another star entry in the collection

The Tesla emblem on the back of a dirty black Tesla car is colored like the progressive pride flag.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 05/02/2026

Ok, I need to find them all later, but this one is really something

A bumper sticker on a new high end Tesla says "Yes, I bought another Tesla. I think Elon is crazy. But I love auto pilot. The font is weirdly cartoonish and tacky and out of place on the fancy car.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 04/02/2026

At least you (hopefully) didn't have any freeloaders 😄 (my sis, the 7 yr old skiiing with her sister's equipment, and said sister catching a ride 😏)

A woman on cross-country skis pulls a sled with a kid, ostentatiously lounging, while another kid skis behind them.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 04/02/2026

My sister and I are a couple years ahead of you, and this was a conversation we had last week (on my 46th bday 😄)

Screenshot of a text conversation between two sisters, talking about needing better pillows and how in their 20s they could pass out in a bathtub and wake up feeling great.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 01/02/2026

This is who runs this account

A little girl with cropped brown hair feeds a black goat. She is wearing a Return of the Jedi shirt and white huaraches.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 20/01/2026

Tarzan and I also did some forest bathing.

A black and white border collie runs on a dirt road in a brushy green forest

A border collie is visible sniffing around the plants on a dirt road. Behind him are several large trees adorned with hanging moss.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 20/01/2026

whew. that's enough doomscrolling for me tonight (riveting duck on a runaway bus excepted). Today I took Tarzan (pictured) out for an adventure. Total sweetie. He's available for adoption through the Central Coast Herding Dog Rescue. Whatever helping looks like for you, I swear, it helps you too.

Tarzan, a border collie with striking white and black markings, stands smiling while on a walk around Tin City in Paso Robles, CA

Tarzan the adoptable border collie cautiously and adorably touches noses with a large dog sculpture.

Tarzan, an adoptable border collie with a white face and black ears, looks up at a dog cookie iced with a goldfish in a bowl.

Tarzan, his beautiful markings visible from above, gently takes his dog cookie.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 17/01/2026

I'm extremely fortunate to live where I can teach in the morning and be on a trail at the ocean by lunch. Today I saw grey whales and a bobcat, plus so many birds, flowers, and a lizard. I hope wherever you are, you can get out and touch grass, in the best way possible.

A small ocean cove glitters in the sun. A trail is visible along the bluffs, which are topped with bright green grass. A mountain rises in the distance. The winter sky is a pale blue under a bright sun.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 11/01/2026

Thank you for another lovely time discussing neuroscience and brain chemistry and hunting/gathering and art @silverpebble2.bsky.social ! Sorry I had to leave early, but I made this quick sketch of a dried thistle while you were teaching us. Thank you for the needed dopamine hit!

A very rough pen sketch of a dried thistle shows two spiky thistle and their collars of spiky leaves. The text reads "thistle from flower arrangement".

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 07/01/2026

Listening to these press conferences today has me

The "Days without an accident" meme from The Simpsons with the text "0 days without 1984 being relevant" and "Let the gaslighting continue until morale improves". Meme was created by @drtaragoddard.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 25/12/2025

I'm officially middle-aged because I got two pairs of socks for Xmas and I'm legit happy about that 😄 tbf, one pair was *very* on brand

A pair of green socks is embroidered with green trees and the quote "I fucking love it out here" in a text bubble.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 19/12/2025

speaking of ... I just started this book. Have you read it? I legitimately cannot remember how I heard about it or why I picked it up (other than personally being a "river rat" 😏), but it is good so far.

The cover of the book In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings" by James C Scott.

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