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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

It's a very funny time to have taken an interest in CEQA, what with everyone being mad about prop 45. But it's such a weird law! Californians effectively said, "We don't trust bureaucracy, so we would like the bureaucratic process to be handled by randos with free time and lawyers. Also, we […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Oh dear, the 429 error. I've been seeing it so much lately

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

This isn't an opinion on the House race--I know nothing about Chan--just a conversation I keep having since he's in the news. Plus, Wiener just sticks out like a broken tooth in my brain: a policymaker I'd be heavily aligned otherwise, who apparently thinks you can punish homelessness out of […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

It is wild when people flat-out don't believe me that Scott Wiener is a big supporter of criminalizing poverty. And it does fit really weirdly with his vibe as a politician! He's typically solutions-focused and morally driven, and he'll go out on a limb for groups like trans people and intersex […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

darrellowens.substack.com/p/voting-… "I forgot that not everyone understands how privileged the Bay Area is to have public transit, which regardless of whether you use it or not, keeps traffic levels from becoming unmovable in a growing region that’s […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

"So really, you can't be a [feminist, environmentalist, Christian, whatever] unless you also subscribe to x viewpoint." 1) Not everything needs to be turned into an in-group/out-group fight. 2) The goal is not to wrangle every opinion into a single mega-ideology. It's actually really healthy […]

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Kevin Leecaster @greenfire.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

According to the IEA Electricity 2026 outlook, non-hydro renewables will supply around 21.8% of global electricity in 2026, edging past natural gas (21.6%) to become the second-largest source of power after coal […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Corporate ownership of genes is a problem--as are big monopolies--but the technology itself turned out to be a good thing.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Today's stray opinion: GMOs were a tremendously irresponsible experiment carried out on the public, and the experiment worked out. It turns out they're pretty safe.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 06/10/2026

Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering teams unionize at Hasbro aftermath.site/magic-the-gath...

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@skinnylatte I mean, pretty much all of California tax policy is built to keep cities like Oakland in a perpetual budget crisis. And the two flavors of solution for this problem--ramp up enforcement or commit to constant cleanups--involve a lot of staffing up. It doesn't help that building […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Voters authorized $9 billion in high-speed rail construction funds in 2008. Between CEQA and some lawsuits over the Prop that authorized the funds, the High-Speed Rail Authority couldn't touch that money until 2017. Nine years!

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I have literally never heard someone say, "There are problems with this project, but I think we can iron them out through CEQA process." I have *many* times heard someone say, "If we drag CEQA out long enough, we have a shot at killing this project." If we as California voters want to kill […]

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Androgoneous Spacecraft docking because neither the US or Russia wanted to be the "Female" docking part. I know a lot of stupid Space shit, but I was today years old when I learned this.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I dunno, man. Maybe I hate CEQA an unreasonable amount, but none of the anti-prop 45 arguments are really persuading me. Yeah, it will streamline projects I think are bad. But I don't really think the opposition to those projects should take the form of rich people filing lawsuits about noise […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

At the risk of reawakening the world's most frustrating discourse . . . it's kind of funny that the Democrat is the spoiler candidate in Montana, and no one seems to mind.

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@glynmoody/11730337… "For every 10cm of vehicle height, the odds of a pedestrian death rise by 11 per cent."

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Being rude about polyamory and kink is frowned upon in a lot of circles now, but clearly plenty of people were still looking for cover to say something discriminatory.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Did you hear those AI critics are in a SEX cult? Not sure about this AI stuff, but man, if it's just a SEX cult that's worried, whew, what a relief. And did you hear they're all having SEX with each other? I'm a firm believer that people should have whatever SEX life they want, but if there's […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, CEQA.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The way a human system talks to itself is so, so different from the way it talks to the outside world. I've been researching a government agency to try to make its work more legible to the outside world. While I'm looking for things like the details of work at a particular location, the data is […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I've been learning more about the California High-Speed Rail process lately. (Did you know they're about to start laying 119 miles of track? I didn't!) I'm trying to get a coherent picture of why it's been so delayed, and on one hand the broad strokes are easy: there's not enough gov't support […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

There's a whole category of issues that I think of as Cheek by Jowl problems. All the stuff that happens when you live near other people, whether it's slightly irritating or deeply distressing: loud noises, someone using the soccer field you wanted to use, urine on the sidewalk, people having […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@skinnylatte Haha, been struggling with this one. I'm working on a bunch of cool projects that I am excited about, but I'm starting to sound like I only experience one emotion

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Not gonna lie, feeling slightly smug about having bought an ebike last year

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

We could see that already, of course, with things like injury rates for football and soccer. We wouldn't be blowing out our kids' knees and giving them CTE if this were actually about educating them. And we damn sure wouldn't ever gate team participation behind tryouts! More athletic children […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

The people who freak out about trans kids in sports are breaking an important bit of kayfabe about sports. If kids' sports were really about the things we say when we justify them--teamwork, physical health, mental health--welcoming trans kids would be a good thing *even if their ability levels […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Was there a lost cultural moment for play in the US in the 2000s/2010s? We had an upswell of big, participatory, playful events--but it was met with intense hostility, centered around a rejection of Millennial "hipsters" living in cities. In retrospect, it seems like we stunted a move toward […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

buttondown.com/thene/archive/charit… Historian assumes graphic novelist must be too dumb to have done her own research, incites a bluesky dogpile on a queer creator.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

One thing I've gotten less and less patient with over the years: people hopping on social media to announce that [group they're part of] has politics all figured out. If being a Marxist allowed you to predict the future, you'd be winning more.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

The thing that really gets me with the Wikimedia Foundation's response to their staff wanting a union: Imagine you're charged with running the world's biggest free knowledge resource, which is only possible because of an army of nerds who love nothing more than fact-checking. And then decide to […]

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A dark day for human rights.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Sometimes decentralizing a system makes it worse.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

"Wealth that might once have flowed to a foundation is instead being used to create institutions that primarily serve the donor’s own family and community. The giver may still understand the project as socially beneficial, as an investment in education or a better model for schooling, but the […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

(Please no more cute alternative currencies. The world has seen so many cute alternatives currencies. No one needs a cute alternative currency.)

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

The problem with solarpunk is that the genre is pretty much a delivery method for shiny ideas about how to arrange society. And if your shiny ideas were any good, you'd be out there making them happen.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

@volts.wtf To be fair, if I remember the research right, that wasn't established until just a few years ago. A lot of kinds of friction affect housing markets. It wasn't totally unreasonable to think housing quality might be one of them. It turns out, high-income workers will absolutely […]

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/07/2026

In the latest NDAA amendment votes, five Dems crossed party lines to ban Tricare coverage for ttrans care for dependents of military members: H. Cuellar (TX) V. Gonzalez (TX) D. Davis (NC) S. Figures (AL) And Terri Sewell (AL) becomes the newest Dem to do so. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Five Dems Crossed Party Lines To Strip Health Care From Trans Servicemembers And Their Families

“It's not just an attack on transgender kids.”

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

The second is that if the art's not important, it shouldn't be my first impression of your ideas! Visual art *can* really effectively communicate things you would struggle to get across with words. But doing that takes time and care. If you don't understand that--if your web presence is just […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

And if the answer is of course not, they wouldn't write the *important* part with AI, we have two big problems. The first is, if I don't know you already, I have no reason to trust that. My first task when I go to your website is to distinguish you from hordes of astroturfers, and the slop is […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

On some level, I can see why policy wonk types would want to use AI slop for images on their blog posts. It's a fast way to get an idea out of your head. But I see the slop and think, "Hm, did AI also write your policy proposals?"

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

It's interesting hearing about trouble people are having with AI agents ignoring instructions and editing forbidden things, wasting resources on pointless tasks, etc. Humans spent a long time evolving ways to work together. We have a lot of baked-in mechanisms for keeping our decisions in line […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Paper of record proposes we resolve the Iran war by eating Irish children

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

It's painful, but the solution to a poorly-informed electorate has to involve giving them *more* responsibility, not less. People don't know the difference between state and federal government because they don't *need* to know. They don't know why independent agencies are important because […]

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/07/2026

1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups

“They have sued organizations into the ground.”

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

I should dig deeper into the history here, but one "wrong turn" I think we see a lot over the last century is a preference for libertarianism over democracy. In a lot of corners! The food movement coalesced behind a vision of small farmers doing whatever they want. Huge chunks of internet […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026

In March 2025, Trump met in the Oval Office with oil & gas executives. They listen their grievances and, on the spot, Trump leapt to address them. The executives were, in their own words, "stunned." Read these extraordinary excerpts. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/c...

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Side note: it would be higher than 71% now, because the fossil fuel industry continues to consolidate, so the top 100 entities have an even larger share.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

But even without Snopes, that stat should never have passed the smell test. If you know anything about where emissions are coming from, you know personal vehicles, land use change, and animal agriculture are big contributors. If you know anything about commerce, you know 100 companies aren't […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Here's the Snopes article, which I do think could be clearer, but still digs into some of the key issues: www.snopes.com/fact-check/corporati…

Only 100 Corporations Responsible For Most of World's Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

This piece of misinformation, which has circulated online for years, stems from a misleading headline.