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suburban urbanist, cargo pants aficionado, UAW member, Georgist, YIMBY socialist, geoscientist, Inland Empire respecter, hydrogen hater, 🔰🚰🌹 they/them. Pro algae.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 26m
Finally some mainstream coverage of the Metrolink situation. But this article leaves out SERVICE CUTS COMING NEXT MONTH as well as how weird and dysfunctional it is that the budget is being approved piecemeal like this. laist.com/news/transpo...
laist.com
OC Transportation Authority funds Metrolink for another quarter as service hangs in the balance
Metrolink points to a dip in ridership and increasing costs for budget woes.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 19h
In addition to the support of apartheid Israel, US bipartisan support for the Egyptian junta is disgusting
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 8h
Teens doing dumb and dangerous stuff on what are essential electric motorcycles is real and a problem in some places but I'd remind everyone that teens doing dangerous stuff on actual gas-powered motorcyles is the cornerstone of the 50's greaser culture everyone worships now.
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Kiefo Nilsson @kiefonilsson.com · 9h
This is a somewhat hot take but I agree with this article overall. We need to be having a more serious conversation about what micro mobility offers and how to build that up than just slamming it all as a menace or looking to restrict and ban it.
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 9h
Frustrated with the slow progress on CAHSR? Apparently the California legislature isn't, given all bills to speed up progress died this year. Why isn't California's signature infrastructure project a priority? calmatters.org/politics/202...
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California’s high-speed rail authority made a legislative wishlist. It mostly stalled out
California’s bullet train agency said timely construction of the rail line depended on these reforms. They mostly failed.
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 12h
Found a chart that goes through 2025. This problem has plateaued and isn't returning to pre-pandemic levels.
time spent at home chart
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 10h
The callous attitudes of many of the Philipsburg residents in this story do not surprise me. When I lived in the area (before the ICE facility) the town was known as an unsafe place for people of color. I met a guy from Philipsburg who described Bakersfield (CA) as screamingly liberal.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 11h
I really hope the billionaire tax doesn't end up in Prop 15 territory where a basically good concept fails narrowly due to a bad campaign or 2nd tier policy aspects and then can never get on the ballot again.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There’s a story in here of a man being deported because the government refused to recognize his gay marriage. They wouldn’t accept any proof that he was legally married.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every time a reporter writes an article like this they need to be calling up CalSTA for comment about when the San Clemente Realignment study will be done. And asking Darrel Johnson why he refused to do this.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Based on personal example I don't think this irrational at all. Personally, I'm making more money than I ever have but my roommate is unemployed and so are many friends and the president keeps pushing the "crash the economy" button and threatening to cut my funding. Should I say the economy is good?
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 28/09/2026
The LOSSAN corridor is under threat once again this winter from El Niño. But one word is strikingly absent from this discussion: relocation. Will upcoming extreme weather finally be enough for the state to take action on moving the tracks off the beach?
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is frankly climate denialism to say we're just going to rebuild these tracks over and over again at great expense and not move them off the beach (which is strikingly absent from this article).
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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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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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
tbh I feel like the two ways society has gotten unambiguously worse is that it's more expensive to live in a desirable metro area and we spend more time on meaningless content consumption. Why the broad left of center focuses on so many other things is kinda confusing ngl.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This type of thing underrated as a reason for the IRA's failure - energy companies would rather pivot than go to bat for renewables. The green economy was not a durably lobby
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Local Hallmark store for grandmas where 30% of the wares is about Jesus has a wide selection of gay marriage cards. Total LGBT+ cultural victory
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026
"Across these industries, employers have been taking complex social or creative work and reorganizing it into something closer to an assembly line."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is an absolute disgrace that every major union in California is not backing the billionaire tax. Petty ass crabs in a pot doing the work of Sergey Brin. Wake up!
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Messed up how under US rentier capitalism you can spend infinite money on health treatments that don't work (supplements, homeopathy, chiropractic) but it's difficult to simply purchase effective treatments like HRT, COVID vaccines, birth control without extensive gatekeeping.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*OCTA voice* Brightline should simply stop wasting money. Why isn't Brightline at 100% ridership recovery like OCBus? ktla.com/news/nationw...
ktla.com
Brightline Florida files for bankruptcy, SoCal-Las Vegas high-speed rail project faces delays
Brightline, the company behind an ambitious high-speed rail line in Florida, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection due to lower-than-anticipated ridership levels that left it heavily in de…
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They should have a teen takeover for all us 45-year-old teens
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Actually the biggest AI safety risk imo and one the field is largely unconcerned with
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 24/09/2026
The story of the bosses' revolt comes down to their experience, in 2020, of helplessly watching the labor-income line go up — and resolving, right then and there, to make sure that never happened again.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
> You are a 25-year-old shape rotator with emotional problems. Select one of the following options: > Rationalist > YIMBY > Grad student unionist
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Among other things, this scene feels so immature. The whole thing feels like precocious teens having sleepovers with a 14-year-old's edginess and lack of boundaries or professionalism except they somehow have billions of dollars and access to US Senators. This is relevant for the allegations.
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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Between 2021 and 2024, Senator Scott Wiener and Assemblymember Alex Lee exempted bike plans, bus rapid transit, light rail, and rail electrification from CEQA. These projects reduce vehicle miles traveled and greenhouse gases.
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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The backers of Prop 45 are counting on the public not being able to tell infill homes near transit from building new roads into wildland / fire areas for sprawl's sake. EB4E recommends a NO on 45 this fall. eastbayforeveryone.org/2026/03/05/s...
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Vote No on Prop 45: Streamlining Sprawl/Freeways is NOT Pro-Housing | East Bay for Everyone
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BarryJT @barryjt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Riverside's Vision Zero is a plan to reduce fatalities by 50%. That doesn't sound like zero.
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 23/09/2026
Metrolink released a study finding hydrogen trains would reduce capacity and travel times at a large cost - but are still considering a pilot anyway. Take action and tell Metrolink to study electrification, not pilot hydrogen THIS Friday! #Electrify Metrolink actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Metrolink say no to hydrogen pilots and commit to electrification
Metrolink is hearing the results of a study on the feasibility of running hydrogen multiple unit (ZEMU) trains on the San Bernardino and Antelope Valley Line trains. The results of the study are now i...
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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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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
California needs a state-level mass transit agency that would ideally get full land use authority and ownership within a certain radius of train stations and bus stops so that they could fund operations with residential and commercial rents.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's crazy how Metrolink has had no budget for 6 months, has been threatening service cuts for that entire time, and virtually no media has covered it. Numerous articles about Metrolink fare increases or service disruptions that don't mention this at all!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
one thing worth saying about the disorder Mandani discourse is that it matters what you're using "disorder" as evidence of. here's some public health research using "broken windows" as an indication of "need for public investment" i.e. fixing the windows penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-Co...
penntoday.upenn.edu
Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence | Penn Today
Installing working windows and doors, cleaning trash, and weeding at abandoned houses led to safety improvements and should be considered in efforts to create healthy communities, according to researc...
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...
ebar.com
Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 22/09/2026
After months of silence and a promise of no new service cuts, Metrolink could cut trains to 106 trains/day as soon as November, with commuter-oriented schedules and no trains to Oceanside. Revealed at an OCTA subcommittee with nothing on this week's board agenda. octa.granicus.com/player/clip/...
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
One thing I appreciate about living in the IE for nearly a decade at this point is being spared of this discourse. Most people here were priced out of more expensive parts of CA, the only people who care about this stuff here are white conservatives
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Decoupling at work. Climate action is good, not bad, for the economy
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Public transit needs public interest lawyers. Transit opponents are extremely litigious. Who are the pro bono lawyers who will sue for slashed funding, service cuts, and capital project graft?
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Power Map @powermapmag.com · 21/09/2026
As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...
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Shitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.
Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.
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California Federation of Labor Unions @californialabor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We have seen polling after polling of young people, union members under the age of 45, and they overwhelmingly support taxing billionaires. This is what the Labor Movement should be fighting for, and we're proud to be doing so. Vote YES on Prop 40. #YesOn40
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 21/09/2026
We had a great time at Rail Beach Day yesterday! We got to see flooding damage in San Clemente, sand replenishment in Oceanside, and the convergence of 5 different troubled train lines in Oceanside. Came away with new bonds and a commitment to improve the US's 2nd busiest rail corridor.
People sit on the beach with a sign that says Rail Beach Day. Excavator tracks from recently replentished sand are visible in the backgroundSmiling people holding a "rail beach day" sign stand in front of the Sprinter sign, with a Sprinter diesel multiple unit train visible in the backgroundPeople pose on the beach holding a rail beach day sign with some palm trees and high rise apartments visible in the background.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wonder how much the sudden wave of transphobic Democratic messaging can be attributed to all the pols and operators still being on X
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