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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

That article definitely downplayed Wiener’s extreme stances of conflating pro-Palestine organizing with antisemitism. So I can see it, but the headline reads as skeptical to me. Highlighting contradiction of a career politician in office for well over a decade being “something new”

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

How so? Can’t say I noticed that

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I’m generally a fan of Mission Local, so it’s disappointing when even they echo copaganda like “The SFPD staffing crisis is real and costs the city a fortune in overtime.” A staff shortage is SFPD’s opinion, and the linked article itself attributes the overtime cost to “potential abuse.”

missionlocal.org

The District 4 supervisor race will be nasty, brutish — and short

The Sunset has a new supervisor — and a bruising, reductive and rapid election on the horizon

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

If there’s so little pedestrian traffic that this is significant, should the area have a train? Beg buttons slow down transit riders who by definition have to cross the street in at least one direction on their trip. The issue can be mitigated by road diets/separate signal phases (eg at Ferry Bldg).

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

D7 supe and SFCTA chair Melgar echoes Fielder’s and other speakers’ point that Salesforce should not pay a lower effective rate than the corner store. Addresses “car people” mad about bike lanes: traffic will be much worse if we don’t have Muni and BART.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

D11 supe Chyanne Chen calls for a funding measure to not just balance the budget, but *grow* transit service. (The Muni Forever proposal would allow 10% service growth, while Lurie’s version would mostly lock in pandemic service cuts.) Leads a chant of “Muni Now, Muni Forever!”

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

At the #muniForever rally @jackiefielder.bsky.social calls on Mayor Lurie to raise the parcel tax cap for skyscrapers from $400k to 800k and eliminate tenant passthroughs. “As Muni goes, so goes the city.” Says if we don’t see movement in negotiations, we’ll be back with more to announce.

Jackie Fielder speaks on city hall steps amid people with pro transit signs

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It sounded great as a teenager. I was cured of my libertarianism the first time I had to work for a boss.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Then use them because you don't want to get colds as often? Or inhale 68,000 microplastic particles a day? "Hepa air filtration systems have been found to be effective at removing microplastics"

theguardian.com

Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily, study finds

Particles are small enough to burrow into lungs, says report, with health impacts ‘more substantial than we realize’

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Jonathan Hale was arrested by LAPD today for painting a crosswalk, even as the city of Los Angeles funnels more money to LAPD and does gymnastics to avoid implementing HLA. @mayor.lacity.gov, Jonny has made repeated attempts to meet with your office and has been iced out. Angelenos deserve better.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 08/12/2025

My kid's school has largely stopped using the classroom air purifiers that they bought in 2021, because (I'm told) they have no budget for replacing their air filters. What are we *doing*?

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Find out who controls the budget in question (school district, city council, county board of supervisors, etc). Make a letter writing campaign targeting those people to fix this. If educators are unionized, talk to the union about making it a demand in negotiations - this puts them at risk too.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Imagine all the Waymo failures that don't get videoed and shared on social media that we don't see. Tip of the (melting faster thanks to AVs) iceberg

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 07/12/2025

Out of all the ridiculous things AV boosters say, I think "it'll solve congestion because the cars will be able to coordinate with each other" is the stupidest

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Rookie mistake. Never allow cats to be at or above the level of the food you're eating.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Hmm it’s not really thaaat unlikely right? But I guess ACT to BART to ACT is more likely since the service area is bigger

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

At SFGH for a candlelight vigil and memorial for Alberto Rangel, the social worker who was killed this week. This was predictable and preventable. It was a failure of systems and could have been any of the thousands of committed workers across DPH. We are all heartbroken.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It's not written yet. You and I are among its authors.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

According to the calculator by @tsch.uy, Clipper 2 will fix this, launching on the 10th. clipper2.hikingbytransit.com#adult#SF#BA;...

Before Clipper 2.0, the first Muni leg is $2.85, BART is $2.40, second Muni leg is $2.35 with 50 cent discount. Total: $7.60.

After Clipper 2.0, first Muni leg is $2.85, BART is free with transfer, second Muni leg is free with transfer. Total: $2.85.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It seems if you take Muni to BART, then get off BART and transfer back to another Muni line, you don’t get the free Muni to Muni transfer. You get charged another $2.35 for the second Muni ride (ie, only the BART to Muni 50cent discount). I’m salty about this.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

"They’ve issued familiar warnings that pinching the wealthy too hard will drive them from the state, along with the critical tax base they provide." Ah yes, this must be why low-tax Ohio has been attracting all the rich people in recent years.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

You seem to also contradict yourself by saying "the whole market experiences increased costs" from IZ requirements on new construction, but also telling Barbara the cost is "not coming out of your wallet" unless she lives specifically in a building that was required to provide IZ.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Isn't all of this equally true for the seller of any input to anything being produced? You agree with me the tax incidence gets put on the land, but then, without using the word "incidence," you still insist it's the renter/homebuyer who really pays (which would mean the incidence is on them).

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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Getting word that LAPD & LAFD broke up a #peoplesvisionzero volunteer crosswalk painting in Westwood today - cuffed and ticketed at least one organizer

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

What is your evidence for the incidence of the tax (considering IZ as a tax) falling on the apartment renter/condo buyer rather than predominantly on the owner of developable land? Doesn't economic theory suggest the latter, since land is the least elastic input to development?

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

"actual thinking...is rare these days" is a very telling statement about what's making it into his filter bubble

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Just got back from visiting a neighborhood the SF Chronicle called “mostly inaccessible but by car.” I took the bus that runs every 8 minutes all day from BART.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Don't believe the hype. I stayed in a hotel along the new B Line this summer and it wasn't rapid at all. Crawls through traffic with only occasional short fragments of dedicated lanes. I'd been excited for it after riding the previous Lake St bus on my previous visit, but it's barely an improvement.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I was incredibly disappointed in the B Line on my recent visit. It barely has dedicated lanes at all and crawls through traffic on Lake St. It felt like the worst of both worlds: just a regular slow bus but with stops inconveniently far apart. Are people trying to fix it?

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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Yesterday was the two year anniversary of our ceasefire resolution, and it’s brought up a lot of thoughts. More than anything, deep appreciation for all those who stood for human rights during that legislative fight and beyond, and deep sadness for the lives lost and the trauma inflicted. 🧵

eltecolote.org

SF Supervisor introduces resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza - El Tecolote

As Dean Preston — the Jewish son of someone who narrowly escaped the Holocaust — read aloud a message from his Palestinian-American friend, he struggled

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I'm sure it will work for Waymo and Zoox, though. This time, they'll definitely reduce traffic, instead of cannibalizing transit and increasing traffic exactly like the last wave of ride-hail services did. I just know it.

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DSA San Francisco @dsasf.org · 06/12/2025

Join DSA SF and @jackiefielder.bsky.social at city hall Monday at 12 to rally for a Muni measure that grows service while protecting tenants! The MuniForever proposal: - expands service by 10% - prohibits tax pass-throughs to rent-controlled tenants - shifts tax burden onto corporations and mansions

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Great news. And: If you want this to actually be used in practice instead of mining, you're on the same side as people who criticize/oppose mining, and don't need to frame this as some sort of gotcha toward them.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This is why i'm building the shame nexus from classic sci-fi novel "Don't Build the Shame Nexus"

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Waymo lied about their robocar killing KitKat and the reality is so much worse. A woman is crouching near the front of the car trying to coax KitKat away. The moment she backs up, the car speeds away. A human driver would not have killed KitKat in this situation!

missionlocal.org

Video of KitKat killing by Waymo undercuts company's claim

Video corroborates accounts that KitKat, the Mission bodega cat, stood in front of the Waymo for 25 seconds before he was killed.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

What's your complaint about Tailwind?

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I've been told it doesn't but according to a social media post I saw, blue painter's tape on the sensors has been found to temporarily immobilize them.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

But please, only in legal ways, or at least in ways that break fewer laws than Waymos do.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Many Waymo stans on this website argue it's fine for AVs to do illegal unsafe things as long as they're _less_ unsafe and lawbreaking than human drivers (which is itself asserted without evidence). Wild to see Alphabet itself openly embrace this logic, tho. They think they're above the law.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Eugene joins the growing list of cities that are parting ways with ICE-collaborating Flock Safety at the same time that San Francisco is doubling down.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Would it really take most of us that long?

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

From “you’re fearmongering! rent-controlled units won’t be demolished” to “it’s good that they’ll be demolished,” in two easy steps!

Two comments in an Instagram comment section:

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@deanprestond5 This is just outright fear mongering at this point - You're completely ignoring the economics of the situation as well as SF's own rent control laws that actively disincentivize the very demolition you're talking about.
2 unit rent controlled buildings will always remain:
- Expensive to acquire
- Legally difficult to tear down
- Obligated to be replaced with rent-controlled equivalent units
- Required to allow tenants back at old regulated rents into new buildings
- Primarily exist outside of high density rezoning corridors
- Exist on small low footprint lots that can't fit high density construction that make development actually profitable
Every post you make seems to be a half truth that is purely designed to score political points rather than suggesting a realistic and comprehensive alternative.
Do better.

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@despair_core if they're so unlikely to be developed, why didn't they simply remove them from the plan?

despair_core 2d
@scottinahat Because the few that would likely be developed exist along high density transit corridors that would not have the same height restrictions as other areas of the up-zoning plan.
But in reality the most likely outcome is that none of them get developed because of the above reasons. Lurie could be using this as an effective tactic to juke the numbers to satisfy the statewide housing mandate while causing little to no impact on the city due to economic realities of for profit construction in SF.

tomlane 2d
@despair_core you just contradicted yourself by admitting that rent controlled units along high density corridors are at risk of redevelopment. City planners note that the number of units at risk are in the "thousands". Only reason to block protecting these units is to promote redeveloping them.

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@tomlane City planners actually have no idea how many units are at risk and neither does Dean Preston because rent controlled units grouped into ranges. The lowest range calculated is 2-4 units.
High density transit corridors shouldn't have single story buildings, single story retail, or buildings with just two units. That's called poor urban planning (shrug emoji)

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DSA San Francisco @dsasf.org · 05/12/2025

We’re rallying in front of City Hall on Monday @ 12pm to support the Muni Forever Proposal! Join local advocates and neighbors along with our socialist-in-office Supervisor @jackiefielder.bsky.social to fight for a plan will that protect tenants and fairly fund and improve Muni.

RALLY FOR...
MORE MUNI-
CITY HALL STEPS
DECEMBER 8 12:00PM

Muni is in a funding crisis.
We need a ballot measure that will expand service and fairly fund

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 05/12/2025

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

youtu.be

Behind the Scenes: How UC Faculty Beat Back Trump's Attacks

YouTube video by UC Faculty

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

So you're free at 3? Great, sending you an invite

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