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Jeff Leyser

@jeffleyser.com
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Left-wing, YIMBY, geeky, husband & father of two. Eng Director and SRE leader. I speak only for myself. He/Him.

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Amanita Design 🔧 @amanita-design.net · 08/10/2026
Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here's part 2 of my California voter guide. This one covers how I'm voting on all 14 propositions that are on the ballot this year: publiccomment.blog/p/the-public...
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The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 2
The ballot propositions
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 04/10/2026
Fellow D1 Berkeleyites, is Moni Gangopadhyay more NIBMY or YIMBY? So damn hard to tell from websites and 'platform' docs. She seems the most qualified of the bunch, but.......
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 30/09/2026
Oh please oh please oh please oh please!
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 25/09/2026
Months, you say?
A New York Times headline that reads "FBI Begins Review of Clinton Aide's Emails" published Oct 31,2016.
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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What on earth were @calfire.bsky.social and California State Parks thinking by moving forward with a prescribed burn on a day where winds are slack, temperatures are dangerously hot, and people are desperate to ventilate their apartments? @buffywicks.bsky.social @jessearreguin.bsky.social
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/09/2026
Look if chatbots are sentient and feeling then the people using it are enslavers and the entire concept of what we are doing is horrifying, not enlightening.
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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Some of the strongest evidence I can come up with to rebut "rents never go down". This newer building—1122 University Ave. in Berkeley—saw all but one unit decline in price compared to the same unit rented last summer. This is in nominal dollars.
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 05/09/2026
Sigh. www.berkeleyside.org/2026/09/04/h...
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Hopkins bike lane opponents sue to block project
Longtime critics of the plan to build bike lanes on Hopkins Street say Berkeley's vote to advance the project violated the California Environmental Quality Act.
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Neglectful Muse @neglectfulmuse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The only real difference is the NYT and other legacy institutions are now being cut out and are mad about it, but they know they can’t just say that so they are pretending that there is some big scandal going on
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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For most of 2026, I've been working to secure a contract to write a comprehensive book about TV's Veronica Mars. I've come close, but publishers fear there just aren't enough Marshmallows left who would be interested. Let's prove 'em wrong! Join me & please share: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's worth noting that this isn't a random number but a goal that would simply restore the court to an earlier norm in which there's one justice for each of the judicial circuits. We used to have nine, we now have thirteen. The people defending the current setup have the tougher case to make here.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026
re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 29/08/2026
Target: We deeply regret eliminating our DEI department, and hope this half-baked apology leads to consumers coming back. Also Target: Checkout our 2026 Halloween costume line up!
A black child dressed in an extraordinarily  offensive “Minstral” Halloween costume.
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 29/08/2026
Target: We deeply regret eliminating our DEI department, and hope this half-baked apology leads to consumers coming back. Also Target: Checkout our 2026 Halloween costume line up!
A black child dressed in an extraordinarily  offensive “Minstral” Halloween costume.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
is the grim reaper fucking drunk or what
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2026
if the moderate wing of the Dem party would spend even half of the energy they are spending fighting the DSA on fighting Trump they wouldn't be losing so many primaries to the DSA
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 05/08/2026
The basic assertion in the OP is just wrong. No one smokes on airplanes any more. E-tickets are a major improvement over paper. Airplane food is much, much better. Airports are cleaner, and have better shops. Air travel sucks in many ways. It does not suck worse than it did 50 years ago.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Rep. Max Miller’s repeated abuse of my daughter and granddaughter makes him unfit for public office. Thank you for your patience as I awaited results from the focus group before releasing this statement. by Sen. Bernie Moreno
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Football federations did more to stand up to Infantino and FIFA in a week than most Senate Republicans have stood up to Donald Trump in almost a decade.
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 28/07/2026
I went to High School in the Cleveland Suburbs. There were about 300 in my graduating class. I was one of the two Jews. Seven years later I got married, still in Ohio. I was the first Jew most of my in-laws ever met.
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains.
Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette.
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Amanda Deibert @amandadeibert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#SDCC comic con: our daughter left her 3D printed black dragon in the restroom near E/Starbucks. She printed it herself and is devastated. We checked the restroom and lost and found which means someone picked it up. If you bring it to 5552 I will give you a signed comic as reward
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Doremus Jessup @djessup.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“The DSA is a gift to MAGA” -The people who brought you MAGA.
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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Boy if you're mad about private equity and cookware, wait until you hear about hospitals.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Ahhh, the Berkeley special. "Equality and inclusion, but not in a way that changes my neighborhood."
Yard signs about inclusion and equality and another opposing a local rezoning
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
No what you mean to say is it "shocked the conscience" of a management and editing staff who has rolled over for Trump time after time and can't believe they're still getting treated like this
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I promise I am almost done Platnerposting but I want to point out that the establishment hates this man like he killed their whole families. They smear him as often as they can, label him an antisemite, drag him for being Muslim, etc Total rape allegations: 0
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Mamdani’s preening arrogance will ultimately prove his downfall
The democratic socialist balloon deflated this week.
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 10/07/2026
Hallelujah!!! Thank you @bart.gov!!
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 09/07/2026
Area Man Upset When Others Act Without His Consent
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Republican president Donald Trump has made $1.4 billion from his cryptocurrency business since returning to the White House. But Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh had the funds to pay $12 for Culver's shrimp. Shame on both parties.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A handful of academic charlatans provided cover for the four justices most associated with "originalism" to vote against the plain text meaning of the 14th Amendment -- and put them on the wrong side of one of the easiest originalism calls the court has ever had to make. Racism is a hell of a drug.
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 29/06/2026
10000000%. We've seen this already with things like Biden's Student Loan forgiveness program. Only solution? Pack the damn court.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/06/2026
the core of the centrist freakout is “how could voters unsatisfied with the status quo choose such an extreme ideology” and man what those voters are choosing is a lot less extreme than what republican voters did in similar circumstances so idk what you guys expected
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 24/06/2026
Publisher: Did you find some good art for the front page? Editor: Yup. Made 'em look really happy and harmless, just like you asked, boss. Publisher: Wut?
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 24/06/2026
"We, the leaders of a dying and mismanaged institution, would greatly appreciate it if you did not challenge us."
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Dr. Evil's 'How 'Bout No?!' (Austin Powers)
ALT: Dr. Evil's 'How 'Bout No?!' (Austin Powers)
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I promise you if a Catholic had been forced to, I don't know, be nice to a gay inmate, the Republicans would have let him sue the entire state.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
a “memorandum of understanding” is real estate developer bull shit, not worth the paper its printed on. lebanon still being bombed, the strait still closed why did we start calling this a “deal”?
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if thousands of US security policy professionals and foreign policy analysts and military planners slammed their heads against their desks at the same time and then suddenly fell silent.
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 11/06/2026
My Mayor Muslim My bagels Jewish I wish he wasn’t alive KNICKS IN FIVE
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 10/06/2026
6 car Richmond train at 4:30 on Friday. So crowded there aren’t enough wrist straps for everyone. And this is car 6, typically much LESS crowded than cars toward the middle. Do better, @bart.gov!
An overly crowded BART car.
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 07/06/2026
More like this please.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Nazi tattoos are the clearest fucking litmus test on the planet and all these assholes failed spectacularly
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 04/06/2026
Well, this sucks.
A PG&E outage map, showing between 500 and 5099 people in North Berkeley without power.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 03/06/2026
Nick Bilton wrote he's not here "to make headlines about newsroom drama." Bilton referred to himself 23 times in his email firing Scott Pelley—five in the first sentence alone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nick Bilton's email to Scott Pelley, with the personal pronouns highlighted.
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Jeff Leyser @jeffleyser.com · 03/06/2026
I pay about $3k/month for healthcare through the ACA. If I’m a conman, I’m a really fucking bad one.
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