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Josh Martin

@jlmartin.bsky.social
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SF based, medicinal chemist by trade, housing and urban transportation enthusiast

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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 1h
www.sfmta.com/blog/one-yea... Great, the thing that was known to work globally also works in San Francisco. Can the state remove the cap on cameras now??
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One Year in, Speeding is Down by 79% at Speed Safety Camera Locations
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 15h
Seeing Quentin Kopp’s damn name all over my ballot still ruined my day
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Now if someone could redevelop the abandoned Walgreens at Gough and Post, that would be great.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Would be sad to see my local BevMo close but exciting to welcome >450 new neighbors sfyimby.com/2026/10/36-s...
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36-Story Tower Proposed For 1301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco - San Francisco YIMBY
Preliminary permits have been filed for a 36-story residential tower at 1301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco. The application invokes the recently passed...
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There’s also a pretty sophisticated ebike rental + maintenance service aimed at dashers that runs out of the TL
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The fact that they’re already bikes and scooters in the eastern side of the city suggests to me that this is more of a density thing than an infrastructure thing.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Scott “The House” Bessent
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is basically the warmest part of the city
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
>claim we don’t need to reduce vmt because we will electrify cars >dont electrify cars >???!
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I spent my PhD writing papers about cool mechanisms for reactions no one cares about, so I get the appeal, but like… next generation solar cells are taking over the world. Seemed like the year to honor them.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We need a century long moratorium on asymmetric homogenous catalysis Nobel Prizes. Decadent choice by old men more focused on the nature of the universe than revolutionizing the world we live in.
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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win Nobel Prize in chemistry
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I like my beeze a lot. It’s light, step through and rides reasonably upright which is personally more comfortable on my lower back www.velotricbike.com/products/vel...
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Velotric Breeze 1 | Lightweight Cruiser Ebike for Comfort Rides
Experience freedom and comfort with the Velotric Breeze 1, a lightweight cruiser ebike built for relaxed city and weekend rides.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The bond markets got hands, but I’m sure they will love this
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He’s lost the Mandate of Heaven
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Surely letting local councils pick and choose who gets to open a shop won’t go wrong in any way.
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Andy Burnham on Instagram: "Who is actually asking for more vape shops?"
49K likes, 2,908 comments - andy.burnham on August 11, 2026: "Who is actually asking for more vape shops?".
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This isn’t true?? Wikipedia says 6-7 % of Russians are Muslim
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The point of the system is what it does (feed pedestrians to cars)
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Embrace the box though, reject facadism. The masses must not be broken up
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reminiscent of the freeway photos for sure
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don’t block the box in San Francisco
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seems like the Fed is between a rock and a hard place. My guess is they will choose to crush inflation (and the economy with it, if needed)
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Only if the growth is on Monday or Friday really. Midweek rush hour express trains are starting to be standing room only again.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lyft bike has bricked it entire system near portola. Seemingly without any announcements or comms. Pretty shitty for what is a publically subsidized system
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fellas’ is it antidemocratic to have to follow state laws passed by your own state senator??
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Crazy sunset is San Francisco tonight
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow they really went out of their way to make it look like a V over I too.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Also known as the “not for me, personally, but knock yourself out”
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They’re used and kids sized. I was a bit too lazy to find an actual crazy good deal but wanted to prove a point
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You’re also likely shooting yourself in the foot, your WFH isn’t guaranteed or perpetual
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Used clothes often filter down so aggressively it puts new cars to shame
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The shoe analogy really makes the point.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You gotta stay high on the copium to not become hateful and jaded. It costs you basically nothing if politics isn’t your job.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Vote yes on RTM…. Of course
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
(For all its flaws I love the Bay Area)
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Who knew….
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Talking to a bunch of middle aged marin suburbanites who drink on Polk because the bus service is so convenient permanently changed my brain chemistry
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Inshallah
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When I ate there as a child, I didn’t look nearly as cyberpunk!
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.reddit.com/r/BAbike/s/s...
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From the BAbike community on Reddit
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sobs in sad San Francisco noises
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jesus that outfit is awful
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
CENTCOM??? More like CENTGONE
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 18/09/2026
BART should be the pride and joy of California, expanded continuously, relentlessly optimized and improved every year. In reality it's Grey Gardens. It rots around us while pretending to still be a great society.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😅😅😅
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Really fun set of chemicals
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My academic grandfather, Fred Hawthorne, was allegedly asked to leave UC Riverside, because they couldn’t afford the fires that kept occurring while studying boron hydride propellants for the US Army.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There’s no good politics that come from a place with that kind of build environment. Open to being convinced otherwise, but skeptical
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