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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Whatever happens with the site, the owners should at the very least meaningfully stabilize - better yet rehabilitate for reuse - the McCrea House. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a City of Oakland Landmark, but has too long been neglected.

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Spent a few days in #Toronto moving the oldest kid into dorms. Intrigued by the common 1900s/mid-century juxtapositions of the midtown neighborhood.

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Downgrade a movie: 2001: A Space Errand

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I feel this viscerally as a bike commuter riding in protected lanes through green lights. Right-turning drivers who may or may not know that there is a bike lane, or see me, or care, are terrifying.

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Homo-theory? yum @fruitlewds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

somewhat motivated by everyone’s response to Dolly and Tim Curry passing to remark: if you were moved by them be what moves you. Be kind, generous, make weird fucking art, help people, sing bawdy songs and do drag

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered the most: 1. “My son is also named Bort.” 2. “I’m not not licking toads.” 3. “Freemasons run the country!” 4. “More digging.” 5. “See my loafers, former gophers…”

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POKEY THE PENGUIN @pokeythepenguin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

HOORAY FOR MY NICE TRANS FRIENDS!!!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I don't know if #archaeologists are following what happened in Nfld today, but it is colonialism in action. After 2 years of prep, right before #IndigenousPeoplesDay, the NL Gov told the Innu that they cannot open their exhibit b/c it doesn't align with the gov's interp of their history. Yeah. 🏺

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Well that’s an unfollow. Disappointing.

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Can the folks who signed this November 2025 letter to Mayor Lee and City Council asking Oakland to repeal Resolution 71056 share some background? Who initiated and wrote it? Where was the reg “weaponized” to “stop traffic calming?” @georgespies.bsky.social @streetsforall.org @prinzrob.bsky.social

31 October 2025
Oakland City Hall
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA 94612
Re: Remove Neighborhood Petition Requirements for Traffic Calming Measures: Resolution
71056 (May 24, 1994)
Dear Mayor Lee and members of the City Council,
On behalf of the undersigned organizations and community members, we write to express our strong opposition to requiring supermajority neighborhood petitions to allow road closures and traffic diverters for traffic calming. The little known ordinance in question (Resolution 71056, enacted in 1994) has been effectively unenforced for decades and recently weaponized to stop traffic calming. Such measures are already allowed as anti-crime tactics, yet are blocked for the life-saving purposes of reducing traffic violence. We respectfully urge you to repeal Resolution 71056, to empower the Oakland Department of Transportation (OakDOT) with the full discretion to determine where and when these tools should be deployed, based on factors like data, equity, safety considerations and the critical analysis of their professional training.
Traffic Safety Decisions Should Be Based on Expertise, Not Popularity
Traffic safety is public safety, and a matter of professional engineering judgment. OakDOT staff are trained to evaluate collision data, speeding patterns, traffic volumes, and neighborhood context to determine the most effective solutions. Requiring residents to organize and collect petitions with 67% of neighborhood resident signatures can not only lead to delayed implementation but can also totally paralyze projects in process, in addition to politicizing safety and undermining the goal of creating safe streets for all Oaklanders.
Petition Requirements Are Inequitable
Neighborhood petition requirements exacerbate inequities across Oakland. Communities with more time, money, political power, and social cohesion are more likely to successfully navigate

petition processes. Low-income residents, renters, mixed-language communities, immigrants and historically marginalized groups face structural barriers to organizing petitions-even though these are often the very neighborhoods most burdened by unsafe streets, higher traffic injury rates, and a legacy of disinvestment.
That said, we support a mechanism to allow neighborhoods to advocate, file requests, or make complaints, to the City for traffic calming where OakDOT has not yet addressed identified issues. Appealing to the government is a constitutional right, and the ability for people to request added safety measures should be maintained. Our request only focuses on the obstacles created by this outdated Council resolution, which effectively barred the City from fulfilling its responsibility to protect the safety and wellbeing of its residents.
OakDOT Should Lead with Safety and Equity
OakDOT has developed policies and frameworks that prioritize safety and equity, including Vision Zero and the Department's racial equity goals. Imposing super-majority requirements undercuts these commitments. Instead, OakDOT should be empowered to proactively deploy traffic calming where OakDOT determines —particularly in high-injury corridors, underserved neighborhoods and streets facing high traffic volume-that they are warranted.
Our Request
We urge the City Council and Mayor to repeal the entirety of Resolution 71056, which created the supermajority neighborhood petition requirement, from the process for installing traffic calming measures and to affirm OakDOT's authority to make these decisions based on professional judgment, safety data, and equity outcomes.
The City of Oakland is one of very few cities in the state with this antiquated and undemocratic requirement. Other similar neighboring cities such as Berkeley and San Jose don't have such a requirement and San Francisco recently abandoned theirs in an effort to expedite traffic safety.

Oakland has committed to eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries through Vision Zero, and has established the Department of Transportation in large part to pursue this goal. Now, achieving that goal requires clear and direct Council action. Let's ensure that every neighborhood has access to safe streets-not just those with the resources to navigate petition processes.
Thank you for your leadership and for your commitment to a safer, more equitable Oakland.

Sincerely,
Marc Vukcevich
Director of State Policy
Streets For All

Carter Lavin
Co-Founder
Transbay Coalition

Chance Boreczky
Officer
East Bay Transit Riders Union

Jonathan Singh
Co-Executive
East Bay for Everyone

Anwar Baroudi
Board Chair
Transport Oakland

Chris Hwang
President
Walk Oakland Walk Oakland

George Spies
Co-Organizer
Traffic Violence Rapid Response

Robert Prinz
Advocacy Director
Bike East Bay

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21st Century Delcoid Man @brian616.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Give yourself some credit. This is Bluesky, we all know about rejected.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Dryden Serge Lemoyne 1975

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Thing 1: Bike and pedestrian infrastructure is important and we should take space away from motor vehicles to build it. Thing 2: Middle-aged bike activist dudes convinced of their own moral superiority need to get all the way over themselves.

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Ray Coshow 🏳️‍🌈🎨🎶🐕🌱📚🍷🦋 @rcoshow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Hating on the Vaillancourt Fountain was always very popular, but I actually loved it. 1985 pen and watercolor.

Pen and watercolor sketch of the Vaillancourt Fountain in the ‘80s.

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I think $5/hr, late 1980s, cleaning offices in Saskatoon.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/04/2026

It is fundamentally dishonest and completely delusional to be going around saying "ah, someone is not technically correct about their reason for disliking AI! AI skepticism is therefore very much like the anti-vax movement!" Go fall in a hole

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's almost as if everything Trump says about the negotiations bullshit and everyone who believes him is a cultist or a moron.

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

How can people worry about gender when perogies exist?

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

@buffywicks.bsky.social Are your AB 1976 and AB 2015 meant to be end runs around city authority and the will of residents on local traffic projects? Asking as a constituent and neighbor who opposes the local diverter pilot you’ve been pushing for years by your own house. @oaklandside.org

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Slept in my Depeche Mode T-shirt and woke up behind the wheel.

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CTV News Montreal @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hockey fans gathered at the Bell Centre on Sunday to commemorate hockey history with the unveiling of a plaque recognizing the first official ice hockey game as a historic event, and a second plaque honouring Montreal Canadiens star Maurice Richard as a historical figure.

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Maurice Richard, first official hockey game commemorated at Bell Centre

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Batoche and Fort Carlton in Saskatchewan, for the history of the Northwest Rebellion.

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Almost hit by a right-turning vehicle while trying to cross 27th from the Telegraph Ave bike lane. Every time I ride this stretch of my commute I fear this happening. Too many drivers don’t understand Oakland’s bike infrastructure, and riders are at risk. @bikeeastbay.bsky.social

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Our youth hockey players and teams pay dues to @usahockey.bsky.social and are required to participate in the USA Hockey Safe Sport Program. Let’s encourage our teams to refuse to fund this organization until it makes a clear public statement against Sunday’s insult to the U.S. Women’s Olympic team.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Resistance Rangers @resistancerangers.altgov.info · 26/01/2026

Why is this admin so afraid of history? Why do they want to tear down the efforts to tell the full story of the US? Ignoring the past will not change it, only make it harder for us to move forward. We will not let them erase the past and we will continue to strive to be a more perfect union.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/11/2025

people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Lest we forget. [Narrator: They forgot.]

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 01/11/2025

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Bummer and Lazarus, San Francisco local characters ca. 1861-2.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

people always want tidy historical narratives. and it always makes me nervous because humans are some messy bitches. so if you’re trying to tidy up the past, i need to know what you plan on doing with that tidy, *useable* history.

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand City approves proposed facadectomy.

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Michael L Davenport @valacosa.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

If you're at a bar and someone claims to be Canadian, get the bar to play "Home for a Rest". If they're Canadian, they'll get dancing, or at least know the words. If they stand there dumbfounded, they're probably American.

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Stacy K @kozakavich.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Today @buffywicks.bsky.social knocked on my door to advocate for a local traffic diversion pilot project that would send vehicles away from her block toward others in the neighborhood, and I have rarely been more suspicious of #yimby supporting politicians.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

We all know what's gotta happen to save PBS. The Muppets have to put on a show to save the day. 🎶"It's time to light the lights y'all!"🎶

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"oh no bluesky isn't accomplishing anything" yes it is, I'm not in jail

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