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Pete Casellini

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Practicing public transportation planner, search and rescue volunteer, drummer, food respecter. San Diegan via Upstate NY.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026
DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT
I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Alexandra Fasulo runs one of the most prolific anti-solar campaigns online, regularly telling over 2 million followers renewable energy is threatening farms and wildlife. But how much of her rhetoric is actually true? @alexhannaford.com spent months parsing through the nuance for HEATED:
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The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/07/2026
How far do we think Messi could kick a muppet
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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Impressive continued growth of SMART ridership. A crazy fact just shared by the GM: SMART carried more riders last month than in *all of FY 2021*
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It’s happening
Leo Messi and baby Lamine Yamal in a photo shoot together
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026
england score within 15 minutes, sit back, lose 2-1 with an 87th minute goal is a very credible scenario
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“come and take it” flag
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
There’s a reason we’re stuck with new sales taxes backfilling depleting existing revenue sources in California. By law there is just less juice to squeeze in real dollar terms every year.
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 09/07/2026
Illustrated summary of the fourteen California Propositions on this year's ballot, which cover topics such as housing, elections, taxes, education, and healthcare! Individual slides at tinyurl.com/2026caprops and in the thread! 1/ 🧵✅
2026 California Propositions, Personified. Art & Summary by Alfred Twu. Election Day: November 3, 2026. Share this at tinyurl.com/2026caprops

Cartoons numbered 1-5 and 37-45.

1 is person with a few residential buildings
2 has bear with umbrella over state capitol and piggy bank
3 has chalkboard, teacher, apple, and book
4 has people next to a ballot box refusing a big bag of cash
5 has someone voting, and a 2nd person walking to an empty chair
37 has a construction worker in front of a house
38 is scientist with beaker, person holding heart and person holding a pill
39 is elephant with red hat stomping on ballots and intimidating a voter
40 is person standing behind school and hospital, holding hand out to a guy sitting on a bag labeled $1 Billion
41 is a guy carrying a huge bag of cash and holding up a red paper
42 is a person sitting on a huge bag of cash holding a weird looking puppet
43 is a person sitting on cash pile behind a roadblock, two people blocked hold a house and a bus
44 is a pie chart behind a patient and doctor
45 is a construction worker with shovel in front of a sign with a bridge, wind turbine, house, and train
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
From the Telemundo broadcast just now by the commentary team during a slow-mo replay of the goal and a shot of Haaland with his hair down: "This is a perfect goal. The ball didn't touch anything." In exaggerated, gravely, dramatic voice: "TERMINATOR"
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 05/07/2026
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Air to Ground Message: 1999 FIAT MULTIPLA. 1 O F 2 IN THE U.S SO IT WILL BE TOUGH HAHA Area: Hull, UK Type: Boeing 767-300 A: #a402926b682 F: #f7b3aa01234
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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 29/06/2026
On U.S. match day, Lime carried more trips than any Seattle roadway other than I-5 and I-90 + Link unseated I-5 for top spot #SEAbikes #Seattle
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On U.S. match day, Lime carried more trips than any Seattle roadway other than I-5 and I-90 + Link unseated I-5 for top spot
Lime set a huge new ridership record the day of the U.S. World Cup match against Australia by carrying 84K trips on its bikes and scooters. If Lime were a roadway, it would be tied with the 1st Avenue South Bridge for the third-busiest highway in Seattle behind only I-5 (195K main deck plus 40K Express at Ship Canal or 246K in SoDo) and I-90 (139K at the Mount Baker Tunnel). It's more than the West Seattle Bridge (71K), the 520 Bridge (66K), SR-99 (65K in SoDo, dropping to 51K in the downtown tunnel), Mercer Street (59K), and the Ballard Bridge (49K).
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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 25/06/2026
US solar power generation has doubled since "Pink Pony Club" was released.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/06/2026
A surge in pedestrian deaths in the U.S. has baffled researchers for years. A New York Times analysis estimates that about 10% of the increase in pedestrian fatalities in recent years was caused by the growth in vehicle sizes since 2002. Here’s why.
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Don’t love to see crashes severe enough to warrant an extensive police investigation on my street.
Multiple police cars blocking a street, with police tape visible mid-block in the backgroundA San Diego Police collision investigator placing evidence markers on the street
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@sdtrafficdeaths.bsky.social Requesting details on the major injury collision at Madison and Utah tonight when you get them
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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The Pacific Ocean mere feet below the LOSSAN tracks in San Clemente. Surely this must be high tide?It is not high tide. In fact it is just barely above low tide.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
r crumb comic where a short sniveling character is thinking "i loathe every person i see on the street! lookit that stupid ass-hole!" while a normal guy whistling passes but edited so the short guy is in a car and the normal guy is on a bicycle
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about
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I don't know what caused this but I could get on board with the thing about bike lanes
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Brer Marsh @brerbear.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Notice received from City Transportation about new bike lanes being installed on Texas Street. Removing center turn lane for a bike lane each direction. Huzzah!
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Betteridge's Law of Headlines.
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liz ten eleven @selectric.space · 08/06/2026
so about those tankers hanging out in the gulf thedeepdraft.com/2026/06/08/t...
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The Barnacle Problem Waiting Behind Hormuz
My first serious encounter with biofouling was at Teluk Semangka, Indonesia, where my vessel, a modern VLCC, was deployed as a storage tanker for 1.5 months. On paper, it was a straightforward oper…
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 08/06/2026
In total transit ridership per capita, the highest ranked large urban areas are: 1—NYC 2—SF 3—DC 4—Boston 5—Seattle 6—Chicago 7—Philly 8—LA 9—Portland 10—Salt Lake www.urban.org/urban-wire/t...
Large urban areas, by total transit ridership in 2024, ranked.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/06/2026
a post of mine from november 13, 2024:

one day you're going to see elon posting "we just cut 200 million dollars going to bull weevil outbreak prevention" and then a couple months later the entire midwest will be decimated by the first mass bull weevil outbreak since 1884
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
oh no
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Guys we can't lose to Seattle on this
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Yeah, most dems returned their ballots at the last minute, but a 17 point margin will be hard to close. Will be thrilled to eat my hat on this if I'm wrong. (Where does everybody want the revenue to close the budget gap to come from? Because it sure ain't going to be cuts to the police budget)
Extremely early San Diego Measure A returns (102,213 [58.26%] no to 73,222 [41.74%] yes)
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Shinkansen bullet train top speed: 200 mph American car-train: has Sirius XM and 6 cup holders
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Slamming the refresh button on sdvote dot com as is tradition
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Parking meters didn’t kill your business idea, they’ve only been active for a week and drivers are still adjusting. What killed your business is that there are like eight better coffee shops and bakeries on this stretch of Adams and the market is saturated. www.10news.com/news/local-n...
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Parking meter controversy: North Park business owner closes shop, cites new paid parking
A North Park business owner is closing his shop after new parking meters were installed on Adams Avenue, saying the change drove away customers.
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
bitly link got cut off and leads to spam, great job CHP
CHP Amber Alert message with a cut-off bit dot ly link at the endWhere that bit dot ly link takes users
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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The late parking academic Donald Shoup, looking on disapprovingly
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The Overhead Wire @theoverheadwire.com · 19/05/2026
Monday's Most Read # 2 - We’ll Miss Gas Taxes When They’re Gone link.theoverheadwire.com/he6nx Governing
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We’ll Miss Gas Taxes When They’re Gone
Despite failing to cover the costs of infrastructure, state and federal motor fuel taxes have been an elegant solution to funding transportation. More user fees are likely, but they will be kludgier a...
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A friend shared this fundraiser for the ICSD. It's horrific to see this kind of hate so close to home. goodbricks.org/campaign/ics...
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ICSD Victim & Family Support Fund
Donate to support the victims of shooting at ICSD.
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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I saw Andrew WK give a talk at CMJ in 2009 where he destroyed a folding chair. It was awesome.
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Alex Fisch @alexfischca.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Artemis II splashing down exactly when predicted, to the minute, after traveling like 700,000 miles is why we need dedicated bus lanes tbqh.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.
Figure 1. Bicycle share of trips in New York City, London, Paris, and Berlin, 1990–2023. Note: the actual years vary slightly by city, as follows: New York: 1990,2000, 2010, 2019, 2022; London: 1993, 2000, 2010, 2019, 2022; Paris: 1990, 2000, 2010, 2017, 2023; Berlin: 1992, 1998, 2010, 2018, 2023. The percentages shown in thegraphic refer to the bicycle share of all trips, all trip purposes, based on travel surveys for each city. Sources: City of Paris, 2000–2023; City of Berlin, 2003–2025;Kalender,2012; NYCDOT, 2018–2023; Pucher, Parkin, et al.,2021; TfL, 2000–2023.This paper compares trends in cycling levels, cyclist demographics and cycling injury risk in NewYork, London, Paris and Berlin, before and after the COVID pandemic. We explore these trends inthe context of changes to policy and infrastructure before, during, and after COVID. We based ouranalysis on data from published reports, open-data portals, government websites, travel surveys,and information provided by transport planners in each city. Cycling levels in NYC, London, Paris,and Berlin increased over the three decades prior to COVID (1990–2019). As a percentage of dailytrips, bike mode share rose from 0.6% to 2.2% in New York, from 1.2% to 3.7% in London, from0.4% to 5% in Paris, and from 7% to 18% in Berlin. Cycling rates have continued to increase sinceCOVID. By 2023, bike mode shares had risen further to 3% in NYC, 4.5% in London, 11% in Paris,and 19% in Berlin. Cycling became safer in all four cities over the period 2005 to 2023, withdeclining per-trip fatality and injury rates. More and better cycling infrastructure has been acornerstone of pro-cycling efforts, especially cycleways separated from motor vehicle traffic (pro-tected bike lanes). Bike parking and bikesharing systems have expanded and improved. Car restric-tions and traffic calming have complemented pro-bike measures, for example, using infrastructureand enforcement to reduce traffic volumes and speeds in residential neighborhoods. Long-termpolitical support as well as cycling advocacy organizations have been critical to the introductionand continuation of pro-bike policies and the necessary financial investments.
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Sorry the EU didn’t come up with their own absurd emissions exemption carveout and spend years creating market demand for high-margin gas guzzling vice signalers. Live by the rules of Calvinball, die by the rules of Calvinball.
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CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org · 02/04/2026
There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 22/03/2026
Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.
New Paris mayor biking around in celebration
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The change is meant to make streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Here's the full list of requirements (translated) that have to be met to post a higher speed limit than 30 km/h. To use 40 or 50 km/h, all requirements for pedestrian and cycling infrastructure have to be met.
A table showing requirements to use speed limits higher than 30 km/h in built up areas in Norway.
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Significant road safety win in Norway! 30 km/h is now the default for built up areas 🚴‍♂️🚶‍♂️ Norway's public roads administration have just turned the way speed limits are set in built up areas on it's head. From now on, traffic engineers now have to meet clear criteria to use any higher speed limit.
A picture of a major street in Norway with a 30 km/h sign, a snow covered bike lane and traffic at sunset.
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Pete Casellini @petecasellini.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Calvin’s dad in “Calvin and Hobbes” saying he wishes gas prices would go up to eight bucks a gallon
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