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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2h

If I was on the jury I'd point it out to someone first rather than just recuse myself. I can't imagine they're allowed (and if they are, they oughtn't be)

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2h

Quick reminder that the main justification behind California High-Speed Rail is that it's still the cheapest way of addressing the shortage of passenger capacity linking the northern and southern California megaregions. It really is that boring; that's why opponents have to make it a culture war.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2h

(to be clear, the article itself is actually pretty on-point but my issue is that many people who don't directly care about rail and transit will see this headline, digest its inferred meaning, and never read the article, further exacerbating the problems faced by rail and transit)

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2h

This framing is so disingenuous, especially considering how many ppl form opinions on articles based on the headline/title alone. Doing "high-speed rail" (which reminder, Brightline FL is NOT) the way it was done in Florida wouldn't work anywhere else either.

A screencap of a CNN article tile on bluesky. The title of the article is "Why doesn't high speed rail work in America?" which, read in a vacuum, imparts upon the reader the idea that there's something about passenger rail which is incompatible with the USA rather than the problem being with the convoluted and backwards way the USA allows its railroads to be run by private, publicly-traded corporations and the way the country's government tries to force passenger rail to operate under a neoliberal-style model of sought-profitability rather than a realistic model of public service.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 5h

Looking forward to the day that the Starfucks Sacramento location at L & 10th is replaced by one of our regional homegrowns. I hate how much of a car sewer L and 10 are in this area (for now) but the views of the newly-refurbished Unruh Building from that corner are fantastic.

A view of the North (rear) facade of the Unruh Building (formerly known as the California State Treasurer's building until 1987), a Greek-Revival government office building in Sacramento, California built between 1922 and 1928 and located at the southwest corner of L Street and 10th Street.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 5h

Here's my explanation of how my being a car enthusiast does not clash with but rather compliments my also being a stalwart #urbanist, #transit advocate, and #cycling advocate

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"Short version: i'm a huge car nerd who enjoys cars as a hobby/recreational interest but who hates motornormativity, forced car-dependence, and what the country's auto-dominated transportation policy has done to the American people. I also hate what it's done to the stuff on offer from car companies since anything actually interesting gets shelved in favor of yet another bland, child-mashing crossover or SUV designed to maximize corporate profits and appeal to the lowest common denominator of car buyer while furthering American's obsession with feeling individually wealthy while refusing to acknowledge how socially poor we have become as a society"

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 7h

This would be one of the hardest things to give up moving from my current prewar building to a more modern one. When they refurb'd the interior 10 years ago they refurbished the double-hung windows to be fully operable and it's lovely. I get to listen to the host of sparrows arguing on my terrace.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 06/10/2026

Actually the real problem is the entire structure by which we fund projects. Rather than force local agencies and governments to compete Hunger-Games-style for a limited number of grants they can't count on getting, we should have guaranteed funding for planned service-oriented improvements.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 05/10/2026

If you trace our obsession with home ownership back far enough one of the OG reasons is that the wealthy realized it was easier to break unions if their workers had mortgages and furniture payments to make at the end of every month.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 05/10/2026

I think there's a catch here though which is that most of the sprawl housing is ugly on the outside, has pretty finishes on the inside, but is actually BUILT insanely cheaply and badly. Corporate builders scam and rip off buyers every day by doing shoddy work and trying to trick buyers into paying.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 05/10/2026

Well that needs to get fixed during the interim. It'll be a number of years before revenue trains run on those tracks (aside from the wine train) so the bus service should be increased.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 05/10/2026

Need to put a rush order on that new Napa corridor rail service and then rework the bus network around it like a spine

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 04/10/2026

And in case anyone needs the reference, you CAN incorporate modern safety features and mandated design changes and keep a car relatively compact. The decision to bloat cars and trucks to ridiculous sizes is WILLFUL and a manifestation of pure greed and excess. (See 1990 Mazda Miata vs 2016 model)

a side by side comparison of the 1990 and 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miatas showing the vehicle size has not changed significantly apart from being slightly wider and carrying a higher beltline

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 04/10/2026

In that regard it's actually oddly similar to the ebike situation, where we actually did have laws in place but weren't enforcing them.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 04/10/2026

The wild thing is that there are multiple things about modding a truck like this that make it extremely illegal for street use. We just basically enforce none of those laws in most states. The idea that you would get pulled over for any of them like you would in the EU is almost laughable.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 04/10/2026

Emperor's New Groove so far is the most evergreen movie in my lineup.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 03/10/2026

Lighting and shelter were the first thing i ever openly beefed with an agency over. New Orleans RTA installed new (non-BRT) bus shelters in 2017/18 in some places. The shelters were awful though. They had dim, solar LED point lights and PERFORATED WALLS which were useless in heavy rainstorms

A bus shelter featuring perforated steel sides instead of glass or other solid material and solar-powered lighting. The design is notably incapable of providing adequate shelter from the type of rainstorms that are normal in New Orleans (the author of this post can personally confirm, having tried to shelter from such a storm in one while in college)

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 02/10/2026

At least in the US it tends to exist in the more extreme sprawl suburbs and exurbs. Growing up in New Orleans, the first I heard of it was some community on the northshore or up by Baton Rouge. It was bizarre to us locally.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 01/10/2026

I've pushed them into empty parking spaces before but apparently i've not yet been enough concurrently bad moods to go fully off the rails, lol.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 01/10/2026

It's particularly infuriating if you ride a wider-than-"typical" bike that can't fit into the rack spacing. I can only lock to the very end of the Noodle racks at my grocery and frequently have to move multiple grocery carts to access them.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 01/10/2026

When i see this it takes every ounce of strength in me not to do something like push them all out into the parking lot aisle.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 29/09/2026

I hate that, having read the article, I would have absolutely no idea whether it's satire or not unless someone told me one way or the other🙃

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨 Careful which site you click! ✅ ProtectTheVote.NET is a nationwide nonpartisan coalition of civil rights & voter advocacy organizations that ensures all eligible citizens can safely & successfully cast their ballot regardless of political party.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 28/09/2026

Consider that having physical media lets you display it as well, which can be part of your home decor as a way of showing visitors some of your personality in a way they otherwise might not experience. I have a huge bookshelf in my office off my entry and ppl glance at it as they come or go

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 28/09/2026

Buying also is the only way i can load music onto my Lightphone 3 or my iPod Classic.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 28/09/2026

Personally I like to buy stuff. Heard too many horror stories of ppl "buying" something only for the streaming platform's license to end and they lost access to it. Plus if you buy on Bandcamp you send a lot more of your purchasing power to the artist's pockets.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 28/09/2026

Did a bunch of canyon-carving this afternoon before the global economy implodes more...

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 28/09/2026

This is how i ended up with a new gaming pc...

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 27/09/2026

Argh, the ALC42 style nosecone looks so much better than our SC44 ones....

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 26/09/2026

*pops up from under a pile of books* Huhwah

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 26/09/2026

We see a similar effect in Urban/Transportation planning and policy. More than half a century of our lives being lived entirely dependent on automobiles has warped our environments and our perceptions of reality in many cases. See Bill Bishop's "The Big Sort" if you're interested.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 26/09/2026

Someone tell me again how quadcopter VTOL is the future of urban transportation...

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 26/09/2026

I think they fixed this fountain in New Orleans shortly before I moved to California and I felt the same way. One day it was just...working again?

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/09/2026

It's astonishing that this guy can't draw the connection between him thinking it's okay for us to abandon basic intellect and skills and the genre of sci fi where a post-technological human civilization either struggles to maintain or is farmed by computers it no longer understands.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/09/2026

I'd guess maybe a stencil that's been designed so that median adult cyclist can read it from a certain number of feet back. But that wouldn't work if enough ppl are using the corridor. Maybe hang a small metal street sign from the underside of the pedestrian walk signs?

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/09/2026

I was just talking about the larger station complex with a friend who lives in Calgary but didn't spot the entrance to this train hall until just now, cool!

A semi-hidden entrance to a private train platform in Calgary, Alberta's downtown connected to the Fairmont Palliser Hotel

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/09/2026

In cities, the car simply does not pencil out as a major part of the transportation system of the future. There's simply not enough room for them to operate as scale, as anyone who's used to sitting in traffic will have experienced. Cities must emphasize all other modes and restrict cars or die off.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/09/2026

One big reason that services like @waymo.bsky.social are NOT the climate solution they claim to be is that the one part of the transportation network that they might actually be useful, low-density rural areas, are the places they're least interested in operating.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/09/2026

So E literally stands for "Enough" in the Figaro? lol

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/09/2026

Enjoy this cute video of a sparrow taking a bath on my terrace

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/09/2026

Hey @discord.com , you managed to get my age right but you're never getting another cent from me. I cancelled my Nitro months ago and it's never getting reactivated

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Or you could just ride a bus to BART (or to any other transit agency) and get up to $2.85 deducted from the fare immediately, not a future credit like this is. I’ve been using the free transfers from BART to AC Transit a lot for Transit Month. Those discounts add up!

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 23/09/2026

NEVER GAMBLE WITH ANOTHER MAN'S MONEY Nate Ford

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 21/09/2026

Can you get with California and pre-emptively ban the "listening to everything around you all the time" AI tech Apple is apparently getting ready to roll out?

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 21/09/2026

This clip of the Thirteenth Doctor is both literally my only awareness of Ed Sheeran but also a metaphorical summary of my awareness of him

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Doctor Who: Arachnids in the UK - Are you Ed Sheeran

YouTube video by Doctor Whovians

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 19/09/2026

Murder has always been legal provided your choice of weapon is a car (i wish i could honestly put "/s" after this)

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 18/09/2026

We also need to break the State's nasty habit of only ever picking one thing at a time to spend money on. High speed rail is critical to California's future but it won't be much use if people can't get to and from the stations. We need huge, simultaneous investment in regional rail across the state~

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 18/09/2026

The ppl caving to this anti-trans hysteria and hate-mongering are sick in the head and have no business being allowed anywhere near a position of power where they can infect our society with even more of their sickness.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 18/09/2026

Sherwinn-Williams Forte and Sherwinn-Williams Pro-Park

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