Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 3hY'all are laughing, but what if you need to jump a shark? 020 2
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 16hBest coastline in the world, zoned only for parking lots, highways, and industry. 020 2
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 16/10/2026All the things that I value that are paid for with my taxes have been on austerity budget my whole adult life and insofar as they suck it's because people like Marc pretend to speak for all Taxpayers when really they speak for Taxdodgers. Taxpayers would like to be prouder of what we pay taxes for. 1121 12
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 16/10/2026The public parks I like to hike? Taxes! The public university I went to? Taxes! The public transit I use to get around? Taxes! The healthcare I receive? That should be paid with my taxes The art I consume? I'd rather it be paid for with my taxes 1110 11
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 16/10/2026How does one join a Taxpayer Association like the one Marc is President of? I'm a taxpayer and I'd love to participate so we can celebrate all the incredible things my California taxes do for me and my neighbors. 2171 17
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 16/10/2026People in the hills like to complain that they pay lots of taxes, but providing services up there costs the city more than in denser areas, and they bring in much less revenue. 0181 18
Reposted by Baselines shiftedOakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 16/10/2026"Voting has sure gotten really fucking annoying since I started being responsible again" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgProp 38: NoWe should not be voting on something this specific, complicated, and misleadingly crafted. 0144 14
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 15/10/2026If I move back to Italy from the US where I've lived for 20 years I'm starting an anti-American party because I've seen how little people here care about their role in the international community. 110 1
Reposted by Baselines shiftedSparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 15/10/2026As an American living abroad, this enrages me. Everything Trump is doing is completely unraveling countries globally in massive ways, and Americans are constantly talking about the price of eggs and gas. USAID is gone. NATO, Ukraine, the Middle East, Brazil..... everything is on fire. 163 6
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Maybe we should tell them that more of BART's budget goes to cops than to operators to get them on board. 020 2
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Yeah, fully imagine this to be like all other local issues, dense areas 80% "hell yeah let's do good things" and everywhere else 100% "this isn't money for cops? No" 120 2
Reposted by Baselines shiftedPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026In conclusion, words have meanings. Lines of code spitting out probabilistic responses to queries is not slavery. Telling people they have to pay taxes isn't slavery. Being told to wear a mask during a pandemic isn't slavery. People who endured slavery are PEOPLE. They suffered. I reiterate: hands. 5801102 801
Reposted by Baselines shiftedPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Would you like to know what slavery was actually like? I did a whole season of Past Lives on the experiences of enslaved people. It damn near broke me. Start here: pod.link/1852618120/e...pod.linkNanaya-ila’i and Her Daughter (Assyria, 7th Century BC)Listen to Nanaya-ila’i and Her Daughter (Assyria, 7th Century BC) from Past Lives wherever you get your podcasts! 352864 528
Reposted by Baselines shiftedJeffrey Tumlin 🏳️🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026@oaklandreviewofbooks.org on Regional Transit Measure: Voting 'no' means "you’re probably deeply misinformed or an asshole. If you vote 'no' on this, you are probably telling yourself ideologically congenial lies, rather than living in reality." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgRegional Transit Measure: God yesVote no if you’re an asshole. 28326 83
Reposted by Baselines shiftedRebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 15/10/202610/10, no notes. 18820 88
Reposted by Baselines shiftedJesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama. 12463061459 6.3K
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Oh the irony. Turns out wealthy people who live in fire zones or on top of coastlines are actually the ones largely responsible for these risks they are facing IMO the state shouldn't bail them out with funds that could go to public programs that serve the working classes. 010 1
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"And that means that taxpayers then must bail out the program." <------- Jane Kim wants to use state funds that could be used for public education, transit, healthcare, etc. to bail out wealthy homeowners (who have the highest insurance claims). 120 2
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026@fervoenergy.bsky.social don't listen to the markets, you might not be able to win their love, but you have mine. 000 0
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Time to make really big stencils and don our construction vests. 000 0
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026lol I don't understand the stock market at all. This is the one single stock I own. It's a newly public company that has a legitimately unique offering with almost unlimited potential. News below it is always positive. I've lost 68% of what I put in it. 200 2
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Oakland politics is full of people who pride themselves in being in a non-maga bubble, but whose entire solution to crime would be to empower our cops with all the power Trump gave ICE. 031 3
Reposted by Baselines shiftedRep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note. 432420576 2.4K
Reposted by Baselines shiftedJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work. 16798472189 9.8K
Reposted by Baselines shiftedPeter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026If you deconstruct stories like the Salt Lake City florist petition, here's how it goes: On one side you have riders who want to get to their destination safely. On the other side you have drivers who feel their convenience should take priority. And it's so normalized that they don't even see it! 1978 97
Reposted by Baselines shiftedTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Here is what Ford wants to rip out. In a city stuck in debilitating gridlock, nothing better than removing bike lanes and getting more people driving. 🙌🙌 21673146 673
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026If anything I built failed as often and catastrophically as the Kaiser site does (or was as shit an experience for users) I'd wanna crawl in a hole. 010 1
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026you'd think that with all the money Kaiser Permanente has they could afford a competent web developer. 120 2
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I once read an Italian commentator warn against "cultural antifascism" and I was confused, until I realized so much leftism in the bay is cultural, and not actually rooted in justice and solidarity. 010 1
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This is what reading SF DSA's no endorsement on Measure G sounded like www.instagram.com/reel/DeZeLfB...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 000 0
Reposted by Baselines shiftedJordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A new example of the unique brainworms found in the San Francisco left: DSA-SF has apparently refused to take a position on Proposition G, which would destroy Sunset Dunes park and reopen the Great Highway to cars. Why? It doesn't achieve "working-class justice." 2259380 593
Reposted by Baselines shiftedGreenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA 126121604439 12.2K
Reposted by Baselines shiftedMaya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 12/10/2026abolish prop 13 ABOLISH prop 13 ABOLISH PROP 13 ABOLISH PROP 13!!! ABOLISH PROP 13!!!!!!!! ABOLISH PROP 13!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0916 91
Reposted by Baselines shiftedIdothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The East Bay Times editorial against Measure RTM is so bad I had to refute it. Bad argument after inaccurate statement and then completely ignoring AC Transit's existence because it disproves their core argument that cuts over service improves transit. darrellowens.substack.com/p/voting-aga...substack.comVoting Against The Bay Area Transit Measure Is a Fatal MistakeThe East Bay Times and Mercury News Editorial Board write a bad column on the transit tax measure. 925688 256
Reposted by Baselines shiftedJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is why Musk doesn't mind that that Twitter revenue is down 59% (or Ellison w/ CBS). He's more than making up for that loss via Twitter's political effects--ingratiating to Trump, fomenting racist panics, etc--which help SpaceX and xAI get favorable public contracts and regulatory treatment 560787 607
Reposted by Baselines shiftedBryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 10/10/2026A preview of BART's future if we don't pass RTM These are only 40% service cuts. BART will need to make 70% cuts 😨 1326 32
Reposted by Baselines shiftedAlfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 10/10/2026Californians take note! Vote yes on the Billionaire Tax (Prop 40), and no on 41 & 42 3199113 199
Reposted by Baselines shiftedCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is. 231503205 1.5K
Reposted by Baselines shiftedThe Overhead Wire @theoverheadwire.com · 10/10/2026I don't think people really understand how they are being influenced by people that have no idea what they are talking about on things like measure RTM. The East Bay Times for example argues "The measure would further drive up the region’s cost of living". Except cutting service is what does that. 25313 53
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'm definitely guilty of papering over the good things Biden did because his failure to prevent Trump II overdhadows so much, but this, and that he commuted the federal death sentences of 37 out of 40 inmates on federal death row to life imprisonment, deserve to be remembered and praised. 020 2
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I used to ride it all the time before Woodstock. It became an example for me of how adaptable humans are cause I kinda got used to it, horrifying experience as it is. 010 1
Reposted by Baselines shiftedUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My mental health rn is very much hinging on 3 CA congressional races (I need Wiener and Vang to win and Kevin Kiley to lose), Jane Kim losing her insurance commissioner race, prop 43 losing and the Bay Area passing its transit funding measure. 4533 53
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ill never forget adults in the early '00s asking me why I cared so much about an issue that wouldn't affect me. That's generally a ridiculous question, but more so because it was clear at the time that we'd be feeling climate impacts if they paid any attention. 0100 10
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This level of flooding is somewhat normal during king tides, not for mid October. A poorly timed storm this winter will cause a lot of damage, and the @eastbaytimes.com is recommending a no vote on the climate measure (RTM). I'm losing my mind at how much people have their heads in the sand. 2369 36
Reposted by Baselines shiftedJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 150152596569 15.3K
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026By over engineer I mean that they assumed much higher population in the car era, so most streets have too many lanes. We've also allowed our fire department to dictate road widths so they are wide lanes. 010 1
Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In Oakland our streets were way over engineered. We have some massive intersections of 5+ streets with extremely long lights and often broken bike light change detection. Some cities would benefit from them and have room. 210 2
Reposted by Baselines shiftedSaikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Opponents of the RTM want you to defund the whole thing because of "efficiency." Yet, operating expense per-mile for BART is more efficient than any transit agency! 1216 21
Reposted by Baselines shiftedStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just got my property tax bill and I would like to share an image of what California would look like if Prop 13 were abolished and every freeloading, deadbeat Boomer homeowner paid the same amount in taxes as I do. 719319 193
