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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 10h

Very cool. A program in NYC gave 2 kWh batteries to families in order to let them run the AC during peak demand and charging the battery at night when energy is cheap. I predict a time when it will be weird that houses didn't have batteries. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

arstechnica.com

How I kept cool with NYC's free battery program for window AC units

Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The backers of Prop 45 are counting on the public not being able to tell infill homes near transit from building new roads into wildland / fire areas for sprawl's sake. EB4E recommends a NO on 45 this fall. eastbayforeveryone.org/2026/03/05/s...

eastbayforeveryone.org

Vote No on Prop 45: Streamlining Sprawl/Freeways is NOT Pro-Housing | East Bay for Everyone

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22h

Big thanks to @buffywicks.bsky.social and @markhumbert.bsky.social for joining the Malcolm X Elementary School Walk and Roll to School day! School is better when kids get there outside of a car!

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mark magark @markedly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“You aren’t in traffic, you ARE the traffic.” Nuh-uh. Not me. I’m different. Better. Other drivers want me here

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 02/10/2026

Turns out every accusation is a confession. Anyway vote Nithya 2026 for a mayor who doesn’t do petty bullshit like this

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Boomer on boomer car crashes are increasingly typical in Berkeley. It's largely who is doing both the hitting, and in many cases, the being hit.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If there is a *real* risk from actual, legal Class 2 e-bikes, it's from them tipping over onto toddlers trying to climb onto the back. The kickstands for most long tail-style e-bikes are wildly insufficient for their weight distribution.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Calmatters series was excellent, and the victims of reckless, repeat DUI driving described in it deserve much better than this. Honestly, the members of California legislature should be embarrassed that this counts as progress.

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Classic Left-NIMBY bullshit. Reject this woman’s candidacy, and vote instead for @rosszb.bsky.social for Berkeley City Council, District 1

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Question for the chat: If someone introduces themselves to you, an English speaker, and tells you their name with an accent (in today's case, "Jose"), should you: 1. Respond with the closest approximation of the accented name 2. Respond by anglicizing the name 3. It depends (if so, on what?)

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not much of TV guy (I've only seen 9 of these in their entirety, and another ~10 in part). But I do feel that Game of Thrones is a bad show and you should feel bad for thinking it's good.

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Biking in the Fall is the best because Fall is the best season and biking is the best way to get around.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Got in a round of disc golf today at Novato's beautiful Stafford Lake course.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Took myself to the movies today, something I essentially never do. I saw the new Resident Evil movie, and it was great. Highly recommended. Know that's it a genre movie, but it nails it.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AC Transit Board: Let's all have a pint at the Winchester and wait for this whole thing to blow over.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 23/09/2026

Bay area: vote yes on RTM, and remind everyone you know to vote yes on RTM

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My good friend and overall superdad Phil Mooney just led the first bike bus ride for San Rafael's Sun Valley Elementary School! They had 53 kids in total! 🎉🚴🏻 youtube.com/shorts/Wk4Dr...

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Sun Valley Elementary Bike Bus

YouTube video by Philip Mooney

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just morally bankrupt shit from CA Highway Patrol. They say that "a bicyclist collided with a vehicle," and admonish riders to "follow the rules of the road" and "wear a helmet." The photos show a bike with a tacoed rear wheel and a car with a smashed windshield. Who collied with whom now?

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ben fryback @bfryback.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bike streets is great! I help curate the map in Salem.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a lot of dodge charger repossessions in the coming months

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey folks, with everyone going back to school and a ton of new e-bikes going around, I wanted to re-share the Bike Streets app. It's a curated bike navigation app built around the network of streets that people actually ride on. It's free to use! Check it out and let me know what you think!

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve had some talks with transit-friendly but very tax-weary friends locally about how RTM felt to them bit like a hostage ransom, and I explained as best I can that the stakes are actually this high and this stark based on how the measure passes or fails. Don’t overthink it!

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

$116 billion dollars is enough to power 270 million e-bikes (one for every US adult) traveling around the earth 4 times.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The bougiefication of Rockridge, Oakland, fueled by single family zoning. These are the same three homes in 2019 and today. With different zoning, capital would go toward converting these 100-year old homes into multi-family housing, a 2-block walk from BART. Instead, people are just upgrading.

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sept 24, 2025: AC Transit Director Young grabs fellow Director Syed from behind in a creepy "hug" Dec 17, 2025: Investigator hired by ACT substantiates unwanted touching & harassment complaints in letter Sept 14, 2026: Letter comes to light in Democratic Party endorsement process

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SPUR’s new report details how catastrophic it will be for Bay Area transit riders if the public transit funding Measure RTM fails. But drivers will feel it too, w an estimated doubling of Bay Bridge crossing times and more than 3X longer through the Caldecott Tunnel. www.spur.org/sites/defaul...

“The Bay Area's Top Three Highway Bottlenecks After Potential Transit Cuts
The Bay Bridge, Caldecott Tunnel, and I-680 in Walnut Creek/Concord would experience some of the most significant travel delays in both directions if looming cuts to transit service are not prevented.
Bay Bridge
+33
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+43
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
Caldecott
Tunnel
+20
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+27
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
1-680
(Walnut Creek/Concord)
+15
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+20
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK”

“EXHIBIT 4
Traffic Delays at Most
Current Highway
Bottlenecks Would
Double With Proposed
Transit Service Cuts
Line and station closures and reduced service frequency would compel transit users to drive, worsening current highway bottlenecks.
Source: SPUR-Jacobs.”

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To this point, have you or anyone you know received a citation for distracted driving? If so, what city and state (or country) are you in?

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Researchers have been asking, why are pedestrian deaths going up, particularly driven by a spike in the dusk period? Well, right now it's 8:30 pm and I'm walking the baby to sleep, and every other driver I have seen is staring at their phone while rolling stop signs. Just a thought.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Walking to pick my kid up from elementary school and watching the mayor ride by on her e-bike. Just another day in Berkeley. ✌🏻

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the many problems with California land use policy is that there are effectively no coffeeshops on non-arterial streets. So your seating options are: 1. Inside (why live in California then?) 2. On a patio (if they have one) 3. On the sidewalk and subject to a barrage of car noise

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another fallen soldier in the War on Cars.

A construction worker dismantles an rrfb on telegraph avenue in Oakland that was destroyed by a wayward driver

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrong. This is an ag policy problem. Residential water use is a pittance compared to the water resource demands of the cattle industry.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Extremely bespoke Rockridge bumper sticker.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I made a decision to live farther away from work and now it takes longer to get to work! What happened!?" I love how it never occurs to people that the decision they made might have also been made by other people as well.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Genuinely curious whether Kendra would consider her parents to be transplants. To be clear, I'm happy they were able to move here and I think many more people should be able to come to the US, NYC, and California.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I lay 10:1 odds it got smashed by a wayward driver.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This year legislators introduced a slate of 17 bills intended to close California’s “license to kill” system of loopholes for dangerous driving and repeat offenders. Almost all of them failed: calmatters.org/tag/license-... @calmatters.org

calmatters.org

License to Kill

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Overhead at a Berkeley playground: "I mean, there are worse AI companies to work for."

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Letter to the Chron from @josh.hawn.xyz on this topic.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It does feel like the answer to AI risk is just "unplug them."

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