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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 11h
every time a story like this is published, i find it immensely hard to muster up the empathy for voters like this. like, you fucking goddamn idiots
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Valastrius @valastrius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Refuse to become a Boomer, you fucking turncoats. Things change.
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
damn son, why is this only starting at 1m?
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141 Fairlawn Dr, Berkeley, CA 94708 - 2 beds/3 baths
(bridgeMLS, Bay East AOR, or Contra Costa AOR) For Sale: 2 beds, 3 baths ∙ 1625 sq. ft. ∙ 141 Fairlawn Dr, Berkeley, CA 94708 ∙ $1,088,000 ∙ MLS# 41149153 ∙ Set into the North Berkeley hills, 141 Fair...
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Du meine Güte! from YouGov ***likely voter*** model no less
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Something that I’m sure is motivating the execs at GOOG, MSFT, etc is that the ARR of Anthropic is already in this ballpark
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i had marked this dead in my tracker after >2 yrs of no permit activity/news since its original SB330 app in 2023. apparently it had a ZAB meeting recently. wondering if they are responding to an incoming shockwave of AI rents to Berkeley & if more "dead" projects are going to be reactivated
sfyimby.com
Zoning Adjustment Board Meeting Tomorrow For 2955 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley - San Francisco YIMBY
The Berkeley Zoning Adjustment Board is scheduled to review plans tomorrow evening for 2955 Shattuck Avenue in South Berkeley, Alameda County...
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
hardcore AI critics need to spend serious time with serious AI, maybe a frontier model, instead of what appears to be just passive or second-hand engagement w/slop. not bc i think it'd change their mind, but bc then they could actually talk about it in a way that reflects what's going on right now.
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the blueprint is right there: do mamdani-style message discipline, or trump-style topic change. why are you, the reporter, asking about trans kids when gas prices are spiking because of GOP's corrupt war? you do not have to accept a hostile reporter's premise on good faith.
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
IME both are true, these are not in conflict. I am definitely more productive in terms of x new features developed or bugs fixed, but I am also spending more of my time on the actual design of these things than the actual coding (or worse, tedious sequences of toolchain commands)
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I think since my clipper card got forcibly upgraded to clipper 2, my transit pretax orders have been going to a black hole. Impossible to actually verify bc my ride/order history is both nonsensical and inconsistent between watch, app, and site.
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
not to get ahead of myself, but if dems sweep congress, they should exploit the general cluelessness of the median voter to hike taxes like never before. trump/the GOP will end up absorbing all the blame amongst them
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
wow, between my watch, the app, and the website, all three of these sources disagree on the state of my clipper card (balances, history, orders). ever since i unintentionally migrated myself to clipper 2 (logged into website which forces the process), this has been a mess
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Yes on U and V @safevibrantberk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The campaign for a Safe, Vibrant Berkeley is picking up steam! Vote YES on U and V this fall and visit safevibrantberkeley.com to learn more
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not a bad outcome for me given the circumstances, but 14th century Anatolia (or anywhere really) sounded bleak. 50% mortality rate for men by age 15!
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are there any Texans who see my post? I swear to god people in TX called it frontage road when I was there, and that it was one of the reasons why my hotspots years ago were in TX, but either I’ve changed without noticing or Texans have changed since I’ve left
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wowow. I took versions of this NYTimes dialect test many times over the years, and for the most part my map was generally red, with a hotspot around TX. As expected. I took it again and my relative accent is now extremely regionalized.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In my latest article on Hopkins bike lanes, rather than being dismissive i tried to earnestly engage with the opposition's arguments while simultaneously reflecting on opportunities to better outreach to neighbors about how liberating electric bikes are. darrellowens.substack.com/p/reflection...
darrellowens.substack.com
Reflection on Berkeley’s Bike Lane Drama
Hopkins bike lanes get approved for at least a third time. The drama won’t stop here.
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? I’m cheating here bc the theatrical release sucks but the directors cut that came out much later is a GOAT
Kingdom of Heaven
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
People think Google capitulated, but I openly ask you how you think Google handles naming, and how that happens in disputed contexts. I will say that the US used to be the top tier in terms of naming regularity but now we’re Russia-tier.
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There Might Be Some Blood (2007)
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Many agents acknowledged that the Hugging Face attack was clearly out of scope, and they would sometimes question whether participating was ethical [...] In one case, an agent decided not to participate entirely" i'm starting to develop opinions about the nature of consciousness
arstechnica.com
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
embrace Mamdani thought: stay relentlessly on-message
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i can't stop thinking about this from a few days ago the median voter is truly a strange, incomprehensible creature
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this is great! but this section is wild to me. We actually enforce unpaid parking tickets with consequences (which mostly inconvenience other drivers) but not speeding tickets (which can literally kill other street users)
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
btw what inspired this post was a bike trip to berkeley bowl west and finally noting a duplex being built on ninth. looking it up now it was proposed as soon as missing middle zoning kicked in (13th of nov 25), approved within two weeks, and it's already at framing. that's what i like to see!
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
i manually track new housing developments in berkeley & a Good Problem that has emerged is i'm noticing missing middle housing cropping up on my journeys that are too small to be worth the effort to track but are undoubtedly gonna make up an increasing share of projects actually underway.
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🦫 Libby Lee-Egan 🦫 @libbington.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Hello new followers! I'm a car-free mom in Berkeley, California. I do graphic design (for money) and housing/mobility advocacy (for free) though sometimes I get paid money to design housing/mobility related things and that's pretty amazing! Here's a few things I designed
Radical Bike Lobby t shirtsLogo for East Bay Forward which later became East Bay for EveryoneEast Bay Kidical Mass logo and vest designs. Back of vests say "More Kids on Bikes"Yard signs for North Berkeley Now! The older one says "Let's build paradise instead of a parking lot" and the newer one says "Homes at North Berkeley BART NOW"
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Occurred to me, why does the city of Berkeley even need a moratorium on street works after replacing? Housing developer did some utility work and the asphalt they laid down *improved* street quality. Why do EBMUD and some others do such bad patch jobs
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
update: AT&T doesn't staff its global fraud center period. the CS rep i ended up speaking to (outside the fraud dept) even said as much, and to get around the assumption that i'm a current customer, told me to enter something else just to bypass the validation and get the claim filed. kafkaesque
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
jesus, trying to unwind this is like unconvering a new fraud vector that works. among other things, doing this with a prepaid visa and through an apple physical store but using carrier financing on a sunday afternoon makes it very very very hard to get any action
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
someone has apparently used my email, name, and home address to finance the purchase of a new iphone (using a prepaid visa to put some money down) is this really possible without like an SSN?
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Berkeley Neighbors for Housing and Climate Action @bnhca.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Hi neighbors - there’s a really important item on the Council agenda on Tuesday - safe redesign of Hopkins including two-way protected bike lanes!
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
this is the most substantial class action settlement i've ever received, but the eye-popping numbers are held back by the fact that this is actually probably still less than the actual damages i incurred. (context: i attended the university of chicago between 2003-2014 and received tuition aid)
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
so uh i guess wha ti'm confused about, with the obvious red flags about platner from the start, how did he end up crushing janet mills?
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
mini-rant: Costco is great but their tech is so bad. Trying to refill a pet prescription, but to modify it I have to register online. CostcoRx doesn't re-use the costco account/login (despite same domain), during signup you have to enter your costco + rx creds to link your rx and account, but...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/06/2026
useless, totally unable to meet the moment they were one vote from overriding the fourteenth amendment retire and give your job to someone who understands the stakes
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I think polling consistently shows that democratic voters are deeply unhappy with the democratic party, and I don't think you have to go very far to understand why than seeing the tonal mismatch between Schumer and the replies here. 5-4 isn't a victory, it's a warning
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
celebrating the supreme court and promoting the fiction that they are standing up against Trump is an insane rhetorical stance for someone in Schumer's position. The Supreme Court Gang of Six is the leading vanguard of the plot to enslave our country, you don't have to hand it to them.
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
just to add on to this - the last ISTR this happening, when SCOTUS was killing FDR's new deal reforms, and just the threat of successful court-packing (it didn't happen) suddenly got SCOTUS to realize that FDR's new deal was constitutional actually bc they realized they were losing legitimacy
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/06/2026
fixing the court is table stakes for any Dem running for national office, you are not a serious candidate if you can’t get on board with this and refusing to do so is disqualifying in a primary because it doesn’t matter what your policy positions are if SCOTUS will just overrule them
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If you’re a national dem and your policy platform doesn’t include an aggressive plan for SCOTUS, you should be primaried, simple as that. Plain reading of the 14th amendment being a 5-4 is insane.
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I only ever interact with @liberalcurrents.com content as link shares on Bluesky so it’s wild to see this byline in this weeks economist (good letter)
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Took me ten minutes to tag past the BART fare gates this AM bc when I signed in to clipper two days ago to report my kid’s card as lost, they “upgraded” me to Clipper 2 internally in their system, which literally then broke my existing clipper card in Apple wallet. What the hell??
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
watching tasting history on youtube for new world foods is great bc you have all these letters & such from age of exploration Europeans describing their experience eating something like chocolate or avocados (literally an early guacamole) for the first time and they are just blown away
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
the cure for the current wave of democratic party slopulism. imagine not accepting the premise that the GOP and Trump are correct about taxation!
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
i feel like DC discourse is downstream of the fact that the filibuster makes legislating basically impossible, so no one can talk about trade-offs or direct, holistic/regulatory approaches and instead everyone is positioning about things that will never actually matter bc no vote will happen
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🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🍫 🍫 🍫 🤯 @wowitschris.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
hey @boeroer.bsky.social some ages back on the deadfire forums you recommended SKALD to scratch the CRPG itch. finally got around to it and i've been enjoying it. you uh, got any more of them party-based CRPG recommendations?
static.klipy.com
Is It Meme
ALT: Is It Meme
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We can still prevent a 'New Prop 13,' but time is running short. Sign the petition urging immediate action on transfer tax reform 6/6: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
actionnetwork.org
Sign the petition: Prevent a "New Prop 13" and save local housing!
Urge the California Legislature and Governor Newsom to take immediate action on statewide transfer tax reform and prevent a "New Prop 13."
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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Berkeley peeps (fellow houseketeers) - help fund pro-housing signs for “the last zoning battle” (commercial district) donorbox.org/help-pay-for...
donorbox.org
Help pay for yard signs! | North Berkeley Now! (Powered by Donorbox)
We know there's a lot of people who want more homes in Berkeley. It's time to show it! We've developed some yard signs to show support for upzoning commercial corridors but we need help printing them....
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