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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀

@aceckhouse.bsky.social

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Sixplex enthusiast. Redwood irredentist. Lake Merritt booster. Erstwhile Prince of Prosciutto. Cities are for people not cars. California is not full. he etc

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 7h

a close up of a man in a suit and tie talking into a microphone .

Alt: Joe Biden reacts with surprise

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 7h

the pass is steady guaranteed revenue for the agency, fare capping is an extra administrative burden and pure revenue loss

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 13h

irrigation is as old as agriculture itself!

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 13h

the California constitutions is a never ending cabinet of horrors, Exhibit H

Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 19h

Reminder that California golf courses have a special massive property tax benefit over and above Prop 13. www.evolve-ca.org/news/hole-in...

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 13h

need polls here so I can rerun the "greatest crop of the Americas" poll

(contestants were tomatoes, chile peppers, potatoes, and chocolate)

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 14h

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 15h

the way it's written is that the full 1/2 mile only applies within a city >35k

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 15h

the small city shrink is based on *coverage area* within the small city, not *station siting*

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

must be a full time bus lane, yeah

doesn't necessarily have to be full plated BRT

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

"more than 15"

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

there's a bus lane!

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

I would say principled & earnest both seem quite apt

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

it’s the median public commenter, not the median voter

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

I do feel bad for Lisel, who is truly a lovely person and does not deserve this

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

we think it should qualify, but I wouldn't spend any money based on that until SCAG has published their map

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 3d

as it happens, I have

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 3d

thanks Max : )

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...