Drew
@drewda.bsky.social
A bookish pedestrian in Northern California. Just here to chit-chat (not to represent any orgs, employers, or clients)
Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours
"Might need to work on that “all-weather” driving"
OP: ig.samanthadockser
Looks like a Waymo robot found the deepest water:
Wilshire Blvd and Westholme Ave, Los Angeles
OP: ig.samanthadockser
Looks like a Waymo robot found the deepest water:
Wilshire Blvd and Westholme Ave, Los Angeles
February 17, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours
Californians for originalism (i.e., the supremacy of CARB's authority to regulate tailpipe emissions, over the US EPA that was founded years later)
February 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Californians for originalism (i.e., the supremacy of CARB's authority to regulate tailpipe emissions, over the US EPA that was founded years later)
Must be a slow news day since the @calmatters.org front page is telling us that maybe modular housing will happen this year... and their go-to Republican columnist still doesn't like taxes or Newscum
February 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Must be a slow news day since the @calmatters.org front page is telling us that maybe modular housing will happen this year... and their go-to Republican columnist still doesn't like taxes or Newscum
Congratulations to San Francisco's teachers union -- as well as to the families who made due during the strike -- for demonstrating what "shared governance" can accomplish
An overview of the final deal from @missionlocal.org:
An overview of the final deal from @missionlocal.org:
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Congratulations to San Francisco's teachers union -- as well as to the families who made due during the strike -- for demonstrating what "shared governance" can accomplish
An overview of the final deal from @missionlocal.org:
An overview of the final deal from @missionlocal.org:
Lower the cost of living by permitting more multi-family housing in the wealthiest ZIP codes in the country?
Wouldn't it just be easier to pay people directly say San Mateo County Supervisors...
www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/12/s...
Wouldn't it just be easier to pay people directly say San Mateo County Supervisors...
www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/12/s...
San Mateo County launches $2 million wage-subsidy program to boost local hiring
Residents who earned a degree or certificate in the last three years can apply
www.mercurynews.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Lower the cost of living by permitting more multi-family housing in the wealthiest ZIP codes in the country?
Wouldn't it just be easier to pay people directly say San Mateo County Supervisors...
www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/12/s...
Wouldn't it just be easier to pay people directly say San Mateo County Supervisors...
www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/12/s...
"Singularity or just Chinese New Year?"
February 12, 2026 at 9:59 PM
"Singularity or just Chinese New Year?"
Props to the @sfstandard.com whose owners may have an agenda (like many newspaper owners do) but who, regardless, are paying for top-notch journalism, including great photography like this:
February 12, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Props to the @sfstandard.com whose owners may have an agenda (like many newspaper owners do) but who, regardless, are paying for top-notch journalism, including great photography like this:
Claude, make me a website with a front page like Huff Post
Next write an agentic workflow to run whenever I post to Twitter -- err, X. Turn each post into an article following Axios SmartBrevity format
End each article with a call-to-action related to Abundance
Next write an agentic workflow to run whenever I post to Twitter -- err, X. Turn each post into an article following Axios SmartBrevity format
End each article with a call-to-action related to Abundance
February 11, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Claude, make me a website with a front page like Huff Post
Next write an agentic workflow to run whenever I post to Twitter -- err, X. Turn each post into an article following Axios SmartBrevity format
End each article with a call-to-action related to Abundance
Next write an agentic workflow to run whenever I post to Twitter -- err, X. Turn each post into an article following Axios SmartBrevity format
End each article with a call-to-action related to Abundance
When you have a Claude Code subscription , everything looks like nail you can hit with that hammer... including the entire city of Oakland district.myhamlet.com/articles/oak...
Five Futures for Oakland
Five policy paths. 113 census tracts. A decade of trade-offs. Press play and watch the future compound.
district.myhamlet.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:12 PM
When you have a Claude Code subscription , everything looks like nail you can hit with that hammer... including the entire city of Oakland district.myhamlet.com/articles/oak...
Reposting an LLM chat session is kind of like telling someone about a movie you just watched — very easy to bore 'em with unnecessary details
February 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Reposting an LLM chat session is kind of like telling someone about a movie you just watched — very easy to bore 'em with unnecessary details
Reposted by Drew
SFFD tending to a tree fallen on a parked SUV and a Waymo robot:
100 block of Sanchez, San Francisco
San Francisco Fire Station 6 is on that block, by Market St.
There was a wind gust warning today. Waymo robots often get befuddled by downed trees, but not often on them.
OP: tiktok.pablotavera83
100 block of Sanchez, San Francisco
San Francisco Fire Station 6 is on that block, by Market St.
There was a wind gust warning today. Waymo robots often get befuddled by downed trees, but not often on them.
OP: tiktok.pablotavera83
February 11, 2026 at 4:11 AM
SFFD tending to a tree fallen on a parked SUV and a Waymo robot:
100 block of Sanchez, San Francisco
San Francisco Fire Station 6 is on that block, by Market St.
There was a wind gust warning today. Waymo robots often get befuddled by downed trees, but not often on them.
OP: tiktok.pablotavera83
100 block of Sanchez, San Francisco
San Francisco Fire Station 6 is on that block, by Market St.
There was a wind gust warning today. Waymo robots often get befuddled by downed trees, but not often on them.
OP: tiktok.pablotavera83
Is it time for the Salesforce board to strongly suggest Benioff retire full time to Hawaii? Dude went from having the best PR in the bay to being an unpredictable loudmouth
New: marc benioff told international employees who traveled to a major salesforce meeting in Vegas that ICE is watching them. Cool joke.
"employees are going absolutely apeshit about how completely awful it was"
Read the Slacks:
www.404media.co/marc-benioff...
"employees are going absolutely apeshit about how completely awful it was"
Read the Slacks:
www.404media.co/marc-benioff...
Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Is it time for the Salesforce board to strongly suggest Benioff retire full time to Hawaii? Dude went from having the best PR in the bay to being an unpredictable loudmouth
Reposted by Drew
The National: [cracks knuckles, tunes instruments]
February 10, 2026 at 4:32 AM
The National: [cracks knuckles, tunes instruments]
Reposted by Drew
One single local BRT line in Oakland (AC Transit Tempo) serves more riders than the entire VTA Light Rail system, and has a Cost Effectiveness that rivals our top *regional* transit services
Bay Area should be super-funding East Bay BRT if they distributed funding based on objective metrics
Bay Area should be super-funding East Bay BRT if they distributed funding based on objective metrics
February 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
One single local BRT line in Oakland (AC Transit Tempo) serves more riders than the entire VTA Light Rail system, and has a Cost Effectiveness that rivals our top *regional* transit services
Bay Area should be super-funding East Bay BRT if they distributed funding based on objective metrics
Bay Area should be super-funding East Bay BRT if they distributed funding based on objective metrics
Bad news: Vision Zero policies and action plans haven't eliminated traffic deaths
Good news: It's significantly safer to live/walk/bike/drive in a city that is working on VZ
Good news: It's significantly safer to live/walk/bike/drive in a city that is working on VZ
"A preliminary analysis of Vision Zero policies showed that the 17 early adopter cities experienced a smaller increase in fatalities per 100,000 population (+15%) than the other 83 cities (+40%) (Figure 2)."
Fewer deaths are always better than more.
findingspress.org/article/1559...
Fewer deaths are always better than more.
findingspress.org/article/1559...
February 9, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Bad news: Vision Zero policies and action plans haven't eliminated traffic deaths
Good news: It's significantly safer to live/walk/bike/drive in a city that is working on VZ
Good news: It's significantly safer to live/walk/bike/drive in a city that is working on VZ
That was the best show in Santa Clara since at least m.youtube.com/watch?v=2H-T...
Bullwinkle’s Family Food N’ Fun Restaurant Tour (Santa Clara, CA)
YouTube video by Briar Patch Productions
m.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
That was the best show in Santa Clara since at least m.youtube.com/watch?v=2H-T...
HOF (high-occupancy football) lane
February 9, 2026 at 12:58 AM
HOF (high-occupancy football) lane
The local ice skater just completed her Olympics routine and edged ahead of all the other contestants! How soon until we hear the Greater East Oakland Thunderdome activating all the fireworks? ... oh, right, we're watching a delayed recording....
February 8, 2026 at 3:19 AM
The local ice skater just completed her Olympics routine and edged ahead of all the other contestants! How soon until we hear the Greater East Oakland Thunderdome activating all the fireworks? ... oh, right, we're watching a delayed recording....
Reposted by Drew
Today marks one year since Don Shoup died. I put on a jacket I didn’t realize I wore last at our memorial lunch, pockets stuffed with Kleenex.
In Don’s memory today, think about how you commit yourself to change and leave a legacy of passion and love behind.
In Don’s memory today, think about how you commit yourself to change and leave a legacy of passion and love behind.
February 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Today marks one year since Don Shoup died. I put on a jacket I didn’t realize I wore last at our memorial lunch, pockets stuffed with Kleenex.
In Don’s memory today, think about how you commit yourself to change and leave a legacy of passion and love behind.
In Don’s memory today, think about how you commit yourself to change and leave a legacy of passion and love behind.
when I was an undergrad: re-enacting the "imagery debates" in which one cognitive scientist's research was over multiple years bested by another
today's undergrads: reporting in the Stanford Daily all the awful (and potentially illegal) emails sent over many years by the winner of that debate
today's undergrads: reporting in the Stanford Daily all the awful (and potentially illegal) emails sent over many years by the winner of that debate
February 5, 2026 at 7:38 PM
when I was an undergrad: re-enacting the "imagery debates" in which one cognitive scientist's research was over multiple years bested by another
today's undergrads: reporting in the Stanford Daily all the awful (and potentially illegal) emails sent over many years by the winner of that debate
today's undergrads: reporting in the Stanford Daily all the awful (and potentially illegal) emails sent over many years by the winner of that debate
The Federal Transit Administration is so busy trying to make transit riders feel unsafe that their social-media staff didn't check and notice that BART isn't the transit agency that serves Levi's Stadium
February 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM
The Federal Transit Administration is so busy trying to make transit riders feel unsafe that their social-media staff didn't check and notice that BART isn't the transit agency that serves Levi's Stadium
When my younger kid (who never got to go to a Fry's, unlike his older sister) asked for an LED over the winter holidays, I drove him all the way down to the new Micro Center in Santa Clara. Illogical for a 5 cent part but the experience of an in-person electronics store was worth the hassle
OK, and we need to bring back Radio Shack/Fry's.
February 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM
When my younger kid (who never got to go to a Fry's, unlike his older sister) asked for an LED over the winter holidays, I drove him all the way down to the new Micro Center in Santa Clara. Illogical for a 5 cent part but the experience of an in-person electronics store was worth the hassle
Reposted by Drew
Californians may remember Lizzie as the (former) SF Chronicle reporter who did a terrific job covering the 2018 Camp Fire.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Californians may remember Lizzie as the (former) SF Chronicle reporter who did a terrific job covering the 2018 Camp Fire.
Sitting outside a coffee shop in my random mid-sized suburb, trying to glare at the middle-aged man who's rapidly scrolling through TikTok with the volume turned all the way up. No wonder some people have cooked their brains so heavily...
February 4, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Sitting outside a coffee shop in my random mid-sized suburb, trying to glare at the middle-aged man who's rapidly scrolling through TikTok with the volume turned all the way up. No wonder some people have cooked their brains so heavily...