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Vallery Lancey

@isthelaststop.bsky.social

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📸🎞️ Photographer, 🚎 transit advocate, 💻 tech worker. I know way too much about Kubernetes. she/her

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · Dec 9

I've created a starter pack for high-signal Bay Area transit advocates! These are all people I respect for their knowledge, thoughtfulness, and dedication to improving transit funding and transit systems.

go.bsky.app/S4DKnPH

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Jerold Chinn @jerold.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at the SFMTA board meeting. A few highlights from Director of Transportation Julie Kirschbaum's report:

-the Potrero Yard Modernization Project has drastically changed with no housing units above the the new bus yard due given construction costs, interest rates, volatility of market.

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t even work with SQL or databases that much, but my 300-level database class was maybe the most impactful class I’ve taken for “practical knowledge that I just have when I need it”.

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · 3d

At this point, I think >50% of my car-miles travelled in San Francisco have been for vet visits (long bus trips stress out the guinea pig, who does not seem to mind BART at all).

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6d

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · 5d

Who makes it into the room filters out who the service is for.

tschuy 🏳️‍🌈 @tsch.uy · 5d

Yesterday I went to an East Bay Regional Parks board study session to encourage them to take a proactive leadership role in getting transit into their parks.

The nearest bus stop is over 1.5mi – the best way to get there was a 7mi bike ride from the nearest BART station.

Access includes meetings!

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · 10d

I need to figure out what I can do with sharpening. It’s got that potato “shot through a closed window” quality.

Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · 10d

Guess the city.

A distant photo taken between buildings of a baseball stadium mid-game. The pitcher is in an action pose, and a tiny ball is visible in the air. There is a yellow bridge at the bottom.

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AC Transit @rideact.bsky.social · 13d

Today, AC Transit buses will honor the memory and legacy of Director H. E. Christian "Chris" Peeples.

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · 13d

It’s an annual 3-day Pride installation since 2022 - an array of lasers down one of SF’s main streets. Absolute photographer bait.

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · 14d

Godot 1:1 Recurring

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 15d

Reminder that "not acting" shapes the future as much as "acting" does and that not choosing is a choice.

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · 17d

Late-posting, but one of my favourite things every year is the Market Street lights.

A photo of a street at night, taken from a bus platform with a bus to one side. The view is down the street toward a bright rainbow projection that extends overhead.

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 29d

fourth photo of these is one of my fav photos ive ever taken for sure, very excited to make a print of it in the near future

A B/W film photo of dramatic lighting in balboa park bart station with deep shadows in the foreground and a reflection of light leading up to the sun beaming down onto the platform in the distance

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A B/W film photo of the top of a wooded railing covered in lichen

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A B/W film photo of small succulent plants shining white due to an IR filter in a planter

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A B/W IR film photo of a tree in center of frame with a building looming to the left, two wires split the frame between the tree and building ans the tree and a dramatic white cloud on a dark sky

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · Sep 9

I think the problem is less designating the copyright and more dissemination/discovery. For example, is there a good way to pitch specifics/the pool, outside of the situation you described?

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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · Sep 9

Transit riders throughout the Bay stepped up and together we won BIG!

@transbaycoalition.bsky.social @sftru.bsky.social @streetsforallsf.org

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’m so energized by today’s rally to save transit!

I spoke about how dependent El Cerrito is on transit. We’re one of the most pro-housing cities in the Bay Area, and almost all of it is being built near transit. We need robust transit.

Gov Newsom: approve the $750 mil transit loan immediately!

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · Sep 8

"I didn't join the AC Transit board to preside over service cuts." @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social

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AC Transit board member Jean Walsh speaking at a podium. Behind her are other elected officials, and a crowd holding signs like "fund transit not traffic".

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you to Mayor Lurie, Senator @scottwiener.bsky.social, Councilmember @rebeccaforec.bsky.social, and all the other officials who took the time to attend and share their support for keeping the Bay Area's public transit, some of the best in the nation, funded and running.

Senator Weiner speaking at a podium, with a backdrop of other officials and rally attendees holding signs. A Muni bus is in the far background.

A closeup of Councilmember Saltzman speaking at the podium.

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fantastic last-minute turnout for the Bay Area transit funding rally this morning with @transbaycoalition.bsky.social.

We need @governor.ca.gov to follow through on a promised 750 million for transit, or risk devastating service cuts and a spiral of traffic nightmares.

A group of people carrying a cardboard BART train car on a stretcher up the California State building in SF. One person is dressed in medical scrubs and holding an IV bag, attached to the train.

A large crowd of people with signs and cardboard buses/trains on the state building steps.

A rally and pref conference at Civic Centre. Supervisor Mandelman is speaking at a podium, flanked by fellow speakers and officials, rally attendees, and the press.

A cardboard Caltrain train car on a stretcher, held by a group of people.

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Rine @rine-nell.bsky.social · Mar 2

Les fleurs de mon jardin en papier 🌱

#paperflower

3 zinnias en papier de couleur rose framboise.

3 pivoines en papier : une blanche, et deux roses de teintes différentes.

Des pois de senteur blanc et rose, en papier.

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s unfortunate that we lack unity around high-assist e-bikes (with or without throttles) even amongst people who ride bikes, because there is such a strong strain of crunchiness that sees something distasteful about bike riding without sufficient work, as if the work is the point.

Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · Sep 3

People get stuck thinking in shortcuts that don’t always hold. A motorcycle is dangerous because of its speed and mass, but people get sucked into playing “what’s technically a sandwich?” with e-bikes instead of thinking about attributes.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · Sep 1

It’s gaslighting, in the classic sense.

Of course the car can drive itself. It’s right there in the name. No the car can’t drive itself. Why would you ever say anything so ridiculous? Didn’t you read the owner’s manual?

Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · Sep 1

Tesla and musk constantly talk about this full self-driving as being a car that is a smart robot that can drive itself and then in all of their documents they say it's just a fancy cruise control mixed with Lane departure and that you have to be fully aware and ready to take over

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Jerold Chinn @jerold.bsky.social · Aug 27

Earlier this evening at Market and Montgomery streets, transit, pedestrian and bike advocates denounced Mayor Daniel Lurie's decision to allow Waymo, Uber Black and Lyft Black to drive on parts of Market Street that had been "car-free" since 2020.

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thinking about how much of the process of long term learning is repetition plus immersion, and how you completely lose that by reading a LLM summary.

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