Jeff Baker
@jwbee.bsky.social
Notorious GIS reply guy
YIMBY
I will come to your hearing, Berkeley politician
Vuvuzela owner
Father
@jeffinatorator on certain bird sites
YIMBY
I will come to your hearing, Berkeley politician
Vuvuzela owner
Father
@jeffinatorator on certain bird sites
If a person lives in a house for a long time, there should be decadal visits by the fire department to check to see if they have carboys of dissolved nitrocellulose, vats of carbon tetrachloride, and other WMD precursors in the garage.
Residents living in one-block radius of Colusa & Tacoma should plan to shelter in place inside their home or leave area no later than 10:30am today, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026
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When area is safe to be outdoors, all-clear will be posted on AC Alert and protect.genasys.com
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Shelter-in-place issued for North Berkeley neighborhood | City of Berkeley
Residents within a roughly one-block radius of Colusa and Tacoma avenues should shelter in place no later than 10:30 am on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. See text and email updates via AC Alert and view the City’s emergency map. Residents within a roughly one-block radius of the intersection of Colusa and Tacoma avenues in North Berkeley should shelter in place or leave the area no later than 10:30 am Monday, January 26, 2026, until an all-clear is posted on the City’s emergency communications channels. Residents in this area, which is visible on the City’s emergency map, should prepare to be out of the area or inside your home for at least the entire day.
berkeleyca.gov
January 26, 2026 at 5:52 PM
If a person lives in a house for a long time, there should be decadal visits by the fire department to check to see if they have carboys of dissolved nitrocellulose, vats of carbon tetrachloride, and other WMD precursors in the garage.
Look at the image accompanying this article. Who stands up to defend a streetscape like this? A dangerous, hostile street lined with sad little buildings that all need to be replaced. Don't "save" this!
www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
Upzoning plans in Berkeley could come at a major cost, shop owners warn
Nonprofit says there should be a balance between increasing the amount of available affordable housing and retaining established small businesses.
www.eastbaytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Look at the image accompanying this article. Who stands up to defend a streetscape like this? A dangerous, hostile street lined with sad little buildings that all need to be replaced. Don't "save" this!
www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
This Sacramento bike lane is the worst I saw yesterday. Good luck, guys! I am sure the entrants to I-80W from the 8-lane local road won't be speeding. In the other direction, the death crosswalk.
Note that this is the new, woke bike lane. The old one used to cross a double on-ramp.
Note that this is the new, woke bike lane. The old one used to cross a double on-ramp.
January 26, 2026 at 4:23 PM
This Sacramento bike lane is the worst I saw yesterday. Good luck, guys! I am sure the entrants to I-80W from the 8-lane local road won't be speeding. In the other direction, the death crosswalk.
Note that this is the new, woke bike lane. The old one used to cross a double on-ramp.
Note that this is the new, woke bike lane. The old one used to cross a double on-ramp.
Travel for youth sports events gives this Berkeley dad the chance to see the variety of hideous urban forms northern California contains. Six lane roads with double left turns. Used truck dealers with attached check cashing huts. Useless bike lanes that begin and end without reason.
January 26, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Travel for youth sports events gives this Berkeley dad the chance to see the variety of hideous urban forms northern California contains. Six lane roads with double left turns. Used truck dealers with attached check cashing huts. Useless bike lanes that begin and end without reason.
Imagine being so corrupt that you're the bad guys in a fight between your agency and the Minneapolis Police, one of the most disreputable bands of crooks in the entire nation. I wonder if ICE picked Minneapolis partly because they assumed the support of the local police.
January 25, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Imagine being so corrupt that you're the bad guys in a fight between your agency and the Minneapolis Police, one of the most disreputable bands of crooks in the entire nation. I wonder if ICE picked Minneapolis partly because they assumed the support of the local police.
While it is not generally true that civil disobedience is more likely to succeed when accompanied by a radical, violent paramilitary flank, it _is_ true of the three movements you people keep posting about, especially Mandela in South Africa.
This has been your moment of pedantry for the day.
This has been your moment of pedantry for the day.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
While it is not generally true that civil disobedience is more likely to succeed when accompanied by a radical, violent paramilitary flank, it _is_ true of the three movements you people keep posting about, especially Mandela in South Africa.
This has been your moment of pedantry for the day.
This has been your moment of pedantry for the day.
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Great blog post by David Baker Architects' Bryan Alcorn and Carley Leckie on their award winning Steplight design for the national Single Stair Design competition. www.dbarchitect.com/blogs/buildi...
January 23, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Great blog post by David Baker Architects' Bryan Alcorn and Carley Leckie on their award winning Steplight design for the national Single Stair Design competition. www.dbarchitect.com/blogs/buildi...
The Mineta e-bike safety research is incredibly based.
January 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
The Mineta e-bike safety research is incredibly based.
Here is an excellent research brief on the topic of e-bike regulation which focuses largely on the fact that the statistics are poisoned by non-experts misreporting motorcycle crashes. transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/defaul...
January 23, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Here is an excellent research brief on the topic of e-bike regulation which focuses largely on the fact that the statistics are poisoned by non-experts misreporting motorcycle crashes. transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/defaul...
I am curious to hear what election-focused activists believe will happen to/with all the ICE agents after the election. In detail. It is an armed, funded, and organized terror group that is way larger than ISIS or Al-Qaeda ever was. What are they doing on Wednesday, November 4, 2026?
January 22, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I am curious to hear what election-focused activists believe will happen to/with all the ICE agents after the election. In detail. It is an armed, funded, and organized terror group that is way larger than ISIS or Al-Qaeda ever was. What are they doing on Wednesday, November 4, 2026?
"Big Tech" loses whatever vestige of meaning it ever contained if it is used to categorize Uber, a radio-dispatched taxi company that shares its NAICS category with Greyhound and has gross receipts of roughly Kroger. If it just means "companies I don't like, from California" that isn't useful.
January 22, 2026 at 6:29 PM
"Big Tech" loses whatever vestige of meaning it ever contained if it is used to categorize Uber, a radio-dispatched taxi company that shares its NAICS category with Greyhound and has gross receipts of roughly Kroger. If it just means "companies I don't like, from California" that isn't useful.
The megalopolis of Suisun City announces labor agreement. californiaforever.com/california-f...
California, let’s build the next great American city - California Forever
California Forever, the Napa/Solano Building Trades Council, and Northern California Carpenters Union sign the largest construction labor agreement in history For over a century, California has been m...
californiaforever.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM
The megalopolis of Suisun City announces labor agreement. californiaforever.com/california-f...
I asked an AI to redesign an intersection.
January 21, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I asked an AI to redesign an intersection.
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I'm standing at the corner of Market & Van Ness in #SanFrancisco, atop a subway station and next to a bus rapid transit stop. Still thinking about the retired planner who vowed to block 984 homes here, so he can preserve a defunct car dealership and his faded memories of a few shows he saw in 1971.
January 21, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I'm standing at the corner of Market & Van Ness in #SanFrancisco, atop a subway station and next to a bus rapid transit stop. Still thinking about the retired planner who vowed to block 984 homes here, so he can preserve a defunct car dealership and his faded memories of a few shows he saw in 1971.
This building isn't even open yet but it's already displaying this common issue of corrosion. We have design review and plan check and codes but apparently they are all silent on galvanic compatibility.
January 21, 2026 at 5:58 PM
This building isn't even open yet but it's already displaying this common issue of corrosion. We have design review and plan check and codes but apparently they are all silent on galvanic compatibility.
In Fremont, California, this development managed to combine aspects of garden apartments with the Texas Donut. This is the most valuable residential property in Alameda County, by the way.
January 21, 2026 at 5:35 PM
In Fremont, California, this development managed to combine aspects of garden apartments with the Texas Donut. This is the most valuable residential property in Alameda County, by the way.
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I want to emphasize that at this time the unconfirmed reports that President Trump has both arms stuck "elbow deep" in the airplane toilet are just that. We will be monitoring this story. Please be responsible about spreading news that both his arms are "as far as they can go" into the toilet hole.
January 21, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I want to emphasize that at this time the unconfirmed reports that President Trump has both arms stuck "elbow deep" in the airplane toilet are just that. We will be monitoring this story. Please be responsible about spreading news that both his arms are "as far as they can go" into the toilet hole.
The American car market was better when there were minor Japanese brands. Where are the Daihatsus, Isuzus and Suzukis? Is there no market for an unreliable AWD hot hatch at $9500? A pickup with a standard bed and 65HP?
January 20, 2026 at 10:56 PM
The American car market was better when there were minor Japanese brands. Where are the Daihatsus, Isuzus and Suzukis? Is there no market for an unreliable AWD hot hatch at $9500? A pickup with a standard bed and 65HP?
If you know any local small business owners, spread the word that I have been doing quite a bit of not going into shops that display this sign. The improvement of my city and its streets is more important to me than their wares.
(previous version of the same phenomenon in the right, as a reminder)
(previous version of the same phenomenon in the right, as a reminder)
January 20, 2026 at 5:25 PM
If you know any local small business owners, spread the word that I have been doing quite a bit of not going into shops that display this sign. The improvement of my city and its streets is more important to me than their wares.
(previous version of the same phenomenon in the right, as a reminder)
(previous version of the same phenomenon in the right, as a reminder)
Spectacular and depressing research paper about how cable news destroyed America. Most incredible tidbit: Fox News having a lower channel number causes increased salience of culture war issues. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/27v4x...
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Spectacular and depressing research paper about how cable news destroyed America. Most incredible tidbit: Fox News having a lower channel number causes increased salience of culture war issues. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/27v4x...
I guess this is the last time I have to/get to complain about this, but the fact that I have to fill out fifty forms for my 8th grader to enroll in 9th grade in the same school district, including copying their report card, is ridiculous and it validates things people always say about bureaucrats.
January 19, 2026 at 5:42 PM
I guess this is the last time I have to/get to complain about this, but the fact that I have to fill out fifty forms for my 8th grader to enroll in 9th grade in the same school district, including copying their report card, is ridiculous and it validates things people always say about bureaucrats.
One thing that two seasons of MTB riding has made me wonder: doesn't F-150 Raptor Guy feel sheepish when someone pulls three bikes out of a Prius hatchback at the same trailhead?
January 18, 2026 at 7:34 PM
One thing that two seasons of MTB riding has made me wonder: doesn't F-150 Raptor Guy feel sheepish when someone pulls three bikes out of a Prius hatchback at the same trailhead?
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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
I am a bit surprised this is considered a better location. I guess it has a parking lot, but their old location has 23 bike parking spaces, bike racks, curb parking, and 2 bus stops. Plus that restaurant space is cursed.
The Burmese restaurant is moving a few blocks to the east to take over the space formerly occupied by popular restaurant Pomella.
Teni East Kitchen, moving a half mile, sees new, tasty possibilities with larger space
The Burmese restaurant is moving a few blocks to the east to take over the space formerly occupied by popular restaurant Pomella.
www.berkeleyside.org
January 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I am a bit surprised this is considered a better location. I guess it has a parking lot, but their old location has 23 bike parking spaces, bike racks, curb parking, and 2 bus stops. Plus that restaurant space is cursed.
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We're getting breaking word that Trump is a huge bitch.
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
We're getting breaking word that Trump is a huge bitch.