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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 55m

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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jeanswithpockets.bsky.social @jeanswithpockets.bsky.social · 3h

A local hot dog stand on my way home usually packs up with a car in the bike lane. Yeah I can just merge into the frankly scary traffic next to it. Yeah every other user of the current state of that bike lane can too. Know who can't? Kids, seniors, disabled people that can't merge. It's so crazy.

Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 4h

Safe, comfortable sharing of public space relies upon a solid social contract.

Yet when the owner of a popular local business consistently violates the contract, safe and comfortable travel for people unprotected by roll cages becomes precarious.

How might we shore up this social contract?

Vehicle parked in a flex post delineated bike lane in Chapel Hill, NC. View is facing east.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 4m

I thought she answered the question like a lawyer. Porter thought she answered that question and wanted to move on. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 22m

Climate change heat stresses anemones. But now banana plants are warm enough to fruit in LA.

Green bananas growing on a stalk with a red flower slightly bigger than a football below. The bananas grow under a canopy of green leaves

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 30m

Munis can refuse to serve customers by refusing to annex. Compact territories are cheaper to serve.
ISOs are forced to serve almost* everyone, regardless of uneconomical sprawl. *They can refuse service only if too dangerous to serve area.
Urban NIMBYs create sprawl, then pay for it in ISO bills

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 36m

Alt text left: coffee mug on a crocheted coaster sitting on a red tablecloth
Alt text right: crochet coaster with a flat bottom resembling a lemon disc cross section. The disc is surrounded by two rows of 3D petals that would cup around mugs

Angelshair @angelshair.bsky.social · 5h

Little flower coaster. Pattern is the anemone motif from '500 Crochet Stitches: The Ultimate Crochet Stitch Bible'

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spookygorski @cpgorski.bsky.social · 10h

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

It's almost as if a movement that began with lusty chants of "lock her up" in regard to the opposition party's candidate for President in 2016...combined with a refusal to honor the results of the election...has morphed into a cult of unaccountable, authoritarian power.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 41m

And did you see the drinking water quality by census tract in CalEnviroScreen? You can see the LADWP boundaries. Even within LADWP, the white neighborhoods get better water. That's so unfair. Calwater treats all customers same. They get cost recovery for replacing old pipes

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 44m

NEM only applies to ISOs. CPUC has no authority over Munis. Munis all compensate rooftop solar near avoided costs, like NEM 3, which is partly why ISO rates are higher. SMUD is highly regarded. LADWP, not so much. I compared w/ someone in LADWP (urban core) & they have so many more & longer outages

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 1h

I am served by SCE and Calwater. I do not look upon LADWP customers with envy. More like pity

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 12h

$11 billion to raise and widen a highway, through a wetland, during a climate crisis.

Imagine spending $11 billion on workforce housing in Marin/Sonoma/Napa/San Francisco so the people driving across 37 every day to get to work ... could just live where they work.

California is a climate pariah.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 14h

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 16h

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 10h

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 10h

Her wife is heiress to a very large fortune. BW is referring to her solidarity with the billionaire class

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 10h

Transit does specify facility type

Transit dark mode map from Expo Crenshaw station to LACMA. 67% on safe roads, the rest on paint only bike lanes on busy roads

Turn by turn instructions with length on road and what type of bike facility

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Oran โอม @oranv.com · 6d

If you didn’t know… when you sponsor a green card for your family member to immigrate to the USA, you have to sign an Affidavit of Support. You are responsible for financial support until they become a citizen or work enough. Sponsored immigrants generally can’t receive means-tested public benefits.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 11h

Did you try the transit app? It gives safer directions than Google

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 14h

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 16h

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

Cross section of 114' wide bridge structure with each direction having a 12' outside shoulder and a 10' inside shoulder.

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Christian Dimmer @remmid.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for the concise summary. Let’s keep pushing for these values—in our everyday encounters and within our professional publics. We have to cut through the hyperbole.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16h

It’s not “partisan” to defend science, evidence, and objective reality.

It’s partisan to attack science, evidence, and objective reality, to benefit your political “team.”

That’s true with climate science, with vaccinology, & with evidence-based city-building, all of which are being attacked.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 16h

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 14h

Sigh. It takes so much self control just to exist rn

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely molten-hot language here from Professor Fraser Shilling, Director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, on the decision to spend *half a billion* to widen Highway 37, which is sinking into the bay.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 14h

Dude vetoed the Idaho stop twice! But supports widening a doomed freeway that sea level rise will claim.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 14h

Regrettably, Governor Newsom just signed this bill, paving the way to widen a rapidly sinking highway.

MTC Bay Area @mtcbata.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today’s passage of AB 697 marks a major advance for long-running efforts to start work on a suite of projects to enhance North Bay marshlands and wildlife habitats, reduce flooding, improve traffic flow along Highway 37, and introduce transit service between Vallejo and Novato.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 14h

For more coverage on this benighted project, check this out.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely molten-hot language here from Professor Fraser Shilling, Director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, on the decision to spend *half a billion* to widen Highway 37, which is sinking into the bay.

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