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It was on fire when I got here.

Berkeley CA

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Joined April 2007

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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1 year

Twitter I mean X is entering the final stages of self destruction. Blue Sky is another Jack Dorsey mess. Threads is Facebook. It is inevitable that once things settle down, the Twitter replacement where most people hang out will be Mastodon. Join Mastodon.

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@jef invites you to join this server of Mastodon! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!

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Dear @Waymo , get, and I cannot emphasize this enough, THE FUCK OUT OF THE BIKE LANE.

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Apparently a non-trivial number of systems are experiencing #Y2020 bugs. A common Y2K "fix" just postponed things by 20 years, interpreting 00-19 as the 2000s and 20-99 as the 1900s. 20 years is now up, some of those systems are still in use, and they think it's 1920. Oooops.

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@LATbermudez Americans get angry at others not speaking English because it means they can't eavesdrop. I would not have been as polite as you were.

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Let me see if I have this straight: web1: capitalized HTML tags web2: CSS border-radius web3: pyramid schemes

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We go now live to Twitter HQ in San Francisco where millions of people are protesting Trump's account being deleted.

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@AsteadWesley This is what I just saw on twitter so I have to ask if it was this guy.

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Dear everyone saying "bomb threats": A bomb threat is a phone call. An actual bomb is attempted mass murder.

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@GoldenCurlze @jfreewright

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Patrick Stewart is trending for no apparent reason, so here he is at age 37 playing Oberon. You're welcome.

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New park! Just opened today!

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This but for cars. At every intersection.

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@MaltLiquorLogic

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@Waymo lol no

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It's actually the trains which are high speed, the rails are pretty much stationary.

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Millions of banned Russian bots protesting in the street at @Twitter HQ this morning.

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@sfchronicle

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Some drivers say San Francisco is at war with cars. They feel under siege in a city becoming less hospitable to vehicles amid efforts to make streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians.

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Apparently it has become a thing to buy a cheap bike for burning man and leave it there for someone else to deal with. 5000 this year.

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If your complaint about speed cameras and red light cameras is that they're "just a money grab", how about we change the penalties from fines to license suspensions? Would that get the point across that you need to stop driving dangerously?

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@pcrritesgood @gillyarcht @ryanjreilly @nycsouthpaw Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a blunder.

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@schmangee @fawfulfan From her resignation letter: "It's also illegal, and we are currently pursuing all of our available legal options."

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@shastableus @TheDweck @MrJonCryer Easiest to just get the British to burn it again.

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go ahead. keep screaming "Get In The Bike Lane " at me. it only makes me ride Slower

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@jdcmedlock @akronisticlotor Don't stop there - what if the minimum wage is negative?

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@ScootFoundation 100% residential, max two stories, zero playgrounds, zero plazas, zero commercial, zero office space. BZZZT sorry, no. Try again.

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Samples of the content I reported: "Classic gay liberal" "You little bike twits grow more annoying and repugnant by the day." "Go fuck yourself cyclist fag" "Jew" "Fuck you" Yep, definitely no violations of the rules here. 🙄

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@feline_cannon @Oregonian 99 pink balloons

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@HighTimes1235 @jen_keesmaat This. Apparently it has really helped in Japan and South Korea. Just a cheap & common surgical mask, which provides no protection to the wearer but does trap a lot of exhaled droplets.

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- Raise the gas tax a lot. - Phased in over 5 years. - Borrow against future revenue. - Build subways, light rail, BRT, green lanes. - Unlimit scooters and e-bikes. - Upzone near present and future transit, and finance development. - Change parking minimums to parking maximums.

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What if we only allowed autonomous vehicles on limited-access roads? And embedded some sort of guideway in the road so they didn't have to steer? And made the guideway and wheels out of steel, for lower rolling resistance? And platooned multiple vehicles together? 🤔🚅

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cycle track -

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Multi-modal

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The good news is, Xitter has greatly improved the Report process since the last time I had a post go viral. It's only two screens now! The bad news is, every single one of my reports was immediately denied. "We didn't find a violation of our rules in the content you reported."

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Folsom Street today at 4pm. Cars, boy I don't know.

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@blogwhat @Waymo Does that stand for A Brick?

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Bad news for SF fireworks likers

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Wow, ok

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3 years

You know how the self-driving car fanboys want every pedestrian to carry a transponder? Well what if the transponder forced all nearby cars to slow to 15MPH. I'd carry one of those.

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@jasminericegirl All cats have those penis barbs. Something about the pain stimulating the female cat to release eggs. Or maybe that's a story cooked up by male cats.

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@GrantBrisbee And the losing team gets thrown into a well?

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@TwitterSafety

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@4TiffanyJustice

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@DFWsCars @Waymo I have actually been advocating for years for bike lanes to have a maximum width of seven feet between hard vertical barriers, specifically so that cars can't fit. Most other bike advocates tend to look at me funny.

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@mshelton Oh yeah well my password is only six characters so even one character would be more than 15%. I'm unhackable!

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@ScottMStedman Nah, it's even simpler. Trump's business for decades was laundering Russian mob money. He was blackmailable by the Russians because they literally had the receipts.

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@tarheeljks @NaithanJones @triketora Performative wokeness

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@MPHProject

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Swale-protected cycle track. Marina Way in Richmond.

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From my neighborhood's email list today: "It appears to me that we have been outmaneuvered and outspent by well-organized, well-funded, healthy, and youthful biking lobbyists." To which I can only say:

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@RiegerReport

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@tarastrong Get 'em, Bubbles!

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It's out! Of the canal! Finally!

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#Y2020 prompted me to take a look at my own date-handling code and I immediately found a #Y2070 bug. I don't think I'll be around then, though, so it's someone else's problem!

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From the @mozilla Climate Commitments document. Cryptocurrencies are incompatible with all of these.

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Seeing lots of people apportioning blame for Afghanistan. There is blame enough for everyone. Really, the only one not to blame is my congressmember, Barbara Lee. She was the lone vote against the war. She told us, 19 years ago, that it would be a disaster. She was right.

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Concrete island doing its job. Driver, not so much.

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@kokoinkorea @toasterposey Two McDonald's in the SF East Bay are on strike because the company won't provide PPE to workers.

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@DannyDeraney For getting down from the party tree

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@roxiqt THE CDC: If you do your isolation in back-to-back 12 hour shifts you can finish the 5 days in only 3 days

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@kaludiasays To be fair, all cats probably think their name is Killmonger.

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@CooperBogetti @Waymo Not to mention the five figure settlement

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@Airbare40 @Waymo

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@TriciaLockwood miette: you trip on miette, miette trip on you! hah hah hah hah ack spiders oh wow look at my paws

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What if we used these to protect bike lanes, instead of plastic pool noodles.

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@mat Happened to buy 24 rolls of t.p. in January. Still have 12 left.

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@samiswine

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@andevers @TerriDrawsStuff The 51% of Americans who are not psychotic have been doing this since April. The rest will never do it.

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@Fizzygrrl Ok this probably won't work but the upside if it does is large so... Could I get you to dig up Ruth Bader Ginsberg and hug her?

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@angelasw There's a real easy fix for this issue and all similar ones: let those who want to use Latest do it without forcibly switching them back to Home.

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@Esqueer_ Imaginary is correct, she was complaining that the hospital wouldn't rule out the possibility that a nurse might be transgender. No actual nurses were involved.

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Brand new crosswalk protection island at Claremont and Cavour. Already five chips, dozens of tire tracks, and two posts down.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.

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Time for my annual pic of the wisteria house at 1741 Virginia. The bees are really buzzing today! Cc: @berkeleyside

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Of course there's an easy way for @Twitter to not be racist when they auto-crop images: don't crop images. Show the whole image, scaled to fit the space, every time. The photographer is the expert on cropping, not you. Stop.

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@Klee_FilmReview The West Wing "In Excelsis Deo", when Mrs. Landingham says "I miss my boys" the waterworks start.

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Barthenge! The North Berkeley @SFBART rotunda lines up with the sunset on summer solstice.

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@elonmusk @GerberKawasaki @thirdrowtesla But seriously, if you want to re-open so you get that $billion payout, offer your workers 2x hazard pay and full PPE. Pay for it out of your own pocket, you will still be way ahead. Tell @Dare2BWell and I bet they will let you open. Be an example instead of a whiny baby.

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/bin/sh has stories now too.

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@altNOAA @DefenseBaron @jaketapper @DrJohnNagl People keep saying stuff like this. It won't be as simple as that because Trump will intentionally make things confusing. He won't try to stay after losing, he'll claim he won, for five different (stupid) reasons. It's not a courtroom fight, it's war.

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@PJAxemurderer @stevesilberman "Gom jabbar" means "You know what you did."

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@michaelcoyote @dust__bath Yes. I can't imagine a cat that I wouldn't want to see a picture of.

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@LizRNC It's always projection with these guys.

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@iamcoby It avoids back-pressure by giving each cylinder its own exhaust pipe.

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I knew this would happen. "Outdoor" dining with a roof and four walls. How is this any better than indoors? Do not eat at restaurants. Get takeout and stay alive.

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@doctorow Final form

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Emperor Norton rides a bicycle. Photo by Eadweard Muybridge.

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First post-8pm sunset of the year.

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Can I make an analogy here? Drivers drive in bike lanes because there are no consequences for doing so. Assholes post abuse on Xitter because there are no consequences for doing so. Bring back consequences.

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@chrissyteigen I want to do this just so I can put it on my résumé. 2019-2021: tucked in Chrissy Teigen

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@SteelerKneeler @IdahoBones Gonna start saving up urine for his grave.

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@MollyBeck So putting a ballot in one of these two things is illegal but the other is ok. Got it.

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@mcuwaititi @TaikaWaititi

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Meanwhile, elsewhere on the internet...

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@tagsavage My counter-offer is this: - zero on-street parking - no right on red - no left turns ever - speed limit in cities 15 MPH - weight limit in cities 1000 lbs - all traffic laws to be enforced by any bicyclist who wants to, via city-issued fully-automatic paintball guns

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I know a lot of people who regret getting the vaccine. Don’t know anyone who regrets not getting it.

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Old Transbay Terminal vs. new Transbay Terminal. Notice anything different? SEATS. The new terminal has all these huge open spaces with no SEATS. People were sitting on the window ledge because there was no place else to fucking sit down.

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Born in 1920: Isaac Asimov, Sun Myung Moon, DeForest Kelley, Federico Fellini, Tony Randall, James Doohan, Toshiro Mifune, Ravi Shankar, Peggy Lee, Che Guevara, Yul Brynner, Charles Bukowski, Ray Bradbury, June Foray, Mickey Rooney, Walter Matthau, Timothy Leary, Dave Brubeck

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@stephan_zharkov I have heard that San Francisco may possibly have some other hills.

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