Brooks Benson

Agree completely. I participated in the public meetings for that plan and there has been little to no follow through. The IHT bridge over Bollinger is nice, but apart from a little green paint not much else has been accomplished.

They’ve been testing these in San Ramon (and continue to test) for three years. The robot is chased by a handler on an e-bike. I’ve had lots of opportunities to ride in proximity to them. Not the worst things I’ve encountered in a bike lane. Agree with you on the social implications.

A German Shepherd Dog lying on a sofa with a concerned look on his face.

Watchdog.

A beautiful piece of art of farm workers laboring in the fields

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay.

Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas.

Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession” Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

this 48-second video of a protest in ontario, california is top-tier storytelling 🤌🏽🤌🏽

Me kneeling in front of my bike.

View of my bike’s top tube from just behind.

View of the carbon frame lugged construction on the head, top and down tube.

View of the front fork and brake assembly.

Bike porn. Sent the Colnago to the shop for some TLC. New chain, brake pads and bar tape. Everything is clean and shiny!

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

I wondered the same thing - so I made this:

forcing JD Vance into the middle of this against his will is such an incredible bonus

Elon Musk has punched Trump harder in the past two hours than most Democrats in Congress have done since Trump took office. That is part of the problem for us, Dems!

Lemme explain what bilateral trade deficits are, so that you can better understand -- and perhaps be infuriated by -- the intellectual error that's transforming our economy. #TeachEcon

(next to an image of President Obama) “It is up to all of us to fix this. It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you. The most important office in this democracy is the citizen—the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right." PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”

- Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

just going to keep saying this, but the less you’re enforcing laws about fiat money movement the worse the core crypto value proposition becomes

It absolutely disgusts me that both California Democratic senators voted in favor of a law that will force the rest of us, through our bank accounts, to subsidize the monumentally corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" --

They have chosen to join the corruption, and I'll remember that.

Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.

Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

Trump begging China.

True or not, it's funny.

And we all need a good laugh right now.

Sad but true.

Thanks for standing up and fighting!

31 years ago today, this joke first aired on TV.

We have arrived at the point where Iran’s supreme leader is critical of the Trump Admin’s record on civil liberties and human rights.

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

Check the entire thread.

East Bay Cities on Notice for Substandard Bikeways - Streetsblog San Francisco Bike East Bay reviews a list of projects unrealized, despite city promises

What good is a bike plan if it only exists on paper? Thank you to Streetsblog for publishing this guest post where I detail frustrating omissions of local bike plan recommendations on recent projects in Castro Valley, Union City, Antioch, and San Ramon.
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I personally will continue to use "Gulf of Mexico" because our president is a wrathful felonious nincompoop with the intellect of paramecium and I do not consent to his cartographic buffoonery

Jesuswashing If the HeGetsUs Super Bowl ad had been a table, Jesus would have flipped it over. The major funder of the HeGetsUs campaign, David Green, is one of the major funders of the Christian nationalist mo…

Two years ago I spent some time to do a deep dive into the “He Gets Us” campaign.

oneworldhouse.net/2023/02/15/j...