Steve Boland

Tech hopefuls are listing San Francisco in their online bios — even if they don't live there Tech hopefuls are associating themselves with San Francisco online while living elsewhere, which some say is for clout or to attract investors.

The cycle never ends. 2025 = 2015 = 2005 = 1995. Point is, SF and tech are inseparable partners in this boom and bust cycle www.businessinsider.com/tech-hopeful...

This is a point that a lot of very well-meaning advocates don’t understand. At the same time, focusing too much on productivity over ridership is how you get peak-only services

OTOH, he’s actually talking about global best practice. Pretty sure he’s BS-ing in this case, but maybe we should subject some of his other policies (using that word loosely) to that sort of analysis

Architecture students are like virgins with an itch they cannot scratch / Never build a building til you’re 50, what kind of life is that?

Holy shit, stopped clock was right twice

YouTube video by IT'S HISTORY Why California Abandoned the Bullet Train

Man, it is really wild the extent to which people can just out and out lie on the Internet. This YouTuber has nearly a million followers www.youtube.com/watch?v=d30i...

Swear to god, all we have to do is get him on a high-speed train

I *finally* got around to listening to this, and learned so much about my neighborhood (Clinton) -- including that there used to be a major train station at the site of the proposed BART infill sanantoniostation.net (also, Mitchell Schwarzer is an absolute authority on Oakland)

Anyone happen to know dimensions?

The pardon power should be abolished. This is way overdue (anyone remember Marc Rich?). Trump has just made it urgent

Robert Silverstein, who fought City Hall over Hollywood development and won, dies at 57 The Pasadena-based lawyer battled the city over Hollywood redevelopment, a Target shopping center and a pair of skyscrapers planned next to Capitol Records.

I wonder if he ever got that Target gift card I sent him www.latimes.com/california/s...

I blame the worm

Oh believe me, I know. Some of the worst offenders were ex-staff. But at some point we figured out that Muni isn’t, you know, an acronym

bernie sanders is wearing a jacket with a hood and glasses while standing in the snow . ALT: bernie sanders is wearing a jacket with a hood and glasses while standing in the snow .

I am once again asking you to call it Muni, not MUNI #firstworldproblems

Union Square Station is just really weird. They’re all overbuilt, but that one just has so many obvious architectural errors

Antioch Amtrak station to be decommissioned despite safety, beautification upgrades by city With rail service moving to Oakley, a city with less than half of Antioch’s population, the station on I Street will cease operations in 2027.

The San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority (sorry, should that be the Gold Runner Joint Powers Authority?) should be sentenced to a lifetime of riding their cafe car-less trains www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/23/a...

Dean Preston was voted out of office

And, you know, they’re kids.

Love it when kids from the local community college post Marxist training fliers in my neighborhood of immigrants who fled a communist invasion. No notes

Remember that movie Civil War? That was criticized for being “apolitical”? A third-term president demolishing political norms, institutions and political enemies, I wonder where they got that idea

A Great City’s People Forced to Drink Swill

Trump's transit chief longs for 'golden age' of flying. Banning sweats won't cut it, experts say U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy urged airline passengers to dress nicely and mind their manners ahead of the year’s busiest travel week.

Sean Duffy’s flying civility campaign is wrong in so many ways. Starting with: Do you not have better things to do with your time? But also, maybe the airlines had something to do with it? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Just curious, if the Supreme Court somehow banned partisan gerrymandering tomorrow and every state had to redraw maps on that basis, which party would come out ahead?

5.2? That’s an actual earthquake

Really enjoying this morning's earthquake swarm, which gives me a nice little jolt every few minutes and now has me on edge awaiting the next one

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen

The extent to which Emeryville is built off the back of Berkeley self-owns cannot be overstated

I turned 54 this week. I still like new music, but I think I may have finally reached the point where I do not understand the world

Go Bears

Safeway long resisted building housing in S.F. Here’s why it’s now racing to create 2,700 units San Francisco’s land-use politics have been upended by the news that Safeway has done the unexpected: Instead of saying no to building housing on its properties, it’s saying yes. In a big way.

Eagerly awaiting Safeway’s proposal to build a thousand homes at Church and Market www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...