Ariane Lange

A Robla pedestrian is at least the 10th person to die in a crash on a Sacramento street this year. Every one of these deaths is unacceptable.

The best time to pedestrianize a street is 100 years ago, but the second-best time is today 😎

Recently talked to someone who told me Gavin Newsom backed a bill to allow literally anyone, including known sex traffickers, to pick up literally any kid from school. One problem for this person is that they don't double-check implausible stories; the bigger problem is, nothing sounds implausible.

The biggest drawback of driverless cars Driverless cars could save thousands of lives. They might also break our cities.

"Incorporating evidence from 26 studies on AVs’ impacts on the flow of car traffic, researchers find that a future where driverless cars become widespread is likely to increase the total number of miles traveled by vehicles in the US by around 5.95 percent." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I'm sorry but doesn't lighting typically * deter * illicit activity??

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

from your lips to god's ears

Having lost one daughter, Robyn, and nearly the other, Rachel, three weeks later to unsafe bicycle infrastructure, I know this to be true.

Study Finds Most U.S. Bike Lanes Are Just Paint - and Placed on the Most Dangerous Roads

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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Just encountered a captcha that said "prove humanity," and it feels like a missed opportunity to have me simply click "i am not a robot" rather than engage with a moral quandary

Anakin and Padme meme: Safety is our first priority Higher than LOS, right? ... Higher than LOS, right?

Me talking to the city engineer about the new Vision Zero plan.

^^^great reporting by @tclift.bsky.social who took it upon herself to fact-check the mayor's claim

TL;DR: No, the "70% drop" in downtown homelessness is an incorrect number from an informal survey by the nonprofit that runs a business improvement district. You could look at this as a misstated conclusion from a casual head count. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

Should Elk Grove spend $350K a bed for homeless shelter over permanent housing? The amount per bed is nearly triple the amount of the average cost per shelter bed for eight other Sacramento County shelters.

Elk Grove is spending up to $350,000 per bed to build a new small homeless shelter.
The amount per bed is nearly triple the amount of the average cost per shelter bed for eight other Sacramento County shelters.
With @camryndadey.bsky.social
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US AI giant accuses Chinese rivals of mass data theft Anthropic says three Chinese firms used ‘distillation’ technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot

please…my stolen data…it’s been stolen www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Three homeless men froze to death in Sacramento County in winter 2025 While officials opened warming shelters on the nights of all three death, the official cause of their deaths was hypothermia.

NEW: Three homeless men froze to death on Sacramento County sidewalks this past winter.

Activists are pushing the city, county to open more warming centers

www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

I can't say anything about the copyediting because I live in a glass house alone, with no copyeditor :(

I was lucky enough to have a terrifying and supremely competent high school journalism adviser who drilled the very notion of an "accident" out of us.

I enjoyed this interesting piece about the worst intersections in Los Angeles! Also noted that at the beginning of the piece -- which describes how land use and design choices lead to more traffic and crashes -- the story refers to collisions as "accidents." www.latimes.com/california/l...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Have you always wanted to hear me yap about dangerous roads? You are in luck: I will be on a panel about telling crash stories at the @calbike.bsky.social Summit April 23: www.calbike.org/events/summit/

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Sacramento fast-tracks safety project on road where four men died in two years Marysville Boulevard has seen four fatal crashes since January 2024. The city is moving forward with a quick-build safety project on one section of the road.

Wrote about Marysville Boulevard, where at least 11 people have died since Sacramento's Vision Zero pledge. Four men in just the last two years. The city is now fast-tracking a safety project. www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

The way I look at this is whether or not the hype winds up bearing out—or even a fraction of it—we need to prepare for a long future in which bosses + management are incentivized at every level to proceed as if it's true; cutting labor costs, automating tasks, killing jobs.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

"The county was self-insured, meaning it paid the settlements directly out of its own budget using taxpayer funds"

Sacramento County in last year paid $2.4M to families of men who died in custody The settlement agreements were signed last year, regarding men who died in 2023.

The settlement agreements were signed last year, regarding men who died in 2023.

How a Sacramento woman’s grandad made it possible for Trump to threaten Greenland A Sacramento woman’s grandfather made a WWII Greenland deal that is sparking geopolitical debates today.

A mutual friend clued me into Sacramento resident Bettina Redway's connection to the geopolitical maelstrom surrounding Greenland, and it was too fascinating to keep to myself. www.sacbee.com/news/article...

Are we sure that outdoor seating wasn't jaywalking?