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Just another bozo on this bus: please deflate your shoes before entering. The artist formerly known as dr_memory@twit (and same on livejournal, remember them?) and currently also known as @[email protected] on mastodon. Banner photo by @lifewinning.com

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an “environmental” law was used to extort a high speed rail agency to paying tens of millions for a highway expansion. CEQA is completely broken and impossible to defend at this point

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Doctor Who seems to have entered this void as well, but at least fans of that show have some practice with this. 😭

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

I’ve seen a lot of hand wringing about the dangers of going to No Kings protests and gently, I want to tell people to chill a little. These are permitted marches and the point is to be out there and seen en masse. Please don’t scare off people who are maybe going to their very first protest

submitted 7 hours ago • 92 comments

Ooooh. Is our would be Democratic candidates starting to figure out how ranked choice voting is supposed to work at long last? Gonna be interesting to see if this works. (SF folks, I’m out of touch: have there been any RCV cross-endorsements in any recent elections there?)

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

All solid advice and I will only add: - write your lawyer’s number or the NLG hotline on your body in permanent marker - DO NOT WEAR SWIM GOGGLES.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Last weekend at a reunion for my weird little college (RIP), I smiled and waved at someone I recognized. 10 minutes later I realized that we hadn't overlapped at all, and I'd never met him, but I _had_ seen him on stage last year and had come perilously close to wearing the concert T to this party.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Writing my company's postmortem report on yesterday's Google Cloud Platform meltdown.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

The thing about Gavin is that he’s a soulless, amoral, principle-free bastard. But once in a while he picks the right target and it’s fun to watch.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Public transit meets the needs of communities when it is fast, frequent, and reliable. Unless a policy change specifically improves these qualities, it is not about meeting community needs, it’s about something else.