Don Gibson

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Plant Scientist PhD. Likes to talk about housing and land use. Strong takes on bike lanes and tomatoes.

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happy belated 5-year anniversary to what is, for my money, the greatest political post of all time

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You think you’ve seen some dumb shit? Well,… www.instagram.com/reel/C7ncx8W...

NBC BAY AREA on Instagram: "South Bay techies launch #Tesla Cybertruck-powered #coffee shop • #BayArea #Cybertruck"www.instagram.com 12K likes, 681 comments - nbcbayarea on May 30, 2024: "South Bay techies launch #Tesla Cybertruck-powered #coffee shop • #BayArea #Cybertruck".

Frustrating. Apparently Sacramento Transportation Athority wanting to raise a tax *just for road repairs* We need to fund alternatives to driving and not keeping us locked into auto dependency in Sacramento gettingaroundsac.blog/2024/06/16/a...

a tax JUST to fix roads?gettingaroundsac.blog While attending the Sacramento Transportation Authority meeting last Thursday, and hearing the long painful discussion about how there isn't, and never will be, enough money to fix our roads to the le...

One thing I do love about Sacramento is you can pick up BBQ at a foot truck meetup and hear French, Vietnamese and Hindi all on the walk home

Celebrating ending exclusionary zoning in Sacramento tonight

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Some heated discourse! A critique of how UC & Mars handled IP regarding nitrogen-fixing maize. online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art... And the blunt response (last paragraph below!): online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art... Disclosure: my lab received funding for a postdoc for 2 years on this project.

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1. This is sociopathic behavior. 2. This country really needs to do a better job at regulating vehicle noise. 3. Noteworthy that NIMBYs will use bad faith arguments about noise impacts to block multifamily housing but we're doing so little to regulate noise itself. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/u...

Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streetswww.nytimes.com The modified Dodge Charger roaming Seattle’s downtown by night has infuriated residents. But it seems no one can stop it.

Biked Sacramento’s new Del Rio Trail with my new Gazelle e-bike.

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thank you google ai, very cool

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While we're talking about senior accessibility and transportation, "vehicular cycling" was a huge mistake.

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I can’t stress how dangerous 20+ years of teaching men STEM without Humanities has been for all of us

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A company on Facebook is advertising a "love shower" for Mother's Day, which consists of a mechanism blasting card-sized paper all over the place, because nothing says "love" like making yet another mess around the house for your mom to clean up

My public comment calling for electric rail service on @CapitolCorridor and opposing the unproven and worse service hydrogen trains would provide. I want to ride CC more often but it needs to be better service and electrification is the way for it to happen.

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🚨🚨 Action Alert: Call into the Capitol Corridor Board of Directors meeting to tell them you want catenary-battery hybrid, NOT hydrogen FLIRTs on Capitol Corridor. 🚨 🚨 May 1st at 10 am or email [email protected] before 3 PM on April 30. www.capitolcorridor.org/ccjpa-board/

Today I discovered the fruit Nance, thinking these were cherries with their stem removed

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The oral arguments in the Trump immunity case feel like sort of a watershed. The Court has already made a mockery of the Constitution, but now they’re attacking the most basic foundation of democratic governance: that the people and the law are sovereign, not the head of state.

Alito: Presidents have to make all sorts of decisions! If he makes a mistake he’s subject to criminal laws just like anybody else? You don’t think he’s in an especially precious position? Motherfucker, you think Trump did a coup on accident? That he didn't know he couldn't do that?

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A federal judge gave a green light to the National Association of Realtors’ settlement, paving the way for an overhaul of the way people buy and sell their homes in the United States. cnn.it/4b8wLmK

I love Nextdoor: Person: "What's this strange spray at the park? Is it going to kill kids & my dog? I emailed by councilmember by never heard back" Councilmember: "My staff replied to your email in 30 min and [Person] confirmed receiving the email. LMK if that's not good enough"

UC Davis catching strays from the Columbia University drama

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L I G H T T H E B E A M # K I N G S

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Light the Beam

Light the beam

My hot housing take is we should spend $10 Billion instead on state hired land use attorneys and planners to take over local planning departments and upzone the entire state. Especially in the rich anti housing cities www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Light the beam. #Kings

Frustrating that I have to have a car and drive all the time. Especially today with a surprise $700 bill

I don’t think my local car repair shop changes their magazines often

Subsidized Affordable Housing costs up to $1 million per unit in California voiceofsandiego.org/2024/04/03/t...

The Story Behind the Sticker Shock: 5 Pricey Affordable Housing Projectsvoiceofsandiego.org We pull back the curtain on factors that increased costs for five forthcoming affordable housing complexes in San Diego.

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I think one day we're gonna look back at all the broken lives and immiseration caused by letting sports betting conquer the entire world and wonder how we could have been so foolish as to allow it