Andrew Talbot

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Mods are asleep post rare BART screens.

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Show me a Democrat who views the last three and a half years as an era that we all need to move past and I’ll show you a fucking idiot.

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anyone who is super confident about either Biden or Harris right now is delusional, there is no risk-free option, but surely we can all agree that nominating someone else entirely is by far the riskiest option

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AOC: "I could be totally wrong. People are saying it's cope or whatever. But to me it's not cope. This is a moment of ambiguity."

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Following approval of $550m change order and $50m contingency increase, LAX released a press release announcing LAX People Mover is expected to be done by 12/8/2025 and start operating in January 2026, with trains every 2 minutes during peak hours. lax.to/LAXPeopleMover

At its July 2024 meeting, LAX board will consider $350m increase to LAX People Mover contract ($550m total with May increase) to settle contractor claims, paid as milestones are reached. Contractor commits to open by 12/5/25 and won’t pursue COVID claims. lawa.granicus.com/GeneratedAge...

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The death of Barbara Friedes, a third-year resident in oncology at CHoP, while cycling in a bike lane in Philadelphia, is another example of how much pointless death and destruction we endure to make it easy for people to drive and park cars. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/d...

Doctor who worked CHOP struck, killed while riding in bike lane near Rittenhouse Squarewww.nbcphiladelphia.com A pediatric doctor, who was recently named a chief resident at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, was killed while riding her bike in Center City on Wednesday night.

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New transit service available between Oakland Jack London Square and Alameda. The Water Shuttle runs Wednesday-Sunday and is free to ride amd can carry people and bikes. Schedules available at: watershuttle.org

Oakland Alameda Water Shuttlewatershuttle.org Water shuttle planning and service

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Now that "model" is a noun, verb, and adjective, we can produce a "buffalo" style complete sentence "Model models model models model model model models model models model."

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a) if your landlord can "command" rent, your housing market is too tight b) new supply lowers housing costs, part 3,248

Landlords crying in their internal newsletter that new construction is pushing down the rents they can charge. We have the power to make them cry so much more

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Landlords crying in their internal newsletter that new construction is pushing down the rents they can charge. We have the power to make them cry so much more

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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.

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We've reached a real inflection point with grid battery storage. Given its recent stupendous growth—it was virtually nonexistent in 2020—it's easy to see it filling out the rest of that duck curve before the end of the decade

California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteriesthinc.blog No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler …

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You might think American building regulations are informed by science and best practices; but you would be wrong! Mostly, they’re made up by people with no real expertise and no understanding of the regulations’ real world impact. From the Center for Building in North America elevator report:

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going to keep pointing out golf uses a bit more in two days than microsoft, google, and apple combined use in an entire year turn golf courses into housing with a put-put course attached

here's a chart showing that Microsoft, the world's second-largest company by market cap, consumes ~6300 acre-feet of water per year, which is to say ~1.5 percent as much as alfalfa farmers in the Colorado River basin, or ~0.2 percent as much as Imperial Valley farmers www.wired.com/story/ai-ene...

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Something big has happened over the past few decades in Paris & its suburbs: Car use has declined dramatically. Some key explanations: —Large reductions in car-centric street space —Vast investments in noncar transport modes I investigate @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

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A couple years ago, we were at a public meeting about a greenway on a street near us. During public comments, one guy (probably mid-30s) got up and said, "I'm an avid cyclist." He proceeded to say that he was entirely opposed to biking infrastructure. Now I know that's what vehicular cyclists do.1/

NEW EPISODE: "John Forester and Vehicular Cycling, Part 1." John Forester's influence shaped bicycle safety in the U.S. for decades. We take a deep dive into his 1976 book, Effective Cycling, and the idea that cyclists should "act like drivers of vehicles." thewaroncars.org/2024/07/09/1...

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For reasons I do not understand, most of the mainstream press reported that Trump “softened” the gop position on abortion based on a platform that declares abortion should be illegal in all 50 states www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Stop Soft-Pedaling the GOP’s Extreme Positionswww.theatlantic.com The party’s platform on abortion and LGBTQ rights is just as radical as ever.

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Derek Sagehorn makes a great argument (on @idothethinking.bsky.social’s substack) as to why we need regional funding for social / affordable housing. Case in point: Piedmont. darrellowens.substack.com/p/why-yimbys...

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I wrote a piece for Business Insider about the trouble with HOAs www.businessinsider.com/abolish-hoas...

America's plague of tyrannical homeownerswww.businessinsider.com Florida is trying to crush the local dictators ruining homeowners' lives. The rest of America should follow suit.

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Old Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey, rehabbed for retail in 1969, vs. Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara, which opened for retail in 1981 (after the Coastal Commission, which must approve coastal land use, and loves car parking, was formed).

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I like this op-ed a lot--it goes beyond just the impact of single-family zoning to explore new ways to get more abundant housing. #urbanismplus www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...

Opinion | The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketedwww.nytimes.com An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

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I just used an induction stove for the first time and why does anyone ever use gas? This is unbelievable. I am so completely pilled.

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When the center left and the left align to fight fascism, it goes a lot better for all of us than when we each just yell at the other to bend the knee.

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*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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MUNI funding is on the ballot! Fund the Bus

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this is amazing "The car industry has identified a few places on earth that do not know THE FREEDOM OF CAR DEPENDENCY. So they hired you to increase car sales and oil consumption. How? By building the greatest car parks ever! Turn neighborhoods into car parks"

Car Park Capital on Steamstore.steampowered.com The car industry needs you to design and build the greatest car parks that simple town life hasn't seen before. Introduce the need for car commuting and turn neighborhoods into car parks! Use propagan...

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List is final: 10 California Propositions for 2024: 2🏫School bond 3🏳️‍🌈Marriage Equality 4🌎Climate bond 5🏗️Easier to pass local bonds 6⚖️Ends Slavery 32💵$18 min wage 33🏠Rent Control 34🚫Limits AHF political activities 35🏥Medi-Cal funding 36🚨Increased drug & theft penalties 1/