Jeff Baker
@jwbee.bsky.social
Notorious GIS reply guy
YIMBY
I will come to your hearing, Berkeley politician
Vuvuzela owner
Father
@jeffinatorator on certain bird sites
YIMBY
I will come to your hearing, Berkeley politician
Vuvuzela owner
Father
@jeffinatorator on certain bird sites
I'm not really complaining but it's clear from the mass balance here that they could omit the 10mm and sell the rest of this for a much lower price.
February 15, 2026 at 1:31 AM
I'm not really complaining but it's clear from the mass balance here that they could omit the 10mm and sell the rest of this for a much lower price.
Took my camera to the San Francisco geometry palace.
February 14, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Took my camera to the San Francisco geometry palace.
Today I learned: in the City of Berkeley, developers have to tip the planning staff.
February 14, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Today I learned: in the City of Berkeley, developers have to tip the planning staff.
Do we know who these two traitors are?
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Do we know who these two traitors are?
Was just thinking about how the guy who appealed this garage-to-homes project, multiple times, is still an official of the City of Berkeley and it is making me mad. I wonder if state "YIGBY" laws were a direct response to this fiasco.
February 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Was just thinking about how the guy who appealed this garage-to-homes project, multiple times, is still an official of the City of Berkeley and it is making me mad. I wonder if state "YIGBY" laws were a direct response to this fiasco.
I would like to inspect the source code of the algorithm that believes this bus is 1 minute away.
Been wondering this since the origins of the nextbus project honestly. Is this problem even hard?
Been wondering this since the origins of the nextbus project honestly. Is this problem even hard?
February 13, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I would like to inspect the source code of the algorithm that believes this bus is 1 minute away.
Been wondering this since the origins of the nextbus project honestly. Is this problem even hard?
Been wondering this since the origins of the nextbus project honestly. Is this problem even hard?
Reposted by Jeff Baker
Here are the completed protected bikeway project tallies for jurisdictions around the East Bay. Among the worst are most of the jurisdictions in @bauerkahan.bsky.social's AD16. These are also among the wealthiest districts in the East Bay, some in the whole state, so they have no excuse.
February 13, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Here are the completed protected bikeway project tallies for jurisdictions around the East Bay. Among the worst are most of the jurisdictions in @bauerkahan.bsky.social's AD16. These are also among the wealthiest districts in the East Bay, some in the whole state, so they have no excuse.
Reposted by Jeff Baker
Valentine’s Day is almost here. Today, YIMBY Law dropped some tough love for San Francisco. 💟
Learn more about our newest lawsuit and its significance: https://yimbylaw.pulse.ly/klainr3d4x
Learn more about our newest lawsuit and its significance: https://yimbylaw.pulse.ly/klainr3d4x
San Francisco Family Zoning Plan — YIMBY Law
We, along with California Housing Defense Fund and Californians for Homeownership, have filed a lawsuit against San Francisco over its recently adopted Family Zoning Plan, which violates California housing law, contradicts the city’s own adopted Housing Element, and fails to deliver the housing ca...
yimbylaw.pulse.ly
February 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Valentine’s Day is almost here. Today, YIMBY Law dropped some tough love for San Francisco. 💟
Learn more about our newest lawsuit and its significance: https://yimbylaw.pulse.ly/klainr3d4x
Learn more about our newest lawsuit and its significance: https://yimbylaw.pulse.ly/klainr3d4x
50 years ago the USCG had a better idea for what to do with the Berkeley pier: demolish it.
Also a bonus communication for my Kuomintang fans.
Also a bonus communication for my Kuomintang fans.
February 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
50 years ago the USCG had a better idea for what to do with the Berkeley pier: demolish it.
Also a bonus communication for my Kuomintang fans.
Also a bonus communication for my Kuomintang fans.
Yes, in case you had any doubts, it was Mr. Kate Harrison who tried to stop this apartment project on Shattuck. www.berkeleyside.org/2026/02/12/b...
February 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Yes, in case you had any doubts, it was Mr. Kate Harrison who tried to stop this apartment project on Shattuck. www.berkeleyside.org/2026/02/12/b...
Reposted by Jeff Baker
RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.
February 11, 2026 at 7:29 PM
RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.
2 weeks ago someone submitted an application to build an apartment building in Berkeley, on a San Francisco Planning form.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
2 weeks ago someone submitted an application to build an apartment building in Berkeley, on a San Francisco Planning form.
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This story suggests that all of the inner East Bay cities that participated in this combined operation should simply become a single city.
Dozens of traffic officers from around Alameda County descended on Berkeley on Wednesday to pull over drivers caught breaking the law in "high-collision areas."
Seeing cops all over Berkeley? It's traffic enforcement
Officers with the High Impact Traffic Team, a countywide collaboration, are stopping drivers all over town.
www.berkeleyscanner.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
This story suggests that all of the inner East Bay cities that participated in this combined operation should simply become a single city.
This survey result is pretty interesting to me. According to this, businesses are viewed as more ethical and more effective than governments and NGOs. It has always been my experience that businesses operate based on pretty simple principles, but you hear so much (online?) about how profit is evil.
February 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
This survey result is pretty interesting to me. According to this, businesses are viewed as more ethical and more effective than governments and NGOs. It has always been my experience that businesses operate based on pretty simple principles, but you hear so much (online?) about how profit is evil.
I am once again begging the mentally ill to abbreviate the declarations they email to the Berkeley City Council, thereby entering them into the public records that are 2 feet thick for every meeting. If you want to litigate, email the City Attorney!
February 10, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I am once again begging the mentally ill to abbreviate the declarations they email to the Berkeley City Council, thereby entering them into the public records that are 2 feet thick for every meeting. If you want to litigate, email the City Attorney!
More dispatches from the universe of things people hate that are actually amazing and good: Google's wide scale telematics via Android Auto predicts road crash danger.
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06327
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06327
February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
More dispatches from the universe of things people hate that are actually amazing and good: Google's wide scale telematics via Android Auto predicts road crash danger.
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06327
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06327
I know people need to hate AI but Gemini in Google Workspace is strictly better than classical information retrieval. 100 times better. Not even a contest. Who prefers word search over this?
February 9, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I know people need to hate AI but Gemini in Google Workspace is strictly better than classical information retrieval. 100 times better. Not even a contest. Who prefers word search over this?
So there's a local news story that's making me scream inside, about an heiress who now lives at the Y. Anyway we should abolish Prop 13 because the idea that homes are illiquid is a lie. Just look at the name of this financial product. It's right there on the box.
February 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
So there's a local news story that's making me scream inside, about an heiress who now lives at the Y. Anyway we should abolish Prop 13 because the idea that homes are illiquid is a lie. Just look at the name of this financial product. It's right there on the box.
Life tip: you don't have to rehabilitate Radley Balko just because his clock has struck "I was always against this" o' clock. Radley Balko is a filthy libertarian and shares as much blame for the whole Trump-Miller-Bannon phenomenon as any of the rest of them.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Life tip: you don't have to rehabilitate Radley Balko just because his clock has struck "I was always against this" o' clock. Radley Balko is a filthy libertarian and shares as much blame for the whole Trump-Miller-Bannon phenomenon as any of the rest of them.
Real America's halftime concert has broken the Nazi forum.
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Real America's halftime concert has broken the Nazi forum.
This paper is going around again for some reason and I really cannot over-emphasize that a conclusion that major platforms like YouTube reach only 60% of young people, and falling, is completely bananas and this conclusion does not make the paper interesting, it makes it obviously flawed.
February 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
This paper is going around again for some reason and I really cannot over-emphasize that a conclusion that major platforms like YouTube reach only 60% of young people, and falling, is completely bananas and this conclusion does not make the paper interesting, it makes it obviously flawed.
Imagine the infinite landscape of discourse that would have been unlocked if a member of Biden's cabinet had said they were going to have yogurt for the Super Bowl.
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
February 8, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Imagine the infinite landscape of discourse that would have been unlocked if a member of Biden's cabinet had said they were going to have yogurt for the Super Bowl.
Whoever invented the bike hanger on the new San Joaquin train cars has ZERO personal experience with bicycles. Why do they have to keep "innovating"????
February 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Whoever invented the bike hanger on the new San Joaquin train cars has ZERO personal experience with bicycles. Why do they have to keep "innovating"????
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It’s not enough to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk too — especially when it comes to wildfire safety in Berkeley.
I’m documenting our family’s step-by-step path to EMBER compliance to share our progress. Hope you’ll follow along and share your tips too!
open.substack.com/pub/brentbla...
I’m documenting our family’s step-by-step path to EMBER compliance to share our progress. Hope you’ll follow along and share your tips too!
open.substack.com/pub/brentbla...
One Step at a Time: Our Family’s Path to EMBER Compliance
Last June, the Berkeley City Council unanimously passed our EMBER ordinance, a fact-based proposal from the Fire Department that asks ~900 households located in the highest wildfire danger zone along ...
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
It’s not enough to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk too — especially when it comes to wildfire safety in Berkeley.
I’m documenting our family’s step-by-step path to EMBER compliance to share our progress. Hope you’ll follow along and share your tips too!
open.substack.com/pub/brentbla...
I’m documenting our family’s step-by-step path to EMBER compliance to share our progress. Hope you’ll follow along and share your tips too!
open.substack.com/pub/brentbla...
It was a warm and sunny January in the East Bay and the Bay Wheels bike share set another record for January ridership.
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
It was a warm and sunny January in the East Bay and the Bay Wheels bike share set another record for January ridership.