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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀
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Sixplex enthusiast. Redwood irredentist. Lake Merritt booster. Erstwhile Prince of Prosciutto.

Cities are for people not cars. California is not full.

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aceckhouse.bsky.social
but also I don't think it's true that different VMT per capita explains traffic death differences in US vs Canada

in 1997 Canada's VMT per capita was 20% above the US [https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar4.htm ]; US VMT per capita is only up 10% since [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=lls ]
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
Redwood Coast: Mendocino
three redwoods rising tall from a shared base, with red duff on the ground around them and more trees in the background a small figure looks up at a circle of redwoods rising up out of view, with moss clad bay laurel trunks arcing above her from the other side
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Redwood Coast: Humboldt
waves roll in on a wide beach as the sun sinks behind a tree covered headland an arc shaped beach with waves rolling in, seen from above as framed by the branches of a conifer a redwood trunk clad in moss and lichen
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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a cool thing about redwoods is that they are older than the land on which they stand and even the Pacific Plate

their ancestors would have been browsed by sauropods
a giant coast redwood rising up into a gray sky, in a redwood forest
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
wow, wrong, blocked & reported
bbq becky meme (a middle aged white woman in sunglasses with her phone held to her head)
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
instead of the devil & angel on your shoulder, it’s a great egret & a great blue heron
two rocks stick out from the shimmering blue surface of Lake Merritt, with the Oakland skyline behind a great egret is perched on one, and a great blue heron on the other
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
this is why social insurance is so important!
image of a knife spreading butter on toast
October 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
two things that are actually quite easy to compare?
a cartoon orange says to a cartoon apple "well, we're both fruit"
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
advice on how to report ICE activity in the East Bay from the Mayor of Berkeley

www.acilep.org
If you think you are witnessing an ICE action in Berkeley or Alameda County, please contact the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership (ACILEP) for verification: (510) 241-4011. To avoid spreading fear, please do not share information that has not been verified with ACILEP. If you do report to ACILEP, be sure to share as much information as possible, including a physical description of individuals or vehicles, etc.
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
my response to the news that the Trump-Miller secret police are coming to harass & kidnap my neighbors
scene of the Oakland No Kings protest featuring a large American flag and a sign saying NO in large letters
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
“visual impacts”
a zeppelin exploding fierily
October 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Costume watch: frog, chickens, axolotl, elephant, dinosaur, person riding a dinosaur, person riding a dragon, hammerhead shark, Pikachu, bee, puppies & kitties

also, protest bands are always MVPs
crowd at a protest includes someone in a frog costume with a trans flag as a cape crowd at a protest includes someone in an inflatable cat costume & two people dressed as Dalmatians crowd at a protest with lots of signs crowd at a protest featuring a band in the middle
October 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
Two things I love: Lake Merritt & American democracy
I’m standing in front of Lake Merritt holding a sign that says “A Republic if we can keep it” I’m standing on the sidewalk holding a sign that says “A Republic if we can keep it” The street behind me is full of a protest march
October 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
reading about Washington's Multifamliy Tax Exemption (abatement) & how their property tax cap differs from California, and wondering how much of their greater housing growth vs California comes down to differences in tax policy
A persistent relic of the tax rebellion era, Washington state law caps at 1 percent the annual increase in total property tax revenue that a city is allowed to collect. If a city’s tax base increases by more than 1 percent in a year, then it must reduce its tax rate such that the total revenue collected doesn’t exceed 1 percent more than the previous year. New construction, however, is exempt from that cap. The value of new buildings gets added to the tax base, and tax revenue generated by that additional base does not count against the 1 percent cap. This includes MFTE buildings, even though they are exempt from property tax. Based on this precedent, buildings granted tax abatements through a mandatory IZ program would be treated the same way. graph comparing Washington & California per capital housing growth, showing WA persistently higher over the past 20+ years
October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
Lake Merritt was exceptionally lovely today
Lake Merritt as a shimmering mirror of clouds & blue sky, framed by oak leaves and a walking path on the near side & the Oakland skyline on the far side
October 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
there's great greenway potential under there it they could unblock it
ragged edged oval crop of a map of Long Beach, centered diagonally on the old rail right of way that could become a greenway connecting light rail in the NW to Colorado Lagoon and Alamitos Bay in the SE
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
wild parcel, Long Beach
a diagonal slash breaks the Long Beach street grid, filled by two looooooooong rows of warehouses it runs from one major arterial to another across three blocks of mostly high lot coverage low rise apartments
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
heartbreaking
map of a section of Long Beach where you can see the ghost of an old diagonal rail right of way in a series of parks and orphan diagonal streets connecting a potential greenway street to a public park is blocked by 5 houses built on the old diagonal rail right of way
October 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
Who benefits from kicking people like this out of our country? Nobody

The whole community is poorer for it
Struggle for citizenship Sandra and Sergio Garcia were well-known in Waco by the early 2000s, raising a family, running a thriving business and staying active in church life at St. Francis on the Brazos. But to the United States government, the couple were still undocumented immigrants. Garcia said he and his wife have spent more than 25 years trying to obtain legal status, hiring immigration attorneys in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Florida most recently.
October 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
for example, this stretch of Sausal Creek is a huge length of bike/ped obstruction

but it's anchored by an existing public park at one end, and multiple big institutional land owners at the other

and the undeveloped/green area is quite wide!
google satellite view of Sausal Creek below William Wood Park in Oakland
October 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
Bay Area culinary octants, who ya got?
map of the Bay Area divided into 8 segments (centered ~on Lake Merritt)
September 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
I mean…
Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game of ‘Big City’
September 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
1) the chuds have yet to find a jury willing to take their side against protesters, right? fuck yeah

2) "de-escalate the situation… by shoving Ramos-Brito backward into the intersection" is tremendous cop brain

www.latimes.com/california/s...
At that point, Morales, a 24-year veteran of the Border Patrol, said he thought he needed to step in and de-escalate the situation between his fellow agent and Ramos-Brito. He did so by shoving Ramos-Brito backward into the intersection, according to video played in court. Morales said Ramos-Brito then charged at him while cursing and threw a punch at the upper part of his chest and throat.
September 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
Who Benefits? The lawyers
September 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
aceckhouse.bsky.social
Lake Merritt report
Lake Merritt at sunset, the fading sky framed by the pillars of the pergola Lake Merritt in the bright day, waters a deep bright blue, with a fringe of wild fennel flowers before it and the Bellevue Staten rising behind
September 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM