Cupcake Robot
@cupcakerobot.bsky.social
Step 1: Read the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson
Step 2: Realize that terraforming is a bad idea
Step 2: Realize that terraforming is a bad idea
Heads up: terraforming Mars isn’t just sci-fi, it’s a real possibility that’s possible with today’s technology.
Mars could be green in MY lifetime. 🚀 🌼
What’s stopping us? We need a lot more real research into how to do it right. Don’t nuke Mars!
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Mars could be green in MY lifetime. 🚀 🌼
What’s stopping us? We need a lot more real research into how to do it right. Don’t nuke Mars!
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November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Step 1: Read the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson
Step 2: Realize that terraforming is a bad idea
Step 2: Realize that terraforming is a bad idea
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As the Border Patrol heads to the Bay Area, Nancy Pelosi today said local law enforcement may arrest federal troops who break California law.
The idea comes from San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins who says she will prosecute them.
W/ @kellen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
The idea comes from San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins who says she will prosecute them.
W/ @kellen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
As the Border Patrol heads to the Bay Area, Nancy Pelosi today said local law enforcement may arrest federal troops who break California law.
The idea comes from San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins who says she will prosecute them.
W/ @kellen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
The idea comes from San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins who says she will prosecute them.
W/ @kellen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
In CA you can’t replace the windows on a historic property without triggering CEQA.
An I the only one wondering if the White House is on the National Register of Historic Places and if this addition conforms to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties?
An I the only one wondering if the White House is on the National Register of Historic Places and if this addition conforms to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties?
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
In CA you can’t replace the windows on a historic property without triggering CEQA.
An I the only one wondering if the White House is on the National Register of Historic Places and if this addition conforms to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties?
An I the only one wondering if the White House is on the National Register of Historic Places and if this addition conforms to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties?
Ok but if you’re working 10 hrs/day 7 days/wk when are you dating?
Who are these brilliant people that can build AI but don’t realize this math doesn’t math?
Who are these brilliant people that can build AI but don’t realize this math doesn’t math?
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Ok but if you’re working 10 hrs/day 7 days/wk when are you dating?
Who are these brilliant people that can build AI but don’t realize this math doesn’t math?
Who are these brilliant people that can build AI but don’t realize this math doesn’t math?
What if…and hear me out…they had a place to ride on the roadway protected from giant SUVs and lifted pickup trucks?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
October 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
What if…and hear me out…they had a place to ride on the roadway protected from giant SUVs and lifted pickup trucks?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
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By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Everything You Need To Know About SB 79
…but were too afraid to read about in the actual bill.
substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
My feed is currently dominated by housing news and I want to take a minute to thank @votealexlee.bsky.social for protecting our feline friends! 😻
California just banned what some call an inhumane practice used on cats.
Newsom signs law banning 'cruel' cat procedure
California just banned what some call an inhumane practice used on cats.
bit.ly
October 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My feed is currently dominated by housing news and I want to take a minute to thank @votealexlee.bsky.social for protecting our feline friends! 😻
How is this article not about San Mateo?? We have 16 boba shops downtown with more opening soon!
September 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
How is this article not about San Mateo?? We have 16 boba shops downtown with more opening soon!
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This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
September 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
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The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
OMG
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
OMG
This article is a great example of reflexively sympathizing with the driver. Instead of noting the cyclists “were operating a Class 2, two-person bike legally and in accordance with traffic laws” (i.e. cut off by the driver), it reports the driver “said an e-biker startled her by hitting her car.”
"We owe it to the folks who have been hurt and died."
Peninsula residents urge 'Stop the pedestrian carnage' amid deaths
"We owe it to the folks who have been hurt and died."
bit.ly
September 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This article is a great example of reflexively sympathizing with the driver. Instead of noting the cyclists “were operating a Class 2, two-person bike legally and in accordance with traffic laws” (i.e. cut off by the driver), it reports the driver “said an e-biker startled her by hitting her car.”
Omg!!!! LFG!!!
Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what?
I’m running for California State Assembly!
Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.
I’m running for California State Assembly!
Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.
August 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Omg!!!! LFG!!!
So impressed with @scottwiener.bsky.social in this clip. My face would’ve been the mirror of @jonlovett.bsky.social’s.
I still can't believe Councilmember Padilla used *forcing a developer to reduce the size of an affordable housing project* as an example of how she is making housing more affordable for the people in her district!
August 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
So impressed with @scottwiener.bsky.social in this clip. My face would’ve been the mirror of @jonlovett.bsky.social’s.
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
I took this photo right after someone in a monster Ford pickup truck honked at us as they drove by. R said, “I don’t want to go in the bike lanes anymore because people are mean.”
August 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I took this photo right after someone in a monster Ford pickup truck honked at us as they drove by. R said, “I don’t want to go in the bike lanes anymore because people are mean.”
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Bike infrastructure is so important. Protected bike lanes are linked to nearly double the number of bike commuters:
Protected bike lanes linked to nearly double the number of bicycle commuters
Would commuters be more likely to ride a bike if they had the option to ride in a protected lane? New research led by a University of New Mexico School of Engineering faculty member says yes.
phys.org
August 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Bike infrastructure is so important. Protected bike lanes are linked to nearly double the number of bike commuters:
This
Simple Boxes with Ornamentation are better than One Box Pretending To Be Lots of Boxes
August 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This
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it’s become clear that state level gerrymandering bans were just unilateral disarmament and the only real solution is a federal gerrymandering ban…
And the only way to get that is Dems pushing for maximal gerrymandering until we get a trifecta to pass the law and pack the courts to enforce it
And the only way to get that is Dems pushing for maximal gerrymandering until we get a trifecta to pass the law and pack the courts to enforce it
August 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
it’s become clear that state level gerrymandering bans were just unilateral disarmament and the only real solution is a federal gerrymandering ban…
And the only way to get that is Dems pushing for maximal gerrymandering until we get a trifecta to pass the law and pack the courts to enforce it
And the only way to get that is Dems pushing for maximal gerrymandering until we get a trifecta to pass the law and pack the courts to enforce it
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We were within inches of a vaccine for several cancers, flu, the cold. Inches.
NIH Director Battacharya on mRNA technology: "We should not be using as a platform for mass vaccination"
August 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
We were within inches of a vaccine for several cancers, flu, the cold. Inches.
Damn
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
August 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Damn
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Driver cuts off an ebike, then hits the accelerator instead of the brake and kills a 4 year old on the sidewalk. And this is a quote NBC prints:
"Those e-bikes are out of control"
#safestreets #bikesky
"Those e-bikes are out of control"
#safestreets #bikesky
@thewaroncars.bsky.social @americanfietser.bsky.social How on earth is the e-bike responsible if the car plowed onto the sidewalk and into children?
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/f...
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/f...
Car crash that killed young boy started when e-bike hit car
A family is mourning the loss of their 4-year-old son who was hit and killed by a car in Burlingame Friday night.
www.nbcbayarea.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Driver cuts off an ebike, then hits the accelerator instead of the brake and kills a 4 year old on the sidewalk. And this is a quote NBC prints:
"Those e-bikes are out of control"
#safestreets #bikesky
"Those e-bikes are out of control"
#safestreets #bikesky
SO good. The sarcastic “habibi” killed me 😂
August 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
SO good. The sarcastic “habibi” killed me 😂
One of the most incredible and moving museums I’ve ever visited is the museum on journalists slain in the line of duty at Al Jazeera’s HQ in Doha
Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began.
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August 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
One of the most incredible and moving museums I’ve ever visited is the museum on journalists slain in the line of duty at Al Jazeera’s HQ in Doha