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Santa Cruz, CA. 32. He/him. Amateur botanist, distance runner and gardener. I grow orchids, California native plants, ferns, succulents, and more! Join me on my quest to keep my plants alive for a little bit longer.
Pinned
A song about manzanita ID called Burl, So Confusing
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If tiny cars are too dangerous to be allowed on our streets, think of how it feels to be a pedestrian or cyclist!
Unlike Europe and Asia, NHTSA & Congress have failed to create a regulatory category for minicars. Because they flunk US safety rules for full-sized cars, they’re effectively illegal to sell.
Only “collectable” minicars cars 25+ years old can be legally sold (and they’re quite popular).
Only “collectable” minicars cars 25+ years old can be legally sold (and they’re quite popular).
What Do US Vehicle Regulators Have Against Tiny Cars?
Super-small urban vehicles have found a place in European and Asian cities. But in the US, federal and state rulemakers seem determined to keep minicars at bay.
www.bloomberg.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If tiny cars are too dangerous to be allowed on our streets, think of how it feels to be a pedestrian or cyclist!
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BREAKING: 12 strikers were just arrested by the NYPD while peacefully protesting outside the Empire State Building.
Allies are beginning to speak to the crowd about what just happened.
Allies are beginning to speak to the crowd about what just happened.
Today, baristas are bringing their ULP strike to Starbucks' NYC corporate office, housed inside the Empire State Building.
Workers and allies are demanding the company resolve 100s of unfair labor practices, end the union-busting, & finalize fair union contracts. Let's go! #NoContractNoCoffee
Workers and allies are demanding the company resolve 100s of unfair labor practices, end the union-busting, & finalize fair union contracts. Let's go! #NoContractNoCoffee
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
BREAKING: 12 strikers were just arrested by the NYPD while peacefully protesting outside the Empire State Building.
Allies are beginning to speak to the crowd about what just happened.
Allies are beginning to speak to the crowd about what just happened.
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Every year December kicks off in a disappointing way. Why we don't fully maximize all four existing transit lines by running them more frequently and temporarily augmenting existing dedicated bus lanes on all sides of the park is nothing short of mind blowing.
December 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Every year December kicks off in a disappointing way. Why we don't fully maximize all four existing transit lines by running them more frequently and temporarily augmenting existing dedicated bus lanes on all sides of the park is nothing short of mind blowing.
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Good morning to everyone who thinks car horns should be as loud inside the car as outside the car.
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Good morning to everyone who thinks car horns should be as loud inside the car as outside the car.
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If there's actually one at all. No, that 6 inch fog line is not a bike lane.
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
If there's actually one at all. No, that 6 inch fog line is not a bike lane.
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On Black Friday, Starbucks workers expanded their ULP strike to 85+ cities.
Now, just 6 days later, the strike is growing AGAIN.
Hundreds of baristas are joining the Red Cup Rebellion today, alongside thousands already striking in 105+ cities!
Now, just 6 days later, the strike is growing AGAIN.
Hundreds of baristas are joining the Red Cup Rebellion today, alongside thousands already striking in 105+ cities!
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
On Black Friday, Starbucks workers expanded their ULP strike to 85+ cities.
Now, just 6 days later, the strike is growing AGAIN.
Hundreds of baristas are joining the Red Cup Rebellion today, alongside thousands already striking in 105+ cities!
Now, just 6 days later, the strike is growing AGAIN.
Hundreds of baristas are joining the Red Cup Rebellion today, alongside thousands already striking in 105+ cities!
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i did 6 months at the salvation army adult drug rehabilitation program... the whole point of the program is to exploit the labor of the unhoused and vulnerable... a guy had some glass break and it went into both his arms, they kicked him out of the program when he went to the hospital...
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
i did 6 months at the salvation army adult drug rehabilitation program... the whole point of the program is to exploit the labor of the unhoused and vulnerable... a guy had some glass break and it went into both his arms, they kicked him out of the program when he went to the hospital...
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Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
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The gaslighting
December 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The gaslighting
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Make it a bounty system and LETS GOOO!
Everyday Chicagoans will have to wait for the right to use their cell phones to provide recorded evidence of bus, bike lane and crosswalk parking violations, thanks to concerns raised Wednesday by business groups.
Business concerns stall plan to let Chicagoans flag crosswalk, bus and bike lane parking scofflaws
chicago.suntimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Make it a bounty system and LETS GOOO!
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Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista makes. Starbucks baristas at corporate stores across the country are on strike, as they fight to stop union busting and for a fair contract. Solidarity ✊ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/starbucks-union-strike
‘We’re not going anywhere’: how unionization ‘whirlwind’ set stage for historic Starbucks strike
Four years after workers at a Starbucks store in upstate New York became the first to unionize, hundreds of outlets followed – defying intense resistance from the coffee chain. What happened next?
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista makes. Starbucks baristas at corporate stores across the country are on strike, as they fight to stop union busting and for a fair contract. Solidarity ✊ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/starbucks-union-strike
This means electric ones too! Use brooms and vaccuums instead
Better yet, keep the leaves in place where it isn't covering hardscapes
Better yet, keep the leaves in place where it isn't covering hardscapes
running for office on a single issue
abolishing leaf blowers
abolishing leaf blowers
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This means electric ones too! Use brooms and vaccuums instead
Better yet, keep the leaves in place where it isn't covering hardscapes
Better yet, keep the leaves in place where it isn't covering hardscapes
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There are far better ways to ensure safety and privacy on the internet than what's being posited. What people do not get is that certain generations are still here BECAUSE of community found online. Taking away that community will be dooming us all. Talk with @fightforthefuture.org at least.
I've heard too many heartbreaking stories of parents losing a child due to Big Tech’s unsafe platforms. Their voices demand action.
The House Republican version of the Kids Online Safety Act doesn’t do the job.
The House Republican version of the Kids Online Safety Act doesn’t do the job.
First Speaker (D) opposes KOSA, but asserts the right to protect kids from the internet.
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
There are far better ways to ensure safety and privacy on the internet than what's being posited. What people do not get is that certain generations are still here BECAUSE of community found online. Taking away that community will be dooming us all. Talk with @fightforthefuture.org at least.
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@schakowsky.house.gov entertaining this sort of legislation without discussing it with people who are knowledgeable about common sense online safety is unconscionable. And the fact that you all had someone sitting in advocating to use kid data to advertise to them? None of you are serious.
December 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
@schakowsky.house.gov entertaining this sort of legislation without discussing it with people who are knowledgeable about common sense online safety is unconscionable. And the fact that you all had someone sitting in advocating to use kid data to advertise to them? None of you are serious.
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Also the fact that you all are even entertaining this in the middle of a revenge driven administration that will ABSOLUTELY censor anything they don't like is horrific. This is giving a flamethrower to a serial arsonist.
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Also the fact that you all are even entertaining this in the middle of a revenge driven administration that will ABSOLUTELY censor anything they don't like is horrific. This is giving a flamethrower to a serial arsonist.
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An important thing about cities is that people are often engaging while walking, biking, or taking public transit, as opposed to the car-centric suburbs. Cars isolate us and make us angry and unhappy.
To piggyback off of John's point (reposted), it's struck me lately how the baseline level of friendliness in cities has always seemed remarkably higher than the suburbs or rural areas to me, and I think it's because everyone is used to interacting with strangers as a routine part of their day
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
An important thing about cities is that people are often engaging while walking, biking, or taking public transit, as opposed to the car-centric suburbs. Cars isolate us and make us angry and unhappy.
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I’m being overly broad, but in cities a lot more of one’s interactions with strangers aren’t transactional or competitive. In suburb, outside of one’s inner circle, many interactions with strangers involve other buying something from them or competing for road space and parking.
To piggyback off of John's point (reposted), it's struck me lately how the baseline level of friendliness in cities has always seemed remarkably higher than the suburbs or rural areas to me, and I think it's because everyone is used to interacting with strangers as a routine part of their day
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’m being overly broad, but in cities a lot more of one’s interactions with strangers aren’t transactional or competitive. In suburb, outside of one’s inner circle, many interactions with strangers involve other buying something from them or competing for road space and parking.
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i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!
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They said it couldn't be done!
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
They said it couldn't be done!
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Sizing an airport and roads for mega events when you can't even complete a 1/2 mile bike lane before LA28 is just folly.
www.golden-state.org/climate-arso...
www.golden-state.org/climate-arso...
'Climate arson': A scientist's case against LAX's Olympic expansion
Aviation is a "hard to abate" greenhouse gas emitter. Sizing LAX for mega-events like the Olympics is a huge mistake, says a scientist.
www.golden-state.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Sizing an airport and roads for mega events when you can't even complete a 1/2 mile bike lane before LA28 is just folly.
www.golden-state.org/climate-arso...
www.golden-state.org/climate-arso...
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When there's road work on University Ave in San Diego, the streetcar tracks that were paved over in the 1950s are sometimes visible. Buses that operate on this segment today are some of the most frequently delayed in the system because of the traffic.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
When there's road work on University Ave in San Diego, the streetcar tracks that were paved over in the 1950s are sometimes visible. Buses that operate on this segment today are some of the most frequently delayed in the system because of the traffic.
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This annual absurdity is why people don't trust local governments when transit funding is on the ballot or transit-priority infrastructure is on a meeting agenda. Why would anyone give up their car or support dedicated lanes for transit that will be canceled because of traffic?
Read our open letter to the city about the transit concept for December Nights 2025. www.ridesd.org/s/2025-12-01...
December 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This annual absurdity is why people don't trust local governments when transit funding is on the ballot or transit-priority infrastructure is on a meeting agenda. Why would anyone give up their car or support dedicated lanes for transit that will be canceled because of traffic?
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I'm already not shopping there... can't boycott much harder lol.
Absolutely not the way to win back shoppers. Dumbasses.
Absolutely not the way to win back shoppers. Dumbasses.
December 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I'm already not shopping there... can't boycott much harder lol.
Absolutely not the way to win back shoppers. Dumbasses.
Absolutely not the way to win back shoppers. Dumbasses.
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Blue Bottle Independent Union Baristas Shut Down #Piedmont location in #Oakland on Sunday as their strike expands. Other locations, such as #Berkeley, have also been shut down by strikers.
#BoycottBlueBottle #BoycottNestle #SupportTheseCats
#BoycottBlueBottle #BoycottNestle #SupportTheseCats
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Blue Bottle Independent Union Baristas Shut Down #Piedmont location in #Oakland on Sunday as their strike expands. Other locations, such as #Berkeley, have also been shut down by strikers.
#BoycottBlueBottle #BoycottNestle #SupportTheseCats
#BoycottBlueBottle #BoycottNestle #SupportTheseCats
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You know what actually impedes emergency services? Rows of parked cars on every street.
In yet another blow for opponents of active travel schemes who claim - almost always without any evidence - that they impede blue light services, a new report finds the majority of Limerick’s protected cycle lanes do not impede ambulances, and in fact some improve access.
road.cc/content/news...
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Majority of new cycle lane projects “maintained or enhanced” ambulance accessibility in city, new report from Irish council finds
The designs “effectively facilitated the movement of emergency vehicles by ensuring adequate carriageway widths and junction radii” while also enhancing pedestrian and cyclist safety, Limerick City Co...
road.cc
December 1, 2025 at 5:49 AM
You know what actually impedes emergency services? Rows of parked cars on every street.