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4 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Something needs to be done about @rideact's 51B because this is insane. The bunching and slowness is awful. Its been coming in 7 minutes for 16 minutes now
This really makes me wanna run for office because its insane this is allowed to happen. If there were Japan officials would be apologizing
I posted that tweet 12 minutes ago and the Marina bus is still 2 minutes away. I dont understand
Im going to be 45 minutes late having left 15 minutes early just crazy

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4 Nov
It looks like its going to take me 1 hour and 20 minutes to get from the Berkeley Marina to North Oakland with 30 mins being thanks to 2 bus stops being removed w/o replacement and the 50 minutes because @rideact is infrequent and slow. Time to get an ebike.
In a car this trip takes 16 minutes.
So during thr Marina configuration, @rideact removed 2 stops and as usual never replaced them so i had to walk all the way around the pedestrian bridge. Once i get to West Berkeley, i had to wait 15 mins for a 51B. Then the 51B was held up by traffic. Now im in Downtown 1 hour in
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2 Nov
This is BART wayfinding in a nutshell. They installed a whole 'nother sign to say the same thing instead of just replacing the slide on the old sign. But fine, use the old sign to indicate main stops "SF, Oakland trains" and then "Richmond, El Cerrito" opposite side. Image
Instead of informing us we are entering BART at the main fare gate which is a bit obvious, install countdown clocks for each train line Image
Young woman asks anothrr woman with a basket for help to get to San Francisco because its unclear where "Berryessa" goes and she cant tell which line this is supposed to be on her examination of Google directions. Image
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4 Oct
My take on People's Park is that there's a generational shift. It's not the 1960s anti-Vietnam War, pro-free speech uprising and the current issues facing UC students are homelessness and the housing shortage. UC is taking advantage of this cultural shift by settling an old score
I've been sitting around Berkeley listening to old people talk about their days at People Park. Yesterday I discovered my Gramps planted trees during the park battles. The sense I get is disappointment but also a "what can you do, time is linear and we're old" attitude.
Meanwhile many UC students have talked about People's Park and the sense I get is that most are supportive or apathetic. They want more housing and don't see the 1960s movements as relevant to current issues in the world.
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30 Sep
It would be Canada's largest housing development. In addition to being a demonstration of land use under Indigenous authority, it'll be a beautiful example of public lands extracting revenue for public good--in this case the good of the Squamish. dailyhive.com/vancouver/sena…
I've been following this for a few months now and what fascinates me the most is, in addition to seeing what Indigenous land use looks like, this is very different by Western standards. You see this in East Asia a lot but not the West.

theguardian.com/cities/2020/ja…
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29 Sep
It's the Tumblrification of Twitter. We have to make takes to deal with people who will read it as uncharitably as possible and/or people too inept who cannot understand that observations isn't inherently an opinion or what common sense is.

You shouldnt be on the internet.
I was responding to a tweet asking about discomfort with wives being breadwinners, I noted that (Pew says) the vast majority think of men as the breadwinners, so while it'll be uncomfy, its good that this norm is dying. Then like 10 people act like I wouldnt marry a higher earner
So I have to re-tweet the same take but with tons of qualifiers and gender studies buzzwords that say the same exact thing, but sound feminist, so the obtuse patrol doesn't get mixed up. This is not how I would have to talk even in my gender studies class.
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23 Sep
Even Color of Law got this wrong. The famous HOLC redlining maps were hardly used. The real redlining maps by the Federal Housing Administration that prohibited Black people from getting loans were destroyed and never recovered after a Civil Rights lawsuit
governing.com/context/redlin…
The HOLC maps were just New Deal area descriptions of lending conditions written by local experts for homeowner-supporting banks that lent to Black people. Federally backed mortgages NEVER did and those maps were destroyed before people got their hands on them.
This map of Chicago is a rare surviving secret FHA map. It is quite different than the HOLC maps which were always public
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