scott f

city loving #socialist, #vegan, into #hiking, #bikes #BikeTooter, #transit, #carfree living. read a lot and drink lots of tea and coffee. learning guitar. post a lot about local stuff #sfpol #bikesf. searchable on tootfinder

blog: https://scott.mn
pronouns: he/him
location: San Francisco, CA
favorite muni lines: 22, 33, 48

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2024-09-12 02:58:04

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They still don’t seem to have BikeHopper’s core feature of planning bike-on-transit trips.
If you’re in the Bay Area, you can use BikeHopper here: https://bikehopper.org
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2024-09-12 02:50:00

BikeHopper now has more competition, looks like. (Good!)
They have a turn-by-turn navigation mode, and let you rate your route, which they claim to be feeding into future estimations of infrastructure quality. We're not resourced enough to build anything that sophisticated into BikeHopper atm.
https://blog.transitapp.com/go-bike/

2024-09-08 00:45:36

Still waiting for someone to suggest something cool to do/see in San Jose when the electrified trains fully launch. All we've come up with so far is "there are some bike paths to ride along creeks," plus one joker suggested a fun thing to do there would be to ride the electric train to San Francisco

2024-09-05 23:28:36

we need better civics education. too many SF voters blame progressives, who haven't held the mayor's office in 32 years, for outcomes caused by the executive branch of government.
"while she identifies as a progressive herself, she has grown concerned progressive policies aren’t doing much to improve The City. 'The bleeding-heart liberals have no control over that 24th Street area, you know?' she said, referring to the stretch of Mission Street."
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/san-francisco-progressives-undeterred-by-recent-setbacks/article_d2139aaa-6b0f-11ef-986d-779d7262913e.html

2024-09-05 22:01:27

the dirty secret of car culture is that without constant implicit threats of violence, cars would be far too inefficient to ever get anywhere in the city.
only a real asshole will say that out loud, but it’s always been true!
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2024-09-02 04:37:36

when will we get politicians who are tough on this kind of crime
https://www.newsweek.com/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation-1945742

2024-09-01 06:57:18

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I actually do sort of fill this need with coffee shops I like, although "third place" feels like a dated term, like "blogosphere." I associate it with a bygone era, maybe 2006-2014, when cafés were open into the evening and tended to have cozier, humbler decor that encouraged lingering more than the streamlined, hypermodern interiors of today. There's still a few of the old style but dwindling.

2024-08-31 01:53:02

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ok i have ideas about this but curious what you mean by flagship here? and what needs do you anticipate this filling?

2024-08-31 01:03:51

Israel wants to wipe Palestine off the map entirely - and then erase it from the history books, too.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-invasion-west-bank-parallels-gaza
My state Senator Scott Wiener is enabling this by co-sponsoring #SB1277, #SB1287, #AB2918, #AB2925 to chill pro-Palestine activism in California, and write Israel's assaults out of the state's genocide and ethnic studies curricula.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1819782090009063780.html

2024-08-23 07:47:01

Walgreens locations in SF have appointments available for the updated Covid vaccine starting 9/6. Just made an appointment online

2024-08-21 08:20:30

so apparently this asshole was at the DNC tonight yelling about social justice and economic justice and civil rights...
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2024-08-21 05:19:33

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well empirically you’re correct so far, we didn’t elect Sanders president. But he’s not far left. His positions are common sense and would be uncontroversial in many other countries

2024-08-20 07:50:47

murphy's law of guitar: the riff sounds great until you hit record and then you start messing it up

2024-08-20 06:05:42

Today some of you are strongly praising Joe Biden. I wish I could agree because he did some great things domestically. Unfortunately, history will remember him for knowingly providing the bombs to commit a genocide in Gaza.

2024-08-18 01:09:31

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this part for sure. we could just unplug the computer
"but the AGI will come up with extremely sophisticated ways to trick and browbeat you into not unplugging the computer!"
oh word? kind of like the bourgeoisie trick us into not unplugging capitalism?

2024-08-18 01:03:28

what’s happening on Mission St? Buses are diverting to SVN
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2024-08-14 23:10:03

I guess it's official: Mandelman bullied the SFMTA into canceling traffic diversion on Noe, which is now a Slow Street in name only. You can call into the Friday engineering hearing and vent about it
https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/112962405007158792

2024-08-11 05:11:16

BUILD THE SPHERE
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2024-08-10 05:07:30

"It is Kafkaesque cruelty to legally prohibit people from simply existing outside when the same government has not taken sufficient action to ensure they have somewhere to go. More practically, it’s also not going to work."
Sweeps are not just cruel, they're stupid
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/2024-08-02-gavin-newsom-homeless-sweeps/

2024-08-07 22:45:58

“One woman described to me having her wallet—containing her ID, debit and EBT cards—pulled from her hand as a police officer proceeded to ‘taunt’ her with possible arrest. Why? Because she declined to accept a bed at a crowded shelter where she would be separated from her husband”
“they lost the very paperwork that is required for them to access housing; that too ended up in the trash.”
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2024/08/07/homeless-sweeps-cruelty/ #sfpol

2024-08-05 23:05:14

Well this is a shocker. It turns out stealing homeless people’s stuff while yelling at them to relax, while offering no housing, doesn’t stop them being homeless. No one could have predicted that. https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/tents-return-san-francisco-streets-cleared-homeless-sweep/ #sfpol

2024-08-02 02:22:55

#fediblock: Unblocking ursal.zone based on this thread. It’s a left-wing Brazilian instance that was on a widely-used block list we imported, but seems ok.
https://ursal.zone/@Ursalzona/112887835305291433

2024-07-31 22:36:48

In September, Caltrain says it’ll start running electric trains with wifi, outlets, faster and more frequent service including 30 min headways on weekends. https://www.caltrain.com/blog/2024/01/caltrains-new-trains-guide-passenger-amenities

2024-07-30 21:48:40

i'm glad i stopped in here a few months ago at 2am so i can say i did
it was supremely awkward. dead silent in there, my friend and i were the only diners. i'd been warned that i was doing it wrong planning to go there sober which is probably true. they told us they had stopped selling donuts. the menu was super weird. rip
https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/30/silver-crest-donut-shop-closes/

2024-06-01 04:10:07

Sign the petition to save the Richmond–San Rafael bridge bike path! https://secure.everyaction.com/2A3aX75jUkSrTH6pp2-zog2
Yes, MTC voted to recommend closing it on weekdays, and that's bad, but the Bay Conservation and Development Commission would have to actually approve this - and we have a better shot there because their mandate is to ensure public access to the bay.

2024-05-31 05:59:14

The A's are leaving Oakland, so now Oakland has the B's... and turns out they're solidly pro-bike! https://oaklandside.org/2024/04/30/ride-to-raimondi-the-oakland-ballers-want-you-to-walk-and-bike-to-games/

2024-05-30 23:16:09

I'd like to see ol' Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!

2024-04-20 07:14:02

it might seem weird to toot this from carfree dot city, but go VW auto workers!
would i rather they were making buses and trains and e-bikes?—obviously, but as long as there are cars, the people who make them damn well deserve a union. labor is entitled to all it creates
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68861396

2024-03-30 04:26:45

here on carfree.city we do not and never will allow Netflix to read your DMs https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

2024-02-05 23:13:54

#SFPD has effectively been on a work stoppage since the George Floyd protests. This is not a staffing problem; they didn't suddenly lose that much staff. The whole idea of hiring more cops without accountability for the ones we have is nonsense. #SFPol
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