San Francisco Bay Area people with marine experience, SMART is hiring a part-time railroad bridge tender in the North Bay. Could use someone who knows a thing or two about waterways, and is not afraid of large steel structures that move. secure2.saashr.com/ta/i.SMART.car…

Oh wow. The Lancet — one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world — is out with a forceful statement about Roe v. Wade *on the cover*.

Nice to see that the funny cantankerous woman is still working at the Happy Donuts in Albany after all these years. Always happily criticizing or complaining about something.

"... the plastics industry has waged a decades-long campaign to perpetuate the myth that the material is recyclable." by Judith Enck & Jan Dell🌻The Last Beach Cleanup theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Moving forward, all emails in our organization will contain the phrase “moving forward,” apparently.

Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.

Yesterday, there was a thread w/ people realizing that if getting an abortion is a felony, then this is *also* targeted voter disenfranchisement of women/ppl w/uteruses. It was a light bulb moment for so many in the thread. Nevermind that the convo about felons & voting rights…

The @SMARTtrain SFGiants train southbound about to cross Haystack Bridge.

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Southbound SMART Train between Cotati and Petaluma Downtown this morning.

Belated birthday beer & pizza at Lanesplitter with brundlefly

Anne Garrels. I will always remember her steely voice. A tough-as-nails journalist. nytimes.com/2022/09/07/bus…

Beautiful photo essay on Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Let's continue to celebrate this monumental moment in our country. loom.ly/jKLuciY

Passed by an upscale faux-gated community called “Mountain Valley.” The developers would have done better using one of those random suburban name generators.

My message with Ursula von der Leyen at the Narva border crossing, with Russia on the other side: The best way to be with #Ukraine right now is to speed up our support. Russia's targets are civilians. Ukraine needs air defence systems to protect its people. We #StandWithUkraine.

Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living, which launched the disability rights movement, turns 50 berkeleyside.org/2022/10/24/cen…

Tidal influence appears to be affecting measurement at the Carrollton Gauge.