Notices by scott f (scott@carfree.city)

Strong turnout at #TeslaTakedown protest today in San Francisco. A brass band even showed up. #DefendDemocracy

@skinnylatte and yet, SF Chinatown is still smarting from the blow of a freeway being torn down 26 years ago 🫠

source: one person who stopped driving there

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/not-just-the-great-highway-sf-chinese-american-history-freeway-controversies/

The mayor of Hoboken, NJ, which achieved Vision Zero, will be speaking at a free forum hosted by SPUR in SF on March 4th.

https://www.spur.org/events/2025-03-04/vision-zero-action-how-hoboken-eliminated-traffic-deaths-and-what-we-can-learn

instead of doomscrolling, i try to spend my time doing healthier things like doomcleaning the house, going for doomwalks, doomgardening, doomcatching up with friends and family, etc

@kingrat Ouch. I was picturing the pro–car chase people in the Mission Local comments, this sounds worse.

@kingrat Write a comment! We can't cede the comments section to the jerks.

#TeslaTakedown San Francisco, CA

alt text: "Musk Is a Nazi" on a hand-lettered sign, held by a person with eyeglasses and a white beard, on a sidewalk with other people standing around holding signs. A street sign says 1000 O'Farrell and points to the right.

https://urbanists.social/@ehasbrouck/114010044766152114

@kingrat The same trend happens here to some extent. It was why Connie Chan and Chyanne Chen won despite both trailing in the first count. Anyway, go Seattle, and now we need to do it here!

Seattle's measure 1A to create a municipal #socialHousing developer appears to have passed! The measure will raise roughly $53m per year to fund social housing. Background: https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/28/prop-1a-ballots-have-arrived-determining-social-housings-future-in-seattle/

This is bullshit. Max is one of the most principled people in city government, who "exposed then-Mayor Breed’s practice of asking her appointees to sign undated resignation letters" to control them as puppets. The Lurie honeymoon is over.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/02/mayor-lurie-removes-max-carter-oberstone/
#sfPol

“How a small but important Muni change will leave older Chinese Americans in S.F. stranded”

After March 15, the new “short” 30 route won’t connect to major transfer points on Geary (38), Market (Muni Metro), and Mission (14), which “defeats the 30 short route’s purpose: to add capacity where it is busiest.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/sf-chinatown-bus-change-20049781.php

meanwhile in SF... it's fun how, while all the supervisors and interest groups try to cozy up to Mayor Lurie, Joe Eskenazi is a lone voice that keeps calling him out.

overshadowed by national politics for obvious reasons, but this also seems like rather bad mismanagement

https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/citywide-hiring-freeze-daniel-lurie-san-francisco/

@kingrat maybe just not the season for it right now

I remember a lot of calls to action on here around the speed camera bill when that was a thing

(I politely said nothing because I didn't like it but didn't want to pick fights over it)

listening to my late friend Ashrilyn's great techno/synthstrumental album. you might like it if you like Depeche Mode. they passed away in 2021 of complications from covid.

(a bug on archive.org makes all the tracks play twice, download it or just skip as needed)

https://archive.org/details/ashrilyn_crystal_flowers

i haven't been to scotland. i imagine it going like this:

scottish person: so what's your name?
me: scott
scottish person: 🙄
me: yeah...

@inquiline things could really go sideways there https://carfree.city/@scott/113874026713453444

If you spot ICE in San Francisco, or if someone you know was detained by ICE in San Francisco today and needs immediate legal assistance, call the SF rapid response hotline at 415-200-1548. This is just for San Francisco (there may be another hotline like this in your city elsewhere).

https://sfilen.org/resources/sf-rapid-response-network/

More tips/resources from Mission Local: https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/immigrants-resources-before-trump-inauguration/

@kingrat @christa sometimes I need an easier book for this reason

@kingrat @sanae If the conversation is taking place in a private space, yes. The question is how that interacts with the "no expectation of privacy in a public space" thing. Do you have specific knowledge about this?

Less serious than the other crashes recently but ugh. Tesla's fake self-driving can't be trusted but seems likely our corrupt felon-in-chief coming in tomorrow will try to prevent regulators doing anything about it.

@Elizabethcreely, glad you're safe and could give ML the tip
https://sfba.social/@MLNow/113857812036377313