I’ve never been to Doha, but references to World Cup “fan zones” make me go “hmm…” A great city absorbs visitors into its (hopefully fine-grained) fabric. If Boston hosted the World Cup, the whole town would be the fan zone and it would be amazing. #WorldCup #urbanism

It occurred to me yesterday that I'm going on the bird site these days in the same way I slow down to gawk at a burning car on the shoulder of the highway.

@Pwnallthethings "...a blaze of angry tedium." Such a wonderful and apt description.

Not sure what to do with Mastodon yet (same could be said for all social media) but so far I’ve found the engagement to be so very much higher, friendlier, and more personal, than the bird site. So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice. #Caddyshack

This post is good. Read it, especially if you're just joining Mastodon from Twitter https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

I'm feeling good about today #cawx #sanfrancisco #goodmornig

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost!!

Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane?

City: No, we’ll lose parking spots.

@nickw the #backcountry folks are already at it. My #snowshoeing gets me to the same places, just 10x slower. 😆

An early-winter wonderland, looking west toward Devil’s Peak from a ridge above Palisade Lake, near Donner Summit. And this was Monday, before a storm dropped another 27 inches of snow. #snowshoeing #devilspeak #donnersummit #serenelakes #myotherbackyard #earlywinter

Just a little reminder ahead of #COP28 from the good folks at #PedalonParliament Scotland. #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange #bikes #cycling #climatechange

Most of Golden Gate Park used to be sand dunes. But did you know it also contains a native forest?

Wrote up one of my favorite car-free city hikes: Oak Woodlands!

#transit #hiking #bikesf #goldengatepark https://scott.mn/2022/11/03/golden_gate_park_car_free_hike/

@nyork Excellent! Best bet is to follow us on Instagram @district8band

Not only does #SecretaryPete nail the #induceddemand definition, he gives a shoutout to the Volpe Center, where I worked during grad school! #transportnerd https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/youre-kind-of-a-nerd/

So, I’m in a rock band called District 8. And we are playing at San Francisco's legendary Hotel Utah this Friday, November 4 with two other local bands! Show starts at 8 and we go on at 10. Come on out and support local music! #SFmusic #drumming #drumlife #District8band https://hotelutah.com/

I really don't like it when YIMBYs claim victory when there's no housing growth. In California, more units were permitted in 2021 than in past years, but the margin is small and all of it is in single-family housing - multifamily approvals peaked in 2017 at 57,648 and were only at 53,546 in 2021. Recent laws are nice but let's wait 2-3 years to see if multifamily permits are up? https://sfstandard.com/housing-development/yimbyism-ate-the-entire-world-except-its-own-backyard/

@CommonCormorant Ello was in vogue very briefly as a Facebook alternative in late 2014. It still exists but as a very niche site as far as I can tell. When Ello failed to get traction, I just quit FB and replaced it with...reading books. https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/25/ello-ello-new-no-ads-social-network-ello-is-blowing-up-right-now/ #digitaldiaspora

@srlawton Love that spot.

@jonobate par for the course

This all kind of reminds me of that week I joined Ello a few years ago.

I love all the folks opening Mastodon accounts then going on the bird site to report how it's going. Like them, I'm sort of one foot in, one foot out. #TwitterMigration