Sprouted Snacking Seeds

San Diego, the US city with the best year-round walkability weather

Ok this is kinda cool

Urbanism of Thessaloniki ✨ Somewhat fascinating to see people here are not just completely giving up on walkability and accessibility, they're also pretty much giving up on parks by dedicating large squares in dense residential neighborhoods (with good transit!) entirely to parking

Insane

If driving is so freeing and convenient, why is every driver one nanosecond away from total rage meltdown?

I know this sounds like an exaggeration, but roughly 100% of drivers are on their phone at every stoplight.

It’s hard to explain to people that republicans think that disabled children subsisting on sub-poverty level benefits need to have a lower standard of living so a billionaire can get another yacht because it sounds too cartoonishly evil.

Legalize It

Elon Musk just called Social Security a Ponzi scheme, so it’s worth reiterating: All functional retirement schemes, public or private, pre funded or pay as you go, are claims on future production - there's just no way, at scale, of storing current production for use during retirement

Kind of crazy that a shared Uber is cheaper than Amtrak capital corridor, and capital corridor doesn’t break even on fair revenue. What’s that about? Is it just that there’s a bunch of empty trains at low demand times?

Anyone know why there’s no sound wall at these stations?

Which image do you think sees more trains per day?

The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.

How you gonna bike in the winter?

Regular reminder that this entirely comes down to retirements. I think it's good that old people are able to stop working, and that we have payroll-tax-paying-aged people coming here from around the world to keep things going

I think people who like their towns dark don’t even get around outside of cars.

@ternbicycles.com #getstuffdone plowing the icy bike path i LOVE my GSD!!! 🚵🏿❄️💪💪🏿💪🏾

The snow has liberated the people!

The Jetsons, an influential cartoon television series of the 1960s “Sputnik” era, imagined we’d all have flying cars and therefore live on the tops of towers. It was the perfect sprawl futurism, in which technology finally triumphs in its long struggle to make walking impossible.

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

The same agencies that are ok putting paint-only bike lanes on 50mph arterials also insist that Neighborhood Electric Vehicles must be banned from streets over 35mph for safety reasons. It would be nice if we just admitted the regulations exist to game the market, not for safety.

Before electricity made its debut, steam trains would rattle down Berkeley's Shattuck Ave! Instated in 1875, Central Pacific locomotives operated Local trains between Berryman (Vine St) and the Oakland Pier. Often raining soot/ash over the city, residents were glad to see them go in 1911. c. 1898

Interesting that this exists in California and doesn’t get a lot of attention!

Everyone deserves a nice apartment, and I am making some of the best flats in the US.

Point access blocks are better for family-sized apts, but you also get better small units than double-loaded corridors. Good look finding a newly built 25-sq. m. (269-sq. ft.) 1BR in N. America with two exposures and three windows. Here, enjoy your studio, 2x the size (price adjusted accordingly)

Winter observations of Berkeley Rent Board data. Reported volume and price remains low for regulated apartments. However I wish to note that January, for whatever reason, historically does not have timely reports. Last year the January estimate didn't firm up until July. Consider these preliminary.

Trumps tariffs are a move towards social democracy and a 25% sales tax 💪

American car culture is so crazy because what do you mean a majority of bar patrons drive to and from the bar?!

Kinda surprising that Mexico is our #1 import. I would have thought China by a long way.

I don't want to put anyone on blast here but a train station is probably somewhere that should have a clock that's set correctly.

Everyone said building a walkable neighborhood in a car-centric city like Phoenix was impossible. It isn't impossible. Culdesac Tempe is showing that new walkable neighborhoods thrive in the U.S.!

I am strongly in favor of this change. Over 15 years ago, 5-year old Zachary was killed at this intersection. We have known for years that this is dangerous, and it's past time that we do something about it. Thank you for your leadership on pedestrian safety, @markhumbert.bsky.social.

car headlights are too bright we gotta stop this

Having two sets of wings is clearly safer than having one set of wings. We should never let aviation in North America evolve past this point (even if the rest of the world is flying around in jets).

Despite the many obstacles to riding a bicycle in our cities, people still do it. An absolutely incredible testament to the efficiency and joy of this simple and beautiful movement.

Two local developers successfully protested the $120K in "impact fees" the city charged them for a Temescal condo project. In their appeal, the builders cited a recent Supreme Court case — which could upend a primary way Oakland funds affordable housing. oaklandside.org/2025/01/24/s...