Brian Stokle

Unlike traffic signals, roundabouts don’t require electricity. They can still function well during blackouts.

Being against AI is ok. I’m worried about it too. Campaigning against it too, even aggressively is ok. Bullying me and condescending to me is NOT OK. Thank you for your input. Goodbye. You are now blocked.

“He had gathered and stacked all manner of foibles, devices, playthings of his egotism and now, between all the silly corridors of books, the toys of his life swayed.

And none more grotesque than this thing named Witch Gypsy Reader-of-Dust, tickling, that’s what! Just tickling the air! Fool!

a merry go round with people riding on it and a pink top ALT: a merry go round with people riding on it and a pink top

“So with death this near he thought numbly but purely upon a billion vanities, arrivals, departures, idiot excursions of boy, boy-man, man and old-man goat.”

“Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury, 1962
#RayBradbury
#RayBradburybook
#SomethingThisWayComes

“Life in the end seemed a prank of such size you could only stand off this end of the corridor to note its meaningless length and its quite unnecessary height, a mountain built to such ridiculous immensities you were dwarfed in it shadow and mocking its pomp."
#RBradbury
#SomethingWickedThisWayComes

Agreed. Could have drawn a rough sketch myself. Don’t appreciate word “champ” which I read as condescending.

Trying to get AI to render my idealized commercial street with bikeways, trees, one-narrow lane for cars, and lots of pedestrians.

Not bad, but needs some work.

Just found out that “The Shining” has been rereleased.
MUST
SEE
IN
THEATERS!
Image by @bo.kev

Quieter Streets Linked to Increase in Home Prices If your home is about a football-field length from new sound barriers, the value will go up.

our bifurcated & malicious land use policies enrich homeowners while harming renters

no other country focuses affordable/multifamily housing on the most toxic streets to the degree the US does

this also have massively poor public health outcomes.

EVs don't solve this

www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

#NoExcuses #Leadership #LetsDoIt #ForNowForOurFutures

Love me some more streets and buildings like this. Safe for families, kids, and so little noise. Housing for all, in the city means 5-8 story buildings.

bus lane on 9th Ave with wider sidewalks

I’m back from a 2-month break… and I have a few thoughts I’d like to work out with folks in the coming weeks and months. #thinking #collaboration

🫡 @urbanlifesigns.bsky.social

Bikes on Great Highway Extension, recently cleared of sand.

“Process of imagination”

New term I’ve just learned and will be using when talking about how we can make changes in our cities and world, that are often hard to imagine since they don’t yet exist.

Cancelled Disney+. No need to watch a media source that doesn’t believe in rule of law nor believes in free speach. #cancelDisney+

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.

Dan Gilroy winning the Emmy for best writing in a drama series for Andor

“we have friends everywhere”

The Guardian names ANDOR the Best Show of the Year.

“It is unlikely we will see something like it - politically radical with Disney budget carte blanche - ever again.”

If the Greater Bay Area/Northern California (SF, OAK, SJ, Sac, Stockton, SC) were to be energy independent, water independent and 80% food independent, what would have to change, even if the population stayed the same?

I’ll be at the sea tomorrow morning.

Bix holding a baby in Andor looking to a bright future.

Finally, we hear Bix’s Theme most poignantly and emotionally in the final scene of the show. This time the resonant bell has longer gaps between rings, and is an emotional wallup of feelings, hope and sadness… and the show ends. #Andor #BixsTheme

Bix's theme image saying goodbye to Andor in a recorded message.

We hear Bix’s Theme in #Andor a third time in S2E9 “Welcome to the Rebellion” at the end of Bix’s goodbye recording to Andor. Here the resonant bell is more clear and pronounced as she finishes, and we see her emotional goodbye, and his absolute loss hearing/seeing it the next day.

In E8 “Who Are You”, we see Dedra break down after the Ghorman Massacre, was it after losing Syril, or realizing she’s has instigated a genocide or both? The same resonant echoing bell sound has grown a bit stronger, but still a bit muted.

Andor’s music is so powerful in the final episodes From S2E7’s Messenger to the finale S2E12, we hear the resonant warm bell of what might be called Bix’s Theme in 4 episodes. All are deeply meaningful emotional moments.

We start with E7 when the Force healer tells Bix that Cassian is a Messenger

THR’s critic Daniel Fienberg offers his #Emmys predictions for #Andor ahead of the 2025 ceremony. Full breakdown: bit.ly/3JMh4cj

Still can’t get Andor out of my head. #monMothma #CassianAndor #besttvshow

There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth.

It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.

Aquatic Park at night.
#GhirardelliSquare #FishermensWharf #BayBridge

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.