Eric Panzer

I knew this BS would come for me eventually Vote @valencia4actransit.bsky.social for AC Transit board so that @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social and @sarahsyed.bsky.social have an ally in the fight for a focus on riders (rather than on giving board members international vacations on the public's dime)

Incumbent Mark Humbert supports a plan to allow larger apartments in the Elmwood. Challengers Mari Mendonca and Michael Wallman oppose it.

Trump: "Are you a sick person?" Reporter: "Not that I know of, Sir" One of the most galling things about the present moment is the spineless, yellow-bellied obsequiousness of the press US democracy cannot ultimately survive with a such servile, oligarch-controlled media

I feel like this car illegally using the bus only lane to drop off a person in a tie-dye shirt is such a perfect encapsulation of Berkeley's worst tendencies

I don't understand why it's still so hard for @bart.gov to keep passengers informed. Was on a train that kept having a mech issue, stopping/starting, doors opening/closing, and then we proceeded very slowly to MacArthur. Single muffled announcement, then 10 min later "train going out of service"

I'm going to ask this question again: If social media (rather than corporate legacy media) are the reason we are in this mess right now, then why is it older people (who remain most reliant on corporate legacy media) who are still most supportive of Trump?

Putting the "Don" in badonkedonk

There few better encapsulations of everything wrong with the United States than the fact that the Trump regime is promoting a livestream of a human getting shot to death at the same time that they claim drag shows are corrupting the nation's children If you support this, you are all but beyond help

On the plus side, this will be a another great litmus test to find out who are the very lickiest of boot-lickers

It makes me almost unspeakably angry that we hear how it's a huge imposition for people to have to park a block from their destination (bus riders typically walk several) or to have to *GASP* pay for parking, and meanwhile people walking and riding bikes routinely pay with their bodies and lives

I just saw a bus labeled "Epic Limousine" and I'll never be the same From now on, all buses are epic limousines in my mind

[insert Maya Angelou believe them the 1st time quote]

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I'm struck by how people who fight tooth and nail against removing a single parking spot because "seniors and people with disabilities" never seem to bring the same level of passion for making buses more frequent, reliable, or speedy People too old, disabled or poor to drive are invisible to them

One of my invaluable followers suggested these colors instead.

Let them eat concrete, pulp, and road salt.

The fact that the oligarch-owned media will treat this as "no big deal" "Trump being Trump" and likely move on less than 24 hours later should be, like, the millionth last straw convincing you that you should assiduously avoid watching/reading any corporate media

This incredibly incisive post is a great example of why I don't subscribe to the notion that social media is *the reason* people are so misinformed It appears that the Atlantic, perhaps knowingly, is misleading the public about this truck driver's politics to create a preferred narrative—shocker

When someone says supply and demand doesn't apply to housing, here's a fun thing to ask them: If additional higher cost housing makes all housing more expensive, then we should be able to lower prices by destroying high cost housing. So why not destroy the most expensive 5% of homes each year?

We hear over and over again from Berkeley NIMBYs that new apartments are vacant and that we have nothing to show for all the homes we've built They are flat wrong on both counts and Berkeley has extensive, City-collected data to prove it But they keep repeating the lies—like climate change deniers

Putting the "complex" in homeless industrial complex

Heads up! A fire near I-80 is causing bad and worsening air quality across the northern half of Berkeley, and I suspect the bad air will spread further before dissipating Consider closing your windows and running an air purifier (DIY or otherwise) www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/09/30/c...

Today in San Francisco I saw an ABDL person loudly helping clear a crowd of furries so that someone wearing a strappy leather getup using a wheelchair could get to the sidewalk ramp I was trying to think of a fun follow-up comment, but I think I'll just let this stand as a BlueSky Rorschach test

If State Senator Wiener doesn't win this seat, he should primary Adam Schiff Or become the Joker

By the way, this is also how many homelessness activists operate Are they out there protesting in Moraga or Tiburon where homeless shelter and services essentially don't exist and the towns would kick out most homeless people faster than you can blink? Nope, they're suing Berkeley over and over

Based on this story, AC Transit bus drivers are, on average, taking one sick/leave day per week That's roughly 50 per year

Perhaps it is the least worst or only physically/financially feasible option, but I must confess I still have some pretty deep skepticism that controlled burns in the middle of an urbanized area are the optimal way to reduce fuel loads But I'm open to being told I'm wrong and outside my lane

I would very much like to make at least one $20,000 bet with anyone willing to sign a legally binding agreement that AI will not end or take control of human civilization in 2027.

Unpopular opinion: people who take buses deserve places to sit, and until we start forcing drivers to let homeless people sleep in their back seats, bus riders (who are also often low income) shouldn't be treated as second class citizens who are expected to bear the full brunt of bad housing policy

Remember when the oligarch-owned press spent months freaking out about Clinton having some emails on a private home server?

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

There is very little in this world that makes me more cynical about our ability to deal with climate change (or do anything hard, really) than the people who were chanting "shame" at the Berkeley City Council meeting just now because the City Council approved a bike lane in July

With Trump unleashing insane tirades against regulating AI, Obama just urged Dems to adopt a comprehensive position on it, warning that failure to act now will be "dangerous." Trump's malevolence has given Dems a big opening. They should seize on it. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2154...

In about two months, we'll have another interesting test of the degree to which this is true of typical Berkeley voters (at least in certain parts of town)

American politicians believing that their progeny have a special successional right to their elected office like they're descended from the unbroken bloodline of Elendil, High King of Arnor and Gondor is very bad, actually

Devil may be in the details, but this is the way