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Transportation & housing advocate. Quality of life in our cities is directly connected to quality of transit. Candidate for @rideact Ward 3. Alumna @ucberkeley

Oakland, sunny side of the Bay
Joined November 2008
Pounds of butter should be packaged with 2 sticks salted and 2 sticks unsalted: cooking butter _and_ eating butter, in a single package. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
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East Bay Folks—Lawn signs for my campaign are at the printers'! I'll start distributing them over the weekend. I would be honored if you'd host one if you're in/near @rideact Ward 3. valenciaforactransit.com/joi…
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Note: am asking for $13-$39 sliding scale to cover costs; the higher end of this scale covers a sign for you plus someone who can't afford one! Thanks for considering supporting my campaign.
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This is the core of the problem. We've spent the last 80 years designing around private vehicles as an assumption.
The driving lifestyle isn't a choice, it's a government mandate. We don't have housing/transportation policies in the U.S. We have national industrial policy focused on selling cars & oil. Providing habitations & mobility for humans is tertiary at best. mateosfo.substack.com/p/amer…
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If you've been thinking about donating to my campaign but have been putting it off: the time is now! The first campaign finance reporting period closes tonight, and I'd love to end strong. Thanks! secure.actblue.com/donate/va…
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I've now got a Chinese-language page on my campaign website, written by the inimitable @alfred_twu. If you know Chinese speakers in the East Bay who care about public transit, please do pass my page along to them: valenciaforactransit.com/chi…
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I'm doing that thing that politicians do: ask for money. Campaign finances are public, and there's a filing deadline Saturday. Endorsing orgs and my opponent will be able to see how much I've raised and read that as a proxy for the health of my campaign. secure.actblue.com/donate/va…
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I've been endorsed by the Alameda County Democratic Party! I'm beyond thrilled that, in a race for the @rideact Ward 3 seat, my message resonated with party leadership.
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I'd love if it you could forward the link of my Spanish-language page to any Spanish-speakers you know in Alameda, Piedmont, and Oakland!
Amig@s hispanófonos: ahora tengo una página en español en mi sitio Web. Me encantaría si mandarían este enlace a cualquiera que conozcan en Alameda, Piedmont, u Oakland que hable español. ¡Mil gracias! valenciaforactransit.com/en-…
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Amig@s hispanófonos: ahora tengo una página en español en mi sitio Web. Me encantaría si mandarían este enlace a cualquiera que conozcan en Alameda, Piedmont, u Oakland que hable español. ¡Mil gracias! valenciaforactransit.com/en-…
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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 retweeted
This is how the zombie apocalypse starts
This vial contains a new drug called PAC-3310. It was designed by ChatGPT, and I synthesized it in a chemistry lab I built in my garage. PAC-3310 is a new selective M4 muscarinic receptor agonist for treating schizophrenia - similar to the recent breakthrough drug Cobenfry, but improved. (1/7)
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If the Connect Bay Area Regional Transit Measure doesn't pass and the contingency plan is enacted, @rideact will no longer have weekend Transbay buses. The amount of money spent on the sales tax passed by the measure would be dwarfed by needing to take emergency transbay Ubers
BART service has stopped in the Transbay Tube due to an equipment problem on the track between West Oakland and Embarcadero stations. Please seek alternate means of transportation.
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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 retweeted
The California Environmental Quality Act is bad for the environment because it gives litigious busybodies the power to block environmentally friendly projects like bike lanes on the grounds that the government has not sufficiently analyzed the bike lanes’ “environmental impacts.”
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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 retweeted
This is adaptive reuse done right. A century-old waterfront cannery in Alameda was transformed into 372 apartments while preserving much of the historic brick industrial architecture. And now? The apartments are 96% occupied. The retail is starting to follow. Highwire Coffee + LuxFit have signed on for the ground-floor commercial space, helping turn what was once an old industrial site into an actual mixed-use neighborhood. I love the old brick walls, massive industrial windows, heavy timber, open-air courtyards. Then add hundreds of residents, shops, coffee, fitness, and public waterfront access. Damn, the coolest new developments come from buildings that are already 100 years old. 📍Alameda
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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 retweeted
just found out there's this specific kind of paper that tells you if a solution is acidic or basic based on the change in colour of the paper. it's like a litmus test (telling someone's larger political opinions based on their stance towards a specific thing)
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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 retweeted
The whole of US transportation policy is “the convenience and personal property—paint, rims, storage—of motorists matter more than the mobility, access, safety and lives of people on foot, wheelchairs, bikes or transit.”
How is this intersection still not daylit? Is the placard class really that powerful? Do our lives matter less than the convenience of the placard holding drivers?
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I propose the neologism aifaimisia for the deep revulsion from AI-generated images of food AI + fai (from the Greek φαί, food) + misia (Greek, hatred)
This is genuinely one of the worst ai shop horror food menus I’ve ever seen and I have to pass it almost every day on the way to work
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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 retweeted
Opposition to bike lanes rests on one or both of the following grievances: 🚘 Fast car traffic is more important than a safe street. 🚘 Car parking right in front of a destination is more important than a safe street. 😑
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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 retweeted
I know this sounds corny and cringey and naive and whatever, but Dolly Parton felt like America when it was trying to be the place it promised to be.
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