Conspiracy of Cartographers<p>Across the Bay to the Contra Costa--the East Bay cities <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Petrofuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Petrofuture</span></a> .
Melted ice caps on a vintage Shell gas station map. </p><p>
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Conspiracy of Cartographers<p>To the north...The Chevron <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Petrofuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Petrofuture</span></a> map of the SF Bay Area.
66m sea level rise — melted ice caps on a vintage gas station map.
</p><p>Higher-res images:<br><a href="https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/petrofuturegallery/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">conspiracyofcartographers.com/</span><span class="invisible">petrofuturegallery/</span></a></p><p>
<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greenWashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greenWashing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanFrancisco</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OaklandCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OaklandCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunnyvale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sunnyvale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldBuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldBuilding</span></a></p>
Anirvan Chatterjee<p>Did you know you can commission a high-quality professional city-level survey?</p><p>Turns out that 73% of Berkeley residents actually support expanding bike infrastructure — including 57% of non-bikers.</p><p>This isn't a niche issue anymore. Will council listen?</p><p><a href="https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/03/03/traffic-safety/op-ed-new-survey-supports-strong-berkeley-bike-plan/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">berkeleyscanner.com/2025/03/03</span><span class="invisible">/traffic-safety/op-ed-new-survey-supports-strong-berkeley-bike-plan/</span></a></p><p>via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@libbington" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>libbington</span></a></span> + <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@marcprecipice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>marcprecipice</span></a></span> in <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@berkeleyscanner" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>berkeleyscanner</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berkeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berkeley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SFBA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SFBA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RadicalBikeLobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalBikeLobby</span></a></p>
🏴☠️🌻TurboKitty🌻🏴☠️🇵🇸<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a></p>
Anirvan Chatterjee<p>Hey, it's the first tenants union launched under Berkeley's Measure BB!</p><p><a href="https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/25/measure-bb-tenants-union-berkeley" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">berkeleyside.org/2025/02/25/me</span><span class="invisible">asure-bb-tenants-union-berkeley</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berkeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berkeley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a></p>
Anirvan Chatterjee<p>Berkeley’s got a rug war: a family sells their rug shop, the new owner keeps the name, and now the family's suing</p><p><a href="https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/12/elmwood-tulanian-rug-shops" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">berkeleyside.org/2025/02/12/el</span><span class="invisible">mwood-tulanian-rug-shops</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berkeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berkeley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a></p>
Anirvan Chatterjee<p>I’ve done only 14 of 22. A goal for the coming year?</p><p><a href="https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/01/favorite-berkeley-restaurants" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">berkeleyside.org/2025/01/01/fa</span><span class="invisible">vorite-berkeley-restaurants</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berkeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berkeley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a></p>
Anirvan Chatterjee<p>This is what hyperlocal organizing looks like. Congrats to the TGNC/allied students at Berkeley High School!</p><p><a href="https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/05/01/berkeley-high-gender-neutral-bathroom-converted" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">berkeleyside.org/2024/05/01/be</span><span class="invisible">rkeley-high-gender-neutral-bathroom-converted</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YouthActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouthActivism</span></a></p>
Anirvan Chatterjee<p>I research South Asian American history in Berkeley, California. And though I hate relying on colonial police/surveillance documents to understand stories of movements, some of the materials are gold.</p><p>This 1913 report from British arch-villain super-spy Hopkinson relies on informants to describe tensions among the early pre-Ghadar Indian nationalist students at UC Berkeley.</p><p>It includes all kinds of juicy details, including…</p><p>(1/3, continued below)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthAsianAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAsianAmerican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a></p>
Anirvan Chatterjee<p>Cool! Our walking tour was just featured in the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGATE</p><p><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/things-do-berkeley-18481092.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sfgate.com/local/article/thing</span><span class="invisible">s-do-berkeley-18481092.php</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berkeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berkeley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SFBA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SFBA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthAsianAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAsianAmerican</span></a></p>
Anirvan Chatterjee<p>Just discovered <a href="https://transcripts.scanberkeley.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">transcripts.scanberkeley.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> , a realtime feed of police radio dispatch chatter, run through text to speech.</p><p>It offers such a different view of what’s going on in my city. What an amazing hobbyist project.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berkeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berkeley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenGovernment</span></a></p><p>(Edit: audio transcription, not text to speech)</p>
Conspiracy of Cartographers<p>Across the SF Bay, and with a 1956 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ShellOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShellOil</span></a> base map, is Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond.</p><p>East Bay Petrofuture--66m sea level rise on a vintage gas station map.</p><p>More: <a href="https://conspiracyofcartographers.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">conspiracyofcartographers.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Base map courtesy of Rumsey Map Center</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sanFrancisco</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OaklandCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OaklandCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlamedaCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlamedaCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ucberkeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ucberkeley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RichmondCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RichmondCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SFBayBridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SFBayBridge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SFBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SFBay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/petrofuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petrofuture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatearson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatearson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oilandgasindustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oilandgasindustry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sealevelrise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sealevelrise</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sealevelrisemaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sealevelrisemaps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/clifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clifi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climateart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climateart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conspiracyofcartographers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracyofcartographers</span></a></p>
Anirvan Chatterjee<p>I caught <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SigurRos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SigurRos</span></a> at the Greek Theater in Berkeley last night.</p><p>I loved the show, but the lovely venue made it so much better. I'd forgotten how nice the venue was.</p><p>What are some other outdoors concert venues in the Bay Area?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SFBA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SFBA</span></a></p>
alex 🪴<p>Places I’ve lived in and/or follow news from: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WaterlooON" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterlooON</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TorontoON" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TorontoON</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BerkeleyCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VancouverBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VancouverBC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewWestminsterBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewWestminsterBC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VictoriaBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VictoriaBC</span></a> </p><p>Hello 👋</p>
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