Vallery Lancey

@isthelaststop.com

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📸🎞️ Photographer, 🚎 transit advocate, 💻 tech worker. I know way too much about Kubernetes. she/her

A saturated moody photo of a mottled grassy field with a dark blue overcast cloudy sky. A long cloud gap lights a distant band of field.
A muni bus in the SF pride parade, with
A photo from a hill in San Francisco on a foggy night, looking vaguely towards downtown. It’s taken on a street with a cable car track, and a cable car stop flag off to the right. There is a Victorian apartment to the right with one prominently lit window.
Vallery on the phone on the sidewalk. There a small orange kitten hungrily begging next to her.
The Golden Gate Bridge at a pinky dusk, as seen from a long distance south. The treetops from the Presidio and Golden Gate Park are in the foreground.
Screenshot of Google maps, showing a windy bus interchange, nestled between two highway interchanges
The view inside an older BART train in the 4-seat segment, looking across the other seats and out the window. There is piercing late day sun shining across the highway and hills.
The standard map of the BART rail system.
A basic ikebana arrangement composed of two thick pink blossoming cherry branches, with a lower cluster of daffodils and a white leaning hyacinth.
A photo of a cherry branch with a section of large frilly blossoms. It’s taken inside Church metro station, with a train window framed in the background.
An article screenshot that reads: Video from Dec. 11, obtained by Power Play, shows Lurie’s Rivian colliding with an F-Market & Wharves streetcar heading southbound on Market Street. The $134,000 electric vehicle (bought and donated to the city by Lurie himself) stops abruptly at the intersection of Octavia Boulevard while turning on its police lights, attempting to make a U-turn at a prohibited left-turn intersection. The streetcar does not have time to stop and collides with the Rivian, pushing it a couple of feet to the left of the road
The main floor of Houston IAH terminal E, looking over an oval cutout in the floor with glass railings. Below is a baggage claim floor, full of people in lines between the carousels. On the main floor, lines stretch back-and-forth around the oval. In the distance, there is a densely packed crowd going into the next room.
Another photo of the flower arrangement. There is more of a prominently lean to the left, and several tulips have been swapped out.
The same tulip and cherry arrangement. The tulips have gone from barely open to wide open, dramatically in some cases. The stems are in slightly different positions, and the tallest is shortened.
A sprawling flower arrangement sprouting from a brown bowl. It’s primarily composed of tulips, which broadly form two groups that curve inward. One leans to the right at a wild angle. There are several branches with white cherry blossoms, the most prominent of which extend several feet to the left.
Vibrant film photo of a 9 San Bruno bus on Market St. It’s driving down one of two bright red transit lanes in the center of a 4 lane street. There are green bike lanes on both sides.
An official slide deck that reads: As congestion increases in areas where transit does not have traffic priority measures, transit service becomes slower and more expensive to provide. It contains a table showing that a route with buses every 10 minutes needs to spend $2 million more a year for every 15 minutes added to the trip time.
An amateur ikebana arrangement in a shallow bowl. A tall white Persian buttercup stands straight in the background, with a trio of lavender hyacinths of different heights in front of it. One buttercup bud pokes out to the right, and one long leaf is folded down on the left.
An amateur ikebana arrangement. A tall curving and forked pussywillow branch sits in the back. Several white Persian buttercups sit at the front, one leaning out to the left. Hiding the centre column is a violet hyacinth, with one leaf folder down.
A soft dream like photo of a BART station platform, with a group of people walking away from the camera in semi-silhouette. A yellow line train is approaching on the left-hand side, with very bright light flooding the scene.
Vallery in a pink coat and bike helmet waiting at a bike lane intersection, smiling and taking a selfie. There’s a newspaper-wrapped bundle of tall flowering branches behind her.
An amateur Ikebana arrangement in a tall fluted bowl. A curved plum branch with a few flowers leans slightly to the right, while two pink tulips in the centre curve slightly left. One small purple iris leans left at the bottom. All emerge from the same point in the water.
The Golden Gate Bridge on a slightly overcast day, seen across a grass field. Two people are walking across the field in the distance.
An arrangement of white and white-pink tulips of varying heights. They are standing upright in a shallow brassy bowl. One white tulip leans out prominently to the left, while most of the others form a line upward toward the centre right. One low leaf prominently folds over the front-right of the bowl.
An elderly black and orange Abyssinian guinea pig, raising his head upward expectantly at the edge of his cage
A black and orange guinea pig standing trying to get vegetables off the top of a purple castle house.
A black and orange Abyssinian guinea pig, standing on trampled hay, reaching to take an orange segment from an offering hand.
A black and orange Abyssinian guinea pig with typical short spiky and ruffled fur. He's standing on a black couch, sniffing a similarly colored "Distributed Algorithms" book.
A photo at dusk, looking down toward an idle Muni bus through a gap in bushes. The bus is on a street in front of a similarly bushy hill, with lit-up apartments in the background.
A small Buddhist alter with a single lit (LED) candle.
The sunset from Twin Peaks in San Francisco. The view looks over a steep road on a grassy hill, over the city toward the Golden Gate Bridge and the bay mouth. The sky is a vivid wash of pink clouds with a yellow horizon.
A dim film photo looking down at a subway platform. Some people, visible beneath as escalator, are standing on the far side, as a blurry train pulls in.
A photo of a blue and yellow Victorian style apartments, side by side. The shape, windows, and fire escapes are the same on both sides.
A screenshot of an email reply by me: Hi, Unfortunately, I cannot use Google Search Console, because I do not own bsky.app. If the Bluesky team could check Google Search Console, that would be very helpful. Thank you, Vallery
A LLM-coded Bluesky support email suggesting that I can hide my account.
A dusky purple-toned photo looking over the Mission district toward Bernal Heights, with Mission Street's distinct orange lights prominent. The sky is layers of hazy purple clouds, with a more distant orange-pink layer in the middle.
A photo of a guinea pig in a carrier on the floor, with the lid opened. The guinea pig is looking up, a little bug-eyed at the noise. A BART train is pulling up in the background.
A pet carrier on BART with the top opened. A black and orange guinea pig is peering out. Powell station is visible out the window.
A photo of a nearly full moon in the night sky. In the foreground, a silhouetted figure is sitting on a hillside, looking up.
A photo of a hillside covered in houses, with a radio tower in the distance. The sunset above is a series of pink streaks against the blue, with a band of yellow on the horizon.
A photo looking across a subway station platform. An identical lower platform is visible, with escalators linking the two.
A distant photo of a grey Breda train at night, sitting briefly at a stop in Dolores park. Behind it are rising houses lit in orange light.
A BART train crossing over a road. In the background is a hill covered in compact colourful houses.
Rasmussen's dynamic systems model. It shows a triangular relationship between economic failure, unacceptable workload, and performance failure, where systems need to be pushed away from each side with counter decisions/efforts.
A person in a witch costume decorating a Muni train with spider webs.
A dim photo of a metro station platform. Two people are waiting with suitcases in the corner. A blurred train streaks across the image, leaving ghostly lines.
A large Malaysian flying fox hanging upside down from a branch, in an enclosure. It is stretching its wings, and looks sleepy. One wing has a tear that looks to be healing. There is a sleeping bat behind it.
Sutro tower at sunset, seen from a distance. It’s a tall tapered metal tower with triangular symmetry, and three high points.
A distant photo taken between buildings of a baseball stadium mid-game. The pitcher is in an action pose, and a tiny ball is visible in the air. There is a yellow bridge at the bottom.
A photo of a street at night, taken from a bus platform with a bus to one side. The view is down the street toward a bright rainbow projection that extends overhead.
AC Transit board member Jean Walsh speaking at a podium. Behind her are other elected officials, and a crowd holding signs like "fund transit not traffic".
Mayor Lurie speaking at a podium.
A group of people carrying a cardboard BART train car on a stretcher up the California State building in SF. One person is dressed in medical scrubs and holding an IV bag, attached to the train.
San Francisco from across the bay. The bay and city are very dusky, but the sky is a wash of purple shadowed-clouds with bright yellow, red, and pink highlights. Much of the sky behind is white.
A Muni light rail vehicle on West Portal Avenue at sunset. It has just left the station (behind the camera) and is heading toward the sunset.
A photo from a dim snowy side-street of a modern streetcar crossing the intersection ahead. The streetcar has a pleasing set of red and white stripes that stand out in the muted scene. Snow can be seen falling beneath the streetlights.
A selfie of a woman with pale coral hair, wearing a white mask and a dusty pink coat, sitting on BART.
A Japanese temple building, reflected in a lake. The lower story is simple with exposed wood and an outer deck. The upper two stories are covered in very shiny gold leaf. At the top is a golden bird statue. The sky is grey, and the reflection is distorted by raindrops hitting the water.
The view from a tall building, looking across Tokyo. The Tokyo Tower, a bright red and white structure, similar to the Eiffel Tower, sits prominently near the centre of the view, partially obscured by a tall glassy building. In the distance, the characteristic white grooved peak of Mount Fuji is visible over the mountains.