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(DIR) Post #AVjJqtJUIn3uaufvOK by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
2023-05-17T00:59:50Z
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Emeryville feels like an entirely made up place. 10% of the population lives above a shopping mall. Its primary industry is Pixar. There's a diner owned by the guy from Green Day. Trains from Chicago that are supposed to go to San Francisco terminate there instead. The primary tourist attraction is Ikea. This is all entirely implausible.
(DIR) Post #AVjK0aMnbFoYjDqYUa by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
2023-05-17T01:00:27Z
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On a mostly unrelated note, who has the list of which Ikea sells the most Blahajs?
(DIR) Post #AVjKJjIwar1dx0AjmS by doti@pl.catboyindustries.co
2023-05-17T01:04:52.346963Z
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@mjg59 idk most of my friends have gotten knock off ones from amazon or alibaba
(DIR) Post #AVjKJkc7j1xg0m9ZJY by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
2023-05-17T01:05:57Z
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@doti Still hugely entertained that the Belarusian knock-off IKEA that opened in Moscow sells clones
(DIR) Post #AVjKYfn5wJM9OfOtKy by BoredomFestival@sfba.social
2023-05-17T01:08:27Z
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@mjg59 Pretty sure the diner is employee-owned now (it was going to close a couple years back), but, yeah
(DIR) Post #AVjLMzgEGXiJYsBSng by xssfox@cloudisland.nz
2023-05-17T01:17:42Z
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@mjg59 I track the Australian stores https://michaela.lgbt/blahaj
(DIR) Post #AVjM2mzznw3IOUMKpc by tlariv@mastodon.cloud
2023-05-17T01:25:06Z
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@mjg59It's also built on a superfund site and a native American burial ground
(DIR) Post #AVjNkDN1jQ3GadP19c by jongary@macaw.social
2023-05-17T01:44:23Z
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@mjg59 @pretz the mall is infested with rats too.
(DIR) Post #AVjPA88Hva9PpRQiTA by imtheq@realsocial.life
2023-05-17T02:00:02Z
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@mjg59 “The Good Place”
(DIR) Post #AVjPxhd2k7fu6iSAXw by scott@carfree.city
2023-05-17T02:09:02Z
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@mjg59 also, they have a hot mayor who's really into bikes
(DIR) Post #AVjTaogqiqizAEZmhE by loke@functional.cafe
2023-05-17T02:48:37Z
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@mjg59 You were not making that up. I had never heard of the place (well, maybe heard the name, but never had any idea where it was).So I did what every curious person would do, I went to google maps and started looking at street view pictures of random locations. Every single place I looked fell into one of three categories:Straight roads lined with residential houses that looked like a scene from your random "housewife being unfaithful with the neighbour" movieStraight wider roads lines with office or industrial buildingsCar parksWith the risk of offending anyone who lives there, it sure looks like an terrible place.
(DIR) Post #AVjVFlJUHXhiWBjkxs by ed@social.opensource.org
2023-05-17T03:08:31Z
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@mjg59 wait... there is something in Emeryville outside the marina?
(DIR) Post #AVjXVnebXzHwJqODFA by mrwalter@mas.to
2023-05-17T03:33:56Z
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@mjg59 I want to go @little_ghost
(DIR) Post #AVjXeHITDe7gZW4xlo by shay@mastodon.social
2023-05-17T03:34:55Z
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@mjg59 and the mayor post thirst traps on Twitter
(DIR) Post #AVjYghurJvzlfAl172 by joeyh@octodon.social
2023-05-17T03:46:46Z
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@mjg59 I have lived all of 2 blocks from Emeryville, and I contend it does not exist. There is nothing west of San Pablo except a freeway and the bay.
(DIR) Post #AVjZ3C9bZs55oaNTdI by Corry342@heads.social
2023-05-17T03:51:12Z
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@mjg59 The only popular band to come from Emeryville was called Country Porn (house band at the Town House ca 1975, lead singer Nick “Chinga” Chavin, made an album)
(DIR) Post #AVjZU8h0YR5KtmqjYG by Corry342@heads.social
2023-05-17T03:56:02Z
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@mjg59 Casey Stengel managed the local baseball team 1946-48 (the Oakland Oaks played in Emeryville)
(DIR) Post #AVjZbC6eGGFjVrCsgi by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
2023-05-17T03:57:20Z
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@loke I actually kind of love it
(DIR) Post #AVjZjqfbKWh3dTgMaG by loke@functional.cafe
2023-05-17T03:58:28Z
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@mjg59 I suspect you only see the worst of it from streetview. 🙂
(DIR) Post #AVjcyjPGuvAtJapgoq by draNgNon@hachyderm.io
2023-05-17T04:34:49Z
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@mjg59 you forgot the "Emery Go Round" the free public shuttles.https://emerygoround.com/
(DIR) Post #AVjg5lqMYS1MlLYJcW by wooliex@mastodon.social
2023-05-17T05:10:03Z
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@mjg59 and it was incorporated as a city to prevent Oakland or Berkeley from regulating the area’s many heavy industrial plants, brothels, bars, and gambling dens.
(DIR) Post #AVjnDTsjv2Cj3FHuSG by mbaudis@mas.to
2023-05-17T06:29:48Z
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@mjg59 @ianholmes In the early aughts the IKEA was a blessing; only place in the Bay Area where one could find furniture with some angular features. Having moved on from the “IKEA phase” in Europe previously at least this offered some compromise to the absolute shitfuckery of U.S. furniture stores. Also, Köttbullar with bay view (under the freeway admittedly but again, not being picky here).
(DIR) Post #AVjv3KoLaYFZejuFEG by samhainnight@mstdn.social
2023-05-17T07:56:50Z
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@mjg59 Back when I lived there when I was a kid, the only big businesses in Emeryville were Berkeley Farms Milk and Toscana's bakery. Oh, the smell of freshly baked sourdough bread!
(DIR) Post #AVk5r9goDB1dBSm7eK by pmc@social.piperswe.me
2023-05-17T09:58:39Z
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@mjg59 also, it’s a city between SF and Oakland that has a smaller population that the little rural Texas town I live in
(DIR) Post #AVkKlWrid5wgdbeZuq by TotalTodd@mastodon.world
2023-05-17T12:45:28Z
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@mjg59 it was created as a tax haven from Oakland…
(DIR) Post #AVkNCDSx42a6CMvDwe by mariusz@mastodon.design
2023-05-17T13:13:02Z
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@mjg59 let's not forget "Marina Park" is actually a parking lot with a road and like 2 sqft of grass.
(DIR) Post #AVkb1giNNORZ5K0iMS by trav_stone@mastodon.social
2023-05-17T15:47:51Z
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@mjg59 don’t forget Trader Vic’s, home of the Mai Tai
(DIR) Post #AVkbiyHZw3nI1S7DE0 by jonahstein@sfba.social
2023-05-17T15:55:12Z
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@mjg59 but they have the East Bay's first apple store, a movie theater and a Trader Joe's.
(DIR) Post #AVkipXP8xswMMsjRmy by Foxboron@chaos.social
2023-05-17T17:15:20Z
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@mjg59 I think Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe was closed at the end of last year but the employees bought it back apparently.
(DIR) Post #AVkojJuont9EWHxxei by brettcannon@fosstodon.org
2023-05-17T18:21:23Z
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@mjg59 Don't forget the shopping mall at Emery and 40th or that it had the nicest movie theater back when I went to Cal
(DIR) Post #AVneuQbPricqNSQdQ8 by Oaktag@infosec.exchange
2023-05-19T03:15:25Z
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@mjg59Can't believe I'm the first to mention Wally's Lebanese food, can only be reached down a obscure narrow alley, or through a sketchy bar ("The Bank Club")Tastiest food in the Bay Area
(DIR) Post #AVnnDc10SMsWuP3aKW by djcapelis@hachyderm.io
2023-05-19T03:59:17Z
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@BoredomFestival @mjg59 Rudy’s survived!? Fantastic. Living up to its name. Will have to visit again soon.
(DIR) Post #AVnnDcnvWU0hM7wea8 by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
2023-05-19T04:48:57Z
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@djcapelis @BoredomFestival yeah Emeryville still survives, Oakland is gone
(DIR) Post #AWDiKulUxQM7F0f9gO by scribblingfox@wandering.shop
2023-05-31T16:55:41Z
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@mjg59 let us not forget the beautiful mayor and his even more beautiful dog