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cool ones died

at some point do we have to wonder if internal power struggles are killing orchestras and not lack of vision

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

“History is basically one long reminder that humans are spectacularly bad at managing power, but surprisingly good at surviving, adapting, and occasionally doing something decent when it matters.”

there is a reason librarians very intentionally don't record this information. this is that reason

If you want to know all the not-so-secret references to real-life San Francisco in Automatic Noodle, I've made a handy reference sheet for you! www.automaticnoodle.website/blog/all-the...

Claude, San Francisco’s beloved albino alligator, dies at 30 Claude, the California Academy of Sciences’ rare albino alligator and one of San Francisco’s most recognizable residents, has died at age 30.

Claude the albino alligator is dead

My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social

Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?"

RIP to an SF icon

🐊 😢

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'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix

Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW

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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.

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Fifteen Years

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

I loved the Black Cowboys exhibit too. I was so impressed with the museum.

The Autry Museum was the sleeper hit of my museums-and-bookstores trip to LA a couple of weeks ago, and this exhibit was one of the big reasons why.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

All novels are fantasy novels.
It's just some novelists lie about this.

You’ve got to be kidding me sf.

I bet that even the MUNI fans I know don't realize how much SF MTA is responsible for.

This is a great short video about an incredibly important part of government in San Francisco. Put it on during your lunch hour or play it while going for a ride on MUNI.

Let's try something new. What was the best coffee you ever had?

Angela Davis is here and the crowd went WILD

We need more wacky utopian ideas in municipal politics. Municipal groceries stories are fine but what if cities bought out failing office buildings and built massive vertical farms, employing thousands

A picture of a "Dress To Impress on Transit" flyer that shows drawings of a diverse range of people wearing all sorts of stylish outfits from tuxedos to rompers. The MoveLA, Move California, and Transbay Coalition logos are on the bottom

Next week is Dress To Impress on Transit week. Bay Area vs. SoCal! Who would you like to see get gussied and take transit for the contest?

fundamentally, a big problem with relying on private charity is that it relies on the largesse of a small number of individuals and - at least in a vaguely functional system of government - is therefore much easier to lose because it only needs one or two people to change their minds