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Posts by Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

Land Of The Lost was the best.

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this is, i believe, at least the 4th pedestrian death in Matt Dorsey's district in the last year and traffic safety is still not an issue for him. the man does not deserve to return to the BOS.

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the chronicle is far better than my hometown daily

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Countdown City by Ben H. Winters "A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction."--Alexandra Alter, The New York Time...

Finished reading Countdown City by Ben H. Winters, book 29 of 2026.

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i don't want a sex pest as my governor.

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"errors in judgment between me and my wife" = "used his position to attempt gratification" at a goddamn disqualifying minimum.

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if he was from here, I'd tut at him, but he's not local....

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yes, the stalking one.

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(his reasoning might be faulty tho. a bold assessor might push the envelope.)

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the assessor did a zoom event during the pandemic explaining why he couldn't. i don't know if it's archived anywhere.

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The Woman in the Strongbox by Maureen O'Hagan In this tantalizing true mystery of a stolen life, an acclaimed reporter and an identity theft in...

Finished reading The Woman in the Strongbox by Maureen O'Hagan, book 28 of 2026.

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you are required to clear the intersection before red

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Upper Canada/Province of Canada also unsure of because I think the person was born the day the Province of Canada was proclaimed by the British. (I'd have to go look at my records.)

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I wonder if the new Canadian Citizenship By Descent law applies when the Canadian was born in Upper Canada/Province of Canada and left the colony before Canadian Confederation.

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not really. Sounders played better defensively in the first than they did in the second, but their passing & dribbling were atrocious.

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would you get harassed any worse than you already do for not being sufficiently anti AI?

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Sounders got their asses handed to them. Thoroughly outplayed. :(

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, south...

Finished reading The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, book 27 of 2026.

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I always thought those were office buildings too. There's certainly no one living at the Seattle Public Library.

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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò “Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom ...

Finished reading Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, book 26 of 2026.

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I really hate car horns.

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City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin He is a full-grown man, alone in a dense forest, with no trail to show where he has come from and...

Finished reading City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin, book 25 of 2026.

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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by...

Finished reading (finally) The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro, book 24 of 2026.

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that's.... very bad

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already down to 4.9

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i hope you are visiting the bay area because if not we've got the beginnings of a really good disaster movie

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me, groggy "why is my smartwatch dinging at me?"

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saw the pictures. felt relief.

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X11 forever!

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Understanding that you were making fun of the episode is a step up from some of the replies.

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