Redwood City

“It was androgenic, he said, and she knew from Ciencia Loca and National Geographic that that meant because of people. Not that they’d known what they were doing, had meant to make problems, but they’d caused it anyway. And in fact the actual climate, the weather, caused by there being too much carbon, had been the driver for a lot of other things. How that got worse and never better, and was just expected to, ongoing. Because people in the past, clueless as to how that worked, had fucked it all up, then not been able to get it together to do anything about it, even after they knew, and now it was too late. So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn’t happening, and those people were mostly expecting the Second Coming anyway. ”

All of this feels very much like @greatdismal.bsky.social's description of the slow apocalypse of The Jackpot in the Peripheral series.

TikTok absolutely. If they’ve been at it awhile they’d have been starting to transition from Twitch maybe, but for all of the like 2018-2022 period all the good video editing tools for phone were on TikTok.

Werner Herzog with Bowser from Mario Bros behind him& a bunch of lava. He is saying the above quote. He has a bowser mushroom

Bowser shows that tyranny is a structure of compulsion. An empire consuming itself with a decaying, mechanical hunger.

His ideology is escalating desperation, a tantrum for control in the jaws of annihilation.

Fascism fails because it cannot stop devouring the very humanity it requires to exist.

do NOT call me a NIMBY. I FULLY support new housing if it is AFFORDABLE, passes my personal VIBE check, will not be lived in by people I consider UNCOOL and is constructed only when the MOON is waxing, upon the APPROPRIATE ley lines

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax

NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

San Francisco folks, “Steal This Story, Please!” Is showing at the Roxie from April 17-23

(I made the music)

Vatican City is Overrun with Crime Thanks to Its Woke Pope “The Vatican is in desperate need of criminal justice reform. As of today, any criminal can walk into the Vatican, confess to any crime, immediately be forgi...

"Thanks to its porous border with Italy, millions of migrants from around the world flock to the Vatican every year. In fact, even the year-round population of the Vatican seems to be entirely made up of immigrants, as its birth rate is virtually zero."

How do we adapt Poe’s Law for this?

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

McClatchy Media hiring California Meteorologist in Sacramento, CA | LinkedIn Posted 9:57:50 AM. McClatchy Media is seeking an engaging, creative and reader-focused meteorologist-journalist who…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

Glad to see that the Sacramento Bee is advertising a cool new newsroom meteorologist position! Frankly, I think every major regional/national newspaper needs in-house expertise like this. Role requires degree in meteorology/atm science (as it should!)

YES… HA HA HA… YES!

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

We didn't clear house following Reconstruction or following the Civil Rights Movement and we absolutely have to do it next time.

Thankfully with electric fire the water doesn’t matter… much. The lightning though, that’s more of a problem

Can confirm. Leaving SoundBox at SF Symphony Hall and absolute downpour all the way to Muni

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

–Justice Louis Brandeis

Philz Coffee Deals Lethal Blow to Gay 'Little Treat' Culture The beloved coffee chain nixed its Pride flags in the name of “inclusivity.” What the hell?

Yes, a SF-based coffee chain — which has a shop on Castro Street, just a few doors down from Hand Job Nails and Spa and a gigantic, car dealership-size rainbow flag! — is going to ban Pride flags to appease imaginary people who cannot deal w/ seeing gay people. www.coyotemedia.org/philz-coffee...

@muni.sfmta.com what’s up with the subway this AM?

image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.

Oooof.

I’m curious! A lot of them have a really hard time with text output. I wonder if you can ask Gemini?

Wait wait wait isn’t this just the Yo story but with a different stack?

Did you ask it directly? Sometimes it can tell you

Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz “Has your leader been credibly accused and/or convicted of several crimes, which he is using his position of power to dodge accountability for?”

"Is your country ruled by an aging megalomaniac whose supporters worship him with an almost cult-like zeal?"

Oh my god the California Dems are really off the rails. The candidates who have no chance are holding the process by which the field would (and should!) further narrow hostage.

Voters need debates.

This is kind of making me insane as I think about it.

The 2025 budget of the National Endowment for the Arts was $210m

I wonder if you copy paste that text and dump it into any social media search, how many times it’s been reposted by other accounts.