These are lovely.

Opinion | Craigslist Made Me Rich. Giving the Money Away Is Easy.

Such a shiny little gem in what’s otherwise an ocean of gloom.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

A hand-written sign on a piece of cardboard for the No Kings protest in Santa Barbara, California, that says, “I’m waiting for the ‘Big Beautiful” obituary.”

Best sign
Saturday’s No Kings march
Santa Barbara

#santabarbara
#nokings

An image of the 2026 National Park Service resident annual pass that features a classic portrait of George Washington alongside Donald Trump’s official portrait.

Went to buy an annual national park pass online. I’d forgotten about the “redesign.” Couldn’t do it.

We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

This.

www.wired.com/story/donald...

Dryer Exhaust will be the bottom note in my forthcoming fragrance Sunday Night.

Screenshot of an Emergency Alert text message that says, “There is a potential 9-1-1 service outage in Marin County. 9-1-1 is intermittent within the county at this time. IF YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY, CALL 9-1-1 but continue to call if it does not go through. L

Don’t think that I’m inviting trouble by saying this, cuz really …

Isn’t this kind of an open invitation for criminals?

The equivalent of, “Hey guys, my parents are out of town. C’mon over. No one tell on us even if they wanted to.”

Obscure conversions:

20 oz of liquid confined to a container
=
5 gals of liquid that know no bounds

Source: Me.

(Note: My research, conducted unexpectedly about an hour ago, is currently undergoing peer review.)

Screenshot of 504 Gateway Time-out error

Screenshot of website 502 Bad Gateway error

Earthquake near #SanFrancisco

That’s more detail than USGS could provide.

Why the hell would CHP critical alerts (silver in the case of the one I just received) contain short links redirecting to Twitter for more information? 🤯

I can’t access the info, but seems like including details within the alert would be most effective.

This is so important.

So much talking *about* young voters instead of with them.They need to hear how critical they are. Many spent formative years on zoom with few if any role models.

They’ve earned that anger. Give it a job before it burns out, and we all win.

(Source: mother of a 20yo)

A bright rainbow shoots out of downtown San Francisco on St. Patrick’s Day.

Luck of the Irish, according to my husband. I asked if the 4.2 earthquake in Dublin (CA) also qualified. He’s getting back to me on that.
#rainbow #sanfrancisco #photography #stpatricksday

Trump’s Most Inexplicable Decision Yet The tariffs are real, and they are spectacularly foolish.

These alarmist headlines are becoming alarmingly common and likely losing their luster.

Regardless, found this captured quite clearly, rationally, and simply the shit show that continues to unfold. I know I might forward this to a couple people.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A photograph of a church in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood that shares its very small lot with a basketball court to the left.

A photograph of a basketball net juxtaposed with the cross-topped steeple of the neighboring church in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood.

Next to of course god basketball

(with apologies to e.e. cummings)

📷: fujifilm x100vi

#sanfrancisco #photography

An Amazon box includes diagrams announcing that it is “made to fit” the order inside, thus eliminating waste and allowing more shipments to be transported at a time.

An Amazon box labeled “made-to-fit” on the outside proves anything but on the inside, where a book takes up about one-fourth of the space (there were no other packing materials or items included in the shipment).

I know this is peanuts in the big scheme of things.

But … if you’re going to tout your eco-friendly shipping solution, you can’t drop the ball quite so dramatically.

But maybe that’s the point since climate change has been, by sovereign decree, dismissed. 🙄
#amazon

Otherworldly orange sky at sunset over downtown San Francisco as the latest atmospheric river moved on.

Orange sunset skies darken over downtown San Francisco as the latest storm system moved through the Bay Area.

Orange sky turned decidedly dramatic at sunset over the San Francisco skyline as the latest storm system moved through the Bay Area.

Orange skies and white clouds over the Golden Gate Bridge as the latest storm cleared the Bay Area yesterday.

Drama & mood: Surreal possibilities present themselves as storm fronts pass through the San Francisco Bay Area.

#sanfrancisco #atmosphericriver #cawx #stormyweather

“Donald Trump’s first two weeks in the White House have followed Bannon’s [2019] strategy like a script. The flood is the point. The overwhelm is the point.”

Musk may be an accelerant—for now. Curious how Bannon’s strategy will hold up when the man with the Messiah complex crashes and burns.

Wry and telling (not in a good way clearly) aside from within @theguardian.com’s broader coverage:

“As this morning’s newsletter from the Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza depressingly notes, “Tomorrow was meant to be better, but it isn’t.”

Absolutely. It’s been interesting to hear the word “architect” enter the narrative more and more as all this shit’s started to go down.

Trudeau Details Canada’s Retaliation Plans in Emotional Rebuke of Trump Tariffs (Gift Article) Even as Canada’s prime minister announced more than $100 billion in retaliatory tariffs, he made clear that he was imposing them reluctantly.

“From the beaches of Normandy to the mountains of the Korean Peninsula, from the fields of Flanders to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

If ever there’s a time to donate to The Internet Archive (or more familiarly to some of us, the Wayback Machine), it’s now.

(BTW, apropos kinda? I have always thought of them as “the little engine that could.” 😁)

archive.org/donate/

the shaking of the truck alone is telling!

Trump bashed California's water system. Then DOGE paid a visit. Department of Government Efficiency officials toured a California water-pumping station.

I wouldn’t be able to sit by silently. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social has the patience of a saint as “The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful.” www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

A phrase I keep going back to: You can't make this shit up.

(Though "What fresh hell is this?" would be an excellent addition to the rotation.)

Donate to Planned Parenthood. This is the fight of our lives: Anti-reproductive health care extremists are working overtime to block patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood. Protect care, protect Planned Parenthood, prote...

Great day to donate to Planned Parenthood in Cecile Richard memory & have the “thank you” note sent to a Republican in an anti-abortion red state. Greg Abbott in Texas, for example:

Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711-2428

www.weareplannedparenthood.org/onlineaction....

Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations Many groups in the US are focused on preventing the further rise of authoritarian forces by raising alarms about authoritarian power-grabs in key states; by building financial, legal, and electoral st...

Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations

“This report proposes nonviolent resistance strategies and support systems…for informing a broad-based pro-democracy struggle under [an]… authoritarian.”

www.hks.harvard.edu/publications...

When fact and fiction collide. I’d laugh even harder at some of the brilliant turns of phrase (turn of phrases?!) if they weren’t so damn close to the truth. That fine line that @mcsweeneys.net is particularly adroit at maneuvering 💪

Normie Democrat is what I call the Deal, with a capital D. Nobody ever wrote this down; it was just something everybody understood: You're me, you show up, you're an entrepreneur, you're a capitalist, you start a company, you grow a company, and if it works, you make a lot of money. And then the company itself is good because it's bringing new technology to the world that makes the world a better place, but then you make a lot of money, and you give the money away. Through that, you absolve yourself of all of your sins. Then in your obituary, it talks about what an incredible person you were, both in your business career and in your philanthropic career. And by the way, you're a Democrat, you're pro-gay rights, you're pro-abortion, you're pro all the fashionable and appropriate social causes of the time. There are no trade-offs. This is the Deal.

And here’s where he starts coming unglued.

There was “A Deal!” You make all the money, then you become a philanthropist, and the whole world celebrates you. That’s the right and proper way for society to function!

You can see where this is headed, right? The plutocrat demanding he be idolized.

Opinion | How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms (Gift Article) Marc Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism.

Fascinatingly bizarre rationalization from Marc Andreessen on the political evolution of Silicon Valley. “We need the censorship pressure to end. We need the debanking pressure to end. We need this kind of random terrorism coming out of the federal government to end.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...

Thanks! I typically steer away from people but this one was just ripe for the picking.