Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: New mural going up on Valencia near Caesar Chavez webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8146186...

I hate to break it to these people, but all soil is made up, in part, of composted bodies. Wild animals die and decompose alongside that river every day. No matter how much humans try to delude themselves otherwise, we’re all just animals made of meat

Young pope Leo, undated but he appears to be in his teens or early 20’s

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: Balboa Park sunrise webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8145279...

Just give up on every seeing the sun again, #SanFrancisco

Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: The Pier 7 view never gets old webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8144373...

lol “the Peoplemover is supposedly opening next year” is something we have been hearing for at least 5 years

They charge extra to go to/from the airport 🙄

I see them a lot at CCSF but they’re usually too far up to get good video

Nuttall’s Woodpecker at Upper Douglass in #SanFrancisco (sound on!) #birdwatching

Well gas is generally more expensive in California

And it’s worth noting that on the way home from SFO, we took a Lyft, because BART costs ELEVEN DOLLARS per ticket. The fact that this price isn’t subsidized by local vehicle/gas taxes is criminal.

Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: Kearny at Washington webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8143468...

Whenever I hear national news stories talk about gas getting “up to” $4 a gallon I think, wow, what a bargain

Yeah. I just walked by this, which is the highest I’ve seen in person

This is about so much more than bread, and it’s a much more entertaining read than you would expect!

Especially coming FROM #LAX, taking Uber/Lyft means walking 15-20 minutes from arrivals to the rideshare lot, so the bus ends up taking a comparable amount of time but costs $1.75 (plus the good vibes of taking transit!

The 232 bus was so convenient, we took it back to the airport too. We wanted to try riding the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social, but it would have taken a lot longer because the lines don’t extend far enough, and my parents would have had to drive us 25 minutes to the closest station.

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

A round nest made of twigs with four bright blue eggs in it.

Got a quick peek when she was off getting post-storm worms.

Me: Okay we have a lot to do today let’s get it together

Brain: I refuse to do anything productive until you help me remember the name of that really thick square chocolate bar you coveted as a kid circa 1980

Me: Goddammit

According to Bloomberg, Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, Greenoaks Capital founder Neil Mehta, and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan have all chipped in, with the goal of raising up to $1 billion in the coming years.

“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”
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How the Bay Area’s most bonkers theme park heralded Silicon Valley’s rise From waterskiing elephants to enterprise software: How a too-wild-to-be-believed Peninsula theme park’s move foreshadowed the region’s tech takeover.

"The end of Marine World Africa/U.S.A. in Redwood City, like the beginning, sounded completely made up."

Where I pay tribute to the bonkers theme park of our youth, and how its move cemented a Silicon Valley takeover.

Gift link for the Peninsula kids 🎁 🐬 🐯 ⬇️

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I’m sure this isn’t a sign of our planet melting or anything but all the #jacarandas in Southern California are already blooming 😬😬😬

There was!

Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: Pretty great historic phone collection at SFO webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8142562...

Humorous infographic that reads: Is your teen texting about art?! Here’s what they’re really saying: G2G = Going to Getty TTYL = Take Tram, You’ll Love! ATM = At The Museum ETA = Embracing The Arts POV = Pointing Out Van Gogh's WTF = Where’s the Fragonard? BTW = Bring The Watercolors TMI = This Museum Inspires TLDR = Titian, Leonardo Davinci, Raphael LOL = Love Old Landscapes ASAP = Another Sculpture, Another Painting DILF = Dang, I Love Fine art

PSA🚨

It would be cool if Jodie Foster just, you know, made it known that she’s open to being impressed

Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York State cemetery This whopping bee aggregation is one of the largest and oldest ever recorded, according to a new study

Brings a whole new dimension to the folklore around bees being messengers to the spirit world 🐝🐝🐝 #bees www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Yep