city loving #socialist, #vegan, into #hiking, #bikes #BikeTooter, #transit, #carfree living. read a lot and drink lots of tea and coffee. learning guitar. post a lot about local stuff #sfpol #bikesf. searchable on tootfinder
Philanthropy is how the rich trick us into not taxing them, which would let us accomplish much more good and without their veto on how it's done.
Evening on Billy Goat Hill
Constantly innovating in bicycle infrastructure, San Francisco even has bicycle beg buttons
If you were wondering how the SF #YIMBY movement is going, they’re cheerleading for ending the requirement for developers to plant trees when they’re *already tearing up the sidewalk anyway*.
Why bother to fund permanently affordable housing, ban sprawl, or shift highway subsidies to transit? Much easier to promote density by having cities be polluted, gray, and dead anytime some developer says it’ll save him a few bucks.
It would be cool if the Coast Starlight's running time were half as long and if there were 6+ departures per day and you could, on one ticket, freely get off at stops along the way and visit for a bit before getting back on the next train toward your destination.
sidequest idea: get the exotic trees in front of city hall replaced with coast live oaks. think of the symbolic value to start conversations about the native ecosystems that make where we live special
Last boost: I disagree with Connie Chan on transportation issues, but in a federal race where our new Congressperson will vote on foreign wars, I'm going to amplify both of the non–Scott Wiener candidates. Wiener spent years denying the genocide in Gaza and attacking people calling for peace as antisemites. He falsely maintains the problem is just Netanyahu, ignoring that Israeli "opposition" leaders make constant genocidal statements too. Wiener would be an enabler of unspeakable violence.
Why do anarchist gardeners plant shrubs with upright growing forms?
Because proper trees are theft.
Vicious attack mailer against Lurie just dropped 🔥
It’s harsh but true. He does indeed oppose big corporations paying their fair share to keep vital SF services from being cut. How out of touch can you be? Yes on D and let’s make the nepo baby a one-term mayor!
Carefully hugged this smol oak tree on Shotwell Street 💚 Coast live oaks were likely the most common tree in so-called San Francisco before colonization and provide habitat/food for 270 species. But they’re rarely planted as street trees: only 9 scattered around the Mission according to DPW. The city only allows them on sidewalks 15’ wide without overhead power lines, a unicorn situation. Even then they usually plant Australian and other exotic species.
The Chronicle has a new puff piece on #Waymo purporting to show San Franciscans just looooove them. But 57% of respondents still think they're at least partly bad. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-car-san-francisco-22253180.php
And it's based on a poll not by an objective pollster like Gallup or PPIC, but "Sextant Research & Strategies," a political consulting firm. https://www.sextant-research.com/ Seems like Alphabet hired them to ask the question in a way that gets an answer they like, then do PR around it to create a bandwagon effect.
crime is out of control, specifically moggings. it seems like every other day someone i know gets mogged
Okay, I need the prog supervisors to have a charter amendment ready to go to require BOS confirmation for mayoral appointees that fill vacancies. If it doesn't have six votes now, so be it, just have it ready for that final vote the minute Chow/Gee or Brooke are seated. It is very unusual and obviously prone to corruption that SF lets its mayor fill vacancies unilaterally
Routle - SF Muni
05/24/2026
🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛
please enjoy the very 00s energy of "Piracy Undermines Creative Expression!"'s entry in this song fight, calling out politicians who blamed video games for school shootings. gotta love those fat FM synths:
https://www.songfight.org/songpage.php?key=welcome_to
we need a fresh-faced young socialist who can mog the mayor. that’s how we’ll finally get his approval rating down
"there are limits to the comparison [between South Africa and Israel]. For one thing, it’s unfair to South Africa... Pretoria at least pretended that the Bantustans were independent, while the Palestinian Authority is accused of 'diplomatic terrorism' whenever it engages with international bodies." https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-i-learned-from-reading-apartheid-propaganda
Is the new GBV title Bob Pollard's estimation of his own place in rock songwriting? He's not so boastful as to assume he has a place in the pantheon, but the *crawlspace* of the pantheon, well, that's not too much to ask.
https://guidedbyvoices.bandcamp.com/album/crawlspace-of-the-pantheon
So not a single Israeli war criminal is standing trial, but thanks to Brooke Jenkins, people who protested the genocide are. Disgraceful.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/trial-golden-gate-protesters/
putt.day #78 ⛳ 13/14 Birdie
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟢
https://putt.day/s/lqdyoXE2Bg65
