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I like cats and dogs and politics and cities and bikes.

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Golden Gate - Wikipedia

The Golden Gate Bridge crosses the Golden Gate, which is a strait. It was named for the Golden Horn in Istanbul. The fact that a gold rush broke out a couple years later is purely a coincidence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_...

11.03.2026 02:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SUPER β€œDRY”

11.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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So It Has Come To This

xkcd.com/1022/

10.03.2026 06:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An extremely dank purple Victorian house.

An extremely dank purple Victorian house.

Some graffiti that says WEST SIDE!

Some graffiti that says WEST SIDE!

A view of the San Francisco skyline framed by a Torrey Pine tree.

A view of the San Francisco skyline framed by a Torrey Pine tree.

Graffiti reading STOP ICE on a stop sign in front of the sutro tower.

Graffiti reading STOP ICE on a stop sign in front of the sutro tower.

I took transit to buy a monitor arm off Marketplace after work. Here are some things I saw on the way there and back.

10.03.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway I agree with Will Stancil. bsky.app/profile/whst...

09.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s closer to 5.50. But, like, low confidence in that

09.03.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, yeah. Everything’s expensive already!

09.03.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A 46-cent (or whatever) spike in the last week doesn’t seem huge to me, and, you know, gas prices are always doing whatever.

09.03.2026 01:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A funny thing about living car-free in San Francisco is I have no idea what gas prices are, and to the extent I care I think they should be higher. But when people on national news are complaining about a spike, their high prices are lower than the normal prices here.

09.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

pretty much every poll at this point comes to the incredibly obvious conclusion that republicans absolutely hate this country and living here no matter how much they wrap themselves in the flag

08.03.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Playground
Bussey, IA

08.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 601 πŸ” 152 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 21

Can we get a close up of the operating instructions?

08.03.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok hear me out. Mel Gibson’s character in The Patriot has a line where he goes, β€œI don’t have the luxury of principles; I have children.” And that hits harder as I age.

07.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is what happened when Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry For two decades, critics showered Thomas Keller’s restaurants with accolades. But on the night I showed up at the French Laundry, he had a bone to pick.

lol did you see this last year? www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

07.03.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My TVs aren’t connected to the internet. Everything goes through the Apple TV box.

07.03.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This happens to me all the time at Transverse/Overlook in Golden Gate Park, where the car-free route does something similar.

07.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good. The Republicans have sucked on these three issues my entire life.

07.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception

23.02.2026 05:30 πŸ‘ 670 πŸ” 391 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3
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a bald man in a red and black uniform is sitting in a chair looking at the camera . Alt: Picard make it so gif

This guy

07.03.2026 05:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The first Frozen was so bad that I didn’t bother with the second.

07.03.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We need abundant, affordable housing in San Francisco so artists can afford to live here and the buskers in the park are better than the dude currently doing karaoke to songs that are outside his range

07.03.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

We had lunch at Loveski in Jackson Square today. It was good!

05.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

specific guys asideβ€”it is politically and morally bankrupt to be told we must seriously consider how many is too many pieces of nazi flair

05.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 1005 πŸ” 199 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 12

@rollovereasy.org I love my Inside Line Equipment bike bag! Handmade in Berkeley!

05.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s absolute poison for the Democratic Party and they need to make clear that he’s not welcome.

05.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone who will touch him with a ten-foot pole is guilty by association as far as I’m concerned.

05.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

almost impossible to overestimate how many of these apple is going to sell. have you seen how bad the β€œcheapest laptop that gets me online” market is? this is gonna be like if the thing that killed all the dodos was a terminator. a t-1000 terminator.

05.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

FWIW, San Francisco stopped smelling like weed for a little while when vapes came out, before everyone realized vapes have unknown risks and switched back to flower. I think this is solvable with an anti-smoking campaign to push people to edibles and beverages instead.

05.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

love to complain the Sunset Dunes process was rushed after it took 5+ years and included 2 lawsuits, 2 ballot measures, 1 appeal, 2 Board of Appeals hearings, 2 Coastal Commission hearings, a couple rounds at the Board of Supervisors, and an uncountable number of public comments and meetings

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