Kirk Murphy's Migrated Twitter

https://www.kqed.org/news/12012416/san-franciscos-elections-big-money-against-progressive-incumbents

"November 5, 2024, General Election: Ballot Counted
Hello Kirk Murphy,
This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of San Francisco Department of Elections. Your ballot for.. November 5, 2024, General Election was received & counted. Thank you for voting!"

foreground.
https://www.sf.gov/information/i-voted-sticker-design-contest-finalists

Image alt text:
SF BOE "I Voted" sticker contest finalist [TY Hollis C.] showing Goldie The Bridge, Sutro Tower, Karl The Fog, & Coit Tower in background; with Telegraph Hill Parrots, smiling seal, and flowers (including California Poppy?) in...

Yay! SF's incredibly helpful Board Of Elections just confirmed my faxed Overseas Voter ballot arrived.
Bless you @SFElections!
And TY for working on Saturday :)
Tweeps, don't forget to (virtually) hug our poll workers! And please, vote to keep our Republic: people died for it.

Welp, time for @BBCWorldService's regular Two Minutes of Hasbara Hate: leading off Gaza coverage with ex-Knesset member's propaganda re UNRWA, then thoughtful ex-UN undersec, then host platforming of Netanyahu promising help.
@BBC Director Robbie Gibb vandalizes BBC's integrity.

@molly0xFFF Hi and thank you for your work,
I just got followed and then a DM from someone (who seems to be) impersonating you. Will block & report.
Good luck!

"Molly White @molly0xFFF0
Hello,I hope you are benefiting from the current market condition?"

You done Vin proud, @Dodgers!

Sad news for a fine country.... they just let me become a citizen.
Some nations have no taste....

Klickitat sheriff’s growing volunteer posse raises questions | Cascade PBS https://www.cascadepbs.org/news/2024/10/klickitat-sheriffs-growing-volunteer-posse-raises-questions?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter-web-button

Oh heck - time to relearn strategy for FPTP voting with @SFElections!
(If I only like two of five candidates, do I vote them "all the way down? Or say one of five candidates - same? Brain hurts!)

#SanFrancisco

The Hedgehog and the Heroine https://www.getty.edu/news/the-hedgehog-and-the-heroine/

Woo-hoo! Great news!

https://www.kqed.org/news/12011111/beloved-richmond-nursery-to-reopen-under-employee-ownership-after-abrupt-closure

Huge respect for your ethics, @marielgarzaLAT! You are an example for all journalists to follow - and all publishers to respect.

Sad for excellent @LATimes staff that folks respond to their billionaire owner's sabotage of editorials with cancellations &/or ad hominem attacks on anyone else at LAT.
Only person responsible for billionaire owner is his cowardly, servile self.
He's on here: folks can tell him.

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/iconic-british-band-reunites-san-francisco-19771424.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral via @SFGate

"They had checked out the sea lions: “They look like giant turds with mouths, in a nice way.”..Cocker said."

Iconic British band Pulp reunite in San Francisco, call sea lions 'turds'...

I've missed Robert Fisk - especially now.
Now that he's gone, Derek Guy's exquisite eviscerations are the best "Fisking" I could hope for.
Bless him.

Very scary news about Canada: 0/10 quality control.
They’ve scheduled me for citizenship oath on October 30.

deets.
TY!
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-passports/travel-documents-references-guarantors.html#in-canada

Yay! I get to become a Canadian citizen 10/30!
And..help!
If you're in YVR, & have known me for 2 yrs: will you be my passport guarantor?
That entails you signing my passport pic (& a form?) ideally on 10/30 or 31 for new passport stat.
Pls DM 4...

Oh jfc missing weather window to get Novavax in US last wk & settling for what's available in #BCpoli was not great.
I'll be fine: just achies & I have privilege to buy NV in US in 5 mos.
But huge fail Canada & @Dave_Eby to deprive BC of more effective, better tolerated Novavax.

Amidst all the horror and awful and grief, @KALW broadcasting all Indigenous music today 2-4PM (on Folk Music & Beyond) is a gift!
https://www.kalw.org/show/folk-music-beyond

Available on line for the next week, too, iirc.

h/t @kalwfolk

Gotta love #YVR (w universities justly famed for ecological expertise) built in living memory on literal rain forest
repeatedly, dismally failing to build for *rain*
yet burning billions on land speculators' pet subway to the Uni dragged behind real estate cronies: @UBC.
#BCStorm

It's rice harvest time at the restored Shōya House at the Huntington Library https://laist.com/news/los-angeles-activities/its-rice-harvest-time-at-the-restored-shoya-house-at-the-huntington-library

Welp, missed window to get to Blaine outside of pouring rain..so went ahead & added Moderna (updated) to my flu shot. Grateful both are free in BC (> $350 US w/o insurance): but Canada/BC’s failure to order more effective/better tolerated Novavax will cost health & lives.
#bcpoli

https://www.kazu.org/npr-news/2024-10-16/nebraska-supreme-court-clears-the-way-for-people-with-felony-convictions-to-vote

"The Goldwater Rule is flawed. It is an anachronism, a bastion of a bygone era where censorship and status ruled."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957154X211062513

"Furthermore, the APA's proscription on diagnosis without formal interview can be questioned, since third-party payers, expert witnesses in law cases, and historical psychobiographers make diagnoses without conducting formal interviews."

"We conclude that the Goldwater Rule was an excessive organizational response to what was clearly an inflammatory and embarrassing moment for American psychiatry."

The Ethics of APA's Goldwater Rule https://jaapl.org/content/44/2/226