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Book: The Pacific Circuit Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club

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Ah, a “man purse.” Or even the equally awkward “man bag”

11.03.2026 13:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

lots of great gatherings this week in Oakland, including the one I am hosting on Saturday! bsky.app/profile/msat...

11.03.2026 04:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I think it's a current singer, a woman who maybe goes to Baja? I should always make notes of these little stray facts!

10.03.2026 21:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unrelated to anything else: someone was recently telling me about a Bay Area musician who incorporated whale song ... or performed near whales.

That ring a bell for anyone?

10.03.2026 21:01 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Whatever has happened go Andreesen, it was the Horowitz pivot that always gets me. He literally watched his father do it and then … went and did the same thing. Just one of those human bits I’ll never understand.

09.03.2026 18:35 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe one of those where the main reason and the bonus are hard to separate

09.03.2026 15:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Which maybe I would understand if they were a regional sales manager for a truck nuts manufacturer and not, you know… people dropping bombs

09.03.2026 15:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My guess… guess??? is that they are feeding in some documents and using it to summarize/prioritize. Right??

09.03.2026 14:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

lol

09.03.2026 14:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Belgium at risk of becoming ‘narco-state’, judge warns President of Antwerp court says international drug crime is posing danger to social stability

@nilsgilman.bsky.social for the deviant globalization file www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

09.03.2026 13:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Weirdly enough, I have spent a lot of time in the town where Heemeyer went insane

09.03.2026 04:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I remember the first time an article I wrote got posted to Stormfront and those chuds came into the comments... It was truly horrifically shocking. I'd never seen that stuff ever before. And now it's just EVERYWHERE.

09.03.2026 04:35 👍 118 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

I mean … I’m not sure I want to help them, but this is something I/we can help with, if you want to do the thing

09.03.2026 03:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I wouldn’t phrase it quite that way. As I recall his argument, it was more that they available for use by human cognition, and therefore a part of the human mind in some meaningful senses

(Extended cognition is what he called it, I think, and it kind of tells you what he was driving at)

08.03.2026 21:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What a funny job! It’s fun tho, in its way

08.03.2026 20:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Haha wow that is hardcore — what a good observation

08.03.2026 06:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait! Tripled!!

Inordinately excited

08.03.2026 06:36 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In case you were worried, we doubled the goal! It was great. What an amazing community!

08.03.2026 06:18 👍 27 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Also the correct call!

08.03.2026 06:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This was great advice! You were right

08.03.2026 06:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We nailed it. So fun!

08.03.2026 06:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hahah yes it was easier than that

08.03.2026 06:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 it went great! Raised a ton

08.03.2026 06:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nailed it! 2x goal raised

08.03.2026 06:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Truly it worked great!

08.03.2026 06:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also! There are people who have put in so so much work on this. We don’t know everything but we know A LOT.

08.03.2026 02:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Have to be the auctioneer for a local public school’s benefit tonight…

Never done it. A tiiiiiny bit worried? Any tips?

Oh, have a martini? I got that one already. What else?

08.03.2026 02:35 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 10 📌 0

Yeah it sucks

08.03.2026 00:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m more like piss christ vibe coding over here

07.03.2026 07:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

lol — man, they got us pinned down, sis

07.03.2026 07:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0