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Save Sunset Dunes! Vote no on G San Francisco!

Just insane. Possible clinching WNBA game of championships starts at 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time on a weekday — in competition with soap operas and “Caillou” — because teams keep planning on their own players not making the Finals. (And when they DO succeed a regular season MNBA game takes priority.)

America's Highway Trust Fund spends far more than it brings in in gas and truck taxes, and the US constantly bails the fund out from the federal general fund and by taking out loans. The Bay Area will pay ~$1.3B/year to bail out the fund yet again, starting in 2028. From @maxmautner.com.

Comrades, I have acquired the fabled Brat Rangoon

YES on RTM, Prop H, and Prop 1 NO on Prop 43 and 45

we're really terrible at grifting at No on G: no fundraising fees beyond credit card processing costs, no consulting firm, we do our own ad buys to avoid commissions and make our ads in-house, buy our printing and mailing directly so there's no consultant commission

many people are saying sfstandard.com/2026/10/22/g...

Attention Transit Nerds, Foamers, Railfans! SFMemory Update! 282 late 1950s color Kodachrome slides showing Muni Streetcars, Key System Trains, Ferryboats, Cable Cars. A remarkable collection from George A. White #sfmemory #sfhistory sfmemory.org/Update/2026-...

The CDC took two months to respond to a request from CA and WA to validate a high-throughput test for measles, and then said it had “other competing priorities.” 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/h...

tfw you go to explainxkcd.com to look up when the randomNumber=4 comic was published in order to joke about today's infosec shitshow, only to find the site is offline due to tomorrow's infosec shitshow

Everything is fine. “Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier could contribute more to sea level rise by the end of the century than some previous estimates. In some model simulations, the glacier’s contribution was as much as twice current projections.” www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-st...

only a few million instances of functionally un-upgradable end-of-life PHP installs out there in the world, what could go wrong?

✨ new from me: over 1 million Bay Area residents are served by microtransit, but it's hardly discoverable. What should agencies and our region do to make it easier to take multimodal trips combining micro and fixed route transit? @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social

🚨 TODAY’S THE DAY 📚 After years of work, my new book HYPERSCALE is finally on bookshelves! It chronicles the data center boom just as the backlash is reaching a fever pitch. Get your copy today: hyperscalebook.com

"I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People" remains the defining headline of the Trump era

The Nook family are only doing this to head off a future MB government of Animal Crossing from introducing Islamic banking and investigating their wildly usurious practices.

MY MAYOR LEVI MY BILLBOARD AI MY SV II BORE VALKS IN FOUR

Security footage from an apartment captures a man telling ICE agents he’s a U.S. citizen. Minutes later, he appears handcuffed on the ground.

Counterpoint: yes they are

I keep coming back to the basic problem that if people lose their damn minds at the thought of not being able to drive on one single street next to the ocean, how are we supposed to cope with these kinds of much bigger changes that are inevitable and imminent?

We went to Milwaukee a couple of years ago for Bob Uecker Bobblehead Night (no regrets) and caught this video of the sausages folding into the service elevator together 😂😂😂

"Just getting on a bike in 2026 feels like a political act. The upcoming Prop G vote for the future of Sunset Dunes — keep our beautiful new oceanside park or turn it back into an expensive highway with reduced safety — is the current fork in the road."

I saw everything and endorse this statement

It has been brought to our attention that it is entirely possible Doug Ford does not understand that a podcast called "The War on Cars" might be in favor of things like protected bike lanes.

Well hello there 🐶

the fiscal cliff is terrible, but this is tremendous content!

I’ve been biting my tongue on this one. But I’m just going to come out and say it: The Sexual Citizenship approach is the next era of symbolic compliance for campus sexual violence. It’s trying to solve sexual violence by putting more chairs in dorm rooms. Literally.

Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest.

ok wait, hold up. I actually kind of like it like this

goddamnit.

Maybe I'll do local later today. But needless to say: YES on RTM and H. NO on G.

California voters, Darrell is right and it’s critical to vote yes on RTM. Yes on public transit!

the WNBA finals is gonna be a real contrast of where the WNBA is coming from and where it's headed. One team forced to play in a 3,000-seat G-League venue because "Sombr" has a concert, the other team filling an 18,000-seater to the top with some of the loudest fans in hoops

Another day, another monthly tide record in San Francisco. Even more shocking, the highest tides of the month aren't predicted until Oct. 27 and 28, a half foot higher than today. November, December and January king tides will be in another league. More: www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

Pretty embarrassing for San Francisco that their single-stair code section is going to require a second stair. The second part makes no sense – an exterior stairway is already allowed…there was never any requirement that both be interior.

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>