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I can't locate the quote anymore and I don't remember the context, but a sentence I read many years ago that stuck with me was, "You must not only kill your idols, you must also burn your 'kill yr idols' t-shirt."

This is a good start but the subway should curve south down 19th Ave, meet up with Daly City BART and continue on the BART tracks down to Millbrae. That part is essential; a branch to Outer Richmond could be added later as a nice-to-have.
https://musubi3.github.io/sfmta-geary-subway…

44,000 Riders, Zero Trains: A Case for the Geary Subway
A data-driven analysis proving why the Geary corridor, with 44,000+ daily riders, is the most underserved transit route in San Francisco.

Paramount signs a 10-year lease for 285K square feet at 1888 Studios in Bayonne, NJ, making it eligible for tax credits of up to 40% for movies and TV shows (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Paramount to Occupy Massive New Jersey Production Campus
The move to 1888 Studios comes amid New Jersey's rapid rise as a production hotspot.

"In a safety culture, you look at the system, you don't just thump the individual who screwed up." https://sf.streetsblog.org/2025/11/21/commentary-munis-near-disaster-is-about-more-than-a-sleeping-train-ope…

Commentary: Muni's Near-Disaster is About More than a Sleeping Train Operator - Streetsblog San Francisco
The incident demands a thorough review of management, because the train operator wasn't the only one asleep on the job

Some coverage of our rally yesterday to #KeepMarketStreetMoving!
“Traffic safety advocates are urging San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie to reverse his decision to allow private car services on Market Street, citing safety concerns.
“Protests erupted outside City Hall on Tuesday as various groups…voiced their opposition to the presence of Waymo, Uber, and Lyft vehicles on M…

"Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected"
#Climate #ClimateChange #CoralReef

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected
In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California’s Pacific coast. The team collected untold plant and animal specimens, including orange cup corals, which they carefully preserved and stored in collections at the Smithsonian Institution. These specimens have now become rare physical evidence of ongoing changes in […]

These goofs want to use "drones that would fly up to 150 feet and eventually deliver some of the orders that today are transported by the company’s drivers."
We have a technology that efficiently delivers goods to homes in an urban neighborhood. It's called bicycles. https://

DoorDash wants to test drones in the Mission. Some are pushing back. 
DoorDash plans to launch a drone testing site on Folsom Street, but the Teamsters Union Local No. 665 is pushing back. 

Mayor Lurie's litmus tests for D4 appointees:
1. Family Zoning Plan
2. Great Highway/Prop K
3. Police drones
https://missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-district-4-supervisor-vetting/

Want to be District 4 supervisor? Get ready to answer these questions.
The applicants for District 4 supervisor have been quizzed about everything from taxes to social media, according to a five-page survey.

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/century-old-corals-reveal-the-pacific-northwest-is-acidifying-faster-than-expected/

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected
In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California’s Pacific coast. The team collected untold plant and animal specimens, including orange cup corals, which they carefully preserved and stored in collections at the Smithsonian Institution. These specimens have now become rare physical evidence of ongoing changes in […]

Awful to learn that a driver killed a cyclist Sunday night at Alemany & Naglee in the Outer Mission, District 11. Alemany is a high-traffic road with a buffered but unprotected bike lane, and this is further south than where Cayuga ends, so Cayuga Slow Street is not an alternative here.
https://

Our statement on the fatal crash at Alemany and Naglee
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

A few years ago I started carrying a book almost every time I leave the house and substituting it for looking at my phone when waiting in line, sitting on the bus, etc. This is now a trend apparently
https://sf.gazetteer.co/whats-in-your-analog-bag

What’s in your analog bag?
The latest device-free trend contains everything from knitting to notebooks to Tolstoy

I'd been meaning to switch off T-Mobile for years because of their dead zone in the Mission but never got around to it. This boycott that begins this weekend is pushing me to finally do it
https://tmobileboycott.org/

It's time to hang up on authoritarianism. It's time to hang up on T-Mobile.
TAKE THE PLEDGE TO BOYCOTT T-MOBILE

Reading Capital, I'm often tempted to skip the footnotes, but I'm glad I read the one savaging Jeremy Bentham just now. "This is the kind of nonsense with which the good man...has filled mountains of books. If I had the courage of my friend H. Heine, I would say that Mr. Jeremy is a genius of bourgeois stupidity." Marx would be such a shitposter today

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Heliozoans are a group of amoeboid protists found commonly in both fresh and saltwater. They were termed sun-animalcules due to their spherical shape and distinctive radiating microtubules, which support axiopods used to capture food and facilitate movement. Some will also capture symbiotic algal cells which provide energy through photosynthesis. Heliozoa is &quo…

"It was a hell of a move for a mayor who will next year be asking the city’s voters for more power, including the ability to unilaterally hire and fire people."
Yes, and if he's dumb enough to still put that on the ballot, the city's voters need to say no. Again.
…

The making and unmaking of Beya Alcaraz: A strange and terrible saga
A near-total vetting failure by the mayor’s office put a political neophyte in an impossible position. It was a crucial misstep for Daniel Lurie.

Lots of people enjoying Sunset Dunes. The coast belongs to us all!

Finally! Proper striping for the bike connector from car-free JFK to Overlook

Findings from the one block of protected bike lane in front of City Hall added last year!
https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/115374903231722988

you might want to avoid Partiful https://nyc-noise.com/drone-party/

we don't use partiful
NYC experimental live music calendar • noise, improv, jazz, new music, avant-electronics, weirdos • performance against corporate interests!

Glass half full: Sunset Dunes is no longer the most controversial thing in the Sunset. And with the rain clearing, tomorrow should be a great day to visit!

Good reminder that Daniel Lurie has never had a real job, was by no means given a mandate by SF voters, and that checks and balances are good. If mayoral appointments to vacant offices required legislative confirmation—the case in many cities—we could have avoided this.
"San Francisco’s newest supervisor agrees to resign amid pet store controversies"

Good Morning #Canada
Stanley Park is a 405-hectare public park in British Columbia, Canada, that makes up the northwestern half of Vancouver's Downtown peninsula, surrounded by waters of Burrard Inlet and English Bay. It opened in September of 1888 after negotiating a lease from the federal government who owned the land for $1 per year. On this day in 1889, it was renamed and dedicated in honour of Lord Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, a British politician who had recently been appointed Governor General of Canada. It doesn't crack the top 10 of city parks in Canada (despite what the attached article states) but it's special because much of the park remains as densely forested as it was in the late 1800s, with about a half million trees, some of which stand as tall as 76 metres and are hundreds of years old.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Parks #GetOutside
https://todayinconservation.com/2018/10/october-29-stanley-park-vancouver-dedicated-1889/

Didn't realize Katie Wilson identified as a socialist! Cool. https://komonews.c…

Mayor-elect Katie Wilson urges unity, community, collective responsibility in Seattle
Seattle's new Mayor-elect Katie Wilson is set to address the public regarding her election and upcoming role as mayor on Thursday afternoon.

I don't see a big conflict here. BART is right to focus on keeping the lights on, but Oakland advocates are also right to think long-term. It's good to give people a future with better BART to look forward to in the runup to the funding measure.
"BART’s fiscal crisis could close 9 stations. So why are people pushing for a new one [San Antonio] in Oakland?"

Lurie admin "blamed the plan to stall housing at 101 Hyde on the state’s designation of the Tenderloin as a low-resourced area, which puts it down on the priority list for state funding."
SF has the third most billionaires of any city in the world. One of them is our mayor. Not having funds for affordable housing is a choice.

Plans for affordable housing at shuttered S.F. food hall site stuck in limbo 
La Cocina’s space in the Tenderloin was pitched as a community hub with cheap eats, and eventually affordable housing. Neither is happening.

It was hard to find info on exactly what #SB720, the red-light camera bill signed today by Newsom, actually did. Turns out it establishes a new kind of red-light camera program that uses civil rather than criminal penalties, has lower fines, tickets the car owner instead of driver, and doesn't require capturing the driver's face and identifying them, which some localities found impractical. R…

Shameful how the SF government has let the Turk protected bike lane, once a success story, degrade. #sfpol

I'm expecting tonight's https://dsasf.org general meeting to have a bunch of new people inspired by Zohran's win, so I hope we're not gonna do anything weird, like have a big singalong. Now let me take a big swig of coffee and check the agenda—

In case you missed it: SF is planning to axe its Bike Advisory Committee.
The task force also proposes removing confirmation for mayoral appointments (which is all appointments) to the transportation board. This would remove one of the few checks on a bike-hostile mayor, which... we currently have!

Streamlining Task Force Wants to Kill S.F.'s Bike Advisory Committee - Streetsblog San Francisco
It also recommends increasing the mayor's influence over the SFMTA Board by allowing him to fire directors

love how SF public libraries are open 7 days a week. not all cities have that and we should treasure it

#FotoVorschlag: Farbe: Orange
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looks like there'll be a #NoKings event at Sunset Dunes! cool crossover
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/847587/
main march in SF here:

NO KINGS Ocean Beach, San Francisco · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Join us for No Kings Day Ocean Beach! Saturday, October 18 • 12:00 PM • Sunset Dunes (Upper Great Highway & Judah), SF Be part of a fun, family-friendly Resistance Festival on the westside of San Francisco. Together we’ll celebrate community and resistance with: 🎨 Art and creative expression 🎶 Live music and performances 📚 Information tables on Bay Resistance, Prop 50, voter registration and more 🤝 Family-friendly ac…

As one of the few people who read Vineland before Paul Thomas Anderson made it cool, I'll say I loved One Battle After Another. It matches the emotional energy of its inspiration, with the main characters of father, daughter and villain true to their Pynchonian analogs. Feels like a remix