Tootfinder

Bhutan unveils a pledge of up to 10,000 bitcoin to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham says Bhutan holds 5,984 bitcoin, ranking 7th among sovereign holders (Vismaya V/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/352685/bhutan-pledges-10000-bitcoin-worth-1b-fund-mind…

Bhutan Pledges 10,000 Bitcoin Worth $1B to Fund Mindfulness City
The 10,000 BTC will generate yields for GMC's growth while being held long-term, with Bhutan ruling out selling the reserves.

Archaeologists Unearth Wall Section at Important Silk Road City Which Traded in ‘Heavenly Horses’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/archaeologists-unearth-wall-section-at-important-silk-road-city-which-traded-in-heavenl…

Archaeologists Unearth Wall Section at Important Silk Road City Which Traded in 'Heavenly Horses'
The Silk Roads were lined with successful trading outposts, which during times when the trade was prosperous grew to become princely city-states.

"Jesus and Kathia are not sure what to do now, or where they will sleep if their vehicle is towed. The options for family shelter are limited until her child is born, she said, and she does not want to leave her dog, who also lives in her RV, behind."
https://missionlocal.org/2025…

RV dwellers say S.F. homeless outreach worker is selling parking permits for hundreds in cash
The city is investigating allegations into a man dressed as an outreach worker. In text exchanges, an RV dweller begs for his money back.

Denver Broncos Beat Kansas City With Walk-Off Field Goal in Pivotal Matchup https://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/football/100000010527920/denver-broncos-beat-kansas-city-with-walk-off-field-goal-in-pivot…

"Microplastics found in rural woodland at higher levels than in city centers"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Microplastics found in rural woodland at higher levels than in city centers
Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers say. Scientists led by the University of Leeds detected up to 500 microscopic particles of plastic per square meter per day in an area of woodland during the three-month study—almost twice as much as in a sample collected in a city center. The findings are published in the journal Environmental Pollution.

Questions remain about how leaders at the Los Angeles fire department responded to a fire that leveled entire communities,
and who within the agency knew about concerns the fire could still pose a threat.
A former LA city councilor says the aftermath and recovery effort should serve as a Pearl Harbor moment for the city,
which should never again be in a position with flames encroaching on all sides.
The LA Times has published a series of bombshell revelationsabout th…

I picked up Spirit City Lofi Sessions today. Really chill and awesome to play in the background while working #SpiritCity #Steam #MooncubeGames

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City lead 'Protect the Dolls' chant at BravoCon
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/real-housewives-of-salt-lake-city-protect-the-dolls-bravocon/

Raiders-Chiefs preview: Kansas City gets key WR back for AFC West clash https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-chiefs-preview-kansas-city-gets-key-wr-back-for-afc-west-clash-3509728/

November 17: State of Palestine Flag, 10 a.m, Toronto City Hall.
🇵🇸 ✊
#palestine #toronto

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Scientists Discover Massive Underwater Ruins That May Be a Lost City of Legend https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-massive-underwater-ruins-that-may-be-a-lost-city-of-legend/

"But as you can see, the programs do come at a cost... we estimate about $27.4m a year goes to the administrative costs and also the projected fare revenue reduction."
I'm waiting for the slide where they estimate the much higher cost of all the unmetered parking spaces across the city, and of turning off meters at 6pm and on Sundays. I'm sure that'll definitely be later in this presentation, right?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Hex City:
🎵 Black
#HexCity
https://hextransmitter.bandcamp.com/album/black-light-city
https://open.spotify.com/track/7xGeR85jkXoSQthlMgR8FO

❝
For those of you curious - the Nazis downtown are getting absolutely humiliated.
The big anti-Islam protest downtown currently consists of about 8 protesters and hundreds, maybe thousands, of counter protesters. The counter protesters are currently walking/pushing the protesters off of City Hall grounds. True Minnesota hospitality at its best.
Jake Lang [right-winger who organized the event] and a handful of other racists/RW propagandists are surrounded by about 50 cameras and some antifascists chanting him down. A banner the group arrived with has been broken.
Currently has only about 5 supporters, and is being drowned out by counter protesters
The group led by Jake Lang tried to get inside Minneapolis City Hall, but the building is closed, as it is every Saturday.
❞
(This is all gathered from a bunch of different online sources; sorry I can’t link back to all of them, haven’t been keep track properly as I gather, but you can find more primary sources and video, I’m sure)
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✊🏽 Socialist Politics Can Break Through to Asian Immigrants
#politics

Totally normal behaviour for Israel to pay for Canadian politicians to visit them and influence our local policies.
Same country involved in many war crimes and mass atrocities
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-hall/toronto-councillo…

The Santa Barbara City Council passed a temporary rent freeze
in a 4-3 vote on Tuesday,
putting a halt on rent increases for up to a year
while the City Council works toward drafting a more permanent rent stabilization ordinance
to be considered later in 2026. 
The rent increase moratorium will be officially adopted next week
and would be effective 30 days later.
The council failed to get the fifth vote needed to qualify for an urgency ordinance,

Santa Barbara City Council Passes Temporary Rent Freeze
Council will adopt a moratorium on rent increases while the city drafts a permanent rent cap.

Raiders buscan mantener el impulso ante el reto de Mahomes en Kansas City https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-buscan-mantener-el-impulso-ante-el-reto-de-mahomes-en-kansas-city

#ciddle 2025-12-17 (63)
1. ❌ ⬆️ 1407km
2. ❌ ⬇️ 276km
3. ❌ ➡️ 49km
4. ❌ ↖️ 1114km
5. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

Foreigner fatally stabbed in western Ukrainian city of Ternopil, police report: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/18/foreigner-fatally-stabbed-in-western.html

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

So I’ve got a new gig of sorts. I’ll be a volunteer photographer for the city parks system. The task will be to take pics of folks participating in various programs in the parks and natural areas run by other volunteers, to try and capture that attendees are having fun, especially the kids. The difficulty level is that I’ve never liked photographing people. Go out of my way to keep them out of shots. I’ve done a couple events now, and still just feel intrusive. Hope it gets easier.

Gut geraten...
#ciddle 2026-01-18 (120)
1. ❌ ➡️ 13km
2. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

Ciddle - A Daily City Riddle

A decent haul from our cramped city garden as we close up for the winter.
#gardening

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Hex City:
🎵 Black
#HexCity
https://hextransmitter.bandcamp.com/album/black-light-city
https://open.spotify.com/track/7xGeR85jkXoSQthlMgR8FO
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks.
#SanFrancisco

The Chiefs aren't broken -- but they could miss the playoffs: Barnwell on what has gone wrong https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46988649/2025-nfl-week-11-kansas-city-chiefs-playoffs-concern-super-bowl-mahomes

Cyberpunk 2077 will be my Black Friday Bunker. I'm hiding in Night City for a few days at least.
Loving it 2nd time through as well!

Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/queer-trans-ice-protester-st-cloud-minnesota-alice-valentine
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p149#a260116p149

bruges beer pipeline!
https://openinframap.org/#12.79/51.21257/3.2049/A,B,I,L
connecting city-centre and out-of-town sites belonging to the brouwerij de halve maan

So…my first retail job was at a place the city HATED*, and would occasionally send cops in to “check” on the place (it’s open 24/7) and the owner told us to tell them to get out
Getting to tell a cop to pound sand and GTFO at 2am was a true joy.
*it’s still there 40 years later 😂
https://b…

"So it’s not enough to equate Trump’s legions to the Gestapo or the Klan. (I’ve done both.) He also is the 21st-century version of Attila or Genghis Khan, heading a horde that is defined by an exterminationist loathing of cities and all that they stand for and promote. Their diversity, their toleration, their culture, their solidarity across racial and other lines—all are threats to the horde’s and its ruler’s autocratic monoculture. On the streets, the horde’s loathing manifests as indifference (at least) to the loss of city dwellers’ lives.
As it is the 21st century, and as we have an 18th-century Constitution, Trump’s impulse for city sacking Š la Attila is constrained by laws and customs, but he’s plainly determined to find ways around as many of those constraints as he possibly can. Correspondingly, a good share of the fear he’s engendered all across America has an ancient pedigree: It’s the fear of the barbarians at the gates."
#USPolitics
https://prospect.org/2026/01/15/attila-genghis-khan-trump/

At San Francisco City Hall rally protesting Blue Shields denial of coverage recommended by physicians to treat a retired firefighter for cancer.
Remember when #GOP was warning us of the risk of death panels? Well, what we have now are private death panels.

At San Francisco City Hall rally protesting Blue Shields denial of coverage recommended by physicians to treat a retired firefighter for cancer.
Remember when #GOP was warning us of the risk of death panels? Well, what we have now are private death panels.

I want to see Cloudflare screen of death somewhere outside. Like some huge screen serving ads in the city centre or showing metro departure times on the station. This *must* be happening somewhere in the world.

😔 the days are getting colder and shorter
😄 but it's a great time to sow wildflower seeds!
😠 but Oxalis pes-caprae is invading again

Caledonian Sleeper in 'biggest change for 30 years' as new Birmigham stop added | The National https://www.thenational.scot/news/25767563.caledonian-sleeper-trains-get-new-stop-major-english-city/

New York City housing advocate
Patrick Markee’s new book,
"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age,"
looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability.
Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States,
“has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,”
explains Markee.
“There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels…

Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”
New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability. Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States, “has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,” explains Markee. “There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels of homelessness that we have, and that’s b…

Absolutely normal behaviour that a foreign government with a head of state being accused of war crimes is... inviting local city councillors and paying for their trip
https://www.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Fotoform:
🎵 This City Is Over
#Fotoform
https://fotoform.bandcamp.com/track/this-city-is-over
https://open.spotify.com/track/30IlyR0mzDGVRZpo7LJsub

the last numbered page of the new Carton and Malm book is 629, but the last page excluding the notes, index and acknowledgements is 425. I can't imagine it's good for sales to make your book seem like 50% more of an unapproachable doorstop than it is. wonder why they don't put the notes online at that point

Chiefs Patrick Mahomes’ Current Situation Sends a Clear Warning to Rival Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/chiefs-patrick-mahomes-current-situation-sends-clear-warning-las-vegas-kansas-city

Each NFL playoff team wins if ... plus why each could make the Super Bowl https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6978039/2026/01/16/nfl-playoff-predictions-rams-bears-bills-broncos-scoop-city/

If anybody knows how to convince city leaders and police chiefs that they •can• enforce traffic laws against ICE, or convince ICE officers that they will be prosecuted for their actions, or convince everyone that ICE officers who do not provide proof of identity can legally be treated as unknown assailants and kidnappers, or convince judges that Minneapolis / St. Paul is not “the border,” or…or…or…undo any of these nonsense beliefs, please do that! But it’s the •convincing•, not the being correct, that matters there.

Ahhh, ich wollte erst das zweite nehmen und dachte „nee, das wäre zu einfach“
#ciddle 2025-11-18 (54)
1. ❌ ⬅️ 317km
2. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Have I posted about Magic Fig yet? So good. I saw them the other night with Mayya at 4 Star Theater and am becoming increasingly obsessed with this album
https://magicfig.bandcamp.com/album/valerian-tea

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Goldie:
🎵 Inner City Life
#Goldie
https://batardtronique.bandcamp.com/track/inner-city-life-batard-tronique-modern-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0O7xFEqePrcTUgOi4qe0uB

"'We do respect and appreciate the temporary activation but it’s time to start moving forward on the original purpose for this site,' Mahmood said, referring to affordable housing."
Ok good start, now do Parcel K in Hayes Valley. Or is this Mahmood's stance only in poor parts of his district?

S.F. moves to accelerate stalled housing at Tenderloin food hall site
San Francisco officials have changed course and committed to seek developers for the La Cocina site within the next two years.

"How the 15-Minute Sustainable City Model Cuts Carbon by 98% While Growing Local Food"
#Sustainability
https://happyeconews.com/15-minute-sustainable-city/

How the 15-Minute Sustainable City Model Cuts Carbon by 98% While Growing Local Food | Happy Eco News
A 15-minute sustainable city framework by Concordia University researchers shows neighborhoods can become self-sufficient in vegetables while cutting emissions by 98 percent. The model combines rooftop gardens, solar-powered electric delivery, and local markets. Testing in Ontario proved the system pays for itself in 2.8 years while strengthening community bonds and building food security.RetryClaude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.

love to see this activated, but another bookstore 2 blocks from Dog Eared and a coffee shop 1/2 block from Ritual? 🤔
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-hibernia-bank-social-security-valencia-street/

Mysterious LLC wants to turn Mission’s old Social Security building into restaurant, bookstore and events space 
The new owners submitted an application with the Planning Department to turn the building into a restaurant, bookstore and event space.

How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator (Ralph Jones/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/dec/12/sko…

Stuff just like this is happening all over the city.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Marvin Gaye:
🎵 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
#MarvinGaye
https://shamako.bandcamp.com/track/marvin-gaye-inner-city-blues-shamakos-bar-del-porto-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hReWjUHqPqkHi31G7izL4

Examining Raiders' WR Jakobi Meyers' Current Role Within the Offense https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/jakobi-meyers-kansas-city-chiefs-las-vegas

#ciddle 2025-11-16 (52)
1. ❌ ⬇️ 407km
2. ❌ ⬅️ 183km
3. ❌ ⬅️ 101km
4. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Chiefs face uncertain future after Patrick Mahomes' ACL tear: What's next for Kansas City's offense

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-patrick-mahomes-acl-tear-whats-ne…

Why the Next Few Weeks Will be Pivotal for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-john-spytek-pete-carroll-kansas-city-chiefs

SFMTA is proposing eliminating the Clipper discount and raising all fares to $3.00, which may be(?) the highest bus fare in the country. Also, they’re using AI slop to illustrate their slides now. #sfpol
https://ca…

I am not resting easy yet.
A bunch of people who are basically straight-up Nazis just got humiliated. They’re hurting, they’re angry, and they’re in my city.
And they’re pants-on-head dumbshits. (One of their posters bemoaned the “erogion [sic] of our rights.”) That’s not a comfort: sometimes that’s the most dangerous kind of right-winger. Their utter amateurishness means they have no sense of constraints and no sense of consequences. I don’t know what they’ll try to do next.
We remain wary and •highly• watchful. But I’m going to take the win on this round.
/end

Chiefs aftermath: What does Week 15 disaster mean for Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, K.C. in 2026? https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-aftermath-week-15-disaster-kansas-city-patrick-mahomes-travis-kelce-2026

Whistles have become a popular raid alert tool in cities across the country
– New Yorkers wear them around their necks to warn neighbors,
the people of New Orleans blast them outside ICE facilities
and Charlotte residents used them to ward off Customs and Border Protection officials.
While strongly associated with Chicago, the tactic is actually one that city organizers learned in part from groups in Los Angeles.
Its spread is illustrative of the many ways cit…

Tributes to the ficus marked for felling at Steiner and Waller 💚

❝
People played the Frozen soundtrack to drown them out
Lang appears to be yelling anti-Muslim phrases on his megaphone, but it’s difficult to hear what he’s actually saying. Dozens of people, including ones from the media, are around him as he stumbles from one side of the street to the other.
Jake Lang trying to hit people with what appears to be a curtain rod
Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall. He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him.
Big ups to whoever got Lang with a water gun LMAO
❞
FYI, the temperature in Minneapolis is about 10°F / -12°C.
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Chiefs' Mahomes has surgery for torn ACL, LCL https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47320352/kansas-city-chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-undergoes-surgery-torn-acl-lcl

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Jam:
🎵 In the City
#TheJam
https://newtownsound.bandcamp.com/album/dam-native-sirens-in-the-city-12-vinyl-single
https://open.spotify.com/track/250dZY8xYbhHGQpM6bgL52

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Smoke City:
🎵 Mr. Gorgeous (And Miss Curvaceous)
#SmokeCity
https://gangsofnaples.bandcamp.com/track/smoke-city-mr-gorgeous-lello-russo-boot-mix

What's next after Giants land John Harbaugh, Dante Moore returns to Oregon https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6974853/2026/01/15/new-york-giants-harbaugh-hired-dante-moore-jets-scoop-city/

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Geese:
🎵 Long Island City Here I Come
#Geese
https://merlyndupp.bandcamp.com/track/long-island-city-here-i-come
https://open.spotify.com/track/1oevydxCBM8J6aGHKymgl1

Josh Allen back in the NFL MVP race, plus Week 15 risers and fallers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891914/2025/12/15/josh-allen-nfl-mvp-week-15-risers-fallers-scoop-city/

Sometimes I don't warm to my favorite band's newest album until it's been succeeded and is only their second newest album. And so I'm finally getting into Deerhoof's Miracle-Level (2023) now that Noble and Godlike in Ruin (2025) is out.

Apropos of a gas station exploding in my neighborhood: Fossil fuel infrastructure is an ecological disaster every day, especially when there isn't an accident, when everything is "working" "safely."
https://theonion.com/millions-of-barre

Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe
PORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfully unloaded 3.1 million barrels of dangerous crude oil into the United States.

black beluga lentils are perfect for when you’re really hungry and want to eat 2,000 of something

oooof. this incumbent running for re-election to the SF Bike Coalition board is literally a landlord lawyer.
if you're a member, the voting details are here and there are 10 candidates for 8 seats. https://sfbike.org/news/meet-the-candidat…

MEET THE CANDIDATES FOR OUR 2026 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

"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.

In the latest clear violation of the Transit First policy in the city charter, SFMTA is canceling transit-only lanes because business owners whined about congestion. Who will be the one to finally sue the city to enforce Transit First?
https://www.sfmta.…

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

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!

This survey question is rich. This is from one of the BigMoneySF groups trying to make it harder for the rest of us to put stuff on the ballot.
But they will never ban paid signature gathering, the one thing that would most effectively keep crap off the ballot. They just want to raise the signature threshold for the rest of us. It would still be easy for billionaires to abuse the system and qualify any ballot measure they like, just hard for anyone else.

"Permitting Parking in Driveways" is at Monday's SFBOS land use committee.
I plan to comment against this. It seems to allow driveways to be unlimited width and to remain even after garages are converted to ADUs. This is nakedly an inducement to more driving at the expense of green space, stormwater drainage, active transportation, and public transit.

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.

Today I saw a 14R miss the green light on Mission at 24th St, despite the green being extended for the bus. It was stuck behind a long line of drivers illegally going straight. This is supposed to be a right turn only except Muni. Scofflaw driving is defeating transit priority on Mission Street. #sfpol

Apparently Mayor Lurie is making a "safe streets" announcement Monday at 11 at City Hall. Hopefully the announcement is that he's resigning. That would be a huge win for safe streets. #sfpol

Today’s one small action to push SF progressives away from the embrace of car brain.
All candidates who have filed in that district oppose the park, so it’s an easy call that she would be my first place vote if I lived there, regardless. But unless that stance changes, am I spending my precious time on her campaign? Nah. #sfpol

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

I guess the executive power grab attempts in SF government are taking multiple forms. Not only the Commission Streamlining Task Force, but Mayor Lurie and Board President Mandelman have also created this "charter reform working group," where there's no public comment and major city departments are excluded.
https://

On SF Charter Reform Group
With SPUR’s stated political goals trust and confidence in a genuine Charter reform process remains elusive

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"

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?"

Yes, but…

This is so much more of a shitshow than even I realized. Alan Wong was making major amendments and sending them to his prospective co-sponsors in literally the last *hour* before the deadline.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-great-highway-ballot-measure-…

Roadkill: S.F. measure to reintroduce cars to Great Highway ‘crashes and burns’
San Francisco requires only four supervisors to put a ballot measure before voters. That low bar was too high for Supervisor Alan Wong.