Tootfinder

In which they spring it on us that they’re canceling about 350 units of affordable housing. I’m not pleased. #potreroYard #sfpol
https://

“Israel’s army is using remote-controlled vehicles packed with explosives to demolish entire neighbourhoods in besieged Gaza City after issuing a ‘last chance’ to leave warning to hundreds of trapped Palestinians.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/livebl…

LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza homes; military intercepts last flotilla boat
Israel’s army issues ‘final warning’ for hundreds of thousands of people to flee Gaza City as attacks escalate.

The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal
for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
The launch of the portal, came as CBP forces began disappearing residents in the city, Kenner and other suburban areas of the Greater New Orleans area and parts of the River Parishes

New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units
The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during

Tired of waiting for the city, Angelenos paint their own crosswalks. Some become permanent.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-06/tired-of-waiting-for-the-city-some-angelenos-paint…

Tired of waiting for the city, Angelenos paint their own crosswalks. Some become permanent
From Sawtelle to Koreatown, Los Angeles residents have taken street safety into their own hands and painted crosswalks they believe are necessary for residents.

Baltimore Ravens cooked at 1-3? What's wrong with Sauce Gardner? Kansas City Chiefs truly back? https://www.nfl.com/news/baltimore-ravens-cooked-at-1-3-what-s-wrong-with-sauce-gardner-kansas-city-chiefs-truly-back…

The ObamaCare Blue-City Bailout (Allysia Finley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-obamacare-blue-city-bailout-e7d72bee?st=h29y4M
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p3#a251103p3

"also said immigration raids “haven’t gone far enough.”
Trump Brags He Could Invade Your City Whenever He Wants – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/trump-brags-he-could-invade-your-city-whenever-he-wants/

Instacart sues New York City to block enforcement of five laws, including rules governing minimum pay for app-based workers and tipping disclosures (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/instacart-sue…

Facts: “The report shouldn’t be a shock to anyone...because zoning is just one factor of 100. I’m afraid ‘We’re going to sue the government until the capital markets do what we want’ is basically the textbook definition of San Francisco YIMBYism.” - @…

A shocking cybercrime has shaken India’s digital security landscape, with hackers stealing at least 50,000 CCTV clips over nine months from facilities across the country and selling them online, feeding them into an international porn fetish network for profit.
80 CCTV dashboards in seven cities were compromised using 'admin123' default passwords

Inside India’s voyeur web: 80 CCTV dashboards hacked across 20 states; hospitals, schools, homes streamed to porn channels; 50,000 clips sold | Rajkot News - The Times of India
A shocking cyber scandal has exposed widespread CCTV breaches across India, with hackers exploiting a default password, \"admin123,\" to access intimate

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Horsegirl:
🎵 Rock City
#Horsegirl
https://thisishorsegirl.bandcamp.com/track/rock-city
https://open.spotify.com/track/2fyxdNYZGJVESN4ToVw0lM

People complain about the roads but don't do anything about it... well, some of us do.
I've been avoiding these two potholes on my ride home for weeks now, got fed up, finally stopped to report them to the city last week and they just got filled...
In four days. The city street crew filled them in less than a week. Hell Yeah.
(The first photo is what I submitted, second is from the road crew after repairs.)

Renewables: the only source of energy that actually is too cheap to meter. And that is why Trump, the Republicans and their Billionaire bosses want to make sure renewables are at least slowed down if not stopped.… See more https://polyglot.city/@carbsrule_en/115487780310346171

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 3️⃣: Polygons
I went with a classic #choropleth map to keep things simple (and save my energy) and this one shows the population change of the 201 barangays (kinda like wards) of the city of Pasay in the

What happened on Younghoe Koo's kick? Plus the most elite NFL units. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6855969/2025/12/02/what-happened-younghoe-koo-kick-nfl-scoop-city/

"Off the hill" — Read our new story on the Divinity School's annual New Haven Pilgrimage, which encourages students to get to know the city YDS calls home and to pause, listen, and learn from their neighbors. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2025-10

Demonstrating Visual Information Manipulation Attacks in Augmented Reality: A Hands-On Miniature City-Based Setup
Yanming Xiu, Maria Gorlatova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02933 h…

Demonstrating Visual Information Manipulation Attacks in Augmented Reality: A Hands-On Miniature City-Based Setup
Augmented reality (AR) enhances user interaction with the real world but also presents vulnerabilities, particularly through Visual Information Manipulation (VIM) attacks. These attacks alter important real-world visual cues, leading to user confusion and misdirected actions. In this demo, we present a hands-on experience using a miniature city setup, where users interact with manipulated AR content via the Meta Quest 3. The demo highlights the impact of VIM attacks on user decision-making and …

Just watched a video about project plowshare, which also contained an estimate of the price of a small nuclear weapon, with the point of reference „For the price of a small house in a city, you can wipe that city off the map“.
I feel like this is a promising extension to the „rent vs. buy“ binary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Breath of fresh air to see how Gary McCoy’s public safety platform emphasizes mental health services and community violence prevention over the usual drumbeat of cops cops cops. 👏
https://www.garymccoysf.com/priorities

Progressive topples former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey in Jersey City mayoral runoff (Ry Rivard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/james-solomon-jersey-city-mayoral-race-00674050
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p170#a251202p170

Not a bad read on #Wythenshawe and the redevelopment plans.
The battle for the garden city - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

The battle for the garden city
Campaigners say Wythenshawe's £500m revamp has 'a real sense of gentrification', but Manchester council points out that it's building 422 all-affordable homes to kick the project off. Ethan Davies reports on the battle for the garden city

#ciddle 2025-11-03 (49)
1. ❌ ↘️ 3138km
2. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

You know and I know and you know that I know, but still, on the record:
Somali immigrants are my neighbors, my friends. I’m so glad my city is where so many have chosen to come live. They make Minneapolis better. Their presence is a blessing.
Somali neighbors: thank you for being here.
Trump administration: you can go directly to hell.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/02/report-ice-headed-to-twin-cities-targeting-somali-immigrants/

Pokrovsk in Russia's grip as sister city stares down encirclement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/pokrovsk-in-russias-grip-as.html

New York city to ban all processed meats in hospitals, schools and shelters https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/new-york-city-to-ban-all-processed-meats-in-hospitals-schools-and-shelters

New York city to ban all processed meats in hospitals, schools and shelters — Species Unite
Mayor Eric Adams is determined to promote healthy eating among New Yorkers, having turned his own life around after adopting a plant-based diet.

#ciddle 2025-11-04 (59)
1. ❌ ∗️ 168km
2. ❌ ↘️ 50km
3. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

Ciddle - A Daily City Riddle

Looking for something to do this evening in SF? Come learn about municipal social housing!
https://actionnetwork.org/events/municipal-social-housing-panel?source=mastodon

Municipal Social Housing: Learning from Seattle's Win
Two DSA SF backed ballot props in 2020 were meant to enable and fund social housing, but mayoral opposition has blocked the funds being spent for that purpose. Seattle's victory offers a lesson in how we might beat that blockage. In February, Seattle's House Our Neighbors passed a ballot proposition with dedicated funds for a social housing developer. The campaign won by 26 points over opposition from Seattle's mayor and most of their city council. Join us for a conversation with Seattle orga…

Pretty City 💕 (although I'm not sure how we have an eastern sunset).
#SanFrancisco

Local. Elections. Matter.
In my city we have a vote today to push back against overreach by the state into local governance. There are just over 75,000 eligible voters.
Gainesville folks - take time today to tell the state to stay out of local governance. Vote Yes for Local Public Utilities.

What happened on Younghoe Koo's kick? Plus the most elite NFL units. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6855969/2025/12/02/what-happened-younghoe-koo-kick-nfl-scoop-city/

Hey Chicago! Like pizza? Like fair elections? If either of those apply, this is for you:
https://www.citybureau.org/events/the-great-chicago-pizza-election-an-exercise-in-ranked-choice-voting

The Great Chicago Pizza Election: An Exercise in Ranked Choice Voting — City Bureau
Nominate the local pizzeria you think epitomizes what Chicago pizza is all about — tavern-style, thick crust, deep dish, it’s up to you — and we’ll have the top 5 nominees available for you to taste and rank.

California AG sues city for allowing out-of-state searches of license plate reader database https://therecord.media/california-lawsuit-el-cajon-police-out-of-state-searches-flock-database

"Glasgow City Council is currently consulting on active travel improvements around Thornwood Roundabout and National Cycle Network Route 7 (NCN7)."
#cycling

wtf? https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-jX9GlHNnTEud--xneaXXZg:a:3807498986-/0

NYCHA building partially collapses in Bronx due to explosion, city officials report no injuries
A public housing tower partially collapsed in the South Bronx on Wednesday morning due to an explosion, forcing residents to evacuate, New York City …

Trump Goon Spills Bonkers Plan to Deploy 82nd Airborne to Blue City (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-goon-spills-bonkers-plan-to-deploy-82nd-airborne-to-blue-city/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p18#a251004p18

I had fun with OpenStreetMap data and Julia yesterday, so I wrote some notes on how I did it (i.e., access OSM data, process it with Shapefile.jl and plot it with Plots.jl).
Details at https://brendanhalpin.net/blog/posts/osmnjulia

organizing this panel about social housing and how Seattle’s success can inspire SF to get around roadblocks. please come if you’re in SF! Friday evening
https://actionnetwork.org/events/municipal-social-housing-panel?source=mastodon

Municipal Social Housing: Learning from Seattle's Win
Two DSA SF backed ballot props in 2020 were meant to enable and fund social housing, but mayoral opposition has blocked the funds being spent for that purpose. Seattle's victory offers a lesson in how we might beat that blockage. In February, Seattle's House Our Neighbors passed a ballot proposition with dedicated funds for a social housing developer. The campaign won by 26 points over opposition from Seattle's mayor and most of their city council. Join us for a conversation with Seattle orga…

Apologies for being a little absent here since the end of October. We were launching a new website, our first in about 10 years.
Check out the results at https://georgiamuseum.org/
We worked with Lifted Logic, a web design firm out of Kansas City. They adapted

For any of my comrades who are using SNAP, I wish I had something better to say than "if you crush 4 buckeyes with a hammer and tie the pulp in a sock you can wash a good sized load of laundry." English Ivy also has saponins, but I've never been able to make soap from it myself.
Ivy is everywhere. Buckeyes (Horse Chestnuts) are common in city parks (there are a ton in Seattle).
Yucca is also a good source of saponins, but it also has silica. That makes it a good scrubby soap. You can find these plants all over they're pretty common to find in yards.
If you can find acorns still (it's a bit late, but who knows), acorn grits are great and something you can survive on for a bit. Acorns need processing (it's easy to look up, but feel free to ask or check out one or Black Forager's videos on it).
If you've been following me for a bit, you probably already know all this. But if you don't, I hope it helps.
Any other forager folks are welcome to drop hints here that might be useful to folks in the city.
#Foraging

Just heard that Lisa Fairmaner is leaving the job Head of London Plan at City Hall and moving to Arups. Does anyone know any back story? Succession?

Ultimately, #Melbourne’s inaccessible tram stops are what led to my wife and I moving to Canberra. It’s despicable that #PublicTransport in a city of Melbourne’s size should be so deliberately exclusive of the disabled.

Reviewing my sample ballot for Concord's municipal elections Tuesday; my recommendations:
- Mayor: I like both Byron and Kate West. Vote your conscience.
- Councilor-at-large: Fisto is my first choice, then either Amanda Grady Sexton or Fred Keach. Definitely not Robert Washburn, though.
- Ward 6 Councilor: Vote Aislinn Kalob!
- School Board: Vote Cara Meeker!
- Sale of Eastman: Kinda wish we could know who it'd be sold to first, but sure, why not
- Social districts: Sure, although I'll want to follow this up by attending the city council meetings where they work out the details, and make sure they limit them to individual fully-pedestrianized city blocks (e.g. Bicentennial Square, Eagle Square)
- Keno: It is currently prohibited. It is necessary to vote YES on this question to continue to prohibit it (because otherwise new state law would require it to be allowed by-right), so I say yes, do that, vote to prohibit it.

#FunFact The combined population of the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn Queens in the 2020 census was:
5141538
At the end of that year, the number of inhabitants in Norway was:
5391369

We have another #data job at the City of #capetown, this time for a Senior #DataEngineer
We build & support data-intensive systems, not just digital plumbing! We're looking for strong softwar…

City of Cape Town Link
Sharing a City of Cape Town Page...

Folks, Alaa is still in the North. She cannot evacuate due to lack of money.
Please help if you can.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified

Alaa (@alaamoh@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image My friends, I am still in the north of Gaza City. I cannot evacuate to the south because I do not have the money. The army is getting very close to us. I need $1,500 urgently so that I can evacuate and survive. Please help me. 🙏😢 Donation link https://gofund.me/5ac86d56 @aral@mastodon.ar.al @joynewacc https://mathstodon.xyz/@glmxndr

E.W. Scripps agrees to sell its Indianapolis ABC affiliate station WRTV to Circle City Broadcasting for $83M; Scripps agreed to sell WFTX for $40M in September (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/ew-scripps-wrtv-circle-city-broadcasting-sale/

E.W. Scripps to Sell Indianapolis ABC Affiliate WRTV to Circle City Broadcasting for $83 Million
The deal for the Indianapolis ABC affiliate station will close following receipt of regulatory and other customary approvals

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Tommy Mandel:
🎵 VI. Zeta (Kin Tama)
#TommyMandel
https://invisible-city-editions.bandcamp.com/track/vi-zeta-kin-tama
https://open.spotify.com/track/4xqx40gLWasCLyaV08xfyi

Stark health differences separate 49ers and Rams, plus easiest and toughest schedules so far https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6684166/2025/10/02/nfl-schedule-tough-easy-so-far-rams-49ers-health-scoop-city/

Singapore dollar-pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinbase, giving the city-state a head start over Hong Kong in launching a local currency-linked stablecoin (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/cryptocur…

Singapore beats Hong Kong to debut stablecoin amid crypto fever
XSGD touted for digital payments as Coinbase, Grab pile in

The City of Wauwatosa is looking for new branding/logo design and floated running a "contest" and even posted what appears to be AI art examples.
People are not having it. Many comments were negative of the AI slop and many said "Hire actual designers!" so that's a bright spot this week.
#tosa

Where the Chiefs’ Remaining Schedule Really Stands in the NFL https://www.si.com/nfl/chiefs/onsi/kansas-city-dallas-cowboys-buffalo-bills

#ciddle 2025-10-03 (36)
1. ❌ ⬅️ 7862km
2. ❌ ↘️ 2629km
3. ❌ ⬆️ 2466km
4. ❌ ∗️ 11027km
5. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

The 12-Folsom/Pacific: whenever you need it, it just came and the next one is in 22 minutes! I have the worst luck with this bus

board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…

What rural folks don’t understand about city life
The wages of our well-paid college graduates support the
self-righteous people in red America

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/28/city-life-chicago-v…

What rural folks don’t understand about city life
Urban urbanity: Chicago, New York and San Francisco through readers’ eyes.

Many of us are in @… and @… ’s situation here: plastics are collected for recycling, but few/none enter the recycling stream. In that situation:
- Robin’s response is the first and best one: use less.
- In addition, I’d advocate for (1) continuing to recycle what you can’t avoid using and (2) give that city gov endless headaches about their failure to recycle. Show there’s demand for recyclability, get whatever tiny fraction does get recycled out of the waste stream, •and• make headaches for people in positions of power for plastic failing to live up to that demand.
I would •not• just stop recycling. Don’t just give up. My 2¢.
https://mastodon.social/@Robo105/115651167356290774
https://kolektiva.social/@Fishercat/115651193778282604

“Many AVs are electric, but the metals and minerals used to build them often come from environmentally harmful mining operations that damage communities—especially Indigenous communities—and ecosystems abroad.”
Appreciate @… calling this out! Cars aren't green, AV or not. Sign her petition to let California counties vote on whether we wan…

Let the People Decide: Give Us a Vote on Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have flooded San Francisco’s streets, raising serious safety and traffic concerns for residents, pedestrians, animal advocates, and local businesses. In 2025 alone, both Waymo and Zoox recalled over 1,200 vehicles due to crash risks. AVs have also blocked emergency vehicles, caused traffic jams, and created dangerous situations for people walking, biking, and driving. Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft already made traffic worse, accounting for about half th…

Lawsuit claims city of Dallas can't ban anti-LGBTQ bias or regulate cat breeding - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/lawsuit-claims-city-of-dallas-cant-ban-anti-lgbtq-bias-or-regulate-cat-breeding/

Democracy, innit?
Wonder how the corporate Democrats feel about having Trump’s endorsement. https://dmv.community/@AliceMarshall/115492411417922038

some of these centrists are so thirsty for power, they'd kill an unaligned ant if they thought it would get them elected

Uber partners with Avride to launch robotaxi rides in Dallas, marking Uber's fourth US city to offer autonomous ride options after Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

✊ The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor-us-trump

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right
For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

#ciddle 2025-10-04 (37)
1. ❌ ∗️ 300km
2. ❌ ➡️ 113km
3. ❌ ↘️ 115km
4. ❌ ⬆️ 118km
5. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

Ian Rapoport's Cowboys trade rumor could lead to deadline deal with Chiefs or Bills https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/ian-rapoports-cowboys-trade-rumor-deadline-deal-chie…

hope to see some of you at SFBike winterfest tonight!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Wimps:
🎵 City Lights
#Wimps
https://thesewimps.bandcamp.com/album/city-lights
https://open.spotify.com/track/34FiFv8vsdjpAgiyyaioJr

SF's Local Agency Formation Commission "LAFCo" is hiring a policy analyst. This role would be key in the development of a green public bank, which will be on the ballot next year, and potentially in starting a social housing program!
https://careers.sf.gov/role/?id=374399

LAFCo Policy Analyst - Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) - Board of Supervisors - (1823 Senior Administrative Analyst)
Specific information regarding this recruitment process are listed below:Application Opening: November 25, 2025Filing Deadline: December 31, 2025 Recruitment ID: RTF0162212-01148363APPOINTMENT TYPEPermanent Exempt (PEX), Category 18: The San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) Policy Analyst position is exempt from Civil Service Rules and serves at the pleasure of the Appointing Officer, the Executive Officer of LAFCo. This is a limited term position with a maximum of one (1)…

Obama, Mamdani talk as Election Day approaches in New York City mayor's race (Hunter Woodall/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-mamdani-talk-as-election-day-approaches-new-york-city-mayors-race/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p49#a251101p49

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it had started an immigration enforcement operation in New Orleans today.
The department said the offensively titled "Operation Catahoula Crunch"
would target
“criminal illegal aliens roaming free thanks to sanctuary policies”.
New Orleans is the latest Democratic-run city (albeit in a Republican-led state) to see federal immigration agents on its streets.
Most recently, the Trump administrationtargete…

a classic finding in urban studies is Donald Appleyard's study that showed growing an apple tree brings the neighbors to your yard

Horizon Quantum, which aims to list on Nasdaq via a SPAC in Q1 2026, claims it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/horizon-qu

Software startup deploys Singapore’s first quantum computer for commercial use
Singapore-based software firm Horizon Quantum Computing has become the first private firm to deploy a quantum computer for commercial use in the city-state.

No big deal just a small music venue where bands play changing the city for the better...
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/24/cactus-club-accessibility-improvements-inspire-city-officials/

Cactus Club Accessibility Improvements Inspire City Officials
City will waive fees for additions like wheelchair ramps. 'We want thousands more.

Trending 📉 📈 after Sunday of NFL’s Week 13 as Bears and Panthers surprise https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6853018/2025/12/01/week-13-nfl-trending-risers-fallers-scoop-city-bears/

Can we please, in the name of humanity, stop this motherfucker?
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251028-israeli-planes-strike-gaza-city-after-netanyahu-orders-powerful-attacks

Israeli planes strike Gaza City after Netanyahu orders 'powerful attacks'

An overview of what this moment means for public transit in SF.
https://dsasf.org/transit-month/

A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-companies-mexico-city/

Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood
A growing Chinese techie community in Nuevo Polanco is fueling a boom in restaurants and markets to serve them.

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say (Gwynne Hogan/The City)
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/ice-arrested-separated-chinese-father-6-year-old-son/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p121#a251202p121

Follow live: Chiefs, Bills square off in marquee matchup in AFC https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401772768/chiefs-bills

Everyone, @… is in extreme danger in the North and cannot evacuate due to lack of funds.
The cradle of inhumanity, Israel, has decreed open season on anyone in the North in the latest phase of its genocide.
Alaa and her child need $1,500 to evacuate.
You will literally be saving their lives.
Please help if you can and share so others might…

Alaa (@alaamoh@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image My friends, I am still in the north of Gaza City. I cannot evacuate to the south because I do not have the money. The army is getting very close to us. I need $1,500 urgently so that I can evacuate and survive. Please help me. 🙏😢 Donation link https://gofund.me/5ac86d56 @aral@mastodon.ar.al @joynewacc https://mathstodon.xyz/@glmxndr

this is worth reading, even if you have no interest in hearing about Ezra Klein (I sure didn't): it's only using him as a paradigmatic case in how a lot of us are feeling lost.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-have-to-swallow-frogs…

looks like tomorrow’s the only day you can see the Onion mockumentary on Jeffrey Epstein, locally at Balboa Theater in SF or New Parkway Theater in Oakland https://theonion.com/badpedophile/

Bad Pedophile
America’s Finest News Source is proud to resuscitate the dying medium of film with a double-feature presentation beginning with their latest investigative documentary. Featuring never-before-seen interviews and footage, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile succeeds where hundreds of previous documentaries have failed, finally uncovering the truth behind one of America’s most notorious sex perverts. As an added bonus feature, […]

Patrick Mahomes vs. Josh Allen Round 10: AFC foes who are more similar than you would think https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46759971/kansas-city-chiefs-buffalo-bills-patrick-mahomes-josh-allen-matchup-week-9

Chiefs vs. Chargers Week 1: Three key storylines for Friday's game in Brazil https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-chargers-2025-nfl-season-week-one-brazil-three-storylines

Cowboys-Chiefs Thanksgiving game sets NFL record https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47191100/cowboys-chiefs-thanksgiving-game-sets-nfl-viewership-record

I still have an SF YIMBY coffee mug from when I was a member, with the former slogan, "Legalize Housing." So much for that. Every SF YIMBY–endorsed member of the Board of Supervisors voted for this cruel RV ban with tacit YIMBY approval, criminalizing people's homes and banishing them from the city.
Can't speak for other #YIMBY movements around the world, but the SF version ha…

Tow trucks are coming for S.F.’s RVs. Their residents struggle for reprieve.
With San Francisco's RV parking ban starting on Nov. 1, dozens of RV dwellers say they were missed in a city-wide count of RVs parked on public streets.

if you haven't reached your free article limit, are you really living?

I had a dream last night that the latest front in YIMBYism was trying to legalize underground apartments with no windows. When I woke up I realized that's a classic representation of death in dreams.

Robotaxis are so safe that California police haven't written them a single ticket. https://apnews.com/article/waymo-no-driver-traffic-ticket-0a0dffb19bf38c5ee85681a6f83591ff

Police in Northern California stop driverless Waymo taxi after illegal U-turn
Police in Northern California pulled over a self-driving Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn. But without a driver behind the wheel, they could not issue a moving violation ticket. The San Bruno Police Department wrote up the weekend encounter in social media posts that have gone viral. Police said that their “citation books don’t have a box for ‘robot’.” State law requires moving violations be issued to drivers or operators. A new state law that kicks in next year will allow l…

come meet the Herzog brothers and the Herzog sister Dot. just for fun we run around the Werner movie lot

This BART sign is not colorblind friendly. If you have full color vision you know this is a Red Line to Richmond but if colorblind and not familiar with the system map you don't know it's Red. Considering many apps use the color, BART should fix this by spelling it out!

how was everyone's first day of #AWeekWithoutDriving?

RE: https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/115618503852227506
In which SFMTA staff "recommend" (but they're not letting the board vote, they're just going to do it) expanding Waymo, Uber, and Lyft onto what was supposed to be car-free Market 24/7.

My favorite part of this is when ChatGPT tells the Lurie staffer about Mayor Lurie's budget instructions to city departments on December 13, 2023. Lurie entered office in January 2025.
https://sfanonymous.substack.com/p/read-how-top-mayor-daniel-lur…

Read how top Mayor Daniel Lurie Official used ChatGPT to figure out how President Trump could convert Alcatraz to a prison and how to prepare for "tough questions" on Family Zoning
In response to a records request, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s team responded on September 23, 2025 with several ChatGPT logs.

A GenX white woman complained to her visitor from France that this building and park were gentrification, and the area “used to be fields.” The French guy actually corrected her: he remembered it was a parking lot on his last visit. The building is also 100% affordable.

At the first SF Transit Riders member assembly! Plan is to hold these quarterly to update members, hear feedback and let members initiate projects. #sfpol

Good riddance. "Six days a week, 24 hours a day, two police officers within it would be paid overtime, which comes out to time-and-a-half." Think what we could've done to actually help people with this money. https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/sfpd-

SFPD nixes 24/7 bus at 16th and Mission, offers varying rationales
The command unit was placed at the BART plaza to demonstrate the city’s commitment to addressing drug use and vending

It's time for San Francisco to follow Austin's and Evanston's lead and end its Flock contract.
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115273074215468855

Haymarket Books has ebooks on sale for $2 until Nov. 7. Some of my favorite books published by them are:
Abolish Rent: on the potential of tenant organizing
Let This Radicalize You: a guide to activism over the long haul
No Cop City, No Cop World: lessons from Atlanta's Cop City fight
Perfect Victims: unpacks anti-Palestinian narratives you may not realize you've internalized

Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
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here’s a pretty tree I saw today, don’t know the species