@scott@carfree.cityOn Tuesday, the SFMTA board casually discussed another fare increase, ignoring the harms that could cause, including to votes for next year's funding measures. All while the possibility of simply keeping parking meters turned on on evenings and Sundays was left off the table.
https://scott.mn/2025/12/19/sf…
@scott@social.linux.pizzaMcAvoy wearing a half shield?? when did that start? #hnom
@servelan@newsie.social"Scott resigned as CEO of Columbia/HCA in 1997, days after federal agents raided company facilities as part of the sweeping fraud probe. The federal government and company whistleblowers said the hospital giant “systematically defrauded” Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare programs through unlawful billing and other ploys."
New face of GOP healthcare is senator linked to largest Medicare fraud scheme in history - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/scott-medicare-fraud/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comChongLy Scott Thao, Hmong Immigrant and U.S. Citizen, Arrested by ICE (Maia Coleman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/chongly-scott-thao-ice-arrest.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p129#a260120p129
@scott@carfree.cityModest improvement coming to the Evans bike lane: one additional block eastbound from Rankin to Quint will be parking-protected. https://www.sfmta.com/media/44461/download?inline
Biking on Evans is now vastly better than before the project, but the traffic numbers sho…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDow Jones hires ex-Bloomberg Media CEO M. Scott Havens as its first chief growth officer, overseeing subscription growth and other consumer revenue streams (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/dow-jones-hires-scott-havens-chief-growth-officer/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Dred Scott:
🎵 They Don't Know
#DredScott
https://dred-scott.bandcamp.com/track/they-dont-know
https://open.spotify.com/track/2GPn6L04s2XUag2QgePXa0
@scott@carfree.cityIf I were voting today in D4 I'd rank Jeremy Greco first because he's the only pro–Sunset Dunes candidate and seems cool generally; he's a longtime co-op worker at Other Avenues and wants to make it easier to start co-ops.
I'd rank Natalie Gee second. It sucks she wants to turn the park back into a highway, but so do all the non-Jeremy candidates, and she's the only one I trust to tax the rich to build affordable housing.
@scott@social.linux.pizzaUSA and Solvakia both wearing blue shorts makes this kind of confusing to watch #hnom
@Techmeme@techhub.socialScott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a "blow-up" with Evan Spiegel over strategy (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/figmas-answer-to-the-ai-software
@scott@carfree.cityI was reminded today that Garry Tan, reportedly a centimillionaire, has the most entry-level ass booze in his private booze locker. No taste. It would be a kindness to confiscate these men's wealth and spare them from embarrassing themselves.
@scott@carfree.citySF politics is supposed to be a knife fight in a phone booth, but I don't see that energy from transit/safe-streets orgs that should be calling out Daniel Lurie on his carbrain. They're all trying to suck up to him for access instead. Seems like a recipe for failure. #sfpol
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialMicrosoft Open-Source Programs Office Director Stacy Haffner, and Developer Community VP Scott Hanselman announced today in the wake of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision, that they have just released the source code for the games Zork 1-3 under a MIT open-source license.
"Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source"
@scott@carfree.cityThis bus is supposed to run every 20 min. Instead I’m walking home in the rain because there’s a missed run and more than half-hour wait.
Daniel Lurie would rather lower Marc Benioff’s taxes than raise enough money to fix this
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBessent urges Europe not to retaliate against Trump's Greenland tariffs (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/20/scott-bessent-europe-trump-greenland-tariff-us-wef-davos
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p51#a260120p51
@UP8@mastodon.socialYou know, David Brooks used to drive me up the wall but I think he's facing up to the crisis of the present time in this interview with Scott Galloway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJAAQ0W4Czs
@scott@carfree.cityIt is so clear to me that Waymo, Zoox and other robocars are an existential threat to public transit, they exist to kill and devour it, every robotaxi win is a transit loss and vice versa. I'm sounding the alarm as loudly as I know how. But I feel like a Cassandra with how many urbanists won't see this.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSay what you will but AI has the douchbag developer persona down pat.
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Heritage Foundation,
an influential rightwing thinktank currently mired in controversy over its president’s apparent apology for extremism,
has appointed as a director the founder of a secretive all-male network of Christian nationalist fraternal lodges.
Scott Yenor, who was appointed as Heritage’s new director of the
"B Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies"
has recently offered ultra-conservative opinions on
women, marriage and LGBTQ ri…
@scott@carfree.cityGood evening to everyone except this clown car of politicians trying to close the city's third most popular park (and apparently not talking to each other about it)
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-alan-wong-sunset-great-highway-ballot-mea…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… F. Scott Fitzgerald sounds like I really don’t like a guy named Scott Fitzgerald
@scott@carfree.city"Tenants in rent-controlled apartments have the right to move back at their prior rents once renovations are completed. After fires, however, landlords often seize the opportunity to make more significant changes... unnecessary for a tenant to reoccupy.
"That extends the construction timeline by months or years... and landlords often hope tenants will just give up. Then, rent for new tenants goes up to market rates."
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBehind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-st-paul-chongly-scott-thao-saly-hmong-us-citizen-arrest
http://www.memeorandum.com/260119/p99#a260119p99
@scott@carfree.cityWorst company?
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys hire Scott Symons as inside linebackers coach https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-hire-scott-symons-as-inside-linebackers-coach
@scott@carfree.cityshoutout to Muni operators keeping their buses and the city moving under chaotic conditions with a lot of signals out 🫡
I was on a 22 passing 16th & Bryant and wondered why it was taking so long. the signal was out at that ridiculous intersection!
the professionalism and focus under stress of Muni’s well-trained union operators is an inspiration every day
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: ESPN hired ex-USA Today sports editor Roxanna Scott for the new position of SVP, EIC, in which she will be the top editor across TV and digital (Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/espn-new-editor-roxanna-scott/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Linda Scott:
🎵 I've Told Every Little Star
#LindaScott
https://holidaymom.bandcamp.com/track/ive-told-every-little-star-linda-scott-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4KpVB1AzRjvhxeinygrVD6
@scott@carfree.cityBeing a transit supporter or progressive under SF Mayor Lurie is like, “Yes, we still have to eat this shit sandwich, but we got a few morsels of actual nutrition added too. And we reduced the amount of shit more than anyone thought possible!”
@scott@carfree.cityNice to see they made Ritual woke ❤️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@scott@carfree.cityOn Muni these days, I look around and 80% of riders are staring at their phones. It makes me sad. For the other 20%. One of the richest cities on earth, and they’re too poor to afford phones.
@scott@carfree.cityoh cool I just started reading Murguía's poetry book from City Lights, Stray Poems. maybe I'll try to see this!
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-mission-alejandro-murguia-documentary-keeper-of-the-fire/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Jill Scott:
🎵 Golden (Kaytranada's Life Living Edition)
#JillScott
https://kwamzy.bandcamp.com/track/jill-scott-golden-dj-kwamzy-amapiano-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/28EL5veTZtx38TqxIZwFyQ
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOPM Director Scott Kupor says tech billionaires such as Elon Musk will give talks to the US Tech Force, which aims to recruit roughly 1,000 software engineers (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7691a233-953b-450e-aefc-f7678ddca6e1
@scott@carfree.citythis week's soup at Fox & Lion in SF has a kick to it, highly recommend. the soup is always vegan
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys hire Scott Symons as inside linebackers coach https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-hire-scott-symons-as-inside-linebackers-coach
@scott@social.linux.pizzarare good news https://bsky.app/profile/dropsitenews.com/post/3mcl7mhmpb22h
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump is showing the world the U.S. is 'back,' Scott Bessent tells CNBC as Greenland tensions ratchet up (Lucy Handley/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/trump-greenland-bessent-leadership-denmark-davos.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p42#a260120p42
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialScott Borchetta, who founded Big Machine Records and signed Taylor Swift in 2006, is leaving Hybe America, which bought Big Machine in 2021; Hybe retains assets (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/scott-borchetta-exit…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPardoned Jan. 6 rioter Andrew Johnson to face criminal trial for child molestation (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/pardoned-jan-6-rioter-andrew-johnson-child-molestation-trial/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p83#a260120p83
@scott@social.linux.pizzalol right on schedule https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/115907129519156565
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys contratan a Scott Symons como entrenador de LBs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-contratan-a-scott-symons-como-entrenador-de-lbs
@scott@carfree.city"Open land represents the future in its purest form — after all, every place was no place at some point." 😑 This is such a distilled expression of settler-colonial mindset. No, we do not need "new" cities, we need to fix up the ones we've got.
https://www.
@scott@carfree.city @memeorandum@universeodon.comScoop: Charlie Kirk's radio slot filled by Scott Jennings, Alex Marlow (Tal Axelrod/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/17/charlie-kirk-radio-scott-jennings-alex-marlow
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p85#a251217p85
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialScott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, syndicated to ~2K newspapers at its peak and dropped after he made racist comments in 2023, has died at 68 (Richard Sandomir/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/arts/scott-adams-dead.html
@scott@carfree.cityCharlottesville, VA is the latest city with smarter elected leaders than San Francisco (where we continue to double down on partnering with ICE-collaborating Flock Security).
https://www.29news.com/2025/12/17/charlottesville…
@scott@carfree.cityMyrna Melgar is joining with the mods to put the Danny Sauter Career Protection Act on the June ballot. https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/sf-mayor-superviso…
@scott@carfree.cityI thought I'd be able to finish reading Anti-Oedipus - how hard could it be? - but it turns out that was deleuzeional.
@scott@carfree.cityShoutout to Finjan Qahwa at Mission & Valencia for letting me buy a delicious Moroccan mint tea and bash out a blog post between 7 and 9pm. Gotta love a coffeeshop with evening hours
@scott@carfree.cityincredible things happening in this world (derogatory)
@scott@social.linux.pizza @scott@carfree.cityWhen there’s bus bunching they should announce the lead bus is going express and skipping 10 stops ahead, instead of making the tail bus drive super slow, which rarely works and delays everyone on that bus with places to be. It sucks being on the bus that’s being “headway managed”
@scott@carfree.city"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…
@scott@carfree.city"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?
@scott@carfree.cityHave 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
@scott@carfree.city"Hours before California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed landmark legislation to outlaw caste discrimination, Ramesh V. Kapur, a Massachusetts entrepreneur with deep ties to affluent Indian American donors, said Newsom personally emailed him to let him know it was about to happen."
https://www.
@scott@carfree.cityAbolish the office of United States president. It's too much power for one person, even when the president follows the law, let alone this chud who doesn't. #PresidentsDay #uspol
@scott@carfree.city @scott@carfree.citylove 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/
@scott@carfree.cityWelcome to San Francisco, where Oceanview has no ocean view, Golden Gate Avenue doesn't go to Golden Gate Bridge or Park, Front Street doesn't front anything, Main Street isn't a main street, and the Sunset is too foggy to see the sunset.
https://mastodon.social/@jef/116078846
@scott@carfree.citySometimes 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.
@scott@carfree.cityApropos 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
@scott@carfree.citySFMTA 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…
@scott@carfree.cityEast Bay Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a "Democrat," is proposing to require Class 2 and 3 e-bikes to be registered and display license plates based on some nonsense about them supposedly being the biggest threat to disabled Californians' safety and not, y'know, cars.
You can sign Bike East Bay's petition against it:
@scott@carfree.cityStupid San Francisco question: what does the M in OMI stand for again?
Oceanview, M______, Ingleside. I can't think what fits in the blank. Maybe @… knows.
@scott@carfree.cityToday in the drizzle I stopped by the Living Library, a beautiful native plant garden near SF's Balboa Park at the San Jose/Seneca intersection. Highly recommend a visit to see some #ceanothus in bloom and California poppies and island mallows beginning to, and much more.
@scott@carfree.cityblack beluga lentils are perfect for when you’re really hungry and want to eat 2,000 of something
@scott@carfree.cityoooof. 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…
@scott@carfree.cityTributes to the ficus marked for felling at Steiner and Waller 💚
@scott@carfree.cityThis 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.
@scott@carfree.city"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.
![[Planning Code - Permitting Parking in Driveways]
Sponsors: Mayor; Chen and Melgar
Ordinance amending the Planning Code to permit parking of up to two operable vehicles,
not including boats, trailers, recreational vehicles, mobile homes, or buses, in driveways
located in required front setbacks, side yards, or rear yards; affirming the Planning
Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; making
findings of consistency with the General Plan, and the eight…](https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/carfreecitymain/media_attachments/files/115/720/537/456/713/276/original/3587a1e38eb0a821.png)
@scott@carfree.cityI keep meaning to try the fancy expensive vegan cookies at Christine's. Anyone been over there?
https://cometochristines.com/
@scott@carfree.cityI'm shocked, shocked, that waiving the transfer tax on downtown office to residential conversions did not result in a single such conversion happening.
Well, not that shocked. (The real point of March 2024 Prop C was the sneaky provision letting the SFBOS reduce the transfer tax altogether without an election. Not to produce housing but to cut downtown landlords' taxes.)
@scott@carfree.cityRE: https://social.mondoweiss.net/@mondoweiss/115709550259103986
Another crime that can't be freely discussed in the UC system on pain of students being expelled and faculty losing their jobs, thanks to SF's Scott Wiener and his
@scott@carfree.cityToday 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
@scott@carfree.cityYes, but…
@scott@carfree.cityThis is why I don't fully trust 48hills, even though they're on "my side" in being pro-labor and anti-billionaire. Tim Redmond thinks it's a good thing that a 100% affordable housing development was forced to lop a floor off to preserve views 😫
"The staff reached out to the neighbors,[...]took feedback, and as a result made some changes that lowered the height of the new buildings. That, in a reasonable world, is how this should work" No it's not!!…
@scott@carfree.cityCopaganda watch: Here's a story about a struggling restaurant in SoMa, owned by two women of color.
Then there's a sharp pivot to Supervisor Matt Dorsey's solutions, all based on coercion and punishment: "a multi-layered strategy of business curfews, higher police staffing and a new sobering center." This would only continue to make conditions worse.
@scott@carfree.cityIn 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.…
@scott@carfree.cityThis 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-…
@scott@carfree.cityToday’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
@scott@carfree.cityOuterlands' owner "said that weekend brunch is busier than ever thanks to Sunset Dunes, the new park on the car-free Great Highway a few blocks away."
Who could have guessed? Parks that draw people to the neighborhood are better for business than highways that bypass the neighborhood.
@scott@carfree.cityApparently 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
@scott@carfree.cityI 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://
@scott@carfree.cityIncremental improvement coming to the Evans bike lane!
https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/116060871073512395
@scott@carfree.cityKind of a cool proposal in terms of squeezing density onto a slim site, but I wish it didn't have 10 parking spaces for 11 units. That much parking shouldn't be allowed so close to BART, inducing more driving trips on Guerrero which is already a traffic sewer.
https://missionlocal…
@scott@carfree.cityThis sucks, but I don’t think any organized constituency is going to fight it so it’s as good as law. Coming to SF: more businesses where you can’t buy anything without being added to their email list for the rest of your life.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-cash…
@scott@carfree.cityI love Deerhoof’s Actually, You Can not just as a great, fun album but as a time capsule from an optimistic moment. In late 2021, we seemed to be emerging from the shadows of Trump and Covid-19—who’d have thought the Four Seasons presser and the vaccines, respectively, didn't end them? The music bottles up joyful, radical imaginings of a better world that were in the air since the George Floyd rebellion, not yet extinguished by the reactionary “crime” panic to come.
@scott@carfree.cityAre you kidding me? Taking away the rule that gets us new street trees when sidewalks are being torn up anyway? Daniel Lurie is a cartoon villain. https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-considering-changes-building-code-require…
@scott@carfree.cityScott Wiener is trying to change the slogan from "Abolish ICE" to "Abolish and replace ICE."
I guess he figures there still needs to be *some* agency that deports international students who criticize Israel, a Trump regime priority he's bolstered in California by co-authoring #AB715.
@scott@carfree.cityAt tonight's candidate forum, Scott Wiener refused to say yes or no to the question, "Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?" Both his opponents for Congress, Connie Chan and Saikat Chakrabarti, said yes.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Reo0e38zb3I?t=6120
@scott@carfree.cityFinally the DSA SF Board of Supervisors scorecard is out ✨
The board passed a lot of terrible stuff last year, usually with Fielder and Walton in the minority (sometimes joined by Chan, Chen, or Melgar). I'm glad we have it on record with explanations. We're going to hold them accountable. A few good wins as well
@scott@carfree.citylove this deerhoof interview on why they left spotify!
https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/quitting-spotify-deerhoof
@scott@carfree.cityWhile the GoFundMe to support Renée Good's family raised $1.5 million, a GoFundMe for the family of Keith Porter, Jr., a Black man shot by an ICE agent a week earlier, hasn't met its $35,000 goal. Join me in donating if you're able: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-kei
@scott@carfree.cityThere should be a 30th St Mission BART station. The train is right there.
@scott@carfree.city"Did the Upper Great Highway closure make Sunset neighborhood streets less safe? Supervisor Alan Wong claimed it did at a January 8, 2026 press conference, citing a simple year-over-year map comparison of crash data. But my analysis, using the same DataSF crash data with rigorous statistical controls, finds no evidence to support that claim, and if anything, the data suggest the opposite."
@scott@carfree.cityAt the #muniForever rally, D9 supervisor Jackie Fielder calls on Mayor Lurie to raise the parcel tax cap for skyscrapers from $400k to $800k to raise more Muni funding, and eliminate tenant passthroughs. “As Muni goes, so goes the city.” Says if we don’t see movement in negotiations, we’ll be back with more to announce. 1/3
