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Last year global temperatures were 1.6°C over the pre-industrial average, the first year to breach the 1.5° goal.
"One or two years that exceed 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level does not imply that the Paris Agreement has been breached. However, with the current rate of warming at more than 0.2°C per decade, the probability of breaching the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement within the 2030s is highly likely."

I wonder how much of this is going on unreported - it's like taking candy from a baby.
The small town of Gloversville, NY, was hit by a ransomware attack and paid a ransom of $150,000, negotiated down from $300,000.
https://wnyt.com/top-stories/gloversville-hit-b…

Gloversville hit by ransomware attack
The city of Gloversville’s computer system was hit by a ransomware attack, which compromised the personal information of employees past and present. The attack was discovered by the finance commissioner back in March, the city announced on Saturday. There was a ransomware note on the server. Gloversville reported the attack to the FBI. State Police and the Department of Homeland Security’s Incident Response Team.

This month, the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop (NPAPW) 2025 brought together performing artists, technologists, educators, and students from around the world.
A joint initiative of GÉANT and Internet2, NPAPW25 explored what happens when creativity meets advanced networks.
From history of network-enabled performances to MVTP uses cases, and the distributed concert linking New York & Miami, it was a success.
🔗 Read the full recap by Domenico Vicinanza:

These are the photos for my 2026 calendar. Got the proofs today. Should have the hard copies in 2 weeks. Always agonizing to pick 13 of my photos for the next one. The last few years I’ve had to use older ones too. I don’t get out to shoot as much anymore. I’m hoping that will improve. I’ve volunteered to be a photographer for the city park dept. I’ll take pics of people engaged in the parks and activities, and whatever else I see.

Work on the approximately $26.45 million 
San Jose Creek Multipurpose Path Project in Goleta began last week.
The 3-mile path will serve as a direct link from Calle Real to Old Town businesses, and the Atascadero Creek Bikeway that also allows access to Goleta Beach Park, UC Santa Barbara and the city of Santa Barbara.
The path is set to be completed by spring 2027

Construction Beginning on San Jose Creek Multipurpose Path Project in Goleta
Lovers of the outdoors can get excited, construction for a new path for biking, running or walking is underway in Goleta. Work on the approximately $26.45

Help me, Fediverse. You're my only hope.
I need the BEST over the top #vaporwave background that runs for several minutes. It should take me down to the Parallax City where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly.
Maybe a movie. Or a demo. Should run on Linux. It's for a performance by the #coffeebots

San Franciscans! Here's a petition you can sign asking Mayor Lurie and the board of supervisors to fund social housing. You might have seen the flyers around the city.
We voted to fund it with 2020's Prop I, but for obscure reasons of state law, the use of the revenue wasn't legally binding, only intended. And then-Mayor Breed refused to do it. But we can fund it now!

Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program with Prop I Property Transfer Tax Revenue, as Promised!
In 2020, San Francisco voters passed Prop I which levied a transfer tax on properties worth over $10 million dollars. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution assuring voters it was their intention to spend the revenue from the new tax on a Social Housing Program. Social Housing is housing that is municipally-owned (or non-profit owned), permanently affordable, and available to a wider mix income than traditional public housing. Mayor Breed overruled the Board of Supervisors a…

Moody Urbanity - Stand 🧍‍♂️
情绪化城市 - 立 🧍‍♂️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The 2025 Chiefs May Be the Most Complete Team in the NFL https://insidethestar.com/the-2025-chiefs-may-be-the-most-complete-team-in-the-nfl

REMINDER: Influenza has everything needed to kill people every year and produce a global pandemic every few decades forever. What keeps it at a low “just the flu” level is vaccination. One thing that kept the most recent surges from being more like 1918 is the CDC. What is left of the CDC is inadequate to that task. https://m…

NFL Announces Punishment for Chiefs Star in Win Over Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/nfl-punishment-chiefs-star/?adt_ei=[email]

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

It's frustrating to see such high turnover in the city planning office. I encourage the city to take the complaints of its exiting planners more seriously and put greater effort into their retention. It shouldn't be taking this long to get form-based zoning in place. We could have hundreds more units in place by now if our planners were allowed to simply do their jobs.
#NHPolitics #NHHousing

A Building Full of Cats: up on the roof
I like cats. I like Little Kitty Big City, I like Pix the Cat, I even liked Blinx. If I like games with a few cats in, then I am almost certain to love games with hundreds of cats in, right? In this case, yes. A Building Full of Cats is a hidden object game where the objects are cats. Lots of cats.
…

This losing stretch of 5 losses (all comps) in 6 games, featured 5 of those games being away and all 5 losses by a single goal.
Will being back at Anfield for 5 of the next 6 games help? The conventional wisdom is playing at home is nearly equivalent to a goal.
They will need the crowd as they run the gauntlet of Crystal Palace, Aston Villa, and Real Madrid. 😱
Then it's away to Manchester City. 😬
Not that the schedule is ever easy, but things get significantly e…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mark Lanegan:
🎵 Hit the City
#MarkLanegan
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/hit-the-city
https://open.spotify.com/track/3OXX5hy8YPQP9QYgzqaY2f

Broncos at Chiefs prediction: Denver eyes No. 1 seed in the AFC as Kansas City turns to QB3 on Christmas Day

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/broncos-vs-chiefs-…

Safer streets make it to the art museum

For those who celebrate

Yeah, sure Google Gemini, sure.
PS: "Banoie" in Basque means "I'm leaving" in the dialect of Bizkaia.

🤑 Study reveals how financial pressure shapes NFL officiating
#nfl

Study reveals how financial pressure shapes NFL officiating
A new study from The University of Texas at El Paso has uncovered how financial incentives may subtly shape officiating decisions in one of America's most iconic institutions: the National Football League. By analyzing more than 13,000 penalty calls from 2015 to 2023, researchers found that postseason officiating has disproportionately favored the Patrick Mahomes-era Kansas City Chiefs, coinciding with their rise as one of the NFL's most marketable franchises.

@… I didn't even pay attention to those photos, just the headline then my attention shifted to something unrelated.
In my mind's eye: only ever (a) the White House on its own, with some greenery and a fence, or (b) the building beneath the Independence Day spacecraft – I'm aware that it's covering a city but I'm not really …

The problem with Las Vegas is that visitors are now treated like marks rather than guests.
The $50 gotcha charge at Paris Las Vegas for unplugging a cord in the room to charge a laptop is a perfect example:
https://view…

“$50 Charge Because I Unplugged A Cord”: Paris Las Vegas Hotel’s Tiny Print Fee Sums Up Why Visitors Are Fleeing The City
A reader shares that the were billed "$50 to charge a laptop" at Paris Las Vegas, and they thought this was "an even more outrageous fee" than $26 for a bottle of water at Aria. Las Vegas executives can't seem to figure out why tourist visits are declining in the city.

A John Lennon mural saying ‘Give Peace a Chance’ on a wall behind anti-drone nets in the city of Izyum, in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, 12 December 2025.
Photo: EPA / SERGEY KOZLOV

Spotted on #ValenciaStreet: tactical urbanism to block cars crossing the “protected” (not at this location) bike lane to park in the wedge-shaped empty space where the lane zigzags around a parklet

I've been thinking about the idea of building a new house instead of buying a new house in a few year. A lot of the homes in the neighborhood are at the back of the lot (right up against the alley). You keep the old house where it is, get the city to call in an Accessory Dwelling Unit, and then build a new house in the front of the lot.

Totally normal for city councillors of Toronto to get briefed by the foreign minister of... Israel
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-hall/toronto-councillors-israel-trip-briefing-foreign-minister-11545404

German has a unique problem: the default noun for any job is male. Every effort to include the female or neutral form is fought tooth and nail by conservative parties. So when a mayor was forced to remove the mention of both genders in the statute for firefighters.... he kept just the female form of every job title 😈
"That's not what we meant!" the city council is now crying. "Not every person is female, after all!" they lament without noticing the irony.
…

Good Morning #Canada
In 1882, Lieutenant-Governor Dewdney acquired land adjacent to the route of the future CPR line at a site known as Pile-of-Bones. He then announced that this featureless site, distinguished only by collections of bison bones, would be the new capital of the North West Territories in western Canada. Thus, Regina was born out of a national scandal and conflict of interest. It became the provincial capital when Saskatchewan officially joined Canada in 1905. The North West Mounted Police were headquartered in Regina, starting in 1885, and the city remains as a training centre for the RCMP. Regina survived a cyclone in 1916 and a great depression riot in 1935. Recently, they recovered from a marketing faux pas when they canceled their tourism slogan, "Regina: The City That Rhymes With Fun."
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://youtu.be/L8eHaVi1yfE?si=Oc2NsqG6tnB4Zqnn

City Spot ⭕️
城市点阵 ⭕️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Trump’s assault on the city of Chicago began in September, and it claimed its first casualty quickly.
As Reuters would later report, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez dropped his kids off at their school in the suburb of Franklin Park on his way to his job at a diner on the northwest side.
Villegas-Gonzalez had come to the United States in 2007 to flee the violence in his home state of Michoacšn, Mexico
—violence wrought by the Mexican government’s militarization o…

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

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

Zoning out: Key to Cowboys beating Chiefs is switching the coverage https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/26/zoning-out-key-dallas-cowboys-kansas-city-chiefs-coverage/87486628007…

New York City has imposed a 15mph speed limit on ebikes.
I'm not worried though, because where I live I bike on a street with a 25mph speed limit and cars routinely go 30mph or faster.
I know this because I bike on the road at 25mph and cars go flying past me.
So if they don't enforce it for cars are they really gonna enforce it for bikes?

Wouldn't it be nice if California implemented an audit program to monitor operations in these "detention facilities"? It's clear #GovernorNewsom has very clever people on his team (cf the #TrollTweets tweaking the (un)truth social posts) - so I am sure they could figure out ho…

Wouldn't it be nice if California implemented an audit program to monitor operations in these "detention facilities"? It's clear #GovernorNewsom has very clever people on his team (cf the #TrollTweets tweaking the (un)truth social posts) - so I am sure they could figure out ho…

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…

Quite exciting talk:
EFF presents: Rewiring Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn
3 December, online
https://www.eff.org/event/rewiring-democracy

Rewiring Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn
City Lights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and The MIT Press present Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders (in conversation with Cindy Cohn/EFF) discussing their new book Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship – Published by The MIT Press.When:Wednesday...

NFL Announces Punishment for Raiders Player in Loss to Chiefs https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/nfl-punishment-chiefs-loss/?adt_ei=[email]

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
AVON: Seems we're not the only strangers on this planet.
CALLY: That could explain a lot.
AVON: The woman is still with us. Is she trying to bluff her way out?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/284 B7B3

Analysis: Pokrovsk on the brink as Russian troops, drones infiltrate deeper into Ukraine’s fortress city: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/22/analysis-pokrovsk-on-the-brink.html

How does genocide happen in 2025? Because of toadies like Keir Starmer.
He should be sitting at The Hague alongside Netanyahu, Trump, Friedrich Merz, and everyone else who is complicit in the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.
#israel #genocide

Bergen, 🇳🇴 Norway's second largest city, has now surpassed the 50% mark for 🔌🔋🚗 battery-electric cars registered in the municipality. AskŸy, a neighbouring municipality, was the first to reach this milestone in August this year.
https://elbil.no/na-er-over-halvparten

Nå er over halvparten av personbilene i Bergen elektriske
Elbilhovedstaden Bergen leverer igjen. Nå kan de feire at over halvparten av personbilene er blitt elektriske.

Oak Woodlands has long been my favorite part of Golden Gate Park, but only recently have I come to appreciate Buena Vista Park for its own coast live oak forest... and even more recently noticed this enormous coffeeberry shrub at the bottom of the hill

Kelce emotional after season finale at Arrowhead https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47415957/emotional-travis-kelce-praises-chiefs-possible-arrowhead-last-game

Urban Spots ✴️
城市噪点 ✴️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

3 things Cowboys must fix to beat Chiefs includes strong defensive start https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/26/what-must-dallas-improve-on-before-the-game-against-the-chi…

Summing Up the Raiders' Massive Struggles https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jonah-laulu-pete-carroll-kansas-city-chiefs-rob-leonard

Now you've done it, @…. This piece is about to make the Sunset Dunes/Great Highway debate look tame in comparison
https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/sf-be

Forget the mishigas you’ve read: Here’s the real best bagel in S.F.
Over the summer, different San Francisco news outlets attempted bagel taste tests. But forget all that: Mission Local's got the real winner.

Good Morning #Canada
In July 1871, the City of Victoria officially became the capital of British Columbia, when the province joined the rest of Canada. At the time, the city was larger than Vancouver and had served as the most important settlement in the area for decades. The Colony of Vancouver Island also stamped their little feet and demanded that Victoria be designated as the capital in return for the island to join with the mainland to become part of Canada. Captain James Cook was the first British person to set foot on Vancouver Island in 1778, and in 1843, Fort Victoria was established by the Hudson's Bay Company. There is a long history of Vancouver Island serving as a naval base, and today, Victoria is the home of Canada’s Pacific Coast naval and military headquarters in nearby Esquimalt. Victoria is a top tourist destination and is regularly rated top 5 worldwide as an awesome place to live.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-bc

The fact that grown adults are this clue-impervious makes me want to start drinking again. @… https://cutie.city/@Quenby/115775564395669363

🌳 Rooting for green: Study explores why small-city residents plant trees
#cities

Rooting for green: Study explores why small-city residents plant trees
A new University of Alberta study helps get at the root of why residents—particularly in a small city—plant and maintain trees on their property.

Federal judge Mary McElroy has blocked the Trump administration’s
attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general
that sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary…

Federal judge blocks Trump administration's homeland security funding cut to Democratic states
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to cut Homeland Security funding from states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy ruled Monday in favor of 12 attorneys general who sued after their states faced reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary” status. The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA had cut over $233 million from several states. McElroy found the funding cuts arbitrary and ordered their rest…

“The case for upzoning is relatively solid but deeply underwhelming as a standalone position. The upshot is that everyone is at least partly right: Upzoning can address the shortfall in supply. But it won’t come close to solving the housing crisis alone. Re-enter: public housing.”
https://

The Solution to the Affordable Housing Problem That No One Wants to Discuss
There are new ideas for fixing this. And one very old one.

physician_trust: Physician trust network (1966)
A network of trust relationships among physicians in four midwestern (USA) cities in 1966. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts or asks for advice from node j. Each of the four components represent the network within a given city.
This network has 241 nodes and 1098 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

Broncos use fourth-down bluff, clutch TD to down Chiefs in yet another one-possession win https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-use-fourth-down-bluff-clutch-td-to-down-chiefs-in-yet-another-one-possession-win

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Marvin Gaye:
🎵 Christmas in the City
#MarvinGaye
https://motowngold.bandcamp.com/track/christmas-in-the-city
https://open.spotify.com/track/3reSnebCJ7nXSUXS0KJ2DA

1 Thing the Raiders' Offense Must Correct https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-greg-olson-kansas-city-chiefs-geno-smith

wow the only person who brought up Sunset Dunes/the former Great Highway at Lurie's D4 listening tour was someone who supports the park.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-listening-sunset/

Lurie, in Sunset ‘listening mode,’ says he’ll tap a supe for the long haul
Daniel Lurie asks merchants, recall leaders and community groups who they want to represent them, and talks about upzoning

Double Double 🛗
成双 🛗
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

1 Thing the Raiders' Offense Must Correct https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-greg-olson-kansas-city-chiefs-geno-smith

Kansas City Chiefs at Dallas Cowboys odds, picks and predictions https://sportsbookwire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/26/chiefs-at-cowboys-odds-picks-and-predictions/87488625007/

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Bat Masterson, the famous American gunslinger who was born near Henryville Quebec in 1853. He's our segue to another #CanadianCapitals post, naturally about Quebec City. Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the French settlement in 1608 and adopted the Algonquin name, which means "where the river narrows." Quebec City is one of the oldest European settlements in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico. Those walls were put to good use as Québec spent the next 170 years fighting off invaders, mostly by the British but also by Americans. The city was established as the capital of Canada under British rule in 1792 and was named the provincial capital in 1867 when Canada East became Quebec.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quebec-city

Oh my god, the 19th Avenue repaving project is going to be going on through the November 2026 election, when must-pass transit funding is on the ballot. "...will be completed by December 2026." 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
https://

Annual plant sale at #SutroStewards nursery! I picked up a couple of rare San Francisco wallflowers and some little coast buckwheats, both #CaliforniaNatives.

DoorDash is a marquee sponsor of SFBike's Winterfest this year 😢 I bought a ticket anyway. It's bleak out here trying to fund nonprofits under capitalism. Hate the game, not the player. https://sfbike.org/winterfest/

Winterfest - San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Promoting the Bicycle for Everyday Transportation

Is Taylor Swift at Chiefs vs. Cowboys today? Updates on if star is watching Travis Kelce on Thanksgiving https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/taylor-swift-chiefs-vs-cowboys-travis-k…

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

City Random Manners ✴️
城市随机行为 ✴️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles announced a flash flood warning for the region beginning on Tuesday
and is urging people to use caution while traveling for the upcoming holiday.
The city is also deploying staff with the Los Angeles homeless services authority (Lahsa) to get supplies and hotel vouchers to those living outside.

I was benched in the NFL. It taught me three valuable lessons https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6833779/2025/11/25/derrick-johnson-kansas-city-chiefs-benched-lessons/

This is a weird book because it’s so well-written, darkly witty and clarifying, I can’t stop turning pages, but it also makes me not want to get out of bed. I’m banking on an energizing call to action at the end

Cowboys vs Chiefs, What channel is Thanksgiving game on for Week 13? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-chiefs-what-channel-thanksgiving-game-on-week-13

Everyone's 2nd favorite single-serving website is now updated with the details of #FreeMuni on New Year's Eve
https://ismunifree.com

Is Muni Free?

From 1977 to 1979,
June Jordan and Toni Morrison were both a part of "The Sisterhood",
a group of Black women writers who met in a New York City apartment to eat and drink together while discussing liberation.
Whether addressing genocide, imperialism or the American literary establishment,
the writers in the group,
which included Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange,
saw their work as a means to make interventions against dominant narratives of colon…

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship
In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.

Broncos at Chiefs prediction: Denver eyes No. 1 seed in the AFC as Kansas City turns to QB3 on Christmas Day

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/broncos-vs-chiefs-…

Cowboys vs Chiefs, NFL Week 13: Start time, live stream, TV channel https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-chiefs-nfl-week-13-start-time-live-stream-tv-channel

"S.F.’s Union Square comeback is taking shape — despite two major question marks"
Somehow neither of them is the complete lack of bike parking anywhere near the block-wide 7-story Macy's. Biking to and around Union Square sucks.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/…

Freedom Ship by Marcus Rediker is so good. Thank you @… for the tip
https://bookshop.o…

Immigrant rights advocates are sounding the alarm
about a high-pitched noise they say is coming from machines installed outside the Home Depot in the Cypress Park area of Los Angeles.
Day laborers say the machines were put in place to drive them away amid immigration raids at the store.
City officials and advocates gathered earlier in the week to protest these alleged noise machines.
They claim that a loud piercing sound has been emitted for months.
The L.A. Ti…

How Packers, Cowboys and Bengals win Thanksgiving upsets, plus the underrated Chiefs? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6840794/2025/11/26/packers-cowboys-bengals-thanksgiving-upsets-chiefs/

Moody Urbanity - TWO 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

That's sad: what was far and away my favorite restaurant during last year's visit to Portland (Ore.) closed. Brunch-serving vegan diners are a particular type of place I love that seems to be an endangered species these days, cf Beach'N in SF, also closed this year.

One of Portland’s oldest vegan-friendly restaurants has closed
“We can no long sustain operations and have served the final plate,” the restaurant announces.

With growing interest in social housing in SF, maybe it’s a good time to re-up this Q&A I hosted last month. In addition to lessons from Seattle, @… goes over SF efforts so far, so it’s a great way to get up to speed!

Municipal Social Housing: What can California learn from Seattle’s win? — California DSA
By now, San Francisco is famous not just for unaffordable rent, but also for its acrimonious debates about how to solve the problem. One well-funded contingent asserts it’s all about making it easier and cheaper to build privately owned homes, but as even the corporate media is now noting, we’ve don

Chiefs reveal Kareem Hunt update after career-day vs. Colts https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/chiefs-reveal-kareem-hunt-update-after-career-day-vs-colts/9cfd600c3882791d59c8834…

The Trump administration appeared poised to send dozens of federal agents to the San Francisco Bay Area for a major immigration enforcement operation,
prompting condemnation from California leaders.
Details of the deployment were still emerging, but it will reportedly involve more than 100 federal agents.
The agents are reportedly set to begin using the US Coast Guard base in Alameda,
a city located across the bay from San Francisco.
It remained unclear whether …

NFL Week 17 inactives: Players ruled out for Christmas Day tripleheader https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-17-inactives-players-ruled-out-for-christmas-day-tripleheader

The Lurie/Mandelman RV ban is still set to go into effect and tow people's homes on Nov. 1, the same day SNAP expires and at the same time federal agents are in the Bay to terrorize immigrants.
Send a letter to the mayor and BOS asking them to extend the towing deadline:
https://

All Eyes on the Mayor’s RV Ban - No Tows Before Housing!
DSA SF is continuing its opposition to Daniel Lurie’s two-hour restriction on RV parking, which will take effect on November 1st, 2025. We know this policy for what it is - the latest attempt by San Francisco’s oligarch Mayor to exile poor and working class people from the City. While San Francisco has put in place a refuge permit program, it’s deeply flawed. The City’s initial eligibility list excludes many longtime RV residents, and those that are eligible have an uncertain offer of …

Chiefs fans will love Andy Reid's injury update on star trio ahead of Cowboys game https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/chiefs-fans-will-love-andy-reids-injur…

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to
reenact the corporate head tax has been hotly debated,
But whether corporations should pay more taxes should not be contentious. 
Highly concentrated corporate wealth and economic inequality is a scourge on our city and society.
Corporations should pay their fair share to support the public good.
We’ve seen why this is necessary throughout history — over and over again. 
I had the privilege of working with lat…

There Should Be No Debate. Corporations Should Pay More Taxes.
As Chicago's budget standoff continues, the issue of whether corporations should pay more taxes to support the public good should not be contentious.

Kansas City Survives Overtime Battle With Indianapolis Colts to Keep Season Alive https://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/football/100000010542923/kansas-city-survives-overtime-battle-with-indianapoli…

I dreamt that South Van Ness was the hip new nightlife corridor and people were calling it “South Van”

ESPN NFL analyst has ugly prediction for Cowboys defense vs Chiefs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/espn-nfl-analyst-ugly-prediction-dallas-cowboys-defense-chiefs

Joe Eskenazi's @… column today speculates that Connie Chan and allies will run a doomed prop to close Sunset Dunes park, just to turn out voters for Chan.
But a good chunk of No on K voters are in congressional district 15, outlined, and can't vote for Chan. #sfpol<…

Chiefs vs. Commanders prediction, odds, time: 2025 NFL Week 8 Monday Night Football picks from advanced model

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-…

I'm currently reading The Long Heat by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm and highly recommend it. Do not be daunted by the page count of 704 pages. It has so many notes at the back, without back matter it's only ~420 pages. Hard to read emotionally, though. It paints a stark picture of earth's near future and the massive destruction of human and other-than-human life ahead, and the insane brinkmanship of elite consensus.

At KALW for the Life After Cars book talk! @…

Incredible comment on an article about the Marina Safeway: "The City needs to fight state mandates for putting condo towers in residential neighborhoods." Is it therefore better to put condo towers in NON-residential neighborhoods? Would doing so not make them... residential neighborhoods?

Every time I try to use my bicycle for the mind, I get run off the mental road by people using their SUVs for the mind

Nice new accessible trail in #McLarenPark from Mansell Promenade to John F. Shelley Promenade. No more need to loop around up a steep hill on Shelley to get to the part with the great views west.