
2025-09-21 00:50:36
@… at #flowerPiano in the moon viewing garden
@… at #flowerPiano in the moon viewing garden
Division of Difference-Makers: AFC West X-Factors Revealed https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/20/division-of-difference-makers-afc-west-x-factors-revealed/
Fun fact: in #Polish, all cardinal directions have the same names as times of day. East is "wschód" which means "rise" (as in sunrise, "wschód słońca"), west is "zachód" — "set" (as in sunset, "zachód słońca"). North is "północ", lit. "midnight", and south is "południe", lit. "midday".
Apparently, the #English etymology is not so clear. "West" and "east" seem to unrecognizably stem from the words for evening and dawn. "South" seem to be related to "sun", whereas "north" to "to the left of the rising sun".
#etymology
Order placed, with $25 discount on Google Fi for a max of 24 months. 💸
#Pixel10 #Pixel10ProXL
Raiders Poll: Will Las Vegas Avoid Another Last Place AFC West Finish? https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/20/raiders-poll-will-las-vegas-avoid-another-last-place-afc-west-finish/
49 bus on Mission full of people held up by single Waymo double-parking to drop off one person. Sign the petition to stop Daniel Lurie from bringing this "innovation" to Market Street: https://keepmarketstmoving.org/sign-the-petition
Israel’s genocide isn’t just murdering Palestinians en masse, it’s also destroying any semblance of morality or ethics the West might have purported to possess. International law? Bullshit. European values? Trash. Western democracy? A joke.
#israel #unitedStates
Family Reunion
This weekend marks the 70th reunion of Albert Campbell Smith and Mary Susan Mallow's descendants in West Virginia. I take a nostalgic trip through familiar places, reflecting on family history and memories. I also wonder about my grandmother's estrangement from her relatives.
https://www.bobm…
On this day in 1998, Dorothy West died on Martha's Vineyard.
The Boston-born writer was the last living member of the Harlem Renaissance,
a movement of African American artists, writers, and musicians
that energized American culture in the 1920s
https://www.massmo…
I'M THANKFUL FOR:
1. friends who truly care for me;
2. comfort in life I don't deserve;
3. opportunities still ahead that I can see.
#3goodthings #thankful @3goodthings group
Sources: Oracle is on the hook for tens of billions to build unprecedentedly large data centers, including $1B per year on a gas-powered megasite in West Texas (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
Trade Pitch Brings Cowboys ‘Elite’ Starting CB From AFC West https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/starting-cornerback-riley-moss-trade/?adt_ei=[email]
“What destroys the poetry of a city? Automobiles destroy it,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti said, but ban cars and the poetry comes back!
#sundayStreets #SundayStreetsSF #SundayStreetsMission
Russia launches large-scale missile, drone attack targeting regions across Ukraine, including far-west: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/20/russia-launches-largescale-missile-drone.html
Many (ahem) years ago today, Mr. Boots & I ran off to Vegas and got married at the Little Church Of The West. Happy Anniversary to us! #ILoveHim ❤️
I would hope, that should there be an outbreak of measles in Shasta County, California, that the atty general of California brings homicide charges against this guy...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/anti-vaxxer-measles-texas
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,493 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.39 %
Took a 16th Street bus to downtown DC today, then walked several blocks west. No sign of that hyped federal presence, perhaps because that area of town consists mostly of office buildings, with affluent and mostly white workers. #FreeDC #WashingtonDC
CNN's Jeremy Diamond says Israeli settlers in the West Bank attacked the car he was in while on assignment; a Deutsche Welle team was attacked there on July 4 (Melanie Goodfellow/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/cnn-correspondent-…
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 1,604 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: ca. 50 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 4.26…
AFC West odds: Chargers emerge as favorites to end Chiefs' streak, but does Kansas City have betting value?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/afc-west-odds-charger…
Modeling the impact of temperature and bird migration on the spread of West Nile virus
Pride Duve, Felix Sauer, Renke L\"uhken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14740 https://
Wildfire risk for Greater Manchester West Yorkshire, Essex, Kent, Lancashire homes – EnvironmentJournal https://environmentjournal.online/climate-change/wildfire-risk-for-greater-manchester-west-yorkshire-essex-ken…
Sovereign God, establish peace, a measure of calm, the possibility of respect, the recognition that you, the only living and true God, rule this world and desire justice, righteousness, and truth.
In the exalted name of Jesus the Christ.
Amen.
Puy Netanyahu, it is hard to convince people that genocide is kosher. https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115068506887487160
Ezra Klein: "Antisemitism is serving as a beard for an assault on the ideals and institutions that have made America into a place where Jews can flourish. If Israel becomes a right-wing ethnostate, and if opposition to that state is antisemitic, then Jews will become mascots for a politics that would have made the Jewish diaspora unthinkable."
AFC West Power Rankings: Chargers Trending Up, Raiders Not So Much https://raiderramble.com/2025/09/19/afc-west-power-rankings-chargers-trending-up-raiders-not-so-much/
It's a shame Go West never made a song called Pet Shop Boys
#TOTP
Under constant attack, Ukraine’s arms makers take shelter in European factories: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/21/under-constant-attack-ukraines-arms.html
A Systematic Evaluation of the Potential of Carbon-Aware Execution for Scientific Workflows
Kathleen West, Youssef Moawad, Fabian Lehmann, Vasilis Bountris, Ulf Leser, Yehia Elkhatib, Lauritz Thamsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14625
“You don’t belong in this country, get out.”
Sikh woman raped, just one consequence of the wave of hate from the likes of those white nationalists, and especially their figureheads, swarming yesterday and amplified by mainstream media and mainstream politicians.
MPs express shock after alleged racially motivated rape of Sikh woman | West Midlands | The Guardian
When Genocide Denial Is the Norm https://jacobin.com/2025/08/genocide-israel-west-us-ties/
International Conference "East - West: Synergy of Scientific Knowledge" https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/18/international-conference-east-west-synergy-of-scientific-knowledge
Iran vowed swift retaliation Saturday following the U.S. military’s strikes on the Iranian nuclear program.
“Every American citizen or military personnel in the region is now a target,” a commentator on Iranian state media said.
Al-Asad Air Base, an Iraqi installation 150 miles west of Baghdad that is operated jointly by the Iraqi and U.S. air forces, houses thousands of American troops,
the largest U.S. deployment in the country.
Iran and its proxies have in recent…
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,963 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.41 %
AFC West Preseason Position Rankings: Do The Raiders Have The Best Special Teams Unit? https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/19/afc-west-preseason-position-rankings-do-the-raiders-have-the-best-special-teams-unit/
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 1,052 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: ca. 50 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 4.31…
join the DSA SF social housing reading group!!
next Tuesday 7/22 7pm in person
#sfPol
Where to watch Broncos vs. Chargers: TV channel, live stream, prediction, pick, odds
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-broncos-vs-charg…
Chargers have a chance to make history against Broncos and be the buzz of the NFL https://www.latimes.com/sports/chargers/story/2025-09-20/chargers-denver-broncos-afc-west-test
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,235 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: ca. 50 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 2 kW…
know anyone in West Oakland who'd like a free street tree? pass this along. 9/30 deadline https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/westoaklandtrees
The AFC West Team the Raiders Are Likeliest to Surpass https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/the-afc-west-team-the-raiders-are-likeliest-to-surpass-01k0gkkdyf1f
Where to watch Chargers vs. Broncos: TV channel, live stream, prediction, pick, odds
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-broncos-vs-charg…
Russia's Lavrov cautions West on North Korea security pact: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/russias-lavrov-cautions-west-on.html
i'm a seventh-level urbanist. i won't even walk down streets where a car casts a shadow
Federal agents hurled tear gas and pepper spray into a crowd of about 100 protesters
who attempted to block vans from entering and exiting a U.S. Immigration and Customs holding facility in Broadview Friday morning.
Protesters flocked to the west suburban building, which has its windows and door boarded up, early in the morning
to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown known as “Operation Midway Blitz.”
The group chanted, sang and screamed at a group…
glad people are advocating for more tree planting opportunities in sf! if you email, consider asking them for a permit process to plant trees in bulbouts in the parking lane too. this allows for larger tree beds, healthier trees and built in traffic calming and is common in berkeley & santa cruz but currently not permitted in sf!
Every death in Palestine is a precious life lost forever and also a nail in the coffin of the humanity of the West.
Broncos Smell Blood: Can Denver Dethrone the Cracking Chiefs? https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/20/broncos-smell-blood-can-denver-dethrone-the-cracking-chiefs/
Russian youth brainwashing programs in the West: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/russian-youth-brainwashing-programs-in.html
blew someone's mind the other day by telling them sf's sunset district is denser than the whole city of amsterdam. yup! it's car-centric but no, density is not the problem
Well, it’s public: Mayor Lurie has announced that he’s letting Uber and Lyft onto car-free Market Street along with Waymo, something he has no authority to do. The Transportation Code clearly doesn’t allow it. These companies are treating our billionaire mayor as above the law. #sfPol
Sheriffs with shields and batons.
You don't often see it expressed in a visible way like this, but such state violence ultimately backs up all property ownership. Homelessness only exists because if people entered and made a home in a vacant or underused property, the state would use essentially unlimited force to evict them.
Absurdist webcomic I was into when I was like 11-12 is now an animated cartoon!
https://kolektiva.social/@pokeythepenguin/114876863633028754
AFC West Preseason Position Rankings: Concerns For The Raiders’ Secondary? https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/17/afc-west-preseason-position-rankings-concerns-for-the-raiders-secondary/
After rejecting ceasefire, Russia calls on West to 'pressure' Ukraine toward negotiations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/after-rejecting-ceasefire-russia-calls.html
This reporting doesn't make clear the resolution is nonbinding: the departments are free to blow off not just the "deadlines" but the requested actions as well.
It does signal priorities the supervisors may go on to weigh at budget time, when evaluating mayoral appointees that need confirmation, or negotiating with Lurie about legislation he wants passed. But it may be a weak signal because supes who signed onto this did so knowing it was nonbinding.
AFC West Preseason Position Rankings: The Tight Ends And Receivers https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/16/afc-west-preseason-position-rankings-the-tight-ends-and-receivers/
3 years after car-free JFK/Overlook/Middle/MLK was made permanent, the signage for the non-JFK parts of the route is still so bad. No one but us nerds knows a car-free path to the beach even exists!
There should be a big banner on this overpass telling you to turn left then right. Instead there’s a tiny sign no one will see and even if you do it’s unclear (this isn’t “slow streets,” it’s car-free!)
AFC West Preseason Position Rankings: Where Does Ashton Jeanty Land? https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/15/afc-west-preseason-position-rankings-where-does-ashton-jeanty-land/
Analyzing the Raiders' Chances at Winning the AFC West https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/kansas-city-chiefs-patrick-mahomes-pete-carroll-andy-reid-sean-payton
Kansas City Chiefs Pro Bowl Guard Staying In AFC West Long-Term https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/15/kansas-city-chiefs-pro-bowler-remains-afc-west-long-term/
safe to say Joel Engardio is being recalled. he's down 30 points in the first drop
@…'s map also shows the 3 precincts added to the district in 2022 which allowed him to run (he lives in one of them), and which accounted for his margin of victory over Gordon Mar, voting most strongly to recall him. wild!
best take so far on what the Engardio recall is really about. #sfpol https://sf.gazetteer.co/one-battle-after-another?giftLink=843bcd9f82560e755a6f0613…
study from Berlin: rent control made tenants more likely to approve of construction in their neighborhoods (and of immigration)!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738581
interesting report from an action to disrupt an ICE/CBP job fair in Chicago
https://chicagoantireport.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/17/ice-job-fair-disruption/
the most overlooked generation is probably GenTwitter (I refuse to call it X)
One of the RV dwellers Lurie plans to displace is a staffer helping Joel Engardio fight his recall. #sfPol
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/l…
TIL Baltimore has been drastically decreasing homicides for the past several years through non-police interventions focused on conflict mediation and treating "root causes of gun violence, such as poverty, mental health, and housing issues"
https://popular.info/p/the-secret-to-b
Headway management is a net good, but it's no fun being on the bus that's being slowed down to maintain headway. You've got places to be and that bus is draaaagging, missing every light on purpose.
https://www.sfmta.com/media/42843/download?inline
Bad year for bicycling at the California State Capitol. Caltrans quick-build bill died, among others.
https://www.calbike.org/bike-friendly-bills-bite-the-dust/
SF folks: please call your supervisor and ask them not to redirect permanent affordable housing funds to temporary shelter
it’s likely illegal and it’s nonsense: the shelters would free up if people could exit to permanent housing!
https://dsasf.org/ocoh/
i just had a terrifying thought. what if the vehicles... become autonomous
yimbys keep calling it misinformation that #SB79 allows demolition of rent-controlled duplexes and telling others to read the bill. it's right here, plain as day!
this potential — for AI companies to tweak their chatbots to give pro-Trump answers to appease MAGA — is one of the reasons I'm avoiding LLMs as a political practice. they are inherently extremely centralized, requiring massive resources to crawl data and train. to become dependent on such products is to subject ourselves to the owners' power. this is just one of the ways that can go disastrously wrong