Squirrelfish

Walking, reading, riding, loving San Francisco and actively hoping towards a better world.
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2024-08-12 17:09:43

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@npub1axm…dsle I think the meeting was run well and all that was provided, but it doesn't stop people from having bias or believing common misinfo or being self-interested or impacted by advertising & stereotypes.

2024-06-14 15:55:40

One of the most depressing things is when I look at government jobs and see our budgets in action.
It seems like most counties and large departments(Amtrak) are hiring for 20 versions of cops & prison guards, and then asking for people to volunteer for stuff like literacy tutors.
Have they considered paying a literacy specialist might save them money on cops?

2024-05-29 19:21:25

Boomer: "take all the science, technology, engineering & math classes, we can't afford arts & culture"
Millennial: takes science seriously, start trying to make changes to our cities & lifestyles based on science, technology, engineering & math observations like climate change & pollution & biodiversity collapse & long-term systems thinking
Boomer: "not like that! This is our culture!"

2024-05-28 02:30:53

Has anyone here done point to point kayaking or river floating on the Russian River?

2024-05-25 20:24:31

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@npub19fc…ay3c I like debating people.. most of the time. So it's hard to remember, but I'll try to remember to not do it too you and if I debate one of your reply guys I'll drop you from the thread...

2024-05-25 14:57:13

So Microsoft just made their OS risky for financial transactions? Back when I was in QA we had a test where if someone could screen shot a credit card number or other sensitive personal information that was a P1 'can not be released' bug.
That was how they did a big retail hack a decade or so ago I think? Installed software that took screenshots every few seconds on the payment processor, then uploaded those screenshots to a third party device, which isolated the screenshots with credit card info and then the hackers had the credit card numbers.

2024-04-10 22:57:21

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@npub19fc…ay3c that implies a subservient military class or something like it which would also be bad for society...

2024-04-05 18:27:14

Just got hit by a car again. Luckily he was going super slowly. I had already crossed a lane of traffic and he had a stop sign he just completely ignored. Fucking drivers. "I was staring at the homeless dude on the sidewalk instead of looking where I was going" is not a fucking excuse unless he's planning on giving the guy his car. #waroncars #carswaronpeople

2024-03-26 18:08:05

We are the people on the bridge; capitalism is the cargo ship.

2024-03-26 03:41:16

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@npub19fc…ay3c yep, and they routinely design roads that trick drivers into thinking they can safely drive faster than the safe limit.

2024-03-25 01:21:57

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@npub1gmx…atcq yeah I might be being a little unfair to barbarians...

2024-03-25 00:53:28

Increasing equality & empowerment is the best way to get a better world. The next best way is to eliminate the rich.
Through taxes! I'm not a barbarian.

2024-03-23 19:56:57

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@npub1ks4…x88p @npub178r…qekt @npub1ecp…59pq
I feel like scolding is part of sustainable decentralization... Like having people remind me to do alt text is healthy, and a culture where it's not just the people who need it who remember to care about it is good.
As someone descended from Karen's I'm constantly thinking about the distinction between call outs and call ins, with elements of 'how do we all make the world better' through empowerment instead of policing. I think interactive schooling/scolding/discussion of norms that scale to the amount of impact you have, is part of that.
The need for reporting/blocking/muting is also real - particularly for those marginalized people everyone feels entitled to correct(young, BIPOC, women, etc). I haven't figured out a path forward to deal with biases like that except consciousness raising :/

2024-03-18 15:45:06

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I've gotten to the point I don't believe that's even going to resolve it - they'll just find another guy like him. This is the natural continuation of a century of political machinations and both parties are continuing to move closer to these repugnant ideals.
Eisenhower was the first president to order an assassination, and now presidents of both parties regularly order people abroad to be killed without trials or declarations of war. You don't think there's 100 GOP politicians drooling in eagerness to take over DJTs platform? And look at what the Dems do in response - adopting GOP policies and that's a trend that's been going on for decades.
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2024-03-13 15:42:52

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@npub19fc…ay3c nope, I've met them. They believe in something closer to manifest destiny or economic darwinism - if you ended up with the most money you must have been the best. And therefore whatever makes the most money is the best choice and considering anything else is unrealistic.

2024-03-09 01:30:31

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A3 Gold Bike by Lingua Franca
#BikeNite #BikeNiteA3
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2024-03-07 23:15:17

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@npub19fc…ay3c
A new book called "You Are What You Watch" recently came out, I haven't read it yet, but the author made a convincing argument (on a podcast I listened to) that our public impression of crime rates is more based on the number of cop shows than actual criminal statistics.
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2024-02-28 05:12:50

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 argyle socks?

2024-02-25 16:52:58

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@npub1zt3…0v09 extremely sunny location? Just guessing on basis of my shady flower garden where the flowers in the shadiest location get absurdly long stems.

2024-02-19 00:27:20

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@npub1mmf…eknq boardgames are fun :) and there's a lot of casual games that also can attract people - from bingo to cornhole you can bring out a crowd.

2024-02-18 21:59:00

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@npub1mmf…eknq yeah and I think people underestimate how much it's used to recruit and radicalize young men to the right.

2024-02-13 16:04:15

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 some of the stuff is pretty basic - different shades of light, lowering the heights of street lights and better directing the light towards the ground, etc. A lot of those changes also directly benefit human residents too.
It used to be the only resistance I would hear about would be perceived safety(no actual safety difference) but there's a new house decoration/art fad for lots of light that is gaining traction. A couple of my neighbors put a bunch of high powered LEDs in their driveways and sidewalks pointed directly up :( it both destroys night vision and is maximally light polluting. They're also the ones with giant trucks in the city.

2024-01-31 15:18:46

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@npub15zu…s7lx and this only talks about the immediate environmental effects (destroying fishing & local fishing villages, killing endangered animals, destroying local beaches) but the seabed is also a huge carbon sink. Anything that messes with that has bonus climate change effects.

2024-01-28 18:01:40

Next time someone says 'blah blah these kids blah blah participation trophies' make sure to agree vehemently and move them all the way to '100% inheritance tax' & 'billionaires whose startup money came from family gifts'. They've almost got it, they are just thinking small children were they should be thinking grown men.

2024-01-25 22:37:00

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@npub1psd…9sr7 absolutely! I've definitely come to realize some straight appearing people were in the queer community just by seeing their representation back when that was not a common thing. They could have been family members or other allies but there's no way they could have written that without having seen some relationships like that.

2024-01-25 22:13:26

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I've been loving the answers and ideas about this question. A lot of my favorites as a kid & teen were straight men writing female characters, and straight women writing characters with a variety of genders & sexuality, often not straight women, and there's were a few queer authors in there and thinking about that more deeply as an adult just feels great. Plus I have an excuse to revisit some stories I haven't read in awhile ;) Sword & Sorceress here I come!

2024-01-25 17:57:55

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@npub19fc…ay3c @npub19v5…zwwn @npub14pk…80yc @npub1wfe…kewj yep! And for some people it's not even about being rich, it's just literally they don't know how else to interact with people except as a financial or romantic prospect.

2024-01-25 17:51:32

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@npub19fc…ay3c @npub19v5…zwwn @npub14pk…80yc @npub1wfe…kewj I think now there's a lot of people who don't know how to engage with the world outside of work & dating.
It's hard to move from 'I need one more promotion/milestone' mentality to 'I need to engage with my family & friends & community' if you haven't been engaged in a community already. Like dating vs marriage - the difference between trying to impress someone a few times and building a life in partnership with someone. There's a difference between what we need to be at 25 and 45 where doing well at work is no longer sufficient - you have to be engaging in making the world better beyond work. (Although some people decide they need to turn community into a profit making system instead)
I think our systematic dislocation of people - move away for college, move for that good job, move to the suburbs when you have kids, then have your kids move away from you, working and living in different towns/cities - is a big part of why we get these broken mindsets.

2024-01-24 15:54:09

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@npub1typ…c8hh I'm usually excited when the bay area isn't the leader in most expensive _______ but I'm only interested in the McDonald's potato and drinks menu..

2024-01-20 18:45:18

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@npub19fc…ay3c Working with firearms is a known danger. He chose to make a non-union show, knowing that one of the things the union does is emphasize safety for everybody. It's like you're moving a piano out a tall window with cheap rope - most of the danger is to the piano(production) but if you're also hiring people to stand around under the piano there's some additional risks and you should probably not get the cheapest rope.

2024-01-20 02:16:25

Every once in awhile I try to cuddle and smoosh up to my dog as intensely as she does it up to me. It's hard to reach golden retriever levels of affection, but I try for her.
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2024-01-19 19:35:19

As an apartment dwelling renter I feel I'm totally left behind when it comes to sustainability and energy adaptation programs. PG&E just called to try to set up an energy efficiency program... But I don't qualify. A year or so ago they offered a free fridge upgrade since mine was more than 20 years old - the landlord just had to agree since they own the fridge. The landlord lost the paperwork three times in a row :( our 4 person household gets $400+ bills sometimes and the fridge is always leaking.

2024-01-15 19:02:20

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@npub1hyk…3p33 this is where I think the stock market & venture capital & real estate market is today. Lots of bets on companies that have never made money, houses destined to burn or flood before the mortgage is paid off, and the people who end up with stock in Uber or a 30 year mortgage in a new home in Paradise will end up the losers when reality in the form of insurance costs & the end of the free money hits. So many companies seem to exist purely due to the sunk cost fallacy.

2024-01-11 23:16:01

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@npub18aa…cxut @npub1hyk…3p33 I would go further than that, and say that GDP as an economic measurement is the paperclip maximizer. If our federal government targets producing 2% more paperclip equivalents per year, what the computer does is irrelevant to whether paperclips get maximized.

2024-01-06 00:08:13

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@npub19fc…ay3c yeah, it's 10k hours + critical analysis of how you're progressing and progressive challenges. Many of us have watched 10 years of TV, with average Americans daily TV consumption of 3 hours that's 10000 hours, but unless we're analyzing what we watch and actually trying to get better we're not getting better at watching TV over time.

2024-01-05 23:22:46

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@npub19fc…ay3c yeah he's not even internally consistent.
I enjoy his books but have to constantly remind myself that he's an unreliable narrator. Like in Talking To Strangers he argues that rape culture is a product of college alcohol culture because people who get black out drunk in other cultures don't have problems with rape... Which is not even a coherent argument. But there's also an interesting overview of how we expect certain facial and bodily expressions and that's usually a bad way to go through life. So 🤷🏽‍♀️

2024-01-05 19:57:24

Just had someone get snotty with me because I dared to cross Fell in the crosswalk on green when they wanted to make a left turn.
Y'know that whole thinking of the Roman empire daily thing? It's me but "Arco delenda est" and the extended version Fell the Oak and remove the stroads.

2024-01-05 01:16:44

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Yes. It's interesting that the Democratic Party is still pretending that Republicans don't cheat instead of actually doing anything about the cheating. Watergate is half the time since women got the vote ago and it's not like they haven't been doing shady stuff the whole time.

2023-12-16 21:12:49

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@npub1g02…umym this is beautiful! What is the plant?

2023-12-06 02:31:54

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@npub19fc…ay3c increasingly unstable. Precarious work, rising rents, increasing policing into more domestic areas of sex & gender & parenting, a political party increasingly influenced by people who want to destroy the US government, and we're going to get increasing impacts of climate disasters on top of that, and food and water are going to become harder to get the longer we wait on addressing climate change, and therefore more expensive...
And that's before we even discuss the impact of technological changes.

2023-11-30 00:08:01

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@npub19fc…ay3c yes, death is the end of consciousness, as consciousness is a side effect of the brain. Existence however.. I like to think that I'm a cluster of excited atoms briefly accumulating into this state - 'my' atoms will disperse back into many new and different adventures as they're discarded through breath, biological excretions, etc while I'm alive and eventually hopefully a more total return to the ecosystem after my consciousness dies.
Of course that depends on a belief in time at all, which I'm somewhat less convinced on.

2023-11-01 16:33:04

I'm noticing a lot of Gen X going kinda boomer. But it makes much less sense since they're likely to actually survive to reach the find out part of this fuckery.

2023-09-01 19:32:39

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@npub1nlt…t44t @npub1efv…4jx2 that would be consistent with the map I think - old people with money pay for better health care which benefits the whole area.
The same old people who can't afford to move have rural Appalachian hospitals closing because it's not economically efficient to serve that population.

2023-08-17 15:49:03

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub10av…r788 I support eliminating cash bail both so the poor don't go to jail unfairly, and so the rich don't stay out of jail unfairly.

2023-08-06 21:26:39

Working in the flower bed and now I look like a stoned bee.
Lily growers know the pain.
#bloomscrolling
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2023-07-03 17:23:50

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@npub1msr…0y7u @npub17yf…8udh correct. More police accelerates the doom loop - it doesn't fix the underlying problems, takes money from the things that would fix the problems, and makes wherever the police are more unwelcoming. Historically unused/underused real estate gets used by artists, immigrants, and other non-traditional users. This is the exact groups who are most likely to be driven away by cops. Plus the SF cops have shown that just having cops doesn't help - ie lack of traffic enforcement, standing/sitting around BASA & Hidden Vine while they got robbed/vandalized, so it's not like the police presence makes a small business safer.
I think a lot of SF's doom loop is really caused by the landlords though - seems like a lot of successful businesses get rent raised and/or can't hire entry level because there's so few entry level places for rent in SF.

2023-07-02 22:15:00

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@npub1msr…0y7u @npub17yf…8udh I think the mayor has been all about the doom loop since her campaign - she has been open about punitive policing as her solution to homelessness, including things like increasing the police budget and decreasing the affordable housing budget in her budget proposals. She's both using it as her platform and ensuring it won't get any long-term fixes through her policies.

2023-06-28 18:35:23

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub1zl3…y6yd I read the Emily Post guides as a kid but a lot of it was hard to do because it was delayed. Like how to send invites & thank you cards is useful except that calendaring/time awareness was a base skill I didn't have yet (it's still really hard).

2023-06-28 17:06:54

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub1zl3…y6yd this is me! Just finished a book about social organizing even though I'm not an organizer because I need all the tips on how to approach conversations with people who disagree, and just how to be in community.

2023-06-18 02:35:45

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@npub1ev6…nh08 the city department of the environment is hiring for a green transportation position. The entire job description is electricifation for vehicles.

2023-06-18 02:19:21

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Square breathing is something that should be taught in kindergarten. You know when you're so scared or angry you just can't think? Breathe in 5 count, hold 5 count, breathe out 5 count, hold 5 count. Now react.

2023-06-09 18:11:44

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@npub1ev6…nh08 I sometimes tap if it's a 1 way trip but I use the app for a day pass if I'm doing at least 2+ rides in a day. The app doesn't tap. It's like assuming that if someone isn't paying with cash they aren't paying.

2023-06-04 03:42:43

Cognitive dissonance of the day: electronics with refined metal and rare earth components are thrown in landfills while miners have to endure terrible conditions to sort it from the literal dirt.
If it's that hard to separate from the plastic components that should be a sign, right?
In San Francisco I have to pay to recycle electronics. What do you think the lithium waste of San Francisco is?

2023-06-02 18:26:57

"96.87% decline in traffic citations issued between 2014 and 2022 by the SFPD" and hundreds of dead San Franciscans, thousands of injuries and hundreds of thousands of dollars of expenses for both collision repairs and paying for expensive transportation options because they don't feel safe walking or biking around the city.

2023-05-09 01:40:11

Cops are watching the protest at 16th & Valencia (Justice for Banko Brown, #ReleaseTheTapes) but failing to watch the bike lane or ticket cars on this same deadly intersection. Policing protests is obviously more of a priority for SFPD than protecting people.
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2023-04-17 16:11:45

We need a 22R or a 24R or both. And make at least one of those a BRT lane.

2023-04-04 22:14:15

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#[0] eh, as long as we agree the same standards go for cars right. There is no reason every corner should have street signs designed for cars while rarer bus stops don't have signs for riders.

2023-03-22 03:04:37

Other storm related things: power outage on Divis & Hayes: Birite, Nopa, Popeye's, Bean Bag, etc all closed. Street light was out too. Tree down on Hayes near Steiner.

2023-03-22 00:59:23

Bryant closed at 16th, tree down. #[0]
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