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Your basic Bay Area boy: flâneur, film buff, hiker, foodie, culture vulture, PhD drop out—underemployed and over-caffeinated.

Liberté, Egalité, Flâneurité!

Last Notes

2025-05-27 19:36:18

These Urban Farms Are Filling the Gaps the Government Ignores
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/these-urban-farms-are-filling-the-gaps-the-government-ignores

2025-05-22 00:17:08

Picture to use in response to any weird suggestion or advice some stochastic parrot makes
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/548/606/696/551/234/original/29bb89d276b87db4.jpeg

2025-05-21 00:17:05

compassion and solidarity:
Stop and give a hitchhiking family a ride. Never cross a picket line, even when your family can’t pay the rent. Share your last cigarette with a stranger. Steal milk when your kids have none and then give half to the little kids next door (this is what my own mother did repeatedly in 1936). Listen carefully to the quiet, profound people who have lost everything but their dignity. Cultivate the generosity of the “we.” -- Mike Davis, Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible

2025-04-10 17:57:35

The neoliberal system…embodies three principles: escalation of differentials in wealth and income; abrogation of democratic control and representation; and deregulation of as many economic transactions as is feasible. In short: inequality, oligarchy and factor mobility https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/perry-anderson/regime-change-in-the-west

2025-03-10 14:57:49

Hey. If I don’t post next week it will be because something like the thing that happened to the guy with the card and the German girl happened to me at SFO. Let people know.

2025-02-28 15:55:00

Spot on:
“Maybe if Democratic leaders pretended Elon Musk was a 22-year-old Palestinian from Dearborn, Michigan, they’d show more fight.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-fecklessness/

2025-02-24 16:49:24

Roberta Flack, soul and R&B icon behind Killing Me Softly, dies aged 88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrudT410TAI

2025-02-23 20:16:01

as ocean temperatures rise and weather patterns shift, waves are changing, in some oceans growing bigger and more powerful, and fast.
This has frightening implications for coastlines and the coastal communities that bear the brunt of the ocean’s fury. But if harnessed effectively waves – and the energy they transmit – may also have a part to play in tackling the climate crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/22/waves-are-getting-bigger-is-the-world-ready?CMP=share_btn_url

2025-02-18 20:27:40

From @nprofile…qz4x
Thomas Piketty's 2013 unexpected bestseller (a 750 page economics book translated from French!) Capital in the 21st Century, offers a very convincing explanation of our political decay, and it continues to serve this purpose as the decay undergoes alarming acceleration
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/18/pikettys-productivity/

2024-06-07 22:40:35

Apparently, so many SFPD officers were assigned to work the Skrillex concert that they could not respond to a crime report South of Market.
The City's permitting process for special events is supposed to ensure that they do not draw down public safety personnel.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-wine-bar-thefts-19499449.php

2024-05-17 02:46:28

I’m not saying that everything done by the Mayor’s office and departments under their direct control is sleazy, essentially corrupt and self-interested. But I’m not not saying that. https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/16/operation-genesis-investigated-san-francisco-police/?utm_campaign=SF%20Standard%20Breaking%20News%20Alerts&utm_content=breaking-read-more&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SF%20Standard

2024-02-25 01:58:42

"We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world." -- Richard Milhouse Nixon, 10/27/65
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