This is awful. We must break the cycle of waiting for people to die before we improve our streets. Like many of my neighbors this is an intersection I go through daily. It’s past time we improved it www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/r...

Pedestrian struck and killed by driver in S.F.’s Richmond District

A pedestrian died after being struck by a vehicle at Anza Street and Arguello Boulevard in San Francisco’s Richmond District, police said.

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A side-effect of hyperfinancialization or whatever the fuck this is, is that the dominant discourse is rooted in the speculative future rather than grounded in present and historical observable material conditions.

Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media

Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.

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listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard

There was probably a brief period after the invention of the fork when people complained that young people didn’t know how to use their hands anymore.

Y’all. Shipwreck Cove looks absolutely amazing. And somehow it’s a construction project in San Francisco, on public land no less, that actually finished more-or-less on time?!

hmmm

FLIGHT ATTENDANT: is there a doctor on board FRANKENSTEIN: *starts to stand* DR FRANKENSTEIN: *pulls him back down* i think they mean me

Y'all @nora.zone and I are pleased to tell you that Gavbot, the bot that provides fun Gavin Newsom facts, is live. Follow @heygavin.bsky.social for facts every 48 hours, @ him if you need one RIGHT NOW, and please submit your sourced suggestions. Be nice to him he's a baby and we're still building!

one thing i have to give newsom is he keeps making me find new depths of "i am NEVER voting for this motherfucker" inside myself

Frances Larina@franceslarina.bsky.social · last wk.

"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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Ruminating on this and I might have the correlation in reverse. Cranks with misanthropic politics will grasp at ANY argument to dismiss and other their opposition.

Certified Good Neighbor@jcoltkelly.bsky.social · last wk.

Since we’re doing transplant discourse today: In my experience the people who prioritize being ‘natives’ to a place have the worst politics imaginable. Racist nimbyism with a toddler’s understanding of how society works.

Since we’re doing transplant discourse today: In my experience the people who prioritize being ‘natives’ to a place have the worst politics imaginable. Racist nimbyism with a toddler’s understanding of how society works.

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

Bots are starting to overrun this site wtf. Basically all verbatim.

You know, as bad as this is, I'm going to say it's at best the third or fourth biggest theft of labor in just US history, depending on how you delimit

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 2w ago

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2w ago

'oh so you want china to beat us' bro what the hell do i care leave me to the humble life i am trying to build for myself

Good morning everyone.

The average car driver hates it when bicycle riders obey traffic laws, because they themselves don't. bsky.app/profile/roto...

rotomonkey@rotomonkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Heh. Few things piss off a driver more than putting your foot down and standing for a sec when you’re in front of them. Smart move

If there was even a question of Gavin not running for president he probably would have spent more time being governor

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

That rent for the outer sunset is yet another crime, albeit less serious

This happened on my block. Landlord crime wave.

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 3w ago

A San Francisco home where prosecutors said a landlord killed his tenant outside the property has been listed for rent at $6,300 a month — nearly double what the slain tenant had been paying.

I drank the liquid inside of a lava lamp and gained superpowers that allow me to visit the hospital whenever I feel like it.

Event planning like

Walking out of Walgreens and strapping on the elbow brace I just bought is as close as I'll come to stitching up my own bullet wound.

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered