SFMemory Update! 179 remarkable glass plates from Eureka Valley (the Castro to you) photographer DH Wulzen just uploaded. I am so honored the Wulzen Family allowed me to possess & scan these artifacts before donating them to @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social Take a look : sfmemory.org/Update/2026-...

- Spy, Lie, Defy: The One-Legged Woman Who Fooled the Gestapo: Liz Medinia - Doyle Harden - The Henry Ford of Black Velvet Painting: Stacy McClanahan Get your tickets and join us at Public Works and delve into these dark horse stories from art, history, science and the life-story of a WWII era spy!

The speakers and stories for Dark Horse are live! Here are six incredible tales about unexpected champions, coming to you on Tuesday, Sep 1st. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/dark-horse...

"Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes..."

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“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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We are back after our summer break and our next show brings you stories of long shots, last laughs, and ideas that were written off, until they prevailed. Join us for Dark Horse: tales about unexpected champions at Public Works on Sep 1st. Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/dark-horse...

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I have long wanted to write for the excellent Bay Area publishing collective COYOTE...and they let me write something that honestly no other publication would. All hail independent media!!

Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 3w ago

Early on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...

At Curiosity Guild, when the villain of the story deserves boos, he gets them. 👎❄️ #HistoryVillains #ArcticExploration #AdaBlackjack #StayCurious

Mess with the hat, you get the stab. Jonathan tell us about Edwardian hatpin wars. 👒🗡️ #Suffragette #FashionHistory #StayCurious

📣 Support our neighborhood friends - Donate your graphic novels, manga, or zines to Madrone Art Bar (500 Divisadero St, SF) through July 19th! 📚 Donations will support their first Community Book Sale on Saturday, July 25th, with all proceeds going to 🔗 www.youthartexchange.org #bookdonations

Printed and mounted these cabinet cards with @collibrina.bsky.social #filmisnotdead

If you're weird enough and commit to the bit, you can be anything. 🥂👑 Words to live by from Jamie Reffell. #CommitToTheBit #SFHistory #Inspiration

The 1793 version of "This email could have been an internal memo." @evacide.bsky.social reads the Qianlong Emperor's reply to King George III's request to trade. ✉️🔥 #ImperialSass #StayCurious

Loving how these ambrotypes turned out. Thank you @collibrina.bsky.social for being so effortlessly glamorous in front of the lens while I was busy fussing with my glass and chemistry and antique equipment!

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

HeadsUp: #SFPride Festival is today and tomorrow in Civic Center from noon to 6pm (both days). ➡️#SFMuni will have reroutes on the 5, 6, 19, & 27. ➡️For complete details, visit: https://www.sfmta.com/Pride

The 1920s "fountain of youth" was... monkey parts? 🐒😳 Science was a wild west back then, as Seth Rosenblatt relates. #MedicalHistory #MadScience #HistoriesMysteries #StayCurious

The correct analogy is in Alice: "Why, the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and, if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes, to—"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Reuters has a livestream of working trying to remove algae from the reflecting pool 😆

Ross McKegney asks, why have a house when you can have a moving island castle? 🏝️🏰 The Victorian dream was literally built different. #SteampunkRealLife #Inventions #Utopia #StayCurious

Danielle Roberts presents the official bouquet for when your startup pivots from running shoes to AI. 💐💻 San Francisco, are you okay? #StartupLife #SFHistory #AIInfrastructure #Floriography #SayItWithFlowers #StayCurious

imagine drawing a crowd in the middle of the night to watch them remove your name from a building

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

99 minutes until the compliance deadline.

What immigrants in S.F. need to know now: court locations, asylum fees and procedures missionlocal.org/2026/06/san-...

What immigrants in S.F. need to know now: court locations, asylum fees and procedures

If you are an immigrant applying for asylum and moving through the court system, or trying to legalize your status in another way, here are some important

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A toast to everyone who came out to LOCK HORNS yesterday! What an evening. #StayCurious #CuriosityGuild #Cheers

One brave emu took a suicide mission to save the flock. Sahil Bansal salutes a true feathered war hero. #AnimalHeroes #EmuWar #WildHistory #StayCurious

Lock Horns is tomorrow! Don’t miss our last show before a summer break. We’ve got six incredible stories of clashing egos, epic battles and fights worth picking. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/lock-horns... Hosted by Isolde Honore Tuesday, June 2nd Doors 6:30pm, show 7:30pm Public Works (21+)

Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lock-horns... See you Tuesday!

Lock Horns is next week! This is our last show before a summer break. Don't miss out: www.eventbrite.com/e/lock-horns... Hosted by Isolde Honoré Tuesday, June 2nd Doors 6:30pm, show 7:30pm Public Works, 21+ 161 Erie Street, SF Ticket links up top. Story previews down below

It’s for gout ointment, I swear! 🤥 Christina Liu shows us the boldest lie in botanical spy history. #HistoricalSpies #PlantTok #ScienceHistory #StayCurious

Sometimes I talk about things that are not cybersecurity or human rights. On June 2nd, come hear me talk about the Opium Wars--that time the British Empire fought the war on drugs, on the side of drugs.

Curiosity Guild@curiosityguild.org · 3mo ago

Our last show before a summer break is just around the corner, Lock Horns: stories of refusing to back down. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lock-horns... Six true stories of underdogs, hold-outs, and troublemakers. Tuesday, June 2nd.