In memory of Ariane Daniela Forster aka Ari Up, singer and founding member of the English punk band The Slits, born on this day in 1962, Munich, Germany. Photo by Martin Booth #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #ariup #theslits #history #punkrockhistory #otd

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

Remarkable man at 100: still moving, still seeing, still thinking, still dreaming. What lucid, lovely prose. We all deserve such a blessed life.

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

A friend shared his letter to his family, from 1960, prior to joining fourteen comrades in destroying some 40,000 draft records, then signing hymns while waiting for police to arrest them. Such valor may soon be called for. May our actions now honor their sacrifices then.

In a nation ruled by supremacy and all its many sabotages of the public good, every act of repair is a defiant act. *Every* act of repair is a defiant act.

Devastated to learn about the fire that destroyed the incredible Northtown Books in Arcata. Help if you can: giveahand.com/fundraiser/n...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

BREAKING: Bottom of the Hill, the storied rock club that’s hosted countless local bands as well as global superstars like Oasis, the Strokes, and the White Stripes, will shutter at the end of this year, owners say. What’s next for the space isn’t clear. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

A very bike friendly street. Keeps cars slow and lets bikes ride smoothly. It’s Germany tjo so it must be grey at all costs

In news that should surprise no one…

As good as the speech was Zohran telegraphs Bernie more than Obama in tone and cadence. He risked boring us to make a point, he kept it as down to earth as Bernie’s coat

Mayor Zohran Mamdani at his desk

Today is March 7309th, 2020

It should be harder to get a drivers license and easier to lose it.

I am a pupa that will hatch and be reborn as a Jim Ignatowski

Is it any wonder pedestrian deaths are up nearly 50% from a decade ago? Criminal mass manslaughter by car manufacturers

This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism

San Francisco just had the smallest taste of what real disaster could look like—and trust us, you do not want “autonomous” cars going haywire in the middle of one.

Failed Waymo robot blocking emergency services during a widespread emergency: Grant St at Sacramento, heart of Chinatown, San Francisco I've been warning about this scenario for ~7 yrs. Safety drivers fix this in seconds. SFPD will prob have to drive this out of the way. OP:tiktok.joolyana

Waymo standoff — this is why we don’t want Waymos on Market Street. Blocking emergency vehicles, distracting first responders.

Jesus Christ

This from @tomscocca.bsky.social has lived rent free in my brain for years, especially the part of taking stock of how you're enjoying the party after your 2 drinks. If you're not having fun, more drinks won't make it better. Go home. lifehacker.com/have-two-dri...

Playtime and Lawrence of Arabia at the Castro—sigh. More recently OBAA in an art deco box seat at Amsterdam’s Koninklijk, the opera house of cinemas; and www.RachelOrmont.com in SF Chinatown’s Great Star, a film every other cinema in town refused to screen

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

The text generator generates text. If you ask it for persuasive text, it generates text that is more persuasive. The text generator cannot lie, or tell the truth—it just generates text. Every time we say “the bot lied” we are misleading ourselves.

1. Cars are the biggest source of climate pollution in the country. 2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage. 2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy. Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

“In the early days it was a lonely battle. Studio heads whom Taylor had made lots of money for hung up on her … Some of her friends and advisers told her to stay away from HIV and AIDS because it could end her career.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

Just another reminder that car culture is and always was a project of authoritarian division, privatization and control —the opposite of the freedom it sells as a vibe

Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

“Sometimes these people give the impression that their minds would be blown by a newspaper.”

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

5 immigration judges were summarily fired in San Francisco today, the largest such firing in the city all year. It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year. missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...

Thank you to our friends at Filmbot for their support in presenting this amazing series, kicking off at The Frida on Dec 12 with PIG and RED ROCKET. RELIC, THE WILD GOOSE LAKE, & RELIC on Dec 13th. THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF & WOLFWALKERS on Dec 14 🎬️ 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/film-series/...

Tough place as a country when your postal workers are fighting off your secret police

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Similar horror story here. We have a major surgery in our family coming up and have to decide whether to be financially devastated now or later.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

Yeah :D

Inspired by fellow booksellers, we at @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social will be donating Sunday profits in November to the SF-Marin Food Bank. You can donate directly to the food bank here: www.sfmfoodbank.org

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if the leftists win they will destroy our way of life (constant unnecessary suffering)

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.