bluesky has been so fun lately. we need more baseball and more left-wing political wins. but especially more left-wing political wins.

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.

This is a really lovely article. I've been reading Nicole Chung's writing on adoption since The Toast (RIP), and I am grateful for her bringing me along as her understanding of adoption has grown and changed.

someone is curling their eyelashes on the 67! that’s extra hard mode

just spent my friday night watching math youtube videos with my wife and there’s only one thing that could make tonight even better

I spent yesterday dealing with identity theft. Not looking forward to more days like that. Having my credit frozen kept things from being much worse. You should freeze your credit! It’s free, and you can always schedule a thaw if you plan on applying for a loan or a new credit card.

Go opt-out now! Be sure to check your 'official' name & everyday name...

Everyone on Project Runway S21E1 keeps looking at the camera (outside confessionals) and the first challenge was chosen for maximum interpersonal drama. I miss the seasons where the the producers focused more on the process of making the clothes

I (a word nerd) am excited to share this with my dad (a bird nerd)

Good for Amy Sherald! But I'm sad for the people who will miss out on her retrospective—I was so moved by it at SFMOMA.

I burned out hard from having the same conversation over and over with retired white women about how (1) Black people aren’t scary, and (2) trans women aren’t trying to take anything away from you. That conversation is vital when bringing in new folks but I couldn’t smile through it any more

Ok but hear me out

A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years

can be sung to the tune of “naked in manhattan”

back in college, my prof mentioned that Japanese Americans were incarcerated right here in the Bay Area, in San Bruno. I was astonished that such dark history could now just be a mall, at risk of being forgotten what happened here my last for @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Watching from the Dykes Only zone, it was gratifying to see a) how quickly people nearer to the situation mobilized to ensure the signs weren’t visible b) how almost everyone in the Dykes Only zone went from chill to *also* ready to step in, and c) the main stage telling TERFs to fuck off.

I helped organize the San Francisco Dyke March’s Safety Marshals this year, and we feel strongly that community is what keeps us safe. That proved to be true at the Dyke March yesterday.

wow this game by @radiatoryang.bsky.social is so ridiculously funny radiatoryang.itch.io/cuomo

so for the last 9 months or so I've been involved with rebooting the SF dyke march. we're a week out and posting one of our core values every day, so that gives me a chance to talk about them—how we got there, what resonates with me. this is the first one on the list.

This guy is such a badass. Also the organizer of the event got punched in the face by a confused attendee while trying to heckle this performer, so: success all around

My wife said, "You should let them know." Absolutely not! Someone might tell them they wrote "polla" where they meant "pollo" but it won't be me.

My favorite local newspaper published a restaurant review that mentions "rotisserie dick" instead of "rotisserie chicken." I hope they never fix it.

Bat Rays in Lake Merritt! @paleontologizing.bsky.social and I saw a bunch there too a while back! www.instagram.com/reel/DKfafxV...

Checked up on my community garden plot earlier today. Tomatoes and peppers eventually, but today there were flowers and lots of bees 🌱

i would've done the same thing lmao

Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

"Speed" but it's a software update

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

The anniversary of my abuelo’s death is today. Weird how some subconscious part of me feels it coming every year and then when the day arrives I’m like, oh so that’s why I’ve been living in this emotional space for the last month

this is so funny

also wring -> wrench trying to figure out what happened to "tring" and "bink" (image from the-real-seebs.tumblr.com/post/7831754...)

you better watch your ess

The US population is over 300 million. So it cost the government under $3.70 per person to deliver mail 6 days a week every month? That's a pretty good deal! I would like my government to fund this instead of killing Palestinians, thanks.

the spoon is part of me, the spoon and I are at minimum on the same side looking out for one another's mutual survival, lately trying on a simple form of meditation where for even 5 minutes a day I let the spoon take over. the spoon doesn't know the past or the future, who's president, what money is

I have been calling my senators this week before I get out of bed (they’re 3 hours ahead of me), and today my calls won’t go through at all. I hope that means lots of other people are calling!

Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.

anyway. crying over the parade to congratulate newly wed LGBTQ+ couples who registered their marriage today

Huh, I expected something with more... gravitas? This sounds like a cartoon mirror shattering

One of the great tragedies of history is that Maarten van Nieuwenhove had a face born to wear an oversized Metallica tshirt that smelled of weed but was forced to live in the 15th century

The two biggest astroturf political groups in SF are merging: missionlocal.org/2025/01/san-...

wife: wow the wind is strong me: why aren’t the tree branches moving? both: huh

I was shocked at how hard it was to insure our new home last month, and we are nowhere near a wildfire zone. Insurers just want out of California altogether. And it’s not about earthquakes, either, since standard policies don’t cover them

San Francisco is often a bellwether when it comes to politics. This is a great article about how the folks with the most money are reshaping SF's government through a network of fake-grassroots organizations. I bet other cities are in for the same treatment (if it's not happening already).

I’m about to write a letter of complaint

Celebrated Hogmanay in Edinburgh last night, and I’m pleased to report that it was not just a hoax played on tourists (like Australian drop bears)

I myself have 7 tiny cups but some of my colleagues have over 20 tiny cups and this is how marine biologists determine rank in our society

At last! Someone built a page for me to browse all the UUIDs so I can pick my favorites eieio.games/blog/writing...

presenting, in collaboration with the inimitable @jayackley.bsky.social, a five minute folk musical documentary, about the time Idaho Fish and Game parachuted 76 beavers out of a plane. www.youtube.com/watch?v=adDE...