The thoughts I have about the people who perpetrate and cover up assaults like these cannot be expressed on bsky. Dollar Tree has a lot to answer for in their willful refusal to help victims because their inaction facilitates this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The thoughts I have about the people who perpetrate and cover up assaults like these cannot be expressed on bsky. Dollar Tree has a lot to answer for in their willful refusal to help victims because their inaction facilitates this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Sources identified the officer as Michael Petuya, a third-generation San Francisco police officer who is featured in department campaigns seeking new recruits.

This particular criminalization of parental poverty, used to disproportionately pathologize Black women and steal their children, is called Jane Crow. And it's proliferating because of deliberately cruel, punitive administrative policies like what's happening to SNAP and Medicaid.

Today I used archive links for some very well reported articles published in the SF Standard and that is because I have some deep reservations about Sir Michael Moritz who has personally funded attacks on public schools and harm reduction in San Francisco. I take that very personally.

UPDATE: Tenderloin Based Neo-Nazi Label "Brotherhood of Light Recordings" is possibly facing eviction after financial troubles and community push-back.

It cannot go without saying that San Francisco has also had a very bad habit of using DNA from sexual assault exams to charge rape *victims* with property crimes, a practice Chesa Boudin fought to stop. www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/u...

I’m trying to organize a thing for myself at hacker vegas so I got on fetlife to help facilitate that and I accidentally found a treasure trove of long forgotten profiles belonging to local acquaintances.

This weekend is all about the masochists because Sunday is both Dore Alley and the SF Marathon. If you’re not a masochist you should make sure to check street closures.

A homeless man was reportedly struck and badly injured by a vehicle Monday morning in an alleyway behind the SFPD's Central Station in North Beach, and the driver was allegedly an off-duty SFPD officer. buff.ly/GBfmg9f

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In the criminal justice system sexually based offenses are routinely dismissed. There are no dedicated detectives & the SVU is the opposite of elite. Especially in San Francisco, it seems, where we have a low reported case load & an even lower clearance rate even with DNA. archive.today/wjtI8

new horror beyond human comprehension pitched as tool for "wildlife monitoring" news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

Every time a violent driver hits a safety feature with their car, a human gets to live the rest of their life.

Twiggy - Sugar Daddy [UK, Soul/Funk/Ballad] (1979) https://redd.it/1j1e1kl https://youtu.be/7h7MAoCD84M

Just made another pilgrimage to the Madonna Inn 💖 Definitely brought home a few slices of pink champagne cake.

After a very nasty public homophobic incident on Pride Night, attendance at the MAGA owned SF Giants is down 5%. There was no sincere apology & they’ve been dismissing community complaints so I hope that number keeps dropping: www.outsports.com/2026/7/17/24...

Tech bro billionaires have no business coming into our communities to profit off the suffering of our homeless neighbors. But Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is doing just that. Our report details the connections between Lonsdale, anti-homeless laws, prisons, & surveillance tech. buff.ly/qY38875

abolishing ice means abolishing the police and the prison industrial complex. every part of it must go to help open up many new pathways forward

It’s not just the gay bars in SF using facial recognition, Grocery Outlet does it too! missionlocal.org/2026/07/sf-g...

Ending a relationship used to mean returning keys and picking up boxes. Today it also means passwords, shared streaming, smart thermostats, and phone plans. A "digital breakup" is deciding, on your terms, which doors to close. Check out our digital breakup guide here: safeescape.org/toolkit-digi...

Tweet so good I printed it out and put it on my wall. I referred to it in a conference talk today @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Gillian Anderson and Hanna Einbinder will be performing a live reading of the 2002 cult classic “Secretary” on July 28 in Los Angeles. www.indiewire.com/news/general...

New from @josephinelee.bsky.social, in our magazine: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young children children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.

This hospital has found a way to make our absurd health insurance system even worse: taking nurses who communicate with insurance companies about coverage and replacing them with AI software

The Ph I study of the BDBV Ebola vaccine is underway! the trial will recruit 50 adult participant 18-55yo. Serum Institute of India has manufactured and stockpiled approximately 620,000 doses of the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine candidate in two weeks for potential future use www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-07...

My Monday morning video for tomorrow is one that many people have been waiting a little while to see go up on YouTube... youtu.be/WV-ftU0zxCo ...this is the famous Violet Wand workshop that I gave with Kiwi and @visual-lies.bsky.social at @cackalackycon.bsky.social back in May. Enjoy! 👍😁👍⚡

So I wear a simple TENS fitness waist belt sometimes when I’m doing a sedentary work project purely because it helps me concentrate. It has not given me abs of steel but it does help me crush boring admin projects. I will also freely admit that I’m a total freak of nature.

With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet

Gotta stay humble

When I first got into SWer rights activism around 2006-ish I really thought that section would happen in my lifetime. We even got a few ballot measures like SF’s Prop k in ‘08. Now I’d be happy if we could just abandon the practice of listing “dead hooker” as a role in film/tv credits.

“There was just a series of Fridays, each one slightly worse than the last, until one day the question, ‘Are we in a police state?’ had become dangerous to ask out loud.” hartmannreport.com/p/police-sta...

It’s taking a lot more work to arrange being kidnapped from a convention floor by a coordinated group of nerds than I expected.

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These kinds of laws have an invisible ripple effect across the country. A good number of corporations will just change their policies instead of making a NYC-specific protocol. A lot of the consumer protections we have started in one state or big city.

Routine reminder that US cops kill 10,000-25,000 dogs every year. Almost always with zero reason or justification. That is 27-68 dogs shot and killed by police every day.

It’s taking a lot more work to arrange being kidnapped from a convention floor by a coordinated group of nerds than I expected.

Today, July 10, marks one year since the brutal and chaotic immigration raid by the US DHS on Glass House Farms in Ventura County, CA which resulted in more than 300 farm workers detained by federal agents and the violent death of farm worker Jaime Alanis Garcia. 1/

Seeking Lawyers/Law Students/Volunteers to support San Quentin Incarcerated Individuals' Commutation Workshop docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I don’t disagree with this, but everyone killed in detention or by detention merits this fury as well. Everyone who dies in the mountains or the desert because our border killed them should make you furious. The state does cruelty in so many ways and you should keep organizing until they all stop.

When San Francisco became the country’s first city to ban the use of facial recognition in 2019, it was rightfully championed as a win against predaceous surveillance technology. Eight years later, that ban has been undercut into ineffectuality.

If you’ve ever worked or interacted with Dan Moraff, I’d like to chat for a story. Message marisakabas.04 on Signal.

It wasn’t just the post, it was also a video segment with Ryan Grim (fast forward to around 5:40 for this particularly disgusting quote) youtu.be/j8MStTYqt-M?... There’s no journalistic malpractice in failing to report that the victim texted about the state of her body prior to saying “no.”

When you owe a university money: We're going to boot your car, repossess your diploma, and retroactively fail you on the swim test When a university owes you money: Sorry, what is money? We think there's a person on the 6th floor who handles that but they're out until January.

This video by Sim Kern actually made my jaw drop, especially the “if my rapist ran for mayor and the opposition was pro-Israel, not only would I vote for him but I would campaign for him” part. There’s no caveat in the world that makes this less fucked. www.instagram.com/reel/DagA7ug...

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

caring about victims of sexual assault is a feminine-coded concern, and there are some left wing men who seem like they'd prefer being called a misogynist by a woman on the left than a betacuck soy boy by a man on the right

“Normal People”

I keep seeing defenses of Al Franken whenever the news highlights sexual assault by D politicians (Swalwell, Platner), the idea being that Franken is an example of someone who was unfairly treated and CLEARLY we memory holed that entire controversy. This was his SEVENTH accuser, a Democratic aide: