Not a lot blooming but a whole lot shrooming on the Bootjack, TCC, and Stapleveldt Trail Loop at Mount Tamalpais State Park🍄‍🟫 🌱 🧵 1-9-26 1/7

Happy New Year, friends that are on BlueSky! 💕

Trump's ignorant and cruel Executive Order today on homelessness sounds eerily familiar to those of us in San Francisco, where self-described "moderate" politicians have been using nearly identical messaging for years. Stop acting like Trump and start housing people with the support they need.

Crypto company Ripple & a nonprofit backed by its founder, Chris Larsen, is seeking to donate nearly $9.4 million to the SFPD’s Real Time Investigation Center, a fledgling unit that uses surveillance technology to monitor crime. via @miss-elenius.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/06/sfpd...

📌 🧵 Notes on UCOPS The inaugural Executive Board of UCOPS, formed April 13, 2017, was: President Daryl Turner (Portland PA) Vice President Paul Kelly (San Jose POA) Secretary Robert Harris (Los Angeles PPL) Treasurer Martin Halloran (San Francisco POA) t.co/B2RYVb4tDp

Nudibranchs from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve 5-1-25

Hi, friends! If anyone has seen reporting on Park Avenue Assets and Project Veritas, can you throw it my way? TIA!

How are you? I’m out circling the ancient tower.

cc @thebreakdownab.bsky.social

the event on Thursday is sold out. the premier of Alberta is closing a deal www.motherjones.com/environment/...

The new Wayne Thiebaud show at the Legion is pretty great! Recommend!

Garry Tan is hosting another ACTS 17 political theology night with Anduril’s Trae Stephens March 6th, 2025 talking about theological implications of their tech “quests.” x.com/sf_mills/sta...

So about those guys who have been pushing voting on a blockchain…people like Ivan Raiklin, Trent Pool, Brock Pierce, Nick Spanos, and the people from the Independent National Convention…where are they at about now?

Gavin Kliger, 26, authored the email announcing USAID HQ would close today. Here is Gavin in a Twitter Academy ad from 2021. He interned at old Twitter. Gavin is an avid Yelp reviewer, critiquing everything from Orange County Planet Fitnesses for being too loud to local Chinese restaurants/

That astroturf MADAD group launched with funding from Michael Shellenberger and whose PR guy wrote most of the content for Intelligencer, the TNT Radio spinoff, are going to have a rally to “support the mayor’s fentanyl state of emergency” at 9:15 this morning. x.com/sf_mills/sta...

During today’s adventuring I found an octopus.

Here’s what’s blooming along the Yolanda, Hidden Meadow, and Shaver Grade Loop trail out in Marin County 🌱 1-17-24

Here are some fun guys I found on the Bald Mountain Trail out at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park 1-3-23

Wildflower season is almost here and I cannot wait.

i just signed up for Threads and now mark zuckerberg is just in my house and he won't leave, so i call the cops and they show up but they are both mark zuckerberg too, now there are three mark zuckerbergs in my house. hold on i gotta go check on my mom upstairs--oh no, oh god no

Can we please have more jet packs and fewer suboptimal microblogging apps? I feel like I was promised jet packs.

New by me: US spies are buying up Americans' private phone data. Congress has just been given (yet another) chance to stop it. https://www.wired.com/story/ndaa-2023-davidson-jacobs-fourth-amendment/

“Six years ago, as an assistant district attorney, Jenkins prosecuted Moore on 2017 assault and threat charges tangential to the events of Jan. 6, 2017 that left him mortally wounded after being shot twice by Cha.”https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/da-jenkins-prosecuted-sean-moore-dismiss-kenneth-cha/

I want to see a movie about an angel getting accidentally trapped inside of the body of a raccoon & the only way that he can get out of his raccoon form is to find the right trash can. Meanwhile, the raccoon has taken over the angel's life & is causing chaos in Heaven.

I used to deliver papers for the Register as a kid, then later I had an auto route as an adult. So many people I loved worked at this paper or I met on the routes. https://open.substack.com/pub/napavalleyfocus/p/30-year-napa-register-newspaper-driver

What even is going on here?

Quoteskeet with a game that’s nostalgic for you

I still think it’s wild that Tom Barrack, Manafort’s buddy, was on the board of First Republic Bank. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump-adviser-tom-barracks-emails-paul-manafort-jared/story?id=90733476

This reminds me that I’ve recently gotten interested in this Twitter account called Tenderloin Tube/TLTube and their accompanying live feeds, created as a tool to help SFPD apparently, recently expanded into Lower Nob Hill (night only). I also wonder who else is using it. https://eyeroll.live

14 vans full of police. I wonder how much that cost local taxpayers on Independence Day. https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/sfpd-rushes-disperses-july-4th-crowd-in-the-mission/

I said this a year ago elsewhere, but I’ll say it again here: It's impossible to overstate how much the big tech CEOs & VCs are being radicalized within their bubble. The level of paranoia & contrived victimization is off the charts, and they increasingly only consume media that they have funded.

Today’s Tune: When the City Lights Dim Cold Specks https://vimeo.com/59664163

I’m still irritated and curious that the person behind the San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs Association’s Twitter account lying about me and threatening me before I left on the 30th. Like, who runs that account? Who are they listening to? Who else are they trying to intimidate?

"You can bring your Instagram & Facebook followers to Threads" Boring, let me bring my Tumblr followers to LinkedIn, you cowards

I’m so happy about this. https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/tracy-chapman-luke-combs-fast-car-number-one-18183687

12:15 am and there are over 150 people watching a smelly flower bloom on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/-MW96uQgHL8

[God making soup] ANGEL: so I need hot water & then I can add literally anything else to it? GOD: yup ANGEL: tomatoes? GOD: tomato soup ANGEL: a chicken? GOD: chicken soup ANGEL: an Italian wedding? GOD: [taking bong rip] Italian wedding soup

Today’s Tune: Fresh Feeling Eels https://youtu.be/rjVpkEGAgiw

new from me: during a speech at this year’s SF Pride, our pro-police mayor called out red states for anti-LGBT policies and touted the inclusivity of SF. but what good is a cultural bubble in times like these if it’s just used to pinkwash reactionary politics? https://tinyurl.com/mps3xm39

For folks who follow me because of the Shellenberger North America Recovers stuff, Denver is next up on their platter. Orgs I was looking at in that orbit included Citizens for a Safe and Clean Denver and Save Denver Now.

speaking as the raccoon queen of Twitter, I can confirm that this is not true and the raccoons would never do that

So a lot of my research is on Twitter and I’m not sure what to do with it. I’m kinda old to jump to a new social media *again*. I guess I’m probably going to have to finally write stuff up before it’s gone and I just don’t know where to start. I’m super open to suggestions or advice.

Yeah, kinda feels like these guys are playing Ron Paul’s Digital Army game. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/rand-paul-2016-social-media-117132/

We got the DA Bill Oberndorf and Chris Larsen wanted. https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/da-brooke-jenkins-to-drop-last-sfpd-police-shooting-case-family-says/

The San Francisco Deputy Sheriff’s Association is retweeting Asian Crime Report aka SFStreets415 aka an account that makes money off GoFundMes from creating misleading narratives. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/black-asian-disinformation-17385854.php

hitman: who am I killing? dog: ever hear of a guy named pavlov? hitman: rings a bell dog: *narrows eyes* that's right

“While members of the Downtown Streets Team are lightly compensated, the organization isn’t: A perusal of city numbers reveals Downtown Streets has received at least $2.17 million in San Francisco contracts since 2017.” https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/homeless-san-francisco-downtown-streets/