Okay so this really happened?! globemagazine.com/president-tr...

i can not be the only person who wonders what trumps doctors assured trump at the last checkup that had trump start talking about a drug that can bring u back from the dead right

Meanwhile in San Francisco my district Supervisor Alan Wong sends out endless emails about how his top priorities are to provide more parking and to rescind tree planting requirements

Their new girlfriend is women

I was flipping through books in a bookshop yesterday and saw Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism" on the shelf and grew very nostalgic for the golden era of Twitter and blogs that existed in 2008-12 or so. The level of discourse online was so much higher than anything that exists today.

If solar panels or heat pumps blew up entire apartment buildings as often as natural gas systems do, they would be banned tomorrow.

This should be disqualifying

The signature gathering effort was wildly successful and people in the Bay Area will be voting on a measure to save public transit in November missionlocal.org/2026/05/bart... via @missionlocal.org

i just want to tell all these people that you don’t actually have to be into gardening if you don’t want to

I'm very interested to read Pope Leo's writing on A.I.: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w...

In @missionlocal.org, @esksf.bsky.social takes a close look at the BUILD Act- a proposed cut to San Francisco's transfer tax that is supposed to spur housing construction but covers all real estate transactions missionlocal.org/2026/05/buil...

Somebody explain this to me

He lies so much he can’t keep his easily verifiable facts straight

When the idea of “homeland security” was bumping around the D.C. establishment before 9/11, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sent an internal memo criticizing the phrase as “more German than American.”

The future of housing! Mid-rise, prefabricated timber frame with straw infill insulation, and a lime render. Quick to build, and low carbon! By Atelier Schmidt, in Zurich.

San Francisco has gone all-in on encouraging office to residential conversions. The latest is the Downtown Revitalization Financing District which might finally be the thing that pushes these projects into the black: openscopestudio.com/downtown-rev... via @openscopestudio.bsky.social

Is anyone else struggling with video calls taking up so many resource things in Windows start crashing? Even with an i7 and 32GB of RAM Zoom and Meet are a nightmare. Switching away from Windows is not an option due to software needs.

"Trump's push for border security has proven to be one of his most popular policy stances. But in the crowd at a Washington Mystics game we spoke to 8 black lesbians who aren't so sure."

the problem isn’t the iphone it’s the steam engine

I am picturing a section of Chapter 12 of the IBC where it bans using red and white checkered tablecloths

What did I tell you. The Swatch x Audemars Piguet Royal Oak pocket watch released caused such a riot, they had to cancel the event. www.instagram.com/reel/DYZwwoD... @lillyh.bsky.social @greatdismal.bsky.social @boursier.bsky.social @johnrt.bsky.social @markasaurus.bsky.social @jwomack.bsky.social

So Caltrans is looking at the possibility of a high speed bus network in California.... BUT 1/2 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

this is obviously stupid but also "i should not have to see a black person in a position of power or influence" is a guiding belief of the trump administration

Single payer healthcare makes sense because the risk of getting hurt or sick is random; so price discrimination is unfair to unlucky people. Pricing risk to homes, OTOH, is good and useful. If you choose to buy a house in a flood plain or fire risk zone, you *should* pay higher insurance premiums!

The framing here is bizarre, SF public school kids are now taking the same entrance exam as private school kids and they are getting into the selective high school at a higher rate and Jill Tucker does everything possible to not admit that is what is happening www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Do you care about biking and E bikes in California? There is a terrible bill in the state assembly that will cripple the e bike industry and one of SF's representatives, Matt Haney, is a sponsor. This law is so severe our current bike share bikes would be banned

I do not think it is ageism to point out that a slim congressional majority will be at risk if we nominate a bunch of representatives in their 80s and 90s

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

“It took me moving to Bayern, Germany, to really understand how different our codes were…” If every architecture, planning, and fire protection engineering program in the US required a year of overseas work experience, all 50 states would rapidly legalize tall single-stair buildings. #CNU34

come on kids, get off screens and go outside! get off the road it's for cars don't ride your bike on the sidewalk you'll hurt someone take your headphones off it's dangerous stop being so loud you're disturbing people don't just loiter around go to the park but calm down there's little ones

The Reflecting Pool is the Trump admin in microcosm: *The pool has real problems, like leaky pipes, that are not being fixed *Superficial paint job that will actually make it look worse *No bid contract! No oversight! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

Fascinating research (via @patrickherd.bsky.social) on using high-frequency ultrasound to destroy the viral envelops of flu-A and Covid, not by cavitation (which also destroys normal host tissue,) but by “acoustic resonance” to use *physicical* rather than biologic or www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is just how windows starts now

I honestly think they are super useful if you know a lot about what you are asking them to do. Which is one reason why I loathe the idea of schools ‘teachings kids to use AI’ - you don’t learn how to use AI, you learn how to do the thing, and then you can ask AI to do it.

What is it about oyster farming in the American imagination that makes a privately educated small businessman “working class”?

One dependably revealing thing: If I post about China supporting cheap EVs, solar power and high-speed rail, strangers will jump in to note how all these things are supported by huge subsidies. Of course they are. My whole point is to draw attention to what the US government will and won't subsidize

👋 Architect here! That’s a lot of money to partially fund a 90,000 sf building.

Even by the standards of this discourse, this is one of the worst arguments I have ever seen

Music opinion: Explosions in the Sky is really really good and you should see them live if you have the chance (assuming they tour again)

That Jones is still able to pull this shit is just another chapter in the ongoing catastrophic failure of this country's laws to deliver something resembling justice in what anyone would consider a reasonable timeframe.

Planting California pipevine (Aristolochia californica) finally paid off! #gardening #CANativePlants #nativeplants

Well that was a disappointing overtime @sabres.com

In which @esksf.bsky.social manages to work in a Murder She Wrote reference in an article about the D4 supervisor's race in San Francisco missionlocal.org/2026/04/dist...

future admins should explore the possibility of converting the ballroom into an aquarium

I realized I need to post my "shipping container housing is bad" piece every six months because a new group of people is always discovering the idea www.archdaily.com/773491/opini...

Blanche Deveraux ran the Miami dating scene in 1984 and this was her Situation Room

"Stopped at the gates" assassination attempts are usually not a huge multi-day news story. You'll recall that media pushed another one of these immediately following Trump's loss (same margin in polls as Biden-Trump 24 debate that forced Biden to drop out) to Kamala in their only debate.

A seaside vegan oysters restaurant called "Soysters"