unless the acceptance you’re talking about involves a trans girl wanting to play sports at their school, which is obviously unacceptable unless you’re willing to tie all the athletes and officials involved into knots

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Sceptres –> San Jose 😳

I fully intend to ridicule the FIFA World Cup at every opportunity this year – and I am confident there will be many I entered the ticket lottery for Santa Clara and one hit, at the bottom price bucket. They just released the ticket location and it’s in just about the most nosebleedy spot possible

Internationally acclaimed Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan will succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director, becoming the first woman to lead the San Francisco Symphony in its 115-year history.

The bulletin board for fans of a band of some historical significance. Started in the internet’s infancy by one of the band members, then managed by one of the fans. There were about 70 of us active when it was at its most useful. Eventually washed away in the tide of Facebook becoming mainstream

Anybody here remember what happened in Berlin on the night of November 9, 1989?

I’m sure the Navy is taking this into account in case hostilities with Canada resume

Not in the wildest dreams of P.T. Barnum has there ever been a circus this big www.espn.com/soccer/story...

This event is tomorrow (Thu) morning, and you can still sign up to watch live! It will also be recorded. There has been a big uptick in wildfire activity in recent days, so this will be a timely opportunity to discuss bigger picture surrounding the "fire information landscape."

under present circumstances, “Experience Abu Dhabi” might be the most ridiculous jersey sponsorship patch in sports

Some of the things that have been on my mind since the rumor mill cranked up are touched on here To do this right is going to take some capital investment; we’ll probably not know whose pocket that comes from (Walter Group or the Sharks) so here’s hoping they stay on the same page

If the PW team makes the playoffs this will make for one unholy mess

They left out admin keys for govcloud accounts for 6 months in a public github repo in a file called importantAWStokens. Any script kiddie could have compromised critical government systems with that. Who knows how many state actors did so. gizmodo.com/the-worst-le...

Charlie’s newsletters almost always are received with enthusiasm in this space. The insights in this one are exceptional!

Because I don’t think government has the guts to ban these things (which would not hurt my feelings tbh) I think the reasonable compromise position is a standard prominent marker in a contrasting neon color like the orange tip on a toy gun, with penalties for defacing it and private right of action

The PWHL San Jose (!) press conference has begun, with Brodie Brazil providing the introductory remarks. An interesting choice, identified with the Sharks but not as closely as some folx Now we have two lowrider cars (United Lowriders, East SJ) driving onto the floor at the Tank with the speakers

this sounds like the perfect movie

Mom almost made me cry at the Charge game tonight. Arena was real rowdy before puck drop. She was looking around and seemed a bit somber. I asked what was wrong. She smiled and said: "This feels a long way from getting dressed in a janitors closet to play goalie for boys who called me names." 🥹💜

I don’t know how I’m going to augment my hockey budget sufficiently but here we are… Wishing our new team fabulous success!

It dawns on me that one reason I’m enjoying watching the PWHL playoff broadcasts is that, unlike their men’s counterpart, I’m not being bludgeoned with pseudo-legal gambling promotions every damn minute

the political calculus at work here must really be something

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This is the kind of work, published today, that should be fully supported and prioritized at the highest level. Currently, there is no vaccine vs the Ebola Bundibugyo virus, the source of a major outbreak www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Marin and Santa Cruz at the absolute bottom when it comes to housing production, with San Francisco right behind They’re all lovely places, but this is not a lovely picture

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Bay Area newsrooms covering this story are going to the Eagle for their quotes/sound/visuals While only occasionally gesturing towards “so, is there anything special about the Eagle besides the fact that they have a patio?” (e.g. a Leather flag in the background of the shot) 💙🖤❤️

In a state where the public TV and emergency warning infrastructure are intertwined, the Republican-controlled legislature and Republican governor have put the state’s PBS network on Death Row. Shutdown begins July 1, which iirc is still tornado season oklahomavoice.com/briefs/veto-...

California is considering handing oil refineries and other major polluters billions of dollars in free emission allowances just as the state says carbon reductions need to come faster than ever. cal.news/4dB7ZOR 📸 Loren Elliott

As time has gone by and I’ve become more familiar with the city, I have tried to imagine what might have been had the city fathers not made one shortsighted bonehead decision after another when it comes to Geary between 1950 and now

having known some people when they were just finding their footing in this movement, many years ago, this sounds about right

It’s been a long time since newspaper endorsements were decisive in California statewide races, so make of this what you will; the San Francisco Chronicle eviscerated most of the leading candidates, had some nice things to say about Matt Mahan - while noting his inexperience – and endorsed Porter

Anyone have suggestions on what to do with leftover tomato paste? I followed a recipe yesterday that called for a couple of tablespoons of the stuff and now the rest of the can is in a jar in my refrigerator looking dark and kind of threatening

As this thread unfolds (unwinds?) I am convinced anew that Laura is America’s Most Valuable Journalist in this dark and increasingly bizarre time

When you’re not acclimated to 35+ mph wind gusts and 18% relative humidity, it’s not pleasant “Jumpy” is not quite sufficient “About to burst through my skin” is closer

It’s the first day of Public Safety Power Shutoffs this year in inland Northern California, what with high winds, low relative humidity, and fuels drying out really really fast Meanwhile, back in DC… I still don’t think they want us all dead, but I do think they don’t care if we live or not

It’s hard for me to imagine how it feels to give up 8 goals in a game where if you win you advance to the next playoff round Canadiens are feeling those feels MTL at BUF Monday night, winner advances, loser goes home

Some teams’ fans take “paint the ice day” more seriously than others

WEIU-TV, a PBS affiliate at Eastern Illinois University shut down Friday due to the loss of federal funding for public media. As experts have noted, smaller rural TV and radio stations have suffered most, located where residents already have limited news sources. READ: https://loom.ly/aT-pX4w

The ever-expanding unholy mess of hosting the 2026 FIFA Cash Grab, as playing out in two-thirds of the tri-state area www.espn.com/soccer/world...

Desbiens big save, Victoire counterattack, Poulin primary assist, Maggie Flaherty (who is utterly charming) game-winning overtime goal. Montréal up 2-0 in the best of 5 PWHL final. Fun series to watch

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This is legitimately one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen in all of the LLM bullshit that's out there. (That "joyful" is misspelled seems especially meaningful.)

One of the funniest things to me about this century is how In-N-Out became symbolic of this state, first for SoCal, and now all of it For the part of my childhood spent in the Southland, In-N-Out was “not the first choice, but an option if we’re eating in the car” Now, it’s iconic. What a world

I was wondering when a reporter would track down Barack D. Obama Shaw There are three or four other fringe candidates mentioned in this profile. When combined with the half-dozen leading candidates, this leaves about fifty to go to cover the whole field

The funniest/most pathetic part of this story was the (presumably not AI) spokesperson for the builders saying, to paraphrase, “we don’t use anywhere near as much water as agriculture! give us a break!” perhaps that’s not the best yardstick to use to make your case, buddy

people keep saying this, and I guess it’s possible they’re right

My ISP is terrible, and it *really* doesn’t want to play nice with Victory+’s CDN and I’m getting very grumpy Or Victory+ just sucks. That’s a possibility