finally watched they live on criterion last night, and at one point the aliens say that according to their projections by the year 2025 the entire planet would be under the dominion of their power alliance, which really explains a lot

affordability AND abundance huh, that is an interesting angle

Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

there is a house in sf on 17th above market with the animated elmo fire playing on a screen in the window and it is such a vibe for the end of 2025

king tides surfs up this morning at ocean beach

don’t forget, if you are watching the rose parade tomorrow you can download the ktla app to your smart tv. there’s no bob and stephanie and it will be weirdly overproduced with inexplicable musical numbers but it is still the best way to watch

so distracted by christmas movies, almost completely forgot to check what is leaving criterion and now get to binge a bunch of howard hawks and finally watch they live

sounds like it’s the bear’s house now

It turns out Helly R. is a circus person.

apparently there is a cat grass supplier reliability issue out there and we may have to start a cat grass farming experiment

omg kamala there is no way to describe how little i want to hear about your difficult decision to *start a new pac* so let’s just leave it at stop

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...

the class character of this particular one is interesting; rich people love Waymos but they make things worse for everyone else, therefore their ability to operate in SF is sacrosanct

finally got the moveon “my favorite season is the fall of facism” sticker just in time for winter, it was a free sticker okay but such a seasonal pun!

it’s like Anthony Bourdain said: once you’ve been to San Francisco, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Marc Andreessen to death with your bare hands

as we all know from the muppets christmas carol, this is the reason for the season and there are still 11 days to go

the super cheap cute lil e-ink reader from china did not arrive after all but on the other hand the whole vaguely post-apocalyptic experience of no longer being able to easily order fun things like this gets to become an interesting part of the gifting experience

i understand why the coop bakery closes every year at christmas for two weeks, and support this in theory but also omg two weeks without scones and english muffins is such a dark time

As hurricane-force winds showered fire embers down on Altadena in January, it seemed almost impossible that much would survive. But while some of the towering deodar cedars lining Santa Rosa Avenue were singed by fire and damaged by wind, they survived. www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...

randomly gifted a magnifying glass and the explanation was ‘because it was so helpful in that game you were playing’ and to be fair yes there has been a lot of blue prince this year and also this is a very true fact

Merriam Christmas

really leaning into the christmas story marathon as festive yule log type background this year

For Christmas Eve, enjoy a supercut of my favorite tradition — Darlene Love on Letterman

soma fm is truly doing some great work with their holiday music channels between the jolly old soul and christmas lounge and christmas rocks! stations somafm.com

high wind warning overnight means being woken up at 5 am and then 8 am by the guys with chainsaws working on what is left of the tree across the street apparently

ooh olive the other reindeer is streaming on hoopla for whoever out there needs it

Four of the five individuals work with NGOs, the fifth — former EU regulator Thierry Breton — is being targeted for his work as an EU regulator and in particular, putting Elon Musk on notice of potential enforcement actions against X/Twitter.

take your walks and run your errands quick sf

being reminded about this has seriously improved the outlook for this holiday season

So my first novel, The Survivalists (black woman lawyer falls in with a pack of Black Brooklyn doomsday preppers) is the San Francisco Public Library’s On The Same Page Pick for January/February 2026, and i’ll be doing an event there on 2/22 sfpl.org/books-and-me...

getting to be about time for the annual listen of the bbc dark is rising podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

boo www.kqed.org/news/1206799...

If you don't live in D4, you can call the Mayor, he has been pushing to end the park since before his election and has been pressuring his puppet supe to come out against it. Tell him you know this is coming from him. www.sf.gov/departments-...

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

Guess I'll post this again

legitimately can’t tell if i am fighting off some kind of bug or just fighting off 2025

Faith leaders have chained themselves to the doors of San Francisco's immigration courthouse, blockading the building in the predawn hours. missionlocal.org/2025/12/fait...

From Bay Resistance: Faith leaders have locked in at 630 Sansome. Join them to stop the kidnappings.

San Francisco is being represented in the 137th Tournament of Roses parade on New Year’s Day for the first time in nearly 50 years, but don’t expect a nod to the LGBTQ community on the float.... www.ebar.com/story/161279...

The city wants your input on which street should be renamed for Claude, the albino alligator. Take our official poll below: missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-c...

why are all the helicopters flying around san francisco what happened

it is hard to describe what an important movie the princess bride was, how you'd watch it endlessly whenever it aired on hbo (so much!), how it never stopped being funny telling your friends no more rhyming i mean it, how it had an amazing dvd commentary track. how it meant everything for a time.

I just watched the wedding episode of the bear, and watching everyone post this yesterday felt a bit like sitting under the table while gradually everyone shows up to sit with you in the pit of despair

slack is a pretty good irc clone but it sure would have been fun to get the full keita takahashi glitch experience

anyway I’m gonna go cry for a bit

watching all my follows one by one saying yep, pit of despair, here we are

you keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

it is hard to describe what an important movie the princess bride was, how you'd watch it endlessly whenever it aired on hbo (so much!), how it never stopped being funny telling your friends no more rhyming i mean it, how it had an amazing dvd commentary track. how it meant everything for a time.