I'm so glad I am not "dating", because this use of spreadsheets seems like something from a dystopia.

My secret to dating in San Francisco is a spreadsheet

#Dating #SanFrancisco #Technology

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/trick-to-san-francisco-dating-17446896.php

I went to Chinatown for a date

Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: Yesterday was the first official day of Ocean Beach Park! https://webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/778198605349666816

The anti-Elon Musk protest outside the Tesla dealership in San Francisco today and every Saturday. Slow the video down to read the signs.

One of my favorite businesses in SF Japantown is Maruwu Seicha. Awesome cheese tarts and matcha drinks.

#SanFrancisco #business #Tesla #ElonMusk #LocalGov

'The Tesla showroom on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco is operating without permits, according to the Department of Building Inspection's online database.

The San Francisco Chronicle reviewed the database and found DBI never gave Tesla the final sign-off on a host of renovations made in late 2015 and early 2016.'

https://www.kcra.com/article/tesla-san-francisco-showroom-without-permits/64167911

Car brainiacs of San Francisco

At the same time, I have no sympathy for politicians who encouraged recalls as a way of life instead of an exceptional tool, so they can suck it up

https://missionlocal.org/2025/03/prop-k-opponents-to-sue-city-five-supervisors-over-great-highway-closure/

Simpson's themed Moe's Tavern popup in San Francisco

https://48hills.org/2025/02/woo-hoo-a-simpsons-themed-bar-just-popped-up-in-downtown-sf/

Today in Labor History March 9, 1902: Actor Will Geer was born. Best known for his role as Grandpa Walton in the long-running series, “The Waltons,” Geer also appeared in the groundbreaking film, “Salt of the Earth,” which portrayed the struggle of Mexican American workers at the Empire Zinc Mine. Because of his activism on labor and political issues, he was blacklisted in Hollywood for many years. In 1934, he became a member of the Communist Party. He also met LGBTQ activist Harry Hay that year and they became lovers. Together, they supported the 1934 San Francisco General Strike and demonstrated against fascism and for workers’ rights. Hay was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the first major gay rights group in the United States, and the Radical Faeries, an anarcho-pagan queer spiritual-political movement.

I am thoroughly unimpressed with the SFMTA's very expensive “Biking and Rolling Plan.” Apparently, in twenty years, there will still be motor vehicles on every single city street! By then my own street will be “calmed, shared” so basically, still full of cars, driveways, double parking, intersections, trucks, and essentially, no change at all. Fuck this plan.

SFPL is hiring a main library manager

https://careers.sf.gov/role/?id=3743990006947872&trid=162ef3c2-cdcc-47a9-8327-c69d95269302

People can be rude about me living in the Tenderloin (if you search that term on YouTube you’ll think I live in a literal war zone), but it’s also here where I can walk to so many community events and live in a community.

There’s a Wednesday movement group in the ‘Tenderloin Forest’ and a spiritual group (used to be Christian but not anymore) group with Faithful Fools that I sometimes attend.

Having the spaces and infra to meet my neighbors, especially neighbors of many backgrounds, is so important.

I feel like I have way more ‘third space’ here.

I also get invited to sit down and chat with the Vietnamese restaurant ladies downstairs, and their parents, if I’m walking past at closing time. They close the doors and give me a cup of tea and sometimes we give each other fruit and snacks.

Going home to be alone in a nice home in a suburb feels antisocial and not something I want for myself. I love being in a community. It’s a practice and a way of life that I intend to keep cultivating.

I love this excellent piece by @missionlocal.org because it reminds us that we don’t need to be full time artists — we ALL have the chance to contribute to the weirdness that makes #SanFrancisco amazing in our spare time, in our own special ways. missionlocal.org/2025/03/san-...

Lawyer by day, dinosaur by nig...

San Francisco handed #SCOTUS the chance to weaken the #CleanWaterAct -- and they took it.

This ruling will make it easier for polluters to pollute, and harder for regulators to protect the health of people and the environment. Really shameful.

https://www.kqed.org/news/12029553/supreme-court-sides-with-san-francisco-against-epa-sewage-lawsuit

Saw Deftones tonight. What a phenomenal show. Chino Moreno’s energy is bar none. What a badly-needed break from the continual head-splitting noise of late. This is the kind of Head Banging of which I’m happy to partake.

My phone camera caught some unusual artifacts from the stage lights; it almost looks intentional. Thought I’d post these.