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Your basic Bay Area boy: flâneur, film buff, hiker, foodie, culture vulture, PhD drop out—underemployed and over-caffeinated.

Liberté, Egalité, Flâneurité!

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"No, I am not a reasonable being, nor do I consider our scheme reasonable. Who the hell wants to be reasonable?"

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2026-10-27 01:55:07 UTC

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A lovely place

2026-10-17 10:55:49 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117455857241569128
“We should ban surveillance advertising altogether, restoring context-based ads to their role as the way that publishers make an honest living without selling out their audiences”
#note1pxz…970g

2026-09-13 19:36:03 UTC

Happy Moonbase Alpha Day
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/117/265/410/427/529/335/original/2b9705097d8a0057.mp4

2026-05-20 23:38:21 UTC

US Employers Spend Over $1.5 Billion a Year to Fight Union Efforts, Study Finds
“Union avoidance law firms have constructed an industry providing counsel on union busting,” the report says.
#UnionStrong https://truthout.org/articles/us-employers-spend-over-1-5-billion-a-year-to-fight-union-efforts-study-finds/

2026-05-19 17:18:26 UTC

Infectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more frequent and damaging, say experts
Pandemic report warns of growing global threat as health teams in Africa move to contain Ebola outbreak
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/18/infectious-diseases-hantavirus-ebola-more-frequent-damaging-pandemic-outbreak

2026-01-18 01:17:00 UTC

A report detailing how climate inaction will consign people born today to a lifetime of weather extremes must awaken a sense of responsibility.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01380-w?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20250508

2026-01-14 16:57:01 UTC

In a reversal from previous years’ pollution reductions, the United States spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/us-carbon-emissions-increase-2025

2026-01-13 03:24:04 UTC

There will be a memorial for Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir this Saturday, Jan 17 - with a ticketed event inside Bill Graham Civic and a gathering in Civic Center Plaza
Doors open at 11:30 and it should be from 12:20 - 2:00 pm
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/885/647/012/169/724/original/56ccb3a62daebc3a.jpeg

2025-08-29 03:20:00 UTC

Guns and uniforms on the street suggest a variant on Wilhoit's Law: one group that is meant to feel validated, and one group that is meant to feel fear.
See @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/#then-they-came-for-me

2025-07-25 19:36:01 UTC

Exposure to certain forms of air pollution is linked to an increased risk of developing dementia, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind.
Fossil fuel burning power plants and vehicles are a major source of the pollutants.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/24/air-pollution-raises-risk-of-dementia-say-cambridge-scientists

2025-06-07 21:12:22 UTC

The combo of these two images makes me anxious
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/644/139/424/543/601/original/3583634b7205c00e.jpeg
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/644/139/422/769/187/original/6e1e23816ebf9241.jpeg

2025-02-28 15:55:00 UTC

Spot on:
“Maybe if Democratic leaders pretended Elon Musk was a 22-year-old Palestinian from Dearborn, Michigan, they’d show more fight.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-fecklessness/

2025-02-24 16:49:24 UTC

Roberta Flack, soul and R&B icon behind Killing Me Softly, dies aged 88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrudT410TAI

2025-01-27 04:20:02 UTC

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler. David Sacks, formerly PayPal’s chief operating officer and now a leading fundraiser for Trump, was born in Cape Town and grew up within the South African diaspora
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa?CMP=share_btn_url
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/898/396/138/421/890/original/ae7d1900cf164858.jpeg

2025-01-23 17:20:52 UTC

t was a town’s only Black-owned bookstore. It is now a refuge for those displaced by the California fires
Nikki High’s Octavia’s Bookshelf in Pasadena was spared by the fire, but touched by change, it became a hub of relief
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/california-wildfires-pasadena-bookstore-octavias-bookshelf?CMP=share_btn_url

2025-01-22 04:06:44 UTC

Be the manic pixie protestor you want to see in the world
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/870/030/752/075/168/original/819dad4a3fb6ba65.jpg

2025-01-18 15:26:21 UTC

#GoodMorning
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/850/050/244/705/134/original/dc8c6cf5c9fec346.jpg

2025-01-11 02:30:50 UTC

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McKinsey...
Ex-McKinsey partner pleads guilty to destroying records on opioids
Martin Elling pleads guilty to destroying records on advice provided to Purdue Pharma on how to ‘turbocharge’ sales
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/mckinsey-partner-destroyed-opioids-record?CMP=share_btn_url

2025-01-10 15:09:03 UTC

Another small one immediately after in the same place - did not feel it
https://sfba.social/@sfeq/113804686495892905

2025-01-07 19:42:56 UTC

Excited to have someone from McKinsey working on "health, homelessness, and family services" for San Francisco
They did such a great job with oxy addiction, excited to see what they can do to... I mean, for San Francisco
https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/daniel-lurie-picks-mckinsey-partner-to-oversee-health-homelessness-and-family-services/

2024-12-31 05:40:31 UTC

Billionaire Wealth Soared in 2024. So Did Child Hunger.
https://truthout.org/articles/billionaire-wealth-soared-in-2024-so-did-child-hunger/

2024-12-30 03:40:46 UTC

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Years of propaganda efforts by the GOP and big business have fostered this entirely false view of the situation.
10 minutes of reading about the NHS - in that horrible, socialist gulag, the United Kingdom - would dispense that view

2024-12-29 20:57:48 UTC

I knew that healthcare spending and results in the US were worse than in various European countries...
But I had no idea they were this bad.
The US spends more than 3 times as much as Italy on healthcare, but still has an average life expectancy that is four years lower.
If you allow for "statistical" deaths, it becomes clear that the health insurance and for-profit healthcare industries in the United States are killing tens of thousands a year and the only consequence they face is... increased profits.
With #UnitedHealthcare one of the major beneficiaries of this profiting off death
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/738/106/640/083/629/original/9b52589610e967d6.jpg

2024-12-23 02:41:18 UTC

"The letter, titled brown round-up part 1, told recipients to write down the license plate numbers of cars driven by people of color"
I mean, it's not even 2025 yet. People are getting a jump on New Nazi Years Resolutions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/lincoln-oregon-brown-people-immigration-letter?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-12-09 21:42:02 UTC

On UnitedHealthcare:
"People hate Unitedhealthcare, for good reason, because he personally decided – or approved – countless policies that killed people by cheating them until they died.
Nurses and doctors hate Thompson and United. United kills people, for money. During the most acute phase of the pandemic, the company charged the US government $11,000 for each $8 covid test"
~ @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/#deny-defend-depose
#Unitedhealthcare #healthcare

2024-11-24 23:01:40 UTC

‘I have no money’: Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in collapse of Andreessen Horowitz-backed Synapse
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/synapse-bankruptcy-thousands-of-americans-see-their-savings-vanish.html

2024-11-23 20:11:07 UTC

"by seizing the means of computation, workers and organized labor can turn the tables on bossware – both by directly altering the conditions of their employment, and by producing the evidence and tools that regulators can use to force employers to make those alterations permanent" - @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/23/hack-the-class-war/

2024-11-06 23:27:46 UTC

This Time We Have to Hold the Democratic Party Elite Responsible for This Catastrophe
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-elite-responsible-catastrophe/
#Election2024

2024-11-06 22:06:59 UTC

Four years ago, 12.8% of San Franciscans voted for Trump. This year, that number rose to 16.7%, as things stand on Wednesday afternoon
[a small thing, but still deeply disappointing, a worrying]
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/san-francisco-neighborhoods-trump-vote-19894256.php

2024-11-04 17:43:49 UTC

Mark Farrell hit with six-figure ethics fine on eve of S.F. mayoral election
#SFPol
SF Chronicle
https://www.sfchronicle.com/election/article/mark-farrell-hit-ethics-fine-eve-of-mayor-election-19886013.php

2024-10-07 18:26:06 UTC

Hurricane Milton becomes second-fastest storm to reach Category 5 status
#HurricaneSeason #HurricaneMilton
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/hurricane-milton-becomes-second-fastest-storm-to-reach-category-5-status/

2024-10-05 17:32:11 UTC

Private equity’s role in US healthcare remains unchecked after California veto
Bill rejected by Newsom would have let attorney general deny mergers after recent scandal involving Stewart Health
#Healthcare #PrivateEquity
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/05/private-equity-healthcare-california-veto?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-09-27 00:30:03 UTC

New scientific review of #LongCovid: "there is no cure for the tens of millions of people believed to be experiencing long COVID, and industry engagement in developing therapeutics has been limited"
#CovidIsNotOver https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00886-9

2024-09-20 05:14:03 UTC

Eating less beef is a climate solution. Here's why that's hard for some American men
[marketing, dumb ass ideas about masculinity, stupid views of “culture wars”] #ClimateChange #diet
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/14/nx-s1-5003066/beef-climate-change-american-men-masculinity

2024-09-20 01:12:32 UTC

Coming soon! Order your free COVID-19 Tests at the end of September 2024.
U.S. households will be eligible to order 4 free COVID-19 tests at COVIDTests.gov. The COVID-19 Tests will detect current COVID-19 variants and can be used through the end of the year.
https://aspr.hhs.gov/covid-19/test/Pages/default.aspx #Covid #CovidIsNotOver

2024-09-18 01:12:26 UTC

Global spending on subsidies that harm environment rises to $2.6tn, report says
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/18/spending-subsidies-environment-deforestation-pollution-fossil-fuels-aoe?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-09-15 19:29:31 UTC

The real - it burns
https://xkcd.com/1599
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/143/210/815/850/663/original/4a609e0f0ee24e70.png

2024-09-12 01:21:10 UTC

Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Matt Dorsey introduce a proposal to "save" a property development by dumping the affordable housing that was to be built as part of it.
Which really tells you a lot about the state of things https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-tower-revival-19755282.php

2024-08-24 23:16:56 UTC

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I would vote for that ticket

2024-08-20 15:54:54 UTC

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Typo: should be "are NOT the same type"

2024-08-14 17:09:48 UTC

Flaming out? Burning Man festival fails to sell out for first time in a decade https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/aug/14/burning-man-ticket-sales?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-08-13 16:38:53 UTC

Waymo to begin autonomous freeway driving tests in Bay Area this week https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2024/08/12/waymo-freeway-driving-sf-bay-area

2024-05-10 22:11:02 UTC

"We'll be less activist if you be less shit"
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/112/419/077/176/783/516/original/8f989086de139b40.jpg