#BayArea
"Textbook fascism."- I agree.
Elon Musk calls for jailing San Francisco supervisor Dean Preston
https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/elon-musk-calls-for-jailing-of-san-francisco-supervisor/
#politics #canews #capol #california #tesla #ElonMusk #TwitterMigration #BoycottTesla #ElonMuskIsAnAsshole #ElonMuskIsATroll #BayArea #SanFrancisco #capitalism #democraticsocialism #Socialism
FYI, SF #BayArea's #FleetWeek Oct 2-10 events won't happen during a federal government shutdown. Stay tuned for any news on that. https://www.oaklandairport.com/oakland-airport-to-host-blue-angels-for-sf-fleet-week-2023/ #military #aviation #avgeek
"California Senator Dianne Feinstein, longest-serving woman in the Senate, dies at age 90" by @NBCBayArea - Prior to her 30 years as one of two US Senators from California, she had also previously been mayor of San Francisco. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/sen-dianne-feinstein-a-trailblazer-in-u-s-politics-and-the-longest-serving-woman-in-the-senate-dies-at-age-90/3329851/ #California #BayArea
Anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area want to see Holly Bowling tonight at The Chapel?
I have two tickets that I will gift. Let me know.
8:00pm showtime
The Chapel
777 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
I don't go out to dinner by myself very often, but on days I have to stay at work late to finish a project then go to an event, I get a chance to try something new.
Last night I went and had #Japanesefriedchicken in #Oakland, and it was tasty! Good portions for the price and a fun attitude to the restaurant. There's a bunch of other restaurants that either do the breakfast, lunch deal, or open for dinner in the same area.
https://aburayaoakland.com
Training burns at the Marin County training facility at Point Reyes Station today. Smoke will be visible from Hwy 1.
https://app.watchduty.org/incident/13167 #marin #marinCounty #BayArea #caFire #PointReyes
@NessaUndreza why can't we have scentograms?!! These look like they must smell divine! #sfba #SanFrancisco #MissionBay #BayArea #Dogpatch #sfba #SanFrancisco #MissionBay #BayArea #Dogpatch
KCRT Viewers! All-new episode of "Sidewalks Entertainment" tonight at 7:30PM:
Wrestling legend / OVW co-owner Al Snow and Mr. PEC-Tacular wrestler Jessie Godderz ("Wrestlers"); music by Shab X Fat Joe, G Flip, and Black Rock Candy.
#SidewalksEntertainment #newepisode #KCRT #RichmondCA #Richmond #SanPablo #ElCerrito #Albany #BayArea #PinoleCA #TVstation #OhioValleyWrestling #OVW #AlSnow #MrPECTacular #JessieGodderz #Wrestlers #Shab #FatJoe #GFlip #BlackRockCandy
Tomorrow's #POTUS #BayArea schedule has been posted.
At 11.30 he has a meeting in #SanFrancisco.
Then he has campaign events in the City and leaves #SFO at 6.35 pm. Expect your southbound evening commute to be impacted by that.
Learn where you can find me right now and the direction I'm taking Valley Oak Paper. #smallBusiness #Etsy #UniqueBoutique #SiliconValley #BayArea #papercraft
www.valleyoakpaper.com/post/business-update
#BayArea #traffic: #POTUS will land on Moffett Field at 3.55 pm today and is planning a two-day stay in the Bay Area. Expect traffic chaos!
The Biden Victory Fund is holding a fund raiser with him at 6.30 pm in Atherton.
Biden will also meet with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park at 7.35 pm.
At 7.55 pm he's expected at Crissy Field in San Francisco.
Detailed schedule: https://factba.se/biden/calendar
The San Francisco Petrofuture. My first new work in a while.
66m sea level rise on a 1964 #Chevron gas station map.
More:
https://conspiracyofcartographers.com
Base map courtesy of David Rumsey Maps.
#SanFrancisco #BayArea #GoldenGate #TreasureIsland #vintagemaps #retrofuture #solarpunk #clifi #petrofuture #sealevelrise #sealevelrisemaps #climatechange #climateemergency #maps #cartography #conspiracyofcartographers
Hey Bay Area folks, help me out here. When I was a kid living in San Francisco (84-92 off and on) I remember that BART only charged you for the distance between the station you entered at and where you got off. So, it was possible to ride around all day for 75¢ as long as you got off one stop from where you started. Am I remembering correctly? #question #bart #BayArea #sanfrancisco
Art for today. #SFBA fam, it may seem a bit out of the way from the City's and the Town's art scenes, but I found this pair of exhibits at the St Mary's College Museum of Art in Moraga to be well worth the visit.
"Corita Kent: heroes and sheroes" is a small but mighty collection of Kent's graphic art supporting social justice in the late 60s. "Lisa Congdon: Hold it Lightly," in both its pop art color palette and its "themes of joy, liberation, and radical inclusion," is the perfect contemporary chaser.
I've long been an admirer of both women, so it was a delight to be able to see their work so close to home.
#CoritaKent #LisaCongdon #exhibit #exhibition #art #museum #PopArt #ProtestArt #socialJustice #inclusion #StMarys #BayArea
I am having trouble finding any appointments for COVID vaccine boosters in the Bay Area. Anyone else had any luck? #SanFrancisco #SFBayArea #BayArea #COVID #booster #covidbooster
#Sonoma: Prescribed burn at Magic Mountain.
attention #bayarea #railfans of #Caltrain :
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Starting September 25, 2023, Caltrain will begin electric train testing on weeknights between San Jose and Mountain View. Testing is expected to continue until Summer 2024. Each trainset must be tested for 1,000 miles before being placed into service, which is planned for September 2024.
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It’s a better-late-than-never #FollowFriday. Have a good one! <3
@birdsinmuseums - automated account posting pictures of birds in museums
@BobHorowitz - #BayArea #photography + perspectives
@geoffrey_taiwan - #streetphotography from in and around #tainan
@Headroom_Berlin - self-described “multimedia nerd”
@panchromaholic - #believeinfilm purveyor of #blackandwhitephotography
Saints Peter and Paul Church
#sanfrancisco #california #northbeach #photography #architecture #design #building #art #bayarea
#Peninsula hwy 101 closures in September and October.
September 29 through October 2: Southbound lanes between Britton and Whipple in #RedwoodCity
October 13 through 16: Northbound lanes between Whipple and Holly in Redwood City.
The closures will enable Caltrans to replace the Cordilleras Creek Bridge.
Deets on the #Caltrans site: https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-projects/d4-san-mateo-101-cordilleras-creek-bridge #SiliconValley #BayArea
This seems an appropriate image as we are down to just two days left of summer. "Sunset at Water's Edge", Rodeo Beach, California.
https://rickberk.pixels.com/featured/sunset-at-waters-edge-rick-berk.html
#mastoart #buyintoart #photography #landscape #sunset #art #ayearforart #artist #california #bayarea #beach #homedecor #officedecor
Bay Area peeps, #crowdsourcing request.
Since the smoke came in a couple days ago, I’ve been feeling more tired, somewhat not quite healthy, less able to focus. Family says the same. So: is it the smoke or something else?
If you are in the #bayarea: same for you, or no difference? (Don’t count the annoyance, the #smoke and bad #airquality sure is.)
I’d love to get a bunch of responses, so please reshare if you can. If other observations, please comment.
Lots more smoke from wildfires to the north of the San Francisco Bay Area today. Here's a telephoto shot that makes it look like we live amidst more wilderness than is actually the case.
#wildfire #California #smoke #BayArea #Photography
#fireSeason Red Flag warnings for parts of #Sonoma and #NapaCounty tonight and tomorrow. #BayArea #BayAreaWeather
Follow @sarahstierch for the deets.
People in the #BayArea complaining about #smoke today.
Seriously?
Just go out in it and breathe deeply — you’ll get #NaturalImmunity quickly enough.
If you're over 65 or weak of body or mind, then perhaps maybe you could #WearAMask. Otherwise just grow a pair(*) and suck it up.
(/s)
(*) Of extra lungs, obviously.
I really dig Mark Brown's linocut series of iconic #SanFrancisco bars. Li Po Lounge, Benders, Zeitgeist, Kilowatt, Dovre Club, Cafe Du Nord, the 500 Club, and more all available on his Etsy page. https://www.etsy.com/shop/PrintzBrowner #linocut #linoprint #BayArea
"A strange creature was spotted in a trail cam scampering across the Matadero Creek near Palo Alto south of San Francisco.
Biologists were scratching their heads as they reviewed the footage. It was clearly a mammal, but there are only a certain number of mammals in the area.
“Finally, it hit me in the head,” Bill Leikam, president and co-founder of the Urban Wildlife Research Project, told SFGate. “Could that be a baby beaver?”
In the 21st century, the Bay Area has witnessed a number of mammalian returns and the Urban Wildlife Research Project has typically specialized in documenting the return of the gray fox, but breeding beavers haven’t been recorded in the Palo Alto area in 160 years."
Check your masks, run the air filters, and good luck; #BayArea.
QT NWS Bay Area @NWSBayArea
2023 September 19
Smokey air from Northwest California fires may linger near the surface across the Bay Area for the next few days. #CAwx
(And I recall the good work done by Mask Oakland and other local groups distributing N95s-and-equivalents.)
I don't usually do plugs, but there's a small and really good #remodeling company in the #BayArea of #CA that could really use your business. If you're looking to do work on your house, please contact S & I Construction at 800-434-1545
http://www.sandiconstruction.com #home #construction
https://www.yelp.com/biz/s-and-i-construction-inc-alameda
Landlords in #Berkeley held a "celebration" of pandemic era eviction restrictions coming to an end.
Members of a local tenant union crashed the party and violent clashes broke out. Check out the report from TANC here.
#Oakland #RentStrike #TenantPower #TenantUnion #SanFrancisco #BayArea
Ah, so it was indeed an earthquake I felt yesterday evening https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73938736/executive #BayArea
If you live on one side of the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge, and go to school or work on the other, there’s an ebike incentive ($500-$1,000) for that: https://www.rsrebikecommute.org/s/ #EBikes #Richmond #SanRafael #BayArea
A #review of the #book #PaloAlto by Malcom Harris on the shady #history of #SiliconValley:
“A New History Unveils The Exploitative Origins Of The Tech Giants”, The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/02/09/palo-alto-malcolm-harris-review/ or https://archive.is/dYn03).
Earthquake? #BayArea
Upgraded Stanford Linear Accelerator requires coldest temperatures in universe to function
Very cool — literally! 😆
"A protest against the Berkeley Property Owners Association’s celebration of the end of the city’s pandemic eviction moratorium on Tuesday night ended in fistfights and shoving matches, according to witnesses.
Nearly 100 protesters from the Berkeley Tenants Union and the Tenants and Neighborhood Councils assembled outside of the ironically named Freehouse Pub around 5 p.m. where around 40 landlords were gathering to fête the end of a policy that banned them from evicting tenants who couldn’t pay rent. As landlords entered the mixer, picketers chanted “See our might, see our power, landlords get no happy hour” and displayed signs reading “No peace for evictors.”'
#BayArea #Berkeley #Oakland #SF #SanFrancisco #California #HousingCrisis #RentStrike #TenantUnion
Google Visitor Experience: Corporate office is building a welcome for tourists and visitors
https://visit.withgoogle.com/
#mountainview #bayarea #tourism #google #+
I remember late last year seeing the “$300k” MillionaireMatch billboard while driving northbound on 101 into SF. Did anyone actually use that online dating service? Guess not considering the billboard didn’t stay up for that long.
https://sfstandard.com/2022/12/02/what-this-toxic-billboard-says-about-dating-in-the-bay-area/
“Yesterday BART had its highest ridership day since the start of the pandemic! 🎉🚄 There were 192,081 rides on BART yesterday”
This is great. I think BART managed the frequency/train length/sign change rollouts really effectively.
https://twitter.com/RebeccaForBART/status/1701997411189850490
marin county, california
1957
muir woods
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/3325856619
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
#photography #film #blackandwhite #sanfrancisco #california #marin #marincounty #marinwoods #trees #light #sunlight #shadows #bayarea #1950s
Frumpy American white pelican, Baylands Nature Preserve, Palo Alto, California.
#bird #birding #NaturePhotography #SanFranciscoBay #BayArea
Whimbrels as seen at the Elsie Roemer bird sanctuary in Alameda this morning
#Birds #Birding #Birder #BirdPhotography #Alameda #BayArea #Whimbrels #California #WestCoast #BirdsOfMastodon
(Nikon D810, 200-500mm lens)
Are there any good #web conferences / meetups with an #RFP open in the #BayArea or virtual?
There are a few projects I've been working on which I'd love to give talks about and share with the community (not Angular related). Could be talking about any/all of:
1. #HydroActive - A different take on hydration in an HTML-first world. https://github.com/dgp1130/HydroActive/
2. #rules_prerender - A #Bazel ruleset serving as a fast and scalable #StaticSiteGenerator. https://github.com/dgp1130/rules_prerender/
3. #HTMLFragments - A no-tooling, web standard-based approach to HTML over the wire. https://blog.dwac.dev/posts/html-fragments/
Greatly appreciate boosts for reach!
East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse is hiring. https://www.creativereuse.org/jobs #BayArea
The Bay Area has a lot of #Telraam devices deployed, now. I count about 40. Love to see it. https://telraam.net/#11/37.8247/-122.2723 #RoadSafety #BikeTooter #BayArea #SanFrancisco #Berkeley
remember those headlines like "mystery company buys 800 acres of northern california!"
well the buyers finally put up a website and y'all...it has AI-generated art!!! they couldn't even pay an artist.
also, how about this creepy url? https://californiaforever.com/
how can i tell that the art is AI? look at the details:
pic 1: person in upper left. which way is he facing? where's his right arm? is his left arm facing backwards? also, look at the lines on the "solar panels". some are narrow, some are wide, it makes no sense.
pic 2: look at the details of the people's bodies and faces. if you're having trouble figuring out their body parts, that's because they were generated by AI & AI doesn't actually know the details.
pic 3: seems ok, until you look in the background and realize the train is coming out of a "tunnel" in a building. probably not what they had in mind.
pic 4: what *exactly* are those workers building? i couldn't figure it out. AI is good at giving the impression of people working on something, but if you look at what those people are actually doing, it often doesn't make sense. also, i love the yellow "ladder" on the left.
I have a plan to run to my favorite boba shop tomorrow. Problem is, it’s 14 miles away (Wan Po in Millbrae, nothing in the city comes close to it for quality)
Oregon's biggest export right now seems to be wildfire🔥 smoke. https://www.airnow.gov/?city=San%20Jose&state=CA&country=USA #BayArea #CAwx #weather
Anyone else going to #MakerFaire #BayArea this year too?
My family has loved going in past years at the San Mateo Fairgrounds and I'm really looking forward to seeing what the event has evolved into for this next incarnation on #MareIsland!
* NOTE: Discounted early-bird tickets are only available until tomorrow (Aug 31st), so get in now if you're planning to attend!
"Dirty air, dangerous fire conditions bring Bay Area reminders of how August weather can be" by @mercnews / @3rdERH - "Red flag" fire🔥 weather & smokey air is the first day in 2023 like what much of 2020, 2021 & 2022 were. https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/30/dirty-air-dangerous-fire-conditions-bring-bay-area-reminders-of-how-august-weather-can-be/ #BayArea #CAwx #weather
@sarahstierch Red flag warning for hilly parts of #NapaCounty and #SonomaCounty starts tonight at 11 pm and ends at 8 pm on Wednesday.
See @sarahstierch post above for more detail and a map.
Bay Area weather forecast: Increasingly hot and windy until Wednesday, but not fire weather yet.
Rapid cooldown Thursday-Friday. Slight chance of showers on the weekend.
https://bots.krohsnest.com/@iembot_mtr/110968646025918023 #BayArea #BayAreaWeather #caFire #cawx
But it works! I'm just starting to try focus bracketing and focus stacking to conquer shallow depth of field in macro shots. Here are 25 frames —> 1 spider. Anybody know what this orb weaver is? iNaturalist entry: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/180481222
#Spider #NaturePhotography #BayArea
Here’s some Saturday #BloomScrolling for y’all
I’m sure there’s a reason (there’s always a reason), but it continues to boggle my mind that I get perfect cell service in the #BART transbay tube—3.6 miles long, under the San Francisco Bay—and no service at all in the 0.8 mile, surface-level Duboce Park/Cole Valley SF #Muni tunnel (or any other Muni tunnel). It’s been that way for 15 years or so! #BayArea #Transit
“Sunset at Water’s Edge” - the last time I was in the Bay Area several years ago, I set out to find a spot to photograph sunset. This spot at Rodeo Beach was perfect. https://rickberk.pixels.com/featured/sunset-at-waters-edge-rick-berk.html.
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#mastoart #mastodonart #BuyIntoArt #photography #landscape #seascape #sunset #california #bayarea #walldecor
“It was just supposed to be a fun thing, and now all six of us are on antibiotics,” a participant in last weekend's Sonoma County Tough Mudder race says.
Sonoma County Department of Health Services has issued a health advisory for all racers. Many have tested positive for staph infections or Aeromonas, a serious bacterial infection. #ToughMudder #Sonoma #BayArea
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/tough-mudder-participants-bacterial-infections-rcna101870 /via @kswenger
Flannery Associates: Investor syndicate wants to build a new town between Fairfield and Rio Vista
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-solano-county.html
#realestate #investment #california #techbros #bayarea #finance #+
@GottaLaff I'm in California, too #BayArea, and we talk about moving to Canada (my wife is Canadian - sort of) so I appreciate your situation.
Maximum cats. This is the instruction photo for a friend caring for the cats at our home in #FortLauderdale in 2013, the spring before we moved to California. Some were feral, but most made the amazing journey to the #BayArea with us 10 years ago this coming week.
That story (and what happened to all the kitties) to be told in the next few days. #Caturday #cats #CatsOfMastodon
https://sophiawood.medium.com/of-an-eye-closing-4ba78ea44666
A few haiku from a trip back in June.
#poetry #haiku #photography #mindfulness #california #bayarea
Hyping the east bay real hard
#IndianFood #BayAreaEats #BAE #EastBay #BayArea #California #FoodRecs #Food
Electrek: The world’s largest battery storage system just got even larger
“Vistra today announced that it completed Moss Landing’s Phase III 350-megawatt/1,400-megawatt-hour expansion, bringing the battery storage system’s total capacity to 750 MW/3,000 MWh, the largest of its kind in the world.”
Awesome! 😎
https://electrek.co/2023/08/03/worlds-largest-battery-storage-system-just-got-even-larger/
#California #BayArea #BatteryStorage #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming