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oakland
Joined August 2011
every day I get home and tell alex about funny bars I heard in roc marciano songs and she tells me all the funny lines of dialogue she read in middlemarch
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Home security video captured three ICE agents cornering and questioning a man Monday morning in SoMa. One, a plainclothes officer, drew his gun on the man, who appeared unarmed. When an agent asked why he ran, the man replied “I don’t know who you guys are,” explaining that he was on his way to work. “You’re violating my rights as a U.S. citizen.” Read the full story: sf.news/4i5pfhs 🎥: Courtesy Juan Carlos 📝: @low___impact
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full brianna delaney part in here too. we are so blessed
Eddie Vargas Jr. closes out the new video from Boston's Orchard Skateshop with an incredible part — quartersnacks.com/2026/09/bo… 📹 Ted Purtell
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good jay beaman quote about the vintage steel mountain bike revival that didn't make it into the story: "everything that's ever been cool is the product of poor people turning trash into culture"
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This is interesting. SF and other CA cities could implement a rent freeze for rent control homes, but advocates there aren't interested. (A 0% increase vs. 1.6% isn't that significant.) In CA, the big, elusive prize for tenant advocates is vacancy control — keeping rents at a similar rate from one tenant to the next. NYC significantly strengthened its vacancy control policy with the 2019 rent law. It reduces the incentive for landlords to try to evict rent control tenants. But some landlords say it makes it uneconomical to rent their units, leading them to keep homes empty and off the market. sfstandard.com/2026/09/11/lu…
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In his photographs, the skateboarder Jerry Hsu captures Los Angeles’s manic extremes. He maps a city of leftovers and castoffs; portraits of friends and strangers in the street are full of dazed, inscrutable expressions. Many of his images, even the faintly violent ones, possess an absurdist humor. “Maybe this is corny,” Hsu said, “but all this chaos and these little beautiful secrets I found here reminded me of myself.” See more of his photos: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/XV…
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Someone try to prove me wrong: This looks like the single largest donation by an individual to a supervisor/council race in the whole U.S. (maybe ever?) Spent last night researching but couldn’t find one >$500K. (Inflation ofc may change that claim.) sfstandard.com/2026/09/03/la…
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I love this city with all my heart but you people don’t make it easy
What the hell is going on in San Francisco
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cc @mmunzenrider re "kickflips fakie"
Best plural forms ranked: 1) internal (tours de force, culs-de-sac) 2) ending in -i (magi) 3) is to es (oases) 4) suppletive (people) 5) vowel changes (geese) 6) f to ves (thieves) 7) adding en (oxen) 8) no change (moose) 9) adding es, ies (boxes, babies) 10) adding s
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ruth ozeki
The sinking feeling of starting a book and realizing that the whole thing is going to be written that way.
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max hc retweeted
ICE has gotten deportation numbers up by targeting people who abide by the rules, because they are easier to track down
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you all have exactly one month
every day it feels like one of my under 20s friends that i use as a source of anecdotes and generalizations about "young people" turns 30 and just becomes another boring old person
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hometown hero
👉🏽 Taylor Clark got the juice 🧃
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Berkeley vs Oakland
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This was fantastic! Truly one of the best news articles I’ve ever read on skateboarding. Great work MHC!
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