If you are into San Francisco
#history
, I highly recommend the first part of my series America's Last Emperor - covering 1849-1859 in San Francisco.
#HistoricalFiction
#SanFrancisco
Omg I figured it out.
ON THIS DAY he was time traveling in his own brain like Hodor from Game of Thrones.
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@sf_mills
@LaceyBanis
@BrokeAssStuart
@sfchronicle
The best thing to do despite my barely controlled rage (can ya hear it) was to just let the guy keep talking. The lack of empathy was apparent. I know exactly the difference between me and him - he considers unhoused people to be a nuisance, and I consider them to be neighbors.
@SwiftOnSecurity
My mother was an ER nurse and when I got a motorcycle she asked me not to wear a helmet "so you will die instantly instead of slowly."
I go to find out why Sofa Loren is trending and it's because it's JD Vance's drag name.
I'm allowed to make fun of bad drag, I'm from San Francisco. I don't make the rules.
@alex_shephard
@Asher_Wolf
I actually know the person sockpuppeting this account and I am sure he asked for it to emphasize how arbitrary
@twitter
is about the blue checks.
I just got off a zoom meeting with a commercial real estate agent and my impression of the San Francisco commercial real estate market at the moment is that it's an insane bloodbath that all the tech folks who invested in real estate are losing their shirts in.
@TizzyEnt
@sf_mills
@LaceyBanis
@BrokeAssStuart
If you want to spread the word about North Beach Citizens, they were started by Francis Ford Coppola and do a lot for the homeless in our neighborhood. They probably see this lady all the time. I donate to them when I can.
YIMBYS look at this kind of scene and want to evict everyone in every building you see so they can tear it all down and build seven story luxury towers. They are evil people.
Dear
@PrimeVideo
, between streaming ads and you pimping hard for SOUND OF FREEDOM after the producer sexually assaulted that underage girl, I'm definitely canceling immediately.
When a VC backed company doesn't want to follow rules, it feeds journalists this line about regulations that they swallow hook, line, and sinker. Bird recently pulled out of a LOT of cities for the same bogus reasons, they just don't want to admit they are mismanaged.
Exclusive: Bird, a scooter company with 1,500 electric vehicles in San Francisco, is giving up on the city, saying its fines, overly complicated regulations and poor communication are worse than any of the hundreds of cities it works in.
My latest column.
David Sacks and Elon are beyond reckless. Sacks is spreading unfounded rumors abt Biden. Elon responds by promoting a bloodthirsty Roman general. These ppl exploit the U.S. to become wildly rich, pay very little in taxes, then try to demolish America. GROSS
All you tech bros in this town argue in bad faith, and play the victim like this when you are called out. It's not about math or caring about your community. It's about buying elections and gaining power. If you cared about community you'd pay your fair share of taxes.
I adore that the hype behind the Cybertruck's exterior was based on the wide misconception that stainless steel is impervious to rust.
It's *resistant* to rust, but only if it's cared for and cleaned regularly. Great for kitchenware, shit for a car.
Just a little reminder that San Francisco has never been progressive - in the 80s DiFi declared this flyer pornographic, and a week after she took office the cops started harassing the punks at Mabuhay Gardens on Broadway and arrested the owner. Didn't happen under Moscone.
@hacks4pancakes
Used to be a contest on USENET groups, to see how long you could keep a flamewar going. Best time was September, when all the new college accounts got made. I remember a guy causing a three month argument on rec.arts.startrek by claiming James T. Kirk's middle name was Terry.
@Ohp_Sn
@sf_mills
@LaceyBanis
@BrokeAssStuart
She is not on drugs. She has a mental illness. I see her every day on the steps outside my apartment. I've given her food. Think about what would happen to you if you had a severe chemical imbalance and no family to speak of. You'd be in the same boat in SF.
I don't understand why people who hate California move here.
The only thing techbros have for anything is hate. You can see it in every basement video Garry Tan releases and every tweet their paid shillers post.
Just remembering when SVB told us we couldn’t establish a line of credit because they only worked with companies that had atleast raised a 10mil series A.
@ManMadeMoon
I did when it came out, and because I hated my Bible belt high school I did a project on British music for a school fair using a presentation with that song running on a loop for four straight hours.
@SFBoomLoop
But it's not random - we are looking at a building that some guy spent $6 million to turn into his "AI HQ" and we're going to get it for $2 million. He's reduced to living in this commercial space because he is losing everything. Good. Fuck tech bros with a rusty chainsaw.
@jbouie
@GreatDismal
"The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature."
- US Code, Title 4, para 8-g
@jambie61
@sf_mills
@LaceyBanis
@BrokeAssStuart
This is the agency I think he was referring to, it's North Beach Neighbors started by Francis Ford Coppola and about half a block from my apartment. They are overwhelmed. The steps here in front of my apartment are a magnet for homeless.
So you are telling me that the murder victim that everyone described as having "boundless energy", the same dude who developed a really great way to pay your drug dealer, and the same dude who moved from San Francisco to Miami visited the apartment of a known cocaine dealer? Wow.
@Matt_Volk
@Eugene_Lensky
@ChuckWendig
Yeah, consequences for the internet archive for pirating. People don't get that real libraries actually pay up to $80 per copy for books, so by calling themselves a library they put a price tag on what they were doing so damages could be calculated.
Someone called the marina office last week complaining about me and trying to sabotage my living situation over the protest stuff and the harbormaster actually said "you mean that conference that docked here at our pier illegally?" and they hung up.
He was bragging that the last six buildings he helped negotiate were bought for 50% or less of the asking price - and he was talking about $4 to $10 million buildings. OUCH is all I could think. People are losing $2 to $5 million at a time.
@mycoliza
@defnotbeka
I went to see a Kurt Vonnegut lecture once titled "How You Can Get A Job Like Mine" and he got up and said "The title of this lecture is 'How You Can Get a Job Like Mine". Well, you can't, so I'm going to talk about whatever I want to now. " and he did.
Walked the dog by the pyramid and now my question is how much overtime is
@SFPD
spending on a cop to watch the Foster-Gwin gallery full time instead of charging him like everyone wants? Once again the priorities are clear. Rich people come first.
@Londonbreed
@AaronPeskin
@jonrog1
As someone who grew up in Atlanta, that was my first thought - "don't go near the lake, lake's haunted."
The second thought was that I am sad I know exactly what happened because after 12 years of living on a sailboat, I am an expert boat electrician. The magic is missing.
@alex_shephard
@Asher_Wolf
@Twitter
We're now going on about the semantics of "sockpuppet" vs parody and now I feel like I've been dressed down by Cormac McCarthy, thanks guys.
"Libertarian" these days is bad faith camouflage for fascists. People like Peter Thiel who want a dictator at all costs. They do not want to "leave you alone." They want their boot on our necks, and Russia is encouraging it.
I've never understood the political fear of Libertarians.
"Sure, they're not in power now, but someday they might take over and... uh, leave you alone, I guess, since that's kind of their whole deal."
It's like being afraid of cats.
@GreatDismal
@BevVincent
I met my last girlfriend because she thought I was homeless. I was cleaning my sailboat in old clothes and lost my wallet in the trash accidentally. I ended up searching a dumpster on the pier, I was inside that dumpster when she came up and offered me her food.
@jonrosenberg
@Austin_Federa
@motocoaster
The US VC community since the 1990s turned from an innovation engine into an old world rent extraction scheme. European VCs are far more innovative and useful to society. Silicon Valley VC all needs to die.
It's amazing to me that
@sfchronicle
is writing articles like this without mentioning the local tech fascists bringing
@heritage
to San Francisco and discussing how to implement
#Project2025
in San Francisco on September 4th and 5th at Fort Mason.
Project 2025, the far-right agenda intended for a second Donald Trump presidency, plans a “thermonuclear attack” on the internet. So why do some Silicon Valley execs prefer Donald Trump?
The Chronicle’s Raheem Hosseini breaks it down via the link below:
@SwiftOnSecurity
The place where I live contracted a company to set up paid internet service with a pay portal. They didn't use SSL on their signup page. They were fired when I presented the office with a spreadsheet of credit cards and names after the first month, including the head manager's.
The funny thing is nobody has to go after him to make him look like an unhinged lunatic. He broadcasts that all on his own with his Jim Jones style rants.
NEW: Garry Tan is uniquely suited for the chaos that comes with running Y Combinator & serving (unofficially) as San Francisco’s preeminent political pitbull.
And this is just the beginning.
“Every way they come after me, I’m going to go after them 10x.”
@SwiftOnSecurity
A POWER boat. Sail boats have no such problem.
You are closer to the actual definition though. A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into,
It seems to me that a very real problem in San Francisco is that when people get busted for drugs and they are semi-clever con artists, they quickly figure out that literally anyone can start a nonprofit that gets money from the city for pre-trial diversion or other causes.
@TizzyEnt
@sf_mills
@LaceyBanis
@BrokeAssStuart
If you want to spread the word about North Beach Citizens, they were started by Francis Ford Coppola and do a lot for the homeless in our neighborhood. They probably see this lady all the time. I donate to them when I can.