Most days I’m sad at breakfast items in restaurants. Some days I go to Chinatown and I’m not sad anymore
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Happy Bell Riots day.
In my new article for @assignedmedia.org, I share photos and an interview with #trans advocate Joaquin Guerrero about housing trans people experiencing #homelessness in #SanFrancisco.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/the-history-of-the-first-trans-homeless-shelter
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View from one of my fave places in SF (Palace of Fine Arts). There are lots of herons here.
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I’ll be selling comics and yo-yos tomorrow, August 23rd, from 2-6pm at 826 Valencia in #SanFrancisco.
My new article for @assignedmedia.org is a celebration of #TransHistoryMonth in #SanFrancisco.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/history-of-trans-history
Finished Automatic Noodle by @annaleen. So full of life and joy, it was just the story I needed this August. Check it out! https://www.automaticnoodle.website/
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Don't miss out on early bird pricing during the presale for our live show in San Francisco with YIMBY Action.
Prices go up on August 14th!
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/yes-in-my-back-yard-presents-life-after-cars
I think a #Tesla dealership in Signal Hill #SanFrancisco #sfba is parking excess inventory randomly in neighborhood streets and clogging up the neighborhood.
“It’s unclear where these cars come from, although a Tesla dealership that sells new and used vehicles is about a quarter of a mile away. When reached by SFGATE over the phone, Long Beach Tesla said it would not be able to comment and pointed to the national press line. Tesla’s corporate arm has not yet replied to SFGATE’s inquiries.”
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/teslas-clog-street-parking-california-neighborhood-20802135.php
Tesla's Robotaxi Service In San Francisco Is Actually Just Going To Be A Regular Old Taxi Service
The issue is that Tesla doesn't currently have a permit to operate self-driving cars in the Bay Area – and hasn't yet applied
#SanFrancisco #tesla #taxi #automotive #auto #cars #transportation
https://www.jalopnik.com/1923966/tesla-robotaxi-service-just-regular-taxi/
this seems like a job that some people here would do great at: head of embedded linux
San Francisco is a car city now. Sorry
"Car use is back up from pandemic dips to 2019 levels, transit use is at a historic low...areas like downtown are stagnating. Efforts to redesign streets to force cars to share with bikes, people, and buses seem stalled. The mayor wants to reopen Market Street to Waymo and might do the same soon for Uber and Lyft.
Forget the supposed war on cars: In San Francisco, the cars are winning."
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/26/san-francisco-is-a-car-city-now-sorry/
Ruth Asawa Retrospective at SFMOMA
This week, I wrote about the retrospective exhibition of a prolific and beloved San Francisco artist. (Closes Sept 2)
https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-07-25-ruth-asawa/
San Francisco city corruption is so unimaginative that a person named Rodrigo who worked at DBI, was able to steal money by altering checks made out to DBI, to ‘RoDBIgo’
Meanwhile, I never want to own a home or run a business in this city because I know first hand how the incredibly awful corruption permeates every level of permitting here.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/rodrigo-santos-rodbigo-settlement-san-francisco/
Save the date!
We're coming to San Francisco on our "Life After Cars" book tour for a live event with Yimby Action on Saturday, October 25th.
Presale tickets will be available starting this Sunday for Patreon supporters of The War on Cars and YIMBY Action members.
Support us on Patreon to get access to the presale at an early bird price!
Chinatown Alley. San Francisco, California.
#Photography #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #SanFrancisco #Chinatown
July in #SanFrancisco means the hot weather in the Central Valley sucks the fog off the Pacific and into the Bay. If you never leave the City (especially the western side) you may never know that summer is actually warm.
About an hour north of my house, on Mt Tamalpais in Marin County, is a well-documented ridgeline. Car companies have filmed commercials there, and every local landscape photographer has taken photos similar to those below. It's also popular with road cyclists. Saturday night it was equally popular with photographers and high school stoners (there may be a direct line there).
July, hot weather, Saturday night and fog. A great night to be out.
#landscapephotography #photography #fog #longexposure
About an hour north of my house, on Mt Tamalpais in Marin County, is a well-documented ridgeline. Car companies have filmed commercials there, and every local landscape photographer has taken photos similar to those below. It's also popular with road cyclists. Saturday night it was equally popular with photographers and high school stoners (there may be a direct line there).
July, hot weather, Saturday night and fog. A great night to be out.
#landscapephotography #photography #fog #longexposure
I’m getting rid of some audio stuff in San Francisco if anyone wants first dibs.
- KEF Q150 speakers (pair)
- Audioengine N22
- Fluance P10 preamp
- NAD 533 turntable (OEM version of Rega Planar)
I won’t be able to ship anything other than the N22 and Fluance preamp, the other items are large.
Buy some gear, help me with my immigration costs.
In 2017, the City of San Francisco recognized the Compton's Transgender Cultural District, the world's first legally recognized transgender district, later renamed The Transgender District. This was the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, when trans women and drag queens fought back against police harassment and abuse. Susan Stryker called it "the first known incident of collective militant queer resistance to police harassment in U.S. In 1965, a group of queer and transgender youth and sex workers formed Vanguard, the first known gay youth organization in the United States. Street kids and Vanguard members would often meet at Compton’s and hang out there without buying anything because they were all broke. In response, Compton would kick them out and call in the police for support. This led Vanguard to organize a picket of the cafeteria in July, 1966, one of the first demonstrations against police violence against transgender people in San Francisco, and a precursor to the riot that would break out there the next month.
In the wake of the riot, Vanguard orchestrated several other street actions, like their "street sweep," when Vanguard members hit the streets of the Tenderloin with push brooms to protest police "sweeps" of queer neighborhoods like the Tenderloin and to symbolically critique the police practice of treating transgender and queer sex workers like "trash." Activists used the momentum of the picket and the riot to establish several community-based support services. The most successful of these was the National Transsexual Counseling Unit, established in 1968.
#lgbtq #trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #riot #comptonscafetera #sanfrancisco #police #policebrutality #transphobia #pride #pridemonth
I will be selling booze at a Pride booth with drag queens tomorrow.
Proceeds go towards the organization, which was created by a Tenderloin drag queen / bartender who fed homeless people in the TL decades ago. We now do free food on Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. with lots of drag shows. It’s a pretty well-run operation.
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We've absolutely been cast out of the left for no reason other than being too Jewey.
"#Protests against #Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations that have engulfed #SanFrancisco’s streets this week took an #antisemitic turn on Monday night when a local #Jewish-owned civic engagement hub and community space had its windows smashed and walls defaced with slurs including “Die Zio,” “The Only Good #Settler is a Dead One,” “Death 2 #Israel is a Promise” and “#Intifada.”
“There is no justification for attacking me other than the fact that I am Jewish,” Manny Yekutiel, owner of the #MissionDistrict event space Manny’s, which is in disrepair following the #vandalism and break-in, told Jewish Insider. “My business is not a pro-Israel business. I am not #Israeli. This is not a space that represents Israel in any way.”