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I’m loving the return of alternative papers in #SanFrancisco. Definitely feels like a reaction to the rise of ai slop online. I hope these periodicals stick around for a while.

A photo of three different alternative newspapers: The Gazetteer, Culture Slop, and Smoke Signal. These all look like alternative weekly newspapers in format and most were free.

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Update: On July 2, I'll be on a panel with fellow #trans advocates Megan Rohrer and Ms. Billie Cooper as Manny's celebrates #SanFrancisco turning 250.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/commemorating-250-trans-250-art-exhibit-tickets-1990883647583

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https://youtu.be/Eqt6TnG5Tt4?si=yyt4-BZbOrX71wCz

La meva #CançóDelDia per al dimecres 10 de juny és aquesta de la #Tanukichan #SanFrancisco #RockAlternatiu #DreamPop #Shoegaze 🚣‍♂️!

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#SexAbuse #Survivors Reach $395 Million Deal With #SanFranciscoDiocese

The #Archdiocese of #SanFrancisco & lawyers for the survivors said the money would settle about 530 claims from people who said they were sexually abused by #clergy members.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/us/san-francisco-archdiocese-clergy-sex-abuse-settlement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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I traveled to San Francisco for the first time in 15 years & visited Yosemite during the trip in April. Check out the trip video of my car-free vacation:
https://youtu.be/kMtycVkCrB8
#sanfrancisco #yosemite #travel #carfree #vacation

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Obligatory guerrilla fireworks footage from the Mission District in #sanfrancisco

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Looking for #CovidCautious folks in #SanFrancisco or the #BayArea.

Finally deciding to just...ask on the Fediverse, see if there's anyone online.

Suggestions also appreciated for other hashtags to use for this.

#CovidIsNotOver

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High Rise in Black and White

A dramatic black‑and‑white view of a towering high‑rise, its repeating windows cascading toward the distance. The sharp angles and reflective surfaces create a bold geometric rhythm, emphasizing the building’s height and modern architectural presence. Captured in downtown San Francisco, California.

https://pixels.com/featured/high-rise-in-black-and-white-bill-gallagher.html
#HighRiseInBlackAndWhite #BillGallagherPhotography #GeometricPatterns #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoArchitecture #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #WallArt

High Rise in Black and White

The building rises like a steel canyon wall, its repeating windows forming a rhythmic pulse of light and shadow. The black‑and‑white tones sharpen every edge—the cool gleam of glass, the dense weight of concrete—while the perspective pulls your eye upward in a sweeping, almost vertigo‑inducing climb. It feels both immense and intimate, humming with the quiet energy of a city moment suspended in time.

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Full Moon Rising

The photograph shows the Golden Gate Bridge glowing at night, its illuminated towers rising over San Francisco as a full moon lifts behind the city skyline. Long‑exposure light smooths the Pacific below, creating a shimmering reflection of the bridge that mirrors the calm, quiet atmosphere of the moment.
https://pixels.com/featured/full-moon-rising-bill-gallagher.html
#FullMoonRising #BillGallagherPhotography #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoBay #FullMoon #GoldenGateBridge #Architecture #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #GiftIdeas

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Grace Cathedral Starburst

Not far from downtown San Francisco up on Nob Hill sits this grand cathedral known as Grace Cathedral.
This image was captured using a tripod with the camera pointing straight up at the majestic ceiling. I had to do some of my best yoga moves to position myself under the view finder to see what I was shooting. I hope you like it.

https://pixels.com/featured/grace-cathedral-starburst-bill-gallagher.html

#GraceCathedralStarburst #BillGallagherPhotography #GraceCathedral #SanFrancisco #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt

Garce Cathedral Starburst

This photograph radiates upward like a burst of divine light—an architectural star exploding from the heart of Grace Cathedral’s vaulted ceiling. The camera’s perspective, aimed straight into the heavens, transforms the gothic ribs and arches into a luminous mandala of stone. Each beam of the starburst feels almost tactile, as if you could reach up and run your fingers along the cool, centuries‑old lines of carved geometry.

Light pours through the structure in fine, shimmering threads, catching edges of the ceiling and turning them into glowing spokes. The symmetry is so precise it feels musical—like a chord held perfectly in tune. There’s a sense of stillness, yet also a quiet hum of energy, as though the cathedral itself is breathing.

The stone overhead carries a soft, dusky warmth, the kind that smells faintly of old wood, candle smoke, and time. The starburst effect adds a sharp, crystalline brilliance, creating a contrast between the grounded weight of the architecture and the airy radiance of the light. It’s both intimate and immense—an upward pull that makes your chest expand, as if you’re standing beneath something sacred and alive.

The composition turns the ceiling into a celestial event, a moment where craftsmanship, light, and perspective converge into something that feels almost spiritual.

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This guy in SF makes some of the best baklava I've had anywhere in the world (incl in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon..)

Here he's being interviewed about how he does what he does, and how it's hard doing something so labor-intensive in a city flush with AI money

Everything he does (from the flour he uses to the types of pistachios) is extremely obsessive, every time I have some I am very thankful to people like him.

His business is called BaklavaStory and it's in SoMa

https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-baklava-bakery-owner-hustle-culture-ai-boom-2026-9

#Food #SanFrancisco

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SF Democratic Party stands behind.. Flock

They even have two people on Flock’s payroll! Who didn’t recuse themselves from the vote!

Feckless, gormless politicians

https://missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-francisco-democratic-party-flock-cameras/

#SanFrancisco #Flock

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I spoke with outgoing SFMTA head Jeffrey Tumlin about robotaxis' impact on San Francisco – and the threat they pose to multimodal cities worldwide.

Tumlin: “I am very worried that so much of the joy of the remaining walkable cities in the world could be at risk from self-driving cars.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-09/san-francisco-s-robotaxi-takeover-as-seen-from-city-hall

#sanfrancisco #robotaxi #AVs #transit

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I love this beach and these rocks. One day I'll go back with someone so I can stay later. I leave just as the lighting gets really interesting. It's a bit of a walk out and along a dark, mostly deserted trail when the sun sets.

#MileRocksBeach #SanFrancisco #JPegsFolder

A very rocky coastline. To the right is a huge rocks, streaked with white, so we know it's popular with sea birds. Between it and the rocky cliff of the shoreline are smaller rocks. The sun is setting in front of us, not seen here, so the rocks are mostly in shadow. Warm light is hitting parts of the scenes and some of the water spray from the surging white water and crashing waves. The sky we see is pale blue, streaked with long horizontal clouds, whites and greys touched with orange. On one of the smaller rocks between us and the massive rock to the right is a white gull, its right edge touched with light and the water spray around it is catching the warm oranges of the setting sun.

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I really like this takeout menu-style voter guide that the DSA of #SanFrancisco put out this year.

It links to this https://dsasf.org/dsa-sf-november-2026-voter-guide/

A flier labeled Bud’s Kitchen and folded in thirds, like a take out menu. It has a QR code and says it’s a “socialist cuisine voter guide”

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A view of the open “menu” that is split into different categories like School Lunch Specials, House Specials, and Two-District Combo. These sections discuss the different propositions and stances of folks running for office.

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US National Archives (NARA) are beginning to move records from facilities slated for closure.
And they buried the notice from September 30 *below* the notice from September 29 which shows at the top of their "Researcher Updates" page.

So scroll down past "NARA Tribal Listening Session Invitation" to find
* Move of Records of the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB), Record Group (RG) 184
* Move of Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Record Group (RG) 255

#NARA #USnationalArchives #Access #Chicago #RRB
#RailroadRetirementBoard
#NASA #SanFrancisco
#Research #Genealogy

@genealogy
@histodons

https://www.archives.gov/research/news

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