That's the only thing stopping the August Complex from spreading further south. A few days ago it ran up against the fire line from the 2018 Mendocino Complex.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
Going on a small bike ride around the city pretending I'm in some martian colony.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
a fun game to play is "what parts of living in SF always felt like 2020", occurred to me while I was biking through SoMA
― lukas, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
If your child received a turkey sandwich from SFUSD today, please discard.
― DJI, Thursday, 1 October 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
But of course
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Silicon-Valley-co-living-start-up-fails-hubhaus-15628436.php
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
quelle surprise
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
the thing is actually -- hahaha -- part of what led to their demise is the very strict and elaborate San Francisco Planning Code that also caused the great expense and suffering of the ice cream shop guy in that other sfgate article.
The issue is that San Francisco has specific definitions of what constitutes a "family" for the purpose of single family housing. This goes back quite a while, and wasn't just put in place to prevent things like Hubhaus, though it is possible that enforcement of this has increased because of entities like Hubhaus. If you have more than 5 unrelated people living in a house (or apartment) then San Francisco generally rules that is "group housing" which is a different use category in the SF Planning Code that is often not permitted in parts of the city, and the owners can get fined and tenants evicted if the City rules against them. This happened to one of the Hubhauses recently. (I wanna say near St Francis Wood???)
The more than 5 unrelated people living together thing has been loosened over the years with a "facts and circumstances" type test (based on a CA Supreme Court case in I wanna say 1980?) ... anyway, now, you can theoretically have more than 5 unrelated people be "a family" if they behave in a family like way: pay bills collectively, control the membership of the household, prepare and eat meals together. But Hubhaus obviously failed this test because they are a corporation placing people in these houses, and the individual tenants pay Hubhaus ...
― sarahell, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
actually -- Hubhaus was just the master tenant in that case; the owner was some trust.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
honestly who hasn’t been on at least 1 muni ride like this pic.twitter.com/WxThbTWYof— jacq-o-lantern 🎃 (@hojicha_babie) October 19, 2020
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
lol wow
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
:)
― Dan S, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/Marvel-Studios-movie-filming-downtown-SF-Shang-Chi-15659724.php
― DJI, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah forgot to tell everyone I'm the star wait hold on.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
the streets in my neighborhood were blocked off for this yesterday
― Dan S, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
I'm really excited that my polling place this time is the bar around the corner that of course can't open. Figure I'll drop my ballot off in person and say hi to the poor staff and owner.
BTW the fact that they still have to pay Alcohol Control Board fees is some BS (although hardly the worst of it)
― fajita seas, Saturday, 24 October 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
my polling place has always been the senior living center around the corner - no longer, for obvious reasons i guess. too bad, it was super close and there was never a line. voting by mail this time.
― lukas, Saturday, 24 October 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
When I lived in the Excelsior (the last election I voted in), my polling place was a garage up the street! There were jars of preserves and pickles on the shelves. It was really weird and charming, just like SF was at the time.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 24 October 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
Sounds like my old polling place in Mission Terrace! I guess we were almost neighbors.
― DJI, Saturday, 24 October 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
Maybe! I lived at Naples and Avalon for a few years
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:31 (three years ago) link
my polling place is the Church of Sweden, I was happy to drop my ballot off there on election day in 2016, but I really wanted to vote early this year
― Dan S, Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
I probably bicycled near or around your place for several years, then, Dan. I used to work on *shudders* Chestnut Street, and eventually had to go between the top of Fillmore and Chestnut by the time I left that job, and the Bay in general.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 25 October 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
Voted yesterday and what was nice at the Civic Center dropoff was that there was practically no wait but also just a gentle steady stream of both hand dropoffs like myself and drive-ups -- a couple of people would vote, a couple more people would get in line, they were wheeling ballot boxes out to swap out full ones for empties, etc. Good to see.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 October 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
This made me very sad:
https://missionlocal.org/2020/11/sylvie-le-mer-owner-of-storied-creperie-ti-couz-dies-at-60/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
loved that place. never went in again after it changed hands.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link
2020:
So sad to see San Francisco’s iconic Coca-Cola sign get replaced by a Shen Yun ad. 😔 pic.twitter.com/o1hOvtguGy— SIMPoster 🌱 (@womangale) October 30, 2020
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 5 November 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
:/
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 November 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
Figures. And it'll probably be there just as long!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 November 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
i need assurances that the CSR Sugar neon sign (near the Carquinez tollway) will remain forever
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 November 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
tfo with that CSR! Don't they teach you bogans what C&H is?!?!?!?!?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 5 November 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLuXQRlwFh8
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 5 November 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
oh shit i meant C&H fuck aaaargh
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 November 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
;-P
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 5 November 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
WELL
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 November 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
:D ?...
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 November 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
"Trump voters are all redneck racists!"
Of the 26 neighborhoods listed in San Francisco in the voting record, one of the biggest districts gave Trump the fifth-highest amount of votes. The largely residential Sunset District on the west side of the city went 18.89% for the incumbent president.The fourth-highest Republican tally came from one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the city, the Excelsior, where Trump earned 19.93% of the vote.The Excelsior's eastern neighbor, Portola, gave Trump the third-highest share of presidential votes, at 20.26%.Trump received the second-most San Francisco votes from the southwestern corner of city — where all the golf courses are — Lake Merced, whose residents gave him 21.14% of their votes.And while no neighborhood in the city gave more than a quarter of their votes to the Republican president this year, Visitacion Valley, the working-class neighborhood near the southern reaches of the city, chose him the most, with a 23.56% share.
The fourth-highest Republican tally came from one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the city, the Excelsior, where Trump earned 19.93% of the vote.
The Excelsior's eastern neighbor, Portola, gave Trump the third-highest share of presidential votes, at 20.26%.
Trump received the second-most San Francisco votes from the southwestern corner of city — where all the golf courses are — Lake Merced, whose residents gave him 21.14% of their votes.
And while no neighborhood in the city gave more than a quarter of their votes to the Republican president this year, Visitacion Valley, the working-class neighborhood near the southern reaches of the city, chose him the most, with a 23.56% share.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 6 November 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
where all the golf courses are
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 6 November 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
But golf courses.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 November 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
None of that is surprising, tbh.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 7 November 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link
I've tried so many times to like her but she really does aim to be incredibly unlikable.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-F-Mayor-London-Breed-had-her-own-French-15767506.php
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
Imagine not being able to go a few months without a meal at the French Laundry.
― DJI, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
I wish I could enjoy this weather without constantly thinking "it's too warm and too dry"
― lukas, Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
A friend posted a video from the Oakland hills today and yeah, it's bone-dry. Distressing to say the least.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
(I was there from 2008-2015, and in California two years after that, so remember the Bay being extraordinarily dry from 2012-2015...and then it was like a hose opened up for a year or two, if my memory serves correctly).
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
Yeah here's hoping the skies open up again. But uh ...https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-drought-california-western-united-states-study/(I found another link saying "worst in 400 years" but I went for the more apocalyptic take)
― lukas, Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
I don't think it's particularly warm but yes it's very dry and it's forecasted to be another La Niña this winter.
We awoke from a phone call from our brother/sister in law down in Orange County saying they were under mandatory fire evacuation in DECEMBER which is incredibly unusual.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 December 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
This is live now, with DJs from around SF playing to raise money for various nightclubs: https://www.twitch.tv/revivethenightsf
― DJI, Saturday, 5 December 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the share! Enjoying this Dam Funk set. Just donated to the noble cause.What's even gonna be left when we get to the other side of this?https://sf.eater.com/2020/12/4/22153835/lucky-13-closes-london-breed
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 5 December 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link
13 was always on the verge for years...surprised they made it this far.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 December 2020 05:02 (three years ago) link
Getting serious here -- but how will they enforce it indeed?
https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/San-Francisco-travel-order-mandatory-quarantine-15811818.php
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
Anyone who doesn't take their coffee with oat milk
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link