San Francisco and what to do in it

not enough teal

so dark!

When my alarm went off this morning I thought it was someone calling me in the middle of the night with bad news.

I still don’t smell much smoke. I read that the smoke is being suspended between the calm atmosphere at the surface and the winds rushing far above it

It's still totally dark. This is some nuclear winter shit right now.

xpost Yeah, more on that:

https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/Bay-Area-yellow-glow-sky-wildfire-smoke-15550298.php

so weird

Just about noon and finally getting a bit lighter here in Marin. The birds and deer I've seen seem very confused like they know it's 2020 and everything is f'ed up.

lol the squirrels are probably having the same conversation

Straight up apocalyptic vibes.

Don't sweat it, eventually we won't have any forest left to burn.

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.

Going on a small bike ride around the city pretending I'm in some martian colony.

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

If your child received a turkey sandwich from SFUSD today, please discard.

But of course

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Silicon-Valley-co-living-start-up-fails-hubhaus-15628436.php

quelle surprise

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 ...

actually -- Hubhaus was just the master tenant in that case; the owner was some trust.

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

lol wow

:)

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/Marvel-Studios-movie-filming-downtown-SF-Shang-Chi-15659724.php

Oh yeah forgot to tell everyone I'm the star wait hold on.

the streets in my neighborhood were blocked off for this yesterday

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)

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.

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.

Sounds like my old polling place in Mission Terrace! I guess we were almost neighbors.

Maybe! I lived at Naples and Avalon for a few years

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

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.

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.

This made me very sad:

https://missionlocal.org/2020/11/sylvie-le-mer-owner-of-storied-creperie-ti-couz-dies-at-60/

loved that place. never went in again after it changed hands.

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

:/

Figures. And it'll probably be there just as long!

i need assurances that the CSR Sugar neon sign (near the Carquinez tollway) will remain forever

tfo with that CSR! Don't they teach you bogans what C&H is?!?!?!?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLuXQRlwFh8

oh shit i meant C&H fuck aaaargh

;-P

WELL

:D

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...

"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.

where all the golf courses are

But golf courses.

None of that is surprising, tbh.

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