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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 36m

That Yeats line always makes me think of John Vanderslice's version

"The ones who had conviction were all the wrong types"

archive.org/details/JV20...

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 52m

This kind of post always makes me think of all the once-common knowledge of how things worked in my grandparents' generation that's rapidly fading from living memory, just as one day those of us who can see this and say "what?! of course we memorized phone numbers" will die off too.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 8h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 2h

Evergreen:

Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · Feb 10

And which driver is not tempted, merely by the power of his engine, to wipe out the vermin of the street: pedestrians, children and cyclists? The movements machines demand of their users already have the violent, hard-hitting, unresting jerkiness of Fascist maltreatment.
- Theodor Adorno

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 18h

Hope the photographers are okay! As for the fed...

Billboard with two smiling white men in suits and it says INJURED? GOOD

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 1d

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 20h

This is just psychological manipulation. Calculating whatever they're going to offer you is instantaneous, but they artificially slow it down to make you think some kind of valuable work is being done, some kind of exhaustive search.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1d

I'm basically Garfield. I too hate Mondays and ICE

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot of public housing on the south and east slopes of Potrero Hill. Not rich at all

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suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 1d

Under no circumstances should BoS confirmation of SFMTA board members be removed. This is a crucial element of Muni reform that enables SFMTA to think independently. Vote NO on this un-reform just like all the others.

Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1d

In case folks missed it, a story about SF planning to axe its Bike Advisory Committee.

The task force also proposes removing confirmation for mayoral appointments (which is all appointments) to the transportation board. This would remove one of the few checks on a bike-hostile mayor - which we have

Streamlining Task Force Wants to Kill S.F.'s Bike Advisory Committee - Streetsblog San Francisco

It also recommends increasing the mayor's influence over the SFMTA Board by allowing him to fire directors

sf.streetsblog.org

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 1d

In case folks missed it, a story about SF planning to axe its Bike Advisory Committee.

The task force also proposes removing confirmation for mayoral appointments (which is all appointments) to the transportation board. This would remove one of the few checks on a bike-hostile mayor - which we have

Streamlining Task Force Wants to Kill S.F.'s Bike Advisory Committee - Streetsblog San Francisco

It also recommends increasing the mayor's influence over the SFMTA Board by allowing him to fire directors

sf.streetsblog.org

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 2d

SF is considering disbanding their bike commission, which is pretty pathetic IMO. Even tiny Emeryville, population 13k, has a bike/walk committee that meets monthly & always has something to discuss.

If they can manage to make it work then nobody else has any excuse.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 2d

I'm feeling slow. I didn't realize "depave" was literal

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 2d

1. Hell yeah!
2. This happens to illustrate one of the dumbest, most needlessly dangerous (when not closed to cars for an event) bits of "bike infra" around. See the bike lane ending, followed by a left lane sharrow? On this curve you're supposed to suddenly cross two lanes of traffic to turn left

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 2d

Dozens of skateboarders bombed down the hills of San Francisco’s Twin Peaks on Saturday afternoon in a gathering organizers hoped would avoid the injuries and police confrontations of the past.

Read more → www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...

📽️: @stephenlamphoto.bsky.social/S.F. Chronicle

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 2d

It seems one reason riders are happier with Muni these days than pre-pandemic is that the scheduling is more realistic, so while both the advertised and actual headways are greater than they used to be (which sucks!! tax the rich, fund the bus!) at least expectations are set more realistically

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 2d

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

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IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 2d

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 2d

I'd compel everyone to read "Bad-asses"

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 2d

leveraging the power of horniness to keep fossil fuels in the ground!! brilliant!

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 2d

It's inspired by one of my favorite novels of all time, which I was thrilled to see transfer to the big screen, in this time, with all of its anti-authoritarianism intact plus a strong condemnation of white racism and xenophobia.

Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 3d

I was pleasantly surprised to find one of your faces under a bike rack on Chestnut Street in the Marina. You get around!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 3d

Here's a thoughtful critique of One Battle After Another, which I still enjoyed and recommend - and would quibble with some of the points here - but I agree the first act could've been handled better to avoid perpetuating quite so much the fetishization the film intends to condemn.

One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution

Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.

blackgirlwatching.substack.com

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 3d

Stolen to add alt text

Three panels of screens from the Simpsons.

1: Lisa, with a panicked look, pulling an unconscious Bart in a wagon toward their parents' room, says, "A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland."

2: Homer and Marge rise up in bed with looks of terror on their faces.

3: BART continues, with a big smile, "In Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario - but it's also thrilling to watch!"

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry to hear it came off that way. I liked what I perceived as a strong critique of white men's racist fetishization, but now that you mention it, the first act could have been handled a lot better and still maintained that

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DSA San Francisco @dsasf.org · 3d

Check out our socialist in office @jackiefielder.bsky.social’s reel breaking down public banks!
🏦🌱

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 3d

Chesa Boudin for D4 supervisor. He lives there, and the district just recalled the guy who recalled him, so they're basically on his side... why not?

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