Kate
@katedp.bsky.social
I like books and reading and trying to do all the things.
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Claude the albino alligator is dead
My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social
Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?"
RIP to an SF icon
🐊 😢
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social
Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?"
RIP to an SF icon
🐊 😢
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Claude, San Francisco’s beloved albino alligator, dies at 30
Claude, the California Academy of Sciences’ rare albino alligator and one of San Francisco’s most recognizable residents, has died at age 30.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Claude the albino alligator is dead
My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social
Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?"
RIP to an SF icon
🐊 😢
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social
Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?"
RIP to an SF icon
🐊 😢
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
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We’re introducing a proposal to improve Muni service! Support our proposal using the links below.
Send a letter to the mayor:
🔗 actionnetwork.org/letters/we-s...
Join our rally in front of City Hall at 12pm on Dec 8th:
🔗 luma.com/t74ror5t
Learn more at:
🔗 muniforever.org
Send a letter to the mayor:
🔗 actionnetwork.org/letters/we-s...
Join our rally in front of City Hall at 12pm on Dec 8th:
🔗 luma.com/t74ror5t
Learn more at:
🔗 muniforever.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
We’re introducing a proposal to improve Muni service! Support our proposal using the links below.
Send a letter to the mayor:
🔗 actionnetwork.org/letters/we-s...
Join our rally in front of City Hall at 12pm on Dec 8th:
🔗 luma.com/t74ror5t
Learn more at:
🔗 muniforever.org
Send a letter to the mayor:
🔗 actionnetwork.org/letters/we-s...
Join our rally in front of City Hall at 12pm on Dec 8th:
🔗 luma.com/t74ror5t
Learn more at:
🔗 muniforever.org
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This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
The Autry Museum was the sleeper hit of my museums-and-bookstores trip to LA a couple of weeks ago, and this exhibit was one of the big reasons why.
My article on "Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology" at the Autry Museum
is in the new issue of Ornament: www.ornamentmagazine.org/articles/fut...
is in the new issue of Ornament: www.ornamentmagazine.org/articles/fut...
Future Imaginaries Volume 46.2 — Ornament Magazine
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell takes us through “Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology” at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, California, where Native futurism uses fa...
www.ornamentmagazine.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Autry Museum was the sleeper hit of my museums-and-bookstores trip to LA a couple of weeks ago, and this exhibit was one of the big reasons why.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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All novels are fantasy novels.
It's just some novelists lie about this.
It's just some novelists lie about this.
October 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
All novels are fantasy novels.
It's just some novelists lie about this.
It's just some novelists lie about this.
You’ve got to be kidding me sf.
If the chatbot is launched in the coming weeks, hundreds of marginally housed RV dwellers could soon have just days to pull out their phones, navigate to a city website and ask a chatbot how to get a permit to allow them to continue to park on city streets.
missionlocal.org/2025/09/san-...
missionlocal.org/2025/09/san-...
San Francisco’s latest answer for RV dwellers? An AI chatbot.
The San Francisco Mayor's Office is testing a new solution for RV dwellers' pressing questions on an upcoming parking ban, sources say.
missionlocal.org
September 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
You’ve got to be kidding me sf.
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I bet that even the MUNI fans I know don't realize how much SF MTA is responsible for.
This is a great short video about an incredibly important part of government in San Francisco. Put it on during your lunch hour or play it while going for a ride on MUNI.
This is a great short video about an incredibly important part of government in San Francisco. Put it on during your lunch hour or play it while going for a ride on MUNI.
Curious how San Francisco’s transit decisions get made? Catch the recording of the conversation between @sfmta.bsky.social Board Chair Janet Tarlov & @sfpublicpress.bsky.social's Zhe Wu to learn about the board’s role and the challenges ahead.
Watch at lwvsf.org/news-blog/... #TransitMonth2025
Watch at lwvsf.org/news-blog/... #TransitMonth2025
The role of the SF Municipal Transportation Agency
Learn how San Franciscans benefit from the Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) Board and how we can work with the board to make government more transparent and accountable in the recording of our event.
lwvsf.org
September 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I bet that even the MUNI fans I know don't realize how much SF MTA is responsible for.
This is a great short video about an incredibly important part of government in San Francisco. Put it on during your lunch hour or play it while going for a ride on MUNI.
This is a great short video about an incredibly important part of government in San Francisco. Put it on during your lunch hour or play it while going for a ride on MUNI.
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Let's try something new. What was the best coffee you ever had?
Good morning weekend sky, i am looking forward to hearing one thousand of the same takes about some dumb shit some asshole said three days ago that all amount to "look at this, it is bad"
September 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Let's try something new. What was the best coffee you ever had?
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Angela Davis is here and the crowd went WILD
September 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Angela Davis is here and the crowd went WILD
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We need more wacky utopian ideas in municipal politics. Municipal groceries stories are fine but what if cities bought out failing office buildings and built massive vertical farms, employing thousands
August 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
We need more wacky utopian ideas in municipal politics. Municipal groceries stories are fine but what if cities bought out failing office buildings and built massive vertical farms, employing thousands
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Next week is Dress To Impress on Transit week. Bay Area vs. SoCal! Who would you like to see get gussied and take transit for the contest?
August 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Next week is Dress To Impress on Transit week. Bay Area vs. SoCal! Who would you like to see get gussied and take transit for the contest?
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fundamentally, a big problem with relying on private charity is that it relies on the largesse of a small number of individuals and - at least in a vaguely functional system of government - is therefore much easier to lose because it only needs one or two people to change their minds
Not trying to call out this post in particular but something I think about a lot is George Lakoff's observation that liberals respond to budget cuts by replacing them with private charity instead of with directing money to try to reverse the budget cuts
August 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
fundamentally, a big problem with relying on private charity is that it relies on the largesse of a small number of individuals and - at least in a vaguely functional system of government - is therefore much easier to lose because it only needs one or two people to change their minds
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FYI if you are interested/planning to seek appointment or run for your local library board in the near future, sign up to receive info about our forthcoming 2026 cohort: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
FYI if you are interested/planning to seek appointment or run for your local library board in the near future, sign up to receive info about our forthcoming 2026 cohort: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The evil that men do lives after them
July 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The evil that men do lives after them
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"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
June 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.