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Martha Bridegam
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This is or was Franklin the Fair Housing Fox. Dorky, and at its introduction by the G.W. Bush admin in 2007 the dorkiness already seemed like cynical lip service. But at least it offered lip service to a worthy goal. archives.hud.gov/initiatives/...
Medallion-type cartoon graphic depicting Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, who is a cheerfully determined-looking fox wearing a yellow T-shirt with blue text centering the HUD fair housing logo of an outline of a peak-roofed house surrounding an "equals" sign. The medallion provides a URL, "www.hud.gov.franklin," tho I don't recall if any version of that link has ever gone to a real website. It advises, "Report Housing Discrimination." And it provides a number to make such a report, 1-800-669-9777. As of today, 11/30/25, HUD still posts that number as usable to reach the Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Office to report discriminatory conduct. See https://www.hud.gov/reporthousingdiscrimination .
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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San Francisco looking more Besźel than usual this evening.
View down King Street in the Mission Bay urban redevelopment district in San Francisco at twilight with black metal lamps, rows of leafless street trees, trolley wires, an approaching streetcar. Sky is sepia with a faint rainbow descending so it appears to touch the middle of the street in the distance. The scene is reminiscent of Southern/Eastern Europe.
March 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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San Francisco: the Sta-Puf Man mural and Sutro Tower from under Highway 80 at Brannan.
A sunset in narrow layers of pink-orange sky and pearly clouds behind San Francisco's Twin Peaks and the iconic Sutro Tower TV antenna. View is from South of Market under a freeway viaduct. Includes the upper part of the mural at 7th and Brannan Streets featuring the Sta-Puf Marshmallow Man and the Ghostbusters, who are weirdly drawn to appear as cartoon characters in the style of "The Simpsons."
December 3, 2024 at 6:46 AM
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This from Golden Gate Park on the 600 block of Lincoln is the latest in my collection of SF Park Code § 3.02 signs. Since it talks about limits on bicycle use, you'd think that Park Code § 3.02 must say something about bicycles?

Nope, this is a link to it: codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_fr...
White-on-brown sign on a traffic light pole: "Bikes Permitted on Roadways and Pathways Only." It cites to Park Code Sec. 3.02. Also on the traffic light pole is a sign for Lincoln Blvd. and the 600 block sign with an arrow pointing to the left.
November 21, 2023 at 4:46 AM
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Looking for an ID on this fungus. Northern California, on eucalyptus.
Bright orange fungus with raised paddle-like lobes on a weathered eucalyptus trunk with twigs and loose bark. Similar to previous but with two clumps of the orange fungus on a eucalyptus stump and some of the lower bits are greenish.
October 14, 2023 at 10:21 PM