Tommaso Sciortino
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Tommaso Sciortino
@sciortino.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, East Bay YIMBY, socdem🧦, founding board member of @eb4everyone, singer/pianist, 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇪🇺, I � Unicode, Gemini CLI Dev
Posting these for posterity.
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My wife: Did you read the article?

Me: Why? It's the acoustic version of AI slop.
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
November 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sad to learn no one on earth sells aperiodic monotile bathroom tiles.
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
F is for French Dip
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Dang. I realize what I really wanted to say was that after each page I was like:
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
October 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Looks like we're going to get a pretty good crowd at Oakland's No Kings protest today!
October 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My 7 year old is psyched about the No Kings protest. Now I have to make a sign.

I was thinking this:
October 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
October 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
For those having trouble viewing the image:
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"Bagherese" is a reference to my family's home town of Bagheria!
October 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Saw this stencil in front of a gas station the owner wants to turn into apartments. It's not clear if it's a NIMBY warning or YIMBY praise.
September 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A place that really understands what San Francisco tourists are looking for.
September 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I'm trying to get rid of my old bike. Very good condition. $100 or free if you're a mutual.
September 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Breaking up the massing of these toy houses at Oakland Museum with my kids.
September 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Lego is only offering best sellers on its website due to Trump dropping the de minimis exemption.

Is there any group he's not screwing over?
September 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"What's that pecking noise?" I asked from my desk. I look out the window to find it is a woodpecker.

Logical.
August 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I found out a trans student joined my nephew's men's high school swim team.
August 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
August 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Gemini CLI (the product I work on) can make external tool which, I believe, Gemini's web interface can't do. The first time I asked it, it gave me the correct answer but with Bushrod and Mosswood reversed (big failure). I cleared the context and tried again and it got it right:
August 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
We all know that double-jump fruit does not exist but if it did, it would look like a mangosteen.
August 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM