Tandrew
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Happy January 6 to Ariel Pink, who, for whatever reason, is playing The Chapel in San Francisco this Friday: sf.gazetteer.co/happy-januar...
Happy January 6, Ariel Pink
The musician was condemned for attending President Donald Trump’s pre-insurrection rally five years ago. This week, he’s playing The Chapel.
sf.gazetteer.co
January 6, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Happy January 6 to Ariel Pink, who, for whatever reason, is playing The Chapel in San Francisco this Friday: sf.gazetteer.co/happy-januar...
The reason he says this is because Trump’s base is almost entirely made up of narcissists and people who have unresolved trauma with their dads.
January 6, 2026 at 3:21 PM
The reason he says this is because Trump’s base is almost entirely made up of narcissists and people who have unresolved trauma with their dads.
There is a large number of the Op-Ed class whose only vocation seems to be the Lisa Barlow career track: You’re only role is to capture viewers while being the absolute worst in the game at this.
There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.
January 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
There is a large number of the Op-Ed class whose only vocation seems to be the Lisa Barlow career track: You’re only role is to capture viewers while being the absolute worst in the game at this.
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I would never do the "Here comes the airplane" bit to feed my child. Embarrassing for us both. I would calmly explain the importance of adequate nutrition and they will yield to unimpeachable logic
December 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I would never do the "Here comes the airplane" bit to feed my child. Embarrassing for us both. I would calmly explain the importance of adequate nutrition and they will yield to unimpeachable logic
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
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it's genuinely fascinating to me that "you cannot facilitate a genocide against a people and still expect their vote" is too advanced for some analysts to understand.
Dearborn, Michigan could not be reached for comment.
Trump: "I'm not concerned about anything that Israel is doing"
December 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
it's genuinely fascinating to me that "you cannot facilitate a genocide against a people and still expect their vote" is too advanced for some analysts to understand.
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Keir Starmer was the model for centrists and popularists who insisted that moving right on issues, especially immigration, is how you win at politics.
Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless
Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Keir Starmer was the model for centrists and popularists who insisted that moving right on issues, especially immigration, is how you win at politics.
Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless
Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless
I recently worked on a project where the PM said the machine translated Samoan would be enough. Come survey time the population asked for the English version so they could correct how horribly wrong Google got it.
Please, I am begging you, do not tell AI to translate for you. Do not just use a translate button on languages you can't read. Please ask a human being to help you. Machine translations are often close enough on a sentence level but that is NOT good enough for anything you take seriously.
"Use AI for translations"
Hey, who was doing translations before? How did we train AI to do translations? Who was the author of the translations that were fed into AI?
Ah, I see, another "ethical" use.
Hey, who was doing translations before? How did we train AI to do translations? Who was the author of the translations that were fed into AI?
Ah, I see, another "ethical" use.
December 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I recently worked on a project where the PM said the machine translated Samoan would be enough. Come survey time the population asked for the English version so they could correct how horribly wrong Google got it.
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the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?
December 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?
GrowSF and Daniel Lurie would have you believe this is bad governance.
December 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
GrowSF and Daniel Lurie would have you believe this is bad governance.
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Engles saw workers in 19th century Manchester paying 25 percent of their income towards rent and was so aghast he invented communism.
25 percent of income going towards rent doesn’t even qualify as being rent-burdened in America today.
25 percent of income going towards rent doesn’t even qualify as being rent-burdened in America today.
you think about scrooge and he basically gave cratchit reasonably stable long term employment and paid him more or less enough to raise a family on a single income and he's still a fucking villain. today's billionaires are like 10x worse
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Engles saw workers in 19th century Manchester paying 25 percent of their income towards rent and was so aghast he invented communism.
25 percent of income going towards rent doesn’t even qualify as being rent-burdened in America today.
25 percent of income going towards rent doesn’t even qualify as being rent-burdened in America today.
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Something you can say for Bluesky is that no other website is cranking out Muppet Christmas Carol Tiny Tim jokes like this place
December 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Something you can say for Bluesky is that no other website is cranking out Muppet Christmas Carol Tiny Tim jokes like this place
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people should get kicked out for talking during concerts.
you didn't have to pay money to talk around loud music. you could have stayed home, or gone to a bar! shut upppp during a show.
you didn't have to pay money to talk around loud music. you could have stayed home, or gone to a bar! shut upppp during a show.
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
December 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
people should get kicked out for talking during concerts.
you didn't have to pay money to talk around loud music. you could have stayed home, or gone to a bar! shut upppp during a show.
you didn't have to pay money to talk around loud music. you could have stayed home, or gone to a bar! shut upppp during a show.
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
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Has Feminism Failed Women? Brought to you by Bank of America.
December 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Has Feminism Failed Women? Brought to you by Bank of America.
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Stanley Roberts' public-shaming news segment "People Behaving Badly" returned to KRON4 last night.
@eddiekimx.bsky.social watched, and still can't tell what's worse: how shallow it is, or how cynically pointless it is.
FREE LINK: sf.gazetteer.co/nobody-needs...
@eddiekimx.bsky.social watched, and still can't tell what's worse: how shallow it is, or how cynically pointless it is.
FREE LINK: sf.gazetteer.co/nobody-needs...
Nobody needs “People Behaving Badly”
Stanley Roberts’ popular public shaming segment is back on KRON, pettier and more pathetic than ever
sf.gazetteer.co
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Stanley Roberts' public-shaming news segment "People Behaving Badly" returned to KRON4 last night.
@eddiekimx.bsky.social watched, and still can't tell what's worse: how shallow it is, or how cynically pointless it is.
FREE LINK: sf.gazetteer.co/nobody-needs...
@eddiekimx.bsky.social watched, and still can't tell what's worse: how shallow it is, or how cynically pointless it is.
FREE LINK: sf.gazetteer.co/nobody-needs...
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Kinda funny that San Francisco's oligarchic elites are pushing for our version of the Unitary Executive when we're seeing just how much damage this cockamamie theory can cause
archive.ph/7gFyP
archive.ph/7gFyP
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Kinda funny that San Francisco's oligarchic elites are pushing for our version of the Unitary Executive when we're seeing just how much damage this cockamamie theory can cause
archive.ph/7gFyP
archive.ph/7gFyP
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The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power
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Mayor Lurie and the BOS could be investing in social housing and a future for our city. Instead, they seem more interested in tax breaks for billionaires.
The richest people in the world are getting massive tax cuts from the fascist in chief but their local lackeys want to give them even more
San Francisco’s transfer tax policy is under the microscope
Property owners in San Francisco get levied more than in any other California city, thanks to a measure passed by voters in 2020.
sfstandard.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mayor Lurie and the BOS could be investing in social housing and a future for our city. Instead, they seem more interested in tax breaks for billionaires.
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San Franciscans deserve housing security, not displacement. The Mayor’s Family Zoning Plan still leaves more than 20,000 rent-controlled homes vulnerable to demolition. Thank you to Supervisors Fielder, Chan, Chen, and Walton for standing with tenants and working families.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
San Franciscans deserve housing security, not displacement. The Mayor’s Family Zoning Plan still leaves more than 20,000 rent-controlled homes vulnerable to demolition. Thank you to Supervisors Fielder, Chan, Chen, and Walton for standing with tenants and working families.
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Interesting to see Scott Wiener run from his trickle down housing record the minute a tower is proposed in a rich neighborhood in San Francisco
December 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Interesting to see Scott Wiener run from his trickle down housing record the minute a tower is proposed in a rich neighborhood in San Francisco
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I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour
like incredible takeaway from a huge overperformance by Democrats in fucking *TN*
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Conservative Chronicle editors strike again, burying the lede. In 2018, we taxed rich corporations to fund homeless services. SF voters approved that by over 60%. That's what the Chron and billionaires want to end. Corporations tied it up in court but lost, so money is now being spent.
S.F. has doubled spending on nonprofits since 2019. Is City Hall getting its money’s worth?
San Francisco now spends $1.6 billion on nonprofits annually — 10.2% of the total city budget. That’s compared with $809 million in 2019, or 6.6% of the budget at the time.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Conservative Chronicle editors strike again, burying the lede. In 2018, we taxed rich corporations to fund homeless services. SF voters approved that by over 60%. That's what the Chron and billionaires want to end. Corporations tied it up in court but lost, so money is now being spent.