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Cross-posting from my #SanFrancisco photo blog since 2009 (webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com) and my #whippet & #greyhound blog (rocketsnacks.tumblr.com). #Music podcast at ForTheRecordPodcast.com. Posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.
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🌁 San Francisco feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Come for the “Shrek getting a blow job” ornament, stay for the “Lion King but-sniffing” ornament. God bless us, every one!
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is fine. Everything is fine
A new study finds moist tropical forests in Australia have flipped from carbon sink to source—the first documented case of its kind.

Nearly 50 years of data show tree deaths doubled around 2000, outpacing new growth as climate change and cyclones push rainforest species beyond their limits.
Tropical forests in Australia are emitting more carbon than they capture: Study
When it comes to capturing carbon, trees have always been our go-to. But a sinister switch is underway. A study published in the journal Nature reveals that moist tropical forests in Australia are…
news.mongabay.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Some random hares.
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Pretending to be dedd so I don’t have to talk to anyone
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: I-5 Space Invaders webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8040225...
December 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Today's #whippet and #greyhound blog post: Playing bitey-face (2025) 🐕❤️
rocketsnacks.tumblr.com/post/8040300...
December 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Two of the four signers of this letter to CBS News staff — Weiss and Rubenstein — are conservative oped writers who have done little, if any, actual news reporting in their careers.

It’d be like having a sophomore biology major telling a cardiologist how to do a heart transplant.
December 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Today's #whippet and #greyhound blog post: Christmas snugglers (Enzo and Comet, 2025) 🐕❤️
rocketsnacks.tumblr.com/post/8039394...
December 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: Merry Christmas from my hometown! webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8039319...
December 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Compelling pitch from this company
December 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
My fellow corporate #lawyers: How is this full-page ad in the L.A. Times not a securities law violation? They’re claiming both a 4(a)(2) exemption and a Reg D exemption, and also claim it’s a Testing The Waters communication…. Plus they’re setting the minimum investment at only $5K
December 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thank you @docpop.org for letting me know the artist is David Goode Hill
December 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today's #whippet and #greyhound blog post: Crazy Eyes Comet (2025) 🐕❤️
rocketsnacks.tumblr.com/post/8038488...
December 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
At the neighborhood Methodist Church where I grew up 💕💕💕
December 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Very cute Christmas window by my parents’ house
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: Seal and fish in Clarion Alley webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8038413...
December 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Gift link. It’s hilarious: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
If I haven't responded to your email, it's because I was first convincing an AI vending machine that it exists in the basement of Moscow State University in 1962 and then executing a boardroom coup against its AI CEO.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Please, please, please, we need to supercharge #TheWarOnCars 🙏 🚲

‘Freedom is a city where you can breathe’: four experts on Europe’s most liveable capitals www.theguardian.com/cities/2025/...
December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Anyone who believes higher productivity (driven by technology, or anything else) will result in a shorter workweek for the average person fundamentally misunderstands capitalism
December 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Today's #whippet and #greyhound blog post: Comet and Enzo at the beach (2025) 🐕❤️
rocketsnacks.tumblr.com/post/8037582...
December 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: So much green, and a full aqueduct, along I-5 webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8037507...
December 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I put a very powerful but slow-acting curse on 60 Minutes when they ran their Satanic Panic episode back in the 80s, and here we are.
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
At least that guarantees that none of them will actually be functional
Asked about having enough workers to build all these battleships, President Trump replies: "We're going to have a lot of robots helping us."
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM