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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀
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Coding, encoding, and decoding in San Francisco USA. Mostly on https://hachyderm.io/ but I check Bsky a few times a day. He/him

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Some sidewalk chalk art on the path at the base of Hippie Hill yesterday, alas mostly scuffed by the time I saw it.
sidewalk chalk art: ☯ sidewalk chalk art: star of David tessellated with colored diamonds Q*bert-style to suggest a mountain of cubes sidewalk chalk letters: I ♥ SF sidewalk chalk letters: bk1nd, a stylized "be kind" I suppose
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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"Let the dog drive." #SanFrancisco
A Waymo self-driving car trundles along Carl Street. A poodle-ish-looking dog has their head out a back window, enjoying the cold breeze
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Current status: musing about crane operations on a day when it's too foggy to see the ground, relying on folks on the ground for feedback. I bet crane operators use this in similes for all kinds of situations.
two crane towers fade up into fog. A crane hook descends from the fog. You can hazily make out a crane counterweight at the top of the nearer tower.
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I saw some sidewalk chalk art walking in #SanFrancisco yesterday morning.

At 20th and Irving, a skateboarding fire-demon-maybe by Kal Zakzouk.

At 4th and Irving, a mermaid by, I'm guessing, two collaborators.

#StreetArt
sidewalk chalk art. zooming in on top of skater. her hat appears to consist of a scarf, a cat(?) head, and a short sword through that cat head sidewalk chalk art. zooming in on top left of the skater. she wields a lollipop overlaid with a faint mouse skull. her arms are perhaps tattooed or are perhaps Frankenstein-ish combinations of things. sidewalk chalk art. a glowing crouching figure rides a skateboard. her shorts have a logo: '451F'. beside her hover eldritch symbols suggesting a transformation from ♡ to ⛧ sidewalk chalk art: an easily-recognizable fish tail connects to a human-ish figure seemingly drawn by someone still new to drawing
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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This morning's mystery solved: lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2025/11/...
chalk marks on pavement: "↑ WET". More subtly, there is a clump of chalk dust nearby chalk marks on pavement. One set" "↖ W". The other: "↗ TE"
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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the moth from that meme
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I continue to check my little dashboard of #SanFrancisco COVID numbers each morning to figure out whether shopping for groceries in person is a good way to get the best produce or the kind of eventual-lung-prob… lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2025/11/...
graph charting three numbers over the past two months. The purple line, test positivity%, was high a couple of months ago, but is now pretty low. The red line, new cases, was low a couple of months ago, and is now even lower, yay. The green line has jiggled and wiggled high and low over the last couple of months; lately, it's been high-ish
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Some pics from walks in #SanFrancisco the past few days. lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2025/11/...
in the foreground, a retail street. behind, dimly-lit big buildings on a hill; when you peer more closely, you notice the one on the right is under construction. above the buildings hover some cranes, confirming that construction's going on. in the very background, colors of sunrise bright green leaves. at first you might think there's a bright blue strangely-shaped flower resting on the leaves, but when you look more closely, you see it's a soap bubble reflecting something bright (the sky?) patch of sidewalk with hints of color, where chalk has mostly washed away. Most legible is a partial signature @zakikal...something hemmed in by other buildings, we see a mural taking shape on the eastern exterior wall of the new building at Haight/Stanyan. The mural has clouds styled as in an old-timey Chinese painting, sunflowers, poppies, rainbows. Some purple geometrical designs with 8-way symmetry. It's pretty bright and colorful
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Some chalk #StreetArt, I assume by Kal Zakzouk, at 20th and Irving in #SanFrancisco yesterday morning.
there's a lot going on here. inert human figure is somehow connected to various spiritual bits: arms performing mudras, demon head, antlers,… Uh, it's a lot closer view of the top-right part of the art
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Some things I saw on my walk in #SanFrancisco this morning.

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wall with mural consisting of different-colored circles on a background of a geometrical regular wave. Below, some still-under-construction pavement and a traffic cone. To the side, a window with a little piece of paper; if this image were higher resolution, you'd see that the paper tells you that Jenifer Wofford and others made the mural fork in a path among redwood trees. the path is 'paved' with wood chips and needles. looking up, you can see the treetops, but they're kinda obscured by fog in the foreground, a sidewalk wiggles between a field and a grassy hill. drawn on the sidewalk in colored chalk are some circles and arcs which form a hexagonal construction suggesting triangles. in the background, trees obscured by thick fog. really thick fog. would you believe me if i told you there's a dog and a dog-walker back there?
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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After many attempts, I finally got to see Naga blowing bubbles.
head of a metal(?) statue of a sea serpent blowing soap bubbles from one nostril
November 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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#Book Report: Saving Time

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October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I saw some art on my morning walk in #SanFrancisco today.

At the Animal Connection pet store at 35th Ave and Irving, a new-to-me doggo mural.

At 20th and Irving, some chalk art I suppose by Kal Zakzouk.
side of a building featuring a big mural of a cute dog sidewalk chalk art sorta like the face of someone wearing elaborate headgear, until you realize it's meant to be viewed either this way or upside-down whence you'd see another face with other elaborate headgear; the 'elaborate headgear' is another face sidewalk chalk art sorta like the face of someone wearing elaborate headgear, until you realize it's meant to be viewed either this way or upside-down whence you'd see another face with other elaborate headgear; the 'elaborate headgear' is another face
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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viewing this here bsky thingy via blacksky.community , which IIUC should be pretty similar to plain ol' bsky, but have some useful moderation built-in? Anyhow, let's see if posting works.
screen shot showing blacksky.community, a web app darned similar to bsky. The user is composing this very message, amazing
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Walking in Golden Gate Park today, I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon The San Francisco Old Car Picnic. I don't know much about cars, but I do appreciate a shiny paint job.
shiny red Mustang parked on a lawn row of shiny cars parked on a lawn. also, some people walk past, admiring shiny gray El Camino one of those brown shiny things
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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October 10–11 2025, I walked, roughly, around #SanFrancisco

The Crosstown Trail people published The Roundabout, a walking guide to streets and trails around the edge of SF. I saw it would take me throu…

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In the foreground, a bush covered with yellow-white webby stuff, something like dandelion puffs. in the background, the ocean and a big guano-spattered rock in the foreground, walking path by the bay with walkers and joggers. In the background, the Golden Gate Bridge in the foreground: a trail winds through rocky cliffs, dotted with shrubs. Beyond, a blue bay. Beyond that, the marin headlands, mostly brown but dotted with green tall sailing ship named Gloria
October 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I took pictures of a couple of boxes in Golden Gate Park this morning. …

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big box looms over a modern-art-ish bench on a sidewalk sidewalk piano partially enclosed by a big wooden box on rollers on tracks
September 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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It's spelled "fascists," kid. You got the important parts right, though.
stenciled graffito on yellow crosswalk paint on asphalt. It reads: Facists wont stop until you [picture of crossing guard's handheld stop sign] stop them
August 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Finally found out what artist makes that sidewalk chalk art at 20th and Irving in #SanFrancisco: Kal Zakzouk. richmondsunsetnews.com/2023/02/07/k... He has a gofundme for legal fees. If you've enjoyed his art and can spare it, maybe toss a few $$ his way. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-kal-s... #StreetArt
sidewalk chalk art. There's a cute anthropomorphic beat wearing headphones with text 'let the beet drop'. There are four monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, and wearing headphones and staring at mobile phone oblivious to real world (no evil). There's Chinese text I can't translate, alas. And more. faded sidewalk chalk art. There's a lot going on here. Text in the background: We the sheeple. Text at the bottom: What they hate in you is missing in them. Depicted: A weightlifter lifts a barbell. He's standing on an upside-down wok that has one eye (which is looking up at the weightlifter). The weights on the barbell are peace signs sidewalk chalk art: hexagon filled with a grid of triangles constructed from circular arcs rendered in colored chalk with a gradient heading out from the center. Tucked in the corner: "8647" sidewalk chalk art. pretty surreal. an anthropomorphized egg has climbed a ladder and addresses a few neighbors. text below reads ¿dónde están los huevos?. text above is in Chinese which I can't read, but when I plugged 'where are the eggs?' into Google translate and tried a few dialects, I noticed the Traditional Chinese translation had a few characters in common. The neighbors... Well, there's a lady with a cloud head carrying a turnip. There's a caftan-wearing rainbow-headed figure carrying a chard? kale? leaf. There's a ✳-headed figure carrying a loaf of bread. There's a potato-bodied person covered with human eyes. The potato-eyes thing makes me wonder if I'm overlooking puns in the other figures. Off the the side, mostly out of frame: a snake (Happy New Year!)
August 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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#SanFrancisco
sidewalk chalk art: lady in style of an old-time-y romance comic weeps and wails "World War 3? But I just got the new iPhone" graffiti art on utility box: dark hyperwave frogs sit on a mushroom car in a driveway in the foreground, a hilly residential street. in the background, the Golden Gate Bridge peeks up from behind a hill
April 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I saw one of these not-exactly cat flyers in #SanFrancisco . Then Brent Sleeper spotted another. I thought there might be a trail of flyers, and there were. They led to Arizmendi Bakery. According to the fellow behind the counter there, the flyers were part of a marriage proposal on Thursday.
what if a cat flyer but for a drawing of a cat?
March 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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current San Francisco meme:
image meme: it's like that X-Files 'I Want to Believe' poster, but the UFO has been replaced by part of a screen shot from a weather app that just says '📉 Cooling expected over the next three days'
October 7, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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I stumbled upon some new San Francisco street art today, a ground mural on Lyon between McAllister and Fulton.

When I was next to it, I thought "I bet it looks better from an aerial view" and when I found Matley Hurd's (the artist's) instagram, I thought "yep".

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part of a big mural covering most of a street. pictured: parrot, Golden Gate Bridge another part of a big mural covering most of a street. pictured: another parrot, a dahlia screen shot of Matley Hurd's instagram page, showing aerial view of the street mural. pictured: two parrots, two dahlias, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, clouds, sun
August 12, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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The dahlias by the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers are doing OK.
dahlias, gardeners, observers. in the background, the top of the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers more dahlias yet more dahlias
August 4, 2024 at 3:43 PM