David Kissling

@xtdave.bsky.social

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San Francisco, cities, bikes, left politics, Dodgers ⚾️, Warriors 🏀, Kings 🏒

Beef It’s what’s for dinner
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Screenshot of https://www.gridstatus.io/live
Still from The Sopranos “It’s a stereotype and it’s offensive”
Rockwell Freedom of Speech
NYT article from 2017 about Trent Alexander-Arnold Liverpool, the city, is not simply a place where Alexander-Arnold works; it is his home. He has a curious family connection to Manchester United: His maternal grandmother, Doreen Carling, is mentioned in Alex Ferguson's autobiography as the great manager's "first steady girlfriend." They dated for 18 months or so as teenagers in Glasgow "before it suffered the fate of most first romances and petered out," Ferguson wrote, and ended completely when Carling moved to New York and married. (Because of this, Alexander-Arnold, technically, is eligible to play for the United States national team.) More remarkably, one of his mother's cousins, John Alexander, was for a long time Manchester United's club secretary.
Saikat Chakrabarti mailer: “The affordability crisis won't fix itself” (Picture of burrito with $18 price tag)
ISO Today app screenshot showing CA electricity supply chart (in MW): • Renewables: 22,176 • Natural gas: 340 • Large hydro: -75 • Imports: -950 • Batteries (charging): -5,845 • Nuclear: 2,277 • Coal: 0 • Other: 0
Gridstatus.io screenshot: Current CAISO Records Maximum Wind: 7,199 MW 3 hours ago Minimum Net Load: -7,871 Mw 9 hours ago
US COVID-19 deaths per million people chart from https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths
Screenshot of iMessage thread with Bluesky post and video playing
Google Maps satellite view of Silicon Valley with labels turned off
BART Transbay Tube segment being rolled into the Bay
Meme from @jdcmedlock.bsky.social showing piece of toast with butter labeled "peak earning years". A knife labeled "welfare state" is spreading the butter to "old age" "sickness" and "unemployment"
Bluesky Trending: 1. World Baseball Classic 2. Epstein Files 3. Media Criticism 4. KC-135 Crash 5. ICE Policies
Frinkiac Meme - George HW Bush in The Simpsons: HERE'S A LITLE SOMETHING WE LEARNED IN C.I.A.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva quote in NYT: “They think that the poor don’t have rights,” he told a crowd of supporters in one of São Paulo’s poorest neighborhoods last week. But he would fight for their rights, he said. “The right to barbecue with family on the weekend, to buy a little picanha, to that piece of picanha with the fat dipped in flour, and to a glass of cold beer,” he shouted to cheers.
Back in December, we had reporting that Noem was deeply at odds with Trump's border czar, Tom Homan. This is in part personal, with each regarding the other as a showboat, and in part seems to be about Noem's heavy reliance on Corey Lewandowski. But there's also a real question of substance here. Homan and ICE Director Todd Lyons apparently want to use ICE resources to deport as many criminals as possible. That would mean focusing enforcement on the most cooperative jurisdictions, minimizing friction and maximizing the number of deportees who've done clearly bad things. It's Noem, Lewandowski, and Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino who've pushed for creating these dramatic scenes. Which I bring up not to paint Homan and Lyons for sainthood, but as a reminder that this really is a choice that Trump made.
Anderson said the business is still at about 85% of what it was in 2019, largely because USF students drink less than previous generations. He is hoping parents waiting for their kids to finish water polo or swim practice will "pop in for a pint."
San Jose is the largest city in Northern California and the highest-income area in the nation without a major-league team, and the Giants’ territorial rights extended only to the A’s, so it could be an option.
Zach Harper (@talkhoops) tweet from 2013: Ricky Davis: "I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score." THAT'S THE MOST RICKY DAVIS QUOTE EVER!
Christopher Moltisanti quote from The Sopranos: "That was real? I saw that movie, I thought it was bullshit."
Tweet from Scottie Pippen of an AI generated picture of Elon Musk in a Chicago Bulls uniform
Silvio Dante from the Sopranos with an unhappy face
White Americans want an endlessly appreciating asset and the ability to police who their neighbors are and what they do. Housing segregation, suburban sprawl, and planned communities are how they won those things, and how they protect them. Automobile dependence is mainly a necessary side effect. Housing preferences have less to do with how people want to get around than they do with the level of control white Americans want to have over who can live near them, largely for the sake of property values.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes I don't want a future in which politics is primarily a battle between cosmopolitan finance capitalism and ethno-nationalist backlash. 8:22 PM • Jun 23, 2016
San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolution text: RESOLVED, That the Board urges the Sensible Density Working Group to produce a written report to the Board within 60 days of the Resolution passing the Board on its efforts to create a bulletin with building code equivalencies, make any necessary planning code changes or otherwise how to safely allow single-stair building typologies on four, five and six story buildings; and, be it
Washington, DC, where I live, is not a state and doesn't have normal state criminal courts. We have a local court system and local criminal laws, but constitutionally speaking, these are federal courts. As a result, local felonies are prosecuted by a United States Attorney. I had kind of hoped that Trump would give us a tough-on- crime prosecutor who would help keep illegally carried handguns off the street. Instead, we have Ed Martin, a lifelong conservative activist with no prosecutorial experience, who participated in Stop The Steal rallies and raised funds for the 1/6 rioters and is now abusing his power by threatening to prosecute opposition party members of Congress. This has attracted less attention than the more spectacular abuses of power in the Eric Adams case, but it's bad. The "vibes" are in favor of free speech, but the actual practice is in the opposite direction.
Tweet from 2016: @andrewbogut at least the Social Justice Warriors didn't blow a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals
Michael Irvin tweet from 2014: MAN WHEN WE PLAYED IN THAT COLD WEATHER WE WAS COLD.
Walker also argued lawmakers should focus on home ownership, not rentals, and ADUs “don’t change the ownership game. They increase rentals, which we don’t need more of.”
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If you just go fast enough, and you keep going, an enemy force collapses. It appears to be as simple as that. It turns out then when you do stuff quickly while shooting guns, people are really bad at coping with that. Just really don't know how to handle it.
Leave the sports on X plz. As soon as we start posting about sportsball we will get all these big name accounts to come and ruin it for the rest of us. It's a Trojan horse for the far right. Not to mention the gambling companies that take advantage of people's economic insecurity. Makes me sick
From SF Standard Power Play newsletter: POLITICIANS, THEY’RE JUST LIKE US: Those pesky meter maids, the bane of all of our existence. But give them credit: They don’t discriminate between the average Joe and a candidate for mayor. Here at Power Play, we used our crack investigative journalism skills to obtain ticket citations for mayoral candidates Peskin, Farrell, and Lurie since 2020. (Breed gets a pass since she is ferried around in a city car and doesn’t own a vehicle anymore.) Former mayor and supervisor Farrell has run as the law and order candidate — and wants to fire the city’s transit boss, Jeffrey Tumlin. But the Farrells’ four cars, including two BMWs, an Acura, and a Volvo, have racked up the highest number of tickets: 58. He had $108 outstanding for a single citation until Friday, when Power Play inquired about the matter. The family has two teenage drivers, a Farrell campaign spokesperson noted. (Mystery solved on the high number.) Next is nonprofit founder Lurie. He’s collected 23 tickets between the two vehicles registered at his home — a Rivian and a Tesla — and has paid off all of them. Lurie’s campaign declined to comment. Finally, Peskin. He owed the SFMTA $108 for an Oct. 25 ticket on his Toyota Prius that has been paid off. The longtime legislator is the most compliant, having racked up a modest 12 tickets since 2020. Peskin’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment
Sticker on a bike "One less Tesla"
Michael Richards shouting the N-word at the Laugh Factory
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #391,566!
Grandpa Simpson "It'll happen to you"
Cardinals mascot Fredbird holding a sign saying “Police Lives Matter”
Eater SF screenshot of Obama fundraiser from 2015 featuring Marc Benioff and Elon Musk
Google Maps transit directions to Pacific Beach
Sacramento weather forecast for 7/11/2024
Chris Hayes tweet: I don't want a future in which politics is primarily a battle between cosmopolitan finance capitalism and ethno-nationalist backlash.
CA ISO Today electricity supply chart from 6/8/2021
ISO Today screenshot of electricity supply from 6/5/2024
Shaq in a #34 Lakers jersey dunking
CAISO Electric Supply chart from 5/30/2023 https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.aspx#section-supply-trend
Screenshot from SF Chronicle article: Mass layoffs at Google and other tech giants have garnered national attention, eroding some of Silicon Valley’s mystique. With San Francisco’s office vacancy rate now around 36%, the downtown area isn’t as lively as it once was — a significant drawback for 20-somethings eager to try the latest cocktails or trendy new restaurants. This is in stark contrast to New York, which has recovered post-pandemic as well as almost any major U.S. city. Manhattan’s office-vacancy rate is less than half of San Francisco’s. With $66.6 billion in retail sales taxes last fiscal year, New York saw a 20% spike from 2020 — the complete opposite of what the Bay Area experienced.
Picture from Caltrain platform with Stadler EMU across from diesel-powered trainset
Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police. What does that mean? That's, as I said, banquets. That means every policeman's son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security. And again, you tap the Gray root network, right? Yeah, you're fighting in San Francisco but they've got a son in, you know, South Dakota or whatever, you know, in San Antonio, and you get them a job somewhere. Okay, this is legal, but you also do things like you donate to the policemen's benevolent union, or what have you.
Simpsons 'Good Lord. What is happening in there' meme with UK flag on door
Map screenshot of rail line described in previous post
Freedom of Speech standing man
From defector.com: Elsewhere, former Manchester City defender and current Al-Nassr player Aymeric Laporte said recently in an interview with Spanish newspaper As that many players are "discontented" in Saudi Arabia, citing that the promises made about lavish off-field lives have failed to materialize, as well as a complaint about, of all things, the traffic: “Many of us have also come here not only for football. Many of us are happy with that, but I am also looking for something beyond that is not the economic part and such. In terms of quality of life, I expected something different because in the end here you spend three hours a day in the car. Riyadh is a waste of traffic, of time wasted in the car.”