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Written by squifish on 2025-01-20 at 21:49

So I reread Letter from a Birmingham Jail yesterday, and every time I reread it I get something new from it.

One thing that hit me today was that he described sleeping in his car because hotels were not available to Black folks. Now doing that would get you put in jail in many places as we increasingly criminalize vagrancy and homelessness. As if the lack of available lodging is the fault of those who don't have it.

There's a thousand things to dwell on, but today that's the one that rings with me.

It's not explicitly racial, but it still hurts a higher percentage of the people who would have been excluded racially. I think of the people who respond to Black Lives Matter & Defund the Police by arguing that more white people get killed by cops too as if that makes it okay.

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Written by squifish on 2025-01-19 at 21:42

Something is going on with the pigeons. One was dead with no marks on it in front of my house on Jan 1. Today there's one a couple blocks away sitting on the sidewalk not moving even when approached & sniffed by my dog, although alive.

Bird flu seems the obvious but... Either way 😬

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Written by squifish on 2025-01-18 at 18:15

What would be the negative impacts if patents expired when customer support or parts became unavailabile for products in production?

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Written by squifish on 2025-01-17 at 19:18

Diversification is good for everyone except the billionaires.

Like we had a period where there was one lifestyle that was sold as what we should all be doing, cooking at home eating chicken breasts or shrimp or beef as a main course for dinner, driving from a suburban home to an office job, a single earner household with one adult at home with 2.3 kids, a mortgage and twice yearly vacations for the whole family.

Now people are still being sold that goal but everybody is supposed to earn it independently.

And that won't work economically.

More people living in the city and more people living in town & country would be better. Fewer people working (and commuting) would be better. More people eating chicken thighs or catfish or lentils or the many other varied foods out there helps the climate and the people. Industrialization fundamentally makes mass production efficient through fossil fuel use and worker disempowerment. Fighting industrialization through diversity empowers workers and helps the climate.

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Written by squifish on 2025-01-15 at 16:26

If it were a just world:

anyone subject to the violence or legal control of a democratic government would be able to vote in that governments elections.

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Written by squifish on 2025-01-11 at 06:29

Alright, people want to somehow force insurance companies to expand their offerings in California's fire prone areas based on the value of the policies in non-fireprone areas. I think this just means everybody loses insurance faster?

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Written by squifish on 2025-01-07 at 02:15

As I approached the park I saw a bit of neon red.. as I got closer I found a lightsaber battle underway.

I love SF.

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Written by squifish on 2024-12-31 at 00:36

I'm not sure of the answer, but I believe one of these is true, what do you think?

Deep fakes are only possible through AI tech

Please retoot, also if you have definitive answers I would love to get an actual answer.

[#]LazyWeb

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Written by squifish on 2024-12-30 at 22:10

Today I came out to the backyard and there was a dead (drowned?) rat on the backyard table where I usually eat my breakfast on days when it's not raining.

It was exactly in front of the chair exactly where I put my place setting when I sit there. It was not there yesterday afternoon when I checked on the state of things in the backyard in the rain.

I'm in a horrid roommate situation.

Do you think:

(If natural or other, please explain to me)

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Written by squifish on 2024-12-24 at 06:34

On a bus with someone with terrible cough-sneezes and yeah. Public health. Public+ health. It's really real.

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Written by squifish on 2024-12-24 at 05:50

So I just added the #TellMePlease to my account because I welcome feedback, critique & whatever.

I have a lot of takes based on my individual privileged experience, and I've changed over time because one of my privileges is amazing people who have taught me better and taken time & energy to discuss & teach.

I intend to discuss & teach the same things I discuss here in the future, passing along that privilege. if it offends or is incorrect in either direct or nuanced ways, I want to hear it.

I can't guarantee I will agree, but I promise others have changed my mind and I promise to continue to change going forward.

If I'm disrespectful, I want to know not just do it by accident.

So #PleaseTellMe - I'm thinking of it as the proactive consent seeking

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Written by squifish on 2024-12-24 at 03:30

So I had to go to the mall today, and it was as busy as a normal day in a mall in the early 90s!

Also there are way more cops way more armed.

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Written by squifish on 2024-11-23 at 23:06

We can't fix climate change by changing what we consume, but we also can't fix climate change without changing what we consume.

We can make it easier by voluntarily reducing harmful consumption, and finding and sharing the ethical lovely joyful ways of living a climate friendly life.

If we voted in someone who immediately raises the price of gas and food, that would be hard to support even if they're also turning every megacorp into a million little cooperatives with amazing wages & empowered workers & providing health care for all.

Factory farming & cheap gas are major contributors to climate change. If we can't make a lifestyle that doesn't depend on cheap food & gas, it doesn't matter who we vote for.

2/x

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Written by squifish on 2024-11-23 at 22:56

Climate change will not be fixed by killing people or changing laws or tax structures. It is ultimately driven by our consumption habits.

If we had magic wands and all the laws and who owned everything and everyone became equal voters overnight, if we still did the same things in the morning climate change would proceed the same.

What part of our lives would we need to change to actually fix climate change?

PS written by an American for Americans, it is likely to be different in your country

1/x

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Written by squifish on 2024-11-15 at 15:50

I dreamt I was at a holiday dinner with family and they had Trump bumper stickers on their cars.

I think I'll just skip the holidays anyways because it's a choice of dining with Republicans or staying in San Francisco.

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Written by squifish on 2024-11-14 at 19:39

Just did a Google search for bust magazine - the bust magazine website was not on the first page of results.

Google gets worse every day.

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Written by squifish on 2024-10-22 at 01:32

I gave a service 3 stars, and they've been apologizing and begging like I'm mad. No, it wasn't great, but I wasn't annoyed ... until I got more follow up about the negative review than the actual issue.

When KPIs distract from performance: a tale of decreasing stars.

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Written by squifish on 2024-10-13 at 06:28

C'mon SFMTA. Do you want SF to be alive tonight? This is not the way to bring people to & from an entertainment district.

(Market & Powell)

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Written by squifish on 2024-07-14 at 02:48

I have a photo - 4 x 6 from the early 90s - good condition slightly rinkled. I want a couple good reproductions, maybe an arty & larger edition, and a digital version of the file. I can scan & upload myself, but I would love to pay someone better with color quality and photo printing to do it as a set. Any particular services or companies anyone recommends in SF/Bay Area? I know digital art services to get prints, it's more getting the quality of the original onto the digital file/reprint that I'm worried about.

I would prefer to not ship the original.

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Written by squifish on 2024-07-11 at 00:25

One of my favorite things is going to Picaro in the Mission for tapas & sangria & reading. Between school sessions I read cultural things, but today it's homework.

I remember reading Solnit about the coffee shop that used to be here in the 90s, and today I'm reading a discussion of the role of duration as part of the universal experience of stimulus, along with a) open vs closed b) barren vs verdant c) land vs water d) natural vs human influence e) entry path vs no entry path. Those dimensions were chosen from landscape photography descriptions but feel very universal to me.

How much of gentrification depends on similar dimensions? This is now one of the more affordable restaurants in the neighborhood(taquerias exempted) and I feel like having been here a quarter of a century justifies its existence. Is that not exemplified verdancy, human influence, entry path, openness?

So much of the human experience gets reduced to the immediate and financial, but duration & love (lost, found & sought) matter more.

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