'Listen, Frog,' said Toad. 'How long have I been asleep?'
'You have been asleep since November,' said Frog.
Martha Bridegam boosted:
Martha Bridegam boosted:
Merry Christmas! To the non-trans folks out there can you give me a present?
If your family gathering gets political, don’t defend trans folks; celebrate them.
Don’t deny that trans folks are bad, insist that they are good. Explain that society and the world is worse without them. Don’t deny their hate, express to them the love and light trans folks bring to the world.
Martha Bridegam boosted:
current status of dinner - #waymo drove off with 3 bags of ingredients in the trunk before I could hit the open trunk button. Turns out they can’t drive car back, they can at best return car to depot so now driving across San Francisco to retrieve groceries. #autonomousvehicles. Can see the headlines tomorrow „after blocking intersections, Waymo now stealing groceries from customers“
Every few years a different few lines of this kind of seems to fit. https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939
"...May I, composed like them
of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
show an affirming flame."
Martha Bridegam boosted:
‘We felt abandoned’: Richmond District seniors describe nightmare 48 hours in S.F. blackout
Le’Troy Andrews, 74, had to crawl from his bedroom to his front door during the PG&E power outage on Saturday night to let paramedics into his Inner Richmond apartment — he thought he was having a stroke. Andrews, a former Air Force medic who lives alone with his dog, Cooper, underwent brain surgery last August and also has congestive heart failure.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-richmond-district-seniors-blackout-pge/
Something here about "a new charging hub" at 1235 Mission St., AKA the GA/CAAP building.
https://sfba.social/@eniatitova/115766924533001933
[Edit: Charging center hours appear here for today but not for future dates:
https://www.sf.gov/some-city-office-closed-due-to-power-outage .]
Not enough of course.
This, apparently, is how my district's San Francisco public officials want the world to see them: an elected district rep, an elected mayor, a police chief and a sheriff speaking with pride of their unanimity to a group of constituents who they presumed to be unanimously demanding harsher anti-poor street clearances. They invited a few people to read out pre-screened questions, allowing them briefly to elaborate on the questions. All of the selected questions were calls for harsher enforcement.
Waymos: another San Francisco safety problem not mentioned at tonight's downtown San Francisco "public safety" forum, where you would have thought drugs and poor people were the only possible causes of San Francisco public hazards.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/waymo-confirms-its-car-hit-dog-in-western-addition/
h/t AI6YR
Safety hazards not mentioned (other than by me, and two others, each of us briefly interrupting) at tonight's SF Dist. 6 public safety forum:
- Hunger
- Eviction
- Arbitrary detention
- Coercive "treatment"
- Traffic safety, tho recent construction has caused pedestrian hazards.
- Social exclusion. Panelists - not just police chief and sheriff but also our district Supervisor and Mayor - spoke of permanent supportive housing as a burden on "residents," not as home to some of their constituents.
R.I.P. Kit Kat, run over by a WayMo on 16th Street, San Francisco. https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/waymo-confirms-its-car-killed-kitkat-mission-bodega-cat/
Some of the goats of San Francisco's City Grazing nonprofit ( see https://www.citygrazing.org/ ) at home in their enclosure on Cargo Street among stored historic rail cars, including at least one bearing the name of the old SF waterfront Belt Line, on which more info at https://www.abandonedrails.com/san-francisco-belt-railroad .
Most of the goats have their names on their collars and will walk up to the fence adorably if addressed.
One of these links is to a description of the atrocious WWII mistreatment of Filipino and U.S. prisoners by the Japanese government.
That was different from what Dorothea Lange photographed, which was the imprisonment of Japanese American civilians in the United States.
A key point here is that the United States, as a democracy, should have done better although, as we know, nondemocratic countries at that time committed crimes against humanity that were incomparably worse.
The original caption to this one says:
"Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Guayule beds in the lath house at the Manzanar Relocation Center."
So, first of all, the person seen at work in the picture was unjustly imprisoned.
Also of interest: this would have been part of the Manzanar Guayule Project, described here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzanar_Guayule_Project
The original caption explains that this was taken at the Manzanar incarceration camp. These people were prisoners because of their ancestry.
The caption fails to explain that these are people of all ages, including elders and a child, boarding buses to be carried into imprisonment because of their ancestry.
This happened in Hayward, California, now a dull suburb that looks like it could be anywhere at all. It takes a little thinking to reconcile the current bland reality of Hayward with this historical image of people facing terrifying uncertainty with carefully maintained outward calm.
According to the original caption:
"Centerville, California. Scene in the Japanese American Citizens League local office. This office is assisting the farmers of Japanese ancestry in this district to arrange their affairs for evacuation and to keep them posted on events. Harry Konda, officer of the league, is disposing of a washing machine to a local Mexican farm laborer's wife."
People facing imprisonment often felt cornered into accepting low prices.
The caption above is both wrong and inappropriately bland. It tags this photo of incarcerated gardeners with the wrong camp, "Tule Lake." The original caption states this was taken at Manzanar in the Owens Valley of California, far south of Tule Lake.
It's also obvious from the distant snowy Sierra peaks in the background that this is Manzanar. Tule Lake is surrounded by lower, closer mountains and ridges.
Original caption is at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/537975 .
On this one, the original caption was almost as inappropriately bland as the one above:
"Oakland, California. Part of family unit of Japanese ancestry leave Wartime Civil Control Administration station on afternoon of evacuation, under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 28. Social worker directs these evacuees to the waiting bus."
That is, an Oakland family showed up at their assigned local site as ordered, and went to board a bus to be carried into incarceration in a camp.
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