You May Want to Leave Early For Xmas Travel as Storm Takes Aim at Bay Area Next Week
https://sfist.com/2025/12/17/you-may-want-to-leave-early-for-xmas-travel-as-storm-takes-aim-at-bay-area-next-week/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@constantorbit that's quite the fashion commitment!

Sun came out #sanfrancisco

Treasure Island, one of San Francisco’s most isolated neighborhoods, has no permanent medical clinic. A mobile health van now offers basic care for uninsured and low-income residents — a temporary fix as thousands of new homes are built.
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/treasure-island-a-health-care-desert-gains-a-clinic-on-wheels/

Alameda's harbor seal float is beginning to overflow. Richard Bangert reports that when the float was jam-packed at the beginning of December, about a dozen seals took it upon themselves to rest on Saildrone’s plastic dock in Seaplane Lagoon instead. https://alamedapost.com/features/nature/harbor-seals-rest-on-commercial-dock-in-seaplane-lagoon/

#alameda #AlamedaPoint #HarborSeals

Long-billed curlew, Vallejo CA

#photography #bird #BirdsOfMastodon #curlew #WildBirds #water #reflection #bnw #monochrome

We call it Earth, but only because we're land dwellers. And we rarely see this picture but it shows how massive the Pacific Ocean is, covering about a third of the Earth's surface.
This is a cloudless satellite image of the Earth, centered on the Pacific Ocean. To get a single cloudless image, NOAA satellites took photos over eleven ten-day periods and merged them.
#water

#PhotoOfTheDay is the 2nd batch of four planned from the San Francisco Dickens Fair last Saturday, since Mastodon only permits 4 images per post.

#photo
#photography
#DickenFair
#SanFrancisco
#sf
#cosplay
#costume
#historical

They capitulated.

And lost legendary reporters and listeners in the process.

Including me.

#sanfrancisco #bayarea
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-15/how-californian-radio-station-weathered-increased-scrutiny-of-media

Heads Up, BART Fare is Increasing by 6.2% Starting on January 1, 2026
https://sfist.com/2025/12/15/heads-up-bart-fare-is-increasing-by-6-2-starting-on-january-1-2026/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Prolific Local Gingerbread Artist Recreates SF's Iconic Painted Ladies
https://sfist.com/2025/12/15/prolific-local-gingerbread-artist-recreates-sfs-iconic-painted-ladies/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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SFMTA is proposing eliminating the Clipper discount and raising all fares to $3.00, which may be(?) the highest bus fare in the country. Also, they’re using AI slop to illustrate their slides now. #sfpol
https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/115726556533737276

Which street will S.F. name for Claude? Vote here in the official poll. https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-claude-albino-alligator-street-name-poll/

Ruh roh, some kind of fire event happening north of me in #94110, looks like maybe 16th or 17th St betw Guerrero and Mission

Fabulous sunset! If you haven't seen it yet, get thee to a west-facing window!

California sells 900 acres near #Yosemite Park back to the Sierra Miwuk tribe after Republicans block its addition to the national park. #landback https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/12/08/nearly-900-acres-of-land-on-yosemite-border-returned-to-tribe-forced-out-175-years-ago/?

@webuiltthiscity Also, city hall isn't exactly shabby.

𝘾𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙙-𝙎𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙮 𝘼𝙧𝙚𝙖 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧
for Dec. 14th - 20th
𝘣𝘺 𝘚𝘍 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 #CharlesSLewisIII

Check out this weeks listings of in-person, virtual, and hybrid Covid-safer theater, music, dance, activism, and more.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-safe-bay-145793969

#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafeEvents #SanFrancisco #Oakland #Berkeley #BayArea

Back in Half Moon Bay, the sunlight was beautiful.

#birds #shorbs #shorebirds