Which English language translation of Candide should I put on the pile of books I haven’t read or even shuffled around since my kid was born? I do not know a lick of french or care about authenticity.
posts from 2019 / 05
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(draft)
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KEP
CALM
and the
SUNSHINE
BAND
dbnr
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purrs and raspberries and headbutts (draft)
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why don’t kraftwerk have any songs about pizza
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grifters get got
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A few months ago I paired with a comrade to write a “guide” for facilitators to read before every section of @DSA_SF@twitter.com general meetings, and hearing our words read back verbatim at the past three or four generals is absolutely weird as fuck y’all!
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how plumbing work?
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we could also make it illegal to have customer-only bathrooms
I’ve been the worker that cleaned customer only bathrooms before; customers poop and pee all over the damned place just like everybody else
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lazy as heck math but a tiny business tax increase or a <$400MM bond would be enough to pay for cool public restrooms at such density that we could have one every two blocks in every direction in San Francisco https://portlandloo.com/
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After years of dunking on the same paper-of-record op-ed dipshits, this is the slam dunk, the glass breaker, the buzzer beating immutable screenshot that will finally end their godawful beshitted careers. No? Alas.
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short hair: very funny stuff (draft)
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The story ends OK, it’ll eventually be 40 units of below market rate housing https://sf.curbed.com/2017/12/20/16802350/housing-building-18th-street-mission-affordable
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NB in that old photo, the fence put up by the city to keep people from sleeping on the sidewalk, which would be heck of blight, unlike “the fence put up by the city to keep people from sleeping on the sidewalk.”
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Neato! Local realtor hell-site says that area shitlord, Owen Van Natta, who squatted this cool derelict building down the street for me for a few years and turned a profit, is selling his mansion. https://socketsite.com/archives/2019/05/former-facebook-coo-lists-palo-alto-home-for-40m.html
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The SFPUC Preliminary Public Power Options Report just dropped:
https://sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=13736
Option 3 is hell of attractive in addition to being the right thing to do. SF can afford to buy out for-profit power distribution and retain union workers.
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Redwood Regional in the East Bay, v nice (h/t @orion_pics for the snazzy pack!) (draft)
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What the hell is this mushroom doing in my house plant pot? I have never grown mushrooms. Is it gonna hurt the plant? (The succulent next to it fell from a pot that used to hang over this one.)
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mmmhmm, beans.
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If it wasn’t for zoning, this children’s play tower and slide could be ten or eleven stories y’all.
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Initial thought, cute but weird. Second thought, better ask the building group chat if anybody noticed a unit might be on Air-b-n-fuckin-b.
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ow (draft)
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Again! I just biked past someone who said “That doesn’t make you rad!”
I had my jacket zipped up, so it wasn’t a NASA nerd. I think it was because I was riding no-handed?
Pal, riding no-handed is well known to be rad as hell.
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I biked past someone as they noticed my PIZZA shirt and they said “That should say NASA, not PIZZA.” Pal, you are so, so wrong.
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the tooth haver has logged on (draft)
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🚨COLLECTIVE🚨ACTION🚨ALERT🚨
UBER/LYFT drivers are STRIKING 🎳 on Wednesday to protest poverty wages while investors and executives CA$H OUT.
DON’T🙅♂️CROSS🚧THAT➡️PICKET📣LINE🛑
🚍Use public transit
🚲Ride your bike
🚖Take a taxi
🚶♂️Walk to work
🏇Get creative
Just DON’T👎SCAB🤡
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normal b, magnified b x 3, playing in the sink (draft)
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portrait mode for dinner mess, lol (draft)
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💦 (draft)
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yimbyism is a splinter-ideology of libertarianism and equally unserious
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handing out newspapers? consider standing around in a logo t-shirt, it is much easier.
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boomers giving out socialist newspapers at actions: what are you doing
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so close
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rockin and slappin the gd washing machine in my building like a pinball game so that it’ll take my quarters because the company that manages it hasn’t come to empty the hopper in so long that it’s full, only for it to eat my buck seventy-five is an extremely dumb problem to have
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oh no, a robot TP’d my apartment
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carb loading for the big day today
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me: “I’m thinking of taking myself out of the rotation, I never get paged anyway.”
my team, terrified of what unspeakable evil I just provoked: “don’t say that!”
me: “oh, I’m on call right now so it’s fine.”
[90 minutes later]
Gets paged
