muni fare enforcement at the inbound 27 / 12 stop on Cesar Chavez at Valencia

the cool sierpinski

https://fedi.astrid.tech/objects/c59e6af6-bdf5-4d0c-907a-3d0bf3956e32

ah, jeeze, this listener-supported streaming rock station doesn’t erase the rock music that came out between my junior year in high school when music “went to shit” and my junior year in college when I started listening to listener-support streaming stations and they weren’t playing “that new stuff”

The New York Trilogy was on the reading list for a Detective Fiction course I took in college (lovely course!) and, because it’s so great, I’m sure I don’t have that copy on my shelf anymore because I foisted it on someone with "you have to read this” after one of the re-readings I’d given it since then.

RIP Paul Auster.

Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111047297740981549

bored, looking at property listings for decorating ideas while holding a Geiger counter modified to detect and measure the wrongness of refrigerator door hinge swing and handing pointed at the screen the entire time

one problem with giving your casual industry pals chat a name with all the series business labels* as a joke is that you end up posting your weekend plans all casual like to the actual serious business chat

• ACP, FOUO, Confidential, SECRET, etc

aside, while i’m mad-posting about cars

in the fall when I started these walks I was able to make up for morning routine interruptions by ending my day with a walk instead.

I had to knock that shit off after daylight savings because it is even unsafer than normal to be a pedestrian crossing streets as soon as the sun begins to set, and that just gets worse and worse hour over hour until the sun comes back up

“Hi, welcome to the Munizza! How did you travel to our store today? Uh-huh? That’s great, and from about how far? Thanks so much, uh, what can I getchya?”

probably incredibly naive, making almost no attempt to map what I want to achievability, what I’d prefer is a municipalized neighborhood services plan where districts can establish their own priorities for rubber-stamp retail distribution so that I can open my pizza parlor as a city worker and union member (well, I’d be in management, so idk)

implementation could box rent seekers out out by acquiring all the retail property in neighborhoods and then sprinkling planned retail back into them

I simultaneously A) dream about getting out of big business and opening a tiny pizza parlor and/or coffee shop as a worker owned business and B) have absolutely no respect for the “small business owner” class I would join doing so and don’t understand why anyone else does

it seems like cartels all the way down?