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date: 2025-08-24 15:11:33.89 +00
title: "Mastodon post from August 24, 2025, 115084380987749616"
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Yesterday was a lovely day for a little municipal yachting, and hiking conditions on Angel Island were ideal, although we were dodging half-marathoners descending the north ridge trail, the sunset trail return was less trafficked.


![Sutro Tower from Mount Caroline Livermore on Angel Island. The bottom 1/5th of the photo is is a solid layer of clouds. In the center, the tiny “pirate ship” spires of Sutro Tower and the barest bit of the three horizontal braces peeks above the clouds. The rest of the photo is blue sky with a few much higher faint wisps of clouds.](./115084380383627461.jpeg)

![San Francisco’s skyline from the vantage point of a ferry boat half a mile from the coast. To the left, the residential towers of Rincon Hill, followed by Salesforce Tower, the Ferry Building we’d just left behind, centering on the transamerica pyramid, all backed by blue skies and high white clouds. The right half of the skyline is much more residential and lower, centering on the now modest Coit Tower, all backed by a low, gray fog bank enveloping the Outer Richmond.From the vantage point of Angel Island, all that was visible was the fog bank.](./115084380730864758.jpeg)




And then the Angel on my shoulder said, “It is more important that people who play music on bluetooth speakers on hikes in the woods with their friends are on hikes in the woods with their friends than that they are supposedly spoiling your supposed vibes.”

“You get to decide if your vibes are spoiled, not them.”

“Who are you to get bummed out by this, you use a bluetooth speaker biking in the city, how is this any different?”

After which the Devil on my shoulder said, “You should get to tell the people at the ranger station that people under 30 were on the island, which will bum them out and they'll say, ah, jeeze, we're real sorry about that, they were probably talking to each other too? What a shame, here are the keys to our secret personal ferry boats, come out to the island any time you want to get it all to yourself."

Or something like that.