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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 11/06/2026

I don't often write in French or Spanish, but their influence is very appreciated when I write formal emails to elected officials. I feel compelled to make it warm AND formulaic, and I guess it somehow works.

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Seed the Commons @mastodon.seedthecommons.org · 19/04/2026

Seed the Commons is heading to Santa Marta, Colombia in a few days for the first conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels. The colonial war that is being waged on Iran and the resulting lack of fertilizer are pointing ever more clearly to the urgency of this transition. #fossilfreefuture

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 13/04/2026

Filed my taxes and owe something for the first time ever. Not a surprise though, just annoying the compromises one has to make to ensure family has health care in this country.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 13/04/2026

I took apart my six-year-old laptop yesterday, carefully brushed off all the lint and dog hair, gently cleaned and vacuumed the fans, wiped down the case, and put it back together. It's so quiet now!

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 05/03/2026

I meant to migrate my last domain name from Gandi to Porkbun this past weekend but totally spaced out and then because I waited last minute, it expired for a few hours. Downtime is very annoying.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 09/02/2026

I watched the half time show on YouTube and I understood maybe 10%. Bad Bunny's Spanish is effectively inaccessible to the majority of Spanish speakers. The show itself was good, but the music, rhythm, and vibe has much more in common with US traditions. A Spanish settler-colonial base with a […]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 26/01/2026

With all the sad news coming out of Minneapolis, I had missed that the Westfield Mall had closed for good after such a long agony. I worked next door for years and have fond memories. I was a fan of the Loving Hut and spent many breaks walking around its rooftop POPO. It was an anchor for […]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 12/01/2026

I'm absolutely floored by the videos coming out from Minnesota. What seem to be door to door, (judicial) warrantless raids.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 10/01/2026

Great song with a nice, simple video. A walkman, a bike and a park. Olive Jones - End of Time. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjjhyMvrbRM

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 10/01/2026

I'm heartened and inspired by the incredible acts of bravery by otherwise unexceptional individuals. They redeem this country. May they persevere.

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Scott McDowell @fadersolo.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

There’s a solid crowd of folks marching down Market Street into the civic center right now. syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/1158325473750…

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 03/01/2026

I skipped the Bush II years, only to be here for the Trump ! and II years. SMH.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 26/12/2025

I got some amazing Christmas gifts. I feel so fortunate. Particularly happy about some amazing Japanese frankincense. One of my favorite smells.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.” Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas

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Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God

Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 25/12/2025

I randomly bought some silver coins from Costco in the middle of last year and then saw prices have gone crazy a couple of weeks back so sold them today. A little unexpected Christmas gift.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 24/12/2025

I've really enjoyed following all the news from 3I/ATLAS. All the science and speculation.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 23/12/2025

I spent years of my life on Usenet, IRC and FTP sites. Now those spaces are veritable ghost towns, while corporate social network are full of ads and bots and search engines throw up AI slop. They're all dead or dying. But the internet continues to have promise and potential and the fediverse […]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 21/12/2025

I'm glad I live in the part of the city with electricity. Things are normal here.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 20/12/2025

Anytime it rains in the Bay, I think what a huge difference free transit could make here. Driving is terrible and expensive in these conditions, biking and walking isn't a whole lot of fun, but transit is legit unaffordable to many.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 20/12/2025

Meaningful victory in SF: Seems like there's a deal with the November transit variable rate parcel tax. We're still getting a pass-through, but it's much smaller and manageable.

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Seed the Commons @mastodon.seedthecommons.org · 19/12/2025

Join us this Sunday for a special Winter Soltice/Shabe Yalda Zoom celebration for activists, poets and dreamers. Sunday, Dec. 21 at 7pm PT RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/a-shabe-ya…

An image of a red candle and pomegranate with the title of the event on the foreground.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 18/12/2025

I am tempted to start a lo-fi icecast program. I've done them in the past, when Indymedia was a thing, and it was fun. Even just an hour a week might be enough to scratch that itch.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 15/12/2025

I've been craving Choco Krispis for the past couple of days so I went to the store and got me a box. I'm on my third bowl today and I regret nothing.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 15/12/2025

LLMs might steal content and hallucinate and produce generally untrustworthy content, but they're oh so perfect for the insurance industry. One claim adjuster can now do the job of several, denying claims with seemingly plausible justifications.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 14/12/2025

Noticed another cut bike lock and a two chains yesterday. This was on the ground floor bike rack area, next to the staffed lobby and in plain view of cameras. So three more stolen bikes. Insurance companies must hate our building.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 12/12/2025

Another month, another cut lock in my building's garage, all that's left of a stolen bike. This is in a locked, "secured" building in SOMA, here in SF. I lost several bikes the first few years here and finally learned my lesson: I store them either in my apartment […] [Original post on ctrvx.net]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 10/12/2025

Now that I spend less time on the fedi, I'm not sure there's much value in having two single-user instances (this one and social.sanfranciscan.org). They're complementary in many ways, and that's cool, but maybe I ought to consolidate it all into one.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 03/12/2025

I haven't had mail service in weeks. Our building's mailboxes kept getting broken into, which led USPS suspending mail to our building, forcing tenants to go to the Townsend annex across SOMA to pick up their mail. This has meant waiting 30-45 minutes in line to get a fraction of my mail. I […]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 02/12/2025

This has been a crazy year. Work has been particularly intense, with the unexpected November election and preparing to get a new CEO tax on the June ballot. Then there's been a decent amount of travel, both abroad and within California. And then there's the national political climate, which is […]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 02/12/2025

It's been crazy cold here in SF. Luna, my quarter Chihuahua dog, hates it. She's been spending 22 hours a day hiding in her bed.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 22/11/2025

I spent the better part of a week in the Indigenous COP30 village. It was a strange, humbling and challenging experience. I've never been in a space with Native individuals from all over the Americas. We had Spanish-speaking, Dutch-speaking, French-speaking and English-speaking Natives in my […]

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Seed the Commons @mastodon.seedthecommons.org · 13/11/2025

Tomorrow, here in #Belem for the #PeoplesSummit at #COP30, we will be doing a presentation on Regeneration, Reforestation, and Lessons from Mesoamerican Indigenous Traditions for a Just Transition. From 2:30PM at Salas ICB, SAT 04 in the UFPA campus […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Simple graphic with time, location and talk title.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 04/11/2025

In a week's time, I'll be heading to Brazil for the Peoples' Summit towards COP30. I'll be there wearing a couple of hats: giving a presentation on veganic agroecology and Indigenous urbanism with Seed the Commons and preparing a report back for the members of my public sector union employer […]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 02/11/2025

I have a bunch of domain names coming up for renewal and the project I was planning on using them for has stalled. Unsure if I should renew them. One month to decide.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 02/11/2025

I gifted myself a tiny wooden box to store the devotional items I've had since I was a little kid, and it makes me very happy. It also perfectly inside my Zapatista pouch. I was certain it had been lost in the mail, but it ultimately found its way home. I feel like my grandma would approve.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 27/10/2025

This year has been good to me, if only because it's helped me ground myself in Nick Black Elk’s Great Spirit and Juan Diego Talking Eagle’s Tonantzin.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 26/10/2025

It seems my great‑grandmother was born and raised in New Mexico and belonged to the Kewa Pueblo. How she later ended up in Guanajuato is a mystery, but it does makes sense that she settled in another Indigenous town with a long artisanal tradition. If true, my grandma (RIP) would probably be […]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 26/10/2025

Last week felt both like an entire month and a single day.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 16/10/2025

So I guess the National Guard is coming to SF...

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 15/10/2025

I haven't been spending much time online these past few months, which is great. It's also great that I can come back to the fediverse and not feel like I missed out on 1,001 things. It feels "normal". Like a virtual extension of real life, as opposed to a parallel reality that's algorithmically […]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 01/10/2025

I'm excited about how organized labor here in SF is making a very conscious effort to organize with communities of faith. Building

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So many AI-generated posters in our neighborhood lately. Comedy shows, house painters, community events… all rendered in the same generic slop-style. It even looks like the fonts are generated too, which creates weird artifacts and inconsistent letters. Gross.

A flier for "Choose your own comedy", which was created using genAI. It shows a comic book style page of a woman deciding if she wants to fall in love with a knight or become a witch.

A flier for "The Longest Table", a community event hosted by the Civic Joy Fund. The art is people eating at a long table, but the art was generated using AI.

A flier for "Brushin' Around Painting". This one has AI generated elements like a paintbrush and paint roller, plus the same very generic yellowish hue that a lot of AI art has now. Looking closely at the letters and you can see the font isn't very clean looking. It's hard to describe, but nobdy would make a font like this. It's all capital letters but they don't feel like they belong together. Straight edges aren't quiet straight, letters have weird bumps on them, etc.

A close up of an AI generated poster. The letters have this weird inconsistency to them, for example all of the "E"s look slightly different than each other. Some of the letters disappear at weird points, like part of an "N" is missing. There's a weird white glow around the letters that doesn't look on purpose. It looks like a compression artifact where the dark blue font couldn't blend properly with the yellow background.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

Initial estimate: 4.6 under Frat Row in Berkeley, right on the Hayward Fault.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 22/09/2025

That #quake freaked me and @luna@sanfranciscan.org awake.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 20/09/2025

Things feel, and are, really scary for many people in the United States right now. The uncertainty only makes it worse. I'm coping by keeping a routine, carving out time for fun, and practicing skills that stay useful no matter how rough things get. Hiking, camping, and reading have all helped a […]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 20/09/2025

I got to see a hawk dive‑hunt a flock of pigeons over South Beach Harbor. The hawk missed both times I watched it, but it seemed determined. I’ve spotted hawks a few times along the Embarcadero, though never while they were actively hunting. It was a cool thing to witness.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 18/09/2025

Preventing a slide toward authoritarianism is never easy, and it becomes even harder today because many people are disconnected from real‑life communities and meaningful connections. Their primary virtual connections are mediated by some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful companies […]

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 17/09/2025

How the world turns. The supervisor who called for mandatory bicycle licenses, asserting that “as a growing number of bicycle commuters assert political power to get their own lanes, they need to put some skin in the game,” was recalled by his anti-park/pro‑car constituents.

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Chema Hernández Gil @chema.ctrvx.net · 13/09/2025

I got three jars of the new vegan Nutella in my last trip to Switzerland and I'm looking forward to finishing the last one. Too much.

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