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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The crackdown on people for accurately describing Charlie Kirk is outrageous and appalling but don't let your anger lead you to boost some tiny conflict-hunting account when you could be yelling at Jeff Bezos or Ezra Klein instead

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

San Francisco always sends its best

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

just saying, if an pro-transit mayor wants to fund some ambitious policies, there is a massive goldmine of 3 million free parking spaces in New York City just sitting there waiting to be metered

97% of New York City's three million free parking spots are free. Adding meters to just 25% of free parking spots could generate billions of dollars for the city.
Using demand-based pricing, cities can price parking by block — setting the right price to ensure a few curb spaces are open on every block.
It's simple: prices increase when demand is high and decrease when demand is low.
San Francisco successfully piloted demand-based parking and saw:
• 1 67% drop in parking search times
• 1 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
• Y 22% reduction in double parking

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Moving serious weight (by my standards) #boss

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This (bins and single-stream recycling) is extremely triggering for New Yorkers

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

He’s got a(n ecclesiastical) record a mile long. And he’s Catholic

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

NBC somehow found a Chicagoan in St. Peter’s Square, who happily proclaimed “we’re not the Second City anymore.”

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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Someone in this Parisian bar just told the person next to them that the new pope is American and they responded with horror lmao

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Say what you want about “Donald J Trump” and “debasing the presidency” and “the death of democracy” but it’s because of him a bunch of San Francisco local news reporters get to go to Alcatraz in absolutely screamingly nice weather today

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

One under appreciated aspect of California is the auto accidents caused at four way intersections by someone who only too late noticed which of the four gas stations at the intersection has 87 octane for four cents cheaper

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Paranoia along the old US 101 in Willits.

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Not me, I paid $9 to be in the friend congestion relief zone

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

They should get Pitt and Affleck back for the sequel

The Assassination of Pope Francis by the Coward JD Vance

Vance approached a seated Pope

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14/04/2025

We already knew this but the plan is to deport American citizens. *TRUMP: WOULD LIKE TO GET HOMEGROWN CRIMINALS OUT OF THE US TOO

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Sometimes I forget San Francisco the muscular port city does have a container terminal — it’s just hard to get to and small and Oakland’s isn’t and so it just kind of sits there

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One fun aspect of “modernity” is how much of the old stuff is too well built, too costly or just too expensive to move

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This is my favorite tree in San Francisco California

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

You went to the pro-natal conference. Your ancestors “homesteaded” in Natal. You are all the same

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Not touching the natalist discourse today since I’m old enough to remember the same people scolding people who *did* have children — and in difficult circumstances — for inadequate “personal responsibility” or whatever. Which one is it, fam

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

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‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation

A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If you told me before I moved here the resources and effort New Yorkers invest in being nerdy goofballs I’d never believed you

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Been thinking of this LSD study from 2020 since I saw it the other day. 200 micrograms is 20 tabs. Some poor slob was melting face for 24 hours. MK Ultra type shit. “Subjects experienced significant anxiety” no shit what did you think was going to happen, professor

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A real origin story for current rightwing comedy is Dennis Miller getting angry at Michelle Wolf and saying he was going to come up with some incredibly cutting jokes about her and then never being able to because he was completely washed and forgot how to do anything but complain

What a horrid human being Michelle Wolf is. I'm going to read up on her over the next couple of days and I will have a few brutally mean jokes about her by Wednesday.
- Dennis Miller (@DennisDMZ) April 29, 2018

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Rep. Nadler speaks.

Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadler
I am monitoring the situation regarding the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and look forward to receiving additional information regarding the specifics of this case.
But let's be clear: The warrantless arrest of any legal permanent resident seemingly solely over their speech is a chilling, McCarthyesque action in response to the exercise of first amendment rights to free speech.
Such action is a frightening violation of immigration law that will not make Jewish students safer on campus and will only feed the Trump Administration's political war on education and hollow lip service on discrimination against minorities.
If the Trump White House were serious about rooting out antisemitism in America, they should start with their own Administration.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

California is so addicted to regressive taxes it’s amazing

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Is this real? ...Tell me it can't be real. The document is real. This is insane.

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Sometimes I become annoyed or despondent my work doesn’t get more traction. And then I remember a non-insignificant portion of my audience legitimately believes this is visual evidence of a government conspiracy

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Sometimes I wonder why illicit cannabis stores are doing so well and then I remember this preroll cost about $10 at a legal store

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The GOP has a Christian nationalist leading DOD, a guy who suggested COVID was designed to spare Jews probably running HHS, a lady who pushed Great Replacement at the UN, a guy too tied to white supremacists for Trump 1 headed to State, and a guy who podcasted w a Holocaust denier running FBI 1/2

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If you think the homeless and housing crises are bad now wait until what inadequate resources Washington sends the (blue) states and (blue) cities is halted by Trump. He will blame it on Democrats and people will believe it.

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

What you forget first about New York City after leaving for even six weeks is how much time you must spend in transit going places and standing around waiting for the transit to take you to a place

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The best zoo in San Francisco is the airport, where you encounter bizarre specimens like this fellow wearing an X the everything website cap (one assumes unironically)

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I’ve known Martin Olive for many years and I know him to be among the very best of us. If this can happen to Martin on Ninth Street it can happen to anyone. SFPD needs to tell us why this happened and the entire city must ensure this never happens again. sfstandard.com/2025/01/27/s...

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Dispensary owner shooting suspect dies after standoff with police

A shooting in SoMa on Monday left one man with life-threatening injuries and ended in a fatal officer-involved shooting of the suspect, San Francisco police said.

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

MAGA banner on Hyde and Geary in the tenderloin.

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

On the one hand you can declare it absurd and criminal that city-owned gyms and rec centers in San Francisco are closed on Sundays and have limited hours on weekends and holidays, but then you remember nothing is ever actually about improving the quality of life for people who would use such things.

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

“Surprise!” I shout, to the large crowd of people, who have been watching me caper for the past few years, in the same voice and manner I’ve been using the whole time

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 26/01/2025

what's it called when someone wants to "clean out" people of a specific ethnicity

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

One surprising aspect of San Francisco’s downtown vacancies is how many empty offices keep the lights *on*. Couple floors per building minimum.

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chris roberts @chris-roberts.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The same night Witkoff flew to harass Netanyahu on Shabbos was the same night the Keffiyeh truck appeared in the Tenderloin. The signs are all around us for those of us with eyes to see

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