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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Remembering Peter David, the author of so many entertaining novels, comics, and TV shows

Four frames from the last scene of the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah":
Captain Kirk is despondent, head down at his desk. He moans, "It's been 244 years, but... I still miss Peter David."
Spock stands over him, then places a consoling hand upon his friend, saying, "As do I."

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Albrijes grandes at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Some hills, some Bay, a burrito...a sweet bike ramble in San Francisco #BikeSky #BayAreaBike

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye (photo by me)

Portrait-oriented photo featuring a wooden post with a rusted hanger hook jutting out of it, and standing atop the post, triumphant and at least slightly indignant, is a plump little bluebird. The bluebird is a male, and we see the electric blue of his head, but the predominant part facing us is the coppery-orange and pale white front. He is standing amidst little pink-and-red tree blossoms, but I like to imagine these are instead the extracted organs of his enemies. So let's just pretend this bluebird stands vengefully astride a scattering of viscera -- gobbets of gore taken as a prize from his unnatural and invasive foes. I'm sorry I've really made this a gross photo. It's actually quite nice. Kind of a dreamy vibe to it, what with the wall of yellow forsythia blurring in the background, and here I am adding drippy bits and internal organs. I'm sorry. I'll do better next time. Probably. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Fiddling by Marina Green, San Francisco

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Tunnel Rd and Grizzly Peak on a gloriously beautiful day. Oakland , California #BikeSky #BayAreaBike

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

So good!! Sichuan-style noodles at Mr. Liu in Oakland's Chinatown

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Took a slight detour on my ride to work Tuesday #SanFrancisco #GGNRA #BikeSky

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

More of the Portola neighborhood garden #SanFranciso

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A lovely and eclectic community garden park, The Green Between, San Bruno Ave. And the freeway wall. In the Portola District #SanFrancisco

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Okay, that's a perfect title. Well played, Mr. Astley. #BookSky

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Last weekend, 8 of us met in Mill Valley and rode up Old Railway Grade on Mt. Tamalpais #BikeSky #BayAreaBike #SNBC

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I was tasked to put something new on our bookstore's chalk sign. "Something with bunnies!" they said. #BookSky #BooksInc #SanFrancisco #bunnies

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

44 years living in San Francisco and I've never been inside the Beach Chalet until now. These WPA murals are amazing!

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

In my center seat at the theater for Tsui Hark's film of the wuxia classic LEGENDS OF THE CONDOR HEROES. Hell yeah! Oh wait... It's 2½ hours long? Uh oh, this 3 liter soda may have been a bad choice.

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

4/ Camp Sawyer Trail, Crystal Springs Reservoir, San Francisco Bay Area #BikeSky

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A great day out on the Peninsula riding routes I haven't done in ages. #BayAreaBike strava.app.link/ucAXENSrbRb

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

2/ ♪♪ Little boxes, little boxes... Daly City #BayAreaBike

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

1/ Gettin' outta town... Riding up through Daly City, along Skyline and the San Andreas reservoir (faultline) as far as maybe that underpass on Cañada Road, then down Crystal Springs to BART. Who knows? Just getting started. #BikeSky #BayAreaBike

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

#SanFrancisco protesting ICE and all the racist, fascist bullshit perpetrated by our current kleptocracy Mission & 24th Street

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

New (to me) one-speed. Strapped it with new brakes, hubs, and bars. Sweet li'l ride for our flat neighborhoods #BikeSky #SanFrancisco #BayAreaBike

Blue bike in front of a mural on 15th St. & Valencia, the art shows a hammerhead shark with a battleaxe

Blue bike at California & Montgomery Streets, Financial District. Chinatown can be seen in the distance, up a hill. Gong Jay Fat Choy!

Blue bike next to large statue of a woman athlete with the Ferry Building in the background, San Francisco

Blue bike leaning against pole with the San Francisco Bay Bridge in the background

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

@startrekshitposti.ng #StarTrek#I'mListening These are dark times indeed and although I am inclined to give in to anger, I must tell myself over and over again:

Captain Bateson of USS Bozeman tells the woodchuck Punxsutawney Phil, "Don't drive angry."
See, it's a mashup of the film Groundhog Day and the TNG episode, "Cause and Effect" because they both were about time loops
... it's hilarious, I swear.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/01/2025

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Going for a spin in the Marin Headlands across the Bridge. I spotted this multi-era Away Team visiting the future home of Starfleet HQ 🖖🏽 @startrekshitposti.ng #StarTrek #BayAreaBike #BikeSky #SanFrancisco

Four Star Trek fans standing at the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge. They are each wearing a Starfleet uniform from a different era: the maroon monster from Wrath of Khan; an Ops jumpsuit from the NX-01 Enterprise, a Command uniform from TNG, and... Okay, I am not sure when the guy on the left is from.

My beloved Surly Straggler at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you see this post. Quote with a bridge from your gallery. #BikeSky #bike #BayAreaBike

My beloved Surly Straggler on the Bay View Trail in China Camp State Park, Marin County, California

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

@startrekshitposti.ng #StarTrek When does Frames roll out? I think that will be a more appropriate platform for my type of thoughtful Internet discourse.

3 panels of Dr. McCoy and Spock standing in a corridor of the Enterprise, TOS era

Panel 1, McCoy says, "Spock, did you know that Gene Roddenberry was adamantly opposed to the continued existence of zippers in the 23rd Century?"

Panel 2, Spock replies, "Fastener hating."

Panel 3, the two men stand in silence, their bonds of frenemiship deepening.

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Chris Hsiang @chrishsiang.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

@startrekshitposti.ng #StarTrek#I'mListening These are dark times indeed and although I am inclined to give in to anger, I must tell myself over and over again:

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