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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We (nearby) have Coopers, red-tail, red-shoulder, and once memorably a sharp shinned hawk. They mostly eat the Jane Warner Plaza pigeons though.

A hawk, perched on a house roofline, looks at the viewer with one eye. It has the remains of a small animal in one claw.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Hello from probably a bit behind you!

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I mean they are funny looking but the metaphor was just not working for me 😂 www.brecks.com/cdn/shop/fil...

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Always a favorite, and it does seem to be very portable for museum visits. It came to SF Legion of Honor in 2021 (so of course I paid an old friend a visit)!

A woman in a cloth mask takes a selfie in front of a Pompeiian mosaic depicting a skeleton holding two wine jugs, installed in a wooden frame on an orange wall at the San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Dear SF art Bsky: this random steam chimney has been at the corner of second and market for six months. Please help make it more interesting.

A dented, white painted metal tube of a steam chimney of steams gently in the bike lane of a San Francisco street. A sloppily spray painted tag that looks like a cocoa pod drips down the side.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

On mobile, long tap somewhere to drop a pin, the swipe up on the drawer? (I’m on iOS, but I have to assume it’s also available on Android)

A screenshot of the Google maps dropped pin interface with the “measure distance” button visible above some other tools

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Oh this shows my street, and you can see Meeteer House! history.hartfordstreet.online/buildings/ma... That was demolished to build the theater. So it's a decent landmark.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I mean… water moves around some. Especially if this was over years and not describing the same year, I’d expect some jitter.

A map of the historical courses of the Mississippi River dated 1944, above a satellite picture of the same place dated 1999 showing the real color outlines of those lost water tracks.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Well, I tried. Pre-industrial crockery is difficult to work with.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Stripping old wallpaper and found an inscription from the paper hangers in 1937 💜

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Windy was showing this which has now dissipated I guess?

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Scary but feels like it’s passed (I hope?)

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 07/10/2022

As always on Fleet Week, repost this Pictures for Sad Children comic (by Simone Veil) which is evergreen:

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 04/10/2022

Like two months too late if true. @ATT is this even your own shortcode?

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 17/09/2022

It’s still thheeeeeeerrreeee

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 21/08/2022

Okay so this gets better. Along with the Ghurka spectator seat stick, there was also a Louis Vuitton waxed cotton monogram umbrella, and in a $10 junk lot, this 1872 sewing machine.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 17/08/2022

"And the sapient socialistic visitor responded: 'It's the plutocrats that did it.'"

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 09/08/2022

Sigh. I still miss Livejournal.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 05/08/2022

At some point I realized that I was seeing the same damn "popular tweet" again and again no matter how much I dismissed it. Then I realized that there was literally NO content from people I followed. Right, gotta toggle "Latest Tweets" back on.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 27/07/2022

"As the jackpot got seriously going, after the first wave of pandemics..." Thinking a lot about @GreatDismal's books right now. x.com/ContextSans/status/1158579633…

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 15/07/2022

Dinner in the Mission: what’s the chance one of us follows this person on Twitter?

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 27/06/2022

😂 😂 😂 😭 😭 😭

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 25/06/2022

Very thankful for car-free Market St right now. Six? Seven? Individual protest marches are converging on Market and Hyde right now.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 23/06/2022

Why am I just hearing about this NOW?!

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 12/06/2022

this is just to say i have painted the plums that were in the icebox Charles Sheeler, “Still Life”, 1925 At the De Young Museum

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 10/06/2022

🎵There’s a liiiiiiiiight ~Over at the Eureka Valley ghost station~

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 06/06/2022

If you don’t believe me here’s the close up. I thought it was expansion foam at first but it is bigger every time I go by. There are DBI complaints about the building going back to 2008 and ramping up in 2018.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 05/06/2022

This apt at Page & Divis is more decrepit every time I go by. Now it has a football size jelly fungus. There’s a litany of DBI complaints, & I recall the “this building does not comply with the soft story retrofit law” signs until the owners took them down.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 01/06/2022

And here's Alameda County 😬

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 01/06/2022

Yeah, absolutely higher than the Dec/Jan spike. (This side is SF's western side samples.)

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 01/06/2022

Welllll, soooo, we're officially at a higher spike than the Dec/Jan one based on SF's wastewater (east)....

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 12/05/2022

A big thanks to @MoviesSilently for the recommendations!

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 12/05/2022

The menswear is also spot on perfect and lovely. I would mug them all for the silk top hats and satin bound tailoring.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 12/05/2022

Annnnd omg the GOWNS! I want a copy of this movie so I can freeze frame it and sketch every dang dress and gown in the whole production. (Minus the monkey-hair collet in the racetrack scene.)

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 12/05/2022

Lady Windermere’s Fan as the closing number of the @sfsilentfilm was wonderful. I was concerned about how a SILENT movie would adapt the biting wit of Oscar Wilde’s prose, but I shouldn’t have.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 11/05/2022

Built here: the Exploratorium was the blueprint for science museums in major cities all over the world.

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