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John C. Baker

@johnbaker10.bsky.social
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South San Francisco (formerly Glendale and Arcata). Worked as: Reporter, 911 dispatcher, school board. Interests: Transit, baseball, comics. Used to be @jcb10 on the bird site.

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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey fellow #MacOS users, anyone else see huge inexplicable jumps in system data since updating to MacOS 27? I've cleared caches and the trash is empty, yet I'm still seeing >550Gb in System Data.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Some pre-Blue Angels pics from the San Francisco Fleet Week air show. F-22 and F-35, you may even see a P-51 Mustang if you look closely. #SFFleetWeek
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pro-tip: If the drive-in vaccination line is shorter than the walk-in line, Kaiser will let you go through it on a bicycle.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seems to be an encampment fire behind fire behind the Westborough Pacific Super in South San Francisco. Police scanner says they heard explosions.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
John Mulaney showing off his book from my hometown Glendale Library at the #Emmys!
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Today, in separate concerts, I saw two very different bands that have each been touring the world for nearly 50 years: Kool and the Gang (at SSF’s concert in the park) and Public Image Limited (at the Fillmore). Even money that I may be the first to see them both on the same day.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Guys, I finally did it! I threw away the single glove that’s been sitting in my garage for three years in the forlorn hope that I find its partner. EDIT: Three days later — I found the other glove.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ah shucks, according to Thor issue 284 (picking up a thread from Jack Kirby’s Eternals run), the Celestials are going to judge us this year. Don’t think we’re gonna make it, folks.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Charles Hoelter is running for Congress against @kevinmullin.house.gov. Nothing says "fighting for the common man" like posting a variable width picture of yourself in a tuxedo and nothing says "attention to detail" like not capitalizing your own name.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I love Star Trek, including new shows (especially SNW), and loved the convenience of streaming any episode, anytime on Paramount+. But, with my annual subscription ending about the time this season of Strange New Worlds does, I am cancelling because of the evisceration of editorial independence.
Paramount+ cancellation notice, citing Cancelation of Star Trek Academy, Stephan Colbert, and evisceration of 60 Minutes as the reason.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s 8-0 in the 9th, but I have faith the #SFGiants can come back because the Tigers have Kenley Jansen in their bullpen.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is how Amazon delivers in downtown Hamburg. I like it (the vehicle, not Amazon or Bezo's politics)!
A small go-cart like vehicle with tall sides, but barely wide enough for a single person.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Um, nice placement with the post under yours/
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have never forgotten this "well, duh" headline that the Chronicle put on a murder story back in the day.
Headline on new story screenshot reads "Murder suspect disapproved of his victims"
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Back home, and greeted with this view!
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The screen on my United flight says we’re about to leave Medford, Oregon. We’re in Germany. I’m assuming/hoping it’s not connected to the navigation computer.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
St. Nikolai’s Church in Hamburg. Destroyed by Allied bombing in WWII and maintained as a memorial. Warmongers usually reap what they sow.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hamburg! As a former working journalist, I like that this building is just outside our hotel window. Hoping to see some early Beatles history while I’m here — and to have a hamburger.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trump’s threats to Greenland have pissed off the Danes enough that it’s breaking through the kitty love.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Always happy to see libraries with large graphic novel sections, like the one I am in now in Lund, Sweden.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
F*** me? Well f*** you too!
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The former.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My first Danish comic book store visit (and mini-haul).
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New #CityHallSelfie. Copenhagen’s radhaus!
John in front of Copenhagen’s old brick City Hall
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Argentinian fans rally in Copenhagen before tonight‘s #WorldCup final.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I love the name of this Danish town.
Exit sign to Middlefart.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Very impressed with Aalborg’s bike infrastructure and TRIPLE articulated (bendy) buses!
Triple bendy busSeparated bike lane. Taken from a lime bike
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Off to Denmark by sea… see you Saturday, Aalborg!
John wearing an Oakland Ballers cap on a ship with a fjord in the back
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wow, they sure are taking the World Cup loss hard.
Breaking news screenshot: French MPs vote to approve right to assisted dying for adults with "serious and incurable" illnesses
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Another #CityHallSelfie: Akureyri in the north of Iceland!
John in front of a building wig “radhus” on the front.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft in Holmavik is pretty fun, and the pumpkin soup is good. Where can I get a set of “Necropants,” where money appears in the scrotum? Kohl’s maybe!
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Some East Bay municipality really needs to enter into a sister city relationship with Hella, home of the American School Bus Café.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Costco in Iceland looks like if you asked AI to make a picture of a Costco: it’s close, but a little off and all the lettering is scrambled.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It’s my 20000th day on Earth, so I’m celebrating with family in Reykjavik!
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Greenland, everybody.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Watching #Superman on the plane, and it has some interesting edits. Guy is doing full-hand tank flips (instead of middle fingers), and he’s no longer “God-damn Mr. Terrific.”
“Dad-gum Mr. Terrific”
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Mt. Hood looks ravishing today.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The “new” PDX is pretty nice.
All three pictures show a nice new clean airport terminal was various shops and wooden beams on the ceiling
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Watching the sportsball at the other kind of sportsball.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Officiated by who???
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Mary in New York ceremony officiated by Adam Sandler
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
GI Joe issue #29 (cover date of November 1984, but released a couple months earlier). Wow, Cobra sounds a lot like certain factions of our government.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Email in my quarantine from a local political candidate. That’s an unfortunate cutoff of the word “Assessor.”
Email saying “I am honored to be your next ass.”
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m actually NOT seeing double here. I think Max Muncy’s team will win tonight.
Max Muncy hits 
the ball to max Muncy
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Wrapping up my East Bay bike ride by taking in the Oakland Ballers, who have a free bike valet at the ballpark.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
My haul from today’s Berkeley Comics Show, and a quick view of the floor.
About 40 Marvel and DC comic books. Prominent titles include the flash, Superman, Thor, and the avengers.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It’s been a while since I posted a #CityHallSelfie, so here’s one from El Cerrito City Hall. I’m riding my bike on the Ohlone Greenway to the Berkeley Comic Show today.
A picture of John in front of El Cerrito City Hall
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If I hurt myself in Civic Center, could I actually get first aid here? Do any European tourists wander in thinking it’s a pharmacy? @peterhartlaub.bsky.social? @sfdph.bsky.social
A green Cross inside a green circle with a white background what’s the word first aid across. A building in San Francisco civic center
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If it was the Giants game, I just got back and you made the right choice.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Peninsula Clean Energy -- San Mateo County's local quasi-governmental alternate energy provider -- is changing it's name to WestLight Energy to be "clearer and better reflect the communities we serve." But the name absolutely does the complete opposite!
Email saying: 1) PENINSULA CLEAN ENERG'
Coming Soon: Peninsula Clean Energy Is
Becoming WestLight Energy
Dear Customer,
We're writing to let you know that Peninsula Clean Energy, your local electricity provider, will be changing our name to WestLight Energy, effective
July 1, 2026.
We're updating our name to WestLight Energy, because it's clearer and better reflects the communities we serve.
Your electricity service and rates are not changing. PG&E will continue to deliver your electricity and send your bill.
What to expect
• July 1: You'll begin to see the name WestLight Energy on our website and communications
• July 17: WestLight Energy will begin to appear on energy bills
There's nothing you need to do. Your service will continue as usual.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Bay Area Tranist pro-tip: If you fly into OAK and want to go to BART, AC Transit line 73 goes to Coliseum Station — same as BART connector and costs $2.50 compared to ~$7.90 for the connector, and only takes about 5 extra minutes.
AC Transit bus
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