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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Pedestrian safety? What are pedestrians? Stunned that this is legal. #WarOnPedestrians

Photo of an older model Honda CR-V parked at the curb. The body is dark blue, the hood is white. Parked behind the car as another white car, and then an intersection with yellow crosswalks. There's a gas station diagonally across the intersection, and green street signs identify it as the intersection of California And 25th.

Mounted at the front of the car is a metal casting of a stag's head with antlers, ready to impale anyone in its way.

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Like waiting in line? Take Waymo! watched this for a few minutes. It wasn't until a human driver went around that the Waymos pulled out to pass the parked truck. And there was not a lot of oncoming traffic.

A photograph looking west on Pacific from Presidio. On the left are the tails of a variety of cars, parked perpendicular to the curb on the steep hill. In the middle of the street, towards the bottom of the hill, is small dark car, showing brake lights. On the right curb, from the bottom, are 2trucks unloading things, a white OG Waymos, the next generation blue Waymo, and a 2nd white Waymo, all showing brake lights. The curb lane heading downhill is a driving lane, with red brick pavement, and, separated from the bricks by a double yellow line, is the asphalt east-bound lane

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social Taking the liberty of posting the excellent cartoon from the original post:

A cartoon with 5 people raising a large yellow pencil flagpole, flying a flag with We the People" legible at the top. They are standing on ruins, with pieces of broken fluted columns visible. The person on the left is labeled"Artists", in the middle"Writers" and on the right " Comedians". The picture is a riff on the famous WW2 photo of the Marines raising the fag on Iwo Jima.

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

@jik I know a couple of borate/sugar water baits, Terro is the one I'm using at the moment. Low borate %, so relatively benign . Takes a while to work, but placing them near the start of the ant trail seems to stop them from ranging farther. For home made […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Picture of 2 beige plastic lids on a grey floor, with drops of viscous ant bait on the, and numerous ants clustered around the drops.

The tubes of a rack base run diagonally across the right 1/3 of the image

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

And the view of the supervisors and Mayor and citizens standing on the steps of City Hall talking about the issue, very critical of #BlueShieldOfCA support.

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

Gee, how nice - #PGE Resource center is open from 5 - 10 pm, and then people without power can go back to their electricity-free homes in the dark at 10 pm. Such service to people left in the dark. When will #SFPUC be allowed to take over the local grid from the […] [Original post on sfba.social]

A screenshot describing the services offered at PG&E's resource center in the Richmond - and noteworthy is that the hours of operation are from 5 to 10 pm today.

(Fwiw the resource center is the Richmond Recreation Center at 251 18th Ave, between Clement and California Streets)

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

And here I was thinking Waymos don't pull into the curb. To prove me wrong, they're doing it in a bus stop.

Photograph of a Waymo, blinkers flashing, pulled most of the way in to the red painted curb of a bus stop, which is clearly identified by the yellow band (and blue sign, not visible in photo). You can see the letter P on the pavement to the right of the Waymo (left from photos view). The car is stopped over the "BUS STO" painted in the stop.

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

#SFMTA, #SFDPW: yes we need bike racks. We also need to locate them so they don't interfere with the ramps needed for wheelchair boarding (or, for that matter, in the path of embarking/disembarking passengers of all mobility levels) Can we keep the necessary […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Picture of a SF Muni bus at a bus stop, with an omega-shaped bus rack on the sidewalk located so the wheelchair ramp cannot be used.

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

Funny, I should think a guy so focused on appropriate dress would respect the US Flag code. But then I'm no expert on the dress code for the #SecretaryOfMurder

A photo of Pete Hegseth at a podium wearing a blue suit, a darker blue tie with widely spaced bars of red and white stripes, and a folded pocket handkerchief in the breast pocket of the suit. The handkerchief shows part of a flag - with a blue rectangle showing 2 rows of stars on the left, and 3 white and 3 red stripes to the right.

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

Yes, I will be there -The Muni Now, Muni Forever folks have an excellent proposal that improves on the Mayor's proposal, lowering costs for all but the very wealthiest and the largest, most expensive office buildings compared to what the Mayor wants to do. AND it […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

So is there a football game scheduled locally?

A photo of a blue sky above a concrete building, with greenery, a pedestrian, a car, a road sign and some bollard tops in the foreground. Centered toward the top is a large dirigible ( or blimp?)

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

@jqheywood - (with the caveat that I am a reasonably competent user but not a tech guy) I'm on the same browser based package, but a different instance (SFBA Social) and perhaps a different browser (I'm using firefox/on windows 11, both fully updated' regularly […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Screenshot of my SFBA.social page to show how to access admins support info via link at the bottom of left hand column

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

Oh, look - at the intersection of Bush & Fillmore, it looks like a car hit the corner of the building. Oh, wait, maybe the driver drove the car into the building? The car wasn't an independent actor?

$A photo of the NE corner of Bush and Fillmore Street, showing the yellow ADA ramps in the foreground. On the sidewalk there's a blue recycling bin, with a gray garbage bin behind it, against the south wall of the building. There is yellow caution tape running across the sidewalks at 3 levels. Behind the blue bin is a column in green marble veneer in front of the glass entryway, which faces the corner. The column has been snapped about 2ft above the ground, angled in towards the door from the fracture point. The white clapboard siding at the second floor of the house is pushed away from the corner post, suggesting some structural damage at the upper floor as well.$

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

A very nice wine ( not whine) bar A shameless plug for #Waystone on Powell in #SanFrancisco

A photo of the LCD candles though water bottles on a bar

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

If there's not a pot of gold, you can always get oysters #tomalesbay

A photo looking east across Tomales Bay, grey clouds over grey water, the hills across the may showing green patches of trees or shrubs in the yellow-brown dry grass. There's a curvy white road visible in the lower right, the white buildings of the Tomales Bay Oyster Company are on the lower left. Rising up diagonally to the upper right from the Oyster Company is a rainbow.

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

For some reason Terry Gilliam's Brazil comes to mind. Little did I know in 1985 this was where we were heading. #dystopian, with damaged #social_infrastructure added to #ICE and #PosseComitatus Thanks, #MAGA & #MAHA

Screen shot of 2 text messages, the first announcing that a computer problem at BART ( the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit) means no trains are running, and riders should make other plans.

The second from SFMTA, the San Francisco transit agency, telling us that there may be service impacts because operators may be delayed getting into work.

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025

Headlines and images don't have to be distressing:

The headline in the upper left, black text on white background: "Bears eat week’s worth of honey after escape from Devon enclosure", and below on 2 lines: Five-year-old "Mish and Lucy get their paws on some snacks before being safely contained at Wildwood Devon"

The photo on the right is of 2 bears happily chewing on some signs, apparently quite content. In the front, the bear is facing the camera, with a rolled up sign with blue lettering, and behind that, the other bear has it's head down, with a flat sign that has "Misha" in green text on it.

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