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Roderick

@shfo.bsky.social
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South City. He/him. Formerly biogeochemistry/microbial bioinformatics; now software and bikes/urbanism/random plants. Opinions expressed are solely mine.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CA prop 38 is a scam - vote NO. For example see: This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it? calmatters.org/politics/ele...
calmatters.org
Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?
Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maybe they're not terrible, but they've spent $168m on Hydrogen buses, outsourced a bunch of their lines, and can't even keep obvious things like ECR Rapid running (and it took how many decades for them to consider buses to the ferry).
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I generally don't think "citizens advisory boards" do a lot, but it's fun that SamTrans is so poorly run *and* its CAC members are writing the ballot arguments against Proposition RTM (emergency transit revenue measure).
A picture of the ballot information guide for San Mateo County highlighting where the argument against RTM was written by Augustine Mattammal, San Mateo County Transportation Authority Citizens Advisory Committee Member.A picture of the ballot information guide for San Mateo County highlighting where the rebuttal to the argument in favor of RTM was written by Peter Ohtaki, former San Mateo County Transportation Authority Citizens Advisory Committee.
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Natasha Yim @natashayim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you, South San Francisco Library for inviting me to read LUNA AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING MOONCAKES for Mid-Autumn Festival and to everyone who turned up. It was super fun meeting such an engaging Asian community!
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ah yeah here he comes, big donny t
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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
big "arguing with the maitre d at the steakhouse over my cargo shorts" energy
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Heads up Silicon Valley green card holders: you could end up an ICE prisoner at SFO www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/o...
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wow, I didn't realize that Broadmoor is almost three times more populous than Colma. (It also has half as many police officers.)
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
$87k in loans?! Whatever happened to fiscal responsibility?
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To be clear, Mina Richardson is the worst elected official in SSF and you should absolutely vote for him if you can, but I wish the Bay Area WFP people didn't hop around quite so much.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Frank Lara is running for the SSFUSD board? That's kind of a big pivot from State Superintendent.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Libraries are so cool.
The Lancer RPG book
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(I realize this is also about guaranteeing OpenAI and Anthropic monopolies, but it's stupid.)
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What is the point of this grandstanding about "slowing" AI progress? China's not slowing progress. If anyone actually believes this is an issue outside the freaks at Anthropic, maybe the government could do something practical like invest in cybersecurity instead?
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Maybe even better than Terence Tao.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If a pronoun stands in for an object, does a proverb stand in for an action?
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(We really need better infant bike seats; I still remember how annoying the gap from when my youngest started daycare to 9 months was)
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you need a Thule Maxi Yepp 2 (rated down to 9 months) and you're ever around South SF, I've been meaning to get rid of mine now that my kids have outgrown it.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pretty day!
View across the Upper Crystal Springs reservoir, I280, some peninsula cities, and the bay / San Mateo-Hayward bridge.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I realize SF built the new Skyline Watershed Ridge Trail, but it feels very Atherton/Woodside coded to dedicate a third of the parking lot for horse trailers.
Looking back down a trailhead at a parking lot. There's an informational panel in front and the left third of the parking lot is empty (dedicated horse trailer parking).
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
LGTMing the "name update" pull request, but rolling my eyes so everyone knows it doesn't actually look good.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Vote yes for any legislative proposition that had to be put up for a vote and no for everything else" is a pretty good default in California.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I assume this is because they're going to get the government to buy a bunch and the price they'll get there is based off list price.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
No idea what brand it was, but I have a teak with black powder-coated steel bistro set (similar to the picture) that's made it through eight-ish years outside in the Bay Area with no maintenance (the wood is a grey color now though).
Example image from Wayfair of a bistro set
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Agenda, dividend, legend, propaganda and reverand are all just Latin gerundives?!
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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: Omni Man and Invincible are floating in the sky. Two fighter jets are flying nearby. One is labeled "double" and the other is labeled "float". Omni Man is labeled "Mathematicians". Panel 2: Omni Man / Mathematicians turn to Invincible and say "Look what they need to mimic a fraction"
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh yeah, we're going to do another day of spreadsheet people vs slides people discourse.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have some good news on what scientists have been up to: www.foodandwine.com/lettuce-and-...
foodandwine.com
Scientists Found an Unlikely New Source for a Key Meat Protein: Lettuce
What if plants could make plant-based meat taste more like the real thing? Scientists have engineered myoglobin, the protein responsible for meat’s red color and umami flavor, in lettuce and tobacco, ...
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Gosling did ICP/MS?!
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I feel like it should be zh-Hant and zh-Hans instead? Unless they're actually translating e.g. 腳踏車 vs 自行车 (Taiwan vs mainland for bicycle) or 計程車 vs 出租车 (taxi) differently.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Archive.org found it in one query. 🙏 web.archive.org/web/20050219...
web.archive.org
When is Law & Order On?
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I tried searching Metafilter, Slashdot, Google filtering to before 2010, etc but no trace. 😔
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There used to be a website (something-waffle?) that tracked every channel Law & Order was syndicated on and when so you could watch L&O for twelve hours a day. Every trace has completely disappeared from the Internet though?
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Lennart Bach @bachlennart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I started a marine biogeochemistry podcast, where I ask scientists questions about the cycling of elements through the ocean. This is a place where we can nerd it out, for scientists and marine science students. Listen here, or spotify/apple podcasts applied-marine-biogeochemistry.org/podcast/
applied-marine-biogeochemistry.org
Podcast | Applied Marine Biogeochemistry Group
Marine biogeochemistry studies how elements like carbon and phosphorus move through the ocean. In this podcast, we explore the processes that drive this...
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Maybe this is just another environmental impact, but they're relying upon a massive freeway expansion because they have no transit plan: bsky.app/profile/obch...
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yeah, this is just Tejon Ranch with dumber branding.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
bringing back some old letters would be a big ƿ.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Also, I put up OCRed (but unedited) versions of a bunch of public domain Old English readers: github.com/bovee/latin/...
github.com
latin/angbooks at main · bovee/latin
A collection of latin resources. Contribute to bovee/latin development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
ang.traineddata is the model; hopefully it's helpful if anyone's ever trying to OCR some old books and wants to keeps the thorns/macrons/etc.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I put a Old English OCR model for Tesseract/OCRMyPdf up on GitHub: github.com/bovee/latin/...
github.com
latin/ocr at main · bovee/latin
A collection of latin resources. Contribute to bovee/latin development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
In retrospect, it feels like Batman should have learned to echolocate. Anyhow, watching theory: m.youtube.com/watch?v=29i-...
m.youtube.com
learning the palatal click for echolocation
YouTube video by Moe Gevirtz
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I got my Extra a couple years ago and really recommend hamstudy.org for helping to memorize the test answers. YouTube is good for background knowledge on the General and Extra, but you should be able to take the Technician in a couple weeks (or a week if you already know basic electronics).
hamstudy.org
HamStudy.org: Cutting edge amateur radio study tools
Free ham radio flash cards, practice tests, and question pools as well as introduction to ham radio and explanations for questions.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Plastic is hydrophobic and uncoated glass isn't? I think the water forming a thin film on the glass along with the glass conducting heat better into the water makes it dry faster and more evenly than the plastic.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Murmuration of starlings by Xavi Bou from his series Ornitographies, Northern Spain, December 2018
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🍧Meat Popsicle🍧 @baddielynn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Absolutely iconic that the parasite outbreak is one where ivermectin is not effective.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
At this point I kind of assume it's cops shooting them off. Has anyone ever gotten a ticket for fireworks in South City?
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The angle was kind of hard for me to tell, but I'm pretty sure there were several groups shooting fireworks off next to the giant Eucs in Alta Loma Park too.
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Roderick @shfo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I guarantee this is a NEM 3.0 grievance where they want to keep getting the bonus above the wholesale rate.
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🚨I am obsessed with the sociology of GLP-1 drugs, to medicate outside medicine. These are effective & heavy drugs, most arent getting them via a GP, people figure it out on Reddit, together, for better or worse. I try to mine and expose that struggle in an interactive, ever updating dynamic article.
michelnivard.github.io
GLP-1 Chatter
A self-updating map of Reddit user reports about semaglutide, tirzepatide, retatrutide, side effects, weight change, and stacking.
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