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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that as of today, school board President Kim and Commissioner Gupta continue to endorse Manny Yekutiel. To her enormous credit, Vice President Huling rescinded her endorsement after Brad Chapin came forward.

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Challenger Schools in California charge ~30k annually and the highest possible teacher salary is slightly over forty bucks an hour (starting pay is about thirty bucks an hour)

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Here's a waymo in the pedestrian crosswalk I had to whack because it started creeping forward again against the light

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Nothing says "pro-union" like exclusively thanking the Supervisors who didn't walk a single picket (plus Mahmood, who walked two but couldn't get himself to support the strike)

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

FACT CHECK: We did not accept the existing offer. Idk Garry, your chat bot may have claimed to be a union leader but it's not

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Kim-Mai driving thirty miles of detour every day so she doesn't have to pass any picket - all of which have more families than staff walking the line.

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Things you see walking between picket sites

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I regret to report that Garry now believes the voices in his head are "district sources"

Garry Tan is very mad that teachers have the temerity to expect to be paid a living wage

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Can't decide if it's funnier that Garry thinks anyone will believe union leaders speak to him or that anyone in UESF can afford to strike for any reason other than securing the schools our students deserve

Garry Tan tweet insisting UESF is just striking and not getting paid for a few days because ?

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

SFUSD: Too broke to pay teachers but plenty of money for a contract with OpenAI. Cost is redacted, which I have never, ever seen in a contract submission before

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

You can tell the folks at SFParents have never lived paycheck to paycheck because they think teachers don't need theirs and want to strike for fun/because their state affiliate told them to

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

As I was saying Also, love to see Scott sitting down with TERFs, way to go Scott

Helen Lewis reporting that Scott got big mad about the genocide issue

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Scott's campaign was polling whether his ongoing refusal to call a genocide a genocide would hurt him and it appears we all said it would. Anyway, Scott's words will be backed by zero actions

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Rewarded for my virtuous rise and run lifestyle with a whale sighting and this sunrise

Sunrise near Mile Zero Beach. Gull in foreground

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Every billionaire is a moral and political failure and we should tax them into non-existence, but taxing them and excluding the proceeds from Prop 98 calculations is shitty. I'll still vote for it and against this monstrosity I got a message testing poll about

Screenshot of a poll question about a proposed ballot question that would outlaw billionaire taxes

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Or they'll just try ballot initiatives - I read they've got five filed and I got a test poll about it

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Hey look I found Hell (Elementary Educators Edition)

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Everyone who claimed Huling was progressive needs to apologize to the rest of us. Note that she recently signed off on that 13% raise for the district's highest paid staff

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Sadly, Joe's geopolitical understanding has not further matured since second grade, when his very mean teacher made him stop playing with his GI Joe dolls in class. He knows she was a pinko because she didn't accept that he was a very special boy for whom rules did not apply

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

So does Helsinki - zero pedestrian deaths in 2024 and the main transit center looks like this

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"Informally" is doing Atlas-likr work here, because there's documentary evidence this is false. Both the principals and the teachers are at impasse and the principals have been vocal about how disrespected they feel by Su in particular. SFParents has to know this.

Claim that the Supe is the most popular of the last three and needs a contract

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Reminder that this is the entirety of the proof Edunomics has shared to justify its entirely made up claims about closing schools This is because they just made that number up to support their campaign against public education

Slide containing a list of items purported to be 4% of an average school district's budget, but zero information explaining Edunomics' "rule of thumb" that closing 1 in 15 schools saves 4% of a district's annual budget

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Two of these states passed pro-abortion ballot initiatives by huge margins but go off Klein Like the pundit class should try at least slightly harder not to be so objectively wrong

Ezra Klein proposes running anti abortion zealots to win Senate seats

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Nothing weird about adults entirely unaffiliated with a school sitting in on classes, can't think of any reason why this would be bad

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

No actual evidence was presented to support this claim, and I'm just going go observe that actual human drivers do not harry five year olds crossing a street while Waymos actively attempt to murder them. This story is the is an ad for the Kinder Killers at Waymo

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Bilal has visited every private school in D5. D5 is home to the city's only public arts integration elementary, amazing language pathways programs, and SF's first community school but Bilal doesn't do public schools

It's Bilal helping break ground on a private school for the 1% because public schools, why

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

If you needed more reasons to bring Dubula iBhunu to American protests the NY Times has some for you! Making the worst people the most mad is good

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Unlike Thomas "Death to Pedestrians Democrat" Friedman, I live in a city with Waymos and it fucking sucks. I encourage him to walk one (1) mile in SF and let me know how it goes with Waymos

Thomas Friedman is a "Waymo Democrat", because he doesn't like public transit or walkable cities but he also doesn't want you calling him racist

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Capitulating to fascists means they're going to use you to do fascism. Don't let these goons pretend they thought it would come out differently.

Nytimes: "White House officials believe that some of the pro bono legal work could even be used toward representing Mr. Trump or his allies if they became ensared in investigations, according to two people."

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Hey @nytimes.com what part of making America healthy again is systemic lead poisoning and have your headline writers been tested for lead www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...

Nytimes wants you to know RFK has "hit his stride"

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Had this Jeff been on the Signal he'd have done something worthwhile with his access, just saying

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Of course, this breezy summary omits that white South Africans murdered people like Chris Hani and promised decades more of white supremacist violence if the ANC didn't give over on the economic justice part. It's very hard to create a prosperous nation when 10% of its people own everything.

Nytimes: Many South African voters, regardless of their race, agree that the African National Congress has created a country plagued by corruption, poor infrastructure, high crime and inequality, with persistent poverty among Black people. In the last election, the party lost its outright majority in Parliament for the first time since the end of apartheid.

Analysts note that the party went to great lengths to embrace market-oriented policies that allowed white South Africans to maintain their economic power. In fact, many South Africans criticize Mr. Mandela for not requiring a more aggressive redistribution of white-owned land to Black South Africans, whose families had been forced off of it during apartheid and colonial times.

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

There's my union VP, a communist in the tweets and a management bootlicker in the news sheets. Actually no, we do not need to work with SFUSD to force unnecessary austerity on sites only

Frank Lara suggesting we work with management to destroy the district

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

At least part of the reason Vermeule claims you need to have studied a zillion years to have an opinion on the Constitution is that he wants you to believe you have no right or say on what constitutionality is: you need to leave that to the genius fascists using law to kill you

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Since I was listening to Board meetings before COVID, I can tell you that Elliot Duchon has no specific expertise and a massive bias for central office staffing and he always has

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Worth noting here that Max here has at least two homes, one of which he rents as an airbnb Idk these yimby dudes would be more persuasive if they weren't hypocrites

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Babe you're looking peaked it's time for a visit to

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

D5 is home to the district's only explicitly arts-focused elementary, which is in a building that's been home to district schools for 101 years, but the incoming D5 Supe chose this private school to visit. Cool.

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Y'all, we know how SFUSD came up with the "closing schools saves $22m" bit. They took this year's site budget for each of the schools to be closed and added it up. Of course they're not going to admit that but let's face facts here.

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Very funny to watch the people who couldn't wait to waste money on the school board and DA recalls insist that the recall dude should not get recalled because, uh, democracy Like 20% of SF voted in the school board recall, weird how they thought was cool

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Tuner of Tiny Violins @violintuner.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I think we should be clear that SFUSD proposes cutting 500 teachers and 6 central office management types. The district office is the biggest it's ever been even though the district is smaller. The priority here isn't students. It's management.

SFUSD planned budget reductions showing 348 teacher layoffs and 6 central office layoffs

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