Notices by midendian (midendian@mastodon.social)

Air India's SFO-DEL flight is no longer flying nonstop since the recent events in Kashmir—yesterday stopping in Copenhagen, today in Vienna. #planespotting #sfo #aviation

went through some different hills this morning. #SanFrancisco

@kingrat there’s an alarm in the empty building next to my office that’s been beeping every 10 seconds since March 2020. in awe of its reliability.

#PhilippineMars entering #SanFrancisco Bay this afternoon from Crissy Field. Regret not going over to Alameda to see it up close but still nice to hear it from afar.

in case you need three joyful hours of a couple foamers riding every trolleybus line in the US. scrub to 1h47m for #SanFrancisco’s 33-Ashbury hairpin, one of my favourite things in the neighborhood. https://youtu.be/V6wg7QJWeO4

happy holidays from the garden birds.

#sanfrancisco #birds

@kingrat tbf some of that land is occasionally a fluid.

it is completely unreasonable to demand I remember how many telescopes I’ve bought in the last two decades.

@kingrat I don’t understand the market conditions that led to garbage disposals. they are unsustainable for any reasonable purpose afaict. maybe it’s impossible to prevent people from stuffing things down the drain and they are somehow harm reduction?

@sara ugh. I think this is another reason we need micromobility solutions to attack this from the other end. Electric cars are all spyware to the core but e-bikes are just bikes with battery controllers—dumb and easily repairable. The whole car paradigm is rotten and supported by the legal framework they’re licensed by.

chronic bay area antipattern is approximately “I once saw a fun personal project that abused public infrastructure, what if I got a company funded to do it at scale” but this one is still fun. https://thebolditalic.com/hacked-prius-running-on-muni-power-lines-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-80cdbe55d68e