Notices by sanae :vbike: :vbus: (SF) (sanae@carfree.city)

so I got the last ticket for the day that I can make it but if anyone else is interested in going a different day, Eddie Izzard is performing Hamlet solo
https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/limited-engagements/eddie-izzard-hamlet/

#sanFranciscoEvents

Bay Area Yarn Crawl Day 2: off to Alameda

#knitting #sfba #bayAreaYarnCrawl

Boats

A food truck

Closeup of the sign

This guy is exactly how you would imagine him to be

I think a sfba pixelfed server would be great but probably would require quite a few additional volunteers and that can't be me right now

this is more me mostly hoping someone else does it lol, a thing I try not to do

@scott I'm surprised that's legal

@scott if you're on the phone, does it become illegal wiretapping? (Obviously I don't know anything about the law)

That felt like a bigger earthquake than usual
I spent it trying to remember what to do if you're in bed during an earthquake

I wonder if it felt stronger farther west, that felt like the biggest one in a long time

@skinnylatte like if people actually believe that they should be saying "therefore we should make it easy to switch jobs" or "therefore there should be oversight of the program that penalizes abusive corporations while protecting H1-B workers" but the fact they don't is revealing

(It's also gross given that California just voted to continue making actual forced labour legal or that like there are people who can't afford immigration lawyers having their passports taken away and forced to work)

A big part of it is that most people are not experiencing the standard of living they would expect given the fact that they have more opportunities than almost anyone and live in a wealthier country than most of the rest of the world. But that is a problem you will never fix by blaming people from other countries, that's a problem that needs to be solved from within the US

I think a big part of the assumption even among liberals or leftists that H1-Bs are paid less is the belief that non-Americans must be less qualified. I think a lot of people are not ready for the idea that things are actually currently rigged in their favour; that there are tons of people from other countries that are more skilled or educated or otherwise qualified than them and that resources being concentrated in the US actually are giving them a giant advantage over most people in the world

I don't know if it was just me but I asked the bay area yarn crawl to be a bit more public transit friendly in my feedback last year and they just posted a muni yarn crawl!

Vancouver lets you use your credit card to take the bus and I'm reading up on all the details because part of me can't believe that such advanced technology could possibly work

@skinnylatte also needs to be things that can cross the border without explaining them to customs officials during the busiest time of the year, unfortunately

@skinnylatte I have the problem of my family being in this ambiguous space of doing gifts but only kind of because it's not really our culture and we have not figured out or agreed on what our cultural norms are (this is true of the holidays in general)

@skinnylatte ooh now I want to figure out how to dye with purple sea urchins

I've wanted to dye with something native to the bay area, but I have no room to grow plants to harvest them responsibly