Notices by scott f (scott@carfree.city)

I love coast live oak forest so much. Happy place.

Californians! Can I ask you to make two calls *TODAY BEFORE 5PM* or Thursday morning to protect affordable housing funds?

AB 736 is a bill being rushed through that would give rich real estate investors a tax cut, slashing housing funds in SF, Santa Cruz and LA and preventing other cities from raising revenue this way.

Call your Senator and Assemblymember at their capitol office - you can find them here: https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers/find-my-rep
(despite the name it has Senate too)
Tell them vote NO on AB 736.

@kingrat did you not get the Abundant Future PAC mailers attacking Chakrabarti? There were about as many of those as his own mailers for me.

@kingrat and Dorsey does not care. abandoned his district

@kingrat because Pelosi endorsed Chan, or why?

@skinnylatte check the fine print... maybe it's attributed to the owner's mom

@beckett The other side of the street is very left-leaning! @BobHorowitz @bmacDonald94

I sometimes griped about my former supervisor Hillary Ronen, but cheers to her for joining a nonprofit that protects immigrants after leaving office, rather than go to a cushy lobbying gig.

The contrast is especially stark with her would-be "moderate" successor who, after losing his election, immediately joined ICE-collaborating Flock Safety as a lobbyist.

https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/san-francisco-hillary-ronen-mission-district-la-raza-centro-legal/

It's revealing what candidates for local office do after they lose an election. If they continue serving their community, maybe they were a good one and should have won. If they promptly move hundreds of miles away, or become hired guns for an unethical corporation, you dodged a bullet.

@kingrat oh it's all over my Instagram. "Californians Against Wasteful Spending"

@kingrat I'm loving seeing the ad against the billionaire tax 100 times. Reinforces why it's needed, since they have so much money to burn trying to buy our elections.

@tchambers Hmm, link seems to have also vanished.

@skinnylatte this side of SF is totally unknown to me. I'm not in those circles... entrees in the $30-$40 range is about the highest-end I've ever experienced here, even when I was making a BigTech salary.

@skinnylatte huh, I’ve done Amtrak Thruway bus to Emeryville; transfer at Richmond; and bike/walk from Lake Merritt BART to Jack London station; but never this. What do you like about this option?

@skinnylatte any vegan-friendly LA food recs nearish downtown?

“Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason... a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike.”

Or driving any kind of car. AI, like cars, aims to reconfigure everyday life in a way that’s vastly more energy-hungry and polluting… and profitable for a few.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/13/ai-datacentres-environmental-impacts

The SF Chronicle's senior meteorologist says your phone weather app is wrong and underestimating how hot it's gonna be in the city the next couple of days (high 80s, possibly 90 in parts). https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather-forecast/article/heat-google-apple-apps-22075792.php

@skinnylatte Ooh, obviously the hearts are favorites but what's the rest of the scheme?

@kingrat "My candy boy Schopenhauer says we love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them." - Warren Zevon

@skinnylatte SF-LA Amtrak’s under that if you got 9 or 12 hours to spare