Mushrooms are the blooms that testify to the subterranean infrastructural networks that support them.

Walked through an electronic cemetery, reading the names on the graves: Hyperlocal model! Serious blogging community! Whither the oakland blogosphere

So, we’re definitely getting a bird flu pandemic, huh.

An anecdotal archive on the theme of the Oakland Police simply doesn’t come when you call.

Oakland’s trash king:

“Mayor Harris and Councilmember Reid also seem more sympathetic to the plight of Duong than to that of the strikers. In response to Duong hiring strikebreakers, Harris tells the union: “He’s caught between a rock and a hard place. If he doesn’t pick up the trash, he might lose the contract.” Both Harris and Reid express concerns that the union’s demands are unreasonable. “California Waste Solutions is just a small, family-owned business trying to survive in a competitive market,” Reid says at the time. It’s later revealed that, since 1994, Duong and his associates have donated over $25,000 to the campaigns of a variety of Oakland politicians. The two top recipients of his donations are…Mayor Harris (with $6050) and Councilmember Reid (with $5250). Reid lets slip that he is also the godfather of one of Duong’s children.”

Esotérica Tropical on forum.

saw this guy on the ground

Social housing can work in SF, a groundbreaking new report shows

Benioff is doing cringey tweets and the SF Standard is ON it.

How Surveillance Became a Love Language

Only crime can pay for tech. Only crime can pay for Alabama.

Apparently people are getting serious about Lee for Oakland mayor.

Defunding dissent.

Even in a rapidly gentrifying city, labor unions wield clout.

Amici curiae signers for the Grants Pass decision.

RIP Sugar Pie. RIP Rickey.

Small schools in Oakland.

The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District has a holiday message about infrastructure and hope: 216-361-6772

The Vallco will rise again in Cupertino. Timeline of a YIABY project.

Blonde lady with Brazilian name attacks SF mural with white and brown paint, is arrested. Here’s what “the San Francisco you should know” by deceased local artist Mario Cid Gonzalez looked like before “the woman, who is blonde and wore white boots, a white coat and a white and brown scarf” sprayed it with white and brown paint, ok wtf, why is she exactly THAT type of person, I hate this story.

Related: Funktown mural no more.

This “Oakland TV watchers club” poster on a pole became a reddit post became a discord. Presumably friends will have been made.

In Oakland, regardless of whom voters elect in the upcoming special election, the mayor will be weak, the councilmembers frustrated, the city administrator torn, and the city attorney conflicted.

Local business owner viciously attacks customer: 


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