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MBridegam

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Lawyer, writer.

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ai6yr, to random

Little Free Library on a post! Hopefully won't get too much friendly fire from the family, LOL. (Starting to add books). #LittleFreeLibrary #carpentry

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@ai6yr @tiamat271

Hoping that a kid finds and loves The Phantom Tollbooth.

ai6yr, to cycling

Checked off the list. Hauled a bunch of books home via cargo rack (lesson: pack a canvas bag in the backpack).

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@ai6yr @meganL

Please advise if you ever find a source for the Chicobag Micro keychain tote -- not the standard small folding tote but the tiny literally egg-sized kind in blue, green or black that used to be sold attached to a card, sometimes in sets of two. It is my Online Unobtainia #1.

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@meganL

Have thought about it but know the odds are steep: the item has been discontinued for about 10 years after being last sold (that I know of) by the Sierra.com company, which seems to be an affiliate of Marshall's doing a similar remainder-resale kind of business. Even though Wirecutter once called it one of the 7 best folding shopping bags. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/reusable-shopping-bags/

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@meganL OK, I wrote them, here goes nothing...

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@meganL

Drat, they said no -- too expensive to make.

The fabric is a nylon that's different from their standard PETE bags. Don't know what kind of nylon. I had the idea at some point that it was parachute cloth but I can't find that in any documentation that is still online and I may just be mistaken about that.

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@meganL

The cloth would be the issue, not the pattern. The pattern is similar to the standard ChicoBag, just a bit smaller. The main thing about the Micro is that the nylon cloth is very compact but not crinkly.

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@ai6yr @meganL

Hm, it doesn't have a coating or that silicon feel on the hand like Sea to Summit bags, which I think are silnylon. Maybe plain ripstop? But it doesn't have those heavier ribs woven into the fabric either. More like an imitation of silk, but not fragile like silk can be.

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@meganL @ai6yr

Says "micro-ripstop" on the 2013 website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130126230847/http://www.chicobag.com/product/micro-jet-black

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@ai6yr @meganL

Interesting, thx!

This looks right re: a texture of tiny squares. Seems shinier than my familiar pocket tote bag but mine has many years of use on it: https://www.bradorfabrics.com/collections/micro-ripstop

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@ai6yr @meganL

Eh, but I don't even have a sewing machine...

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@ai6yr @meganL

Seriously!?

Meanwhile I have an answer from Chicobag: 20D ripstop nylon.

MBridegam, to random
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Cool -- the colander thing works in San Francisco!

Hazy image, though, because the colander had to be held back some distance from the paper so the curved shape of the light source would show.

ai6yr, to random

New "old-school" hip hop station here in my area must be a robo-station... because all the announcements/voiceovers sound like one of these people... 🤔 (I mean, sure, maybe they like old-school hip hop too, but it's kind of weird to get a Casey Kasem-like "THE OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP CHANNEL" announcement).

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@ai6yr

What an odd photo that is. In each of the four couples, one seems to be displaying the other to the camera like a prize bluefish.

MBridegam, to random
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This is bad. As if Stonewall never was.

https://www.thestranger.com/queer/2024/01/29/79363398/police-fire-and-the-liquor-board-raided-two-seattle-gay-bars

Via @glightly

MBridegam, to random
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Look extra closely at anyone who makes money by blaming things on poor people. https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/sfpd-contractor-accused-of-stiffing-mission-nonprofit-625/

ai6yr, to random

Hmm, I am about to be reamed by people who are offended by my use of the word "lazy". Sigh. Instead of blocking them all I'm deleting my reply.

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@ai6yr @glightly

Hey, maybe both of you could agree that the term, "lazy" is imprecise and often used unfairly, and then you could talk about bikes or solar power or something else that you both like.

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@ai6yr @glightly

Thx. I just start to ache when two people who I like seem about to build a wall between them.

inquiline, to random
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Sea lion comrades (blocking riot police)

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@filby @inquiline

(Found this item from bigger-name news sources too: https://ca.style.yahoo.com/sea-lions-stroll-along-street-124451493.html )

jwz, to random
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Remember when Mozilla made a web browser?

Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives:

Earlier this year, Mozilla laid out their vision for the future of their organization -- and it did not include Firefox....
https://jwz.org/b/ykH2

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@gwozniak @daniel @jwz

Yeah, wondered that. What AI is Mozilla into?

loshmi, to LosAngeles
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One of many great things about living in is the endless material.

Taken in Echo Park, near the freeway underpass.

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@loshmi

Love the red bougainvillea in LA. Something about the climate difference up here in SF (so far): purple flourishes but red just kind of hangs on except on a few south-facing protected bright-white walls.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Something you can't unsee once you see it:

The Harvard alumns making the loudest noise about "Fair admissions" and not "lowering the standards..." are legacy admission babies. 🙂🙃

Wake me up when they start campaigning against legacy admissions.

For people outside the US: legacy admissions is where Harvard says "You might not meet our academic standards, but your parent or ancestor did, and that's good enough for us! Welcome to Harvard! Continue your legacy!" 🤡

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@mekkaokereke

And as to the meaning of "legacy," yes, they do frequently express hope for a bequest, and their Office of Gift Planning would be glad to help set up a charitable remainder trust. https://alumni.harvard.edu/college/college-giving/gift-planning/gifts-that-pay

loshmi, to random
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Once climate change starts hitting white people in the Global Northwest y’all are really gonna learn how undemocratic capitalism is.

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@loshmi

It has and we are.

For example, the worsened political/social climate in northeastern California after the 2018 "Camp Fire" destroyed the town of Paradise. That Paradise/Chico area was never kind or fair to poor people but it has become conspicuously nastier in response to the continued presence of so many displaced local residents who have not recovered conventional housing.

See e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/09/trauma-fear-homelessness-paradise-camp-fire-migrants-climate-change

This vindictive amicus brief is an ugly symptom: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-175/288850/20231103180934467_Amicus%20Brief%20City%20of%20Chico.pdf

MBridegam, to random
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Another good @witchcore column on Shellenberger, who started out as a climate change "contrarian," moving from pseudo-moderate campaigning against the human rights of homeless people, to more overtly hateful anti-trans rhetoric and associations. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/michael-shellenberger-sf-trans-issues-18488990.php

ai6yr, to nature

Walking the dog around the suburban neighborhood I am in right now, I am struck by how out-of-sync the yards are to the native landscape. Water thirsty plants. Large expanses of lawn. Imported plants which cannot take drought or heat. Imported river rocks. Only one yard with natives that the birds and insects here could forage. Almost zero edible plants or fruit trees visible.

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@homelessjun @ai6yr @killick

Maybe not organizing against the existence of HOAs -- which are often locked into titles -- as working for better HOA policies?

True, too, that funding conditions often limit chances to make lower-end subsidized residential programs livable.

But there's the common factor of choices within funding-linked constraints: Suspending lawn watering in droughts. Allowing "Project Roomkey" residents to have literal keys to their rooms. Maybe these aren't entirely different?

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@thesquirrelfish @homelessjun @ai6yr @killick

Also thinking of the ways even modest-budget gated communities work in places like Vegas.

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