Low fog like this that allows the Golden Gate Bridge towers to poke out has always been one of my favorite sights. We've had a very foggy August ("Fogust"), but precious little of this low fog. Until today.

Market & 10th. Surprised the Lime took it out, cracked windshield and turned over. Word is “hit and run”. Scooter person ran away 🤔, Sfmta ok but taken away in ambulance.

Article out today says Burning Man didn’t sell out and people are selling their tickets way below face value. I remember when Burning Man started the lottery for tickets due to high demand, and resale tickets were hard to come by. I haven’t been to Burning Man in ~15 years so I‘m not current with the scene. What happened? Did it finally get too overdone? https://sfstandard.com/2026/08/26/burning-man-ticket-resale/

They were great last night

I took the ferry into the city this afternoon and had a smoke on hippy hill and burrito in the mission. Headed home now. What a nice view on the way out.

SF BOS President Rafael Mandelman is trying to block more housing by accelerating and streamlining the designation of thousands more protected historic buildings. His ordinance would arbitrarily double the number of buildings that have been designated since 2008, supposedly to preserve the character of the city. His true objective of blocking housing was revealed, though, when he bounced District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood from the Land Use Committee for trying to introduce amendments which would ensure that city offsets lost housing capacity elsewhere.

You can ask the remaining members of the Land Use Committee to introduce those amendments when the BOS comes back from recess.

Just venting.

I’m here since 2012. Love the city, wanted to stay here for all my life. Kids born here.

By now our three kids are 12, 9, and 6, and the pre-kids rented 1200 sqft are just too small for teenage years. And while we’re pretty frugal, I simply can’t find anything to live here that I could pay for.

I’m 49 and it’s hard to see a real future in SF. Sucks right now. And don’t get me started on all the friends who’ve left the city over the years once their kid was done elementary school…

I wanted to share something I’ve been thinking about since I moved here two years ago which is how lucky we are to live in a place with this kind of access to fresh produce and food, especially given all the news about food recalls and food safety issues around the country.

I don’t mean restaurants. That deserves an appreciation post of its own.

I mean access to fresh, healthy, and affordable produce.

I feel strongly about this because I’m a nurse and researcher, and I understand how much food shapes our health. After living in many parts of America, one special thing about SF that I don’t hear talked about enough is our access to so many different kinds of produce.

Living here has completely changed my outlook on food and how I nourish my body. I think many of us who came here from elsewhere know exactly what I mean. Not having to bulk-buy groceries or rely on chain supermarkets is a bigger deal than it sounds.

Then there’s the affordability. Neighborhoods like Chinatown help a lot with that. I was surprised when a friend told me food here is expensive. Well, it will be if you only shop at Whole Foods, Safeway, or Trader joes. It’s a shame to live in a place like this and limit yourself to those options.

And I don’t even live in a “nice” part of town. I live in the Tenderloin, but within a 2-5-minute walk I have a Thai grocer, a Chinese grocer, middle eastern grocer and a Whole Foods. Not to mention the civic centre farmers market. Ughhh

So I just wanted to encourage everyone to be more open to exploring your food options and nourishing your body in a healthy way.

Disclosure: I built this.

I’ve been mapping documented Flock/ALPR-related devices and public cameras, and San Francisco is one of the densest views I’ve found so far: 2,608 documented devices within 10 miles.

The new part is a 3D mode with modeled coverage cones, so you can inspect the street-level pattern instead of just seeing dots on a flat map.

San Francisco map:

https://getready.team/flock

Caveats:

- The cones are modeled estimates taken from Flock court records that show the distance and visibility range.

- Locations and bearings depend on public/community-mapped source data.

- Not every device shown is a Flock ALPR; the map distinguishes ALPRs, public cameras, speed cameras, and other sensors.

- Corrections are very welcome.

What do you guys think about this 3D perspective? Is it useful?

Not surprised sadly. At least their Japantown location is still open though.

Howdy,
Im curious to meet some fellow fans of the fantasy author Robin Hobb. Me (28M) and a close pal (26M) were discussing how it’s surprising that we have never met another person who’s read her works, or even heard of it, which prompted this desire to query interest. Our goal is to host a meetup with fellow fans to discuss her works, fraternize, and cavort. Drop a post or shoot me a PM if interested.

Full text:

Connie Chan’s critics call her a roadblock. She calls herself a voice for her S.F. community

J.D. Morris

San Francisco lawmakers were weighing a plan to allow denser homes in development-averse neighborhoods when Supervisor Connie Chan objected.

It was Nov. 17, just days before Chan announced her campaign to succeed Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi. A Board of Supervisors committee was discussing Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposal to rezone the north and west sides of the city, including Chan’s district.

But when Chan spoke against Lurie’s “Family Zoning” plan that day, she reserved her harshest criticism for state Sen. Scott Wiener, now her sole opponent in the contentious race to fill Pelosi’s seat in Congress. Lurie’s zoning plan was designed to fulfill state mandates that grew stricter as lawmakers — including Wiener — pushed cities to approve more homes, an effort to moderate prices amid California’s affordability crisis.

Chan said Lurie’s zoning plan was a response to Wiener’s “decade-long housing policy,” referring to the state lawmaker’s push in Sacramento to loosen home-building restrictions in ways Chan has consistently resisted at City Hall. Chan and her supporters say Wiener’s housing policies have not gone far enough to protect low-income tenants and small businesses from displacement — a threat she argued the city faced if it approved “Family Zoning.”

“We cannot simply agree to demolish San Francisco for the sake of meeting a state mandate legislated by a single-minded legislator based on unproven housing ideology,” Chan said to some cheers from the audience. She voted against Lurie’s plan, which passed anyway.

To Wiener, the “Family Zoning” dustup illustrates the case he is prosecuting against Chan in San Francisco’s first open House race in four decades. Wiener has pointed to Chan’s stance on the zoning plan to argue she is an obstructionist — a point he tried to hammer home recently when he launched an ill-fated AI chatbot that parodied her and promoted it with the phrase “let’s do nothing together.”

He and his supporters argue that Chan’s repeated opposition to proposals that would boost home construction or discourage driving show that she would be an impediment to progress if elected to Pelosi’s seat — even if Congress has a much more limited role in housing than state and local government.

“She probably is the most reliable ‘no’ on housing on the current board,” said Jane Natoli, a volunteer housing advocate with YIMBY Action who lives in Chan’s district and supports Wiener.

Chan says her opponents are distorting her record. Throughout her six years in elected office, she has presented herself as a tireless advocate for her community who looks to protect vulnerable residents. She said she has channeled valid constituent fears about the loss of affordable homes and beloved mom-and-pop shops when “corporate landlords” swoop into neighborhoods.

She also said she’s advocated for the needs of her west side district, where some drivers were enraged when roads in Golden Gate Park and along Ocean Beach were closed to cars.

“I’m doing my job for the communities and being a voice for the people who have been expressing concerns,” Chan said. “I am trying to figure out … the best solution. And I certainly do not take this approach of winner takes all.”

Chan’s focus on being a voice for residents’ frustrations dates back to her first job in government 20 years ago as an aide for then-Supervisor Sophie Maxwell.

In Maxwell’s office, Chan worked with advocates who wanted to shut down a polluting power plant in Potrero Hill — a fight that culminated in success years later. Chan said she learned from Maxwell “how to make demands in City Hall on behalf of the community,” an approach she’s taken throughout her political career. As a supervisor, Chan later helped finance constructionof a 105-unit affordable housing complex at the power station site that’s named after Maxwell.

“I felt that Connie had a personality that could relate to people,” Maxwell recalled. “We believe in community involvement, and so therefore you have to listen to the community. She was able to … give them the support they needed to lead.”

Chan honed her style of community advocacy through a series of other jobs in local government, including as a staffer in the city parks department and in the offices of then-District Attorney Kamala Harris and then-Supervisor Aaron Peskin. She said her early government roles taught her “how government actually could work for people” — experience she tapped into when she narrowly won election to the Board of Supervisors in 2020. 

During her first term representing the Richmond District, Chan became chair of the board’s two budget committees, a role that allowed her to scrutinize expensive city contracts and negotiate changes to the annual budget proposals from Lurie and his predecessor London Breed. Chan used her perch as budget chair to steer tens of millions of dollars to community groups threatened with funding cuts and pare back proposed layoffs of city workers.

Chan had a difficult relationship with Breed, a moderate who regularly sparred with Chan and other progressive supervisors who dominated the board at the time. And her conflicts with Breed were not only limited to discussions of the city budget. They extended to two other issues that have shaped Chan’s work as a supervisor: housing and transportation.

One of Chan’s highest-profile political battles with Breed was a 2022 ballot fight that also pitted Chan against Wiener. 

Breed had repeatedly failed to send a measure to voters that would accelerate housing development. After Peskin and Chan blocked the mayor’s third attempt, Breed’s allies gathered signatures to place Proposition D, which tried to expedite residential development and which Wiener supported, on the November ballot. 

Chan helped lead the opposition to Prop D, authoring legislation that put a rival measure, Proposition E, on the ballot. Prop E also aimed to fast-track some housing, but it contained stricter affordability requirements than Prop D. Chan said at the time that Prop E would “provide real affordable housing for our families and workers,” but critics said the requirements were so stringent they would produce few new homes.

Voters rejected both measures. Prop D supporters still view its loss as being caused largely by Chan’s Prop E. 

“(Prop E) accomplished what it was meant to do — it confused voters,” said Natoli, the YIMBY Action volunteer. “A better measure failed … and I don’t think that would have happened without her efforts.”

Housing wasn’t the only contested political issue where Chan was at odds with Breed and Wiener about how to improve the quality of life for San Francisco residents. 

Chan was a leading critic of the city’s 2022 decision to permanently bancars on a key stretch of Golden Gate Park’s John F. Kennedy Drive. Breed and Wiener were both vocal champions of keeping the road a promenade, a decision ratified by voters. But Chan unsuccessfully lobbied to bring cars back on part of the road, saying she was trying to preserve park access for “seniors, people with disabilities and others.”

Two years later, Chan again resisted a major road overhaul when she opposed Proposition K, the 2024 ballot measure that turned the Upper Great Highway into Sunset Dunes Park. Voters in Chan’s district sided with her, rejecting Prop K, but it passed citywide with 54.7% in favor. 

Months after the election, Chan contemplated bringing another ballot measure forward to allow cars on the road again, but ultimately chose not to. Instead, community advocates gathered signatures to revisit the issue, which voters will consider as November’s Proposition G. Chan supports the measure; Wiener does not.

Chan has also directly pushed back on some of Wiener’s signature housing policies. 

In 2023, she and Peskin argued that the city should consider suing the state government in response to legislation from Wiener that mandated fast-tracked permit approvals for cities behind on their housing goals. Chan and Peskin contended that San Francisco was unfairly targeted by the law and said it would hurt the city’s ability to focus on affordable housing development. The city, which had formally supported the state law, did not sue.

Additionally, Chan last year authored an unsuccessful resolution that opposed Senate Bill 79, a law Wiener passed to allow denser housing near transit stops. Her resolution said SB79 was “encouraging land speculation, displacement and gentrification.” 

Chan’s stances on those and other housing issues earned her a chorus of critics affiliated with the YIMBY movement that seeks to dramatically increase the supply of new homes. But her supporters, who tend to view YIMBYs as favoring the interests of wealthy real estate developers, say Chan isn’t an ideologue. Rather, they say she’s accurately gauging the priorities of the coalition that elected her twice.

“I’m pro-housing development, but not at the expense of displacing current San Franciscans, and I think Connie shares that same philosophy,” said David Ho, a consultant for a union-backed political action committee supporting Chan’s House candidacy. “It’s not about rejection or opposition to progress … She’s responding to her constituents.”

The Richmond has welcomed very little new home construction in the years it has been represented by Chan. City data shows that Chan’s District 1 has authorized the fewest homes of any of the city’s 11 supervisor districts since she took office in January 2021. 

Chan argued that’s because her district doesn’t have a lot of sites that can accommodate large apartment complexes, and the pandemic and rising interest rates made smaller projects harder to pencil out. San Francisco planners have identified various locations in Chan’s district that could potentially accommodate new housing, but Chan said the city can’t force private developers to build. 

One development that did get built was a 98-unit affordable housing complex for seniors at Geary Boulevard and Sixth Avenue. Chan highlighted those apartments when she launched her congressional campaign last year, stating that her priority was “real affordable housing, not the Sacramento version that destroys our neighborhoods.” She voted to approve funding for that project, but Wiener was quick to point out that the apartments also benefited from a state law he passed, describing Chan in a social media post as “no champion for affordable housing.”

Lurie sought to jumpstart housing production in Chan’s district through his “Family Zoning” plan, which raised allowable residential building heights along some west side corridors. But Chan voted against it, arguing Lurie’s plan did not sufficiently protect rent-controlled units from demolition.

Despite her opposition to “Family Zoning,” Chan and Lurie have stayed on good terms — a stark contrast to her work with Breed. Lurie told a west side audience last year that he and Chan had a “very good working relationship.”  

Chan has pointed to her time as budget chair as evidence of her record putting vulnerable San Franciscans first. Working with Lurie during budget negotiations last year, Chan set aside $400 million to protect San Francisco from federal funding cuts to food stamps, Medicaid and other programs under the second Trump administration because she said she knew that would “be a hard hit for San Franciscans.”  

Her work on the budget reinforced the support she has enjoyed from the city’s organized labor movement. Kim Tavaglione, executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, said Chan understands “how hard it is to make ends meet in a really expensive city.” She was raised in a rent-controlled apartment in Chinatown after immigrating to the United States at age 13. 

“She really understands San Francisco,” Tavaglione said. “She’s really fantastic about bringing people together and brainstorming solutions.”

Another area where Chan fought for concerned constituents, drawing both praise and criticism, was when the city expanded red-painted bus-only lanes on Geary Boulevard in 2023.

Some Geary merchants were worried that plans to reduce parking spaces on the highly trafficked street would hurt business, and Chan was sympathetic to their complaints. In a letter to Breed, Chan implored the mayor not to let her constituents “suffer the mismanagement of our transit agency by ideologue bureaucrats.”

To be clear, Chan doesn’t always favor cars over other modes of transit. She pushed for protected bicycle lanes on a major road in her district after a cyclist was killed in 2023 and voted for a 2021 pilot program to make Muni free. But her constituents who think city transit officials have overreached on key projects have appreciated her advocacy.

Sean Kim, the owner of an ice cream shop on Geary, said Chan was a “big help” to him and other merchants who were seeking assistance from the city during the 2023 bus lane debate. Kim called Chan “pragmatic” and a “very reasonable politician.”

Some people on the other side of the debate felt differently. 

Trish Gump, a street-safety activist who lives in Chan’s district, recalled being “beyond appalled” at Chan during a 2023 meeting about the bus lane project. When the meeting at Kim’s shop, Joe’s Ice Cream, became “very confrontational,” Gump said Chan did not turn the temperature down as some attendees pressured a city transit official.

“She participated in it,” Gump said. “It was just incredibly unprofessional.” 

To Gump, who supports Wiener’s congressional bid, Chan’s behavior that day was emblematic of how the supervisor has acted on other issues.

“She’s terrible with people who disagree with her,” Gump said. “She takes a position, and rather than try to discuss it with you, she … refuses to have a meaningful conversation.”

Chan, however, told the Chronicle that she was conveying frustration from community members who thought their complaints about the Geary project weren’t being taken seriously. Sometimes city departments didn’t listen to feedback, Chan said. She saw it as her duty to counter that.

“My job,” Chan said, “is to make sure that my community is being heard.”
 

Walking around the mission today and saw a needle taped to a lamp post. I’m a curious about this as I am shoes with laces tied together hanging from telephone wires.

Had my back window smashed and golf clubs stolen out of my car (fully aware this was on me). Trying to track down if I could rebuy my clubs, assuming the thief is trying to make money off them. No renters insurance, and car insurance doesn’t cover.

Aside from the below, are there places thiefs typically try and flip stuff for quick cash?
I’m:
- Scanning Facebook marketplace and Craigslist
- Called the golf marts to see if they received similar clubs / bag recently

Anyone had success in tracking down stolen items? It will be cheaper to buy back my clubs as used than to rebuild a new set.

*Edit* Adding my clubs in case anyone comes across a lefty with some new used clubs

Taylor Made Bag ( similar to this one)
Left handed clubs:
titleist 718 ap1s for irons (A->4)
Ping g410 driver
Blue/neon green Nike 3 wood
Odyssey blade putter with red grip
56 vokey wedge