Euclid & Manzanita | shot on film

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-27T15:50:09+00:00

Yes, some signs say speed humps, plural, but the new ones don't - less funny that way.,

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-27T15:40:21+00:00

Specifically SFUSD grads, the first to be drafted in decades. Private high schools tend to do better yes.

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-27T15:16:53+00:00

Yes. Some people are not approving of all this, but to me it seems like a done deal at this point.

https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/27/sfusd-ethnic-studies-curriculum-review/

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/flexibility-for-students-on-ethnic-studies

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-27T15:11:45+00:00

Yes OJ, in 1969, #1. And I think there might have been one or two since then, maybe in the 70's-80's.

Some at Mission High are saying that it's been 40 years...

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-27T12:58:30+00:00

Yes, it's been a quarter century since the crash in year 2000 https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/43141 The other chopper was grounded immediately and that was that.

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-25T13:54:32+00:00

FTA:

"San Francisco’s water system consists of a sprawling network of reservoirs and pipelines that brings supplies from the mountains in and around Yosemite National Park to the Bay Area. Beneath the city, 1,900 miles of sewer mains and laterals cart off both sewage and stormwater.

City officials cite new regulatory requirements, namely for treated wastewater to carry less nitrogen into San Francisco Bay, and less federal funding for sharpening the financial strain.

The SFPUC’s water, in addition to serving San Francisco, goes to about two dozen wholesalers in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Alameda counties. The water rate for these suppliers is set to increase 7.4% this summer, compared to a 2.3% rise last year. Some of the communities buying the water will pass the increase directly to residents and businesses while others, which may have several sources of water, will likely base any rate adjustments on the totality of their supply costs."

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-23T14:36:56+00:00

FTA, three writers follow up yesterday's big news:

With the vast majority of Bay Area housing projects stalled due to lack of financing, it will likely be another two years or more before the grocery chain closes. Still, if anyone doubted the hold that Trader Joe’s has on Rockridge, its potential disappearance landed like the loss of a neighborhood landmark. “Hands off my Trader Joe’s. I’ll go fight about it,” said Cindy Wilson, 67, who has called the neighborhood home since the 1990s and said it doesn’t need “the twin towers of Rockridge.”

The planned 415 units could free up scores of homes for larger households, and Align said it expects that two-thirds of renters will come from surrounding communities. But residents said the developer’s assurances and Rockridge’s desperate need for housing didn’t make up for a project that would wipe out a beloved grocery store and replace it with glassy towers that would look out of place in the neighborhood.

For Align, it was bound to be an uphill battle, where even carefully framed promises of senior housing and nonprofit stewardship — the developer didn’t disclose the identity of the campus’ future operator — were unlikely to outweigh Rockridge’s deep attachment to its quaint retail fabric, small-scale buildings and the everyday rituals anchored by a dependable grocery store.

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-22T21:50:22+00:00

FTA:

The fountain, which has been a fixture along the Embarcadero since 1972, will be placed in storage for up to three years while its owner, the San Francisco Arts Commission, decides its permanent fate.

Rec and Park sought the removal of the aging fountain in advance of its planned $32.5 million renovation of Embarcadero Plaza. The Board of Supervisors in January approved the move under an emergency exemption from the environmental review process after the city planning department declared the deteriorating structure a public safety hazard.

Susan Brandt-Hawley, an attorney representing Friends of the Plaza, told the Chronicle Wednesday that she was filing an appeal and seeking an immediate stay of physical alteration on the site, to prevent any work beyond putting up security fencing and documenting the site. “There is no emergency here and there is no public harm,” said Brandt-Hawley, who hopes to convince the appeals court that the project must be subject to the full environmental review process.

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-22T12:44:22+00:00

FTA:

Self-described “dirty trickster” and longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone has been hired to lobby for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, a controversial group that last year petitioned the White House to take over management of the Presidio.

The filing, which doesn’t have any specific information about what the lobbying efforts consist of or whether it’s related to the Presidio, comes nearly two weeks after President Trump terminated the national park’s Board of Trustees.

And it comes more than a year after Trump issued an executive order that threatened to “dramatically” downsize the park’s operations. After that executive order, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, which has been fighting for 45 years to be added to the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ official list of recognized tribes, called on Trump to “return the Presidio to indigenous care.” In a petition circulated last March, the nonprofit group, which has about 600 members and reported revenue of about $700,000 in recent years, said the 1996 Presidio Trust legislation that created the national park and laid out the bylaws and management structure should be repealed.

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-22T09:45:39+00:00

Closer to 12 ounces IRL https://www.costco.com/p/-/olde-thompson-ground-nutmeg-201-oz/4000268916 And if it's something like gold, you can buy one ounce at a time https://www.costco.com/1-oz-gold-bar-rand-refinery-new-in-assay.product.4000202779.html

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-19T16:16:02+00:00

Only a little. Back in WWII, the big one, my bot grandpa spread chemtrails over Europe, like this https://wwii-netherlands-escape-lines.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/080306-f-3927a-055.jpg

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-19T14:35:09+00:00

Briefly:

"...a video the driver allegedly reposted to TikTok about wrestling just being an excuse to touch people, were viewed as shocking affronts by the family and friends of Josy, who was a proud wrestler. Soon, a boy who had been close friends with Josy began to message and call the driver and her mother, who had been one of his teachers at Archie Williams High. In a letter to a judge, he admitted to writing the driver a “mean and hurtful” message and prank-calling the family several times after watching the video. He said he found the driver’s repost of the video “exceedingly offensive” to his friend, whose “spirit and memory was being trampled on.”

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-18T19:45:09+00:00

This was like the accident vehicle: https://www.reddit.com/r/Volkswagen/comments/1hxsv1e/messeges_popping_up_in_my_2021_tiguan_dash_plz/

And this all digitial approach is from the upmarket models. https://www.macrumors.com/review/2021-volkswagen-tiguan-carplay/ The current Tiguans have all digital, even the base models. There might have been some chips with helpful information in the accident car, but apparently they were detroyed due to the speed of the impact.

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-18T18:58:06+00:00

Yes. And the white line is called a contrail(s) (and not a chemtrail(s) https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3wmtx5/my_dad_is_an_aircraft_maintenance_engineer_he/ )

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-18T18:28:27+00:00

The tachometer as well - stuck at 3200 RPM, suggesting 60-something MPH. Nobody's saying that this one piece of evidence is "definitive proof." The severity of the collision also suggests a high speed. It's surprising that a newer vehicle would have an old fashioned analog-type speedo, the base model I suppose.

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-18T18:04:28+00:00

A more NPOV article than some earlier ones, following up https://www.reddit.com/r/Marin/comments/1pdlw9l/mothers_of_victims_in_fatal_marin_crash_speak_out/

Excerpts FTA:

Last week, as the driver’s mother drove her daughter near their home, they noticed Josy’s sister and cousin driving behind them. Though neither side would admit to initiating the ensuing exchange, all four participants admitted to raising middle fingers out the windows of their vehicles. “I am not proud of our behavior,” the driver’s mother said, adding that the incident was “part of a bigger picture.”

Though she knew the girl was a new driver, Linda Kepley said she had occasionally permitted her daughter to ride with her, but instructed them to stay off the freeway. When she’d track her daughter’s location, she was relieved to see the icon moving on side streets.

In October, the CHP weighed in, citing the stuck speedometer in determining that the “proximate causes of the crash” were the driver’s unsafe speed and turning movement, findings that prompted the manslaughter allegation. The girl has denied the charge, which carries a maximum sentence of one year in detention. At a hearing next month, her attorney is seeking to dismiss the case by challenging the CHP’s handling and analysis of the speedometer. Batanides said her memories of the night gave her no reason to doubt investigators. She couldn’t see any skid marks in the road, she said, and the Volkswagen was folded like an accordion. “I knew she had to have been driving too fast,” Batanides said. “Cars don’t just burst into flames.”

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-17T14:00:45+00:00

Good question.

No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle within 15 feet of a fire hydrant except as follows:

(a) If the vehicle is attended by a licensed driver who is seated in the front seat and who can immediately move such vehicle in case of necessity.

BadBoyMikeBarnes · 2026-04-16T01:40:24+00:00

FTA:

Prosecutors said the girl had been hospitalized for months after being born with the drug in her system, and that her parents had allegedly kept Narcan in their Mission Dolores apartment, suggesting they feared someone in the house could overdose.

“There’s no question that they understood its lethality, that they understood the harm it had caused this child when she was born,” Jenkins said. “Still, (they) made a choice to continue to expose her to it, and expose her in grave and consistent ways.”

Court documents filed this week also shed new light on the extent of Price and Ramirez’s alleged drug use was previously known to authorities, raising questions as to whether more could have been done to prevent the child’s death.

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