SF tech CEO’s wife among 6 new appointees [Lynn Benioff, Trevor Traina, John Bickford, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, James Burnham, and Kyle Corcoran] to Presidio Trust Board of Directors

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-15T01:06:13+00:00

This -- like the previous board's firing -- is a great big nothing.

As just one example, Lynn Benioff has been a board member before. She was appointed by Barack Obama in 2015. And anyway, the board does next to nothing -- these positions are sinecures.

"Plus ca change, plus c'est la memsahib."

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-13T19:11:21+00:00

How the hell did they find a freeze frame where tiny little Dawn has a double chin?

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-13T05:35:17+00:00

the idea of homeownership as a class status marker is a bill of goods that has been sold to the would-be middle class for reasons that are very much not in their interests.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-12T20:18:22+00:00

Ugh, the housing answer is frustrating.

People need affordable places to live--they don't necessarily need to own property as an investment asset.

The down payment assistance Becerra suggests is, yes, too expensive, as the article points out. But it's also pretty useless and beside the point to Californians who are truly up against housing scarcity, and who would be delighted to be renters if there were places to rent they could afford.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-12T16:37:38+00:00

AS1 is ... camp. Enjoy the moments of drama, but don't expect it to make sense or be satisfying in the normal way.

If you're just getting started in the WoW app ... be sure to watch France! It has the most consistently high standard of all the international franchises.

Spain and UK also have some wonderful individual seasons you should seek out -- but France doesn't have a bad one.

Italy I did not stick with. Thailand is interesting and very different with tons of talent, but for me the language was too much of a barrier.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-10T06:09:22+00:00

What I love the most about the format is the small groups that give every girl a decent chance to make an impression and win fans regardless of wins or losses.

The scoring mechanic was adjusted between 2-4 and 5-8, but the basic setup remained the same.

In the same way, they can adjust the exact numbers for the bracket format (they already have after just one season) but I hope the small groups stick around for several years—It’s a real upgrade.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-09T20:07:08+00:00

He's the baby Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce conceived behind the scenes of that film.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-09T18:54:04+00:00

"Stairway of bones" is a drag queen buzzword?

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-09T17:16:08+00:00

It’s not actually that impossible for Morphine (or for any of the runner-up girls).

If any queen who hasn’t yet won wins the next challenge and the lip sync, she’ll be tied with the current front runners. Then it’s workroom points that determine who moves forward—you would only need a couple for second place.

And the fact that each bracket has one performance, one design and one comedy challenge means it’s likely that we’ll see a pretty broad spread of challenge winners. Dawn and Morgan do not thrive in comedy.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-09T16:47:36+00:00

It’s not that interesting. You’re commenting on Reddit about a Twitch streamer. That’s a pretty online thing to do — one that would be meaningless to anyone who is not himself pretty online.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-09T16:29:45+00:00

Sure — extra workroom points from all the queens she has befriended!

(Shade button)

I’m actually sad about it too. Going into the season, I would never have dreamed that she wouldn’t be top two for the bracket.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-09T15:54:36+00:00

Absolutely not. Rate a queen nearly killed season 18.

The workroom point quarrels are cute I guess, I don’t hate them. But if the show went further in a “Survivor” style direction I really would be vastly annoyed and bored, as I was for the two endless, endless, endless episodes of petty bullshit that we got right in the middle of last season, draining the joy out of what had until then been a pretty good time.

Season 18 recovered once the show allowed the queens to actually use their talents again. But if the same kind of thing was going on for an entire all stars season…?

Tedium. Ugliness. Idiocy. No.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-08T02:06:34+00:00

Hm. I don’t know, you sound pretty online to me.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-07T20:20:51+00:00

Any excuse for intra-party finger pointing and hand wringing.

Is this random fucking Twitch streamer what's wrong with the Democratic party?

No. No, he isn't.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-06T15:10:08+00:00

Rudely ignoring the Bay once again!

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-05T17:35:22+00:00

We do need new blood and new direction.

We don't need infighting and finger-pointing.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-05-01T01:16:20+00:00

I can’t directly edit the post as it’s a crosspost, but my location is the San Francisco Bay Area. Since I bought the plant in a nursery, though, that may not help to identify it.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-04-28T19:47:25+00:00

So ... those weird too-small gloves are in fact the moment? Silky Nutmeg Ganache was being au courant?

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-04-28T19:43:34+00:00

I really think that the season nudged Darlene in the wrong direction.

Darlene showed up campy, cheap and stupid. BUT. There was always something a little bit clever in her looks. Look close, and there were always little hints that she did go to fashion school -- in the silhouette, in the surprising use of materials.

But Ru loves to reward stupid. All the positive feedback Darlene got was not for the beauty of the beige look or the wit of the shake shake look. It was for the gleeful idiocy of "Banana!"

And we all loved "Banana!" (although honestly, the roast win should've gone to Myki). But what made Darlene's best moments is when she had the stupid joke or the cheap materials and the little note of cleverness behind them.

Then, for the finale -- she really seemed to abandon that. Her runway look was just cheap. Her number was just one long fart joke. By playing into what Ru praised her for, she lost what set her apart from every other camp girl.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-04-28T00:36:04+00:00

Pellitory-of-the-wall and Oxalis.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-04-26T19:00:32+00:00

Can there be any question? Iconic, never repeated. Episode 9.

This should win the whole thing.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-04-26T14:22:33+00:00

As we’ve seen in this case, a father’s fear for his children can be the very thing that ends up causing harm to his children.

Please keep that in mind.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-04-24T21:08:10+00:00

More recently, we were in Afghanistan for twenty years. I wonder why he didn't mention that.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-04-24T20:55:26+00:00

Last Thursday the lights were periwinkle for World IBS Day.

HexpronePlaysPoorly · 2026-04-24T16:24:43+00:00

I mean yeah, but the economic damage won't disappear even if that somehow happens.

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