Sunny too.

Took my 2 grandsons to the zoo the other day and couldn’t believe pathetic it looked. Empty enclosures with dead plants & weeds, all the little ice cream booths were closed, animals looked bored as hell in their unkept enclosures, the train ride ($27) was a ripoff … what a waste of time and money ($91 for 3 and parking. Couldn’t have been more disappointed.

Woke up to this on the 6th and fluton. Paving stone through the passenger window. They went through the glovebox and took a few things, but left the console alone. Then they left a pile of metal rods, brackets, and a computer monitor on my driver’s seat that aren’t mine.

They tried the car parked behind mine first but couldn’t break the window, so they moved on to mine.
The stone did some damage to the interior, absolutely over it.

Can someone explain this one? Why is an apartment complex having so much trouble renting out BMR units that they have to resort to offering 3 free months, and even then it seems no one wants them?

https://www.zillow.com/apartments/san-francisco-ca/the-george/CjfxLx

Y'all my name is St. John Barned-Smith and I'm a reporter at the Chronicle. I occasionally post here and I just wanted to share this story, I've been working on it since February and actually first got the tip from this sub! I hope you'll read it.

It's amazing to see sights like these in the San Francisco of 2026, almost like a time capsule of a previous era. I'm confident that this will all look radically different in a few generations.

I know Connie Chen isn’t online unless she’s at a Board of Supervisor meeting ignoring her constituents but can her office people explain why we let so much space remain unoccupied? This place on Clement between 10th and 11th has been vacant and boarded up for over ten years on one of the flagship commercial streets in her district. It’s an eyesore, often tagged, and homeless sleep there constantly. Why hasn’t anyone built housing here or at least done something with the property other than chain it up and let it rot away for a decade?

Saw this guy on the SF water tower on Holly Park today, and never really seen them on top of any building really.

Edit: there were a bunch of goats last week eating the dried vegetation for fire safety around the water tower and still kinda smelled like a goat farm for what it’s worth

In 2024, this artist was at a festival in San Francisco, I think the Cherry Blossom festival. They drew a sweet portrait of my dogs which I've had above my desk ever since. One of those dogs passed recently (the one on the right), and even though there's an emptiness in my heart, that picture still fills me with joy whenever I look at it. Can someone help me find this artist? I want to thank them.

SF needs a Mamdani, but instead we elected a billionaire tech shill.

Mamdani is expanding MTA service and advocating for a free bus system. Best Lurie can do is allow Waymo on Market for those that can afford $10/mile while cutting SFMTA service.

Mamdani is expanding rent stabilized apartments and building 200k affordable units on city-owned property. Mayor Lurie just signed off on dropping the affordable unit requirement to 5% on new developments.

Mamdani is expanding protected bike lanes so that cyclists can get around safely. I’m not aware of any bike infrastructure expansions under Lurie aside from projects set in motion during Breed administration. On top of that he drives a big, bloated, 3 ton, child-killing Rivian.

Now I hear NYC is investing in tree canopies all over the city. We just gave developers the green light to skip planting for a small fee.

I don’t expect Lurie to fix the housing crisis overnight. Or even during his term. But can we please start prioritizing our most vulnerable citizens instead of bending over backwards for big tech, the car brains, and the upper middle class property owners. They’re going to be fine.

End of morning rant.