i want this but framed as a 10 foot tall print
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Woke up very early this morning to swim a very cold lap around Alcatraz with my friends. Grateful each and every day for a body that works the way I want it to 💪 ♥️
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Looking to talk with folks who've gotten a job at a retail chain (big box, restaurant, coffee shop, etc.) in the past year or so for a story. I'm on annie@theatlantic.com, or find me here!
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love to live in a "supermajority Democrat elected leaders" state 🫠
and thank you to the real ones like who support staff unionization efforts, as well as other ways of improving the workplace for state employees!
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Unionization isn’t the only area where the Legislature exempts itself. They set rules for other state agencies and businesses that they don’t require themselves to follow: minimum wage, whistleblower protections, public access and more.
//@SameeaKamal
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The worst thing I did today was listen to this episode of the Daily… particularly the take on what a “healthy housing market” is, and why
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just learned today that Craigslist has a hidden page where you can check the local tides and weather?!
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Good morning from juvenile hall in SF. There are now 20 Children in cages. 100% are kids of color in a city that is ~65% white. Let that sink in.
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Does it really count as eating a cupcake for lunch if the bakery register person forgot to charge you for it?
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“I am a Californian… because I am thinking and writing face to face with a mighty and lovely Nature, by the side of whose greatness I am but a worm.”
😭
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Hey builders, attorneys & :
Some people are asking whether cities face the builder's remedy if they adopted their housing element by the deadline (yesterday, in Bay Area) but didn't get it certified by HCD by deadline.
This one has an easy answer.
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Winter light in San Francisco, the clarity will alarm you
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This happened earlier in the month, but always a cool event when this body of water connects to the ocean. Do you know what beach in Point Reyes this is? (Video by Phil)
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Next, AIM is going to reboot SmarterChild
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Google just launched chat.google.com, its alternative to chat.openai.com.
And let me tell you, it's nowhere near as good.
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Apprenticeships should make a big comeback.
They're by far the superior system for learning & training for the job you want while at the same time becoming great at it.
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Episode 2: Elon vs. the eviction team at the San Francisco Sheriff's Department
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🧵 SF Board of Supervisors is poised today to approve a strong housing plan (housing element) that plans for 82k new homes in next 8 years: 3x the # of homes planned for in the last plan.
This transformative moment didn’t happen randomly. We changed state law to MAKE it happen:
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Honestly yea it works. Offer your number, tell them you think they’re cool, tell them you’re trying to make new friends. Done.
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'how do i make friends as an adult' literally ask a cool person if they want to be friends. simple as. no one will ever say no and if they aren't really interested they'll just quietly let it peter out like a civilized person. i could charge $200 a seminar for this but here i am
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There’s a man on my Nextdoor who posts a sunrise photo everyday from the same spot in the park. ☀️ He turned 74 today & let everyone know, as I’m pretty sure this is his main (only?) social network. There are so many people gushing for him to have a great day that it’s crashing.
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Related: a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Stopped by my old corner store tonight. More of this please.
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Huge thank you to Kyle Huey for manually going through Orinda's 300 or so single family sites and flagging ones that are invalid. This is incredible public service work.
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You can do all these things with/without a wetsuit! Hypothermia sucks and is no rite of passage! Many of us will help you feel safe and comfortable in the ocean so you can fall in love with it as we have, skins or not.
Ok, that's all. Rant for the (day, week, month?) over.
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But wild swimming is also about breath in cold, salty air. Existing in sync with the infinitely powerful Pacific. Memorizing our city skyline. Bobbing in waves, awestruck by fiery sunrises. Meeting our unique marine mammals, water birds, jellyfish, Coast Guard, Bar Pilots.
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This fixation might come off as subtle wetsuit shaming, when it's more about adventure training and moonshot goals. Are people competitive and sometimes assholes about it? Of course. It's usually just bragging, but comes off as bullying to those who are already intimidated.
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Because so many folks are focused on training cold water tolerance, there's a lot of talk about it. Generally, I find wild swimmers are more competitive about cold water tolerance than speed.
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And if you don't care to learn about cold water tolerance: just as well! Think of it as a different sport -- some people train for both cold water and swimming, some people only care about one. It's pretty value-neutral to me.
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But it's not really their business why you swim and what's important to you.
If you ever want to shed the wetsuit, there's a lot to learn about doing it safely and managing hypothermia, and there are a lot of people who will teach you everything you need to know and more.
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For the majority of experienced and active Bay swimmers at the clubs, both of these things are very important to them, or they gravitate toward cold water tolerance > speed/endurance... hence the attachment to swimming skins and culture of wetsuit shaming.
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It's fine to care about one (athleticism vs. cold water tolerance) and not care about the other. You can train cold water tolerance if it's important to *you*. You can train for long athletic swims if that's important to *you*.
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Cold water tolerance is orthogonal to speed or athletic endurance. They're independent -- totally different body adaptations. I know people who are incredible swimmers and have no cold tolerance. And I know very slow swimmers who can stay in sub-50 degree water for hours.
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Some people come into wild Bay swimming for the cold water, and stay for the community.
Some people come for the community, and then learn to love cold water later.
Some people come because they love swimming a lot, and stay because they love swimming a lot.
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Going back to the community, there's so much to learn about safety in rough, cold, wild ocean that has nothing to do with water temperature. It's such a privilege to be guided for awhile by veterans at the club, and then gain enough experience to pass it down to others.
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And just as valid: some people just don't enjoy the cold water part of wild swimming here in the San Francisco Bay!
AND THAT'S FINE. IT'S A SPORT THAT YOU DO FOR FUN AND BECAUSE IT FEELS GOOD.
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Some people have health conditions that put them at higher risk for hypothermia and/or scary health events in the water. They have the humility & self-awareness of their limits, and value self-reliance.
Don't depend on others to keep you safe because you want to be reckless.
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Some people wear a wetsuit when they're new because they want to have one variable (the cold, and some additional buoyancy from neoprene) taken care of while they master the rest.
Maybe they have a goal to eventually go no wetsuit, but gotta take it one thing at a time.
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There are so many valid reasons to wear a wetsuit for cold water swims:
Some people have the athleticism for long swims, but haven't built up a cold water tolerance yet and don't want that to limit how long they can be out there (very common for experienced pool swimmers).
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Most everything I know about being a safe, responsible, risk-aware SF open water swimmer, I learned from going out and swimming with people who had 10-20-30 more yrs experience in these notoriously rough waters. You can't be safe *and* adventurous here without that community.
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