The original water tower in Palo Alto, Calif from 1896, just off the Spanish royal road that opened in 1775-7. The water rates are fun: $1 per house and family, 40 cents per bathroom, and 25 cents per horse or cow.

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July 22nd will be my Bēs-centennial birthday! (pronounced: biece (like piece) centennial). If "semi-centennial" in Latin means "half-century," then two-thirds would be based on Latin for "two-thirds" (bēs or bēssis), to coin a new term (shown: balloons from the future).

"This is ridiculous, I need my phone to brush!" -- FemmyWaff (Saigon) ❤️🐺 🔜 DoreSF just now, wandering thru the room looking for their phone, which has a Oral-B app on it that displays what areas they've toothbrushed and if they've brushed too hard.

San Francisco summers are famously chilly, with hot inland valleys pulling cold, foggy ocean gusts thru the city. June 2025 was exceptional, among the coldest since 1982. The measured daily maximums at SFO did not exceed 65 °F/18C from June 3 until end of June (pic The New York Times)

Calling it.

Saigon FemmyWaff (Saigon) ❤️🐺 🔜 DoreSF at SF Pride (by MarcoSanchez.net, head by @/magpiebones)

"706" -- so: 155, 165, 175, (tiny) 706, 195. I mean, how would you even find that. You'd prolly start in the 700 boxes, on another wall... You can't see the tiny 706 from there.

Sunset over San Francisco Bay rn

Jabari the Serval literally taking up the entire bed

Fooood?!?

Japanese lizard by 路地裏こにー.

Spotti in tiger form by Gouda (FORFUN)

"Ah haha!" -- seen on Hey 280 to San Francisco, left here without comment.

"do more than exist" -- Definitely

Commercial fusion is no longer "30 years away,” as it has been since the 1950s. Widespread commercial deployment is now just 10–15 years off. That's a remarkable change. Low cost energy w/o carbon would have enormous geopolitical impact. time.com/7302543/nuclea…

3 years ago winning a judges award for costuming at San Diego Comic-Con International. Suit by Clockwork Creature.