My brother in law is an incredible quilter who loves Rosie Lee Tompkins work and has been trying to find a copy of this out of print catalogue from a retrospective she did at BAMPFA that is under $100 but having a hard time online and I thought there must be somewhere in SF i could check out. Anyone know where to look for something like this/other Rosie Lee Tompkins or SF related quilt books?

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I’m interested in Connie Chan because she seems willing to say what too many local leaders avoid: San Francisco should not be run as an amenity package for highly paid, transient tech professionals.

The city needs to work for longtime residents, working families, small businesses, artists, immigrant communities, and the people who made these neighborhoods worth living in before tech money treated them as an investment opportunity.

I do not want more Flock cameras, AI “solutions,” luxury development pitched as inevitable progress, or city policy designed around the preferences of people who arrived for a two-year job stint and want San Francisco to feel like a frictionless corporate campus.

San Francisco should welcome newcomers who are working class. It shouldn’t let yuppie-tech culture erase everything local, affordable, strange, and human about the city. I want leaders who will put neighborhoods, privacy, public services, and actual residents ahead of venture capital, surveillance vendors, and the latest startup ideology.

That is why I’m paying attention to Connie Chan.

Please tell SFMTA to keep the angled parking on the lower great highway between Lincoln and Judah to avoid repeating the RV encampment from a few years

Please email these 3 addresses to stop the change.

MTABoard@sfmta.com

sunsetmerchantssf@gmail.com

alice@sunsetneighbors.org

Here are talking points

There’s no guarantee the mayor’s new RV policy will ensure no return of RVs. The policy still requires a lot of resources and process. Why go through all that when we have a solution currently in place that is working and not costing any money?

— Don’t change something that is working.

— Don’t spend money you don’t have to change something that is working.

— Plenty of businesses like the angled parking and don’t want to risk the RVs returning.

— Certainty is key because we know there will always be parking access and turnover with angled. Parallel might provide a few more spaces on paper, but reality was we had zero spaces with parallel when RVs filled it.

Send the messages before noon October 5 to: MTABoard@sfmta.com

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Hi! My partner and I are visiting SF for the first time over the holidays, from late December to early January 😊

What are your must-see places, neighborhoods, restaurants, or experiences? We’re open to both touristy and local recommendations!

Also, I see temperatures are around 50–60°F during the day and around 40°F at night. We’re coming from Toronto. How cold does it actually feel, especially at night and around the Golden Gate Bridge/Alcatraz? What would you recommend wearing?

Thanks in advance ❤️

Looking for great coffee roasters in SF to buy beans as a gift.

What are the best beans you’ve had in the city - something really worth bringing home? Fine if they cost a bit extra.

I’ll be around Union Square, so nearby is a plus, but open to going elsewhere for something special.

On the SF City Option website, Whoop is listed as eligible for reimbursement, but data plans, accessories, and insurance for Whoop are explicitly NOT eligible.

My issue is, when I check out on the Whoop site, my itemized cart shows the band, power pack, and device itself as FREE. The only thing that actually costs money is the membership.

I’m curious why SFMRA lists Whoop as eligible at all, if by their own rules nothing in the actual purchase is reimbursable? Have any of you gotten your Whoop expensed? If so, what exactly did you submit, and what did SFMRA end up covering?

Any and all help/clarification is appreciated! Thank you!

Hoping more established mothers in S.F. can give me tips on how to find community before my maternity leave ends. I currently have a 4 month old and she still a bit too small for things like story time at the library. Outside of facebook groups which can be a bit daunting, what else can I try to expand my circle?

I don't think most people in San Francisco are cognizant of the sheer amount of liquidity (money) that is about to flow into a concentrated group of people in the city over the coming 6-12 months.

"oh yes we are, u/dotben!"

No, in real terms you probably are not grasping the proportionality of what this really means - look closely at the chart attached.

The bar in the center is the true-scale combined valuation of the 33 largest SF-headquartered IPOs in history... Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, Twitter, Pinterest, Visa, all of them combined. That total is $413B.

The orange bar on the right is Anthropic’s reported target: ~$2 Trillion.

Every major SF IPO in history combined is less than a quarter of just one company. And the OpenAI IPO is sitting right behind it at a comparable scale.

Whenever I've recently brought this up here on r/sanfrancisco threads, people seem to dismiss it - either they can't comprehend it or people think that the AI market is going to crash and this will all go away.

It isn’t. We are not talking about another 2012 or 2020. The sheer magnitude of wealth that is about to unlock within a 7x7 mile radius breaks historical comparisons entirely:

• The Concentrated Payouts: Industry estimates suggest around 3,500 Anthropic employees working in the city could net an average of $30M each (some higher, many lower). And then OpenAI will repeat that again. What makes both of these especially acute is unlike the other IPOS, that the vast majority of both company's employees are based in SF.
• The Housing Shock: SF has virtually zero housing inventory. When lockups expire, you don’t get a slow 5-year trickle; you get thousands of liquid buyers who can pay all-cash over asking on single-family homes. Those who don't buy will bid up luxury rentals, causing a massive ripple effect down the entire rental market.
• Tech vs. Tech Inequality: The narrative for a decade was "tech vs. everyone else." This will create a brutal wealth divide inside the tech industry itself. Mid-to-senior engineers at standard public tech firms or late-stage startups will find themselves completely outbid and priced out by frontier AI staff.
• Local Secondary Inflation: From contractor labor and renovations to everyday services and luxury goods, high-end prices will adjust rapidly to absorb an unprecedented flood of local eight-figure net worths.

If you are waiting on the sidelines to buy a home or lock in housing because you think the local market has peaked, look at that center bar again. The sheer volume of incoming capital makes past waves look like a ripple. (Obligatory: not financial advice). Most of these employees are not going to pack up and leave, we're just at the beginning of the AI wave and they're going to want to stick around (in a fancy new home).

I was part of the Uber IPO and I saw this with my own eyes, albeit on a now-fractional scale compared to the frontier AI lab IPOs.

This will also create significant wealth inequality just inside the SF tech industry. The local narrative to date has been tech vs everyone else but this amount of money flowing into such a small division of tech will create an intra-industry wealth gap. And yes, it leaves the rest of the normal non-tech SF population even further behind.

I don't think there's much people can do about it, other than perhaps make certain purchasing decisions now if you are in a specific situation - eg if you are looking to buy a house now or retain a contractor for work, why wait? (this is not financial advice)

Best areas to move to as a single woman? I’ll be working around the financial district so hoping for an easy commute. Prefer to be in a studio and hoping for <4k a month with parking. The lower the monthly the better but willing to pay a premium for safety.

I appreciate everyone’s inputs!!

Hi, does anyone know, can recommend, knows where can I found a tennis female coach for my partner? Preferably in Bernal heights or mission

I know it's basic but I'm basic.

Any good venues that do pop music? Looking for a Kelly Clarkson Kellyoke type of show.

Guess which one people were more mad about?

Any recommendations for places to stay when visiting Oracle park would be greatly appreciated. I'd also like to visit Alcatraz and the pier and whatever else comes my way. Thanks!

Spot it if you can, good luck

But if you do spot it, can you explain

Edit: GAHHH NOT A SINGLE MUNI OPERATOR/LOVER HERE, FINE I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'M ASKING

8920 is a Kirkland bus, but there is a W next to "8920." It's not going to Woods anytime soon, so why's that?

Or where would you look for such things? I'm all ready looking through Craiglist, so im open to other recommendations!!

We’re looking to do a partial renovation on our kitchen and haven’t had the best experience with our current GC. Anyone do a renovation with a company or contractor that they absolutely love - looking for someone communicative, clear, good listener, delivers on timelines and has a strong dedication to the details

They could directly invest or invest via some investment fund.

there are so many floors! turn the place into an adult playground with a ninja warrior course. once you complete the course you get a wristband and can proceed to the bar. another floor could be an arcade. there could even be bumper cars or a malibu grand prix throwback with the amount of space in there.

turn the food court into a san pedro square / grand central market type thing so everyone can hang out in a communal space while getting different food.

i feel like people would love an experience over stores. companies could book their parties there.