Todd Berman

Todd Berman

@theartdontstop.bsky.social

San Francisco artist and teacher. TheArtDontStop.com he/him

398 Followers 405 Following 409 Posts Joined Nov 2023
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Pretty sure I just had adenovirus, and it was ROUGH. Almost two weeks, wiped out, hacking cough, sore throat, and toward the end, pink eye.

Not fun stuff!

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a man with a beard wearing a tuxedo and bow tie is speaking into a microphone . ALT: a man with a beard wearing a tuxedo and bow tie is speaking into a microphone .

Mourning Doves aka Pavarotti Pigeons

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1 week ago

Staff email: we want you to go to a webpage. Here's a link to a pdf with a QR code.

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1 week ago

The Beatty movies will yield funnier podcasts.

So I voted for Beatty, and then the website gives me a twitterX logo to click on. Ewwwww - get that off the website!

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1 week ago

This so much. All choices carry consequences, no choice is certain. No medical intervention of any kind is perfectly safe or perfectly effective. But gender-affirming care works. It is a caring choice by committed caregivers who listen to and respect the humanity of kids.

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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie Looks to Eliminate 500 City Jobs | KQED The looming cuts come after last year’s layoffs, and as the city is facing a nearly $900 million budget deficit.

The same week he is calling for $100 million worth of cuts to city jobs, the Mayor and the D5 Supe introduced a $100 million tax break for billionaires

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The problem with war is that you eventually run out of other people's children.

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How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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SFUSD’s $183M Price Tag For the Teachers Deal Has Numbers Missing The strike is over, but both sides still have math problems. The district says a fuller accounting is coming soon.

Media literacy: this (common) framing is misleading. $183m sounds like a lot, but it's over 3 years. SFUSD's annual budget is ~$1.2 BILLION and this year's cost is <$32m. So the contract represents 2.65% increase on the budget, consistent with inflation. Big whoop. thefrisc.com/sfusds-183m-...

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Wow @sfstandard.com : leading your opinion page with FOUR op-eds against teachers strikes. There was huge parent support for the strikes everywhere I went all around the district. We cannot fix enrollment trends without investing in staff. Who benefits from framing the strike as bad (rhetorical)?

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3 weeks ago

I just watched Good Fortune on a plane, and it's kind of trying to be that.

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3 weeks ago

I'm imagining a When Harry meet Sally structure, but the keep meeting up at protests over the years bickering over whether pussy hats are intersectional enough...

They competitively intensify their civil disobedience tactics...

Yada, yada, yada... the moral is a Bell Hooks quote

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3 weeks ago

Why doesn't Tenet have a trap beat mumble-core rap with the plot of the movie playing over the credits?

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3 weeks ago

The bonus disc would be marked "inverted" and would somehow spin in the opposite direction in your player.

There would be overlapping director commentaries in opposite directions.

The bloopers would come before the movie starts.

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3 weeks ago
Screenshot of Tenet DVD menu and it's just a little video of "the protagonist" looking at bucket homes

Tenet has nothing fun going on. Did Nolan even look at this before the Blu rays went out?

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3 weeks ago
"MENTAL HEALTH BATTERY

TEST 2.0

STANDARD PICTURE COMPREHENSION/RETENTION

2.0b (05052001)

EXAMINE THE SET OF OBJECTS BELOW. SELECT THE OBJECTS FROM THIS SET THAT WERE NOT SHOWN TO YOU PREVIOUSLY.

DO NOT WRITE IN TIRE AREA

DO NOT PROCEED UNTIL INSTRUCTED TO DO SO "

There are line drawings of various common objects in a grid.

They really committed to the bit.

Select in the right order, you can access the chronological cut off the movie.

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3 weeks ago

How to Blow Up A Pipeline
kind of does that for heist movies

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3 weeks ago

Maybe the pedophile character dies in the end?

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3 weeks ago

It's good at rewriting a text at a lower reading level for my middle school art students.

(Not worth the costs. And now if they try to look up a picture of a tiger or something to draw, who knows if they'll find a photo or some AI construct)

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1 month ago
Scribbling drawing of four people drinking a bucket, playing trumpet, singing in a megaphone, playing guitar with a sign that says "We Can't Wait" Painting of teachers walking a picket line in front of a school gate with bright colors

Here's a drawing and a painting of the picket line from the past couple of days at MLK Middle School #UESF #TeacherStrike #SanFrancisco.

I'll be hanging these up in City Art Cooperative Gallery after the rally this evening.

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1 month ago

And you continue to bring fire 🔥

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1 month ago
Colorful Paintings on a wall in a gallery

Find lots of new art at #CityArtCooperativeGallery on Valencia St in #SanFrancisco.

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How much do S.F. teachers make vs. city workers? Much less. The average schoolteacher makes $20K less than the average librarian, and a whole lot less than police, firefighters, leg aides, and nurses.

San Francisco teachers will enter their 4th day on strike Thursday, unless a deal is made late tonight.

Negotiations have centered on wages, among other issues, so we asked: How much do teachers make vs. city workers?

On average, less—much less.

missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-t...

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1 month ago
Scribbling drawing of four people drinking a bucket, playing trumpet, singing in a megaphone, playing guitar with a sign that says "We Can't Wait" Painting of teachers walking a picket line in front of a school gate with bright colors

Here's a drawing and a painting of the picket line from the past couple of days at MLK Middle School #UESF #TeacherStrike #SanFrancisco.

I'll be hanging these up in City Art Cooperative Gallery after the rally this evening.

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1 month ago
"for our students we strike" spelled by thousands of people on the beach photographer from above
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"for our students we strike" spelled by thousands of people on the beach photographer from above
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1 month ago
Todd holding a sign that says "We Strike for our Students" in front of a crowd wearing red at Ocean Beach.

It was a good day to to beach in the rain with a thousand buddies in support of public education.

From above, we are spelling out "STRIKE".

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1 month ago

Sipping milk tea and having olive oil orange cake generously provided by neighbors for our #UESF pocket line 🤗

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Indivisible SF supports UESF teacher strike. If you are willing to help there is a whole toolkit of ways to help at buff.ly/itheEIB

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