Paul Mison

I’m reading a copy I picked up in La Lucia and I’m wondering whether the articles will be print only, or come online later? I’d love to share @cydhayes.bsky.social’s This Is Print with some people.

13.12.2025 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Writing for a streaming service where you have five minutes to win an audience, not two hours from a ticket paid upfront.

20.09.2025 19:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a) probably not going to happen again, thanks climate change (only four times 1900-2000)
b) it’d be a light dusting but Muni would grind to a halt and a good number of drivers would just stay home

19.05.2025 05:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A picture of the interior of a Siemens light rail vehicle for San Francisco taken from Siemens press releass, showing two sideways-facing benches, with no seat dividers.

Here's a picture of the first kind, from eight years ago when the company was announcing the new trains. press.siemens.com/global/en/fe...

12.03.2025 03:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I believe it's the newest of three seating layouts for the Siemens LRVs (the newer type), so yes, it's reasonable to be surprised.
I think most are the second layout, with one seat in the direction of travel and a bench sideways. The first layout was all sideways (and with no seat dividers!)

12.03.2025 03:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Have you ever heard Carter USM’s version? The spitting anger at the end, where they’re listing benefit questions, is pretty good.

14.01.2025 20:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

SFBA.social A Mastodon instance for the San Francisco Bay Area. Come on in and join us!

sfba.social. Maybe I could self host but it’s a nice small instance.

11.01.2025 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi. I mostly post over on Mastodon as @paulmison@sfba.social but I’m here too, mostly lurking.

11.01.2025 17:55 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

That was a good intro to the year. @dys-morphia.bsky.social was wondering about that lovely puffin jumper - is it hand knit? I thought it might be Icelandic.

11.01.2025 17:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wikipedia, on regnql numbers. “Several antipopes were also kept in the sequence, either by mistake or because they were previously considered to be true popes.”

18.12.2024 05:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m sure there’s a longer, more pointless oxbow lake in app development, but this is surely a candidate.

22.10.2024 05:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On a rewatch of Aliens and its 2003 commentary, it was noticeable how everyone in the boardroom above Earth smoked, and how that wasn’t remarked on. Now it looks almost as anachronistic as the computers.

13.09.2024 15:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0