Laura Maguire

@lumagoo

Not no Limburger PhD in Philosophy (Stanford) Éireannach ina cónaí i gCalifornia

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Laura Maguire@lumagoo· 16d

Just came across these old headlines about the planned development at Candlestick, the first which says they will start work in 2025, the second which says they will start work in early 2026. Then the plan changed to mid-year, and now it's September 2026. Hopefully it will happen before 2027...

FivePoint gets 2M sf switch on Candlestick project, eyes 2025 start

City commission greenlights transfer of commercial space from nearby Hunters Point

Image: satellite map of Candlestick Point and the Hunter's Point Shipyard with boxes of different colors to indicate the different types of planned buildings

FivePoint sets early 2026 start for Candlestick project

SF Mayor Daniel Lurie previously pledged support to expedite development

Image: rendering of planned Candlestick development with a blank calendar and a hand marking a box on it superimposed on the bottom right corner, and a photo of some white man in a suit superimposed on the upper left corner.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· 17d

A pic of me in the 70s, taken in a cave on a tiny beach in Howth.

A young child with pale skin, blue eyes, dark brown hair, and a white shirt smiles at the camera while holding her chin in her right hand

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· 17d

The massive development at Candlestick Point was supposed to break ground "mid year" but now it's happening this September. What's another few months when we've been waiting a decade? Archived version of the story: archive.ph/Dba7P

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Real Estate - Commercial
The Tortured History of a San Francisco Ballpark That’s Finally Becoming Housing
Developer plans to break ground in September on a planned community to include more than 7,200 homes, offices, shops and parks

Image: rendering of what planned development will look like with a mixture of high rises, mid rises, houses, and green spaces, with the bay all around

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· 18d

Homemade sprouted almond milk with figs.

Photo taken from above of a small green bowl with figs soaking in water, and a larger cobalt blue glass bowl with blanched almonds

Close up of the blanched almonds in the cobalt glass bowl. The little sprouts on the tips indicate that the almonds have sprouted

A bottle of milk sits on a kitchen counter next to a small green bowl with a sieve containing almond milk pulp over it

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· 18d

Some photos a friend took of my doggos swimming and living their best lives in Mt. Shasta, where we spent the weekend. One is from the Sacramento River and the other is from an undisclosed mountain lake (not allowed to post names/locations on social media!).

A black lab with an orange toy swims in a river with very clear sparkling water. Behind her are large rocks and trees on the opposite bank.

Two black labs are barely visible swimming in a mountain lake with one person in the water behind them. On the far side of the lake tall trees and a mountain peak can be seen. The water's surface is reflecting the green all around.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jul 17

Yep, this was taken in SF around noon during that time six years ago. This doesn't even capture how orange it looked IRL.

A photo of a city street that looks like it's taken at dusk because everything is orange and there's not much light. The lights on a parked car look bright.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jul 13

Yay!

An amateurish drawing of the new InfoWars Elf, who looks like a middle-aged white guy, smiling, and wearing a red and white Santa hat, a green top with INFOWARS on it, brown shorts and red elf boots with bells on.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jul 13

Did somebody say "Weekend at Bernie's"?

Photo resembling the one released yesterday as proof of life featuring Mitch McConnell sitting up in a hospital bed wearing jeans and a red and white plaid shirt with his wife Elaine Chao sitting beside him in a white shirt, except this one has the iconic image of Bernie Sanders sitting in a big winter coat and brown mittens (from Biden's inauguration) sandwiched between them.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jul 11

I live close to the area in San Francisco once called Double Rock AKA "the kill zone" back in the 90s. A massive development is about to break ground nearby at Candlestick Point, ushering in another new era for the neighborhood. Today I finally found the eponymous double rock in the South Basin.

Two large, bare rocks (or one double rock?) jut out of a large body of water. Behind, on the far shore, some industrial looking buildings and a gantry crane can be seen in the distance.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jul 9

Dude process.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jul 8

Graham Platner Must Go Democrats made the Devil's bargain with Graham Platner. The Adversary has come to collect. www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platner-must-go/

There is also the elementary truth that Platner is but one man among millions; we are no more condemned to him than we are to Susan Collins. Neither has a right to rule; that is what democracy means. <h> To say that we should have standards for those who govern us, and hold them to higher ones than we may hold a private citizen, is not elitism. It is a bulwark against everything we’re now fighting against—who can deny that Trump’s dictatorial streak is downstream of his violent entitlement, personal bigotry, and utter lack of moral restraint? </h> His solipsism is a cataclysmic personal flaw, and has proven fatal when applied to the mighty instruments of American power. His personal flaws have a body count that may already number in the millions.

We cannot win by becoming MAGA, a loose movement defined by little other than the violent satisfaction of appetites, by the discarding of morality and virtue as mere hypocrisies. If we are making the argument that the only way to stop a bad rapist is with a good rapist, then we are already conceding much of MAGA’s amoral universe and forfeiting the idea of a more just world. We are merely reduced to pursuing power for its own sake, rather than for a higher moral purpose.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 30

The Transamerica Pyramid as seen from Pier 7 Vista Point in San Francisco

A long, wooden boardwalk with black iron railings and water on either side, looking towards the city. In the center of the shot is a pointy, triangular skyscraper. The blue sky has some white wispy clouds.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 29

Thornton Beach, Daly City.

View from green dunes overlooking a beach below. The sky is blue and cloudless, white waves are crashing on the shore, and a person with a yellow parachute paraglides above.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 25

He seems to have blocked you, but I got a screenshot.

‪James Endicott‬
‪@o76923.bsky.social‬
· 21m
If the US invaded the UK, trans rights would improve.

As awful as the US is, you have found a way to be worse.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 23

This had been the best year of plums yet. Just picked another 6lbs worth this morning and there's still lots of fruit on the tree. #SantaRosaPlums

An overflowing metal bowl full of purplish red plums on a digital scale that reads 6:00

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 21

JD Vance is... The Fall Guy.

Poster from 80s TV show The Fall Guy with JD Vance's face superimposed over Colt Seavers' played by Lee Majors

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 20

Santa Rosa plums picked in the garden this morning.

Stainless steel bowl filled with purplish red plums

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 17

Good opinion piece on the shameful bigotry by some SF Giants. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annkillion/article/giants-pitchers-alienate-fans-san-francisco-22306122.php (To bypass the paywall in Chrome, click on the three dots in the top right, then More Tools > Reading Mode)

The San Francisco Giants have enough problems this season that you wouldn’t expect the players to actively try to alienate their fans. Fourteen games below .500, fourth place in the division, the second worst record in the National League. With numbers like that, you’d think they might do everything in their power to persuade the paying customers that they’re worth cheering for.

Yet some of the snowflakes on the Giants, the pitching staff specifically, decided to say a giant F-you to a good chunk of their fan base. On a night that was supposed to be about inclusion, they hijacked the event for their own purposes. In the name of Christianity, they took a decidedly un-Christian stance of exclusion and judgment.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 17

Soggy doggies. We go to the beach every Sunday, rain or shine. They absolutely love it there.

Two black lab mixes stand next to each other on a beach looking at the camera.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 15

I have a notebook.

Blue notebook with embossed title: PEOPLE I WANT TO PUNCH IN THE FACE

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 12

Rando edgelord makes ad hominem comment on one of my posts, then when the favor is returned, refuses to engage further. Byeeee!

PookaBoo @ipookacboou.bsky.social 41m
I lost interest when I read, "He has survived another scandal." This is the billionaire owned corporatist media-infotainment complex giving their instructional framing and both lef and right running with their masters [sic] bidding. Regardless of anyone's politics, this make-up crap is dusgusting [sic]....

Laura Maguire @lumagoo.bsky.social 12m
Anonymous edgelord says what? You sound Blue MAGA. "It's the media's fault for reporting toxic behavior by [fill in white male candidate's name you support here]." Yawn.

PookaBoo @ipookacboou.bsky.social
Ad Hominem is a logical fallacy... muted!

Laura Maguire @lumagoo.bsky.social now
LOL. Blocked!

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 12

I am shocked — SHOCKED!! — that an anonymous troll/Platner stan thinks it's appropriate to police what a woman may or may not opine about online. He may as well have said I should stay in the kitchen where I belong with his "closer to home" BS. He got one thing right. The "dense" part. Blocked!

densecomms.bsky.social

That's kind. I'm actually wondering what the project is at this point. He received more primary votes than any Senate candidate in Maine history. Isn't there some action you could be taking closer to home that would actually make some change instead of moaning about a candidate you don't like?

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 11

Wow, Irish Identity trending on Bsky! Never thought I'd see the day. #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm

Trending

1. Irish Identity
2. El Niño
3. World Cup
4. Starmer
5. Knicks

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 9

Yes I do! Also on the list (not pictured) is I Will Survive. Still working on it.

Playlist with We Are The a Champions, Celebration, Dancing in the Streets, The Guillotine, Uprising, and Threat Level Orange

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 7

A selection of the fruit shots I made this weekend for a friend's birthday party. I made five different kinds, which took a full day of work. Flavor descriptions in the alt text!

A colorful platter of different "fruit shots"— jellies that look like segments of cut fruit.
In lemon skins: lemon jelly with blue Curacao and limoncello.
In lime skins: lime jelly with spicy tequila.
In the grapefruit skins: grapefruit jelly with grapefruit chunks, basil and arak.
In the orange skins: orange jelly with orange chunks (n/a choice).
In the mango skins: coconut-mango agar agar with mango chunks, mint, and Chinola mango liqueur (vegan choice).

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 5

Nailed it.

What I find very frustrating about politics is that it forces you to pretend you’re stupid. Case in point: Graham Platner’s Totenkopf tattoo—we’re supposed to believe he didn’t know what it was when he got it. Come the fuck on. First of all, the guy is an edgelordy Reddit autodidact type with a lot of opinions. This is precisely the demographic that knows all about militaria and WWII history. Not only would he know what it was, but he would also be proud to know what it was: such semi-obscure knowledge is the coin of that realm. Second, he was a U.S. Marine. Military guys know what that symbol is. And military guys like to be menacing and outside the norms of civilian society. It’s very edgy, but it’s still not a swastika or SS lightning bolts. It rides the territory on the border of taboo. Perfect!

Do I think Platner is actually a Nazi? No, not really. I think he’s an adventurer type and a bit of a lost soul. Exactly the kind of person who might start in a privileged or, at least, genteel milieu and then seek out more authentic and exciting experiences, like, say, joining the military and going to war. Historically, those kinds of people often became Nazis or fascists, but they could also become any number of other things—Communists, high-flying businessmen, international aid workers, etc. I think Simone de Beauvoir nails this type in her Ethics of Ambiguity:

Hoping for no justification, he will nevertheless take delight in living. He will not turn aside from things which he does not believe in. He will seek a pretext in them for a gratuitous display of activity. Such a man is what is generally called an adventurer. He throws himself into his undertakings with zest, into exploration, conquest, war, speculation, love, politics, but he does not attach himself to the end at which he aims; only to his conquest. He likes action for its own sake. He finds joy in spreading through the world a freedom which remains indifferent to its content. Whether the taste for adventure appears to be based on nihilistic despair or whether it is born directly from the experience of the happy days of childhood, it always implies that freedom is realized as an independence in regard to the serious world and that, on the other hand, the ambiguity of existence is felt not as a lack but in its positive aspect.

In other words, the kind of guy who would like to flaunt his lack of respect for the serious world’s norms around Nazi symbols. Moreover, de Beauvoir goes on to show their political flexibility, which comes from the very spirit of adventure: “They do not take politics seriously. They thereby allow themselves to be collaborationists in ‘41 and communists in ‘45, and it is true they don’t give a hang about the interests of the French people or the proletariat.” Again, there were plenty of these types of guys on both sides in the War.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 5

Did you know that skywatch labels your profile "Low Quality Reply"? You might want to look into that.

Screenshot of laart20's comment with the labels "Low Quantity Reply" and "Blue Heart Emoji" at the top

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 4

I hadn't thought to check SF's results for governor, but I just checked and this is as of 4pm today!

GOVERNOR
Ballots Counted Percentage
TOM STEYER 47,129 34.3%
XAVIER BECERRA 33,883 24.66%
MATT MAHAN 16,436 11.96%
STEVE HILTON 15,624 11.37%
KATIE PORTER 12,356 8.99%
CHAD BIANCO 2,907 2.12%

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 3

Yeah, right. It's a big win for the little guy. Are these people serious with this BS? calmatters.org/politics/202...

Some of the same groups spending against Steyer are running ads for Xavier Becerra. Those groups — along with organizations representing doctors, contractors and several labor unions — have spent $13 million through PACs to boost Becerra.

Chevron, McDonald’s, dialysis giant DaVita and one of the state’s largest oil drillers, California Resources Corp., are funding one of the largest pro-Becerra groups, with each of them contributing $500,000. Meta and AirBnB chipped in about $1 million each and health insurance corporation Centene, which runs California-based HealthNet, put in $100,000.

Steyer is reveling in the spending against him, pointing to it as proof he’d stand up to utilities and big business. A climate activist, Steyer has highlighted Becerra’s support from Chevron.

Laura Maguire@lumagoo· Jun 2

250 Sad Trombones Trump’s bid to hijack America’s 250th for his own glory is unraveling one fiasco at a time As the Thai might say: 55555 (hahahahaha)