Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️🌈 🌁
@jeffreytumlin
Transport nerd. Recovering city bureaucrat. Introvert. Working to cut CO₂, eliminate traffic violence, advance equity, and strengthen local economies. Former SFMTA, OakDOT, Nelson/Nygaard. SF.
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Hi northern hemisphere, Yes, you will need - Conway or homemade MERV13 air filters - Reusable respirator mask with filters and anti-fog goggles - MERV 13+ HVAC filters - Duct tape These supplies last years. Get them before the fires come ww2.arb.ca.gov/smokereadyca
And who needs TV when it's warm enough to eat on the porch and watch these subtropical monsoon sunsets?
Today's little backyard green bean harvest: Blister beans in small batches in peanut oil on high Reduce heat and saute lots of fresh minced garlic until tender Return beans to pan and blanch, covered, in some leftover liquid until still firm but just right. Add kosher salt and pepper Serve
Gardeners outside SF may not understand our peculiar pride in tomato success. Here, July means a high of 61° with arctic tundra winds and fog
Naturally, SF fireworks are moody and goth. Like in the Upside Down
Ok maybe we deserve to have dahlia season overlap with stone fruit season. But do I deserve to come home to find all this beauty on the dining table, all at once?
Finally figured out how to stop @actblueorg.bsky.social spam texts on Android: Turn on "Do Not Disturb" mode Under settings/people, allow Anyone to interrupt by phone Only contacts interrupt by text It's a miracle
The intersection of fog and lasers is mesmerizing. Can we have this year round?
... and even more so watching lasers play with fierce summer fog
It's remarkable how SF's bleak, overscaled spaces work with addition of light
Normally the garden peas and beans end up as raw snacks while I'm doing chores. But was away on central coast for a few days. So husband micro-planed some nutmeg and made proper dish. 😋
If Hearst Castle maintenance crews don't have secret midnight swims in the Roman Pool, I'm gonna be disappointed
Overhead and side-by-side driver's view imagery comparing a 1998 and 2021 Silverado is particularly compelling. For the motorist turning left across a crosswalk, the pedestrian in the crosswalk is nearly invisible. We've known about about this problem for over a decade 4/
NYT's 3D graphics show the increase in blind zones caused by increased hood height and A-pillar girth -- and the impact on the human body being struck above its center of gravity 3/
US pedestrian safety advances made sharp reversal in 2009, tracking rise of big SUVs. The US now has the worst pedestrian death rate in the industrialized world, and we're the only country that continues to worsen 2/
Halloween costume idea question: Husband: Creature from Black Lagoon Me: Gray jumpsuit loosely wrapped in blue duct tape. Husband periodically smears me in green slime and picks away tape. Q: is there a slime product that won't leave a mess for party host?
So far none of our pea or green bean harvest has made it as far as the kitchen, and that's not going to change today
Lost in the excitement of Scarlet the Corpse Flower's brief but odorous bloom is this epic public-private sponsorship Tickets and webcam: gggp.org/corpseflower/
Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL5b...
It's late June, which means: 1. Pride 2. Beginning of dahlia season Go visit the Dahlia Garden in Golden Gate Park. And if you have room for a big pot in a sunny spot, plant one yourself
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.