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<p>&quot;Jack-of-all-trades musician, artist, dramatic yo-yoist, and video game designer-wizard&quot; - From the San Francisco Bay Guardian&#39;s &quot;Best Of The Bay&quot; issue. <br />he/him<br />San Francisco, CA</p>

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  • Post #4404649

    I&#39;ve been listening to Seromora&#39;s &quot;Sleepwires&quot;. Wonderful/glitchy IDM from LA. Check it out here: https://seromora.bandcamp.com/album/sleepwires #BandcampFriday is coming up, so maybe add this to your wishlist.

  • Post #4395150

    I can’t believe this keeps happening. Never had it happen before 2026, now it’s happened to five shoes this year. What is going on?!

  • Post #4388042

    This is hell https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/uncanny-ads-and-partisan-chatbots-ai-toys-with-san-francisco-politics/?npnl=butts

  • Post #4336008

    I&#39;d love to ride a Spacelander bike sometime. Always had a soft spot for these weird bicycles. https://www.ebay.com/itm/318660277504

  • Post #4302895

    Who&#39;s planting tiny American flags into pieces of poop on Valencia Street? https://docpop.org/2026/07/whos-planting-american-flags-in-piles-of-shit-on-valencia-street/

  • Post #4115565

    Orville Peck is playing Vega in the new Street Fighter movie?! That&#39;s so perfect! Masked ✅ Beautiful ✅ Dramatic ✅ https://www.instagram.com/p/DPjm7gBEux0/?img_index=1 #OrvillePeck #StreetFighter

  • Post #3950830

    Chuck Tingle did a book reading that wasn&#39;t really a book reading, and it was fantastic. I wrote about the surprisingly uplifting event here: https://docpop.org/2026/07/chuck-tingle-at-the-internet-archive-in-sf/

  • Post #3939238

    Oh man, RIP Jennifer Finch. https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/jennifer-finch-l7-bassist-dies-1236297297/

  • Post #3918890

    The barista surprised me with some custom latte art. #yoyo

  • Post #3881239

    Chuck Tingle gave a fantastic presentation tonight at the @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org. Really funny, thoughtful, and uplifting. Even if you haven’t read his books, I’d recommend seeing him speak if you get the chance.

  • Post #3598746

    Obligatory guerrilla fireworks footage from the Mission District in #sanfrancisco

  • Post #3536860

    Last night I played &quot;Class Struggle&quot;, a 1978 #boardgame designed to teach #Marxist theory. The game was designed by Bertell Ollman, a professor of politics at NYU. At the beginning of the game, players roll the &quot;genetic dice&quot; to determine their class: Capitalist, Workers, Farmers, Students, etc Class Struggle obviously draws inspiration from Monopoly, but I think Cosmic Encounter (published in 1977) may have been inspiration for CS&#39;s asymmetric rules (depending on which...

  • Post #3518798

    TIL Comic Sans was inspired by the lettering in darker superhero comics like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans

  • Post #3496348

    I’m loving the return of alternative papers in #SanFrancisco. Definitely feels like a reaction to the rise of ai slop online. I hope these periodicals stick around for a while.

  • Post #3330173

    Weird double-whip #yoyo trick I found last week. I thought it was a new trick, but someone tracked down an older version of this trick from 17 years ago https://youtu.be/nFnAbxK5938?si=tTuK74l3FiSIwOJu&amp;t=26 I&#39;m glad I asked before I just took credit for it.

  • Post #3318223

    Footage from the SF Yo-Yo Club, Jun 13th 2026. #SanFrancisco #yoyo

  • Post #2333340

    I’ve been developing something called the Human-Made License, a Creative Commons–style way to certify that creative work was made without genAI. I’m looking for feedback from artists, designers, and writers before the public launch. DM me if you’d like to take a look at the first draft.

  • Post #2105217

    Gemini: A new kind of hell from Google. (a modified Google ad spotted this morning) #SFGraffiti #SanFrancisco

  • Post #2042925

    I once was asked to sign an &amp;quot;advice book&amp;quot; at a wedding. This was literally the best advice I could ever offer.

  • Post #1894061

    Chef Hej Hej is a new Swedish Candy shop on Cortland street, in the space where the electric bicycle shop was. #BernalHeights

  • Post #1894060

    The sharp cutout sections of the Hattori #yoyo don’t help with any tricks or anything... but they look hella cool.

  • Post #1894059

    Some rad locals are installing handmade benches at bus stops, and other rad folks are painting them. I wrote about kindness, usefulness, and the art of civic protest in #SanFrancisco and #Oakland: https://docpop.org/2026/04/the-art-of-bus-stop-benches-in-san-francisco/

  • Post #1894058

    Some Alien fan art I made for #AlienDay426 back in 2018. Created in #TrixelArt style.

  • Post #1894056

    Bought some tickets to this rad show at Syzygy Coop in SF tonight. The line up includes aivi &amp;amp; surasshu, TV-MA, and Alice Knows Karate (dj set). A lot of folks I used to know through the chiptune scene. https://syzygysf.com/events/glitches-and-witches/

  • Post #1894055

    @mc_frontalot dropped a new single, plus a playable RPG/lyric video to go along with it. Play the game here https://frontalot.com/loot/ Or watch a short playthrough here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqUoW87oytM Buy the song here: https://frontalot.bandcamp.com/track/common-loot-feat-mcgwire

  • Post #1819703

    The sooner this bubble pops, the better.

  • Post #1748215

    Found this zine called Community, which is “on a mission to convert every San Franciscan into a proud Muni rider and advocate”. It was published late last year, but says a full launch is coming this year. I hope more issues do come out. More info here https://www.communitymagazinesf.org/

  • Post #1632758

    H. R. Giger was hired as a concept artist for 1995&#39;s Batman Forever, but his mockups were just a little too... Gigeresque for the 90s. Here’s his original Batmobile sketch, alongside a 3D render by Leon Gor based on Giger’s designs.

  • Post #1549483

    The Kei-tora Gardening Contest is an annual event put on by the Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors to see who can build the best-looking garden on the back of a Kei truck. Here are some of the winners from the past 12 years. http://zoenren-osaka.jp/activity.html

  • Post #1533131

    tired: soy boy wired: