It's Women's History Month, which is the perfect time to check out my San Francisco Magdalen Asylum names project, which illuminates the lives of hundreds of "wayward" girls and women:
Hi again Mastodon 👋
I’ve mostly been lurking the past couple years, but I’m stepping back into the conversation.
Meteorologist turned emergency management operator based in San Francisco 🌁
These days I spend a lot of time thinking about climate risk, city systems, and how information moves when things start going sideways.
Expect posts about weather signals 🌦️
urban resilience 🏙️
Bay Area infrastructure 🌉
and the occasional fog or food moment 🌁🍜
If you’re working somewhere in the climate / tech / civic systems ecosystem, say hi
My dad taught me the phrase "A pint's a pound the world around," which is a useful mnemonic but also reveals just how self-centered the U.S. is when you consider that only three countries on Earth use the imperial system.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/why-us-not-on-metric-system.htm
I'm working on an essay about how I became a Bay swimmer, and finally found this beautiful short documentary that I watched years ago & then couldn't find again:
DEAD RECKONING SEASON TWO IS STARTING!
Do you have a favorite cemetery and, if so, why is it City Cemetery, which currently lies hidden under Lincoln Park Golf Course and the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco? You know the one, with 20,000 people lying unmarked and invisible?
Two kittens, actually. One day last summer, I looked out the windows into our backyard, and noticed a kitten standing on the low cement wall that separates our patio from our garden. Seeing cats in the backyard isn't unusual; we have bird feeders and squirrels and catnip and ot
“I got really angry about the underrepresentation of women in public spaces in San Francisco,” Alexandra said. “I was complaining about it constantly, to passengers on Muni and to people in bars. And then I realized: I write for a living.”
https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/sf-unsung-heroines-bay-area-women-book-rae-alexandra/
midendian
Gerry 
