Happy National Coming Out Day. This last year has involved a lot of coming out for me! I came out as Joanna to my friends 10 months ago, then at work and to my family four months ago. I’m now out everywhere, and recently filed the paperwork so I’ll legally be Joanna in every aspect of my life. It can be hard - I lost my relationship with my parents in the process - but it’s much easier than trying to be someone I’m not.
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Safe Street Rebel
The people I consider to be genuinely poly - those who are available for real, committed relationships, who value agency and autonomy for both themselves and their partners, and who will support your personal growth even if it complicates your relationship - are few and far between. I'm lucky to be dating one of them, and I feel sufficiently fulfilled that I don't feel the need to seek out another partner, even though I very much still consider myself to be poly. Weird how things work out, huh?
Confession - I've been poly for about 14 years, and at this point, I've lost patience with like 90% of people who call themselves poly. So many of them are married or pseudo-married people who will never give you the dignity of a real relationship, whatever they might say their intentions are. Or, they're single people looking for The One who are just having some fun before settling down.
Anyone else think that certain albums could be drastically improved just by cutting a few songs? Listening to Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief, which is not seen as their best album, but cut like three songs and it’s solid all the way through.
Hot take, unless you’re like a prog rock band, 40 - 50 mins is the optimal album duration. That happens to be the max duration of a vinyl record, but it still holds true even with CDs and MP3s. You don’t have to use the extra space just because it’s there!
Edit: changed Prop M to No. It's a fine measure by itself but it contains a poison pill against Prop L, which is more important.
CA propositions:
✅ Prop 2 (schools bond)
✅ Prop 3 (gay marriage)
✅ Prop 4 (climate bond)
✅ Prop 5 (affordable housing)
✅ Prop 6 (end slavery)
✅ Prop 32 ($18 minimum wage)
❌ Prop 33 (badly written rent control)
✅ Prop 34 (misuse of funds by AHF)
✅ Prop 35 (Medi-Cal funding)
❌ Prop 36 (tougher drug sentencing)
✅ Prop 2 (schools bond)
✅ Prop 3 (gay marriage)
✅ Prop 4 (climate bond)
✅ Prop 5 (affordable housing)
✅ Prop 6 (end slavery)
✅ Prop 32 ($18 minimum wage)
❌ Prop 33 (badly written rent control)
✅ Prop 34 (misuse of funds by AHF)
✅ Prop 35 (Medi-Cal funding)
❌ Prop 36 (tougher drug sentencing)
My endorsements for the SF election from a pro-housing, pro-transit, pro-Palestine perspective.
Elected officials:
✅ AD-17: Matt Haney
✅ Mayor: 1 London Breed, 2 Daniel Lurie, 3 Ahsha Safaí
✅ District 1: Jen Nossokoff
✅ District 3: 1 Danny Sauter, 2 Sharon Lai
✅ District 5: Bilal Mahmood
✅ District 7: Myrna Melgar
✅ District 11: Ernest ‘EJ’ Jones
✅ BART District 7: Victor Flores
✅ BART District 9: Edward Wright, Joe Sangiardi
✅ CA: David Chiu
✅ DA: Ryan Khojasteh
All others: no endorsement
SF propositions:
✅ Prop A (schools bond)
✅ Prop B (public health bond)
❌ Prop C (inspector general)
✅ Prop D (city commission reform)
❌ Prop E (counters Prop D)
🤷♀️ Prop F (police retirement)
✅ Prop G (affordable housing)
✅ Prop H (firefighter retirement benefits)
✅ Prop I (nurse retirement benefits)
✅ Prop K (Great Highway Park)
✅ Prop J (student success funding)
✅ Prop L (rideshare tax for Muni)
❌ Prop M (business tax reform)
✅ Prop N (student loan forgiveness)
✅ Prop O (reproductive freedom)
It's election time in SF!
This one is tricky. I usually base my vote on housing, transit, and cycling, but this year there's the complication that some candidates I would usually support have problematic positions on Palestine. In addition to my usual go-to's of SPUR and SF YIMBY, I encourage you to read
Nadia Rahman's excellent voter guide that covers the election from a SWANA perspective: https://nadiarahman.medium.com/november-2024-election-endorsements-san-francisco-215ca7e45bb9
My new 4” black platform heel boots just arrived in the mail and I’m taking it as a sign that I should go full goth for the swanky political function I’m going to tonight