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S.F. to lay off ‘community ambassadors,’ including those assisting Marshall Elementary

All of the ambassadors still had job agreements with the city. They say they were given a month notice and no explanation for the lay offs.

https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-16th-mission-marshall-elementary-community-ambassadors/

S.F. to lay off ‘community ambassadors,’ including those assisting Marshall Elementary

All of the ambassadors still had job agreements with the city. They say they were given a month notice and no explanation for the lay offs.

Mission Local

Dinah 🕊🇺🇦5h ago

RE: https://sfba.social/@MLNow/116449189052138255

This is a terrible loss to the city (and probably violates employment law, which means it may not even save money after the inevitable legal complaints).

Community ambassadors improve civic life. I'm always happy to see them out when I am walking in the city.

You can contact the Mayor's office about this, as I did using the info here: https://www.sf.gov/profile--daniel-lurie I called and immediately spoke with a human.

#SanFrancisco

Dinah 🕊🇺🇦5h ago

Jeri Dansky 9h ago

Time for more ranunculus! And a whole bunch of yellow!

#BloomScrolling #flowers

Dinah 🕊🇺🇦5h ago

kottke.org 7h ago

"Even the weather felt expensive..." What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos's Private Retreat. "If everything is free and nothing matters, then the world and other people exist only to be acted upon, if they are acknowledged at all." https://kottke.org/26/04/even-the-weather-felt-expensive

“Even the Weather Felt Expensive”

Filmmaker Noah Hawley was invited to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat in 2018. Reflecting on the experience recently for The Atlantic, Hawley writes

kottke.org

Class notes.

Bluebells along a footpath near Sampford Spiney today, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Dinah 🕊🇺🇦10h ago

Jeri Dansky 22h ago

TIL this about astronaut Victor Glover, from a March 31 article: Every Monday, he listens to "Whitey on the Moon" on the way to work at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. I’d forgotten about this Gil Scott-Heron piece!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4

The reporting, explaining why he listens: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis-2-pilot-victor-glover-whitey-on-the-moon-

#TIL #Artemis

Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)

YouTube

Dinah 🕊🇺🇦12h ago

Mission Local 14h ago

Sam Devdhara is making money at the bottom of S.F.’s housing market

In the world of affordable housing, single-room-occupancy hotels are among the most distressed—and Sam Devdhara knows how to renovate them.

https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sam-devdhara-sf-mission-affordable-housing-sros/

Sam Devdhara is making money at the bottom of S.F.’s housing market

In the world of affordable housing, single-room-occupancy hotels are among the most distressed—and Sam Devdhara knows how to renovate them.

Mission Local

Dinah 🕊🇺🇦12h ago

If you're going on a trip, have a bunch of food in your freezer, & are worried about power outages while you're gone, here's a simple trick to know if there was one.

Take a container half full of water & prop it up to freeze at an angle. Then set it flat normally.

If you come home & there's a diagonal block of ice, all is well.

If there are no frozen slopes in the water, your food defrosted & refroze & you should throw it out & fully sanitize the freezer & fridge.

#Travel #FoodSafety

Dinah 🕊🇺🇦1d ago

Bad news for mask-wearing, covid-avoiding folks like me who are re-entering the US at SFO. Global Entry has switched to facial scanning at a distance, requiring mask removal while walking through.

I was lucky, it was only a minute or two, but it caught me by surprise. No alternate approach was offered.

Maybe using non-Global Entry lanes would give you a slower way through, and you could just lower your mask briefly (while holding your breath) for the person checking passports? Not sure.