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Katie Kowalsky

@mapwitch

“just look at that parking lot, Larry” used to talk about maps a bit but now I mostly speak legalese. cosmopolitan elite (just say jewish, it’s faster), but mostly a movie nerd. from the great lakes but now in the bay. oakland forever.

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watching one of the best movies of all time

07.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

how it feels taking public transit rn

06.03.2026 20:36 👍 1726 🔁 314 💬 34 📌 26

Your fugitive’s name is Dr. Richard Kimble

06.03.2026 03:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s called Keeping Your Shit Together Thursday. It’s where you keep your shit together on a Thursday instead of crashing the fuck out and driving your car into the median.

05.03.2026 15:33 👍 143 🔁 38 💬 6 📌 2

My grandpa reached the pinnacle of assimilation: retiring early after being an executive at several failing companies and became a gentleman farmer in Vermont. Unfortunately I think that means I’m running.

05.03.2026 06:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My grandpa had a longstanding feud with the Von Trapp family

I received first aid from Valerie Jarrett in the EEOB

On my friend’s 30th a California Condor landed on our Airbnb balcony

05.03.2026 06:26 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congress should authorize postal banking *and* allow USPS to ground lease its land to multifamily homebuilders (provided any project on a lot holding an operating post office includes a new, renovated post office on the ground floor).

04.03.2026 18:00 👍 174 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 3

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing.

Persephone: Thank you.

Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

03.03.2026 17:17 👍 1083 🔁 227 💬 7 📌 42

made me chuckle.

04.03.2026 03:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

volume of grapes, equipment, storage for ageing all fairly expensive but plenty of small brands do great stuff. I recommend attending Raw Wine, Wine Flair - you end up trying a ton of cool small brands you won't see elsewhere

04.03.2026 03:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

indie winemakers are often purchasing small parts of vineyards in different regions to make some really cool stuff- there's an explosion in semillon and carignan blends happening this year that's absolutely delicious and fairly new in CA

04.03.2026 03:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

and then on the truly home brewing, oh there's plenty of! just doesn't produce a lot. Much easier to make fortified spirits from wine but a good homebrew natural wine is perfectly doable but will almost always be funky

04.03.2026 02:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

there's also a craft wine movement in the west! Berkeley, Richmond, Lodi, Paso Robles, and a bunch of Sonoma producers are doing 'craft'... just a lot different distribution model - small batch and often with membership programs

04.03.2026 02:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The degree to which Trump is just riffing/winging it on the war is really something to behold. Just kinda..musing

03.03.2026 17:30 👍 1983 🔁 219 💬 142 📌 15

Walked straight onto a Richmond bound BART train at SFO, pretty great.

03.03.2026 20:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow they’re still around??? Love their chicken and wild rice soup.

03.03.2026 18:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I deeply need bespoke suit popups to promote the next season

03.03.2026 18:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This business will get out of control (Red October)
This business will get out of control (Red October) YouTube video by Michael Mauldin

youtu.be/kvNAid29vv8?...

02.03.2026 04:24 👍 208 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

increasingly convinced short-form text social media was a mistake in general tbh

03.03.2026 00:18 👍 130 🔁 6 💬 14 📌 1

Many such cases.

02.03.2026 04:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Upmarket grocery is far more likely to be small regional chains but like Erewhon, Wegman’s, Gelson’s, Birite, Sendik’s all exist and of course there’s Whole Foods. But also? Costco has the burrata and ghee flavored popcorn I like. Cosmopolitan food is not exactly an issue here.

01.03.2026 15:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really over people posting clips of foreign upmarket grocery stores saying the US couldn’t imagine - buddy I have news for you about the wonderful but expensive shit I buy

01.03.2026 15:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

28.02.2026 16:09 👍 13104 🔁 5305 💬 88 📌 184

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

28.02.2026 08:22 👍 3257 🔁 845 💬 31 📌 21

Always funny when people forget the average DC opinion for Iran strikes

28.02.2026 17:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lucky day for Holden Bloodfeast.

28.02.2026 15:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah that seems about right

27.02.2026 23:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The aesthetic debate never discussing the oft empty retail space truly drives me nuts

27.02.2026 18:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’d say time for me to touch grass but to looks like it’s just sand on the menu boys

27.02.2026 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Had a bumpy landing into PSP and my first thought was “Ahhh yes just like I’ve practiced in MSFT Flight Simulator” … whoops

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