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¨ Today's #TwitpicTuesday rescue is a photo of the Emperor Norton Bay Bridge that I actually used as a "header photo" on various now-evil social media platforms. Maybe I could use it here someday, who knows?

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20180105 bay-bridge-overcast
I saw the 1942 film This Gun For Hire at Noir City in 2018, and there was an early scene taking place in a diner with a quaint bay window and this view of the Bay Bridge. But this photo was taken fro...
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January 28, 2026 at 7:49 AM
jymdyer.bsky.social
Sort of a quasi-rescue for #TwitpicTuesday, this photo on Flickr:
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20171030 freshkermit-midpoint
Midpoint of the #FreshKermit being painted today, by Cupid's Span.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
• Tonight's #TwitpicTuesday rescue celebrates cars being kicked out of Prospect Park in the summer of 2017 (and then entirely in 2018), using a graphic I created in 2004.

This is a double rescue, since this originated on Meta and thence to what is now known as 𝕏itter

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20171024 cars-out-of-ppark
· As long as I'm kicking some cars around, here's a graphic (featuring a cartoon from Ken Avidor) that I made into flyers and spoke cards, and years later put onto social media to celebrate our victor...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
jymdyer.bsky.social
¨ Not exactly a #TwitpicTuesday rescue, but still marking the 10th anniversary of the #FailQaeda #VanillaIS takeover of a bird sanctuary by heavily-armed #Cosplaytriot types.

The same variety of clown is now perpetrating (not resisting) tyranny in Minneapolis.

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January 14, 2026 at 6:28 AM
jymdyer.bsky.social
✂ Today's #TwitpicTuesday rescue is from back in the days when employees had things like offices with office drawers. Inspired by @cyclelicious.bsky.social who is also on Flickr as www.flickr.com/photos/bike/ (I'm so jealous that he got /bike/).

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20120816 office-drawer
• #TwitpicTuesday of an annotated picture from back when Richard Masoner encouraged us to post the contents of our bike bags, our desk drawers, etc. This was my desk drawer at NextBus, in Emeryville....
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August 25, 2026 at 5:37 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
• #TwitpicTuesday rescue of a photo from that time I got the #BART bike space!!!! #BikeSF

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A green Swift Folder folding bike parked on a BART train in 2011, in an area clearly marked "Bike Space" (which was something new back then). Passengers are boarding in the door next to the Bike Space, and you can read the words, "Montgomery Street Station" behind them.
June 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
jymdyer.bsky.social
For #TwitpicTuesday I rescued this photo of camera film taken with a digital camera and which was put onto a digital platform, and put it onto a better digital platform. Because I #BelieveInFilm or something.
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20140512 shelves-of-ilford
If it's People! Art! Music! you're interested in, apparently there's an art medium known as "film" and you can buy it at this place in Berkeley. Because they #BelieveInFilm.
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April 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
jymdyer.bsky.social
♀ Bonus #TwitpicTuesday photo for those of you who find it puzzling when the supposedly-liberal media promotes politically activist women who tell other women to stay home and submit to the wills of their husbands, because of God.

Just as political activist Phyllis Schlafly claimed she did.
Book cover of Phyllis Schlafly's _A_Choice_Not_An_Echo_. With heavy GOP funding and forced-down-your-throat promotion, free copies of this book were distributed to college students to prop up a claim that it was a best-seller.
September 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
#TwitpicTuesday rescue of this screenshot, showing the empty void where there used to be a map.

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20210615 screenshot-retro-umoiq-arriving
"Arriving , 2 , 6 min ... " What's next after NextBus? The company who bought it moved engineering to Texas, renamed it "Umo IQ," replaced the predictor with something that said a bus was arriving wh...
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August 12, 2026 at 5:47 AM
jymdyer.bsky.social
• #TwitpicTuesday rescue from 2012, but surely @zedlopez.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy is at least up to Zed 3.0 by now.

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20120517 zed-2point0
Zed 2.0? Apparently my friend Zed has been upgraded into a bicycle, with "heritage hardtail technology." Who knew? It is possible that Zed 1.0 appeared in The Immortal Class, by Travis Hugh Culley,...
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May 12, 2026 at 6:17 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
Today's #TwitpicTuesday rescue is a screenshot, from back when websites looked like this.

Also, it gets worse, as in No Predictions: flic.kr/p/8kU3EH
Screenshot of a NextBus prediction for the "O" bus during a strike in 2010. Announcement: "Service affected by labor unrest. Visit actransit.org for more info." Prediction is that the bus arrives in 7 minutes.
July 2, 2025 at 5:40 AM
jymdyer.bsky.social
#TwitpicTuesday rescue for Pride Month: That time we had a BI LANE on Page Street.

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June 30, 2026 at 6:20 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
▼ #TwitpicTuesday rescue of an old Summer Art Camp sign. At least it's not Summer Graphic Design Camp, or Summer Generative AI "Art" Camp, or somesuch.
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20130507 sign-summer-font-camp
Wanna get in on the butterfly-painting and murals and such? Why not go to SUMMER ART CAMP? First lesson will involve picking the most artistic typeface ("font") for your work, one that really conveys ...
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August 5, 2026 at 4:53 AM
jymdyer.bsky.social
👯‍♀️ I suspect treachery! Tweachery, if you will!

Just a nostalgic #TwitpicTuesday reminder of all the celebrity followers (or maybe tweacherous bots and spam) even in the olden days of the #birbsite c. 2010. Also, I used to have a handy all-text Emacs interface that I should adapt to Bluesky.
Screenshot of an all-text Emacs interface inbox showing that Anna Hathaway, Natalie Portman, and Megan Fox are following me on Twitter, albeit from accounts that have random numbers appended to their names, because they're spammers. Screenshot of an all-text Emacs interface of `twittering-mode`, in which my own tweet refers to the earlier "Tweachery" screenshot.
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
▶ #TwitpicTuesday rescue of a no-smoking hotel room number 420. We giggled about it despite not being stoned.
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20130509 420-no-smoking
Room 420 has a "no smoking" sign on the door. Toto, I don't think we're in the Haight-Ashbury any more. We fled San Francisco and its 4/20 event on the palindromic date of 4/20/2024, but we're not a...
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March 31, 2026 at 8:45 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
✇ Today's #TwitpicTuesday rescue is some old anti-Twitter agit-prop pasted badly onto traffic signs. "Invasion, Colonization, Innovation" against a platform not nearly as bad as what it would later become.

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20140502 pasteup-taxi-only
Posters about "colonization" and #InvasiveSpecies in front of the Twitter building, placed so as to obscure the word "Bus," thereby creating a "Taxi Only" Lane. (As seen previously, bike routes are a...
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April 14, 2026 at 7:58 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
☍ #TwitpicTuesday rescue of that time my #StillWeRide quip was at the top of Google Suggest results where it didn't belong. Nowadays Maya Angelou is back on top, where she belongs.

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20100830 screenshot-elgoog-swr-suggest
· I quipped "Still We Ride" after a bunch of us were arrested for riding bikes in the same city as the Republican National Convention in 2004 -- long before any Republicans thought to disparage bike l...
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September 1, 2026 at 9:52 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
• Today's #TwitpicTuesday rescue is from the good old days when we had an Upper Haight Farmers' Market and they wanted to encourage bicycling. #BikeSF

Alas, the Farmers' Market is long gone, so I have to bike off to other farmers' markets.

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20100526 bike-to-upper-haight-farmers-market
· Bike to the Upper Haight Farmers' Market today (June 2, 2010) and get a free handful of apricots! (Waller at Stanyan, 4pm to 8pm)
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June 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
🚥 I didn't post this yesterday because it's not really a #TwitpicTuesday photo, but I was tempted to bring Street Fight (2 words) to a Streetfight (1 word) event. Instead I now have both books.

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20160318 cover-streetfight
Exactly 9 years ago, I went to a reading of Streetfight (one word) by Janette Sadik-Khan. She had been New York City's amazing Transportation Commissioner, and her book got more attention than Street ...
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March 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
jymdyer.bsky.social
For #TwitpicTuesday I'm resurfacing these bad tweets from 2014, focusing on a dumb racist assumption about technology created by "a white guy," and appropriation of this assumption by a white woman. Inspired in party by fascist-saluting Elon Musk, who has never invented nor created anything.
Screenshots of racist tweets from 2014: "@ElleDunc" - Let's go on twitter and complain about whites. Because it's their fault. #whiteproverbs "@Zanshi" replies - #Irony: People complaining about whites on a wbsite a white guy created ;) "@ElleDunc" copies this reply and posts as a new tweet - Let's complain about whites on a website created by a white guy. #whiteproverbs
January 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
jymdyer.bsky.social
¨ Today's #TwitpicTuesday rescue is from the days when Cowgirl Creamery was a small local cheese company with a storefront in Point Reyes and another in the Ferry Building.

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20080716 cowgirl-creamery-cheeses
Cowgirl Creamery cheese at the Ferry Building in 2008. Since these are made by cowgirls, that one in the middle should be called the Queen of Cheese. (Because it's a bit blurry, this was my first ph...
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August 18, 2026 at 8:13 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
• #SpareTheAir on a Trek, a #TwitpicTuesday rescue from 12 years ago (when Spare The Air Day was funded and promoted).

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20140718 spare-the-air-on-a-trek
"www·get your blood flowing on the way to work·com" · Spare the Air Day message: use a Trek!
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July 21, 2026 at 9:10 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
☵ #TwitpicTuesday rescue is a screenshot of the technology 15 years ago for a location-based crowdsourced transit app that I confused the heck out of.

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20110728 tiramisu-main-map
I tried to unconfuse the Tiramisu app on an iPod Touch by turning on a router that had been at my Mom's house in Pittsburgh back when Apple's location service people compiled their database. For a se...
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July 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
❄ Another #TwitpicTuesday rescue of a screenshot of me playing confuse-an-app. (The helpful people at @pghtransit.bsky.social soberly informed me that the 16C line was no longer running, it was renumbered to 13 by then.)

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20110728 tiramisu-select-route
CMU created a smartphone transit app for the Pittsburgh area called "Tiramisu," which is notable for being the first such app crowdsourcing location information from people's phones. Here I am confus...
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July 14, 2026 at 5:32 PM
jymdyer.bsky.social
• Remembering back when we built our first parklet, years before any pandemic (and before NYC did it). It had seating and a bike corral, and was outside a bike café (that's no longer there, though the parklet is). #BikeSF #TwitpicTuesday

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20100312 mojo-parklet-parking
· San Francisco's first parklet and bike corral, under construction, outside the Mojo Bicycle Café.
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June 23, 2026 at 8:47 PM