Grant Patterson

How am I not myself?

[Elias Jarzombek @jarz_0]

Excited to share my first foray into music-making hardware! The Abacuysnth is designed to be easy and fun to play regardless of musical background -- it's a physical implementation of some ideas I've been experimenting with in software.

#synth #synthesizer #hardware #music #dsp

[Grant Patterson @grantpatterson]

@robinpam @KarlTheFog Well trained! You never know…

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. This will be a thread of corporations that plastered their social media accounts with rainbows for Pride Month

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How much those corporations donated to anti-LGBTQ politicians since 2021

Follow along if interested.

[The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard]

Perspective: In 2014, San Francisco set out to reduce traffic deaths to zero by 2024—a goal called #VisionZero.

Eight years on, we must admit that Vision Zero has failed, @wafoli writes.

What we’re doing isn’t working—and the consequences are deadly.
https://t.co/mYZ6ApJLuv

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Map of Europe drawn from memory

[Brian EdwardsTiekert @bedwardstiek]

Local journalist here, with a thread on why you should *absolutely not* do what this headline writer did, and treat the recall of Chesa Boudin as a referendum of national significance on criminal justice reform. 1/

[Bess Kalb @bessbell]

The most GENEROUS paid parental leave ends at 3 months. At 4 months old, human babies go through a developmental stage called "The 4 Month Sleep Regression," which means they are awake all night. America is built for primary caregivers to fail. Please read this screaming.

[Michelle Kuo (郭怡慧) @kuokuomich]

About that awful piece in @TheAtlantic. It suggests that @chesaboudin created the Tenderloin (she's gotta be joking; we all know what it was like before), it makes SF an object of nostalgia (hasn't she ever read joan didion on haight ashbury?), it describes Asian Americans as

[Gretchen Felker-Martin @scumbelievable]

"Where do I stand on the -- on the WHAT? The "Transgender Question"? Well for one thing, sir, I recall the last few usages of that particular phraseology. A group of millions is not a question -- I have not yet finished speaking -- not a question, but a demographic."

[Grant Patterson @grantpatterson]

CHAOS

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

5000 double pendulums, with a tiny (0.000001 rad) variation on starting angles. Color line connects original neighbours, thickness proportional to how close they remain (firs bifurcation starting at 0:12 provides a good understanding of what's going on).

[Domenico @AvatarDomy2]

Very high winds at the perfect time of day created a previously undocumented 2,400 foot rainbow waterfall in Yosemite National Park

[Grant Patterson @grantpatterson]

@jtrebach This is an excellent harm reduction resource for people who use drugs. TripSit works hard documenting the relative safety of drug combinations: https://t.co/xVCCIp8MzF I made a suitcase with buttons and lights with the data; it’s lots of fun at parties 😉 https://t.co/bsq0QqO15i

[chris arvin @chrisarvinsf]

remember how last year, SF supervisors unanimously passed a resolution urging SFMTA to remove parking at muni stops for unobstructed access?

SFMTA’s plan: visit and review every single stop to decide whether to remove parking.

it will take seven years.

https://t.co/6RmLSiacJ2

[Grant Patterson @grantpatterson]

@ShitUserStory 548th, big milestone! 🏆

[Grant Patterson @grantpatterson]

All. Police. Lie.

[Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) @froomkin]

NEW: All police lie https://t.co/NpIBtmTCk8

[Lisa Church 🗽 @lmc]

There have been 4 (maybe even 5-6?) pedestrians killed by drivers in SF in the last week, and no comment from the Mayor, Head of Muni, or Chief of SFPD.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

They just went to the grocery store. Buying breakfast for their kids. Looking for fresh vegetables. Getting the ingredients for Sunday dinner. They just went to the grocery store, and now they’re gone. It’s unacceptable. It’s devastating. It’s terrorism. It’s white supremacy.

[Grant Patterson @grantpatterson]

I’m sorry, WHAT??? 🤦‍♂️

[SF311 @SF311]

@mellen @sanaeknits When you submit a request for blocking a bike lane your report will be logged to help the City collect data on bike lane violations to determine target areas and future enforcement efforts. No immediate action will be taken. ^DC

[Maurice Moe Mitchell 🐺 @MauriceWFP]

Anyone in the press that’s reporting the white terror attack in Buffalo as a crime story rather than a successful strike by a genocidal political movement is doing the work of that political movement.

[Mia Mulder @Potatopolitics]

Israel occupation forces killing a journalist and then attacking her pallbearers with the willful consent of the Israeli authorities should make literally anyone with a heart to condemn the occupation and the settlements of occupied and demand an independent investigation