#california Timeline

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CalMatters offers this amazing FREE service called My Legislator

It tracks every bill your California State Senator and Assemblymember introduce or vote on (and more) and sends you a weekly update

I caught the tail end of the beta last year, but the 2026 legislative year just started and it's up and running again

Highly recommend this for all residents in #California!

https://calmatters.org/my-legislator/

Sample image of CalMatters weekly update on State legislators as shown on a phone screen

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California schools will soon be able to easily search the names of bus drivers, janitors and other school support staff to see if they have substantiated claims of misconduct.

#News #California #School #Teacher #Education #Data #Law #Transparency

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The Creature met an ancestor! 🦣 🦴 🏛️

#TheLaBreaTarPits #LosAngeles #California #Fossils #Merchtodon #Paleontology #Photo #Photography #Plushtodon #LetyDoesSelfies

Photo of Lety and the Creature Mastodon stuffed toy standing in front of a mastodon museum exhibit under warm, indoor lighting. From top to bottom, Lety is shown wearing a short, white, long-sleeve dress with red floral print and brown sandals. Her body is roughly facing the camera, the Creature in her arms, as she turns her and the Creature back towards her left to look up at the massive fossilized skeleton of an American mastodon. On the floor between Lety and the skeleton is an exhibit sign reading “American mastodon”, “(Mammut americanum)”, “2 million to 10,000 years ago”, with a map showing the species' historical range across North America and some other out-of-focus text. In the background are several other museum visitors viewing smaller fossil displays in glass cases along a back wall.

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VW Beetle, Santa Monica, CA. Shot on 35mm HP5 film.

#classiccars #streetphotography #35mm #analog #santamonica #losangeles #california

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A KQED-ProPublica report revealed how a teacher was allowed to keep his credentials despite being fired for sexually harassing students.

His current school district has replaced him as it investigates at least two new student complaints.
https://www.propublica.org/article/redwood-city-teacher-sexual-harassment-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #California #BayArea #Children #Students #School #Teachers #Education #Parenting

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“ By Kiley Price, insideclimatenews.org
May 19, 2026
An unrelenting wildfire has swallowed nearly a third of Santa Rosa Island, a small strip of land off the coast of California that is largely uninhabited by people but abundant with wildlife and plants, including several found nowhere else on Earth. the island as part of the Channel Islands National Park.” https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19052026/todays-climate-wildfire-california-santa-rosa-island-species-risk/ #wildfires #california #environment

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#Colorado and #California to exempt decentralized open-source operating systems such as #Linux from age verification so young coders can keep coding!

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/

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Walking to the beach via a tunnel that runs under the Pacific Coast Highway. Santa Monica, CA.

Shot on 35mm Kodak Gold 200 with a 50mm lens. I exposed for the highlights and let the shadows fall where they may. Happy with the result.

#filmphotography #colorphotography #35mm #streetphotography #santamonica #losangeles #california

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NEW: "I Got Access to Hundreds of Teacher Misconduct Complaints in California — and You Can Too"

In her five years of investigating teacher misconduct in California schools, reporter Holly McDede learned an important lesson: What seems to be secret isn’t always so — sometimes you just need to know who to ask, and for what.

https://www.propublica.org/article/california-teacher-misconduct-public-records

#news #education #government #california

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California Incline leading to the Pacific Coast Highway. Santa Monica, CA.

Leica M2, Voigtlander 35mm Classic f1.4, Kodak Gold 200

#streetphotography #santamonica #losangeles #california #leica #filmphotography #analog #35mm

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Hey #California — you already know about CalPrivacy’s new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) that will scrub your info from data brokers’ lists starting Aug. 1.

https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/

When submitting your request, some info is optional. For example, in addition to name, email, DOB… you can provide vehicle VINs and smartphone/TV tracking IDs.

It's all optional, but the more you provide, the more thorough the scrubbing! 🧼

HOWEVER, I was concerned: What if I provided ALL of this info, and then an unscrupulous data broker (hahaha, they are all unscrupulous) actually used all that info to link me to my devices and vehicles, when they had not yet previously.

#Privacy nightmare, right??

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#CaliforniaLaw is written by people who are either very ignorant or very incompetent.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

They have assumed that all operating systems are like Microsoft Windows 11, Android, or iOS; and have written legislation for operating systems where people download glorified WWW client 'apps', from 'stores', which use 'accounts' that they have with vendors or Microsoft/Google/Apple.

But the legislation *as worded* *also* covers everything from #Debian and #Ubuntu through #Arch Linux and #MobaXTerm to #FreeBSD and #NetBSD and #OpenBSD; where users anonymously use package managers or ports systems to install applications, written by developers, on operating systems, from 'publicly available internet website' repositories.

There is no age field in the GECOS data in master.passwd(5) of course, and the reality is that no BSD or Linux-based operating system has this concept of apps/stores/accounts.

#MidnightBSD #FreeSoftware #Unix #California #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR

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We stop for wildflowers! And to “send” today’s flowers to @Kleen and @Weather_Rock_Wx, with gratitude for their March 2 and March 5 donations—so helpful and appreciated! How to donate, plus FAQs: https://bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations

#ActOnClimate #cycling #biking #transportation #ActiveTransportation #BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #California #wildflowers #SpringFlowers

Warrior's Plume or Pedicularis densiflora https://calscape.org/Pedicularis-densiflora-(Warrior's-Plume) [edited from "Indian paintbrush” — thanks Nancy and Kathleen!] growing along a Monterey County roadside.

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Monterey County Weekly / Monterey County Now, July 30 - Aug 5, 2026 issue
https://flipbook.montereycountyweekly.com/archive/2026/07-30-26/index.html.
Cover story by Aric Sleeper, photos by Daniel Dreifuss
“Road Share: Can advocates make local streets safer for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers?" pages 18-22 https://flipbook.montereycountyweekly.com/archive/2026/07-30-26/18/.

Note on pg 22 "More Coverage: CalBike advocates for a universal definition of e-bikes,” with CalBike Executive Director Kendra Ramsey. https://flipbook.montereycountyweekly.com/archive/2026/07-30-26/22/

#MontereyCounty #MontereyBay #California #CalBike #BikeTooter #BikeMonterey #TrafficSafety #infrastructure #transportation #cycling #biking #ActiveTransportation #BikeAdvocacy #VisionZero #ebikes #ebike #ElectricBicycles #eMotorcycles #cyclists #pedestrians #PeopleForBikes #MontereyCountyNow

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#California USA accounts to follow:

CALIFORNIA NEWS
@CALMatters - Non-profit news org covering politics & policies in California
@HeySoCal - Local news org in California, runs many local newspapers
@AfroLA - Los Angeles independent news site covering stories from Black community perspective
@index - Investigative reporting co-operative in Los Angeles
@[email protected] - San Francisco community news site
@SFistNews - Local news for San Francisco
@COYOTEMedia - Bay Area worker-owned news site

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"The cause of the fire has not been released.” —Ricardo Tovar, KSBW
https://www.ksbw.com/article/vegetation-fire-jacks-peak-structures/73383874

Reminders about Jacks Peak Park:
—🚳 Bicycling is NOT permitted on the trails, only on the paved roads; and💚 we wholeheartedly support this policy for Jacks Peak!💚
—⛺ Day use only. NO camping!
—🔥 Wood and charcoal fires are PROHIBITED.
—🚗 Motor vehicle speed limit is 15mph.
—🦮 Dogs are ONLY permitted on-leash and must be supervised at all times; and clean up after your pet!
🌅 HISTORY and more: https://bikemonterey.org/jacks-peak-park-rare-native-monterey-pine-forest.html

#wildlfires #MontereyCounty #California #parks #MontereyPine #forest #NativeForest #NativePlants

Sign along Jacks Peak Road reads NO BICYCLES OFF PAVED ROADS, which we wholeheartedly support.

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Macroalgae on beach #nature #beach #algae #sandiego #california

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No connection, just sharing the listing

"...the Information Technology Specialist I serves as the Product Engineer for the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP). DROP is California's first-of-its-kind privacy platform helping Californians exercise deletion and opt-out rights at scale."

https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=527873

#privacy #job #california #stateJob #CalPrivacy #privacyJob #sql #webDev #backend

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We stop for wildflowers! And to “send” these flowers from our April 3 ride to @Kleen and @Weather_Rock_Wx, with gratitude for their April 2 and April 5 donations—deeply appreciated!

How to donate, plus FAQs: https://bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations

#ActOnClimate #cycling #biking #transportation #ActiveTransportation #BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #California #wildflowers #SpringFlowers

We don’t know their name, but these lavender flowers growing along Olmsted Road are a highlight of every spring.

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Take that, you "Bridge to nowhere". 🌉 🛣️

https://us.cnn.com/2026/04/11/europe/hungary-election-orban-corruption-roundabout-intl

#publicWorks #waste #government #Hungary #roundabout #California #bridge

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I still don't get what's the big deal about corn on everything

#LosAngeles #California #Photo #Photography #LetyDoesSelfies

Photo of Lety sitting at an outdoor dining table holding a fish‐shaped, corn‐flavored ice cream sandwich with a big bite taken out of it during high noon. From top to bottom, her visible attire consists of: a floral red sundress. Lety is sitting on a brown metal chair at a matching outdoor dining table, holding her phone in her right hand to take a top‐down selfie that focuses on her torso. In her left hand is a corn‐flavored store‐bought samanco, the wrapper of her frozen dessert on the table in front of her, and green artificial turf around the floor behind her. Lety's late, former, ex‐fiancée… she'll never find the right words to describe their relationship, but someone Lety loved very much loved corn‐flavored everything. She's still trying to adjust to her lover's palette, three years after she's gone. A basic transcript of the samanco wrapper follows.

Binggrae®
It's Fintastic!
SAMANCO
CORN
cake cone fish‐shaped frozen dairy dessert
Artificially Flavored
150 mL (5.1 fl oz)

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Palace Of Fine Arts/Columns And Curves

The Palace Of Fine Arts is one of ten structures of this nature built for the 1915 Pan-American Exposition in San Francisco California.
This is located in the Marina District of the city only a few blocks up off the San Francisco Bay.

https://pixels.com/featured/palace-of-fine-arts-columns-and-curves-bill-gallagher.html

#PalaceOfFineArtsColumnsAndCurves #BillGallagherPhotography #PalaceOfFineArts #SanFranciscoArchitecture #SanFrancisco #TouristAttraction #Tourism #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #California #Architecture

Palace Of Fine Arts/Columns And Curves

Warm late‑afternoon light pours across the Palace of Fine Arts, igniting the sandstone columns in a deep, honey‑gold glow. The architecture rises with a quiet, commanding elegance—massive fluted pillars curving into graceful arches that feel both ancient and impossibly alive. Shadows slip between the columns like soft velvet, adding depth and mystery, while the sky beyond opens into a clear, luminous blue that feels almost painted.

There’s a gentle stillness in the scene, the kind that makes you instinctively slow your breathing. The trees framing the structure add a whisper of movement, their leaves catching the light like tiny green sparks.

This photograph doesn’t just show architecture—it invites the viewer into a moment of serenity, history, and awe. It’s the kind of image that transforms a room: warm enough for a living space, sophisticated enough for an office, and timeless enough for collectors who appreciate classical lines and atmospheric light.

Why buyers connect with this piece:

It radiates calm, making it ideal for spaces that need grounding energy.

The warm tones and clean architectural lines pair effortlessly with modern, rustic, or traditional décor.

It captures one of San Francisco’s most iconic structures in a way that feels intimate, almost cinematic.

The composition draws the eye inward, making it a natural focal point on any wall.

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Danish Pastry met a superhero! 🦇🦹🏻‍♂️

#IKnowThatsTheVillainEmoji #TheHeroOneIsJustTooSupermany #Fotomontag #PhotoMonday #Batman #Burbank #LosAngeles #California #Art #BatmanHush #Comic #Comics #DC #DComics #Merchtodon #Photo #Photography #Plushtodon #Sculpture

Photo of Danish Pastry, the Mastodon stuffed toy, being held in the arm of a life-sized Batman statue outdoors during a bright, sunny morning. The bottom-up shot is pointed up towards the bronze "Batman" sculpture by Alejandro Pereira Ezcurra, based on artwork by Jim Lee. The sculpture of Batman is standing with a stern expression, facing straight forward as he holds Danish Pastry between his right fist and hip, his cape draping over his left arm.

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Mt Whitney From Highway 395
Living in California kind of spoils a person to all of the beauty that surrounds them. Hwy 395 down the backside of the Sierra Nevada Range is one of those drives that everyone should take at least once in their lives.
Hwy. 395 to me is the backbone of California even though it dips in and out of Nevada to get around Lake Tahoe.
https://pixels.com/featured/mt-whitney-from-highway-395-bill-gallagher.html
#MtWhitneyFromHighway395 #BillGallagherPhotography #MountWhitney #EasternSierras #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #California

Mt Whitney From Highway 395

This photograph opens with a sweep of sun‑washed desert foreground giving way to the jagged rise of the Eastern Sierra, the air so clear it feels almost sharp against the skin. Mt. Whitney anchors the right side of the frame, its granite face catching the light in a way that makes the peak look both immense and impossibly close, a towering presence above the quiet openness of Highway 395. The Alabama Hills roll across the mid‑ground in warm, rounded shapes, their rust‑colored rock contrasting beautifully with the cool, pale blues of the high mountain sky, creating a scene that feels both rugged and serene, like the breath you take when the world suddenly expands around you.

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Balboa Park B and W

One of my favorite places in San Diego besides the beaches, and Old Town, is Balboa Park.
This image was captured early in the morning mid summer. I walked the streets and sidewalks around the different museums. I was so excited when I saw this beautiful arch with the repeating patterns almost as far as the eye can see.
https://pixels.com/featured/balboa-park-b-and-w-bill-gallagher.html
#BalboaParkBAndW #BillGallagherPhotography #BalboaPark #SanDiego #SanDiegoArchitecture #California #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt

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