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Local News Site Hoodline Acquired By Nextdoor
An interesting development has hit the San Francisco news scene, and it’s great if you prefer your news to be aggregated by robots, but troublesome if you want genuine, fact-checked news from human journalists. BrokeAssStuart.com has learned that the popular local new site Hoodline has been acquired by the neighborhood

Meet The Free, Public Hand-Washing Stations Popping Up Around SF
While the Trump administration stammers and golfs through the widening coronavirus outbreak, the city of San Francisco is offering a novel solution. Free and public hand washing stations have been placed on various street corners around San Francisco, like the one we saw above at Haight and Ashbury Streets, to

What Do Centennials Say About Living Such Long Lives?
by Limus Woods Recently, on February 24th, 2020, the world’s oldest man died. His name was Mr. Chitetsu Watanabe, he was from Japan, and he’d lived to be 112 years old. I was like “Damn! Do I even wanna live that long??” I guess if I had a good life

Sex Workshops Should Be More Widely Available and Attended
by Kate Brunotts I recently attended my 3rd Babeland workshop, and I came out glowing as ever. Babeland, a feminist-founded sex shop, gives out free sex education workshops to the general public with great names like “Talk Dirty to Me” or “March into Pleasure.” In a short span of 3

Winners And Losers In The SF DCCC Race
They’re still counting ballots, but we know most of the winners in the SF Democratic County Central Committee elections, the nerdy but powerful behind-the-scenes elected Democratic body that an astonishing 56 people were running for this year. The race breaks San Francisco down into two districts, and in 2020, we
Apple Could Owe You $25 For Slowing Down Your Old iPhone
Your suspicion that Apple has been slowing down your old iPhone whenever a new iPhone comes out has been confirmed by a US District Court in California. CNN reports that Apple has agreed pay $500 million in a class action lawsuit from iPhone owners whose older-model phones were throttled when

The Most Bizarre and Fabulous Polling Places in San Francisco
You do not get to choose your polling place in San Francisco, it gets chosen for you. But some people are assigned a very strange and eccentric polling place! With the California Primary vote underway, here are the wildest polling places in San Francisco that are not schools, garages, or

Five New Baby Bison Are Coming to Golden Gate Park!
The Buffalo Paddock at the far west end of Golden Gate Park is getting set to add a little more cute overload, in the form of five little itty-bitty bison joining the herd! OK they are not actually “baby” bison, San Francisco Recreation & Parks describes them in a tweet