Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2026 -- October 12, 2026

mayorshengthao

My Italian-American mother would not like this, but I'm going to stop calling it Columbus Day and start calling it Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Sadly, she is no longer aware of what day it is.

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day to everyone.

Here the City of Oakland and former Mayor Sheng Thao acknowledge that their city, like much of the Bay Area, is built "On Occupied Ohlone Land."

Trump Putin Treason -- October 11, 2026

Our traitorous president gave his master Putin a big birthday present. Petroleum prices have exploded, the price of Diesel in particular. So TR**mp will buy millions of gallons of Diesel fuel from Russia.

Trump is ignoring sanctions imposed to punish Russia for invading Ukraine.

Trump is giving money to the country that invaded Ukraine, which also supplies help to Iran in killing out service people. 

Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he had better not attack any more Russian refineries which produce Diesel. Ukraine went ahead and attacked more Russian refineries which produce Diesel. 

This is treason.

Halloween is Coming -- October 10, 2026

Halloween is coming. Cal Jumps Pumpkin Patch at Pedro Point. So far, this is the only one I have seen in Pacifica.

I took the photo on 07-October-2026.

PGE Power Outage -- October 9, 2026

Pacifica Patch

There is a power outage this afternoon in the north part of Pacifica. The group chat from the school says that power is out there. The expected time of resolution is 07:00pm. We'll see.

Margaret Hamilton RIP -- Otober 9, 2026

 

nasa/alamy

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton has died. My condolences to her family. She led the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory team which created the onboard software for NASA's Apollo program and later for the Hubbell Space Telescope.

She spent many years trying to get more women into software engineering. That is a subject that I feel strongly about.

The famous photo shows her with the listings of all the Apollo 11 software. When I started at Wells Fargo, we had to make a listing of each COBOL program that we created or updated. I very rarely looked at them.

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Halloween is Coming -- October 8, 2026

Halloween is coming. Halloween decorations in Pacifica. I took the photo on 07-October-2026.

Remember Their Names -- October 7, 2026

Linda Battle

The masked thugs of ICE continue to kill and injure people for no reason. This image goes back to July.