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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Just realized this isn’t true, and I’ve def seen them around the Bay Bridge and further northwest. This is the most south I’ve seen them, anyway.

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

My first time seeing a seal in the bay, at Candlestick Point

Seal mostly underwater in wide, blue bay, close to shore

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

My seventh great-grandfather, Jacques Marchand, immigrated from France to what was then Nouvelle France in 1659. He’s buried somewhere in or near the Cathédral de l’Assomption in Trois-Rivières, Québec.

The Cathédral de l’Assomption in Trois-Rivières, Québec, stone with a green copper spire

Inside the Cathédral de l’Assomption in Trois-Rivières, Québec, pews with columns, arches, and altars

Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Silicon Valley shorebirds, Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Cormorants, stilts, and other birds in bayshore mud

A demure snowy egret and flying stilts and other birds over a bay pond

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Money plays bongos very rapidly at the Portola Music Festival

Moby onstage at night playing bongos bathed in blue light

Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

« La Fresque des Québecois » (“The Fresco of Quebecers”), Quebec City

“La Fresque de Québecois”, or “The Fresco of Quebecers,” in Quebec City, a large fresco depicting different important figures from Quebec history

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

In Quebec City: Fewer cars, fewer deaths. 🐈‍⬛

A poster with the silhouette of a black cat reading, “Moins de chars, moins de morts” (“Fewer cars, fewer deaths”).

Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

SF icons as viewed from Fort Funston

Sutro Tower, a tall tripod antenna, to the left of Twink Peaks’ hump, with golf course and dunes in between

The Golden Gate Bridge, far away, under some clouds

Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

Almost like a So Cal beach

Looking west at the Pacific Ocean, with boats on the water and people and a dog on shore

Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

The mountain winery in Saratoga, California, is a very cool place to see a show (in this case, the band Tennis in their last performance).

Tennis the band on stage, against the backdrop of an old winery building bathed in purple light

The main two members of Tennis onstage, both with guitars

The emptying Mountain Winery venue at night, with the lights of the South Bay below

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

Thar she blows, off Linda Mar Beach, viewed from Mori Point

A humpback whale lunge feeds in the ocean near the coast of Pacifica, CA

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 31

As busy as it gets at Ocean Beach today

Looking north along Oceqn Beach, where lots of people are out

Looking south along Ocean Beach, where lots of people are out

Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 28

Cormorants in Pacifica

Cormorants in the water near the beach, Pacifica Pier

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 23

Bay FC vs. Washington Spirit at Oracle Park today

Blue smoke and fireworks from the field at Oracle Park

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 23

WESH-TV - Protesters in Orlando have repainted the Pulse Memorial crosswalk after Florida state-directed crews removed the rainbow stripes that honor the 49 lives lost during the 2016 massacre […]

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 23

Thankful for you, @karlthefog!

A layer of fog over hills of San Francisco, with Sutro Tower poking through

Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 22

A squadron of pelicans at Mussel Rock

Eight pelicans fly by, relatively close to the camera, and the sea is further away below

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21

Michael Franti is done. I saw him La Taqueria once and definitely listed to his stuff a while back. Vile. https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/michael-franti-cancels-tour-20826061.php

Michael Franti cancels tour as more sexual abuse allegations surface

Michael Franti has canceled his Welcome to the Family Tour, including a Bay Area show at Saratoga’s Mountain Winery, as additional sexual abuse allegations surface against the Oakland-born...

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 20

Vance, Miller, and Hegseth, three of the most horrible of the many horrible MAGA people, deserve to be booed. "When asked about the vice president's presence, Jay Swanson, a customer eating a burger, said: 'It's disgusting, I lost my appetite.'" […]

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 20

From yesterday, a Caspian tern carrying an anchovy in its beak

Caspian tern flying deform left to right with an anchovy in its beak, against a backdrop of hills, the beach

Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 18

Many humpback whales close to the pier and to the shore near Sharp Park, Pacifica

A humpback whale’s hump is visible just past the Pacifica Pier, where many cormorants are perched

A humpback whale’s hump not far offshore in Pacifica

A humpback whale’s hump, surrounded by birds, close to the fishing pier

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 17

Bay FC vs. San Diego Wave in San Jose. At least we got the PK.

Looking along a corridor of the stadium, with a fan in the foreground, and players walking along the bridge above

View from behind the net as Caroline Conti shoots a penalty kick

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 13

Yoga and skateboarding at Ocean Beach

Two people doing yoga on foggy Ocean Beach

Young skateboarder prepares on the ramp behind a giant octopus sculpture at Sunset Dunes

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 11

This young Asian-American lawyer, May Mailman, has been fighting hard to enable more discrimination against minorities of all kinds on behalf of MAGA. Scary person. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/harvard-trump-may-mailman.html

The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities

May Mailman is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut years of medical and scientific research.

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Tara Marchand 🏳️‍🌈 @trmarchand.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 10

One of many reasons I left Meta platforms. Yuck, Zuck. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/mark-zuckerberg-palo-alto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dE8.HOkl.8eRghjqIltNE

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