Symphonic Coast - Windansea Beach

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Waves gently wash over large rocks on a sandy beach, creating a serene and tranquil atmosphere. The long exposure captures the smooth motion of the ocean, contrasting with the solidity of the rocks. From Windansea Beach in La Jolla, California.

Whispers By The Seashore - Windansea Beach

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Waves gently wash over rocks on a beach, creating a smooth, flowing effect as the water retreats. The sky is overcast, adding a soft purple hue to the serene coastal scene. From Windansea Beach in La Jolla, California.

Those Patterns In The Sand - Scripps Pier Monochrome

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Scripps Pier at La Jolla Shores Beach

Summer Vibes Painterly - Windansea Beach

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A vibrant beach scene comes to life with people enjoying the sunny day, surrounded by blue umbrellas and colorful towels. The sky transitions into a warm sunset, blending beautifully with the deep blue of the ocean.

The south rises in #Hollywood at The Gold Record Road 2026 #Grammy celebration

https://lucire.com/insider/20260208/the-south-rises-in-hollywood-at-the-gold-record-road-2026-grammy-celebration/
https://lucirerouge.com/2026/02/08/the-south-rises-in-hollywood-at-the-gold-record-road-2026-grammy-celebration/ #theScene #living #GrammyAwards #travel #USA #music #history #celebration #Mississippi #Louisiana #culture #heritage #California

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On stage at The Gold Record Road Grammy celebration, with trumpet player performing.

States are probing “surveillance pricing,” where retailers use personal and location data to set individualized prices, led by a new California privacy investigation. 🕵️
The cases highlight opaque algorithmic pricing, discrimination risks, and pressure for stronger transparency and data rights rules. ⚖️

🔗 https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/states-probe-firms-using-personal-data-location-to-set-prices

#TechNews #Privacy #Data #Surveillance #Pricing #Algorithms #CCPA #California #Retail #Grocery #Hotels #AI #ConsumerRights #Transparency #Regulation #BigData #USA #US

Healthcare Workers Freed a Patient From #ICE 🖤

#MutualAid

"When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents brought a detainee to a #California hospital in 2025, they didn’t know they would leave empty-handed. Using capacity they built over months of organizing, Healthcare workers intervened quickly to protect and ultimately free their patient from the clutches of federal secret police...."

https://www.blackrosefed.org/hospital-organizing-against-ice/

#USA #Refugees #Healthcare #Resistance #HealthcareWorkers #Solidarity

Santa Clara County may ditch camera vendor amid privacy issues

Santa Clara County officials signaled growing distrust with Flock Safety, a company that sells license plate reading cameras to cities across California, over concerns the cameras are being used by federal immigration authorities.

#SiliconValley #California #FlockSafety #surveillance #privacy #ice #technology #tech

https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-may-ditch-camera-vendor-amid-privacy-issues/

We fought nearly 100 bills in Sacramento this year.
28 privacy, transparency, and justice wins signed into law.

✅ Stopped SB 690 — the worst privacy rollback of 2025.

California is stronger when the public stays vigilant.

#privacy #transparency #california #digitalrights
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Desert wildflowers growing up through cracked earth. Photographed in Borrego Springs, California.

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State of California just launched a site to have an easy way to request that data brokers delete your info with a single request. (Deletions won't start until summer [data brokers are still registering with the state for compliance].)

I tend to trust State of California with this stuff under its current administration. If privacy experts have caveats, I'd love to hear in the replies.

https://privacy.ca.gov/ #California #Privacy

Stay Golden: the London West Hollywood’s red carpet-inspired award-season tea

https://lucirerouge.com/2026/01/22/stay-golden-the-london-west-hollywoods-red-carpet-inspired-award-season-tea/ #LA #California #USA #AwardSeason #GoldenGlobes #WestHollywood

Perfect Picnic Place - Russian Gulch State Park

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#california #photography #coastal #nature

Turquoise Waters - Mendocino Headlands State Park

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Turquoise Dreams - Russian Gulch State Park

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"When I cross the Bay Bridge I often glance south, to where the huge cargo ships seem monumental and still, as if the arrangement were permanent, as if the vessels were knights and bishops resting on water as solid and stable as a chessboard." —Rebecca Solnit for Aperture https://aperture.org/editorial/richard-misrach-on-the-eerie-grandeur-of-global-trade?src=longreads #essays #longreads #photography #california #criticism

Gently In Sunlight - The Founders Grove

Photographed at The Founders Grove in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Northern California, USA. Thank you for your interest in my work.

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#redwoods #nature #California #photography

Photographed along the Avenue of the Giants in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Northern California, USA. One of the great roads in California!

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Looking down on Hidden Beach in Del Norte County, California. Near both Crescent City and Klamath.

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#CrescentCity #coastal #California #photography

Battery Point Lighthouse in Crescent City, California.

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California's DROP platform took effect Jan 1, letting residents submit one deletion request to 500+ registered data brokers. 🗑️
The Delete Act streamlines prior per-broker opt-outs, but brokers still keep first-party/public data amid privacy advocates' mixed reception. ⚖️

🔗 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/data-broker-hoarding-is-rampant-new-law-lets-consumers-fight-back/

#TechNews #Privacy #Data #Security #California #Rights #Regulation #Policy #DigitalRights #Law #Accountability #Tech #Consumers #DeleteAct #Brokers #DROP #Broker

RE: https://mastodon.world/@droughtcenter/115860844507709914

Californians, look — no drought anywhere in the state!

#drought #California #CAwx

The nation’s strictest #privacy #law just took effect, to #databrokers’ chagrin
Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data.
According to the #California Privacy Protection Agency, more than 500 companies actively scour all sorts of sources for scraps of information about individuals, then package and store it to sell to marketers, private investigators, and others.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/data-broker-hoarding-is-rampant-new-law-lets-consumers-fight-back/

We went down for breakfast at Deetjen's in #BigSur #California this morning. It's been stormy here so there weren't too many tourists about.

But we did end up helping out a rental car (an Audi S4 from Enterprise) with a guy from Palo Alto and his mom and brother visiting from Mumbai. They ran over a small rock on the road that had come off the side of the mountain (lots of rockfall during storms in Big Sur) and it punctured the sidewall of their low profile tires.

They didn't know where the jack was in the car. I got there a bit after another guy was helping them with the jack from his car that ended up damaging some sheet metal on the rental car. We finally figured out where the rental car Jack was (under a separate compartment from the spare tire) so we could get the wheel off the ground correctly.

We got the tire changed and got them on their way back to Monterey where there's cell service and an Enterprise office that's open on Saturdays. The donut spare wouldn't make it back to the Bay Area on its own.

Hopefully they got the comprehensive coverage with their rental because that'll be a $5-10k charge for the sheet metal damage, four new tires, and whatever other BS fees Enterprise will charge.

At McWay falls, some tourists asked us about the road closure. They had a flight to catch at LAX this evening and were wondering if the road was actually closed. Yes it is and the detour is to go back up to Monterey, over to Salinas, and then onto highway 101 all the way to Los Angeles. I have a feeling they probably weren't going to make that flight.

There's never a dull moment in Big Sur.

I had huevos rancheros at Deetjen's which is always an excellent choice there.

Some tourist at Deetjen's was badgering the staff for the wifi. There is very much no Wi-Fi there.

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Looking north along the coast in Big Sur at the mouth of the Little Sur River.

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Looking south along the coast of Big Sur from the deck at Nepenthe

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McWay Falls

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McWay Falls but farther away

Chunk of Otay Mountains Wilderness Area turned into a military zone.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/trump-militarized-zone-california-southern-us-border

#California #Fascism #wilderness

Under Scripps Pier in La Jolla, the ocean smooths into glass and the pillars lead your eye toward a horizon that seems to go on forever.

In the La Jolla California Collection

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#fineartphotography #landscapephotography
#art
#California #LaJolla

KQED: On CalFresh? How to get $60 of free fruits and vegetables each month

"One positive development: The CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT Program — a state program offering SNAP recipients up to $60 of free produce each month — has restarted as of November.""

https://laist.com/news/on-calfresh-how-to-get-60-of-free-fruits-and-vegetables-each-month

#food #hunger #calfresh #California #SNAP

The Lone Cypress is a Monterey cypress tree located in Pebble Beach, California Thank you for your interest in my work.

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#peeblebeach #california

A stunning and iconic view of the coast at a popular pull-out along Highway 1 in Big Sur, California. The beach in the foreground is called Little Sur River Beach. Thank you for your interest in my work.

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#bigsur #california

A lost art: crate labels for fruit & veg companies

You've gotta stand out somehow, so these brands each tried something different from the usual scenes of sunlit lemon groves. All are from California in the early 1940s, most likely before US entry into World War II, except for Buckingham which is from the 1920s.

#vintagead #oldadvertisements #oldads #vintageads #vintageadvertising #California #citrus #1920s #1940s #vegetables #culturalhistory #agriculture #agribusiness #claremontca #watsonvilleca #vacavilleca

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Teen-Age Western Vegetables, Schuman Farms, California three girls are pictured, in identical poses, like paper dolls

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Buckingham Brand, California Bartletts, Vacaville CA a cowboy wearing huge, white, fuzzy chaps is riding a horse-sized pig and waving a lasso over his head

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Hot Brand California Vegetables, Western Packing Co, Guadalupe CA a desert or scrubland scene with two cowboys who have lassoed a calf and are branding it with an iron (hence, hot brand) while a third cowboy watches from the nearby campfire

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Co-Ed Brand, College Heights Orange & Lemon Association, Claremont CA a smiling blonde woman wearing the traditional black cap and gown of a college graduate, in front of a dark purple background. No farms or produce are in the image

Hmmm. I have done a lot of winter camping (and in snow, subzero conditions), and I'm going to say "reading an article about winter camping" is not sufficient to prepare you for actual winter camping.

I'd put this in the category of "go with people who have winter camped before" and/or "take a class on winter camping", at least in the case of snow and/or (worse) cold weather with possibility of rain. I have done this a LOT and avoiding hypothermia and dangerous conditions is substantially harder in winter vs. other seasons.

LAist: Yes, winter camping is worth it — and here’s where to go

https://laist.com/news/yes-winter-camping-is-worth-it-and-heres-where-to-go

#camping #outdoors #California

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LAist: Yes, winter camping is worth it — and here’s where to go

Sunrise San Diego, California.

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Sunrise San Diego, California.

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#California’s state agency CalPrivacy is building a new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP 😂).

Starting Jan 1, 2026, you’ll be able to submit a request through DROP, asking data brokers to delete your data.

Starting Aug 1, 2026, data brokers are required to start regularly processing consumer deletion requests, reducing how many times your data can be bought, sold, and pop-up on sketchy websites. 😎

This is exciting, as it’s a FREE service for California residents, similar to existing, paid services like Optery, Incogni, Privacy Bee, DeleteMe, and EasyOptOuts.

#privacy #data #government

https://privacy.ca.gov/data-brokers/

Since then, #drilling has been prohibited in #California state waters, which extend 3 miles from the shoreline. There has been limited drilling, & no new leasing, in federal waters off CA since the mid-1980s.

The plan would also require new #oil & #gas leasing in the eastern #GulfOfMexico…. That could prompt pushback from #Republicans from #Florida, who have opposed new drilling there ever since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig disaster devastated the state’s tourism industry.

#law #Trump

The #Interior Dept could announce the proposal as soon as this week, acc/to the 3 people….

There has been almost no #FossilFuel development along the #California coast since an enormous #oil spill near Santa Barbara in 1969 that shocked the nation & helped to galvanize a national #environmental movement. The #OilSpill sullied beaches in the popular coastal enclave, killed thousands of birds, damaged property & harmed the commercial fishing industry.

#law #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateCrisis #Trump

#Trump to propose opening #California Coast to #oil #drilling for the first time in roughly 4 decades, acc/to 3 people.

The move would set up a confrontation with Gov #GavinNewsom, a #Democrat who has fought #OffshoreDrilling & who has emerged as one of Trump’s chief political antagonists. Newsom is in Brazil for the #UN #climate summit, where he is drawing a contrast between himself & Trump, who denigrates efforts to fight #GlobalWarming.

#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/climate/offshore-drilling-california-trump-newsom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Sunrise San Diego, CA.
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CDFW:

Recreational Crab Season is Open with Restrictions

Recreational Crab Season is Open

The recreational Dungeness crab season opened in portions of the State on Sat., Nov. 1. State health agencies determined areas in northern California have unhealthy levels of domoic acid and recomended delaying the opening of the fishery from the CA/OR border to the Sonoma/Mendocino County line. Additionally, the use of the crab traps is temporarily prohibited between the Sonoma/Mendocino County line and Lopez Point, Monterey County due to entanglement risk with humpback whales.

https://wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/recreational-dungeness-crab-fishing-begins-nov-1-with-limitations-commercial-season-delayed

#fishing #California

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The recreational Dungeness crab season opened in portions of the State on Sat., Nov. 1. State health agencies determined areas in northern California have unhealthy levels of domoic acid and recomended delaying the opening of the fishery from the CA/OR border to the Sonoma/Mendocino County line. Additionally, the use of the crab traps is temporarily prohibited between the Sonoma/Mendocino County line and Lopez Point, Monterey County due to entanglement risk with humpback whales.

Wall Art and more - Gorgeous San Diego Skyline Scene

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Wall Art and more - Gorgeous San Diego Skyline Scene

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Wall Art and more - Gorgeous Night in San Diego

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