Blood Drives San Francisco

B&B 1st THUR - SPECIAL WDD day!

Hi All, November 14 is WDD World Diabetes Day! We will have our meeting this month on Thursday, Nov 12 to promote awareness of diabetes and its affect on people's health & lives. We are at Drake's Dealership again. Hope you can come to the all-you-need-to-know about type 1 diabetes and all-the-type 1s-you-need-to-know meeting! And what better way with beer & pizza? Katie Craft from USCF Diabetes, Julia Philips from DYF, and I are co-hosting the E Bay Beer & Basals meeting. This is the former CarbDM "B&B" which we are continuing due to popular demand. Come to find out about the newest in diabetes technologies, devices, insulins, as well as practical tips and tricks for living our best lives. DIY Loop & DIY iAPS system users are welcome, although you don't have to be using any specific system or brand. All are welcome! It's a fun evening with other T1s, significant others, friends, and family. The meeting is a casual, 'gather-around' format. If specific topics are requested and can't be answered or given enough attention in the B&B meetings we can hold other ones as needed. Meetings are mostly on the 1st THURSDAY: 7-9:00 pm \*\*\*\*\*at Drake's Dealership (pub/pizza)\*\*\* Upcoming meetings in 2026: 1st Thursday, DEC 3 Look forward to seeing you! Thanks and take care, Jessica

Organic vegan food and live music on Fridays

> Enjoy organic Latin and international plant-based cooked and live food with live music. "in this magical place, a little island of the future where those who enter her doors are forever transformed by the spirit of the music and dance that takes them in. You’ll find it on a little side street in San Francisco’s old Latin Quarter somewhere between Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf and endless Italian late night cafes." > Robin Williams took to the stage here and said “This place is amazing, this is the kind of place that would make even the Amish dance” > To celebrate our 25th year in Peña Pachamama we have performances CARNAVAL SATURDAYS. Reserve a show https://www.penapachamama.com

Mission 5k fun run! | 500 Club + Corey's Pizza

[Link to the Route](https://onthegomap.com/s/df2fg9v7) Join us Monday for a run from The 500 Club! The bar doesn't have food but right next door is [Corey's Pizza](https://maps.app.goo.gl/j9Z8Yx7Jj3ivC12y6) that we can bring into the bar. **Please remember to bring your ID, as they often check at the door.** We are now running in the dark, so we encourage reflective clothes/running gear with lights/headlamps. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- We host a weekly 5km run every Monday evening, starting and ending at a \*bar in or near the Mission District. We keep a moderate pace so no one runs alone – it's a fun run, not all-out. It is, however, recommended that you are able to run around 3 miles (5Km) consistently but if that's an issue, bring a buddy along or shorten the route to your liking. Join for a drink/snack/chat after the run -- we love to meet our neighbors!

Tiburon Ridge loop from ferry

Jackie Kong’s “Blood Diner” (1987) 🍳🧠🔪 Presented by Backdoor Films!

Third Thursdays City Neighborhood Coffee and Conversation

Werewolf Potluck

New players always welcome, we are friendly and can teach you [how to play](https://docs.google.com/document/d/10hhAtoAWkwjAOFjkcYgia2Dm0Im1M3Vr2DwvC7hu9uE/edit?tab=t.0) including our [7 house rules](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-W7kjNNWEmFptS6uz3jQAKLP_ZZJ1ntYECg0GTdAXCo/edit?fbclid=IwY2xjawMPQONleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFlNks3Y3ZCNTU2R0p2OVBFAR4O3SLi5Cqapu5FIQxkyu2XCRfVQWRL96uix08e3hbapt7ZBAUCGDOdFLXAIQ_aem_27HEyDvk1X1alLK8co7hLw&tab=t.0) that make it such a fun and unique experience that you will love! Adults only. Bring your friends, but RSVP required for each guest. **Please bring some food or drink to share so you can stay and play all day!** Arrive anytime and join the next village. We run games in two rooms, so the dead can join whichever game starts next. We host at our home in Brisbane. We have a dog who will be in daycare and a cat who will be in your lap if you let her. Keep shoes on inside. ***Join our Facebook group where members host unofficial events*** (https://www.facebook.com/groups/werewolfsf/) **Village Guidelines:** • No insults, No criticism after game, Share the floor • Don't make it personal, don't take it personal **Moderator Guidelines:** • Enforce rules but be light-hearted. • Use our house rules (and play with us before moderating) • Get pre-approval on any experimental roles ***Please update your RSVP (including wait list) if you can't make it.*** *Late cancels, no shows, and crashers without RSVP take spots away from others, so repeat offenders will be removed from our group*

Mission 5k fun run! | TBD

We host a weekly 5km run every Monday evening, starting and ending at a \*bar in or near the Mission District. We keep a moderate pace so no one runs alone – it's a fun run, not all-out. It is, however, recommended that you are able to run around 3 miles (5Km) consistently but if that's an issue, bring a buddy along or shorten the route to your liking. Join for a drink/snack/chat after the run -- we love to meet our neighbors!

Sputter night!

We're trying to bring an old Edwards sputtering machine back to life! Everyone has varying levels of experience with vacuum and deposition technologies from decades of work in industry to "I just read the wikipedia article and sputtering sounds neat" Come hang out and help us get to first plasma and then hopefully full sputtering soon after!

Automatic Noodle @ Woods Lowside

Come enjoy a drink at Woods Lowside and discuss our November read! In November we meet a week earlier than usual, so we’re officially making November our Novella month. Our Novella for November is Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. Hope to see you there!

Profs & Pints Alameda: Unhealthy Diets by Design

[Profs and Pints Alameda](https://www.profsandpints.com/sfbayarea) presents: **“Unhealthy Diets by Design,”** on how cigarette science made us crave food that’s bad for us, with Laura Schmidt, professor of health policy and emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco and scholar of the relationship between marketing and chronic disease. [Tickets available only online, at [https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/unhealthy-by-design](https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/unhealthy-by-design) .] It’s no accident that kids everywhere gobble down Lunchables, many of us can’t eat just one Oreo, and warnings by health experts and our own physicians often fail to deter us from loading our shopping carts with ultra-processed foods or pulling up to fast-food restaurants. The truth is that our cravings for unhealthy foods are the product of extensive research, as well as deliberate manufacturing and marketing decisions, informed by lessons learned by Big Tobacco. Get the inside skinny on how we’ve been manipulated into eating what makes many of us fat with Laura Schmidt, a highly respected sociologist and public health expert dedicated to understanding how modern lifestyles and economic pressures have driven the rise of chronic disease around the world. Dr. Schmidt was one of several authors of a recent series of articles in the *American Journal of Public Health* examining how ultra-processed foods became a huge part of American diets. She exposed how the U.S. tobacco giants Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds got into the food business during the mid-20th century and applied tobacco-industry research to the manufacturing and marketing ultra-processed foods. They used brain-wave sensing tests on consumers to measure how the brain processed flavors and to determine what motivates consumers at the deepest levels. Based on what they learned, they heightened our desire for products by tweaking how foods were processed and loading them with flavor additives. The tobacco companies have since largely divested themselves from food companies, but their impact on the industry remains. The documents that Dr. Schmidt relied on, produced in response to lawsuits, are now part of UCSF’s Industry Documents Library, a digital archive of 29 million records that includes collections from the opioid, chemical, food, and fossil fuel industries. Dr. Schmidt will tell the story of precisely how the cigarette giants used tobacco research and development to design some of America’s most iconic food brands, including Lunchables, Oreos, KFC, and 7-Up. Her talk will leave you with a newfound appreciation of just how risky one bite of something can be. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.) Image: Junk food in a Walmart. (Photo by Thayne Tuason / Creative Commons.)

Profs & Pints San Francisco: The World Mount Vesuvius Buried

[Profs and Pints San Francisco](https://www.profsandpints.com/sfbayarea) presents: **“The World Mount Vesuvius Buried,”** on what we’re learning by the uncovering of ancient Roman towns buried in volcanic ash, with Michael Anderson, a professor of Classical archaeology at San Francisco State University who has spent nearly 30 years studying and excavating Pompeii. [Tickets must be purchased online, at [https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/presidio-vesuvius](https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/presidio-vesuvius) .] The cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE entombed towns, farms, and villas in ash and debris, dooming those around at the time but preserving for future generations a unique and invaluable window onto Roman and Pre-Roman daily life. Learn about the fascinating finds of archeologists at work there with Michael Anderson, director of the Via Consolare Project excavations of ancient Pompeii, author of *Space, Movement and Visibility in Pompeian Houses*, and co-author of *House of the Surgeon, Pompeii: Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo.* He’ll discuss how what Vesuvius buried was lost and largely forgotten for centuries, and how the discovery and early excavation of these sites in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries would transform forever the disciplines of art history and archaeology. It also greatly enriched our understanding of ancient Roman daily life, a process that continues to this day, making Pompeii the longest continuously excavated site in the world. Evidence from these sites has provided some of the clearest answers to questions about what life was really like for both the rich and the poor in ancient Italy in Roman times. Dr. Anderson will discuss what we’ve learned through the unearthing of houses and wall paintings, as well as the remains of graffiti, bakeries, clothes cleaners, and taverns and of evidence of politics, elections, and graffiti. What was it like to experience a cataclysmic volcanic eruption? Did anyone escape? We’ll explore the impact of the eruption on the nearby settlements of Pompeii and Herculaneum using evidence from Pliny the Younger’s eyewitness account combined with scientific study of the bodies of those who perished and the traces left by those who may have escaped. Finally, we’ll look at what is still being excavated and why. We will examine recent—and, in some cases, still unpublished—discoveries from active and on-going excavations. You’ll learn how these sites continue to enrich our understanding of ancient life nearly two thousand years ago, not only during the sites’ final years and hours but throughout the sites’ long histories from foundation to destruction. The event takes place at a great community space and new Profs and Pints venue, The Dairy at the Sports Basement Presidio. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Door price: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.) Image: A cast of a corpse of a Mt. Vesuvius eruption victim at Pompeii’s “Garden of the Fugitives” archaeological site. (Photo by Daniele Florio / Wikimedia Commons.)