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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 1h

Was getting sick of Duolingo constantly threatening to stab me in the neck if I didn't practice and telling me I'm a pathetic loser if I'm too busy to use the app. Turns out you can just set your profile to private and it stops doing those things.

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 2d

So you're saying you want a Labubu for Hannukah? 😜

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 4d

Hangover of ten+ years of religion reporting: whenever I see a headline about a guy who believes slavery wasn't bad I shout "Doug Wilson" like I'm on Jeopardy, except it sucks and there's no prize.

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 8d

UC Berkeley has its 71st Nobel Laureate, this year in Physics. But did you know we have Nobel Laureate bicycle parking, and that David Card, 2021 Nobel in Economics, apparently actually uses it? news.berkeley.edu/2016/06/16/n...

New Berkeley parking spot — for bikes — honors Nobel Peace Prize work - Berkeley News

Covet those Nobel Laureate parking spaces? You can park in Berkeley's newest one, a tribute to faculty whose research contributed to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. And it's open to all cyclists.

news.berkeley.edu

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for writing the book!

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 11d

For @ncronline.bsky.social, I reviewed @philipchristman.bsky.social's new book, which gave me the opportunity to dunk.

"When you choose a politics, you can choose one that covets power or one that sees power as something to be shared. It really is that simple."

www.ncronline.org/culture/new-...

New book calls for a politics that mirrors Jesus' Beatitudes

In Why Christians Should Be Leftists, Phil Christman argues that Jesus' teachings "[lay] out an ethic that would make it next to impossible for any human being to successfully hang onto power forever....

www.ncronline.org

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 11d

I'll keep that in mind for next season. The A's made Oakland miserable for a long time.

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 11d

Now that the @oaklandballers.bsky.social season is over I need to adopt an MLB team to root for. HELL NO DODGERS OR YANKEES. My MLB team must be scrappy and from an underrated city. So who do I pick?

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 18d

Maybe you don't need to write a book? I have, six times over, and it was mostly not worth the effort. kayaoakes.substack.com/p/maybe-you-...

Maybe you don't need to write a book

Or, at least, you don't need to feel like you failed if yours doesn't sell

kayaoakes.substack.com

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 20d

UC Berkeley's homoerotic football statue has entered the chat.

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Oakland Ballers @oaklandballers.bsky.social · 22d

💚 💛 Ballers fam, @MayorBarbaraLee just announced that we're going to keep the party going! 🎉 See you there! 🍾

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 23d

This game was electric! My voice is hoarse from hollering. Thanks for an amazing season.

Oakland Ballers @oaklandballers.bsky.social · 23d

The final out 🏆

Holy Toledo, what a night!

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Oakland Ballers @oaklandballers.bsky.social · 23d

OAKLAND WE DID IT!!!! 🏆

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · 24d

LoL I made this same joke and felt so guilty about it! 🫠

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · Sep 15

I'm even more unbearable: I use a Chemex.

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · Sep 14

French press coffee is groooosssssss.

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · Sep 14

I reactivated just to share this post I wrote about something very important: Extremely Specific Petty Grievances. kayaoakes.substack.com/p/extremely-...

Extremely specific petty grievances

You know you have them

kayaoakes.substack.com

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · Sep 12

It's okay not to have a take.

Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · Sep 10

Good question. She usually does!

Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · Sep 9

gonna get some money
gonna get some money
probably more than I ever made in royalties
take that ai
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Home | Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic PBC

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thank you. And yes, it does feel like leveraging someone's cancer to self promote. Which is pretty crass.

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just a note of appreciation for whoever decided to play Journey's "Lights" at the @oaklandballers.bsky.social game last night when the lights went out. Well played. Well played indeed.

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Rhonda Mawhood Lee @rhondamawhoodlee.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you've been thinking of reading Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir, please read this first, by @kayaoakes.bsky.social.
And even if you don't care one bit about Gilbert, this is an excellent, helpful read about cancer, love, ego, and so much else.
open.substack.com/pub/kayaoake...

Not your inspiration porn

Elizabeth Gilbert and the problem of cancer

open.substack.com

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Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thank you for the kind words.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · Sep 4

What does a writer “who lives every day with cancer looming in the background like one of those giant Halloween skeletons” think about what’s she’s seen of the latest Elizabeth Gilbert memoir and the discourse around it?

You should really read @kayaoakes.bsky.social, and not just to find that out.

Not your inspiration porn

Elizabeth Gilbert and the problem of cancer

kayaoakes.substack.com

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