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dilettante.bsky.social
@dilettante.bsky.social
Oakland Abolition Mom Lawyer
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We deserve better
Took the bus home from the bar and it is just so pleasant and convenient. It can all be like this. So much more like this.
December 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
well well well
The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
December 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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even this thumbnail is pretty horrifying but shout out to whatever hero accidentally uploaded this to the Global TV app, and also to Canada.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The poor private that had to slap these together with AI 3 days before xmas
1. this is so stupid

2. they’re not going to build these things

3. if they do build these things the next president should rename them obama-class or whatever would piss him off the most

4. this is so, so stupid
oh my god its literally Long Beach's wario
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
gonna be the 1st one at the matinee Wednesday seeing Anaconda movie
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
eventide I put in the 70s and 80s station it's playing the J Geils Band
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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So my first novel, The Survivalists (black woman lawyer falls in with a pack of Black Brooklyn doomsday preppers) is the San Francisco Public Library’s On The Same Page Pick for January/February 2026, and i’ll be doing an event there on 2/22 sfpl.org/books-and-me...
On the Same Page: The Survivalists | San Francisco Public Library
sfpl.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Y I K E S
I feel like these are fighting words
www.thekitchn.com/julia-vs-ina...
I Made Beef Bourguignon Recipes by Julia Child and Ina Garten and There Was a Clear Winner
I was surprised by both.
www.thekitchn.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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it’s pretty pretty pretty grim to have the vice president literally repeat the rhetoric of white nationalists and then have the most powerful newspaper in the country say “he’s trying to split the difference” because he chose not to enunciate the 14 words.
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"folded like rain-soaked street cardboard at the slightest pressure" would be more accurate
Not sure "weathered the assault" is the right headline though
The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity.

facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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behold, once again, how corporate media ownership and public interest journalism foundationally cannot be, and will never be, properly aligned

it's why we need publicly-owned and funded media, which Carr is also trying to destroy with sham investigations
December 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Not sure "weathered the assault" is the right headline though
The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity.

facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:
How an AM radio station in California weathered the Trump administration's assault on media
Six days into President Donald Trump's new administration, the San Francisco Bay-area radio station KCBS-AM and other outlets reported on local immigration raids.
apnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
this made me unbelievably happy
I watched AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH in Portugal today and I just want everyone to know that the entire movie was subtitled in English in Papyrus.

The entire movie.
December 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
December 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I might need CMM in every Xmas rom com
December 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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corporate oligarch media outlets reporting on the malfeasance of other corporate oligarch media outlets isn’t the way out of this btw. give your scoops to independent reporters.
December 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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That’s a funny note to end the episode on
December 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.

by Ezra Klein
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The 2 worst people you know . . .
Breaking:

Rep. Ro Khanna says the Trump DOJ's production "does not comply with" the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Khanna says he and Rep. Thomas Massie "are exploring all options" — including impeachment of DOJ officials, inherent contempt, or referring individuals for obstruction of justice.
December 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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as foretold by the prophesy
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
LMAO
how bad are things going when Dylan Byers won't even tell the story you want him to
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Chad michael murray, Lolita davidovich *and* grant show????
Write Before Christmas
Third Christmas Romance Movie of the Season
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Write Before Christmas
Third Christmas Romance Movie of the Season
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Third Christmas Romance Movie of the Season
December 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Snowed Inn Christmas
Second Christmas Romance Movie of the season
December 21, 2025 at 5:36 AM