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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 4h

kinda ready to be swallowed up by a massive crack in the earth tbh. go big or go home

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 4h

A megaquake in the Pacific Northwest could trigger a large earthquake along California’s San Andreas fault, creating an unprecedented catastrophe up and down the Pacific Coast, new research shows.

A mega earthquake in Pacific Northwest could trigger shaking along the entire West Coast, study finds

A megaquake in the Pacific Northwest could trigger a large earthquake along California’s San Andreas fault, creating an unprecedented catastrophe up and down the Pacific Coast, new research...

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 21h

Some recently @coyotemedia.org bangers:
〰️ How do you re-open a legendary punk venue without everybody getting mad?
〰️ What does THEALLSEEINGEYE see? www.coyotemedia.org/a-journey-in...
〰️ How has Rainbow Grocery made it 50 years as a worker owned coop? www.coyotemedia.org/bay-area-co-...

Mabuhay Gardens to Reopen, Attempt to Remain Upright Under Weight of Expectations

The birthplace of San Francisco punk can’t be what it once was. Is it time to let it be something else instead?

www.coyotemedia.org

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6h

Columbia cancelled my class on race and media, and Washington Post fired me for speaking about race..

But I’m teaching (again) and speaking anyway.

Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the Fall cohort of Race, Media and International Affairs.

600+ students this fall.

We move! ✊🏾

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Nuala Bishari @nuala.bsky.social · 6h

I wrote about some good! news!! for low-income artists and unhoused folks in SF. We need some joy in this terrible moment, and @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social is delivering. Check out my latest piece on what the purchase of a building on Market Street means for the future of artmaking in the city.

COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 8h

NEW: @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social has purchased 1009 Market St., the building housing its fine art studio. In a time of economic insecurity, a rise in anti-homelessness sentiment, and an affordability crisis, this acquisition is a rare win for low-income artists in San Francisco

‘A Creator’s Dream’: Inside the SF Studio Building a Hub for Low-Income Artists

Hospitality House has purchased a mid-Market building that contains the nonprofit’s fine art studio — securing its future forever.

www.coyotemedia.org

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 8h

NEW: @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social has purchased 1009 Market St., the building housing its fine art studio. In a time of economic insecurity, a rise in anti-homelessness sentiment, and an affordability crisis, this acquisition is a rare win for low-income artists in San Francisco

‘A Creator’s Dream’: Inside the SF Studio Building a Hub for Low-Income Artists

Hospitality House has purchased a mid-Market building that contains the nonprofit’s fine art studio — securing its future forever.

www.coyotemedia.org

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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 17h

people’s hero Anna Roth, folks
this image is even darker and funnier than I remembered

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 17h

!!!

A whiteboard that says “commitmet to excellence” with commitment misspelled and it’s an 8am meeting

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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 17h

I couldn’t find the photo BLESS YOU

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Sarah Hotchkiss @sahotchkiss.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my commentary piece on the Big Art Loop, and what it means to hand our public space over to a billionaire and his choice of 100 pieces of existing, large-scale art.

And for god's sake: Send your opinions to the agencies/nonprofit/org involved, not to me!

www.kqed.org/arts/1398217...

Who Has a Say In the Flood of Public Art Coming to San Francisco?

The Sijbrandij Foundation’s plan to install 100 pieces of large-scale art around the city needs public oversight.

www.kqed.org

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Elisabeth Nicula @elisabethnicula.bsky.social · 21h

When I worked at berklee college of music the Pres gave some remarks where he mentioned lynyrd skynyrd for some reason but he pronounced it LeoNARD SkeNARD .... a day that lived in infamy tied with the motivational speaker who pronounced bass like the fish

Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 21h

Glenn Zuehls, the publisher who killed the SF Bay Guardian, wrote “commitmet to excellence” on a whiteboard during one of his standard completely insane staff meetings in 2015, and I think about it every time I write the word commitment

ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21h

In high school, 35 years ago, our track coach once wrote “DON’T FROGET” on the board and to this day, every single time someone says “don’t forget,” I hear “don’t froget” in my head. But I can’t remember the name of a person I met 10 minutes ago

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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 20h

just said this out loud and am now laughing alone in my kitchen thank you

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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 21h

Glenn Zuehls, the publisher who killed the SF Bay Guardian, wrote “commitmet to excellence” on a whiteboard during one of his standard completely insane staff meetings in 2015, and I think about it every time I write the word commitment

ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21h

In high school, 35 years ago, our track coach once wrote “DON’T FROGET” on the board and to this day, every single time someone says “don’t forget,” I hear “don’t froget” in my head. But I can’t remember the name of a person I met 10 minutes ago

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 5d

Hey if you have Money and want to give some of it to @coyotemedia.org now is a great time!!! Support indie media, make an actual difference.

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 2d

We're spotlighting Bay Area worker co-ops, starting with Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in SF, "a place where Karens drift through the aisles like hungry ghosts, aimless without a manager at whom to direct their ire. At Rainbow, the buck stops with the 200 or so worker-owners." ✍️: @soleilho.com

Bay Area Co-ops: ‘A Bunch of Weirdos’ Run a Grocery Store

Staff at San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery reflect on collectivity, retail personhood, and an aesthetic disagreement that ended in a fistfight.

www.coyotemedia.org

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 2d

support worker-owned media and leftist independent journalism while you still can

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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 2d

thanks for the shout!

Ronald AKA DJ Regularity @djregular.tech · 2d

Don't skip the Bonus Beats for last week:

- @jonwayne.bsky.social beat tape w/MPC Live 3
- @emmaruthless.bsky.social on Mabuhay Gardens for @coyotemedia.org
- @lilbadsnacks.bsky.social remix contest
- @qrtrmusic.bsky.social test presses

And more! Go peep it!

blog.djregular.tech/whats-good-b...

What's Good (Bandcamp Friday Edition - Week of 9/28)

Bandcamp Friday is upon What's Good once again, with new music from Blu & Myka 9, 7xvethegenius, J.U.S. & Raphy, Sleep Sinatra, Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon, Genevieve Artadi & Real Bad Man, and more!

blog.djregular.tech

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Betty Garthwaite @bettygarthwaite.bsky.social · 2d

Mabuhay Gardens to Reopen, Attempt to Remain Upright Under Weight of Expectations www.coyotemedia.org/mabuhay-gard... @emmaruthless.bsky.social

Mabuhay Gardens to Reopen, Attempt to Remain Upright Under Weight of Expectations

The birthplace of San Francisco punk can’t be what it once was. Is it time to let it be something else instead?

www.coyotemedia.org

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

You could read @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social’s excellent take or you could trust @rollingstone.com’s four star review given after they fired all their critics (conveniently shared in Taylor’s Instagram stories!). I’m going to choose the former and certainly did not click on the latter.

There is very rarely money in trying to make something that matters to you. But there is a lot of money in making things that are just good enough to get people to buy them. That's how we end up with Marvel movies and infinite remakes and one
thousand books about fucking vampires and bad paintings reselling for millions of dollars. If you're willing to compromise everything-to have no public morals or beliefs, to make your work palatable to everyone-there is so, so much money to be made. Of course, that compromise is going to be the version of art that corporations want made. An artist is supposed to fight against that, to try to make something good even if it doesn't make them a billion dollars. Greed will always destroy good work, because money and art have drastically different priorities. On The Life of a Showgirl, it's undeniable which path Taylor Swift has decided to value more.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

Also, I don't mean this as optimism (on Bluesky? God forbid) but taking a leadership job for which you're unqualified in a medium you haven't worked in with nothing but experienced journalists under you...is not necessarily going to go the way one thinks it might. CBS News is not a cabinet dept.>

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

I get tired of reading "Do not obey in advance" here over and over--endlessly repeating something like that can turn it into a form of self-soothing rather than a galvanizing call to action. But I hope every single CBS News employee is hearing it from someone important to them today.

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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 2d

Hardly Strictly best vibe at a large music festival 25 years running

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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 3d

Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: The newly-resurrected Mabuhay Gardens at its inaugural show Friday night. Thanks to The Boars, White Lightning Co., and Kelley Stoltz!
webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/7965898...

More info from @coyotemedia.org at www.coyotemedia.org/mabuhay-gard... #FabMab

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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 5d

this show is tonight! I shall be there! who else is going?

Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 7d

tried to write a breezy lil show preview for @coyotemedia.org about Mabuhay Gardens’ reopening party

wound up twisting myself into knots over SF’s musical nostalgia issues and how to reconcile the words “tech week coworking space” with “birthplace of SF punk” www.coyotemedia.org/mabuhay-gard...

Mabuhay Gardens to Reopen, Attempt to Remain Upright Under Weight of Expectations

The birthplace of San Francisco punk can’t be what it once was. Is it time to let it be something else instead?

www.coyotemedia.org

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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 5d

brb walking into the sea

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Luke Tsai @theluketsai.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about Club Waziema, an Ethiopian dive bar that serves really good sega wot and an all-you-can-eat veggie combo. www.kqed.org/arts/1398209...

This Ethiopian Dive Bar’s Most Surprising Hit Is Its All-You-Can-Eat Veggie Combo

Club Waziema is one of SF’s classic neighborhood dives — and serves great misir wat and beef stew too.

www.kqed.org

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