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Did you know that you can follow all our COYOTE co-founders (who have Bluesky accounts) with just one beautiful click? Here you go!! go.bsky.app/8qE8JRY
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I'm taking a holiday break from the calendar at @coyotemedia.org but our friends at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org just put theirs up so if you're at a loss for what to do this week: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, December 23 - 28
open your gas tank and let what's left fizzle out into the sky
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December 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I'm taking a holiday break from the calendar at @coyotemedia.org but our friends at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org just put theirs up so if you're at a loss for what to do this week: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
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update: one of our readers is buying her kids a nice new record player! awwww yay 💕
Read @soleilho.com's interview with Gina Cargas, a librarian at SFUSD who is collecting vinyl records to create a 'listening station' for her middle school students.
"Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."
"Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."
A Bay Area Librarian Is Using Vintage Vinyl to Show Tweens Where Music Comes From
Gina Cargas reached out to the community about collecting records for her middle school students. The response was overwhelming.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
update: one of our readers is buying her kids a nice new record player! awwww yay 💕
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This week at @coyotemedia.org we're doing a couple of roundups for the end of the year! Today is music day, and you can find a playlist of the songs that got us through the last 365ish days.
The Songs That Kept Us Going This Year
Let’s be real: 2025 was not fun. Here are the tracks we turned to to help us get through the year.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This week at @coyotemedia.org we're doing a couple of roundups for the end of the year! Today is music day, and you can find a playlist of the songs that got us through the last 365ish days.
Read @soleilho.com's interview with Gina Cargas, a librarian at SFUSD who is collecting vinyl records to create a 'listening station' for her middle school students.
"Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."
"Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."
A Bay Area Librarian Is Using Vintage Vinyl to Show Tweens Where Music Comes From
Gina Cargas reached out to the community about collecting records for her middle school students. The response was overwhelming.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Read @soleilho.com's interview with Gina Cargas, a librarian at SFUSD who is collecting vinyl records to create a 'listening station' for her middle school students.
"Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."
"Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."
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My longtime love of physical media is only increasing as algorithms & AI seep into everything online like toxic runoff in groundwater, so I love this @coyotemedia.org story about a librarian in SF starting a vinyl collection for middle schoolers: www.coyotemedia.org/a-bay-area-l...
A Bay Area Librarian Is Using Vintage Vinyl to Show Tweens Where Music Comes From
Gina Cargas reached out to the community about collecting records for her middle school students. The response was overwhelming.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My longtime love of physical media is only increasing as algorithms & AI seep into everything online like toxic runoff in groundwater, so I love this @coyotemedia.org story about a librarian in SF starting a vinyl collection for middle schoolers: www.coyotemedia.org/a-bay-area-l...
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“It was so cheap in those days…and I was so broke. Those companies were dealers, got you hooked, lulled you into complacency with rates that made no sense unless someone was getting exploited, which of course we understood. It wasn’t actually cheap: We just paid for it in other ways.”
In Which We Deserve Options Other Than Rapists and Robots
I don’t want to be assaulted by a driver, nor surveilled by cat-killing robot cars. Is this really the best we can do?
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December 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“It was so cheap in those days…and I was so broke. Those companies were dealers, got you hooked, lulled you into complacency with rates that made no sense unless someone was getting exploited, which of course we understood. It wasn’t actually cheap: We just paid for it in other ways.”
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December 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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why, I ask? (posting plate in the reply) www.coyotemedia.org/a-michelin-r...
A Michelin-Recognized Chef Was Allegedly Set to Cater a Hackathon. So Why Did the Food Look Like “ass”?
Dinner was pure, thoughtless dude chum.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
why, I ask? (posting plate in the reply) www.coyotemedia.org/a-michelin-r...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong
On the one-month anniversary of her passing, we honor the acclaimed disability justice advocate, writer, shit-talker, and friend to so many.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
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this is today! main library 12 noon @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social
for @coyotemedia.org, I wrote about Drag Story Hour, an event born in SF that’s now a global movement.
Learning that the chapters are now all trained in bomb threat management I felt sad but also in awe. Most punk rock thing imaginable. They just keep going.
anyway see u at the library Sunday!!
Learning that the chapters are now all trained in bomb threat management I felt sad but also in awe. Most punk rock thing imaginable. They just keep going.
anyway see u at the library Sunday!!
‘Joy Is at the Core’: Drag Story Hour Sashays Into Its Next Decade
Despite Trump, transphobes, and a pandemic, the San Francisco storytelling event-turned-international-movement has plenty to celebrate.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
this is today! main library 12 noon @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social
Today is the first official Drag Story Hour Day in the city of San Francisco! We talked to Drag Laureate Per Sia about the org turning 10, and how one event in the Castro became a global movement 👠✨
‘Joy Is at the Core’: Drag Story Hour Sashays Into Its Next Decade
Despite Trump, transphobes, and a pandemic, the San Francisco storytelling event-turned-international-movement has plenty to celebrate.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Today is the first official Drag Story Hour Day in the city of San Francisco! We talked to Drag Laureate Per Sia about the org turning 10, and how one event in the Castro became a global movement 👠✨
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A couple people have asked and so I want to be clear: YES please do a version of this story for your local sports mascots. Send it to me! This is what I want my legacy to be!
Bay Area Sports Mascots Ranked by the Ultimate Experts: Furries
Everybody has an opinion on mascots, but what do the real masters of the fur think?
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December 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A couple people have asked and so I want to be clear: YES please do a version of this story for your local sports mascots. Send it to me! This is what I want my legacy to be!
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Did you know that Drag Story Hour started in SF *ten years ago*? @emmaruthless.bsky.social spoke with Per Sia, the queen who first read to kids at a library in drag, and what it means to see this organization become so big and impactful.
‘Joy Is at the Core’: Drag Story Hour Sashays Into Its Next Decade
Despite Trump, transphobes, and a pandemic, the San Francisco storytelling event-turned-international-movement has plenty to celebrate.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Did you know that Drag Story Hour started in SF *ten years ago*? @emmaruthless.bsky.social spoke with Per Sia, the queen who first read to kids at a library in drag, and what it means to see this organization become so big and impactful.
How does ice cream maker Stephanie De La Cruz develop flavors like Pumpkin Piñata, Vegan Coconut Chai, and Chocolate Peppermint Oreo? “I always leave space for the new flavors that I think of right before I fall asleep,” she says. “And the farmers always provide me with amazing seasonal produce.”
A Celebration of Piñata-Flavored Ice Cream With Oakland’s De La Creamery
On the politics of ice cream and why we need Chicana-made flavors more than ever.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
How does ice cream maker Stephanie De La Cruz develop flavors like Pumpkin Piñata, Vegan Coconut Chai, and Chocolate Peppermint Oreo? “I always leave space for the new flavors that I think of right before I fall asleep,” she says. “And the farmers always provide me with amazing seasonal produce.”
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for @coyotemedia.org, I wrote about Drag Story Hour, an event born in SF that’s now a global movement.
Learning that the chapters are now all trained in bomb threat management I felt sad but also in awe. Most punk rock thing imaginable. They just keep going.
anyway see u at the library Sunday!!
Learning that the chapters are now all trained in bomb threat management I felt sad but also in awe. Most punk rock thing imaginable. They just keep going.
anyway see u at the library Sunday!!
‘Joy Is at the Core’: Drag Story Hour Sashays Into Its Next Decade
Despite Trump, transphobes, and a pandemic, the San Francisco storytelling event-turned-international-movement has plenty to celebrate.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
for @coyotemedia.org, I wrote about Drag Story Hour, an event born in SF that’s now a global movement.
Learning that the chapters are now all trained in bomb threat management I felt sad but also in awe. Most punk rock thing imaginable. They just keep going.
anyway see u at the library Sunday!!
Learning that the chapters are now all trained in bomb threat management I felt sad but also in awe. Most punk rock thing imaginable. They just keep going.
anyway see u at the library Sunday!!
Drag Story Hour, a global storytelling movement born in SF, celebrates its 10th birthday with a bash Dec. 14 at the SF Public Library.
“It really is a form of resistance to share joy,” says SF Drag Laureate Per Sia, who read at the first event in the Castro in 2015.
✍️: @emmaruthless.bsky.social
“It really is a form of resistance to share joy,” says SF Drag Laureate Per Sia, who read at the first event in the Castro in 2015.
✍️: @emmaruthless.bsky.social
‘Joy Is at the Core’: Drag Story Hour Sashays Into Its Next Decade
Despite Trump, transphobes, and a pandemic, the San Francisco storytelling event-turned-international-movement has plenty to celebrate.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Drag Story Hour, a global storytelling movement born in SF, celebrates its 10th birthday with a bash Dec. 14 at the SF Public Library.
“It really is a form of resistance to share joy,” says SF Drag Laureate Per Sia, who read at the first event in the Castro in 2015.
✍️: @emmaruthless.bsky.social
“It really is a form of resistance to share joy,” says SF Drag Laureate Per Sia, who read at the first event in the Castro in 2015.
✍️: @emmaruthless.bsky.social
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independent journalism is so important
Here are some things furries said when we showed them the Bay Area’s professional sports mascots: “I want to see the feet”; “I bet he smells like bread”; “I really wish his trunk would flop more”; “I would hug him;” and, “Well, that’s furry bait.” Find out how the mascots ranked 👀
✍️ @reveleth.com
✍️ @reveleth.com
Bay Area Sports Mascots Ranked by the Ultimate Experts: Furries
Everybody has an opinion on mascots, but what do the real masters of the fur think?
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December 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
independent journalism is so important
Which Bay Area sports mascot ranks supreme? We asked four furries, including @lafterlight.bsky.social @dogpatch.press and @brat.fm, to share their expertise. Here's what we learned...
✍️ @reveleth.com
✍️ @reveleth.com
Bay Area Sports Mascots Ranked by the Ultimate Experts: Furries
Everybody has an opinion on mascots, but what do the real masters of the fur think?
www.coyotemedia.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Which Bay Area sports mascot ranks supreme? We asked four furries, including @lafterlight.bsky.social @dogpatch.press and @brat.fm, to share their expertise. Here's what we learned...
✍️ @reveleth.com
✍️ @reveleth.com
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Firstly, Violet is amazing
Secondly, I don't care about the huskie, and how am I supposed to when he's pictured next to THIS amazing design, Twizzle
Secondly, I don't care about the huskie, and how am I supposed to when he's pictured next to THIS amazing design, Twizzle
December 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Firstly, Violet is amazing
Secondly, I don't care about the huskie, and how am I supposed to when he's pictured next to THIS amazing design, Twizzle
Secondly, I don't care about the huskie, and how am I supposed to when he's pictured next to THIS amazing design, Twizzle
It’s not every day that you see a septuagenarian blues singer put on a hard hat and take a chisel to a wall — but that's what happened last weekend, when a group of community members gathered to preserve the facade of Esther's Orbit Room.
✍️ @reveleth.com
📸 @amir.photo
✍️ @reveleth.com
📸 @amir.photo
This Oakland Community Destroyed a Wall to Preserve Black History
On a chilly Saturday afternoon under the inescapable sound of the BART train, a group of community members took apart the facade of Esther’s Orbit Room.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It’s not every day that you see a septuagenarian blues singer put on a hard hat and take a chisel to a wall — but that's what happened last weekend, when a group of community members gathered to preserve the facade of Esther's Orbit Room.
✍️ @reveleth.com
📸 @amir.photo
✍️ @reveleth.com
📸 @amir.photo
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I’m only getting my news from furries from now on. They are truly the only people you can take seriously.
Here are some things furries said when we showed them the Bay Area’s professional sports mascots: “I want to see the feet”; “I bet he smells like bread”; “I really wish his trunk would flop more”; “I would hug him;” and, “Well, that’s furry bait.” Find out how the mascots ranked 👀
✍️ @reveleth.com
✍️ @reveleth.com
Bay Area Sports Mascots Ranked by the Ultimate Experts: Furries
Everybody has an opinion on mascots, but what do the real masters of the fur think?
www.coyotemedia.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’m only getting my news from furries from now on. They are truly the only people you can take seriously.
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Me, looking at the best mascot according to furries:
.... yes.
.... yes.
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Me, looking at the best mascot according to furries:
.... yes.
.... yes.
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I had the absolute pleasure of contributing to this wonderful romp through Bay Area mascot lore with @reveleth.com ! Learned a lot of fun stuff; justice for Crazy Crab!
From bizarre to maybe TOO sexy, find out what furries think of the Bay Area’s spread of sports mascots.
✍️ @reveleth.com
✍️ @reveleth.com
Bay Area Sports Mascots Ranked by the Ultimate Experts: Furries
Everybody has an opinion on mascots, but what do the real masters of the fur think?
www.coyotemedia.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I had the absolute pleasure of contributing to this wonderful romp through Bay Area mascot lore with @reveleth.com ! Learned a lot of fun stuff; justice for Crazy Crab!