Marthine Satris
@msatris.bsky.social
Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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The Alley Comes Inside: a poetry reading featuring a local community of writers at Golden Sardine in North Beach, 5:30pm on Friday January 23. Come drink wine, clap loudly, and pick up a very very limited edition print zine!
to quote a sociologist I met the other day, "canon-making is world making."
January 18, 2026 at 7:16 AM
to quote a sociologist I met the other day, "canon-making is world making."
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Activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old father of two, who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent.
“Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent
Activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter Jr., an African American 43-year-old father of two, who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve. His family is deman...
www.democracynow.org
January 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old father of two, who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent.
Mondays don't exist in @oaklandreviewofbooks.org but if they did I would put this on the calendar: events.berkeley.edu/events/event...
CSLS Speaker Series: “Penal Power in Action: On the Tracks of County Prosecuters”
featuring Loïc Wacquant, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley Reception: Lunch 12:15-12:45p.m. in the Kadish Library Program: 12:45-2:00p.m. ...
events.berkeley.edu
January 18, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Mondays don't exist in @oaklandreviewofbooks.org but if they did I would put this on the calendar: events.berkeley.edu/events/event...
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Some safety experts want California to stop the cutting of quartz countertops saying it can't be done safely. Lawmakers, meanwhile, contemplate a ban on workers' lawsuits against quartz manufacturers.
Kitchen countertop workers are dying. Some lawmakers want to ban their lawsuits
Some safety experts want California to stop the cutting of quartz countertops saying it can't be done safely. Lawmakers, meanwhile, contemplate a ban on workers' lawsuits against quartz manufacturers.
n.pr
January 18, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Some safety experts want California to stop the cutting of quartz countertops saying it can't be done safely. Lawmakers, meanwhile, contemplate a ban on workers' lawsuits against quartz manufacturers.
if you like jeopardy, you'll love this game based on wikipedia! I am very bad at it, but love it nonetheless (my only trivia strengths are books and other books) catfishing.net
catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
catfishing.net
January 17, 2026 at 11:15 PM
if you like jeopardy, you'll love this game based on wikipedia! I am very bad at it, but love it nonetheless (my only trivia strengths are books and other books) catfishing.net
If you were married to me, you too would still be waiting for me to be done cooking dinner right now.
On the other side of gnawing hunger is gnocchi with hand-picked local chanterelles, shallots, and scallions and arugula in a lovely sauce.
Worth it????
On the other side of gnawing hunger is gnocchi with hand-picked local chanterelles, shallots, and scallions and arugula in a lovely sauce.
Worth it????
January 17, 2026 at 6:37 AM
If you were married to me, you too would still be waiting for me to be done cooking dinner right now.
On the other side of gnawing hunger is gnocchi with hand-picked local chanterelles, shallots, and scallions and arugula in a lovely sauce.
Worth it????
On the other side of gnawing hunger is gnocchi with hand-picked local chanterelles, shallots, and scallions and arugula in a lovely sauce.
Worth it????
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In California, both Dec & Nov-Dec periods were warmest on record--and by a considerable margin, too. The Central Valley, however, was *not* record warm due to the damp chill associated with weeks-long tule fog episodes (making statewide record all the more remarkable!). #CAwx
January 14, 2026 at 3:58 AM
In California, both Dec & Nov-Dec periods were warmest on record--and by a considerable margin, too. The Central Valley, however, was *not* record warm due to the damp chill associated with weeks-long tule fog episodes (making statewide record all the more remarkable!). #CAwx
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Santa Cruz is the first city in California to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, the automated license plate reader operator. www.kqed.org/news/1207003...
As Federal Surveillance Grows, Santa Cruz Axes Powerful License Plate Readers | KQED
Santa Cruz City Council voted 6-1 to end its contract with Flock
www.kqed.org
January 17, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Santa Cruz is the first city in California to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, the automated license plate reader operator. www.kqed.org/news/1207003...
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What all this meant is that these schools bet everything on new buildings attracting new students, which meant that even small dips enrollment led to their budgets being swallowed by debt service and became existential threats quickly. This is from 2022:
January 15, 2026 at 5:47 AM
What all this meant is that these schools bet everything on new buildings attracting new students, which meant that even small dips enrollment led to their budgets being swallowed by debt service and became existential threats quickly. This is from 2022:
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When CCA decided to close Oakland and consolidate in San Francisco, the Board took care of themselves. Multiple board members bought property around the new site and sold it or rented it back to the school at a profit.
January 15, 2026 at 5:42 AM
When CCA decided to close Oakland and consolidate in San Francisco, the Board took care of themselves. Multiple board members bought property around the new site and sold it or rented it back to the school at a profit.
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CCA, like SFAI, NDNU, and Holy Names took on a ton of real estate debt. They diverted capital funds to cover operations. The debt had bad terms but the banks didn't care because the collateral was the land--either they got the debt paid back at high rates or they even more $ in pricey real estate.
January 15, 2026 at 5:41 AM
CCA, like SFAI, NDNU, and Holy Names took on a ton of real estate debt. They diverted capital funds to cover operations. The debt had bad terms but the banks didn't care because the collateral was the land--either they got the debt paid back at high rates or they even more $ in pricey real estate.
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This was not a surprise. In 2022 negotiations, after SFAI, Mills and Notre Dame de Namur had all announced closures, we saw that CCA was doing the same shit. We told them then that they were 5 years away from closing. Welp. It's hard to always be right.
Blaming declining enrollment is a deflection.
Blaming declining enrollment is a deflection.
California College of the Arts Will Close in 2027
Vanderbilt University will take over the campus of the Bay Area’s last remaining nonprofit art school.
www.kqed.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:39 AM
This was not a surprise. In 2022 negotiations, after SFAI, Mills and Notre Dame de Namur had all announced closures, we saw that CCA was doing the same shit. We told them then that they were 5 years away from closing. Welp. It's hard to always be right.
Blaming declining enrollment is a deflection.
Blaming declining enrollment is a deflection.
well the CCA news just got even worse oaklandside.org/2026/01/15/v...
Vanderbilt University buys old CCA campus in Rockridge
It is unclear how the transfer of the Oakland arts campus will impact long-term plans to build 448 homes there.
oaklandside.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:39 AM
well the CCA news just got even worse oaklandside.org/2026/01/15/v...
Most poetry journals specifically do not want poems about dead animals, especially cats. But I wrote what I think is a decent poem about my cat dying! Are there journals that DO want a dead pet poem?
Zelda, you live forever in my heart & will live forever on some archival paper/the internet someday
Zelda, you live forever in my heart & will live forever on some archival paper/the internet someday
January 16, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Most poetry journals specifically do not want poems about dead animals, especially cats. But I wrote what I think is a decent poem about my cat dying! Are there journals that DO want a dead pet poem?
Zelda, you live forever in my heart & will live forever on some archival paper/the internet someday
Zelda, you live forever in my heart & will live forever on some archival paper/the internet someday
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📊 Receipts don’t lie—readers decide the canon.
New UW research using 20 years of Seattle Public Library data shows Black & speculative fiction writers leading what people read.
Top titles include Parable of the Sower, The Fifth Season, Kindred, and Beloved.
Shop 👉 sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi
New UW research using 20 years of Seattle Public Library data shows Black & speculative fiction writers leading what people read.
Top titles include Parable of the Sower, The Fifth Season, Kindred, and Beloved.
Shop 👉 sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi
January 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
📊 Receipts don’t lie—readers decide the canon.
New UW research using 20 years of Seattle Public Library data shows Black & speculative fiction writers leading what people read.
Top titles include Parable of the Sower, The Fifth Season, Kindred, and Beloved.
Shop 👉 sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi
New UW research using 20 years of Seattle Public Library data shows Black & speculative fiction writers leading what people read.
Top titles include Parable of the Sower, The Fifth Season, Kindred, and Beloved.
Shop 👉 sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi
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Last Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom released his proposed 2026–27 California state budget.
In today’s Weekly Dispatch by @ehellerstein.bsky.social, we take a closer look at the proposal and what his budget might mean for immigrant communities across the state.
www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/n...
In today’s Weekly Dispatch by @ehellerstein.bsky.social, we take a closer look at the proposal and what his budget might mean for immigrant communities across the state.
www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/n...
Newsom’s budget proposal rolls back immigrant health care
The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome back to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor, and economics reporter. Last F...
www.eltimpano.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Last Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom released his proposed 2026–27 California state budget.
In today’s Weekly Dispatch by @ehellerstein.bsky.social, we take a closer look at the proposal and what his budget might mean for immigrant communities across the state.
www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/n...
In today’s Weekly Dispatch by @ehellerstein.bsky.social, we take a closer look at the proposal and what his budget might mean for immigrant communities across the state.
www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/n...
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looking for some great essays on girlhood ...
January 15, 2026 at 10:34 PM
looking for some great essays on girlhood ...
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Getting ready for tonight's West Coast edition of Bad Art for Good with @ologies.bsky.social tonight!
We got art supplies, beer, snacks and COMMUNITY.
Getting together is so much better than being isolated.
We still have some spots left if anybody wants to come luma.com/fp919u5x
We got art supplies, beer, snacks and COMMUNITY.
Getting together is so much better than being isolated.
We still have some spots left if anybody wants to come luma.com/fp919u5x
Bad Art for Good · Luma
Join Ologies Host Alie Ward and squid biologist Sarah McAnulty to make some art to make things better.
How can art make things better? Creating makes us feel…
luma.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Getting ready for tonight's West Coast edition of Bad Art for Good with @ologies.bsky.social tonight!
We got art supplies, beer, snacks and COMMUNITY.
Getting together is so much better than being isolated.
We still have some spots left if anybody wants to come luma.com/fp919u5x
We got art supplies, beer, snacks and COMMUNITY.
Getting together is so much better than being isolated.
We still have some spots left if anybody wants to come luma.com/fp919u5x
well THIS is bad. h/t @sammyroth.bsky.social
www.courthousenews.com/feds-plan-to...
Public lands should be protected and shared with the public, not destroyed to make profits for oil companies.
www.courthousenews.com/feds-plan-to...
Public lands should be protected and shared with the public, not destroyed to make profits for oil companies.
Feds plan to lease 1 million acres in California to oil, gas developers
The federal government proposes allowing oil and gas drilling in the Golden State’s Pinnacles National Park, Mount Diablo State Park, Henry W. Coe State Park and Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve.
www.courthousenews.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:03 PM
well THIS is bad. h/t @sammyroth.bsky.social
www.courthousenews.com/feds-plan-to...
Public lands should be protected and shared with the public, not destroyed to make profits for oil companies.
www.courthousenews.com/feds-plan-to...
Public lands should be protected and shared with the public, not destroyed to make profits for oil companies.
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We’re excited to share a late-approved search for a new Assistant Professor in Human Geography and Technology in the School of Policy, Planning, and Environmental Studies at San José State University. Please circulate widely. jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...
San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor- Human Geography and Technology
jobs.sjsu.edu
January 15, 2026 at 7:43 PM
We’re excited to share a late-approved search for a new Assistant Professor in Human Geography and Technology in the School of Policy, Planning, and Environmental Studies at San José State University. Please circulate widely. jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...
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Incredible the type of shit a state can get into when it's not really concerned with trying to improve the lives of anyone in it. You just have a lot more time to explore the studio space.
A ban on sending books and magazines to prisoners in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcerated
Arkansas set to impose nation’s strictest ban on sending books, magazines to prisons | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
A ban on sending books and magazines to inmates in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcer...
www.arkansasonline.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Incredible the type of shit a state can get into when it's not really concerned with trying to improve the lives of anyone in it. You just have a lot more time to explore the studio space.
New interview with my author, the native bee advocate, photographer, and community scientist & researcher Krystle Hickman is out in Bioneers! bioneers.org/making-the-i...
Making the Invisible Visible: Photographing Native Bees with Krystle Hickman - Bioneers
Through photography, observation, and community science, Krystle Hickman is documenting the lives of native bees that most people never notice. In this conversation, she shares her observations and in...
bioneers.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
New interview with my author, the native bee advocate, photographer, and community scientist & researcher Krystle Hickman is out in Bioneers! bioneers.org/making-the-i...
I am so excited, we're going to FINALLY go to Pinnacles this weekend!
CONDORS and CAVES.
CONDORS and CAVES.
January 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I am so excited, we're going to FINALLY go to Pinnacles this weekend!
CONDORS and CAVES.
CONDORS and CAVES.
We at Heyday will miss Debbie, a wonderful designer and good person, and a lively member of our bookish publishing community here in the Bay oaklandside.org/2026/01/15/o...
I'm grateful she shared her years of wisdom in her book, The Design of Books!
I'm grateful she shared her years of wisdom in her book, The Design of Books!
Remembering Debbie Berne, book designer and big laugher
Berne designed the “Berkeley Bowl Cookbook” and played banjo at music festivals around the West Coast.
oaklandside.org
January 15, 2026 at 6:52 PM
We at Heyday will miss Debbie, a wonderful designer and good person, and a lively member of our bookish publishing community here in the Bay oaklandside.org/2026/01/15/o...
I'm grateful she shared her years of wisdom in her book, The Design of Books!
I'm grateful she shared her years of wisdom in her book, The Design of Books!
(all poets are just three non-poets in a trenchcoat)
Come out to Golden Sardine in North Beach on 1/23 at 5:30 for all the real and unreal poetry, and some wine, and some sardines.
Come out to Golden Sardine in North Beach on 1/23 at 5:30 for all the real and unreal poetry, and some wine, and some sardines.
Ultra rare appearance as a poet on this bill with real poets
The Alley Comes Inside: a poetry reading featuring a local community of writers at Golden Sardine in North Beach, 5:30pm on Friday January 23. Come drink wine, clap loudly, and pick up a very very limited edition print zine!
January 15, 2026 at 4:02 AM
(all poets are just three non-poets in a trenchcoat)
Come out to Golden Sardine in North Beach on 1/23 at 5:30 for all the real and unreal poetry, and some wine, and some sardines.
Come out to Golden Sardine in North Beach on 1/23 at 5:30 for all the real and unreal poetry, and some wine, and some sardines.