soleil ho
@soleilho.com
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soleil ho
@soleilho.com
· Nov 10
hey y'all! I'm Soleil Ho, a writer who goes deep into food, pop culture, identity politics and mass media. I've written about: an edible wasp festival in Japan; the hollowing-out of the COVID welfare state; and how Stop Asian Hate got warped into pro-carceral politics. I also write cookbooks!
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Medium Rare: The Beefs That Rocked the Bay Area in 2025
Petty feuds, Instagram rivalries, rap beefs, and other conflicts we found joy, or, at the very least, distraction in this year.
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December 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
happy holidays! have this gift from @coyotemedia.org—an illustrated (by me and @reveleth.com) guide to the wildest Bay Area beefs of 2025. plus a bonus coloring book for paid members! www.coyotemedia.org/medium-rare-...
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I was really charmed by this SF librarian's quest to bring vinyl records to her students, and I hope you are too! 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.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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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.
www.coyotemedia.org
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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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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“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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I flippin' love @coyotemedia.org, damn. SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE 15% OFF RIGHT NOW, Y'ALL.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I flippin' love @coyotemedia.org, damn. SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE 15% OFF RIGHT NOW, Y'ALL.
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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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Wait! I've subbed for her before! She's super nice and has an ADORABLE library setup-- you can tell she really makes a space the students want to be in.
Small selection of the incredibly cute stuff this school library has
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wait! I've subbed for her before! She's super nice and has an ADORABLE library setup-- you can tell she really makes a space the students want to be in.
I was really charmed by this SF librarian's quest to bring vinyl records to her students, and I hope you are too! 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 7:19 PM
I was really charmed by this SF librarian's quest to bring vinyl records to her students, and I hope you are too! www.coyotemedia.org/a-bay-area-l...
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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David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
hey hey! want an easy holiday gifting slam dunk? 'til the end of the year, @coyotemedia.org gift subscriptions (1 year of COYOTE!) are 15% off! just $68 to show your Bay Area crush how cool you are www.coyotemedia.org/gift-subscri...
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When we began assembling the COYOTE team, there was one name mentioned over and over: “We’ve got to get Alan Chazaro.” Who was this legend? I’d never met him, but when I started looking at @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social's past work, I realized I’d been a fan for a long time. 1/5 👇
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
When we began assembling the COYOTE team, there was one name mentioned over and over: “We’ve got to get Alan Chazaro.” Who was this legend? I’d never met him, but when I started looking at @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social's past work, I realized I’d been a fan for a long time. 1/5 👇
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Alice Wong was the very best of us
her legacy is enormous and will be lasting, but we were cheated of so many years with her
her legacy is enormous and will be lasting, but we were cheated of so many years with her
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 8:25 PM
Alice Wong was the very best of us
her legacy is enormous and will be lasting, but we were cheated of so many years with her
her legacy is enormous and will be lasting, but we were cheated of so many years with her
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.
www.coyotemedia.org
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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It's sort of impossible to really capture what Alice Wong meant to so many people (myself included) but @soleilho.com wrote something beautiful, and we gathered up a few touching memories from other folks that speak to what a brilliant star she was. Love you forever, Alice.
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.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's sort of impossible to really capture what Alice Wong meant to so many people (myself included) but @soleilho.com wrote something beautiful, and we gathered up a few touching memories from other folks that speak to what a brilliant star she was. Love you forever, Alice.
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Yearly reminder that the best Christmas action movie is actually The Long Kiss Goodnight.
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Yearly reminder that the best Christmas action movie is actually The Long Kiss Goodnight.
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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?
www.coyotemedia.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
independent journalism is so important
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BREAKING: Workers at a KFC/TacoBell are on strike in Sunnyvale today due to discrimination and for threatening to report workers to ICE for challenging labor conditions.
After years of attacks, enough is enough.
The strength of Santa Clara County is our diversity and we won’t be silenced!
After years of attacks, enough is enough.
The strength of Santa Clara County is our diversity and we won’t be silenced!
December 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
BREAKING: Workers at a KFC/TacoBell are on strike in Sunnyvale today due to discrimination and for threatening to report workers to ICE for challenging labor conditions.
After years of attacks, enough is enough.
The strength of Santa Clara County is our diversity and we won’t be silenced!
After years of attacks, enough is enough.
The strength of Santa Clara County is our diversity and we won’t be silenced!
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I love alt-weeklys
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 8:04 PM
I love alt-weeklys
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This is what local news is for
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 8:33 PM
This is what local news is for
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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 8:03 PM
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
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really relieved whenever i see crazy crab coverage, the only coverage i care about
which Bay Area sports mascots are the most cuddly? the scariest? the most... handsome? @reveleth.com asked some furry friends for their thoughts www.coyotemedia.org/bay-area-spo...
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 4:10 PM
really relieved whenever i see crazy crab coverage, the only coverage i care about