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Nuala Bishari
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Opinion columnist. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org. I write about LGBTQ issues, public health, homelessness, and sometimes birds.

It’s pronounced “noo-lah”
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Hey look it’s @coyotemedia.org 👀

This piece by @melbuer.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥

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What it’s going to take is a courageous set of radical idiots who are willing and able to potentially burn their own careers down in service of rebuilding this industry
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I can’t believe my mom saved my DARE certificate 😂 Las Vegas NM’s police department went all out with this fancy pants font. Too bad the commitment 10 yr old me made to “avoid the pressures to begin using drugs” fell through — sorry Nancy Reagan!
Certificate of achievement that I completed DARE. “Name” has completed curriculum in drug abuse resistance education and has made a personal commitment to avoid the pressure to begin using drugs.
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Me: optimistically googling “raccoon-proof feral cat feeder” as if such a thing is even possible

Wayfair: on it, $153.99
A raccoon stands on its back legs in the grass looking up at a wooden platform holding an orange cat and two glowing food and water containers
October 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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11:47am: SF Chronicle publishes a major story about federal agents preparing to descend on the Bay Area tinyurl.com/4y82zemw

11:57am: SF Mayor Daniel Lurie posts this on X
October 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Too true!
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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hi from our teensy little runt who is finally starting to feel better 🥰
September 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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*ahem* would anyone like some kittens? My latest foster litter from Oakland Animal Services is so sweet 🥹💕 they are a little sicky but I will fix them up right quick
Four kittens lie in a grey fuzzy bed. One is a tortoiseshell, two are tabbies, one is black
September 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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*corporate media
September 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Another day, another Oakland USPS mail van
June 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Kazu says “thank you for sharing, darth!!”
June 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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every USPS van in Oakland 💅
A USPS van is completely covered in graffiti
June 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Happy Mother’s Day from the SF Standard to all the wrinkled, tired moms over 30
Screenshot of an article that says “San Francisco has the oldest moms in America. For young moms, that can be weird” A screenshot of an article that says “Across the region, those who became mothers before 30 say their wrinkle-free faces and surplus of energy make them stick out like sore thumbs. Their youth can make it hard to make friends, or at least get respect, from the older parents of their kids’ peers.”
May 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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It’s @kalwradio.bsky.social’s nature sound audio takeover today, and being the bird nerd I am I turned on Merlin to see what birds they recorded 🦅👀
Screenshot of the Merlin app, which lists bird noises caught in a recording. Birds listed are the yellow warbler, song sparrow, red-winged blackbird, American robin, common yellowthroat, and osprey
April 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I can guarantee that women are not forgoing motherhood and/or multiple kids because they don’t know when they ovulate 😂
A women sits on a red patterned sofa with a child lying in her lap, while the feet of another young child inexplicably float in the top left corner of the frame A section of a New York Times article is circled in red, which reads “A third calls on the government to fund programs that educate women on their menstrual cycles — in part so they can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive.”
April 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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New Mexico newspapers are high on drama today
March 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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“Antithesis” is the word of the day
Two newspapers sit side by side on a counter. The SF Chronicle headline reads “Presidio an antithesis of Trumps’s presidency,” while the Wall Street Journal’s headline is “new Canada leader pins hopes on being antithesis of Trump.”
March 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Centering alcohol in a strategy to bring young people back to SF is so weird. Aside from being overly simplistic - “come drink downtown, kids!” - it overlooks the fact that young people don’t drink as much as they used to, if at all. news.gallup.com/poll/509690/...
March 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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OMFG there are kittens on my stories too! Would never have gotten this past the photo editor
March 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The Make America Kittens Again plugin brings me joy every day
March 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Got to hang out with Hank the white pelican today! Some people get excited when they see famous actors. I am all about celebrity birds.

Update for those following her story: a new young pelican, V, has been tagging along for a few weeks wanting to share breakfast. Hank hates her.
January 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Just learned the Buy Nothing app exists and it is GOLD. Five stars, would recommend, excellent comedic relief from the state of the world
A buy nothing ad for a plant that says “currently in the ground, nothing wrong with it just doesn’t bring me joy” Ad for a pet banana bed, medium size Ad for closet doors, that for some reason features a kid in pajamas with an emoji over their head
January 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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“Heyyy.”
January 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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“We met when he posted a ‘position open’ stick figure decal on his minivan”
Car decal of a stick figure family with the words “position open” next to the adult male
January 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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What about this @sfchronicle.com headline though
January 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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The permission I need to take afternoon naps and go to bed at 8:30 😴
January 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM