Amy Martyn
@shreddedkale.bsky.social
Journalist writing #longreads about things under the radar. Here to build a social media presence (followers in the triple digits)
A "growing number of lawsuits" say that patients lost their eyesight while taking Ozempic or Wegovy www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Lawsuits claiming Ozempic, other GLP-1s led to blindness become second mass litigation over the drugs
A federal judicial panel said Monday it would centralize a growing number of lawsuits against Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly alleging patients lost some or all of their eyesight while taking the companies...
www.reuters.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:12 PM
A "growing number of lawsuits" say that patients lost their eyesight while taking Ozempic or Wegovy www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
One week before PG&E caused the power outage in San Francisco it caused an explosion in Hayward killing a dog and a cat and injuring people and destroying a house www.ktvu.com/news/hayward...
December 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
One week before PG&E caused the power outage in San Francisco it caused an explosion in Hayward killing a dog and a cat and injuring people and destroying a house www.ktvu.com/news/hayward...
Is the Department of Homeland Security thinking of hiring me???
December 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Is the Department of Homeland Security thinking of hiring me???
Halloween is special because it's the one day a year in America when drivers decide not to run over kids
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Halloween is special because it's the one day a year in America when drivers decide not to run over kids
Re-sharing this in light of the recent news about Marc Benioff, who has a history of using his platform to fuel crime panic
Here's an article I wrote about San Francisco's miserable jails where people are trapped for years without sunlight:
🧵 Conservatives ginned up panic about crime in San Francisco & helped install tough-on-crime prosecutor Brooke Jenkins, who was reelected last week. Here is a #longread about the real people the narrative hurt—incl. women trapped in jail without sunlight. theappeal.org/women-langui...
October 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Re-sharing this in light of the recent news about Marc Benioff, who has a history of using his platform to fuel crime panic
i got some internal screenshots from the San Francisco Police Department's instagram account showing that they paid to promote photos of candy that people stole failinginfrastructure.substack.com/p/sf-police-...
SF police paid to promote Instagram posts of candy, groceries seized in arrests
Inside an extremely sad public relations campaign.
failinginfrastructure.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
i got some internal screenshots from the San Francisco Police Department's instagram account showing that they paid to promote photos of candy that people stole failinginfrastructure.substack.com/p/sf-police-...
"Tourists are making the prices go up!" No they're not substack.com/home/post/p-...
Who is raising the prices?
Tourists always get accused of making popular places unaffordable for locals. Something obvious is getting left out.
substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"Tourists are making the prices go up!" No they're not substack.com/home/post/p-...
The San Francisco ICE field office at 11:30 on a Monday
June 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The San Francisco ICE field office at 11:30 on a Monday
A mutual on Facebook got hacked, tagged my bf and ten other people in a post saying they died, and when I reported it as spam Facebook refused to take it down lol
May 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A mutual on Facebook got hacked, tagged my bf and ten other people in a post saying they died, and when I reported it as spam Facebook refused to take it down lol
Given the news what do we think is going to happen with all of the ongoing NHTSA investigations into defective Teslas? www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
January 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Given the news what do we think is going to happen with all of the ongoing NHTSA investigations into defective Teslas? www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
This NPR headline has multiple meanings
January 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This NPR headline has multiple meanings
"The only way to stop a bad guy with a bank is a good guy with a bank"--the plot of It's a Wonderful Life
December 29, 2024 at 4:22 PM
"The only way to stop a bad guy with a bank is a good guy with a bank"--the plot of It's a Wonderful Life
How the Biden administration and the dairy industry have allowed bird flu to spread, putting people in danger of another pandemic:
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December 26, 2024 at 9:33 PM
How the Biden administration and the dairy industry have allowed bird flu to spread, putting people in danger of another pandemic:
archive.is/56FIb
archive.is/56FIb
It turns out that The Substance is not a great movie to watch on your birthday lol
December 18, 2024 at 3:53 PM
It turns out that The Substance is not a great movie to watch on your birthday lol
The Senate investigating Frontier and Spirit Airlines makes sense cause Frontier and Spirit are probably too cheap to pay off any senators
December 5, 2024 at 9:13 AM
The Senate investigating Frontier and Spirit Airlines makes sense cause Frontier and Spirit are probably too cheap to pay off any senators
With passage of Prop 36 in California anyone caught stealing more than two times from a store could be charged with a felony and get a longer sentence for "organized retail theft." The result will be even more homeless people in CA jails and prisons. www.businessinsider.com/americas-war...
America's absurd war on 'organized retail crime'
Target and CVS call them criminal masterminds. Most are homeless or mentally ill.
www.businessinsider.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:48 PM
With passage of Prop 36 in California anyone caught stealing more than two times from a store could be charged with a felony and get a longer sentence for "organized retail theft." The result will be even more homeless people in CA jails and prisons. www.businessinsider.com/americas-war...
Here's an article I wrote about San Francisco's miserable jails where people are trapped for years without sunlight:
🧵 Conservatives ginned up panic about crime in San Francisco & helped install tough-on-crime prosecutor Brooke Jenkins, who was reelected last week. Here is a #longread about the real people the narrative hurt—incl. women trapped in jail without sunlight. theappeal.org/women-langui...
Women Languish at San Francisco’s Jail for Years Without Answers—or Sunlight
After a moral panic about crime, San Francisco’s billionaires and political leaders demanded more arrests. Pretrial detainees are now seeing the harmful effects.
theappeal.org
November 14, 2024 at 5:07 AM
Here's an article I wrote about San Francisco's miserable jails where people are trapped for years without sunlight:
Reposted by Amy Martyn
"As of press time, the average stay in San Francisco’s jails was 324 days... The Appeal has identified at least four people held pretrial for nine years or longer."
theappeal.org/women-langui...
theappeal.org/women-langui...
Women Languish at San Francisco’s Jail for Years Without Answers—or Sunlight
After a moral panic about crime, San Francisco’s billionaires and political leaders demanded more arrests. Pretrial detainees are now seeing the harmful effects.
theappeal.org
November 13, 2024 at 11:41 PM
"As of press time, the average stay in San Francisco’s jails was 324 days... The Appeal has identified at least four people held pretrial for nine years or longer."
theappeal.org/women-langui...
theappeal.org/women-langui...
Got this gem in my inbox. "Brainwashing often has negative connotations but" is a hell of a way to sell a new weird AI product
May 23, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Got this gem in my inbox. "Brainwashing often has negative connotations but" is a hell of a way to sell a new weird AI product
For Bird to offer scooter rides at the tap of the app, contractors sacrificed their livelihoods and safety chasing after scooters that would make executives rich while leaving the contractors with debt. "It's almost like a gaslighting program" says one www.wired.com/story/blood-...
December 22, 2023 at 11:28 PM
For Bird to offer scooter rides at the tap of the app, contractors sacrificed their livelihoods and safety chasing after scooters that would make executives rich while leaving the contractors with debt. "It's almost like a gaslighting program" says one www.wired.com/story/blood-...