COYOTE got covered in @columjournreview.bsky.social! “[COYOTE is trying to] channel alt-weeklies, in their nubby, human, off-kilter, and deeply political attempts to chronicle and fight for the culture of a place.” www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

I went seaweed gathering with @nuala.bsky.social and... might have brought home 10 lbs of nori. no regrets!!! www.coyotemedia.org/seaweed-gath...

Ahhh this is so cool! Brand new worker-owned horror mag! Is this what will finally bring me around to this genre? 🫣 TBD, but in the meantime I’ve forwarded this to all my many horror loving friends (and you should, too) @darkertimes.bsky.social

The Bay Area Book Fest is coming back to Berkeley this weekend. These are @nuala.bsky.social and @rahawahaile.bsky.social's picks for events you gotta check out: Zine making! The sounds of Oakland! Hauntings!! www.coyotemedia.org/bay-area-boo...

I love/hate looking for hotels because 90% of the search is skimming photoshopped images of generic rooms and reading weird reviews that always mention bugs — but THEN sometimes you get surprise gems like this !

"As mahjong's popularity grows, we can celebrate feeling intensely empowered and seen by our community while also grieving that a part of it is being taken away. Everything everywhere all at once." Nicole Wong for @coyotemedia.org: www.coyotemedia.org/traversing-t...

UGH. So over billionaires in media. I hate all of this. If you do too, take a stand and send some love to an indie media outlet today. Become a member of our pack coyotemedia.org/#/portal or send us a tip coyotemedia.org/tip-jar We are worker owned and none of us will ever be billionaires!!

“Mahjong's growing popularity — and a mahjong-content-favorable algorithm — have reopened an old question: Where is the line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation when it comes to this beloved Chinese tile game?” Today on COYOTE, a survey of the mahjong multiverse.

🫣 I can't resist a toppl or snoop okay

If you’re like “why does this site feel so 2004” it’s because this absolute genius designed it that way okay

I’ve had two cats die in the last three years, and a dog who is in his last few months 😢 I don’t know what it is about having pet loss grief witnessed, but somehow it helps. We’ve made a way for that to happen. Meet COYOTE’s pet obituaries page. 💕🐶🐕🐱

This is so sweet.

So damn proud of myself for finding amazing psychiatric meds that help me get through each day. Don’t let those fuckers tell you anything is wrong with that.

“I'll look at them and think, are you posing intentionally right now?” I talked to the creator of the Night Herons of Oakland instagram account about herons, avian obsessions, bird poop, and the future of the city's official bird.

"In my fantasy, if we lived in a city with money that didn't all go to the police department, the city would eminent domain that little lot and just turn it into a little bird sanctuary.” @nuala.bsky.social interviewed Meghan Long, the photographer behind the Night Herons of Oakland IG account.

Today: @rahawahaile.bsky.social writes about a 40-min quadraphonic “song cycle for 6 voices and soundscape.” Using found sounds, interviews, live singing, & 911 dispatches, it centers on the 2017 Tubbs Fire, once considered the most destructive fire in CA history www.coyotemedia.org/merlin-colem...

Great story alert!

"It's not every day that a huge piece of art goes up on a wall accidentally. But according to the folks behind 'The Soul of the Bay in Vallejo,' that's basically what happened. 'It was never supposed to be blown up 25 feet tall. It was an 8.5x11 JPEG for Christ's sake,' Loufas said.”

CapriSun has PHASES OF THE BLOOD MOON LUNAR ECLIPSE juice pouches now and I’m dying to know their target audience

Idiocy is skyrocketing in SF: "Of 1,700 non-sale drug arrests and citations so far this year, 68% involved only possession of drug paraphernalia. Simply holding a meth pipe is enough to detain someone." Aside from the cruelty of this, what an enormous waste of tax payer dollars.

Hey pet owners! Does anyone have any good experiences with Chewy they want to share? Working on a piece and would love your input: [email protected] Here's a standard poodle puppy with rice on her face as a thank you. For every anecdote I receive I'll post another pic of this 4mo. old gremlin.

"Yes, it could identify dump sites… but so could anyone. There’s a heap a few blocks from me that’s been there for weeks. What’s the point in identifying them all if the city is still struggling to keep up?" It's not a mystery where the dump sites are!

New from me for @coyotemedia.org: Recent efforts to crack down on people dumping in Oakland through obscenely high fines, punishing DMV barriers, and AI-powered drones (?!) leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Will any of it even make a difference? If not, what will?

Oakland has a trash problem, and nothing pushes a city towards a tough-on-crime approach like negative national media coverage. Now, the city is pushing sky-high fines and AI-powered drones. Will any of this actually reduce dumping? New from @nuala.bsky.social! www.coyotemedia.org/punishing-po...

Asking New Yorkers if they’ve been personally victimized by Santacon is very funny actually www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-h...

SF’s Civic Joy Fund is one of those hidden-picture tests: Do you see a lamp or a woman’s face? Are billionaires using tax loopholes to advance a technofash takeover of public space, or are they philanthropists swooping in to save the arts when no one else will? www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

The brave and talented @emmaruthless.bsky.social took on a BIG question today for @coyotemedia.org: What the fuck is the deal with the Civic Joy Fund? Can you ethically play their shows? And what would real arts funding look like in San Francisco? www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

Hey if you're in the Bay Area and wondering what there is to do, @coyotemedia.org puts together a weekly calendar that is pretty fucking good. I write it, so I'm biased obviously. But you can get it for FREE on our site and in your inbox: www.coyotemedia.org/tag/calendar/

"Instead of pivoting to, I don’t know, socks, or pants, or other things in the stuff-that-goes-on-your-body-near-your-feet arena in which it is an expert, Allbirds is renaming itself to 'Newbird AI'” - @aftermath.site #notallbirds

All kinds of broken up about my alma mater closing. It felt like a gold mine to discover a college without frats/sororities or grades, where I could design my own path of study with the support of incredible teachers. I feel so sad for current and future students who won't get this opportunity.

Essential practice 👇 Working this way has helped me build trust with communities of sex workers, people who use drugs, and unhoused folks — all of whom are under/badly covered by media. Be a human first, a journalist second.

Girly jobs: “health care jobs could be framed as roles requiring the strength to lift people. Preschools could highlight the need for teachers who serve as positive male role models” hey everyone let’s preserve the pathetic male ego at every opportunity

This sucks and is so stupid. If you keep going to Philz, compliment a queer barista on their flair, thank them for their service, tip them well! (always, but especially now)

If you haven't already subscribed, today is a great day to do it!

Omg a SALE! For Local News Day!! Support our ambitious little outlet for only $4 and earn our undying love + affection. We pour an immense amount of energy into this project for very little $, because we believe you deserve smart alt-weekly style news. You support helps keep COYOTE howling 💚

Today, my fellow founding worker-owners and I are launching a subscription drive to @feedravenous.bsky.social. We are a group of experienced and award-winning food journalists here to publish thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world. www.weareravenous.com

ooh the power of a colleague's critique! Love this open letter from Oakland's Rocky Rivera about LaRussell's song "Heaven Sent." "There is no injustice in what you did to yourself. There is only self-sabotage. You, being Icarus. The Sun being, well … Heaven Sent." Check it out on coyotemedia.org

Creepy creepy: AT&T is nonstop calling me to upsell me on a new phone. Yesterday an unknown # from Pt Reyes came in. I was confused, as I’ve spent the last few days researching restaurants and beaches there for my parents’ visit. I answered… and it was AT&T. Is this some fucked up surveillance shit?

The "framing of Black Oakland as 'a diasporal kaleidoscope,' producing encounters between those who arrived during the Great Migration and refugees who fled Eritrea + Ethiopia, spoke to a convergence I’d felt but never explicitly named ambling up and down Telegraph." - @rahawahaile.bsky.social 🔥❤️

READ. THIS. 👇👇👇

Forget the Zombified Punk Festivals. The Future Is for the Dolls www.coyotemedia.org/doll-fest-oa...

subscriptions to COYOTE have slowed down by a LOT. and yes, I’m worried, but I also know that people are generally terrified out there. I’m just glad we’re still committed to giving people the knowhow to survive. stories like this one will be free to read forever www.coyotemedia.org/i-hosted-a-m...

Items I have pulled out of my puppy's mouth today: boot. pull string for window shades. scraper tool for grill. twist tie. backpack strap. boot, again. used tissue. flowers in a pot not yet planted in the yard. flowers planted in the yard. pajama shorts. small rock. It's only 8:30am.

I know @nuala.bsky.social was anxious about writing this story bc... how do we convince people that a story about an immigrant and HS senior making coffee is worth reading? but Oaklanders doing cool/fun shit for the community rarely get this kind of coverage, IMO www.coyotemedia.org/meet-holinda...

Need a cute heartwarming story to pick you up this Friday amidst The Horrors™️? @nuala.bsky.social profiled a teenager with big coffee dreams www.coyotemedia.org/meet-holinda...

Scratch got a nice little write-up in @sf.gazetteer.co today. (Thanks, @cydhayes.bsky.social!) sf.gazetteer.co/a-beloved-ma...

In the wake of investigations of the behavior of labor leader Cesar Chavez and acclaimed chef René Redzepi, our latest piece from @soleil_ho asks a hard question. Not "who should we cancel next?" but "why do we need heroes so badly in the first place?" www.coyotemedia.org/kill-the-her...

so... Army -> Cesar Chavez -> Dolores Huerta Street, yeah?

It is inconceivable to me that someone with so much energy, who lived life so loudly and fully, is gone. Joe was a vivacious part of the SF media landscape before I even entered journalism, and things already feel quieter now that he's left us. It was an honor to have edited you at SF Weekly, Joe 💔

ok I am doing this. San Francisco residents! Wanna talk to me about your frustrations and humiliations with the rec & park website? summer camp or afterschool program signups, picnic table reservations, trail closure info… bring it on