update: one of our readers is buying her kids a nice new record player! awwww yay 💕

At least five FUBARed Waymo robots: Market & Guerrero, SF One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how. Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO. OP: tiktok.brahmsstan

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The violence over the last few days and the relentless news coverage is taking a toll on my nervous system. If you, too, feel overwhelmed, may I suggest finding a soft creature to cuddle?

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

Are you someone who's Very Online, early in your reporting career, and eager to get clips? We're hiring a Breaking News Reporter at @motherjones.com. $65k-$75k salary. www.motherjones.com/careers/brea...

Don’t worry, Biden’s legacy will be enshrined in every museum dedicated to the Gaza genocide. That’s all that will be remembered of his presidency and 50 year political career — that he armed & enabled genocide because he prioritized one group of people over a group who he considered to be subhuman.

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.” Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

Is there ~anything~ good that happens during or after menopause?! Because articles like this are not it! Yay bad oral health, sleep apnea, stiffer arteries, heart palpitations, recurrent UTIs, joint aches, vaginal dryness, lower bone density, high cholesterol, I can’t wait.

One Waymo birth does not cancel out one Kit Kat death!

When contractors told Noni Session it wasn’t worth saving the facade of Esther’s Orbit Room, she turned to the community for help. This past Saturday, West Oakland residents came out to (gently) demolish the wall themselves. www.coyotemedia.org/this-oakland...

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 👇

Best list ever. But seriously! $68 for a YEAR of indie journalism delivered by a worker-owned newsroom is honestly such a deal

One of the things I love about being a community-focused media outlet is the freedom we have to pursue little leads that turn into big stories. This piece from @reveleth.com touches on so many critical Qs, including: What historic cultural artifacts should be preserved, and at what cost? 1/3

Really proud of @nuala.bsky.social's work always, and in particular this series she's doing about what it's actually like to finally get housing, and how it changes people's lives. www.coyotemedia.org/homeless-to-...

Over at @coyotemedia.org my colleagues and I are trying to build a new, worker-owned outlet in the Bay Area. We've already broken stories and had impact. To continue that work we need more members, plain and simple. And now you can get a discount! 🎁 Use COYOTE2026 for 15% off an annual membership.

For everyone who asks me "how's COYOTE going?" — here is part of that answer, in which we journalists do math. Tl;dr: To run a sustainable biz we need more paid subscribers. This could be YOU! Helping us build a new model for indie Bay Area journalism!! Sign up for our undying love and affection ❤️

I love the work my comrades at @coyotemedia.org are doing; if you're searching for a gift for your Bay Area friend who has everything and mysteriously isn't a Coyote reader yet, gift subs are 15% off!

TONIGHT! SF! Join us at Casements in the Mission for food, drinks, a live DJ set from @bff.fm, priceless gossip with journalists and indie music folks, tote bags… what more could you want, truly luma.com/f2jy4dho?tk=...

"I have a purpose — that makes me feel good about myself. I can be a part of the community, not something that the community doesn't want to see." Meet Larry, an SF resident who shared his story in our new series Homeless to Housed. ✍️ @nuala.bsky.social 📸 @estefancy.bsky.social

“…if you need to talk to your trying-to-be-down auntie about how a land acknowledgement at dinner isn’t enough, please do let her know she can simply text FREESAM to 53-555 and make a tax-deductible donation to actually change the material conditions of Natives.” Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O

“Our ‘Thanksgiving meal’ is usually to the tune of gas station roller hotdogs and chips, supplemented with caffeine and cigarettes,” writes Lydia Grijalva, who heads to Alcatraz Island every year to greet the sunrise with Native comrades and elders. www.coyotemedia.org/thanksgiving...

San Francisco! Come hang with @coyotemedia.org worker-owners and @bff.fm DJs on Tues December 2nd at Casements in the Mission. Drinks, swag, the satisfaction of knowing you're supporting indie media instead of outlets funded by shady billionaires, what more could you want luma.com/f2jy4dho?tk=...

Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community. How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social

Healthy democracies require protests. But how do we do it safely? I made this guide to help us navigate the risks. Check it out, and please share with your networks. @coyotemedia.org's First Aid Kit stories are always paywall-free! ✊

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Anyone can reverse an overdose, and we should all know how. Naloxone is a social intervention; while our public health systems are woefully inadequate, and the war on drugs continues unchecked, we can empower ourselves and one another to step up. ✍️: @nuala.bsky.social 📸: @estefancy.bsky.social

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Wild how the Boy Mayor age for cis white men overlaps with the geriatric pregnancy age

Love this interview between @emmaruthless.bsky.social and @nuala.bsky.social.

Even when @coyotemedia.org was just a little baby pup of an idea I knew I wanted service journalism to be a major part of it. Today I'm thrilled to introduce our First Aid Kit: an acknowledgement of today's challenges, and a rejection of despair.

stay tuned for more investigations from me and @nuala.bsky.social, @coyotemedia.org's resident perimenopausal detectives. We forget all names and facts we learned 5 minutes ago, great slapstick www.coyotemedia.org/perimenopaus...

Tori Amos once said “Menopause is the hardest teacher I've met. Harder than fame.” As the senior citizens of COYOTE (AKA the over-40 contingent), @emmaruthless.bsky.social and I try to figure out what lessons our chaotic hormones are teaching us as we lie awake covered in sweat at 4am.

In today's Yap Zone newsletter: What do Stormy Daniels and investigative reporter @nuala.bsky.social have in common? www.coyotemedia.org/yap-zone-q-a...

JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor. You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233

Things one should consider when selecting sandwiches for projectile purposes: Is it from a business I feel strongly about supporting? Will the sandwich make a significant impact? Will I be very sad to have lost the opportunity to eat said sandwich?

Hey look it’s @coyotemedia.org 👀 This piece by @melbuer.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥 www.wordsaboutwork.news/it-was-never...

“We don’t have to swallow our bile and settle for the nearest centrist with too much hair gel and all-caps Tweets because legacy media tells us to.”

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!

Zohran’s win offers the Bay Area a glimpse at a better future — one where we’re not locked in a room with Gavin Newsom for another four years.

Is #wildfire Bluesky a thing? Folks on Twitter were an invaluable resource for info during NM’s biggest wildfire in 2022. But I’m at my mom’s here now, choked with smoke, and can’t find any info on its source. (We’re super rural, so don’t get much news coverage.) Who are the Bsky fire scanners?

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

Living near a Level 1 Trauma Center means that several times a day I get to hear every dog in my neighborhood howling along with an ambulance's siren 🐕 🚑 🚨

for @coyotemedia.org, I wrote about Uber, Waymo, sexual assault, surveillance, and Kit Kat, the feline mayor of 16th street — who deserved better, as do we all www.coyotemedia.org/in-which-we-...

"When I stopped by the altar that sprung up outside Randa’s Market the next day, Mike — the most stoic corner store owner I’ve ever met in my life — had tears in his eyes. 'He was my baby, he said." 😭🐱

Until SNAP is funded, here’s an ongoing list of Bay Area restaurants where SNAP recipients can receive free food. Just bring your EBT card!

We're leaning into 🕷️HALLOWEEN 🧛‍♀️ this week to bring you some spooky stories! ☠️🫀🦟🤡 First up: a killer comic from @janelleblarg.bsky.social 👀

Me: optimistically googling “raccoon-proof feral cat feeder” as if such a thing is even possible Wayfair: on it, $153.99

This has a great round-up of links. Again, support your local news media! These folks just launched a few weeks ago and they've hit the ground running!