This was so much fun! Thank you Oakland for coming out and for subscribing to all the vibes that are fit to print (on the Internet). I got the BEST book in the Secret Santa exchange too. Maybe I'll review it for the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org someday.

Introducing, Oakland Review of Books's Oakland Syllabus! of Books! And of other things! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/introducing-...

Introducing, Oakland Review of Books's Oakland Syllabus! of Books! And of other things! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/introducing-...

With free cookies! (We use child labor)

The follow up? Ken Houston isn't sorry. And accuses anti-Flock speakers of being from Portland? Despite us all saying which district we live in before we spoke. www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

A hedge fund manager can buy you a city council seat, but he cant buy you the ability to conceal your multiple blatant ethics violations! Guess the old saying is true - you can lead a clown to water but you can't make him competent 😔

There are a thousand things competing for your attention at every level, but: surveillance tech has captured every level of government, to the point that local electeds feel safe doing THIS to the enraged public. It is an emergency that will hurt all of us

I wrote about the genuinely galling Oakland City Council meeting I attended yesterday, where our the councilmembers almost unanimously voted to continue a dangerous countract with FLOCK surveillance. Thank you to @sarahgailey.bsky.social who helped me parse my anger into something readable.

"He rolled his eyes, pulled faces, refused to make eye contact with those addressing him directly, had numerous side conversations, and simply walked away (at one point with food)." @maggietokudahall.bsky.social reports back from yesterday's Flock debacle: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/whipped-votes/

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.

Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social

any time you're told to use AI at work, turn your work in about half as fast and pepper it with obvious mistakes. if nobody cares, you have less to do, and if they do, you can tell them you'll never use AI at work again

If you find yourself eating at the new Cafe Colucci, enjoy this elegy to the Eastern City Cafe that used to be there (by Reginald Lockett, 2001)

Dressed up, in the cold, for pieces of paper: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dressed-paper/

Taking a survey of the vibes on BART, between Oakland and the West Bay: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/surveilling-...

"The act of ‘Hey, pick the best thing’ is very stressful for me, even when there’s no stakes involved.” --Ryan Coogler

Someone came to our happy hour last night and asked if we were ever going to review some books. First of all, how dare you. Second of all, yes.

Street Spirit is an independent, monthly newspaper that has been dedicated to covering poverty & homelessness since 1995. We're throwing our winter fundraiser party at Eli's Mile High Club in #Oakland this Friday. Join us for a night of music & community to celebrate another year of Street Spirit.

The words of the profits are written on BART walls: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/surveilling-...

One week from today! Tie one on (a bell, a candy cane, some tinsel, an entire jug of eggnog) with the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org 12/18: luma.com/home?e=evt-M...

I wrote about glasses ads on BART and tech surveillance paranoia, but didn't use a single "through a ... darkly" pun, please clap: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/surveilling-...

We're also doing EVENTS! 1. On Thursday, we'll be at Ghost Town Brewery (in West Oakland) from 5-7, for an informal hang; 2. Next week, find us at Local Economy for our holiday party (less informal, but "formal" would be a stretch). Details: luma.com/4grva21b?ref...

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, December 9 - 14! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

“If I live long enough, I’ll be able to do shit like watch my nephew have children, watch the rise and fall and rise and fall of the right wing, but mostly find a way to be at peace with every bad thing that has ever happened in my life.” —Brontez Purnell

Come party with us in Oakland, on the 18th! www.thelocaleconomy.com/events/oakla...

i wrote a vibe report for ORB!

I'll be talking calendar compiling, possibly Gertrude Stein, possibly stories of ancestors born in West Oakland or working out of its port. Come drink wine, eat cheese, and bring East Bay ephemera to exchange at the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org holiday party! www.thelocaleconomy.com/events/oakla...

Taking the vibes at day one of the East Bay Print Sale: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dressed-paper/

This is a good list, and you can give us money too, if you want.

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, December 2 - 7: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

I'm showing a #cutandpaste #analogcollage at the #oakland Rock Paper Scissors Collective gallery space. i'll be at the reception this friday @oaklandreviewofbooks.org

Come on down to Local Economy for the Oakland review of books holiday party! www.thelocaleconomy.com/events/oakla...

this is the way

Went a somewhat different route to saying the same thing in this Small Business Saturday Instagram essay.

I want you to understand that while news media and politicians were fearmongering every day about shoplifting in SF (while property crime was *down*), THIS was happening: "the inhalation of one-millionth of an ounce will cause cancer with a virtual 100% statistical certainty."

“[The album] is as much a spiritual hymn as it is a hyphy resistance… especially when Bank$ veers into anger. ‘Oakland Unified’ facetiously points to the loss of Black residents who’ve been pushed to the geographical and cultural fringes (‘Oakland n***** don’t die, they move to Sacramento County’).”

Hi there!

More and more are saying it!

Going on a road trip today? Perfect time to catch up on East Bay Yesterday! I've got +130 episodes in the archives... pod.link/1158506231

this is going to be our autoreply for all the pitches people are using chatgt to write and submit to us bsky.app/profile/coli...

PREPARE FOR THE EXCESS TO COME, WITH LESS Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, November 25 - November 30: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

"Fans hastily threw baggy tees with the same design over plaid shirts and satin nighties."

seen last night, possibly of interest to @oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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poets are on the front lines of the AI war — enlist now @oaklandreviewofbooks.org

AIs are making houses now

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Good morning everyone, the "worst Bay Area poet" competition has been completed and we have a winner spectrapoets.org/For-William-...

Everything I write myself and everything I love to read or listen to or watch has one bedrock component to it...Jesus Christ I am alive right now and you are alive right now and someday we will not be but for the duration of this we are both stupidly and beautifully alive orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...

If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.