I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/

It's our first End of Year List Week at COYOTE. Starting off strong with the songs our collective loved in 2025.

Betty was one of the most generous people I had the privilege of interviewing. An extraordinary person who lived an extraordinary life.

another reminder that we're opening a worker-owned radical bookstore & cafe in astoria! you can help by: following our instagram: www.instagram.com/nobordersbooks subscribing to newsletter: noborders.beehiiv.com donating: www.gofundme.com/f/bring-a-wo... shopping: bookshop.org/shop/NoBorders

it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...

Soleil hints at this in the piece, but we were on the verge of bringing Alice’s Teen Vogue column to COYOTE after its cancellation. Our crew loved and admired her and her work more than I could begin to tell you. I still can’t believe she’s gone.

: drags out the drum labeled "venture capital is a financial project to appropriate and privatize communal savings vehicles under the guise of 'institutional investment' while socializing and devolving risk and has been since ~1976" and bangs it was gesturing aggressively at this thread :

good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete sex scenes are craft! goddammit!

We asked furries to rank the Bay Area’s sports mascots. The judges did not disappoint. ✍🏻: @reveleth.com

I was rooting for the Sedimental Value headline! Still, I love this photo @amir.photo took of jazz singer Mechelle LaChaux in front of Oakland’s legendary Esther’s Orbit Room.

wrote about @lalouverouge.bsky.social’s new book and the necessity of full personhood for children, who should receive both support and have agency in ways that even liberal society seeks to deny (and that the christian nationalist project is explicit about trying to control)

if you're not hiring Brittany to report on pop music, conduct interviews, and write deeply interesting profiles that actually rise above the noise, then you're doing it WRONG. BRITTANY IS THE BEST.

Suds from the Palestinian Soap Cooperative, pickle-scented candles from Dear John—COYOTE's local gift guide has a little something for everyone and not a penny for monopolies.

May I also recommend a book that some of you might have missed that came out last year that’s outstanding? “Imagination: A Manifesto” by Ruha Benjamin wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Daymé’s timbre floors me every time I hear it.

friends! @coyotemedia.org is dropping our paywall for December so you can see what we’ve been up to even if you have none dollars. All of our posts are currently free to read. Come check us out & spread the word? www.coyotemedia.org

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=...

The end of PEPFAR and global cuts to HIV prevention and treatment are a longterm health crisis and an immediate, fast-moving economic crisis—not dissimilar from the ways that conservatives are waging war on queer and trans people by coming for their jobs:

“Ceremony is where we share stories, break bread, and take care of each other. Not ‘Thanksgiving’ — a fiction that covers up the fact that colonizers used to feast after scalping us and destroying our villages.” www.coyotemedia.org/thanksgiving...

“…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

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

Getting to read @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social’s rap criticism for COYOTE is always such a joy, man. I just know I’m in for hit after hit.

“[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’).”

Oakland People's Arms Embargo is stepping up the campaign to get Port Commission to ban weapons parts shipments that transit through the Oak airport to Israel for use in its genocidal war against Palestinians. Rally today at 3 ahead of 4pm public comment at Port.

COYOTE’s service journalism will always be free to read, including today’s guide to helping someone who might be overdosing.

Please send submissions to [email protected]. Written submissions should be under 250 words, while voice memos can be 1–2 minutes long. If you want to share a photo of yourself with Alice, or a memory in another form, please do. We may edit lightly for clarity as needed. Thank you! (3/3)

We are especially interested in hearing from disabled individuals of color, and disabled individuals in general, and will prioritize their responses. Please let us know of any communication needs you may have, or anything else we can do to help you share your memories of Alice. (2/3)

Given the passing of disability activist and light-in-the-world Alice Wong, we at COYOTE invite people to share what she and her work meant to them. Whether you knew Alice personally, organized with her, or were simply a fan of her writing, we'd love to hear from you. (1/3) (📷: Jen White-Johnson)

Proud to share that @coyotemedia.org is launching First Aid Kit, our ✨paywall-free✨ series that helps you navigate the many challenges of living in the Bay Area and beyond. These stories are a part of our pledge to share critical information during this time of upheaval. ❤️‍🩹

Alice Wong was a luminary, and her light will shine on for many years to come. this is a beautiful tribute from @thesicktimes.org co-founder @mileswgriffis.bsky.social

"We have childcare until 9:30pm so we bundle up, and trundle our middle-aged asses off to Coast Guard Island. Date night in 2025 isn’t as relaxing as it used to be."

Is it perimenopause, parenthood, the pandemic, or the collapse of the American empire? In this conversation, @emmaruthless.bsky.social and @nuala.bsky.social unpack post-40 hormones, the failure of Western medicine to serve people with uteruses, and what's keeping them up at night.

"I look at that list [of symptoms] and this is everything that is happening to me. And also I'm 41 years old, and everyone says this is not when it happens." Today @coyotemedia.org, Nuala and Emma talk about anxiety, perimenopause, and Tori Amos.

Hard to overstate the extent to which executives across the arts actually hate the arts (and artists).

Third consecutive OPD report listing zero homicides. Oakland is on track to have of its lowest homicide totals in a decades, with one of the lowest numbers of police in decades also. The how/why should be the number one focus of Public Safety Committee discussions and isn't.

Reposting with alt text because yeah, I remember the discourse around what Black voters would and wouldn’t go for

This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...??? Like....

From all of us at @coyotemedia.org, thank you NYC for making every centrist Californian politician reading the news last night shit their pants.

Aside from being stoked for all my NYC pals, I'm also happy that Mamdani offers another vision of the future. One that doesn't include Gavin fucking Newsom. Also please enjoy my photoshopping of an Aretha hat on our coyote (which was @rahawahaile.bsky.social's idea).

I need someone to bring Aretha’s hat out of retirement IMMEDIATELY

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

This is, pardon my language, FUCKING BULLSHIT! @leximcmenamin.com is a top tier journalist who had a great interview with Mamdani THIS WEEKEND!!! The kind the NYT could never do. It’s bullshit of Anna Wintour to destroy the TV politics desk on the eve of a mayoralty they were born to cover

I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus. Sound—at the Interregnum. Glen Coulthard Madeleine Thien Canisia Lubrin Immanuel Wilkins Whew. What they did!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

Bumping this essay for the weekend crowd.

Real talk? The Flytrap team were a big inspiration to me and others at @coyotemedia.org this year while we were getting off the ground. Please toss these amazing folks some coin, Bluesky. (And don’t forget to renew your membership if you backed them on Kickstarter!)

One reason it took me so long to write this @coyotemedia.org essay is I kept trying to find a positive, productive note to end on. All I really got is “fund the goddamn bus.” www.coyotemedia.org/in-which-we-...

What can a very loud stadium of monster trucks offer us right now? Maybe, oddly enough… catharsis. Check out @rahawahaile.bsky.social's first feature for COYOTE! 🛻💨

For my first feature in years, I wrote about Monster Jam as an echo of place and what that felt like in Oakland in 2025.

Not seeing much on Bluesky vs Twitter but St. Elizabeth parish in Jamaica is devastated after Hurricane Melissa made landfall there yesterday. This is the government’s official support site, which is quite well organized.