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In Issue Three! Beatrice Kilat (@beatrick.bsky.social) is back with good advice about choosing to make art among life's other necessary tasks. Do you have a question to ask Bea? Email us at [email protected] 🌝

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In Issue Three! DJ impresario Josh Cheon (@darkentries.bsky.social) and punk polymath Brontez Purnell discuss growing up goth, San Francisco's dance parties, Dolores Park meet-cutes, archiving Patrick Cowley’s gay porn soundtracks, and maintaining the creative drive deep into their careers.

Do you have a question to ask Bea, for possible inclusion in the next issue? Send it to [email protected].

By way of A Streetcar Named Desire and The Simpsons, Beatrice Kilat (@beatrick.bsky.social) weighs the risks and chances for love in her debut column: “Ask Bea.” She also considers the chihuahua. To read SOME GOOD ADVICE, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

Liberalism enables fascism.

Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:

By the way here is an upcoming opportunity to hang out and think good thoughts about each other. Issue Two Release Party, Thursday, August 28, at Et al., 6 p.m. onward 🌝

The price is reasonable, their curated collections are fun, they clearly know their online and offline audiences, and they don’t have a dogshit algorithm or terrible original content. It feels like a labor of love, and it’s the best streamer by a country mile bsky.app/profile/will...

the chad NEA vs the virgin AFT bsky.app/profile/dipl...

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Issue Two is coming this summer! San Francisco reviews many things, like skateboarding, art in the suburbs, ceramics, advice, everyone’s favorite fountain, tomatoes, and not one but TWO books. And more! Subscribe anytime at the link in our bio.

(scanning the poster’s syntax from afar in my starfleet vessel) gen x detected. set phasers to stun

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

something something the half-life of gossip is forever

Endorse Cuomo, have the rank and file oust you one week later 💯

We need indie presses. Certainly more than we need government funds to be spent “foster[ing] AI competency” or “empower[ing] houses of worship to serve communities,” whatever that means.

You've probably been hearing a lot of rumors about the Oakland Review of Books (ORB), but I'm here to assure you that no such thing exists. (Yet!) There is, however, this calendar of literary and other events in the East Bay for the coming week: oakland-review-of-books.ghost.io/the-oakland-...

let's talk 🤓

Do you need help? Ask @beatrick.bsky.social. Areas of expertise: dogs / money / life, death / closet space / ceramics / utensils / kitchens / time management / having a drink / putting it down / want vs need / upkeep (general). Send your question to: [email protected] Subject line: Please Advise

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

Sen. Cory Booker just entered hour 16 of his marathon magical girl transformation on the Senate floor. He has spent all night slowly spinning around in a field of twinkling stars and striking cool fashion poses. So far he has materialized one long opera glove and a silver tiara with topaz inlay.

i'm ready

"x" is actually dark sided.

Once again, a lot more senior people needed to go to jail for a very long time for Iran-Contra, Bush-era torture, & all the other previously unpunished, wildly illegal & unconstitutional executive branch crimes that have led us inexorably to this utterly shameful, horrifying moment as a country.

Actually, you are morally obligated to get smarter, be braver, etc. etc.

OK, here it is: Phone It In, Vol. 1, an art writing mixtape, with quotes from some of the most enlightened readers on the internet. enjoy this batch, and keep'em coming! greg.org/archive/2025...

emerged from the woods back into society briefly to have an amazing conversation last night with @beatrick.bsky.social about fashion and fascism and beauty and knitting for the @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social launch :) shoutout to the person who was knitting while we chatted lol

Why does San Francisco dress like that? Beatrice Kilat (@beatrick.bsky.social) knows, and in “Everybody in Blundstones”—a sharp, gestural, historicizing, and fond work of observation that conjures a distinct image of the city—she explains. We think you’ll recognize this place.

Contributors to our first issue write about leaving the Bay and coming back; know why SF dresses like that; describe the shape of tennis; check in from abroad; review the new Susan Stryker; push against the rectangle in public space; and discuss what it's like here, beneath the narratives. And more!

I had almost forgotten that bravery can exist in these rooms!

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

reading the news like...I'm lowkey in danger? Maybe even HIGH key?

“Our job is to taste free air. Your so-called boss may own the clock that taunts you from the wall, but my friends, the hour is yours.” - Dr. Ricken Hale

I do not listen to him. In fact I have him blocked. I had him blocked on the old site for years. He is not published in any major newspapers I read or on news stations I watch. He exists to me solely through angry screencaps taken from web forums I am no longer on. It is time to break the cycle

Hello Bluesky! We are San Francisco Review of Whatever, a new print magazine for critical writing on any subject by (mostly) Bay Area writers. We've just opened subscriptions and pre-orders for our first issue. Head over to our website for more info (or read the rest of this thread!) sfreview.org

this is like my handlers dropping a rock in my new enclosure to make it feel more like my former habitat ❤️

After a move, I have to wait for a vision to come to me like Joan of Arc to know where all my stuff is going to go.

I miss compulsively opening and closing the twitter app

finally a reasonable take

Me with my mutuals migrating to here