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Normally I do a big end of year post about all the goals I had and what I accomplished. I didn't hit any of my goals this year. So here's a post of other stuff I saw/did that made me feel things other than frustration: reveleth.com/555202555/

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At @coyotemedia.org we are strongly against generative AI slop. Also we can't afford a Getty subscription. So for a recent post about our favorite Bay Area Beefs, @soleilho.com and I broke out the sharpies and colored pencils and drew our own illustrations. Can you guess which beefs are which?

I’m only 3/4ths through this book, but I’m wrecked. Lots of people have correctly noted that it feels important, but (a) he’s a damn good storyteller, and (b) it’s hard to read this and not constantly see how the attempt to prop up the violence of western hegemony wrecks all our lives

The lull between the end of NCAA women's volleyball and the start of pro vb (in the US) is killing me.

At @coyotemedia.org we are strongly against generative AI slop. Also we can't afford a Getty subscription. So for a recent post about our favorite Bay Area Beefs, @soleilho.com and I broke out the sharpies and colored pencils and drew our own illustrations. Can you guess which beefs are which?

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/

“The media isn’t covering this” is a statement about your own media diet. Yes, I am painfully aware that legacy outlets have the biggest audiences. It is good to criticize their coverage. But I would love to see even a fraction of that energy directed to helping smaller outlets gain bigger audiences

Thing is: this should have been obvious BEFORE regulators greenlit Waymo. Having business be the tail that wags the dog of government--as neoliberal ideology would have it--simply privatizes gains and sticks ordinary people with the costs of being corporate guinea pigs.

I'm taking a holiday break from the calendar at @coyotemedia.org but our friends at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org just put theirs up so if you're at a loss for what to do this week: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

Read @soleilho.com's interview with Gina Cargas, a librarian at SFUSD who is collecting vinyl records to create a 'listening station' for her middle school students. "Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."

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ebooks are the best last-minute gifts (maybe the best gifts?) and for the person on your list who is involved in activism, loves speculative fiction, or just needs a little hope at this point in the year (and really, who amongst us doesn't), try the acclaimed anthology WE WILL RISE AGAIN:

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This week at @coyotemedia.org we're doing a couple of roundups for the end of the year! Today is music day, and you can find a playlist of the songs that got us through the last 365ish days.

In case you missed this on Friday, at @unbreaking.org we updated our trans healthcare explainer with a timeline (100+ events) and a totally rewritten explainer (20k words, 150+ footnotes) to help people understand the many diverse attacks on gender affirming care, and where they currently stand:

If you told me this was part of the M3GAN movie I would 10000% believe you.

Two things that would never happen at a men's national championship game: a random coach singing the national anthem, and flower shaped confetti dropping on the winners.

Come on Kentucky, make this interesting.

That's the Texas A&M we've seen this tournament. Hello! Welcome to the match.

Okay am I just misremembering? Waak doesn't usually wear that big knee brace, she's usually in a leg sleeve but not such a clear brace right? She looks like she's not as confident moving around this match.

I have maintained all season and will continue to maintain that Molly Tuozzo is underrated.

I would genuinely read the story about how the fuck Ulmer *actually* wound up singing the national anthem just now. Truly wild, and he was (sorry to this man) not good. Does someone hate him? Did someone lose a bet? Did the scheduled singer back out???

Programming note: For the next ~2 hours I'm going to be posting about the women's volleyball championships.

LMAO letting Matt Ulmer (Kansas's vb coach) do the national anthem is so unserious.

I would say I work with amazing people. But nobody’s paid so all I can say is Is that in these terrible times . Knowing that people want to do this work is an honor . And their skill is just stunning

I cannot tell you just how *tremendously hard* various volunteers have worked on this massive @unbreaking.org update: sifting through awful, terrible news every single day, identifying connections and themes, all to build a clear picture of the harm the federal government’s caused.

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

I didn't get to watch any of the volleyball yesterday so I'm going to catch up today. Just peeked at the scores and holy wow.

On a personal note, this page is something I've been working on and wrangling for months (along with a team of folks at Unbreaking). It's not a fun read, but I think it does a good job of explaining the lay of the land and what is happening.

Today at @unbreaking.org we have a big update to our page on transgender healthcare. A TIMELINE!!! And the explainer has been rewritten to be clearer and easier to follow (if not any less soul crushing). If you need a primer on all the ways this administration is attacking gender affirming care:

It’s the three Ghosts of Christmas. Ghost of Hootin’, Ghost of Hollerin’ and the Ghost of Carryin’ On.

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Congrats to the NYT for getting a citation in the new rules that would ban gender affirming care for anybody under 19! You did it! How's that for *impact* baby! Put it on the Pulitzer application!

Three D's defected to vote for this disgusting bill. If they hadn't, it wouldn't have moved forward. *Don't come into my mentions to "explain" to me that "this will fail in the Senate." Spend that time calling your reps, donating to causes, and doing literally anything for trans folks.

"Don't worry, it'll fail in the senate." Ancient cis proverb

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Added a couple last minute art markets this weekend to our holiday map! Shop local, find good stuff, meet cool people, and, say it with me kids: fuck Amazon!

In some ways shit like this is convenient. When someone tells you who they are, LISTEN.

Bay Area folks: it's time to buy your tickets to my favorite month-long charity rummage sale (Oakland Museum White Elephant Sale). I volunteer here and it's the joy of my life haha. Tix do sell out, so buy now and put it on your calendar: www.whiteelephantsale.org/tickets

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-...

This piece from @melissagiragrant.com is so important and so good. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

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.

Babe wake up the latest issue of Tolkien Studies is finally available online.

"why doesn't anybody read articles anymore" THIS IS WHY (also if you reply to lecture me about how to use simple reading mode, I will block you -- I know, this is still a fucking problem)

Carter Booth continuing the long and storied tradition of college athletes dropping an f bomb on TV after a big win. We simply love to see it.

I am such a sucker for these things, and I hate myself for it. Like tearing up at some dumb Home Depot commercial.

People are driving around out there who start shaking with fear if they suddenly have to actually operate the car themselves. Great. Cool cool cool. “Unsure of positioning.” LOOK OUT THE WINDOWS, YA DOORKNOB.