Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 4hSunday reading: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sunday-readi...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgSunday ReadingKeeps a rollin. 030 3
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 16/10/2026When Jerry Brown took the stage in Sac to talk about the UCs: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/where-everyb...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgWhere everybody knows your father’s nameJerry Brown takes the stage in Sac to talk about the UCs. 040 4
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 16/10/2026"While turning on their spits in hell, Jarvis and Gann were probably mildly annoyed that Newsom’s stimulus went to poor and middle-class people—rather than capitalist “job creators”—but they still basically won" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgProp 2: YesWhatever. Voting yes solves nothing, but it solves even less to vote no. 061 6
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 16/10/2026CEQA is antifa. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgProp 45: NoCEQA is antifa. 171 7
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 16/10/2026"It’s all very amusing that all those voters who thought they were expressing their preference for limiting campaign contributions turned out to be taking away their city’s ability to (democratically!) choose to have public financing. Ha. Ha." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgProp 4: YesA funny thing happened after the masses democratically chose. 051 5
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 16/10/2026"Voting has sure gotten really fucking annoying since I started being responsible again" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgProp 38: NoWe should not be voting on something this specific, complicated, and misleadingly crafted. 0144 14
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksJason Martens @martens742.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Well worth your time. Who knew reading about props could be fun? 051 5
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026Put another way, a lot of people are now WFH that didn't used to be able to, and that's a good thing (for them). But the effects of that on mass transit in the Bay has been huge transit deficits. And if RTM fails, it will be the workers who CAN'T WFH who will suffer most. So don't be an asshole! 03212 32
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026WFH is why BART is running a deficit. But: "If you are WFH (or even part-time WFH) and you vote no on this measure, you are engaged in an intra-class war against the workers who make your life comfortable": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgRegional Transit Measure: God yesVote no if you’re an asshole. 07827 78
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Prop 41: "It is also a reflection of what careless people the billionaires are...: They will do a big thing, with lots of messy and far-reaching and complicated effects, in order to get what they want, and then all the mess that’s left after will be someone else’s problem." (Vote no)oaklandreviewofbooks.orgProps 41 & 42: Hell fuck noThe existence of these propositions on your ballot, just by itself, is a great argument for the dissolution of billionaire wealth. 141 4
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026This is the problem with coming after 41 and 42. It kind of raises the bar for true revulsion. 040 4
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A mega thread of the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org guide to statewide propositions..oaklandreviewofbooks.orgORB’s totally partisan 2026 voting guideWe made a spreadsheet and everything. 13513 35
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksOakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026On Prop 40: "We’ve tried to keep this simple because it is actually pretty simple, and because particular kinds of complexity and nuance can be and are being and will be very instrumentally used—ideologically and misleadingly—to obscure that simplicity" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgProp 40: Hell fuck yesIt’s not complicated. It’s a moral test. 14330100 330
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026On Prop 40: "We’ve tried to keep this simple because it is actually pretty simple, and because particular kinds of complexity and nuance can be and are being and will be very instrumentally used—ideologically and misleadingly—to obscure that simplicity" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgProp 40: Hell fuck yesIt’s not complicated. It’s a moral test. 14330100 330
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksOakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026No one asked the Oakland Review of Books to make a voting guide, and we made one anyway. Today we start off with the ballot propositions and the regional transit measure: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/orbs-totally...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgORB’s totally partisan 2026 voting guideWe made a spreadsheet and everything. 521169 211
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026No one asked the Oakland Review of Books to make a voting guide, and we made one anyway. Today we start off with the ballot propositions and the regional transit measure: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/orbs-totally...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgORB’s totally partisan 2026 voting guideWe made a spreadsheet and everything. 521169 211
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026Or just go straight to the landing page: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgORB Voting Guide 2026We humbly submit the opposite of the Nextdoor slate. 1165 16
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksMaddie Oatman @moatmanjourno.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Very grateful for this series by @oaklandreviewofbooks.org about how bad vibes are in the tech industry. Media/journals/literary world: More of this please! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/tag/dreamfar...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgDreamfarce - Oakland Review of Books 0124 12
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 13/10/2026"That’s what “the Bay” turns out to be for all of them: a negative frame, the sense of existing in a space of freedom and isolation from the center, and what distance positively enables... 'Everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco'”: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/how-new-york...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgHow New York City makes the San Francisco sceneWhat Jed Perl is talking about when he talks about never calling it Frisco, in "We Never Called It Frisco." 11165 16
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 13/10/2026What Jed Perl is talking about when he talks about never calling it Frisco, in his little novel "We Never Called It Frisco." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/how-new-york...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgHow New York City makes the San Francisco sceneWhat Jed Perl is talking about when he talks about never calling it Frisco, in "We Never Called It Frisco." 281 8
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 12/10/2026If you've heard DIGGER is BAD and a FLOP, @britthyoung.bsky.social counsels you to dig deeper and see if there isn't more here than a film for the Good Liberals Who Hate the Cheeto Man: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/fossil-flop/oaklandreviewofbooks.orgFossil FlopCritics Hate Digger, But You Won’t. 072 7
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 11/10/2026Sunday Reading! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/email/0da93b...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgSunday ReadingOur friends at Transit Books are hosting a fundraising pizza party with a forest theme THIS FRIDAY, October 16, 7-10pm, at Donkey & Goat Winery in West Berkeley. You can come for $50 and get two drink... 041 4
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 10/10/2026“There’s a provocation in asserting that Oakland can have a literary culture of its own.” www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...sfchronicle.comOakland’s new media scene has a socialist point of view — and an open barThe East Bay’s literary publications are trying to be “the opposite of Nextdoor.” 03210 32
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksMarthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Parties,” ORB’s Satris said, “are a key part of the strategy.” ORB in the Chronicle, advocating both for books and deep hanging out. If you too like both those things, subscribe to @oaklandreviewofbooks.org ! www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...sfchronicle.comOakland’s new media scene has a socialist point of view — and an open barThe East Bay’s literary publications are trying to be “the opposite of Nextdoor.” 1145 14
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksMei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence. 50169545558 17K
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksJolene Torr @jolenejolene.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New @oaklandreviewofbooks.org hat and it’s pretty cuuuuuute. 0101 10
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksGregory Hom @theoretical-mutant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#OaklandCA is on the side of the Bay where the day begins (from Jeff Chang bio of Bruce Lee) @oaklandreviewofbooks.org 1113 11
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 06/10/2026Come to our happy hour at Portal tomorrow (4 pm) and we'll give you a few! 130 3
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 06/10/2026You can be happy in other hours, if you want. But these ones are the important ones. 040 4
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 06/10/2026We at ORB wish to formally condemn (and call-in) Bathers Library for posting dope events mere minutes after we put up our calendar, such as this "freaky spooky wikipedia show and tell": www.instagram.com/p/DeKTIohGp1... Do better, Bathers. Do better. 061 6
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 06/10/2026We have monthly happy hours! The next one is tomorrow, at Portal at 4. (If you go to our website, it always tells you when the next happy hour will be) 152 5
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksMarthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Weekly calendar of literary events is up at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org! Some are not in Oakland, some are not literary, all of them are interesting to us at ORB: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgOakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, October 6–October 11It's hottest inside your own body, but Oakland is cool. 083 8
Reposted by Oakland Review of Bookskelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Increasingly common @oaklandreviewofbooks.org W: r/oakland, r/sanfrancisco, AND r/bayarea all have popping threads about this article. To be fair almost no one commenting has read the piece, but... the discourse is there. 0201 20
Reposted by Oakland Review of Booksancilla bit @pauline2k.bsky.social · 05/10/2026my problem from the last few years can now be everyone’s problem! thanks to all at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org for helping me bring this one home. 💜 0132 13
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 05/10/2026"If nothing else can be said for the year 2026, it is at least impossible to imagine 'Detransition, Baby' being written now."oaklandreviewofbooks.orgOrbiting space junkTorrey Peters and the impossibility of the great trans novel. 1215 21
Reposted by Oakland Review of BooksBee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026happy bee day nerds beegabberel.itch.io/bees-movies here's roughly 7,000 words about movies you hate or forgot that I adorebeegabberel.itch.ioHow to Watch Movies Like a Bee by BeeGabberela zine about film 143 4
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 04/10/2026SUNDAY READING www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/email/e0fa49...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgSunday ReadingIn that sleep of the west bay, what dream farts may come? 051 5
Reposted by Oakland Review of Books🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026we’re back! Catching up, talking shop and a little bit about books we’re reading.podcasts.apple.comEpisode 25: Hello Again!Podcast Episode · Faced Out, with Brad & Liz · October 2 · 1h 4m 162 6
Reposted by Oakland Review of Booksменфэйліңдемꙮкратиядатұрамын @yaneuve.ren · 02/10/2026> our CEO would sometimes tell me outright that [simple quality of life improvements weren't] the “right direction” for our company AI brings us gains in efficiency, or "getting rid of pesky user-facing staff who'll tell visionary leaders the product's half-baked" 164 6
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 02/10/2026"How AI replaced me: an edtech worker's account of what got left behind," by Stephanie Uchino-Beach: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/how-ai-repla...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgHow AI replaced meAn edtech worker's account of what got left behind. 2105 10
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 02/10/2026Not to put too fine a point on it, but the starting point for @meganwachspress.bsky.social's article here was that The New York Times article was simplistic and overlooked important complexities in favor of the story they wanted or were willing to tell. This outcome really underscores that. 1120 12
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 02/10/2026An update, in which a judge on Wednesday dismissed it: oaklandside.org/2026/10/02/c...oaklandside.orgCoal company’s $1 billion lawsuit against Oakland dismissedA federal judge rejected a coal company's argument that it is owed hundreds of millions of dollars because of the city's opposition to the planned West Oakland coal terminal. 2249 24
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 01/10/2026Our correspondent goes to the frontier of human flourishing and finds Curtis Yarvin's ex.oaklandreviewofbooks.orgI went to the ‘existential hope’ gala and left hungryExploring the frontier of human flourishing with Curtis Yarvin's ex, the light of Apollo, and no booze whatsoever. 0115 11