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Yea-Ming @yeaming.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Dandy Fest has been moved to Spats and it’s just around the corner! Bobby has worked so hard and continues to work his ass off and this celebration is so well deserved. The line-up for all 3 shows is insane! We can’t wait to see new and old faces!!! Let’s have a good time! <3

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Incidentally I just finished Flight to Canada last night-- a surreal, relentless 1976 p-funk glam mash-up of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I grew up in Oakland’s Montclair neighborhood, which borders Piedmont. My family later moved to Adams Point, which borders Piedmont on the other side. I’ve been around Piedmont a lot. Some thoughts, in no particular order:

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I first knew B Hamilton via his songs, but he’s a pleasure on the page, here riffing on @oaklandreviewofbooks.org coverage of bygone DIY spaces to hail Telegraph Ave's Saigon Market: “somewhere between Pee-wee’s Playhouse, a Marxist squat, a 60s Kingston recording studio, and The Dick Cavett Show”

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Very glad to have been interviewed by Ben on the 'Beyond the Zero' Podcast! @beyondthezero.bsky.social We discuss ergot., The Veldt Institute and bigfoot podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Pls send me your two lines recommendations! I can endorse the Japanese story collection from their Calico series, Unusual Fragments, featuring a number of undersung 20th Century queer writers. Also Elvira Navarro: A Working Woman haunted me, and I've heard good things about the new one.

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Pretty big vhs haul on shafter and 42nd oakland, probably 50 tapes

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Slumberland Records @slumberlandrecords.com · 08/07/2026

Just announced -- awesome SF Bay Popfest pre-show on August 14th at Little Hill Lounge in El Cerrito! Lunchbox, Mr Baby, and Whitney's Playland all playing live, plus ace sets from Oakland Weekender + Popfest DJs. 7pm, see you there!

A promotional image featuring a geometric design with various colored blocks. Text includes event details for "Lunchbox," "Mr. Baby," and "Whitney's Playland." The event is scheduled for August 14 at 7 PM at Little Hill Lounge in El Cerrito CA

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 06/07/2026

Hey Bay Area folks, just a reminder that I curate the @coyotemedia.org calendar and am always looking for interesting stuff. What are you all up to this week? Do you know of cool things going on? Send them my way! calendar@coyotemedia.org <3

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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 03/07/2026

✍️ 3rd-12th grade educators: join our August Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop to learn how to bring poetry in translation into your classrooms. The workshop takes places over 3 90-minute Zoom sessions and will be held on August 4, 5, and 6 from 3:30-5 pm PST/6:30-8 pm EST. Join us!

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Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop: August 2026

These three 90-minute sessions (August 4, 5, 6) will give you tools and techniques that you can use right away to bring Poetry Inside Out into your practice!

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Slumberland Records @slumberlandrecords.com · 19/06/2026

Bay area, great show tonight at the groovy Little Hill Lounge in El Cerrito --R.E. Seraphin, Tony Jay and The Kitchenettes! 8pm, gonna be a great time. Love the Little Hill!

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Now what did I come into this room to lowkey do?

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It’s always a gift when a vulnerable person lets a reporter into the toughest parts of their lives. Sitting in on this meeting with a woman suffering so many indignities was one of the most rewarding experiences of my career.

As soon as they sit down, Alejo can tell that potential ejection from Medi-Cal isn't Flores' most urgent issue. She needs mental health treatment, and soon. She can stop crying only for a couple of minutes at a time. Her daughter, who lives thousands of miles away, is seriously ill with kidney disease. Her husband died last year, leaving her bereft and with a new level of financial instability.
Flores, who grew up in El Salvador, is a legal US resident with temporary protected status
-which shields her from deportation because of instability in her home country-but that designation expires in September, and the Trump administration is working to end TPS for citizens of several other countries. "My heart and my soul are tired, very tired," she says in Spanish, before unspooling an extended, enigmatic analogy about how God causes roses to bloom.
Alejo listens carefully, occasionally offering a tissue or murmuring consolations. She doesn't interrupt or try to fast-forward to practical steps, even when Flores' train of thought becomes difficult to follow. For now she's focused on earning trust.

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New feature from your pal Megan! I embedded with a community health worker in Fresno, California to tell the story of why CHWs are so valuable to the health care system — and why they're under threat. I'm real proud of this one, would be thrilled if you read it. (gift link!)

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The Broken Backbone of America’s Healthcare System

Community health workers fill the gaps in places without enough doctors and nurses. Trump’s budget cuts are costing them their jobs, putting untold clients at risk.

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Rallying the crew to see Cooper's three-night stand in Frankfurt

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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 03/06/2026

🔖 June 17: Join our lunchtime book club at the Mechanics’ Institute in SF or online via Zoom at 12 pm PST/3 pm EST. This month’s pick is SLIPPING by Mohamed Kheir translated from Arabic by Robin Moger published by @twolinespress.com and a finalist for the National Book Award. RSVP here.

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Contemporary Translated Works Book Group: Slipping - CAT Center

This book group meets hybrid and monthly, on site at Mechanics’ Institute and online via Zoom, to read and discuss contemporary works originally written in

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isaac @sevier.io · 03/06/2026

The most "new" thing happening in mainstream grid policy discourse is about giving AI companies major stakes in the financing and ownership of grid transmission assets. That doesn't just miss the forest for the trees, it describes a different forest altogether.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Our employer, the University of Southern California, is asking Donald Trump to overturn the results of our democratic union election before the count is even finished.

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Back from Japan, back on the air, 10am sharp: --Ryli --Marika Christine brand new --Wyatt Smith brand new --Christina's Trip --Hectorine --Jas Stade together, on @bff.fm bff.fm/shows/i-luv-...

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I Luv Mondays

I Luv Mondays with Will on BFF.fm. Listen to show archives, or tune in live Monday 10:00 – 11:00am. BFF.fm is a San Francisco community radio station supporting emerging and underground artists and br...

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Excellent reporting by Bady and the Oakland Review, demonstrating just how much effort it takes to cut through the bluntest balderdash from today's political campaigns.

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

So you had a little trouble in town, Now you're keeping some demon down

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Fuck character, marry voice, kill plot

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The protagonist's struggle between "beauty" and "action" had me thinking how much this struggle has changed in 75 years, like the whole time I was reading I could hear Beavis in the background, chanting "Action! Action! Action!"

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I feel very fortunate to have seen Sonny Rollins more than once, truly the last of an era. And the young lions, Shorter and Hancock et al, are themselves quite aged.

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 25/05/2026

People of the Bay Area! I’m hosting a new reading series called Text Change, in which five trans writers are invited to read work on any topic other than transition! The first show is at The Stud on June 14th at 6:30! (flyer designed by @cara.city)

TEXT CHANGE
THE STUD / June 14/6:30pm
Annalee Newitz
Grayson Thompson
Isaac Fellman
Xóchitl Manuel Márquez
Violet Spurlock
Five trans writers on anything but transition

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

$0.20 Pick up

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Scott McCloud’s book “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” was originally published in 1993. An immediate critical and commercial success, it went on to become the most widely cited book about comics. Among comics scholars, McCloud's opus is both beloved and widely debated. 1/10

The original cover of Scott McCloud’s book Understanding Comics.

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I’m in Japan for the first time since I lived there 24 years ago

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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I wrote about the debate over whether Democrats should talk about “climate,” which is kind of a nonsensical question, and how it’s sort of like a debate over whether to talk about capitalism newrepublic.com/article/2103...

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nickinick.bsky.social @nickinick.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Must read! AI rights emerge now when algorithmic systems produce inequality, opacity, & loss of recourse at a scale/ speed that consumer protection & civil rights instruments can address only partially. the cross-partisan convergence: actors who disagree on everything else agree on AI bill of rights

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

the nyt is just newsmax for people who can pronounce prosciutto

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Slumberland Records @slumberlandrecords.com · 01/05/2026

Tonight! Hard Left return for their first show since 2018, holding it down at Stay Gold Deli in Oakland with Brigata Vendetta and DJs Dion Garcia and DJ Mini. Doors and DJs start at 6pm and it all ends by 10:30. All ages welcome! All out for May Day!

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The way it works is: Readers pay a nominal subscription fee, which is then split among the publications they read based on the time they spend reading each one. Pubs pay nothing to be included, it's purely extra revenue. A genuinely cool thing to have in the world imo!

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Hi hello! I'm very tangentially involved in a very cool new project (with actual icons @anamariecox.bsky.social @evanurquhart.bsky.social @brianphillips.lol). It's called @nwsnws.com, and the idea is basically "what if Google Reader but for indie and nonprofit news outlets?" Which... yes.

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

She selects Martha Coolidge's debut Not a Pretty Picture (1976), a formally inventive film which forms a sort of teen trilogy with Valley Girl (1983) and Real Genius (1985); thematically, they are journeys to principle and outlook.

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Dad and I just had BBQ lunch at the Q Shack in Durham and Rasheed Wallace came through!

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Max B @maxburke.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My good buddy @wkcraven.bsky.social wrote about Real Genius for The Stopgap: www.thestopgap.net/teen-agency-... Great essay about an under appreciated film.

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Teen Agency: 'Real Genius' Against the War Machine

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Stoked to learn that this has been sent to director Martha Coolidge! www.thestopgap.net/teen-agency-...

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Teen Agency: 'Real Genius' Against the War Machine

punch up and be happy

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 28/04/2026

literally fucking eugenics

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