Emma Silvers

me and @gmeline.bsky.social calling APE’s “concert complaint hotline” to complain that these concerts are generating far too much media coverage given there’s actually nothing new to say at all

can you imagine if nextdoor was around during actual Grateful Dead shows

The downstream effects of cuts to Medicaid, on which a disproportionate amount of rural residents rely, are estimated to put 380 independent rural hospitals “at serious risk of closure nationwide”

this is so fucking bleak

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

with 100% absolute sincerity, there may come a time when this is the thought that keeps you going until tomorrow, and also if we started wearing this on t-shirts I wouldn't say no

going to go to the bank and demand they fire the guy responsible for the number in my checking account, clearly it should be ten times as much

never let these fuckin people rest

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel’s war in Gaza.

Read the full list of known names of children killed in the war: wapo.st/4o4Tc3k

ah i sure would like to see an intelligent conversation with a supreme court justice by an informed and perceptive journalist. now to take a big sip of water and open the internet.

I was a kid then so, while I remember the ozone hole, I didn't recall the denialism. It's amazing how the far-right just manufactures denial of basic science. Decade after decade peddling distrust of reality.

In the ’80s, it became obvious that Earth’s ozone layer was thinning—caused by chemicals in old spray cans and AC units.

But some on the far right denied it was real.

The world acted anyway. We banned the chemicals. It worked.

(Researching 80s-90s right-wing conspiracy theories!)

me

Planned Parenthood affiliate closes 5 health centers in California after loss of funding Planned Parenthood's largest affiliate in the country announced Thursday it closed five of its health centers in California due to a loss of federal funding.

The locations closed include South San Francisco, San Mateo, Gilroy, Westside/Santa Cruz and Madera.

www.kcra.com/article/cali...

Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.

Trump's AI Action Plan is even worse than I thought it'd be. It's a tech industry wishlist with every box ticked. It signals the further coherence of Silicon Valley and the Trump-led federal government into a cooperative, automation-bent surveillance state. It's a blueprint for dystopia.

In case you missed it, at @coyotemedia.org we're hoping to answer your long burning questions about the Bay Area. That thing you've always wondered. Send us your questions! airtable.com/app0YLCupdLE...

Did you know that you can follow all our COYOTE co-founders (who have Bluesky accounts) with just one beautiful click? Here you go!! go.bsky.app/8qE8JRY

so when you…

• force this tech on most everyone

• block it from acknowledging trans people even exist

• remove lgbtq people from human rights reporting & allow ICE to conceal info on trans people in custody

…it seems like a good time for cis folks to stop considering political “compromises.”

No drinking or late nights: How 20-somethings are changing S.F.’s nightlife scene Parallel threats have sent San Francisco’s nightlife into a tailspin: The city is aging, making its economy increasingly dependent on older people. And 20-somethings aren’t filling the gap.

to be clear this is no slight against @jkdineen.bsky.social’s recent story, which did a great job pulling in many of the different threads/challenges affecting the city’s nightlife scene

www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/a...

I plead the fifth

A Nonprofit Formed After the Ghost Ship Fire Is Paying Artists $100,000 for Advocacy Work | KQED Vital Arts plans to pay six artists to collect data and push for viable living conditions for creatives.

Reminder that applications for the Bay Area Artist Census Fellowship ($1K a month for 18 months to survey the creative community on its needs) is due today!

www.kqed.org/arts/1397792...

stories panicking about SF being too old & how do we get young people to go out again followed by coverage of vital contemporary arts spaces closing followed by Lurie everywhere on my timeline touting THREE WEEKS of Grateful Dead events I think I need to go to an axe-throwing range or something

here's our story:

The plot against vaccines Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies have hit on a way to undermine immunization.

With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social , we wrote about RFK’s assault on vaccines, and the move that appears to be coming next: weakening or destroying the vaccine court system that’s a crucial part of keeping them in production at all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Anonymous #KQED staff members voice concerns about company's layoffs and 15% reduction in force — in "open letters" posted around the station's San Francisco neighborhood.

KQED's story on layoffs here: www.kqed.org/news/1204812...

that would be so much better!!!

groundbreaking cannabis experience

cc @sahotchkiss.bsky.social