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Hey guys, Perez Hilton performed self-harm and may have attempted a suicide on TikTok and screenshots are flying around, so if you are sensitive, go put "Perez Hilton" in your mutes right now.
I can support this. One of my coworkers uses ChatGPT. Once it told her to contact us for the answer.
today on COYOTE: on ChatTJB, the "startup" "AI" "company" where one guy answers all of your prompts himself so that you stop giving your brain function over to LLMs. www.coyotemedia.org/chattjb-want...
Thanks to everyone who's subscribed so far during our 25% off sale, which goes until August 8. Just punch in the code HOTDOG when you subscribe to get at least $20 off an annual subscription to COYOTE! www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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We made it to the halfway mark on our summer subscription drive, which means, yes, we're gonna do a merch store featuring designs by Ace Ty and the COYOTE crew! (And yes, paid subscribers will get some nice discounts, too.) Anything in particular you want to see?
today on COYOTE: on ChatTJB, the "startup" "AI" "company" where one guy answers all of your prompts himself so that you stop giving your brain function over to LLMs. www.coyotemedia.org/chattjb-want...
ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.
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how dare you assume people have hands
So now we are gatekeeping how one obtains dopamine? The big takeaway from posts like yours and the rest comes down to: Questioning his claim because it is not your experience, so therefore something is amiss.
someone just asked me about my fave spots for charcoal grilled food in the East Bay and for the sake of spreading the word... my recs are Kaokao Grill in Berkeley, Wah Jee Wah in Hayward, and Keeku da Dhaba in Fremont ;)
damn I never thought Brothers Karamazov would make me weep (and while reading on the treadmill lol) but here I am, sweaty and also crying???
Being anti-AI isn't enough. You should be pro-art, pro-artist, pro-writer, pro-worker. Don't expend all your energy tearing people down. Spend it lifting people up instead. Make their voices so loud, their art so visible, it drowns out the slop.
Hey Bluesky buds! We're having a big old sale on @coyotemedia.org memberships right now! 25% off an annual subscription *gasp* which is SUCH a good deal. If we get 50 new subscribers we'll launch our long-awaited merch store 🎉 100 and we'll throw a hell of a party for you. Help us make it happen!
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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It’s true! Our 25% off summer sale is on! Tell your Bay Area friends who love culture writing but hate billionaires/Big Tech we’ve got ‘em. At 50 new members we’ll finally launch our merch shop, so if you’ve ever wondered what kind of bumper sticker @soleilho.com would design, you’re in for a treat.
The team at @coyotemedia.org is running a summer sale, with the goal of adding 100 paid members. Your money goes directly to worker-owners who are publishing fun, interesting, and unique work. With more $ they'll be able to do investigations, events, and more! www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
The team at @coyotemedia.org is running a summer sale, with the goal of adding 100 paid members. Your money goes directly to worker-owners who are publishing fun, interesting, and unique work. With more $ they'll be able to do investigations, events, and more! www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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also a good time to support non-transphobic news orgs started by queer and trans people 😉
It’s a good time to support indie news in the Bay Area that won’t salivate over billionaires or throw AI slop all over articles! An annual subscription to COYOTE is 25% til Aug 8 with the code HOTDOG. www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
California can’t replant its forests fast enough to keep up with wildfires calmatters.org/environment/... via @ra-becks.bsky.social
California is losing its forests faster than it can replant them — and no one has enough seeds, staff, or money to catch up
California needs to ramp up reforestation to keep pace with wildfires — instead, funding and staff keep shrinking.
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an interesting side effect of all this talk over criticism: folks asserting that there’s a proper way to be a critic, or decorum to follow. I don’t think there is! There are as many ways to be a critic (or a writer) as there are of being a person.
Your food processor has a chute that fits your dick. Should you?
ChatGPT now has a space for sharing medical records. Should you?
In San Francisco, indie theater and the leather community are both struggling. ‘Satyricon’ asks: Combined, can they keep each other afloat? And what better way to find out than with a story about kinky queer people contemplating the decline of civilization? www.coyotemedia.org/gay-situatio...
A Gay Situationship in a Doom Loop: A 2,000-Year-Old Play Makes Everything New Old Again
‘Satyricon’ brings sex, excess, and the decline of an empire to a historic San Francisco leather bar.
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you know what newsroom is never going to platform people like Ross Douthat? COYOTE! (which is also having a 25% off sale 'til Aug. 8!) www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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Today, through our partnership with The 19th: The SF Asian Women's Shelter, which provides housing and help to survivors of DV and fields 1,100 calls a year, has lost nearly $500K in federal grants thanks to Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
This Domestic Violence Shelter Was Told It No Longer Aligns With the Trump Administration’s Priorities
Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter’s ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...
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you know what newsroom is never going to platform people like Ross Douthat? COYOTE! (which is also having a 25% off sale 'til Aug. 8!) www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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also you would not believe how many rare gavins I am going to inflict on you all
Besides having the worst politics ever, this guy was married to a woman even Don Jr wouldn't give a ring. More skeletons in his closet than a Spirit Halloween. There is, literally, more oppo on this guy than anyone else in the history of the game. And they'll run one-source stories on the front page
*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.
HAPPY SUMMER @coyotemedia.org is doing a membership sale/drive. Members get special newsletters, access to ticket previews for stuff we think is going to sell out, commenting privileges, and unlimited access to the archives! Also a sense of joy!! www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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One of the fun parts of running the @coyotemedia.org calendar is that I get to write teaser text like "We’ve also got alien costumes, several forms of magic, bratwurst throwing, Yiddish puppetry, and something described as “intelligent, leaky, erotic, and alive.” The Bay Area is NOT dead, y'all.
Our friends at @coyotemedia.org are doing a subscription drive, so support them if you can (even though they outrageously stole our unique and proprietary idea to be a hyperlocal bay area voice that publishes an events calendar and is mad about tech barons): www.coyotemedia.org/email/ad0d0c...
COYOTE Weekly: We're Having a Subscriber Drive!
We're having a big sale!
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