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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?
“I want you to have such an inconvenient experience with something that looks like AI that the next time an LLM gives you what sounds like an acceptable answer, you remember the time ChatTJB responded to your tax question with a haiku about crows." 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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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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truly loved editing this piece from @annaleen.bsky.social on how well-funded public transit systems could transform our lives let’s hear it for journalism that helps us imagine a future that’s not fucking terrible!! www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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Ahh! We hit 50 new paid subscribers!! This means we’re halfway to our goal and officially launching our merch shop soon. A big thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last week! 🥳
COYOTE@coyotemedia.org · 5d agoIt’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.
Hey y'all I'm gonna need you to sign up for a @coyotemedia.org membership okay? Why? For lots of reasons, one of them being their pet obituaries 🌈✨ petobits.coyotemedia.org
The Rainbow Bay Bridge — COYOTE Media Collective
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Money for transit instead of "AI"? YES! @annaleen.bsky.social sets it all out in @coyotemedia.org today. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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in which @annaleen.bsky.social asks us to dream big: “What if we gave public transportation the same amount of money that investors have given to AI? With billions of dollars, what could transit do? And how might it transform our cities and lives?” www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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I have long wanted to write for the excellent Bay Area publishing collective COYOTE...and they let me write something that honestly no other publication would. All hail independent media!!
Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 2d agoEarly on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
Early on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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friends! do you like a discount? who doesn't like a discount?! @coyotemedia.org is offering annual subscriptions rn at 25% off, which means a full year for just $60 the code to use is HOTDOG, which is reason #458 i love working at this fever dream of an outlet www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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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.
Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 5d agoThe 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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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-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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Welcome to the COYOTE calendar of Bay Area events! This week, we've got alien costumes, several forms of magic, bratwurst throwing, Yiddish puppetry, and something described as “intelligent, leaky, erotic, and alive.” www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...
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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We could spend all day telling you why COYOTE is worth supporting... but honestly, our subscribers already did the job. Scroll for the receipts: here’s what readers said in a recent audience survey! Then join the pack by 8/8 to snag $20 off a new annual subscription.
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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Some difficult news: Fred, the Oakland baby night heron that @nuala.bsky.social and friends rescued in the course of reporting our herons and housing story, passed away. You can read Nuala's obituary here: petobits.coyotemedia.org#fred0729
Kat Ferreira@katferreira.bsky.social · last wk.Thank you @coyotemedia.org & Nuala Bishari for keeping up with the plight of our heron rookery! 💘 "The kids who asked the city to make the herons the official bird should be able to grow up seeing them in the wilds of Oakland, not just on their library cards." www.coyotemedia.org/herons-or-ho...
We love Hater Week and we love Aftermath!
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.We hope you're enjoying Hater Week so far! Every theme week is also a subscription drive, because the website doesn't exist without the support of our paying subscribers. So we're having a sale! Pay just $1 for your first month, or get a huge 25% off an annual sub! aftermath.site/aftermath-su...
editing this theater story by Adam Brinklow was the most capital-c Culture I've gotten in weeks subscribe to @coyotemedia.org so we can assign more freelance stories to people who are experts on topics we don't have covered on staff ya dig 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's also leaky, erotic, and alive? THIS PLAY we just published a preview of! 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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Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · last wk.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.
We could spend all day telling you why COYOTE is worth supporting... but honestly, our subscribers already did the job. Scroll for the receipts: here’s what readers said in a recent audience survey! Then join the pack by 8/8 to snag $20 off a new annual subscription.
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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Thank you @coyotemedia.org & Nuala Bishari for keeping up with the plight of our heron rookery! 💘 "The kids who asked the city to make the herons the official bird should be able to grow up seeing them in the wilds of Oakland, not just on their library cards." www.coyotemedia.org/herons-or-ho...
Herons or Housing: The Battle Over a Vacant Lot
A large affordable housing development is slated for downtown Oakland. It could displace hundreds of black-crowned night herons, the city’s official bird.
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RIP Dick Vivian, one of a kind. anyone wanna share a record he recommended to you? Wanna pull together a little thing for @coyotemedia.org www.kqed.org/arts/1399204...
Dick Vivian, Rooky Ricardo’s Record Store Owner, Dies at 78 | KQED
The Lower Haight shop owner with a contagious love for music had been diagnosed with Stage 3 pancreatic cancer.
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