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Kar Johnson

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They/them. Writer. Bookseller. Events for Green Apple Books in SF. Oakland-based. Do no harm, take no shit.

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Whenever I hear Paris Hilton’s “Stars Are Blind” in public I usually know I’m with queer people and thus with the right people

29.09.2025 04:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Summer Books You Can't Miss This Year! | KQED Forum
Summer Books You Can't Miss This Year! | KQED Forum YouTube video by KQED News

☀️ 📚 Need summer book recommendations?

We talked w/ SF booksellers (@karjohnson.bsky.social, @greenapplebooks.bsky.social & Camden Avery, @booksmith.bsky.social) and author @thebestjasmine.bsky.social about what they've read recently and what they recommend.

Watch the full interview now on YouTube.

27.07.2025 17:49 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

I’m so glad it’s Oasis summer. Just having a musical obsession has activated some untapped joy in me and kept me out of trouble.

18.07.2025 02:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mumia Abu-Jamal on Trump's America: 'All Is Not Well in Babylon' Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of a Philadelphia cop, and his freedom was long a prominent cause.

Sharing as wide as I can
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

07.07.2025 20:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What’s on Your Summer Reading List? KQED's Forum · Episode

🎧 Listen to the podcast!

@thebestjasmine.bsky.social, Camden Avery from @booksmith.bsky.social and @karjohnson.bsky.social from @greenapplebooks.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the latest book trends and their recommendations for summer reads. #booksky

🔗: buff.ly/gKSVaK0

28.06.2025 00:00 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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New and Upcoming Book Releases for Your Summer Reading List | KQED Authors from the Bay Area and beyond deliver these summertime page-turners and Bay Area readings.

FRI at 9AM:

@thebestjasmine.bsky.social, Camden Avery from @booksmith.bsky.social and @karjohnson.bsky.social from @greenapplebooks.bsky.social join to talk about what to read this summer.

❓ What's on your summer reading list?

27.06.2025 01:00 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Completely wonderful

07.06.2025 00:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am dying to play Rue McClanahan on Snatch Game.

29.05.2025 19:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I counted eight billboards advertising AI on the way into the City. The billboards on the bridge have kind of always been a harbinger of who the City is choosing to cater to, but this just seems ridiculous.

28.05.2025 19:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just a reminder that when a world leader is good at their job they’re not in the news every day.

19.04.2025 06:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We sell disposable cameras at the store and a very nice young person bought one today and said “I’ve never used one of these before!” at which I smiled and imagined the time-lapse decomposition of my body

27.03.2025 07:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I…I…what

27.03.2025 07:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t let Teslas merge.

27.03.2025 07:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*Groan*

27.03.2025 07:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love walking through First Fridays about two cocktails deep and taking everything in.

08.03.2025 04:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“I didn’t do it.”—both Bart and O.J. Simpson

06.03.2025 22:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

22.02.2025 17:33 👍 1408 🔁 662 💬 433 📌 725

It’s a good day to punch a Nazi.

22.01.2025 18:53 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Doesn’t he know comedians are notoriously broke? Elon, if you’re serious about your craft, we can make this happen…

22.02.2025 03:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The man is a billionaire and all he wants to be is a stand-up comedian. He can buy everything except a sense of humor. It is almost a funny movie premise but it’s real and most certainly not funny.

22.02.2025 03:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

21.02.2025 04:57 👍 4177 🔁 1096 💬 30 📌 6

hi 👋🏻 seasoned book publicist here 🤓 a small tip for bookstore events 📚 authors hate it when you ask them dumb questions (where do you get your ideas) but they love it when you ask them smart questions (do you write your book hotdog or hamburger style)

19.02.2025 21:58 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

We’ll have a kiki, if you will

20.02.2025 03:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My spouse and I don’t track one another’s location but we can see what we’re up to based on our Letterboxd activity.

16.02.2025 02:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I Vow, from This Day Forward, to Watch Every Episode of Freaks and Geeks with You My love, you have been my faithful partner in watching shows on streaming services. Every day, I fall more in love with joining you to watch these ...

"With this remote, which I’m holding for now but, of course, can pass back and forth between us, I promise to cue up episodes of Freaks and Geeks only when we are together after we have finished a hearty pasta salad and are ready to sit and digest."

13.02.2025 16:18 👍 33 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

Pretty fuckin spineless of Google to just bend to a fascist will so quickly. Y’all know you’re more powerful than that right? Guess not

13.02.2025 20:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What do I dream about? Immediate karmic retribution for all racists.

12.02.2025 04:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Musk Anti-Government Blitz Shakes Washington; Elon Musk’s overhaul, swift and largely unchecked, is an extraordinary display of one citizen’s power over government business that critics say may breach the law

Musk Anti-Government Blitz Shakes Washington; Elon Musk’s overhaul, swift and largely unchecked, is an extraordinary display of one citizen’s power over government business that critics say may breach the law

I know complaining about NYT headlines is old hat, but this is
NUTS to me – every word choice glamorizes him as an exciting provocative badass, instead of focusing on the danger and illegality of what’s happening

04.02.2025 13:49 👍 3711 🔁 696 💬 163 📌 91