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dad about Berkeley. I complain and/or make dumb jokes about transit, housing, Bay Area politics, baseball, etc. Day job: engineer, Google. nanaze.github.io
Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
A literary magazine and review outlet for Salt Lake City. Launching Fall 2025.
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Book reviews from Orange County, California, and beyond. https://ocreviewofbooks.org/
A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Literary News from the Entertainment Capital of the World
the cleveland of reviews of books
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Journo. Oaklandside & Cityside, formerly Business Insider, Reveal, Type Investigations, The Nation.
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Reporter and Fact Checker
articles in Mother Jones and The Nation
email: eamonmwhalen@gmail.com
Freelance journalist, novelist, art lover.
flaming hydra // john.m.saward@gmail.com // ig: johnsaward
Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Coca-cola freestyle // the horniest bitch in heck // is not the house which is haunted but the society in which it lives
🇵🇸palestine will be free
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world’s leading transmasculine Sacramento Kings fan (he/they)
I enjoy telling stories and building things. Lately, I've built a couple of podcast + comic apps.
https://dmathewwws.com
Archivist/Librarian, erstwhile Arabist, cinephile, certified Voight-Kampff test administrator, Antipope of Antifa.
https://boxd.it/5QN63
Doha/NYC
Indie press publishing books on California culture, nature, Indigenous perspectives, and social justice | Publisher of News from Native California
Legal teaching fellow, former climate attorney, parent, technically a doctor (of jurisprudence & social policy).
https://cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/
Writer. Lugubrious malcontent. 📍Oakland, CA
Words in Nashville Review, Tulane Review, Ozone Park, jmww, Hot Metal Bridge, Alarmist, others.
Former editor @ PARAGRAPHITI, Notre Dame Review
she/her
nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Founder & Editor of @typebarmagazine.bsky.social
An interesting thing to read on the internet.
Buy my book. I’m at @hellgatenyc.com now.
They pay brisk money for this crap?
essays and recipes @ https://stone-soup.ghost.io/
Book hoarder. Oakland dweller. Transit user. Senior Reporter at Bloomberg covering Tesla and Elon Musk. Listen to our ELON INC podcast! Reach me on Signal 510-449-6359 or dhull12@bloomberg.net. Link to my work: https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASGzcek
I write books. www.elizabethrosner.com
(Third Ear; Survivor Cafe; Electric City; Gravity; Blue Nude; The Speed of Light)
"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
~Grace Paley
I'm a queer latina climate journalist covering environmental issues through the perspective of the oppressed. find my reporting in vox, curbed, yale climate connections, & more.
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bay area-based journo + image lover. contributing editor @xtramagazine.com, assistant digital editor + audience @msmagazine.com, words in them, Bitch, VICE, etc. ohaug.com cohaug1@gmail.com
Political theory — writing about the radical right, capitalism, ontemporary left-wing politics
Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. I teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Write books about Cold War culture and propaganda. Have written for the set of all publications that are not members of themselves
I write. A lot. About lots of things.
Author of What Haunts Me (April Gloaming) and The Scabbard of Her Throat (The Word Works).
Recent writing in @planthumanq.bsky.social, Gargoyle, Thimble Magazine, and elsewhere.
https://linktr.ee/bernadettegeyer
Writing things for COYOTE, NPR, GQ, The Guardian, SLAM, L.A. Times, The Believer, SFGATE, etc
Ⓐ☭ • rent abolition w/ https://baytanc.com/ & https://atun-rsia.org/ • movements + poetry + critique • use my name not pronouns • "there is no situation from which there is no way out" • https://jfprk.wordpress.com/
TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
Crow/loog that pecks @aspekt.gg very hard
18+
🐦 @crowfluff
🌎 SF Bay Area
👾 Infosec
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Historian. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
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Political philosophy and ethics. Currently working on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and problems of freedom & authenticity. I teach community college & you'll hear plenty about it.
Let me know how you are and how I can help.
https://www.ashokkarra.blog/
Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
early modernist and book historian, curious about shorthand, epigraphy, catalogs and other media. also sociology of cold war translations, history of media studies, … and Uwe Johnson.
Figuring out how to be at peace as our collective plane falls from the sky
📸 Artist, photo technician, tinkerer
www.bradwenner.com / follow.bradwenner.online
📍Oakland, CA
Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
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https://sambiddle.com
Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
https://sixteenrivers.org/
GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her
Artist, adjunct, art teacher, labor, socialist, star wars, reylo, AI hater, she/her
Had a mild stroke 2/12/2025. Excuse the brain fog. Check your BP ladies 🫀
(DNI: minors, fintech, traders, OF, antis, “refined gentlemen” pls do not follow)
NLP / CSS PhD at Berkeley I School. I develop computational methods to study culture as a social language.
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Daddo and married to @jenancona. Standing athwart history yelling, WTF. Research, writing, ads, and building processes for understanding and persuading across the Dem-left coalition. Subscribe now: chartingthewayforward.substack.com
Oh, Nina, what are you doing?
They/Them, residing on unceded Ohlone territory.
Worker-Owner at the Cohere Cooperative; stewarding OpaVote and Transparent Classroom.
Artisanal f-bomb purveyor. Founding Guard member. James Jesus Angleton's biggest hater. Louisiana born and bred, but Oakland for life.
he/him
📍Ballhalla ⚔️
🌉 No borders, no fences, no walls
Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Journalist, audio documentarian, writer. English professor at Dartmouth, working on a doc about the end of civil rights. Previously: NPR race and identity correspondent, “alarmingly divisive"
signal: sandhya_.96
Podcasts: On Our Watch, American Suburb.
Curious. Spouse. Parent. Jersey Girl in the #BayArea. #GoBirds 💚🦅
I help academics promote their books. 🧐📚🎤
Writer, editor, journalist. Book and nature lover. Author, CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY. Words in WaPo, TLS, NYT, LARB, CHE, EdSurge, etc. She/her.
Newsletter: https://jenniferhoward.substack.com/
Digital at UC Davis caring about food, labor, land, and equity. Multi-generation Texan keeping alive its socialist heritage. Played Moria on PLATO. Born in 319 ppm.
ATProto Community Fund; ATmosphereconf Coorganizer
DocumentCloud, Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member.
80s baby, she/her. Mostly here for TV/Movie/Book chat
Bay Area journalist, aspiring optimist.
@coyotemedia.org co-founder
@kqednews.kqed.org contributor
Artist in Oakland, CA
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Dad, but probably not your dad.
I write magazine articles and books about how systems affect people. I wrote Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.
Signal: @jetjocko.15
https://adam-rogers.net
former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
assoc prof at uic
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper
www.rahimkurwa.com
tacos en paz, burritos en guerra
NPR: “a little bit of a burrito thought leader”
senior member of TAPBL (The All Powerful Bike Lobby)
Elbows Up
Journalism for Oakland. We amplify community voices, share information resources, and investigate systems, not just symptoms. A nonprofit newsroom part of Cityside Journalism Initiative.
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I'm Karma: Word wrangler, spin doctor, agitator. I'm all about books, street art, politics, writing, web design & your new favorite band. Mod for San Francisco Writers Conference Discord, web mistress cwc-berkeley.org. Writing a memoir, like everyone else.
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A little bit hooman and a little bit fae 🧚♀️
Queer, adoptee, hairstylist, service dog mom/handler, plant mom, neurodivergent, disabled, weirdo, just wanting a bit more love in the world and to talk to people who agree.
San Francisco Chronicle culture critic. Spends too much time in the archive. Total SF co-founder. S.F. 🌁 Oakland 🌳 Alameda ⚓️
Environmental studies + urban ag at University of San Francisco; The farm at Black Mountain College; seed libraries + food pantries
I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics.
Preservation, art, old tech.
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Something beautiful is going to happen.
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Writing: antientro.pics
Patreon: www.patreon.com/caraesten
Soul adrift on the internet, occasionally making some radio.
maya (she/her) / independent women's basketball writer I subscribe to my newsletter/blog WNBA ROUGH NOTES https://wnbaroughnotes.substack.com/ I i love queer community, adventures & audio I between oakland & chicago I reach me: m.goldbergsafir@gmail.com <3
Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point
SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
Tan hermosa la vida y tan pendeja la gente 🇵🇪 Award-Winning “San Francisco SFGATE Guy”
Tips: gabe.fernandez@sfgate.com
Signal: gabefernandez.95
he/him
Oakland, Milwaukee, Architecture, Urban Design, Politics, Music, Football
Director of dramaturgy & new works @ American Conservatory Theater. Co-founder thekilroys.org. Dorkily earnest about multiracial democracy, well-designed public spaces, & the civic function of art. Oakland grown.
Oakland transplant from Seattle & Kentucky
Cities, gardens, pianos, good food
Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
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