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technical writer ✨ creative nonfiction mfa ✨ oakland art murmur board of directors ✨ sign up for generative prompts and online art salons: artistmutualaid.org 🩷💛💙🧜🏻 born and raised on Ohlone Land 🌞🌳 Oakland, California
California's already poor snowpack is going to further shrink in the coming week as an unprecedented heat wave strikes the state.
Remember how to use #water carefully.
#climatechange
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Remarkable how Europe is ahead in the movement to #regulateAI. See AI Safety expert #RomanYampolskiy and @emollick.bsky.social testify to the Human Rights Committee of the UK Parliament:
youtu.be/7R1T80zv27Q?...
This is the beautiful thing about history. We are never alone, because whatever horrors or sadnesses or joys we feel are shared with countless other people across time.
P.P.S. Insider info: When proposing, be sure to make the case for your art piece's weather resistance 😅
P.S. The Public Art Commission of Truckee processes RFPs in coordination with Town of Truckee government officials. Truly a wonderful partnership. I know as I served PACT as its Arts Advocate!
Blue skies laced with clouds and streaked with jet pathways hover over a roundabout adjacent to Interstate 80.
#Callforartists to install a public art piece in #Truckee, #California. Bay Area folx, you drive past this prominent roundabout while passing through this Sierra Nevada gateway—a juncture connecting the town with Donner Lake and a state park!
Apply before 4/24: www.townoftruckee.gov/Bids.aspx?Bi...
#Oakland female athletes keep on winning:
“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”
Meanwhile in the Sierra Nevada snowpack remains below average at 66 percent.
“Publishers will also launch an AI licensing initiative at the London book fair. Publishers’ Licensing Services, a non-profit industry body, is setting up a collective licensing scheme and has invited the sector to sign up to it in the expectation it will give legal access to published works.” 👀
About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed….at the London book fair… before the UK government is due to issue an assessment on the economic cost of proposed changes in copyright law.
Iran is bombing Gulf datacenters to blow up symbols of alliance with the US – bringing the war directly into the lives of millions of people
He used to be my rep! Fake
Two female-presenting people stand next to one another, smiling, in front of framed artworks.
Oakland Art Murmur invites visual artists to #EastBayOpenStudios for Summer 2026! Participants gain access to artist workshops, name placement on marketing materials, a profile on the event website, and invites to mixers!
Register by this Friday, Mar. 13: www.eastbayopenstudios.com/registration...
ICE deported a Hayward family to Colombia, including a six year old deaf boy without his hearing.
@ericswalwell.bsky.social sent staff to Colombia with hearing aids for the boy, and they're working to find a way to bring the family back under humanitarian parole.
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/h...
*painting by Erik Holland
Low-level purple mountains and a ruddy desert appear just over a setting sun and below a sweeping cloud scape of orange, pink, and purple.
Flash Salon TODAY at 5 PM PST ✨ Subscribe for your Signal link to a generative art session:
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“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯
- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
*An historical journey
Congratulations to BOD wimmin for their NorCal title ⚽️ still have my varsity letter 🅾️
As my grandmother once said, I KNEW IT
It's International Women's Day! :)
For International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting the contributions of just a few recent EFF Award recipients: Carolina Botero, Annie Game, and Chelsea Manning. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
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P.S. As in: Why launch a book tour when democracy hangs in the balance? Why utilize a funeral to platform your next presidential campaign?
I meant Kamala
Hello, want me to help you write and publish a book? I currently have a limited number of spaces available for a yearlong one-on-one book mentorship program www.summer-brennan.com/store/one-on...
