#people of oakland

[mx-misty-eyed]

I WAS SO CLOSE

[petspeopletogether]

Dog and cat food needed in Oakland, CA, for a community pet pantry. Drop off or ship to the address in the graphic!

From Oakland Animal Services: Do you have leftover bags or cans of pet food or know someone who does? OAS is out of cat food and dog food for our community pantry and would love to take any pet food (dry, wet, opened bags, etc) you’d like to donate.

Donations can be dropped off any time during business hours, 11am to 5pm, 7 days a week, or shipped to the address in the graphic. Thank you for your help!

[lorainefaith]

Hey y’all ❤️ come hang out with me on October 8th at the Trapxart 10 year celebration of showcasing young black artists across the country. Located at Emporium in SF, Use my promo code: “Buji” to get $5 off your ticket 🫶🏾

616 Divisadero St

San Francisco, CA 94117

[absolutebl]

Queer babies, we got ourselves a dairy product. 

Next up: 

Nordstrom to import Thai engineering smocks, brand them as “chaos bi shirts.” 

Article here. 

All about Pink Milk here. 

[bunnakit]

it's a bad day to be my friend

[the-dirt-eater]

SCREECH i got a floor ticket for the oakland show but i’m SCARED bc i don’t have a friend going with me and i’ve never been in a pit before. are any of yall going to oakland and could we be friends. please. i promise i’m only a little bit cringe

[roseworth]

my anxiety is at war with my desire to see willow in concert. i want to see her so bad but is it bad enough to go Alone to a concert in la….

[trecoolsdick]

NEW SINGLE NEW ALBUM NEW SINGLE NEW ALBUM NEW SINGLE NEW ALBUM NEW SINGLE NEW ALBUM NEW SINGLE NEW ALBUM NEW SINGLE NEW ALBUM NEW SINGLE NEW ALBUM

[warhead]

[fieriframes]

[When people started to realize how good her food was, how authentic it was, she really filled this place up. A revival happened, which was great. What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness? We're doing Oakland Mexican food.]

[therobishow]

I fucking hate true crime so fucking much

Scrolling reddit and this bullshit showed up in my feed.

If I had a penny for every time I saw a true crime fan act like these real events, real actual tragedies, are just some fun little story....I'd be one of the richest fuckers in the world.

I don't know if there's an actual term for this. An actual term for when people become incapable of processing reality as anything other than media to be consumed. The only thing I can think to call it is media poisoning.

JonBenet Ramsey isn't a real person anymore, her family aren't real people, the victims of Oakland County aren't real people and neither are their families. They're just characters. What happened to them isn't real, the tragedy, the pain, the death, the soul-shattering grief....it's not real, it's just a story.

If they were real, you couldn't make posts like that. You couldn't have a podcast called My Favorite Murder. You couldn't have people dressing themselves or their kids up as serial killers for Halloween. You couldn't have a wildly successful youtube series casually discussing murders while putting on makeup or doing mukbangs.

So they can't be real. They have to be media that you consume. And that's all they get to be. A product.

[soupkiddo]

love how my mom heard that I was moving to Oakland to live with a group of close friends and immediately starting going on about the crime rates, but had no problem with me moving ON MY OWN to the STABBING CAPITAL OF CANADA with literally NO FRIENDS OR PERSONAL CONNECTIONS TO SPEAK OF

[rotationalsymmetry]

I don’t know if this is what you are looking for exactly, but I enjoy writing for Postcards to Voters because they focus on non-presidential races. I am currently writing postcards against an anti-choice constitutional amendment proposition in Ohio.

I wish more people would do things like that, instead of making posts that guilt trip people for not being excited enough about voting for the Blue sexual harasser instead of the Red one.

Thank you for your highly sensible response.

I guess there's a thing where "just because someone takes 15 seconds to shoot their mouth off online about something that's annoying them doesn't mean they have the time/energy to do anything actually constructive, even more so for the people who took .5 seconds to hit reblog now on someone else's shooting their mouth of post" but I think it would be strictly better for people to spend that .5 second exerting a smidgen of self control and going "either it's actual GOTV or it's not, and if it's not I'm going to not reblog it."

And as the election is over a year away...I don't think "vote blue no matter who" is actually a Get Out The Vote action at this point in time. It's annoying enough when people do it in person but at least then there's occasionally some chance of having a reasonable discussion about it, but on social media between people who don't really know each other? Ha snowball's chance in hell.

(I haven't done Postcards to Voters the last couple years, but I did around 2019-2020 or so and they are fairly low barrier to entry as long as you have stamp money, super introvert friendly, you can be as creative or non-creative as you want to be, and as you can do it from your home on your own schedule pretty darn spoonie friendly as well. As well as covid-safe. And yes, there's a big focus on local/state campaigns, which warms my participatory democracy loving little heart.) (ughh sounds like an important campaign maybe I should pick this thing up again.)

[blackpantherblog]

This is my list posted on TikTok. Please check it out.

[re-decorate]

mmmm im more scared about this alt j concert than i realized :(