Sasha Perigo

@[email protected]
1.6K Followers
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Writer and organizer based in San Francisco.

Current Strategic Communications Manager at East Bay Housing Organizations.

Former Housing Columnist at the SF Examiner, DSA SF Homelessness Working Group Co-Chair.

Posts about #housing, #socialism, #sfpolitics, and my #cat.

I use hashtags #SFPol, #OakPol, #SFBAPol to discuss Bay Area politics.

Pronounsshe/her
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Find Me Onlinehttps://linktr.ee/sashaperigo
Sasha PerigoJan 8, 2023

Does anyone have a recommendation of a good brochure of backyard birds in Northern California?

@bradyhirsch and I want to start identifying the birds that visit our tree!

Sasha PerigoDec 23, 2022
Show threadmekka okereke Dec 22, 2022

A lot of white Americans don't value bail reform, because they can't conceive of themselves being charged with a crime they didn't do, when there is literally zero evidence. That seems like a vanishingly rare occurrence.

A lot of Black Americans do support bail reform, because they know that being falsely accused of a crime is a very real possibility for them. Happens a lot.

Both groups of people are correct in their risk assessment. 🙂🙃

Sasha PerigoDec 22, 2022
Pet peeve: I don’t mind when people cross post from Twitter onto Mastodon, but retweets that start with “RT [email protected]” irk me.
Show threadSasha PerigoDec 22, 2022

One of the things I've been struggling with as I get used to Mastodon is finding people to talk to. Posting into the void is way less fun than having actual discussions with active users who share my interests.

Everyone on this list is an active user whose content I enjoy!

Sasha PerigoDec 22, 2022

#FollowFriday*

On sfba.social:
@idamoj
@Akrazia
@NualaBishari
@natogreen
@MLNow
@IndivisibleSF
@maddy
@alfredtwu
@kingrat
@jachristian
@RebeccaP

Elsewhere in the fediverse:
@AlxLndOMountain
@scott
@AlisonB916
@uhshanti
@Maggiemayhem @fadersolo
@theneurotrust
@jalcine
@MBridegam
@kyle

*I know it's not Friday, but I'm in the mood to build community!

Sasha PerigoDec 22, 2022
Jessica ChristianDec 21, 2022

I give you Benji the Bengal in all his glory 🐯

#cats #catsofmastodon #bengal

Sasha PerigoDec 22, 2022
Dean PrestonDec 21, 2022
“San Francisco will kick off 2023 by removing hundreds of parking spaces across the city that obstruct riders from boarding Muni buses”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-will-remove-parking-spaces-obstructing-Muni-17667831.php
S.F. will remove parking spaces obstructing Muni bus stops sooner than expected. Here’s when it will start

About one-third of the city’s Muni bus stops will be affected by this plan

San Francisco Chronicle
Sasha PerigoDec 22, 2022
Darius KazemiDec 21, 2022

Really useful legal guide from the folks at the EFF for people running fediverse servers:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

(disclosure: I advised them on this work a bit)

User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer

A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. (See more about this movement and joining...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Sasha PerigoDec 21, 2022
glengarry girl bossDec 21, 2022
Raquel Rolnik's Urban Warfare elegantly frames mortgage-backed homeownership system as a global phenomenon creating "an intimate link between individuals' biological lives and the global process of income extraction and speculation." US housing thinkpiece discourse is totally bereft of this kind of analysis; it's like every American urbanist has memory-holed 2008
Sasha PerigoDec 21, 2022

Hashtags are important on Mastodon because there’s no text search. In order to find other people’s posts on a subject, you have to search for hashtags.

Still, coming from Twitter, I feel like such a nerd ending my posts with 10 tags! 😂