Mx. Riley

@riley.pub

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Soft creature, wild philosopher, and booster for the commons 🌱 Tech, media, libraries, urbanism, and civics. @igalia.com @openchapters.net @petalumapride.org @northbaypython.org formerly @matrix.org @opensource.org @opensource.google she/ella 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦓 ♾️ 9a

A photo of Robin sitting the garden, flanked by large flowering plants and a leafy tree. The entrance to the library can be seen behind her as well as a bright blue sky with patchy clouds.
A photo of Robin and Christopher's wedding bands resting on one another, between white orchid petals, atop their wedding guestbook which features a map of the world with the continents in white against a deep blue.
A photo of Pico-cat gazing at a caterpillar traversing blades of fescue.
A selfie of Robin in her backyard under the trees on a sunny spring day. Her hair is down and low key wavy, with some curls where it reaches her shoulders. She's wearing a black long sleeve t-shirt with a low neckline under a shirt dress with the top parted like a vest. The pattern on the dress is a geometric starburst pattern in blue, white, black, and teal. Robin's wearing large silver starburst earrings, black wooden rectangular glasses, and a silver necklace with a tiny silver bird inset with blue opal. All in all, a pretty cute ensemble.
A photo of Robin and Pico-cat sitting in the backyard on a sunny day on a bench under the trees. Pico is curled up contentedly on Robin's lap with his eyes closed as she smiles at the camera.
A selfie of Robin from her room — the background, full of oak cabinetry and a bay window with a giant star hanging in it, is slightly blurred. Robin is center frame and looking at the camera with a slight smile, her dirty blonde hair pulled up into a ponytail with a fringe hanging down the left side of her face. She's wearing a brown short sleeve button up with the top buttons undone, revealing a sterling silver necklace with a bird pendant insert with a blue opal, along with her black rectangular wooden frame glasses, and earrings each with a single dangling forest green blossom crafted out of a soft material.
A photo of health department officials, the library's deputy director, the mayor, and the supervisor as the ribbon is cut to celebrate the new machine.
A terrain map of south Sonoma County with a flight path overlaid on top showing Robin taking off and landing at Petaluma airport, making various maneuvers over the Sonoma Valley in between.
A plaque embedded in the sidewalk pavement near Hobart, Tasmania's Salamanca Market. Not pictured is the first line that reads: forgive me for not holding you in my arms. Pictured is the second line that reads: in the wake of your courage I swim.
A selfie of Ted and Robin inside Paulista Cafe smiling and throwing peace signs in the spirit of hating on bad things productively, or something.
A photo of Robin in front of the City Hall sign.
A selfie of Robin atop a grassy hill looking over the Petaluma wetlands and some ponds. A tree, fully leafed out, is just behind and above Robin. Robin's got her hair up in a ponytail with a fringe coming down the right side of her face. She's wearing rectangular glasses with a black wooden frame, earrings each with a forest green flower blossom hanging from them, and her silver necklace with the tree of life pendant fashioned out of silver wire and light green gemstones. She's wearing a green long sleeve button up shirt under a goldenrod puffer vest. Robin has done an exceptional job of coordinating this outfit.
A selfie of Robin standing at the edge of a large open air barn window overlooking a horse paddock and rolling green hills. Robin is wearing Python-logo earrings, rectangular glasses with thick black wooden frame, a cream-colored thermal, and a raptor brown puffer vest. Her hair is done up in a sloppy bun befitting the casual setting.
A photo of the Petaluma Pride marching contingent, about 15 people, posing behind their colorful banner featuring their logo, a black and white illustrated rooster with its tail feathers in the colors of the Progress Pride flag.
A photo of the soccer field at sunset.
A screenshot of California 2026 gubernatorial poll results from Emerson College Polling showing changes from September to April in poll results for Hilton R, Bianco R, Steyer D, Porter D, Becerra D, and Mahan D. Every Democratic candidate saw a surge as Swalwell supporters defected, but while most saw gains of 2-3% points, Becerra gained 7%.
A photo of the Sonoma County Library budget workshop binder on a desk, facing toward a window looking into a small garden, alongside Robin's purple water bottle and a happy ficus.
A photo of a large barn flanked by rolling green hills on a bright spring morning.
A selfie of Robin with a slight smile gazing at the camera on a spring day. Behind her are a leafy liquidambar tree and a silver maple that hasn't leafed out yet, standing tall in front of patchy clouds broken up with little bits of blue sky. Robin has her hair pulled back into a ponytail, and is wearing a dark gray turtleneck under a black Bay FC vest with orange accents. She's wearing her glasses with thick black wooden frames, a pair of bone conducting headphones, and sterling silver earrings in the shape of little birds with green gemstones, with her silver tree of life necklace draped around her neck.
A sample STAR ballot showing each candidate with a rating from 0 (worst) to 5 (best).
A screenshot of the GoFundMe app fundraiser dashboard showing the status of Robin's fundraiser. It reads: Becoming Robin: donate for gender affirming care and surgery. Of note $8008 has been raised out of the current $11K goal. If you've ever been an adolescent playing with calculators, you'll appreciate the significance of 8008.
A photo of Robin, Chris, Paloma, and Amy sitting together in the stands at the stadium. The smiles are contagious, be careful!
A photo of Robin, Shayna, Alexis, Bri, and Jacky standing together all done up in their Bay FC gear. Robin's donned a Free DC t-shirt while wearing a Trans People Belong In Sports flag as a cape.
A short video of Bay FC and Washington Spirit playing at PayPal Park in San Jose. A small jet can enters right of frame behind the score board as it comes in for a landing.
A digital flyer with a photo of Robin that reads: Becoming Robin, donate for gender affirming care and surgery. Organized by Robin Riley. $3,500 to goal. Donate now!
A photo of Robin crouching next to Pico-cat, who is lounging on the doormat in front of the sliding glass door. Christopher can be seen in the reflection on the door, he's leaning on the railing, looking back at the camera and waving.
A photo of Robin outside the State of California Justice Joseph A Rattigan building in Santa Rosa on a sunny spring day.
A screenshot of an excerpt of Rebecca's post. It reads: He cites among their results, "At the People’s March in January 2025, 10% of participants said they heard about the event through an organization. Yesterday, that number was 34%. Word-of-mouth from family and friends, historically the most common channel for protests, dropped from 48% to 38%. Robin has highlighted this passage from Rebecca: People are no longer being summoned by just outrage. They are being mobilized by infrastructure, which now likely includes their friends and family. This is the difference between a movement that surges and a movement that can win. Robin's highlight ends there, but the excerpt continues: 47% of DC marchers reported being members of a group, including groups that organized the event. 27% were members of FreeDC, the local organizer. 10% were Indivisible.... What you are watching is the conversion of protest attendance into activism. The people who showed up on Saturday were not taking a day off from normal life to register their feelings. They were the most civically active slice of the electorate, and they are getting more active.
A photo of three yard signs in a thicket of golden California poppies and yellow phlomis fruticosa. One sign says Democrat Jackie Elward for State Assembly and is adorned with poppy artwork. Another sign says Vote Joanna Paun Democrat for Sonoma County Supervisor and is adorned with blue and green rolling hills and trees. The third sign is bright yellow with orange text that says Slow The Fast Down! In the background is a ginormous black SUV that belongs to the neighbors. Robin does not endorse ginormous SUVs.
A chart showing a circular pattern that many countries follow. A number of flags are placed along the various stages. The stages are: uninspiring centrist refuses to tackle underlying social problems that led to the rise of the far-right. Then, stagnating living standard creates fertile ground for fascism, far-right win elections. Then, far-right drives economy off a cliff, lowers standards of public life and generally makes everything objectively worse. Then, uninspiring centrist defeats far-right with a promise of change.
A photo looking up at Pico-cat, a floofy tuxedo cat, resting contentedly with his eyes closed under the summer sun light filtered through the verdant leaves of the silver maple and liquidambar trees. The sun throws a lens flare across the frame.
A photo of Pico-cat, a floofy tuxedo cat, curled up in a small square wooden planter full of catnip. His floofy tail spills over the edge of the planter toward the camera, and the perspective makes it look disproportionately huge.
A photo of a diverse group of volunteers, all members of the Sonoma County DSA chapter, gathered with their clipboards posing together in a driveway, in front of some happy manzanita trees. Robin is among them, holding the evening's host — Pico-cat, a fluffy tuxedo cat.
A screenshot of a post by @jadehopepunk@hachyderm.io, which is quoting Robin's looking for work post on fedi. Jade's toot reads: @robin did a great job of introducing a lot of clarity and democratic process to the Matrix foundation. If you're hiring a deeply technical organiser, you should reach out to her
A photo of a fully subscribed bike rack outside the library, as well as a few bikes creatively stored beyond the bike rack.
A photo of a dark room full of people watching the screening of Stripped for Parts being projected. On screen, two of the women behind The Pilot Newspaper are seen at a desk speaking to each other.
A digital countdown clock reads: 200 days. There are other details on it but those are irrelevant.
A photo of Suzanne Ford, a tall and fabulous trans woman, speaking at the microphone, surrounded by the instruments of the band that was going to perform later in the evening. Behind Suzanne an array of pride flags are hanging from the banisters.
A photo of Pico-cat, a floofy tuxedo cat, resting in a small wooden planter next to another planter that's brimming with cat nip.
A group selfie with Robin, Chris, Amy, Zahyra, and Alex in the stands of the supporters section at the Bay FC match.
A video of the jumbotron showing a pika on a rock, with a Bay FC flag in the background, shouting it out — made to look like it's leading the crowd in the call and response.
A photo of a meeting room chock full of people.
A photo of Robin and Barbara together in front of the Rohnert Park-Cotati Library.
A photo of Robin on a bright spring morning, she's wearing a gray turtleneck under a raptor brown vest, eyeglasses with a thick blue metal frame, a silver necklace with a light green tree of life pendant, a black cross-body sling. She's smiling wryly with one raised eyebrow, and her hair is down to her neck, parted just off center, with one side revealing a giant silver starburst earring. The backdrop is breathtakingly beautiful – the sky is bright blue, and the lush green rolling hills of the Petaluma countryside fill the lower half of the camera frame.
A photo of Robin, a new library commissioner, and Lisa, the commission assistant, signing the oath of office. The photo is overlaid with this quotation from Robin: "Libraries represent so much of what is right in the world at a time when it's hard not to be scared or overwhelmed by all that's wrong. They are a material commitment we make to each other, to inform, connect, inspire, and help us grow into our best selves – at every stage of life."
A photo of Robin on a sunny spring day. She's looking at the camera with a contented smile and has her hair up in a pony tail with a wisp of hair hanging down the side of her face, wearing eyeglasses with a chonky dark blue frame, silver bird-shaped studs inset with blue opal, a silver necklace with a tree of life pendant, and a light blue button up short sleeve shirt. The sky is clear and bright blue in the background, with leafy green trees filling the bottom half of the frame and the as-yet-unleafed branches of mature silver maple and liquidambar trees winding through to the top of the frame. Robin is exceptionally cute.
A photo of Pico-cat, a distinguished old fluffy tuxedo cat, lounging all blissed out on a redwood deck on a sunny spring day.
A screenshot of the Google Open Sourced profile on Bluesky. The bio reads: "Announcing new open source releases, exploring projects, sharing how we approach FOSS, and supporting communities around the world."
A photo of a floofy tuxedo cat with his face buried in the foliage of a cat nip bush.
A digital flyer reading: Stop Surveillance in Petaluma. Join community activists at the Petaluma Public Safety Advisory Committee meeting. We need to take the cameras down and fight for transparency! Wednesday, February 25th at 6pm. A URL is included, which Robin includes in her main post.
A photo of Robin in a safety harness and wearing hearing protection on top of her roof. Sonoma Mountain rises from the horizon in the distance.
A highly zoomed in photo, framed by the top of Robin's monitor and her webcam, revealing an American Robin perched on a sweetgum tree.
Single frame comic featuring the Sickos Guy at the window saying, "Yes... ha ha ha... yes!"
A photo of the Air Lab device alongside the box, quick start guide, and a couple of cards with more product information.
A screenshot of Robin's Firefox browser address bar in search mode. The search begins with "how to keep squirrels out of" with the option "how to keep squirrels out of bird feeders" highlighted. Other options include how to keep squirrels out of garden, potted plants, fruit trees, attic, and your yard.
A screenshot from the city website which reads: Recruitment to Fill Vacancies - NOW OPEN There will be a recruitment to fill current vacancies from Monday, January 19, 2026 at 8:00am to Thursday, February 19, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. The City Council will review applications and make appointments at the City Council Regular Meeting on Monday, March 2, 2026. CURRENT VACANCIES Climate Action Commission 1 Regular Member for vacated term expiring 6/30/2026 1 Regular Member for vacated term expiring 6/30/2027 Historic and Cultural Preservation Committee 1 Regular Member for vacated term expiring 6/30/2028 Public Safety Advisory Committee 1 Regular Member for vacated term expiring 6/30/2026 Senior Advisory Committee 1 Regular Member for vacated term expiring 6/30/2027 Sonoma County Library Commission 1 Regular Member for vacated term expiring 6/30/2026 To apply, please select your preferred CCB from the list below, then click the "Apply for membership" button the right side of the screen. Please contact the City Clerk's Office if you have any questions: 707-778-4360 or cityclerk@cityofpetaluma.org.
A floofy black leg, belonging to Pico-cat, with a white sock-like paw rests on a wooden deck in the sun.
A screenshot of a table from the Legiscan website showing listings for California bills SB747 and AB1627. The first bill makes it easier to use federal officials, and the second bars ICE from becoming certain kinds of public employees.
A digital flyer featuring fluffy clouds, Karl the Fog, and the Golden Gate Bridge. The flyer reads: ICE out of the bay, attributed to @megemikoart. Report ICE activity North Bay (Sonoma, Napa, Solano counties) 707-800-4544 Marin County 415-991-4545 San Francisco 415-200-1548 Contra Costa County 925-900-5151 Alameda County 510-241-4011 San Mateo County 203-666-4472 Santa Clara County 408-290-1144
A digital flyer that reads: Curious about Flock surveillance? Got something to say? Go to the Petaluma Public Safety Advisory Committee meeting! Wednesday 1/28 6:00pm. Email public comments to irenenger@cityofpetaluma.org with the subject line "Public Comment" by 4:00pm on 1/28. Attend and comment in person at the City Council Chambers, 11 English St., Petaluma.