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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 45m

Prospective journalists, take the IU Media School off your list. They’ve failed the most basic lesson pretty thoroughly.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 1h

A story in three parts

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 1d

They’d been very hard nuts to crack! Thank you so much!

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 1d

In time!

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 1d

My copy of the circus poster. I love it so much. RIP Drew Struzan.

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 We're marching to a faster pace/ Look out, here comes the master race! 🎶

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 1d

Oof. Sorry about that. Would hate to lose your efforts. The zoomable map is so great!

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 1d

All good questions!

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 1d

We work at the level of star systems, not individual planets or features within those systems, and use the name we think would be most commonly used. E’ronoh is listed under Eiram — this is, admittedly, a tricky one. Tanalorr and the Koboh Abyss are both within the Koboh system.

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 2d

Some #StarWars galaxy map notes and overdue thank yous!

Star Wars Galaxy Map Update

Overdue thanks to some cartographic heroes!

jasonfry.substack.com

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 2d

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 2d

From MLB Gameday: "Dodgers challenged (force play), call on the field was upheld: Max Muncy grounds into a double play, center fielder Sal Frelick to shortstop Joey Ortiz to catcher William Contreras. Teoscar Hernández out at home. Will Smith out at 3rd. 3 outs"

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 5d

I was in Aroostook for approximately three minutes. It counts! NY is a big one, congrats! Still missing a lot of my home state.

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 5d

Four hours of driving (amid gorgeous fall colors!) and I’ve now been to every county in Maine. The overall county numbers are still in aspirational territory though.

I’ve been to 965 out of 3144 US counties, or 30.7%.

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 6d

“HARRISON BADER IS COCK OF NOTHING!!!”

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 6d

Feel for Kerkering, disliked uniform and all. Hope he’ll be OK.

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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 6d

So MLB has no fake runner in extra innings in the postseason because they know, at least on some level, that it’s stupid and makes a mockery of the game…

…nah, I got nothing.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 6d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, I know that everything is terrible right now, but I also have to make money, so I'm going to tell you that A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe is on SUPER SALE this month! Just $1.99!

Amazon:
www.amazon.com/Ship-Edge-Un...

Bookshop (Buy indie!):
bookshop.org/p/books/a-bi...

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers Book 1)

A washed-up treasure hunter, a hotshot racer, and a deadly secret society. They're all on a race against time to hunt down the greatest warship ever built. Some think the ship is lost forever, some t...

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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · 7d

BROADCASTER: [Voice shaking] They killed him. The Phillies killed Clayton Kershaw. All he's got now is his ring, millions of dollars, and some personal beliefs no one wants to talk about. Oh god the Phanatic is unhinging his snoot and devouring him like a boa. Why is he even here