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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · Sep 9

today @prismreports.org is launching its partnership with Visualizing Palestine, featuring this reporting on media bias from the incredible Laura Albast. i'm proud as hell of prism's work every day, but i'm especially proud of this; please give it a read. prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt

A Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023

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lenora frigid @lenorajoon.bsky.social · 2h

she also does not seem to know how to use "beef"

"so absurd. A current beef against Weiss is that she'll fail because she lacks broadcast experience. The beef against Weiss when she left the Times was that she would sink into obscurity. And the beef against her when she started to become successful was that she was selling out. If there's one person in the world I wouldn't bet against now, it's Bari Weiss."

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

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Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2h

I don’t think it’s good that we have an entire class of media elites who believe that people getting mad at them means they’re doing a good job, but identifying that makes me wonder if it’s actually better to not get mad at them and deprive them of what they want.

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 2d

and if you find one that's struck a window or is knocked out on the ground in nyc take it to the wild bird fund even if it's waking up and looks to be recovering; they can have serious internal injuries that might kill them later without help

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Location and Hours - Wild Bird Fund

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 2d

for the love of little yellow sapsuckers, if you live in a condo with big windows put stickers on the biggest panes so birds don't go crashing into them

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 2d

did not expect to be escorting a concussed sapsucker to the upper west side today but tis the season for finding stunned birds on the sidewalk and schlepping them up to wild bird fund (migration season)

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trickyNOtreat 🎃 @trickykat.bsky.social · 2d

real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Aug 3

Jazz haters suck

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 2d

Ms. Rachel taking up Mr. Roger’s mantle.

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 2d

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

While researching my novel 1983, which is based on the Nottinghamshire mining village where I grew up, I had a weird memory of a man who used to take his cow for a walk around the village, like it was a dog.

"Have I made that up?" I wondered.

So I checked my mum and dad's old photos.

I hadn't.

A man walking a cow through the Nottinghamshire countryside in the early 80s (this is also known as "grazing the long acre").

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 2d

W O W that’s good advice.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

‘dear rax, how can i make sure i’m ready for the day my very sick mother dies?’
www.patreon.com/posts/140925...

Your question was whether there's a way to prepare for your mother's death, not whether there's a way to worry less about it, and I'll take a stab at answering that question using my experience with my father's as an example. No, you can't prepare for it. It will be like nothing you've felt yet. Maybe you think that if you worry about it really well—if you devote yourself to this anxiety, if you memorize your fear like a prayer—you can defeat it before it defeats you, like Roman's "pre-grieving" on Succession. But it didn't work for him because it doesn't work. Authoritative as it can feel, anxiety is incapable of describing anything it hasn't actually seen, like the death of a parent. All it can do is push us around various ugly landmarks in our minds: awful experiences we've already had, pains we've already processed. Anxiety is the blustering cokehead cousin of self-soothing. It brags about everything it knows to conceal the fact that it doesn't know anything. You can't feel what you haven't felt until, well...until you feel it.

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 2d

Can I interest you in some Very Hungry Caterpillar washi tape
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Cozyca - Eric Carle Foil Stamping Washi Tape - The Very Hungry Caterpi

Cozyca - Eric Carle Foil Stamping Washi Tape - The Very Hungry CaterpillarEric Carle (1929–2021) was an American author, illustrator, and designer best known for creating picture books for young child...

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

Over at @damemagazine.bsky.social I wrote about CBS' hiring of Bari Weiss in the context of one of The Free Press's sloppiest reported stories. h/t @evanurquhart.bsky.social www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/09/c...

CBS News Just Made a Terrible Mistake - Dame Magazine

On Monday, Paramount announced it had acquired The Free Press for $150 million and would be installing its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss will report directly to Paramount ...

www.damemagazine.com

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 2d

i get so mad when i think about what bbc sherlock did to the character bc jeremy brett rly understood the source material and got that sherlock is a total softy underneath the snark

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 2d

the suppressed humor and the OH mY GOD DUDE I’M SO SORRY FUCK MAN I DIDN’T MEAN YEAH DUDE IT’S ME vibe of the reunion in The Empty House is SO WELL DONE too alksjdflaka god i love them. brett 4ever

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 2d

this series is my everything, pretty much know it by heart at this point, and mannnnnnnnnnnnn that reichenbach gets me every time.

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 2d

sarah yash
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so unbelievably back

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 2d

“man, i miss working from home” and it’s MITCH MARNER???? diaBOLICAL??????

yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 2d

i'm well rested i did all my errands hockey season is back and i'm gonna make the best grilled cheese sandwich this couch has ever seen

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 3d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 3d

underappreciated anglo-american culture shock is the idea of the “bank holiday”. why is it a bank holiday. why not just a holiday. where i come from, in my culture, banks are not cause for celebration.

yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 3d

i like one (1) white sox fan

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 3d

“Things are not normal. They’re not returning to normal. There is no playbook that we are using from the past that could work in the present, and so we’ve got to stand up."

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Justin J. Pearson of the 'Tennessee Three' Has Had It With 'Mediocrity' -- So He's Running for Congress

Justin J. Pearson, a member of the "Tennessee Three," has announced a campaign to primary Democrat Steve Cohen and join the U.S. House.

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 3d

what starts with J and ends with osh Ritter?

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 6d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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