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Furthering journalism is dead
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Nov 15
The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.
pattymo.com Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · Nov 14
It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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amaditalks.bsky.social
Given the Supreme Court ruling I think it's even more important that we refer to what is happening in Los Angeles and elsewhere with ICE as ethnic cleansing. The US government is engaged in a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing that has already cost at least two lives.
September 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Please be mindful how you talk to the millennials in your life, you never know when they might be experiencing acid reflux ❤️
July 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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2avesag.as
I wouldn’t even wipe my ass with The New York Times at this point.
June 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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imbeccable.bsky.social
bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Screenshot from The New Yorker: One morning a few weeks ago, I met de Blasio at his regular coffee shop in Park Slope. He had just come from the gym—the same one that he’d insisted on commuting to every morning from Gracie Mansion, no matter how much grief the press gave him for it—and was wearing sweats. He held forth among his fellow-patrons with a spirit of magnanimous, possibly unreciprocated camaraderie, greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar “How you doing, brother?” and ordering his breakfast (scrambled egg whites, cheddar, ham, and tomato on multigrain toast) as “mi sandwich especial.” These days, de Blasio most often makes the news for his love life or for such momentous moves as dyeing his salt-and-pepper crewcut. But he’s sensed a bit of de Blasio nostalgia creeping into town. “Since I left office, the No. 1 thing that people come up to me on the street and talk about is pre-K,” he told me, lacing his iced espresso with a heavy pour of simple syrup. “The No. 2 thing that people talk about is that Onion headline.” He quoted it for me, savoring every word: “Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit, huh?”
May 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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allthatsinteresting.com
Satanic orgies, conversations with the devil, instant insanity, and murder: these were the calamities the American public in the mid-1900s were told would befall anyone who smoked marijuana.
April 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
bitesizedbuddha.com
Pirate radio is back on the menu
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Apr 18
The 5th Circuit just gutted the FCC’s enforcement authority, declaring that its in-house adjudications are unconstitutional.

FCC can’t file enforcement proceedings in federal court, so this decision neuters its power to impose civil penalties for lawbreaking. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
April 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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davey.bsky.social
NEW: Spoke to 25 small publishers about the kind of impact Google's AI changes to search has had on their businesses.

Things don't look good—not for the publishers, and not for the quality of information out on the open web, which ironically Google itself relies on.

Gift link: bloom.bg/43Jmzk3
In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow. But by the time the ad ran about a month later, traffic from Google had fallen more than 70%, McBride said. Charleston Crafted, which features guides on do-it-yourself home improvement projects, had weathered algorithm changes and updates in the past; this time, it didn’t recover. McBride suspected people were getting more of their renovation advice from the artificial intelligence answers at the top of Google search. The now-ubiquitous AI-generated answers — and the way Google has changed its search algorithm to support them — have caused traffic to independent websites to plummet, according to Bloomberg interviews with 25 publishers and people who work with them. That’s disrupting a delicate symbiotic relationship that’s existed for years: if businesses create good content, Google sends them traffic.
April 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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aelkus.bsky.social
no trans woman ever took my nintendo
April 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
Americans killed annually by
All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9
Armed toddlers 21
Lightning 31
Lawnmowers 69
Busses 264
Falling out of bed 737
Being shot by another American 11,737

2017 estimates. The Royal Statistical Society gave this compilation its International Statistic of the Year award.
Chart compiling statistics on the number of Americans killed annually various causes. Includes source notes.
December 1, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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sonic.bsky.social
Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog!

Never talk to the police!

Cops act friendly to get you comfortable and talking - not to help you, but in hopes you'll incriminate yourself. No good!

The less you say, the harder it is for them to win in court.

Stopped by 12? Invoke the 5th - and lawyer up - fast!
Sonic holding a chaos emerald
July 6, 2023 at 10:45 PM