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journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
February 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
Nothing amps me up like a stupid little craft
January 31, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Nothing amps me up like a stupid little craft
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Sixers enact intentional, then unintentional tribute to the late great Dan McQuade:
Sixers Enact Intentional, Then Unintentional Tribute To The Late Great Dan McQuade | Defector
We interrupt our ongoing tribute to Comrade McQuade to provide a score from last night: The Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Sacramento Kings, in Philadelphia, by the deeply mockable score of 113-111.…
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January 30, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Sixers enact intentional, then unintentional tribute to the late great Dan McQuade:
Just dying at his Miss Rachel costume from last fall going completely unmentioned 🥲
Before the Flyers game, NBCSP aired this tribute to @dhm.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Just dying at his Miss Rachel costume from last fall going completely unmentioned 🥲
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social does XPN do show recordings? Some friends are collecting Dan’s media mentions for his parents. This was a lovely one, glad I encountered it.
January 29, 2026 at 1:40 PM
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social does XPN do show recordings? Some friends are collecting Dan’s media mentions for his parents. This was a lovely one, glad I encountered it.
Crying in the car thanks to @kristenkurtis.bsky.social for the nice remembrance of @dhm.bsky.social this morning and a great needle drop LOL
January 29, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Crying in the car thanks to @kristenkurtis.bsky.social for the nice remembrance of @dhm.bsky.social this morning and a great needle drop LOL
There are so many great @dhm.bsky.social pieces online but this one hits right now: a eulogy for Wanamaker’s, a eulogy for my friend
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One Last Trip To Philadelphia’s Department Store Of Dreams | Defector
My son was on a mission. Simon has been walking since December, and he’s getting more confident each day. He’d spotted something, and was scooting down the aisle as fast as he could towards it. He wan...
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January 29, 2026 at 3:13 AM
There are so many great @dhm.bsky.social pieces online but this one hits right now: a eulogy for Wanamaker’s, a eulogy for my friend
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When a friend dies who is Famous On The Internet that means hundreds of strangers sharing his best bits! (Dan was also a kind, generous person and writer of non-bits)
If you didn’t know him, you missed out!!!!!! but please enjoy experiencing the bits of @dhm.bsky.social for the first time now.
If you didn’t know him, you missed out!!!!!! but please enjoy experiencing the bits of @dhm.bsky.social for the first time now.
Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
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January 29, 2026 at 2:28 AM
When a friend dies who is Famous On The Internet that means hundreds of strangers sharing his best bits! (Dan was also a kind, generous person and writer of non-bits)
If you didn’t know him, you missed out!!!!!! but please enjoy experiencing the bits of @dhm.bsky.social for the first time now.
If you didn’t know him, you missed out!!!!!! but please enjoy experiencing the bits of @dhm.bsky.social for the first time now.
Sometimes reading old cartoons really sparks Nothing New Under the Sun feelings (depressed version). This one is from a 1926 issue of The Nation.
January 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Sometimes reading old cartoons really sparks Nothing New Under the Sun feelings (depressed version). This one is from a 1926 issue of The Nation.
I could do my job’s core duties that have been piling up since January 1 OR I could reply to my coworker’s email from five minutes ago to “my crafty friends”
Inside me is only one wolf, and it wants to make stamp art.
Inside me is only one wolf, and it wants to make stamp art.
January 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I could do my job’s core duties that have been piling up since January 1 OR I could reply to my coworker’s email from five minutes ago to “my crafty friends”
Inside me is only one wolf, and it wants to make stamp art.
Inside me is only one wolf, and it wants to make stamp art.
stop emailing me!!
January 12, 2026 at 6:01 PM
stop emailing me!!
e-newsletters are bad for me, both personally and professionally
January 7, 2026 at 2:51 PM
e-newsletters are bad for me, both personally and professionally
May we all bring the fugitive eagerness of our most unreliable donors into this new year
January 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
May we all bring the fugitive eagerness of our most unreliable donors into this new year
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don't you do it. don't you dare circle back with me
January 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
don't you do it. don't you dare circle back with me
Let me limp out of this year in peace
December 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Let me limp out of this year in peace
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Something to keep your eye on. Popular discourse is starting to turn against AI, so new frameworks are being built to continue selling it. We are about to see a flood of media that qualifies AI: “Gen AI” is bad and overhyped but “predictive” or “analytic AI” is responsible and good. +
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Something to keep your eye on. Popular discourse is starting to turn against AI, so new frameworks are being built to continue selling it. We are about to see a flood of media that qualifies AI: “Gen AI” is bad and overhyped but “predictive” or “analytic AI” is responsible and good. +
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one of my longest-standing and deepest-held grievances in this profession is that we should stop naming all of our systems cutesy things that obfuscate what they actually do
December 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
one of my longest-standing and deepest-held grievances in this profession is that we should stop naming all of our systems cutesy things that obfuscate what they actually do
The gall to ask for my headshot, thereby reminding me how much I hate my headshot
December 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The gall to ask for my headshot, thereby reminding me how much I hate my headshot
My husband (a HS teacher) developed a new elective on the National Parks and he’s invited in various rangers to talk to his class, with today’s virtual visit from Independence NHP.
Anyway, my love language is abolitionist print
Anyway, my love language is abolitionist print
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My husband (a HS teacher) developed a new elective on the National Parks and he’s invited in various rangers to talk to his class, with today’s virtual visit from Independence NHP.
Anyway, my love language is abolitionist print
Anyway, my love language is abolitionist print
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*My* test would have to be on something I know was not already up in a repository because They Spent All Of 2024 and 2025 Fucking Up My Repository With AI Scraper Traffic; It Cost 6 Figures To Fix: We Now Pay Five Figures To Cloudflare To Protect Some Farly Basic Old Shit
December 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
*My* test would have to be on something I know was not already up in a repository because They Spent All Of 2024 and 2025 Fucking Up My Repository With AI Scraper Traffic; It Cost 6 Figures To Fix: We Now Pay Five Figures To Cloudflare To Protect Some Farly Basic Old Shit
“Poster” implied commercially printed but I see now that this is better
December 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
“Poster” implied commercially printed but I see now that this is better
My experience of peer review, no matter how gentle or correct, is just 3896 reminders that I don’t know how to use commas
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My experience of peer review, no matter how gentle or correct, is just 3896 reminders that I don’t know how to use commas
I am sympathetic to this, and yet I am also sympathetic to “someone make John Fry stop buying places”
When I look at the big ass map that Eira and Ben made of archives in the floodplain, what strikes me is not, OH shit that's a lot of places endangered by global heating, it's OH SHIT that's too many places period
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I am sympathetic to this, and yet I am also sympathetic to “someone make John Fry stop buying places”
The supermarket is playing Low (complimentary)
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The supermarket is playing Low (complimentary)