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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14h

A lot of you are dragging her, but how else is she supposed to learn what journalism is?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 14h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 9h

i kept seeing people reference this w/o the source material and i thought it was a dumb tweet, not a whole fucking article.

EVERYONE THINKS JOHNNY CASH IS COOL AS SHIT

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 12h

purple kind

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 12h

i shall take them!! and my mushroom that you are holding hostage

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 12h

this is racist against people who don't live in the twin cities :(

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 13h

it's almost like hiring someone who has never been in a management position was a bad idea

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 15h

this is the perfect picture of terrika

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 1d

Your last name in my phone is Bag Of Moons, which is correct

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 1d

well, technically hayley was 13!

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 1d

tom petty

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

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?

Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 3d

i thought the milk part was so gross but i drank black russians for a semester instead :/

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss once wrote an NYT column under the headline "We're All Fascists Now."
She said Dave Rubin was called an "anti-Fascist lieutenant" by lefties.
She linked to a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" (left).
The most amazing correction followed. (right)

web.archive.org/web/20180307...

Looks like the Fascist Lieutenant @RubinReport is speaking at an Alt-Right event today. You know what to do, comrades. #Antifa #NoPlatform

Editors’ Note: March 7, 2018

An earlier version of this essay cited criticism of the commentator Dave Rubin as an example of left-leaning attacks on liberals in the public sphere, and linked to tweets that described him as a fascist. Those tweets came from an account that has been reported to be fake. Therefore the example and the links have been removed.

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 3d

i don't think anyone in the "real world" knows who this person is

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 4d

its funny how not a single actual journalist has been like, “actually she’s good at journalism”

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Kevin Pelton @kpelton.bsky.social · 4d

There's a delicious irony in WNBA sources complaining about Unrivaled's role in CBA negotiations when the league exists in no small part because of the prioritization rules the WNBA insisted on during the current CBA. Be careful what you wish for ...

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 4d

also i hate that i thought "where else have i seen this on the internet" and then realized that no, no, it was my actual face that saw it

Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 4d

i am weirdly fond of these

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 4d

the "i think it was only two" is the first indicator that he's well aware it wasn't only two

BEAUTY PILL @beautypill.bsky.social · 4d

@flynnwaslike.bsky.social once pointed out to me “You are wearing multiple hoodies.”

I think it was only two, but whatever.

She has ruthlessly made fun of me for this now for a long time.

But I maintain that there’s nothing wrong with double hoodies!

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 5d

if you say it three times billy corgan appears and tries to sell you his wrestling company

Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 5d

i always want to do like, a book of essays about these kinds of people. like how a man named kangaroo used to play washboard on our lawn (verifiable as kangaroo www.piperroad.com)

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · 5d

if there was a centralized bluesky office (idk if there is?) i would assume they are all suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5d

The number of people who understand that it's not cool to be on Twitter but who insist on being on substack is fucking bizarre

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 7d

After a few days witnessing the Bad Bunny Super Bowl thing I guess my questions are:

Is this just how it is now? Are white people just going to cry about every single thing that ever happens from now on until forever now? Like on top of the kidnappings are they just going to keep fucking whining?

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