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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 29d

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

prismreports.org

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 11h

what starts with J and ends with osh Ritter?

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3d

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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premium goblin @sasscarpone.bsky.social · 11h

ohhhhhh that’s the stuff 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11h

Blue Jays are blasting Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” during their celebration

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David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 11h

Man if this isn't the perfect quote re Weiss: “She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 15h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 16h

This is really blatant pro-Nazi rhetoric, but also the House Un-American Activities Committee following WWII considered it suspicious for people to have been anti-fascist before Pearl Harbor. So like…not new

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

Leni Riefenstahl lived long enough to see Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The last surviving Civil War Widow died of COVID-19. President John Tyler (1841-1845)'s last surviving grandson died 5 months ago. Donald Trump's mentor was the attorney in charge of McCarthyism.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 21h

a bksy dev following the Heritage Foundation would be an unpleasant surprise if you didn't know this place was created by and for libertarian crypto bros, and all the good things about it are an unintended consequence they have been trying to "fix" for the last year

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 16h

also Berlin as BURR-len rather than like the city in Germany... man i love ohio

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 18h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 17h

If the "how can you post about SPORTSBALL when we're LIVING under FASCISM" scolds paid attention to sportsball, they'd know what happens when a manager tries to get through a series using only his high-leverage relievers. There's no better example of why you can't go through life in panic mode 24/7

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 17h

Be humble, sit down

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 19h

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 20h

really who among us is an easy creature. not me. goose mindset something something

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 22h

One of these days I should write a compact list of like Book Industry Stuff That Readers Should Actually Know That Isn't Arcane And Boring I Promise. One of those things might be: Amazon is just as awful as you think, and perhaps worse, to which, TODAY IS FREE SHIPPING @bookshop.org and this is COOL

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 23h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 20h

(best improv Goose Vehicles i've seen were 1) Large Cardboard Snacks Carton from Costco and 2) laundry basket. i can't remember what kind of potato chip it was, but it was a box that had held Many Potato Chips before and then an indignant goose popped out and that was v fun for me personally)

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 20h

it does sound like this guy is able to feed/fend for himself so not at a stage where intervention would be required — rn in OR we're only allowed to provide humane euthanasia to adult waterfowl bc of bird flu, & it sounds like this goose is makin it work! hopefully that makes you feel better too 🧡

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 21h

we're lucky to partner with these guys and work closely with them for cases where the good samaritan is unable to provide transport (often due to disability, job requirements, lack of a vehicle, etc), & maybe there is an equivalent near you! occrapdx.org

On-Call Community Rescue for Animals | OREGON CITY

Providing safe handling and transport of animals in emergencies. Join our team, volunteer, or donate to support our mission. Let's make a difference together!

occrapdx.org

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 21h

just wanted to offer another perspective! i know "pls catch goose" sounds daunting but i promise that you aren't in it alone and rehabbers at these orgs will absolutely help you if you decide to intervene 🧡

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 21h

mostly it's just hard when we want to help, but wildlife rescue orgs v rarely have the resources to operate Bird Taxi — we *do* depend on good samaritans taking time to contain & bring in injured animals, & it's a bummer when folks act annoyed that we need their help/participation beyond just a call

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 21h

that way you aren't directly handling Angry Goose haha (unfortch rn, OR fish & wildlife dept currently has a ban on our care center treating adult waterfowl like geese, but i promise these orgs frequently see geese & handle geese & they will talk you through how to do it safely! they want to help!)

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 21h

i'm on the flip side of these convos a lot when i volunteer on the phones at BAO, and one option is to come back with 2 big cardboard boxes (one broken down, one assembled) and put the assembled box over the top of the goose and slide the broken down box underneath, bug in a cup style!

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 22h

AI is like a Trolley Problem for media CEOs, except they don't realize the options are actually "stop the trolley" or "the trolley runs me over six months after I let it run over my employees."

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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 1d

praying to every god and every saint and every demigod and every prophet i can find like i'm phonebanking

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 1d

"midcentury modern" used to mean something