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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 1m

the lack of dem endorsements is really something

airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · Jul 1

dems: we need a joe rogan of the left

[zohran sets records for young voter turnout with a campaign around working class issues and affordability]

dems: destroy this man

airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 3h

ok

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 3h

Finally, some reporting on how Kevin Guthrie is using Florida's Emergency Management Agency to build concentration camps. Thank you to @sfedie.bsky.social @scba.bsky.social and others quoted here for being the field's moral backbone in this moment.

www.eenews.net/articles/flo...

Florida’s emergency manager has a new job: Detaining immigrants

Kevin Guthrie operates "Alligator Alcatraz." Some emergency managers worry that could scare Hispanic residents away from seeking help in a hurricane or

www.eenews.net

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 3h

it's becoming a real problem that i am the only tech literate person on my team

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 23h

Anyone in the #Salinas (Monterey County) area seeing a funnel cloud? #CAwx

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 1d

the most recent numbers reported this year were 97k circulation, so a roughly 13% decline again

unless there's a crazy drop in the next couple of months, that seems pretty in line with recent years and certainly not uniquely terrible

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 1d

The circulation data simply doesn't support the conclusion that the Washington Post is being punished for the boneheaded decisions of Bezos as much as we'd love for that to be true

maybe some other data does, but I haven't seen it

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 1d

I mean we have the 2025 circulation numbers so we can see that YoY (from 24 to 25), the percent decline is about 13%

We also have historical numbers that are similar both for the Washington Post and across the industry

from 22 to 23, Wapo's decline was also 13% and the industry avg was 14%

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"Table showing the 25 largest newspapers in America ranked by their average print circulation for the six months ending September 2023. Column headers are: Newspaper, Publisher, Avg. circulation 6 months to Sep 23, YoY change (%), 6 month change (%), and Mar 23.
The data shows:

Wall Street Journal (News Corp): 555.2K, down -14% year-over-year, down -9% over 6 months, was 609,654 in March 2023
New York Times (New York Times Company): 267.6K, down -13% YoY, down -10% over 6 months, was 296,329 in March 2023
New York Post (News Corp): 131.2K, down -8% YoY, down -4% over 6 months, was 135,983 in March 2023
Washington Post (Washington Post): 127.7K, down -13% YoY, down -8% over 6 months, was 139,232 in March 2023
USA Today (Gannett): 121.6K, down -16% YoY, down -8% over 6 months, was 132,641 in March 2023
Los Angeles Times (California Times): 105.7K, down -17% YoY, down -11% over 6 months, was 118,759 in March 2023
Star Tribune (Star Tribune Media Company): 86.9K, down -12% YoY, down -5% over 6 months, was 91,919 in March 2023
Newsday (Newsday Media): 83.5K, down -10% YoY, down -4% over 6 months, was 86,848 in March 2023
Chicago Tribune (Tribune Publishing, Alden): 73K, down -16% YoY, down -11% over 6 months, was 82,188 in March 2023
Seattle Times (Seattle Times Company): 71.7K, down -13% YoY, down -6% over 6 months, was 75,912 in March 2023
Honolulu Star-Advertiser (Black Press): 71.6K, down -7% YoY, down -5% over 6 months, was 75,457 in March 2023
Tampa Bay Times (Poynter Institute): 62.6K, down -24% YoY, down -24% over 6 months, was 81,890 in March 2023
Boston Globe (Boston Globe Media): 56.9K, down -11% YoY, down -6% over 6 months, was 60,501 in March 2023
Dallas Morning News (Dallas News): 52.2K, down -13% YoY, down -9% over 6 months, was 57,399 in March 2023
San Francisco Chronicle (Hearst): 50.8K, down -6% YoY, down -6% over 6 months, was 54,335 in March 2023

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 1d

it's very easy to dunk on wapo because they suck, but if you actually compare across the industry the narrative that they're facing severe consequences for bezos' interference seems more or less untrue

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 1d

i get why the wapo circulation thing is sticky, but it looks like their circulation decline is more or less in line with the decline across the industry we've been seeing for years

here are numbers from 2024 (source: Alliance for Audited Media)

Table showing the top 16 US newspapers by print circulation for 2024 compared to 2023. Column headers are: Newspaper, Publisher, Circulation 2024, Circulation 2023, and Year-on-year change. The data shows:

The Wall Street Journal (News Corp): 473.7K in 2024, down from 555.2K in 2023, a decline of -14.7%
The New York Times (The New York Times Company): 250.4K in 2024, down from 267.6K in 2023, a decline of -6.4%
New York Post (News Corp): 122.1K in 2024, down from 131.2K in 2023, a decline of -6.9%
The Washington Post (The Washington Post): 111.2K in 2024, down from 127.7K in 2023, a decline of -13.0%
USA Today (Gannett): 103.6K in 2024, down from 121.6K in 2023, a decline of -14.8%
The Los Angeles Times (California Times): 79.1K in 2024, down from 105.7K in 2023, a decline of -25.1%
The Minnesota Star Tribune (Star Tribune Media Company): 77.7K in 2024, down from 86.9K in 2023, a decline of -10.6%
Newsday (Newsday Media): 75.3K in 2024, down from 83.5K in 2023, a decline of -9.8%
Honolulu Star-Advertiser (Carpenter Media Group): 69.9K in 2024, down from 71.6K in 2023, a decline of -2.4%
The Seattle Times (Seattle Times Company): 65.1K in 2024, down from 71.7K in 2023, a decline of -9.3%
Tampa Bay Times (Times Publishing Company): 60.9K in 2024, down from 62.6K in 2023, a decline of -2.7%
Chicago Tribune (Alden Global Capital): 60.5K in 2024, down from 73K in 2023, a decline of -17.1%
The Boston Globe (Boston Globe Media): 50.8K in 2024, down from 56.9K in 2023, a decline of -10.7%
The Dallas Morning News (DallasNews Corporation): 45K in 2024, down from 52.2K in 2023, a decline of -13.8%
Houston Chronicle (Hearst): 40.2K in 2024, down from 48.1K in 2023, a decline of -16.4%
San Francisco Chronicle (Hearst): 39.3K in 2024, down from 46K in 2023, a decline of -14.5%

All newspapers show declining circulation, with red bars in the 2024 circulation column indicating negative trends.

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 1d

but also friendly neighbors getting rid of that ikea cabinet you were just about to overpay for at the store for like pennies on the dollar

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 1d

facebook is fun because the biggest racist assholes you know are all in one convenient place

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

This is honestly extraordinary

Dolly Parton - Shine (Official)

YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO

youtu.be

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 1d

9 out of 10 times i look at who y'all are yelling at and its a guy with a profile pic like this

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 2d

A massive storm that brought a record storm surge to Alaska was poorly forecast, and “this is one of the clearest possible examples to date where missing upper air soundings due to NWS constraints may have led to a degraded forecast.”

Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday a massive storm surge event from the remnants of Typhoon Halong caused catastrophic damage in remote western Alaska. Thanks to @alaskawx.bsky.social for his help with this deep dive, including the forecast challenges in an area dealing with reduced NWS upper air soundings
tinyurl.com/4ycxaez9

Historic coastal flooding strikes western Alaska

Remnants of Typhoon Halong produce hurricane force winds and push massive storm surge inland in Kuskokwim River Delta, destroying and carrying away homes, leaving devastated communities.

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 2d

hell yeah rain

wide angle photo looking up and out of a window with streaks of rain and a stormy sky overhead, some large trees are visible lower in the frame

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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 2d

On Lt Columbo Day never let us forget the episode where Columbo explains to a fitness guru how Mrs Columbo is thick, that he likes her thick, and how he will do anything within his power to keep her thick

Screenshot from Columbo where Peter falk explains to Robert Conrad he likes his wife thick

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 2d

inspiring 💗💖

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 2d

Can
Bari
Spell?

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 2d

i still don't understand why republicans are so against dale earnhardt incorporated

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airplane ian (he/him) @airplaneian.com · 2d

don't do this

lasers literally draw a line to your location and LE aerial camera systems have a feature called 'geopointing' that makes it easy to save your location just based on where the camera is looking (and ofc that camera is recording everything in visible light and IR)

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)