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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 1d

There have been a lot of theories about Twitch viewership and what Twitch is (or isn't) counting as a result of the view bot update.

We now have an update that I think tries to answer the question "What is a Lurker and what isn't?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KlC...

What is and What Isn't a Lurker on Twitch? (Viewbot Update)

YouTube video by Zach Bussey

www.youtube.com

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

What’s a young man to do when all the outlets he watches — ESPN, Paramount+, Peacock, Fox Sports — either own or have partnered with a sports book?

The effect of all that noise is to sell a tautology: that gambling is harmless fun when done in measure.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 1d

turns out the answer to “are they malicious or just stupid” — a question often asked about big media boss types — is “yes, but sliiiightly more the former”

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Remember when Mike Bloomberg installed "free speech zones" at the RNC?

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

“Free speech curfew” is one of the most authoritarian and dystopian terms I think I have ever heard.

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Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 1d

An Elon Musk Production, coming to a business or organization near you!

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

No Way To Know Whether New Boss Wants To Fire A Lot Of People Or Genuinely Has No Idea How Anything Works Here

Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 1d

Writers Guild rightly tells members not to respond to Bari Weiss

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes peace is seeing a snarky quote-post and choosing not to respond to it

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Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 1d

One journalist pet peeve TO ME is I hate the use of “exclusive”s for announcements of someone’s death (not that I expected differently from tabloids but still)

A screenshot of a tweet by People Magazine reading “Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,'
'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 2d

A former fed intelligence agent falling for an AI generated video of police activity is just too on the nose for how far gone we are as a society lol

Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 2d

People used to keep their kinks to themselves… but now they get paid to force them upon us

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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joie de vivremaxxing @bigolegeek.bsky.social · 2d

someone said this to me and added a whole fucking monologue about how users shouldn’t be able to limit their replies and I said, “Watch this”, and detached the quote

Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 2d

“Your replies are off, so I’m quoting you…”

Clitasaurus Rex 🦖 @naiijah.bsky.social · 2d

what did the last person you blocked say to get blocked?

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Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 2d

That’s exactly what I did without reading it and he thought screenshotting it would make me reconsider 💀 like I’m hiding from somebody on this damn app

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Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 2d

Despite having this user name for a while... I just got to lord on Adam Warlock 😂 #MarvelRivals

A screenshot of a player named "AdamWh0rl0ck" with a lord icon for the character Adam Warlock in Marvel Rivals.

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Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 2d

It’s funny that this entire thing sprang from who she was sleeping with … but it applies to almost EVERY other thing

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Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 2d

“Your replies are off, so I’m quoting you…”

Clitasaurus Rex 🦖 @naiijah.bsky.social · 2d

what did the last person you blocked say to get blocked?

Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 2d

The reality of being a journalist in America are deemed too “Shocking and Graphic” for our tech and artificial intelligence overlords

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

An update from WGN on Debbie Brockman: "Earlier today, a WGN-TV creative services employee was detained by ICE. She has since been released, and no charges were filed against her. Out of respect for her privacy, we will have no further statements about this incident.”

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

This morning, masked Border Patrol agents violently pinned a longtime WGN-TV producer to the ground after detaining another unidentified male in Chicago, eventually arresting her and hauling her off in an unmarked silver van.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

WGN-TV producer violently detained during Chicago ICE enforcement action

A DHS spokesperson said that Debbie Brockman was placed under arrest for ‘assault on a federal law enforcement officer,’ claiming the WGN employee threw objects at the agent.

www.independent.co.uk

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QueenPiB @queenpib.com · 4d

SVU relies on contrivance but this one takes the cake. "We need the victim to be a 16 year old actress who in universe plays a jailbait undercover underage cop but we can't literally depict that on NBC so 22 year old Maggie Grace is playing her which WHY WOULDN'T THEY DO THAT IN UNIVERSE INSTEAD"

A Plex synopsis for Law & Order SVU S06E03 "Obscene" guest starring Maggie Grace and Lewis Black.

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Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 2d

My coworkers are all into Prince and Queen as much as I am, oh they’re gonna be sick of our playlists 🙂‍↕️

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3d

Autism is in the penises ??????

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile, not long after the CBS-QVC deal was announced, there was fierce speculation that Disney might want to step in and buy CBS instead. It didn’t—but of course, it *was* interested in the network TV business. In 1995, it announced plans to buy ABC parent Capital Cities.

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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 3d

This scene ALWAYS hits, and I think about it OFTEN.

Juwan IS THE DRAMA 🚨 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 3d

You Have To Be What?

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