@gravylake.bsky.social
I beg all of you, if you are tempted to dunk on Charlie Kirk's death, please remember that this little girl just lost her father too.
September 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I beg all of you, if you are tempted to dunk on Charlie Kirk's death, please remember that this little girl just lost her father too.
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are we having fun yet?
March 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
are we having fun yet?
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
Hey, I didn’t know Bannon had Aspergers too…
BREAKING: Steve Bannon just did a Nazi salute at CPAC.
THEY ARE TELLING YOU WHO THEY ARE!
THEY ARE TELLING YOU WHO THEY ARE!
February 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Hey, I didn’t know Bannon had Aspergers too…
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This device has every book and song ever written, mostly for free.
Wow! What do you use it for?
Unwinnable fights with strangers about things I cannot control.
Wow! What do you use it for?
Unwinnable fights with strangers about things I cannot control.
February 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This device has every book and song ever written, mostly for free.
Wow! What do you use it for?
Unwinnable fights with strangers about things I cannot control.
Wow! What do you use it for?
Unwinnable fights with strangers about things I cannot control.
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This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
"Journalism...is built on the economics of attention"
Facts are boring. Conspiracy theories are exhilarating. Besides, fact checks are happening in spaces where the lie consumers aren't. No Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, NY Post, WSJ oped consumer is reading Politifact or Kessler. JFK is alive, after all.
Facts are boring. Conspiracy theories are exhilarating. Besides, fact checks are happening in spaces where the lie consumers aren't. No Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, NY Post, WSJ oped consumer is reading Politifact or Kessler. JFK is alive, after all.
I wrote about facts v. belief and belonging as the real crisis here:
medium.com/whither-news...
medium.com/whither-news...
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
Amazing use of the passive voice there. "Oh look, the borders shifted again, how did that happen?"
December 18, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Amazing use of the passive voice there. "Oh look, the borders shifted again, how did that happen?"
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Every pro-democracy person in the US should read Luttwak's handbook and get used to it both as a guide for responding to a coup (it discusses how coups can be defeated by mass protest) and for supporting a counter-coup afterwards (answer: protest to paralyze opposing centers of power).
December 3, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Every pro-democracy person in the US should read Luttwak's handbook and get used to it both as a guide for responding to a coup (it discusses how coups can be defeated by mass protest) and for supporting a counter-coup afterwards (answer: protest to paralyze opposing centers of power).
I was shaking with rage reading this article
Taylor Cadle was 12 years old when she reported being sexually abused by her adoptive father. A detective at
@polkcosheriffnw.bsky.social decided she was a liar and should be criminalized. Taylor wrote this letter of apology as a part of her probation requirements.
@polkcosheriffnw.bsky.social decided she was a liar and should be criminalized. Taylor wrote this letter of apology as a part of her probation requirements.
November 22, 2024 at 2:09 AM
I was shaking with rage reading this article