Babe u left ur bike unlocked again 😭

Hey @quyetpawz.bsky.social you were inserted in a "reactionary resisters" blocklist I had been subscribing to and had to unsub as a result. If you noticed or saw I was blocking you it was unintentional and I apologise

yeah because rage mobs—especially social media rage mobs—will absolutely convince an elderly lame-duck, someone who is likely medically unfit to serve in the first place, someone who is up for reelection until 2030 and someone not even a democrat that they need to leave early, foh brian beutler

50 years ago today, #OTD in Weather History, on November 10, 1975, the Great Lake ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior. So it is time for the annual reupping of my thread on her loss.

not gonna lie, it would be legitimately hilarious if the gop absolutely caved on snap like this because the dems came out and said (correctly, mind you) this was a shit bill, thus duping the gop into thinking they needed to pass it

for what it's worth i muted "dnc" completely on here until the end of time

if anyone asks, no, it wasn't me

Wondering if Ezra Klein will bother acknowledging that none of the advice he was giving Democrats was worth the paper it was written on? Historic Democratic victories across the nation without throwing trans people to the wolves. Imagine that.

This is how I learned Dick Cheney is dead

Susie always uses Halloween to show her inner self.

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

@ykbu.bsky.social as they survey all of wiktionary ^w^

reupping because why not, method 0 worked just fine for my phone ^^

monster family

god it's almost like larry ellison's son wants cbs news to fail cause he never wanted it in the first place

well if you say so ... ❤️

for shits and giggles i clicked on the link, of course it's kids web services doing this "verification" by incredibly invasive methods such as scanning your driver's license or asking for your SS # AND address. no fucking thank you. a total fail on bluesky's end for coercing complicity. get a vpn.

any other way you can get around an age verification requirement is probably also legal! I can't know the law everywhere. I know this one because this is the one that gave me this notice. Know your own laws if you care, know your own rights, but VPN use is generally legal. You deserve privacy.

OHIO: know your rights! This message from bluesky is a LIE! You, an individual, are NOT required by the law to verify your age. Bluesky is required to have you verify your age IF it detects that you are in Ohio. if it does not detect that you are there, YOU DO NOT NEED TO VERIFY! vpn use is legal!

if you were to tell me *last wednesday* that jimmy kimmel would be threatened by the fcc's lead commissioner, dropped by Sinclair/Nexstar, suspended, became a cause célèbre, reinstated and has a return video about free speech now rapidly becoming viral, i'd have thought you fell off the turnip truck

if *actual research groups* are advocating for this, it might happen a LOT sooner than you think!

David D. Smith, chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, an all-around scoundrel who has been at the forefront of his company selling local news tainted with right-wing hackery. He is solely to blame for all this and just incinerated a relationship with ABC that went back decades. Say his name out loud

Don't forget they have their claws on ch. 28, a coatrack of digital subchannel networks, as well as CW on ch. 53. Fox? It's "Fox 28" but on a @wsyx6.bsky.social subchannel. That's right, Sinclair controls three channels in Cbus, one of which they actually own. They've LONG manipulated the system.

100% agree. This is something where it is fully incumbent on Disney/ABC to restore goodwill. Now, I'm of the belief that they can, but they need to do it first, and it's going to take time. To paraphrase LeBron, goodwill is not given, it is earned

tough to keep that shit up when the entirely related suspension of a late-night talk show host who has been in the public eye for 30 years and is known to much more of the general public completely usurped the entire conversation

Sounds like the TV nerds on John Oliver's production team came out to play with knives drawn at Nexstar, Tegna, Sinclair and Armstrong Williams now it's up to us TV nerds to share with the normies

hey if any democrat is listening, now is the time to actually do something, just saying

i have never seen a glass jaw that ginormous and vulnerable in my entire life

The entire existence of The Point with Mark Hyman is also a receipt on Sinclair

Rusty knows all these things but a lot of folks don't!

Many historic VHF stations could keep their primo numbers as virtual channels while really transmitting from now-stronger UHF frequencies Making them key components of Sinclair and Nexstar's intensified consolidation efforts, helping to give them their outsized role within ABC as a network

The transition to ATSC 1.0 favored UHF signals over VHF signals, a new reality not reflected by the outdated UHF discount Realizing the massive loophole that had been opened, station groups went on a buying spree, as the limit to 39% of TV households had effectively been doubled

The UHF discount in particular is key: a relic of the analog era when UHF stations had weaker signals than VHF ones, the FCC only counted them for half the household reach of a VHF station, important for the cap that limits how many households a station group can legally reach

And it's worth noting that Sinclair and Nexstar as we know them (or Nexstar at all) do not exist without decades of deregulation They could not function as they do without the Telecommunications Act of 1996, or if the FCC had gotten around to repealing the UHF discount in 2009

All of these things provided the gunpowder for Nexstar to ignite

If said bankrupt company weren't taken over by Soo Kim, who then convinced Media General to basically let him take over... If the McCormicks and Chandlers hadn't sold Tribune to Sam Zell... If the CW weren't a burdensome asset "inherited" from prior regimes at Paramount and WBD...

mini-thread reply within my thread that is itself worth reading

one thing is for sure: Nexstar and Sinclair have already punched their tickets to a groupwide disaffiliation from ABC when their groupwide affiliation deals run out in August 2026 and December 2026, respectively it's a betrayal that likely killed off the network-affilate model that governs local TV

I guess it is now my duty as a TV nerd to explain to normies just how far-reaching and insidious Nexstar and Sinclair are. Us nerds have over 21 years of receipts on the two companies.

looks like the normies are waking up and learning what tv nerds have known for decades with these two companies

The most stunning part in all this is that one of the belligerents , Sinclair Broadcast Group, fumbled their leverage against Kimmel when their hour-long "newscast" disguised as a TPUSA infomercial & demand Kimmel donate to the org was pulled from air by their legal counsel w/ only TWO HOURS NOTICE

if you were to have told me just *five days ago* that Jimmy Kimmel would become an absolute flashpoint for the future of free speech that everyone here and the world over is now talking about in a way not seen in years, i would have never believed you and thought you were on crazy pills

I'm sitting in a high school football stadium and people in the stands are bringing up Kimmel and how he was unjustly fired, if you need any indication about how much of a story this is

When the ex-CEO who let your company be fleeced into buying Fox Family Worldwide is telling you you fucked up, well, you damn well fucked up (h/t @rustymuck.bsky.social )

i saw this ai slop nightmare while taking a walk through downtown ottawa on sunday morning during canfurence weekend and this doesn't begin to show the absolute cringe on display (although this was the most uncanny valley of the whole lot), i only want to know *who* asked for it and *why*

I lied. Behold a doodle.

evergreen

maybe it's just me but i don't think such a thing would get schumer or jeffries to get the early stages of a spine and might even embolden them to increase their flaccid do-nothingsness but hey what do i know

oh please let this end next year when an actual leftist in california primaries him out of the governor's mansion by a decisive margin

when i was at the county fair last week, i was stunned to learn bobby hill apparently moved to lorain county, changed his name and became the county auditor