When considering what went so wrong with the internet, former @buzzfeed.com editor Cates Holderness (@cates.bsky.social) shared with LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET host Garrett Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social), "I think a whole lot went wrong. The internet we have in 2025 is fractured."

Basically, the right-wing wants you to think that being racist is the most dangerous (and cool) thing you can do right now. Films like The People's Joker and Nirvanna The Band The Movie prove the most dangerous thing for algorithmic streaming platforms is actually copyright infringement.

hit low power mode while reading fanfic, love to be single in my 40s

this is the best thread I have seen on bsky to date!!

look I know I’m not In Corporate anymore but I will never be able to suppress my desire for More Data like fuck off gimme those indicators lemme make a spreadsheet

Watching Ryan write this piece directly in the CMS was a weird experience. I know he Does That but every edit and new graf made me nauseous. It’s a stellar piece and excellent reporting.

Very, very proud to work with a team that stands for our beliefs and isn’t beholden to corporate bullshit.

sorry to go vegan on main but everyone losing their minds about Veronica the cow using Cow Tools like go vegan just eat beans instead of cows if you think she’s amazing

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

The Golden Globes pushing polymarket predictions is disgusting to me actually!!

Ryan and Grant are back on the ground this morning

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

Here in Minneapolis with @grantirving.bsky.social. ICE agents filming protesters in front of the federal building. One protester tells us they've been protesting out here for over four hours today.

please i'm begging you!!! when ryan hired me he told me hitting 100k subscribers by the end of the year was his biggest goal and therefore my biggest goal as well!

nothing made me happier than getting the gang back together for this!! you're welcome/sorry!

Thinking about the time two decades ago when I worked at kennels and a couple who were fav clients dropped their basset hounds Rupert and Douglas off cause they were taking their 10yo kid to ATL to see Tom Waits live at the kid’s req and I lost my goddamn mind. They brought me back a shirt.

All year I've been thinking about what discovery looks like in a post-search era. I love that we now often look to great human curators. So I'm starting a new series interviewing some of my favourites! First up @cates.bsky.social from @garbageday.email newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/cura...

Fullly realize no one who follows me will probably care about this BUT @brandonsanderson.com announced a new Hoid book and I’m losing my mind!! Hoid is my poor little meow meow and he sucks and I love him so much!!!

At the end of the workday today a lateral colleague asked if I could look into something for him and I messaged him 3 hours later and was like “Im trying to have a better work life balance but im not there yet so here’s my recommendation” and his response was “omg”

I am so grateful l have a extended family that accommodates my veganism

today felt like being in a newsroom again but like in a good way

everything reminds me of him

It would be nice to have a pet again but I’ve got my mom’s 30+ year old peace lily so like…

Today we're sharing a piece from @bumas.bsky.social we sent out to our paying readers yesterday. It's, as best we can tell, the most definitive list of who is running Trump's digital operation. Meet the far-right hype house flooding our of our feeds with shit. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-who...

Asking for work: Hey anyone here fluent in Elvish (specifically Quenya) enough to double check a very short translation? If so, DM me!

Remember when Instagram was a platform where you and your friends shared pictures? I miss that a lot.

I moved today and I’m exhausted but at least pizza is on its way

A fun boundary I set for myself is if I’m night scrolling and RFK Jr appears I immediately put my phone down and go to sleep. Night night y’all!

Huge thanks to @bumas.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, @cates.bsky.social, and @grantirving.bsky.social for helping me get this out today. The internet is more chaotic and intense than I've ever seen it. Impossible to keep up with it on my own.

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

Scheduled to cancel my ISP over Verizon chat tonight and “Misty” was super helpful. At the end after confirmation when she was like “any other questions?” I straight up said “sorry to ask this! But. Are you an actual human or an AI?” and her response was “lmao my name is Lakshmi ♥️”

Sex is fine and all but have you listened to Randy Described Eternity by Built To Spill while falling asleep? music.youtube.com/watch?v=cnU-...

Was listing to All Things Considered this evening on @npr.org on my physical radio and heard my colleague @bumas.bsky.social in this story! Super rad!!! www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

Today’s my bday and I was just out on a super dark deck just vibing and I saw: 1. The Milky Way (rad) 2. An owl!! I think a saw-whet or northern pigmy (super rad!!) 3. A BEAR (NO. FUCK THAT IT WAS SO CLOSE. I KNOW THIS IS ITS HOME AND HUMANS ARE THE INTRUDERS BUT BRUH IT WAS SO CLOSE.)

I felt the full range of human emotions yesterday and right now I’m staring at a sky full of stars and the Milky Way and feeling them all over again.

can’t wait to update my therapist on my latest quarterly trauma

proud to have derailed a large @garbageday.email channel today with the simple question “but was gadget still hot”

love hard and well

hey, hey, listen. the only thing that ultimately matters is love. fill your world with as much love and kindness as you can.

it’s incredible how much a bad dream can fuck you up for days

yeah

update: i've had a fruit and protein smoothie every day since i got it and it's great. 10/10 purchase

mr sandman, man me a sand

My therapist is gonna be so proud of me when she hears how I reacted to a bigass bug in my apartment just now

got a nutribullet last week and i feel like a different person. kitchen gadgets in your 40s just hit different.

never forget

I wrote about DashCon 2 in yesterday’s @garbageday.email newsletter and it made me wish I had attended www.garbageday.email/p/the-legacy...

GIMME you promised!!