Freelancing is hard enough—but now we’re competing against AI scammers! thelocal.to/investigatin...

Excellent overview of what the media ecosystem has lost with the "integration" of Teen Vogue into Vogue www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

Some thoughts on Teen Vogue, from someone currently writing a book about teen mags. When publishers make "budget cuts" young women and LGTBQ folks often are the first to suffer 🧵

How many times must I sit through a Jays away game where the home team is having Bark in the Park? Why do Atkins and Shapiro HATE Toronto dogs? Look who they are preventing from enjoying hot dogs!!!

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...

Trying to write my silly little horror screenplay while the world is....*frantic hand motion*

I hate that em dashes have become synonymous with ChatGPT use. That’s a millennial writer thing!

Been a minute since I've been published somewhere, which is why it's nice to say I have a short story out today! (Content warning: blood, body image and ED content, many pesky raccoons.) www.godscrueljokelit.com/h-g-watson-3...

Got to see this piece in its early stages in my advanced feature writing workshop last semester. It's a great look at a group impacted by delays with the Eglinton LRT apple.news/AIfl-gcEiSme...

Here’s why I’ve been pretty quiet on here the last two years. (Submitted 🥰)

gawd www.reuters.com/world/us/bom...

Do I know any book authors/academics who have an ingenious method for organizing piles of research so they can find what they are after? Would love to read or pick your brain on it.

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

It's Jane's Walk weekend in Toronto, if you're casting about for something to do. Not a boring city. www.janeswalkfestivalto.com/walks

Started a new project with @dreabells.bsky.social today. Learning a lot about shipwrecks and underwater photos. More TK 🙊

Inside of my brain now that I can watch sports without seeing political ads

update to this thread: verified GoFundMes are linked here: vanfilemergency.my.canva.site

Need Carney to up the weirdness factor to compete with these two though. Where’s the alt zodiacmemes account he runs?

Thought I was ready to finish grad school, but just sobbed my way through writing my thesis acknowledgements 🥺

Don’t worry everyone, I bought books!

Judge Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was arrested on Friday morning on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement, spent most of her legal career working on behalf of low-income people and marginalized groups. Here's what to know.

Doing fiction revisions might actually be more painful than nonfiction. You're telling me I have to imagine MORE stuff? When I already imagined all this other stuff?!

Deeply depressing how Vice was once a tough, investigative outlet that also mixed in funny content, and now it's become a marketing company that keeps sending me paid newsletter ads I forget to unsubscribe from.

"...they dream of splintering governments and carving up the world into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens under the sole control of the supremely wealthy, protected by private mercenaries, serviced by AI robots and financed by cryptocurrencies." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

BIPOC journalists: applications for The Walrus Editorial Fellowship are open! The editorial fellow’s primary responsibility is to fact-check print and online stories that The Walrus publishes. This is a hybrid position based in Toronto. Deadline: April 17. Apply now:

The most Lynchian media not made by David Lynch is the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. In this essay I will—(skeet 1/452)

My bar for a little treat is so low. Finish a totally mundane task at work? Little treat. Put the dishes away? You guessed it: little treat. Actually go for a walk? You better believe it’s little treat time.

I think we’ve severely undervalued the impact of local newspapers in making for a more harmonious and informed society. Instead these news deserts have been filled by angry national outlets and local Facebook pages that reward hostility.

LOVE to see CBC doubling down on its commitment to local news. One of the most vital roles our public broadcaster plays imo!!! Lots of jobs here too:

Very normal news day 🫠

Canadian journalists! @cajournalists.bsky.social is recruiting to build a community of volunteer peer supporters. The program is modelled off successful U.S. initiatives and peer supporters will be trained to listen and talk confidentially with colleagues. Sign up! caj.ca/peersupport/

the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain

Russia launches devastating attack on Ukraine after Trump’s defence of Putin Latest attacks came hours after Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin was ‘doing what anybody would do’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Local media has been hit so badly that, technically, CFMU/The Silhouette is the largest newsroom in Hamilton. In a better world we'd have trained journalists and do more hard news (look for more of that, though, come September). WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT cfmu.ca/fundraising

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dolly Parton says her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean, has died at 82.

Too much singing, not enough Conan. #oscars

Biggest compliment: Petting a new dog, and the owner goes, "oh wow, they normally don't let new people pet them!"

Watching random influencers fear monger about both a) viruses and b) air travel for clout and view count is perhaps my heel turn moment. (Not that it isn't scary rn — but for the love of god, follow the news or an expert!)

SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

This looks awfully like the US banning trans visitors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In my role at Maclean's, I've been producing social video. It's a whole new world for me, but one I'm falling in love with. This new vid is one I'm quite proud of. (And it's the first on our renewed YouTube channel — subscribe for a lot more.) bsky.app/profile/macl...

Trouble was brewing at Ontario’s colleges and universities before Doug Ford became premier. Seven years later, they’re in financial free fall. @kunalchaudhary.bsky.social explains how we got here. thelocal.to/ontario-post...

I understand that slogans have a purpose and are not inclusive of all ideas, but the call to "read books" as some sort of inherent defense against fascism nags at me. Which books! Reading is not in and of itself a virtue!

I am but an amateur aviation enthusiast however: very unlikely what has happened in Toronto had anything to do with ATC or the FAA firings. A Minnesota to Toronto flight would have likely crossed the Great Lakes in northern Ontario and been under Nav Canada guidance for most of the flight.

Some dipshit is trying to go at Jon Krakauer and brother let me tell you I would never ever want to be the dude on the end of a 20 page Jon Krakauer rebuttal jonkrakauer.medium.com/the-youtuber...

Oh no, is there a snowstorm? Should we stay in our homes with candles lit and be so cozy? Should we invite Martha Stewart??

I’m literally shaking buy him brown contacts plz

“Taylor, my mighty heart is breaking.”