Have a Sunday newsletter! Inside: @samlotfi.bsky.social’s Innards, @iambabydaddy.bsky.social’s Warm Fusion, & lots of other indie gems

If Bluesky was just a twitter clone w/ less users, it would waste all my time while sending zero referrals. Journalists being obsessed w/ it would feed into that cycle of impostor syndrome anxieties : referrals are low b/c no one reads my work > but I’m popular > talk more > gain influence > 🔃 1/2

Bruh, wut. Your move Marvel. Time to make good on those “biggest ever” spidey issue marketing claims — add more creators and pages, ehh?

Where Did All The Humans Go? by @tched.com

I wrote about new AI features coming to Google Search, I think it's going to be even harder to get that classic Search experience www.engadget.com/2176547/goog...

if i ever fucked up as loudly and spectacularly as steven rosenbaum did, i would immediately enter a debilitating shame spiral and be locked in a bunker before the NYT story was even published

Wondering what happened to digg? I wrote about its unintended funeral for @weirdcitymedia.com

When fiction is more honest than the news cycle, we make noise about it. New one from @tched.com!

Why did it take me this long to cast comics to my 55” OLED? Dunno if I can go back to regular size @ffrancavilla.bsky.social ever again. (Via @weirdcitymedia.com )

HUGE news for indie comic creators from @neonichiban.bsky.social New one from me on @weirdcitymedia.com (Anyone have a Vision Pro they want to let me borrow?)

We still got juice

I wrote about all the useful idiots (like Matt Stoller and Ro Khanna) that told us we could strike useful alliances with fascists and how disastrously wrong they were

You can't show up for art you don't know about. And there are a *lot* of high quality indie creators you really need to hear about -- like @wolffdj23.bsky.social, for starters. New one from me on @weirdcitymedia.com

In Doctor Who, "The Time Monster" and "Logopolis," there's a TARDIS inside a TARDIS inside a TARDIS.... ...it's a TARducken.

I didn't plan for this to be my first post on @weirdcitymedia.com, but it seemed like something worth commenting on, so I did. "Batman and the Case of the Possibly AI-Generated Synopsis" should now be in your inbox if you've already subscribed, or available here if you're not:

Hello, folks! We're going to try something here, and we think you'll like it. Sign up, and stay tuned!

And we're live! So excited to finally talk about the thing @jamielovett.bsky.social and I have been slowly building and adjusting for months.

Very excited to tease this ahead of tomorrow's @weirdcitymedia.com launch... Sign up now! www.weirdcitymedia.com#/portal/signup

Anthropic blocking Claude Mythos Preview from full public release has sparked a cyber debate across a spectrum from clever marketing to paradigm shift. I spoke to experts and former officials for @foreignpolicy.com who say the reality is somewhere in between. foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/20/c...

My Staple! Expo haul, couldn’t be helped. So many amazing creators.

Overheard at breakfast: tech bros delighting each other with ways they’re going to be firing people later today, laughter all around. (They do not work at the same company.)

“It’s exposed a gulf between those who want to have their words remembered and those who just want people to remember that they wrote. We must stem the idea being pushed by tech companies and their billionaire funders who’ve sunk too much into their products to admit defeat”

🤣🤣🤣 PSA - Longform Karl is also worth your time and money: karlbode.com

Who’s coming to the meetup?! March 12, 1-5p Details: digg.com/digg/x55IaZC RSVP: luma.com/rby2z6b2 (Organized by @tched.com & @joshrubin.bsky.social ) #sxsw

Digg-ler is hanging at my house, y’all. Sign up for the IRL Digg meetup on Mar. 12! (Details: digg.com/digg/x55IaZC )

Remember when there wasn’t enough internet to doomscroll? Rekindle the hope of 2006 at the IRL Digg meetup next week! (Organized by me & @joshrubin.bsky.social )

I see the trailer for DC's Surfboard Dracula Corps show leaked.

The crystallization of the “Sad Hay Ride” sound (Don’t @ me)

NOTE: the majority of billionaire-owned news publications take your money with the *goal* of continually losing. (Aka an encouraging nudge to subscribe to The Handbasket. Free, but well worth the $80/yr if you enjoy democracy) www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe?re...

Ah yes, patio furniture pillows *are* the natural enemy of vicious backyard squirrels.

Happy Valentine's Day

"This only became possible within the last two weeks with the release of OpenClaw, so if it feels too sci-fi then I can’t blame you for doubting it. The pace of “progress” here is neck-snapping.."

A Good Day To Pie (& Other Klingon Pastries)

Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket joins the pod to talk about indie journalism, the industry, and what's going on in the federal government

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:

Yes!!!! I’ve been holding off on reading “White House Robot Romance” until the @neonichiban.bsky.social iOS app testing started. 🙌 Good things take time, (and I am here for it).

@ssavaart.com best email to send you an interview request? (Tried your old bluedreamstudios address first).

Excellent points, as always, from @karlbode.com

LOL all morning picturing some finance quant slouched at his desk prompting Dalle, like, "make me a picture of pikachu having sex with the Apple logo" or whatever tf those guys use these things for, then throwing up his hands like "WHY WON'T THIS FIND ALPHA?!" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

View for the weekend.

Your thoughts @mcuban.bsky.social ?

In the old days, you'd occasionally run into somebody totally normal who had one utterly insane belief, like a co-worker who just causally says he thinks the sun is alive. Social media is like if we extracted all of those individual bits of madness, cooked them into a stew and ate it for every meal.

i've subscribed to: rolling stone WIRED 404 media defector the handbasket chicago journalism i subscribed to: unraveled block club it's time to support media directly so they don't fall into the hands of fascists, the replies to this post have additional great news media i recommend supporting

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

I am so ready to care about digital comics again. Time to explore @neonichiban.bsky.social (No pressure @chipmosher.bsky.social & David, but we all need this.)

Peach Strawberry pie (that has now somehow vanished, heh).

Everyone In 200-Member Media Softball League Unemployed

Travis county redraw is INSANE! The sections they’re gerrymandering don’t even connect.

Easily the LEAST believable thing in Fantastic Four: First Steps isn't flying cars or super powered people. It's that Little Cesar's Pizza is a popular enough chain to advertise in NYC... No one in NYC is eating Little Cesar's in any reality. C'mon son.

Love that @wired.com is doing stuff like this.