So sad to hear about both the @post-gazette.com and @pghcitypaper.com shutting down this week. I’m not sure what Pittsburgh journalism will look like on other side of this.

Klaus Mann's Mephisto may not be the perfect book for the moment, but its parallels with the U.S. today are worth studying: allenwarren.substack.com/p/mephisto-r...

Recommend: KPop Demon Hunters. Stunning animation, a fun take on the hero's journey, and songs that all slap.

Have we had a song of the summer yet? Last year it was so clearly a competition between "360" and "Hot to Go" -- and I don't see anything approaching that so far in 2025. Am I missing something?

What would acting chalant look like? As opposed to nonchalant

In 2020, a poli sci prof of mine was explaining to the class how who’s president has little effect on our daily lives. He asked if anyone’s life had been directly impacted by any of Trump’s policies. No one raised their hand. I don’t think that would be the case today apnews.com/article/inte...

For years, I've enjoyed writing music I'd imagine in video games. Now, I've gotten a chance to try just that! I recently entered the Indie Game Music Contest, and you can vote for my entry to win the popularity poll! Check this link out for more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gF6...

America needs fun names for congressional districts like Canada has for federal ridings. Who wouldn’t want to represent someplace called Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount or Nanaimo-Ladysmith?

More on the Duolingo Chinese update: you can now see a score for your learning progress, which was something I complained about being missing from this course in my blog post

I met Duo the owl earlier this month, and he told me you need to do your Chinese lesson.

Is it /good/ we spent four years building 12 housing units in Pittsburgh? This a rate of building we're /proud/ of? www.wesa.fm/development-...

The Nintendo Music app just published the soundtrack from the OG Legend of Zelda. Check out the Famicom’s version of the title track — the Famicom had additional audio voices, meaning that version of the song is a fuller version of the one North American fans are used to

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

@gelliottmorris.com's chart of the week shows us that more Americans consider Signal-Gate a serious problem than considered Hillary's emails a serious problem.

No, there are not methods for running again. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

And they were so worried about her emails.

Visited some Civil War sites last weekend #poetry #bskypoetry #harpersferry #antietam

Yinz, write your state legislators — this is scary www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

High-key surprised Jewels Sparkles didn’t call out Arrietty for stealing her jokes at any point during that episode… do I have respect for Jewels now? #dragrace

They’re not sending their brightest on this mission apnews.com/article/dei-...

Is “prower” the male version of “prowess?”

So it seems like the White House will be declaring English the national language of the United States. This is an unsurprising but still seismic move — less for the actual, day-to-day administrative effects but more for the culture-war jingoism it represents (🧵👇) apnews.com/article/trum...

What motivates you these days?

Loved @phippsconservatory.bsky.social's orchid and bonsai exhibit (Also inspired by Donna Haraway's "Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms")

I got a lot of flashbacks to my own time in the newsroom while watching Tim Fehlbaum's "September 5," which came out at the end of last year.

Wrote this three Mondays ago 🐚🛟⚓

I've been reading Karen Barad's theories of quantum physics and keep seeing headlines on how humans' conception of time may be made up. I've also been staring at my cuckoo clock too long

“Echoes of Wisdom”: How a game of callbacks Brings something new Newest “Zelda” installment finds its place within series’s lore (Origininally publised on Medium on Oct. 4, 2024.) For much of its history, The Legend of Zelda series has arguably been less about innovation than about adopting a…

First poem of the new year 🦆

Looking for something to make the snowfall steamy this winter? "Babygirl" might have it, but perhaps not as much as advertised.

I've wanted to do something like this for a long time -- here is my review of "A Complete Unknown," starring Timothee Chalamet as the inscrutable, generation-defining Bob Dylan

Unlike almost anywhere else in the country, Carter actually gained ground in the Pittsburgh area in the 1980 election as steel began to collapse regionally

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Well, I guess it's going to be "Dire Dire Docks" on loop for the rest of the day

Written this weekend while waiting for a friend in the Strip District ❄️

"Cut the copyeditors," they said. "How bad could it be?"

PRT recently announced the 51 bus was the most popular route in the region this year, so I wrote something for it