This could have been worse.

If Stranger Things was remade today and set the same number of years ago as S1 it would be in 2003 and instead of a resurgence of a Kate Bush song it would be Hoobastank, the kids would dress up for Halloween like Neo and Trinity. No I can’t prove this is actually correct I am not going to do math.

cleaning up my desktop, ran across this helpful guide to our presidents

I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.

did a spider post this

THANKSGIVING is actually a very easy to break down: THA = tha, a way of saying “the” NKS = don’t know what this is GIVING = giving, when you give something

Possibly one of the BEST deadpan line reads in the history of sitcoms

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely at Grant Park Beach?

I would love to see somebody fantastic land this Journal Sentinel arts & culture reporter role: career.io/job/remote-a...

The Packers can’t go 11-5 if they don’t lose 5 games. That’s just math.

This is the only gale of November that I recognize.

"Torment Nexus" comes from this tweet and is often used now to describe the kind of negative experiences you can have with social networks, like getting dogpiled or harassed or being pushed into conflict

Perswadded. Just a classic series all around.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

How lucky can one family be? Win the presidency and their family business starts booming at exactly the same time!

fixed that for you

Nostalgia's okay, but it used to be better

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

One of Milwaukee's top restaurants, helmed by a "Top Chef" finalist, will be back in business soon. www.jsonline.com/story/entert...

The lack of a truly split crowd was jarring, given how Cubs-Brewers games in Milwaukee typically look (and sound). “I heard the Brewers fans. I didn't hear anything else." www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

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I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Head of Oregon National Guard tells troops deployed to Portland: “I know this isn’t easy. Some people in Oregon won’t understand or won’t support this mission. Some might even be hostile about it.” Full letter: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/oregon-nat...

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I foresee a future where ad/product placements are part of AI answers. Probably not labeled other than a general "Search results may contain paid advertisements." Won't cover the $$ gap, but it will quickly remove any "benefits" to using chatbots over search results.

Ah, a Friday afternoon without major news blowing up. Let me just take a sip of this coffee and...I'm sorry...what now?

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

He's right. But the reason there's fewer diagnoses is because they don't take their kids to the doctor for any reason at all, they go to YouTube.

Perhaps, like the Milwaukee sports psychopath you are, you wondered "How often has a team had a 5.5-game lead or better on Sept. 1 and lost the division?" It's happened twice since 1995. Two out of 100 teams. And one of them (the 2006 Tigers) went to the World Series anyway.

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Pretty good rundown on what's going on with the Kimmel situation here from @brianstelter.bsky.social Sharing with my students as this was a big topic of discussion in media law and ethics class today. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

Final: Brewers 9, Angels 2 Freddy Peralta, with 17 wins, will finish as the National League's wins leader in 2025. The magic number is 7. The record 92-59

I feel this in my bones. 2013 was three corporate mergers ago for me.

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

Both he and Newman were exactly what famous actors should be: concerned with doing good work and getting good films made, displaying an affection and love for art, having fun hobbies, giving lots of their time and money to help people and not being a complete piece of shit in their personal life RIP

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

I've worked in digital publishing and engagement for 20 years. What Charlie Kirk was doing on college campuses was not "politics done right" or engaging in honest debate. What he was doing was engineering gotcha moments for the purpose of creating short video clips for social media.

2017: a middle aged man with no criminal history brings an arsenal to a hotel room in Vegas, opens fire on a music festival below, killing 60, and wounding hundreds before killing himself, the worst mass shooting in US history, and to this day nobody has any idea why he did it.

One thing I always emphasize to a newer journalist is that there's a balance between speed and accuracy that needs to be found, and the latter always trumps the former. It's better to be fifth to a story and correct than first and wrong. Feels like a lot of media orgs need to relearn that right now.

It’s obviously still early, but the reporting that makes the most sense to me is that Charlie Kirk’s shooter was extremely online.

This is something that I think needs to be said more for the young people. This shit got worse. Google was more useful in 2006 than it is today. Meemaw and Peepaw regularly post shit on Facebook that would have got you banned from Newgrounds.

As someone who spends way too much time in stadiums as it is I'm not advocating for this but: I'm surprised these media partners have not asked the NFL & NBA to extend halftimes by a couple of minutes. Like, they're paying for all this talent, for the games - and yet halftimes are SO short.

I’m starting to think the Packers might be good.

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation. JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender. Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

This is pretty great.