interesting thread, and alarming (bottom line: it's going to get worse)

ballerina farm stops selling raw milk because of health violations (too much coliform, the bacteria that includes e coli) www.kpcw.org/summit-count...

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Wrote about getting laid off and why media workers deserve a little grace. www.readergrev.com/p/washington...

i think it should be illegal to put common iphone noises in commercials

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embarrassed that it took me this long to realize that the reason tara and johnny are on the traitors *now* instead of any other season is olympics crossover promo

ok p sure that nbc is turning up the volume of the music on the broadcast whenever they want to drown out boos #olympics

“I’ve been cast at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony” “What are you?” “A stovetop espresso maker.”

tbf NBC and the IOC does this with every Olympics clip ever They’re the most hypervigilant of any of these sporting orgs every year I barely want to post video clips on this app because of how nuts they are with the takedowns (hence stills instead)

!!!!!!!

ok shifting tonight's programming to the primetime Olympics broadcast

ok well after spending some time randomly punching in words/names and then going down a rabbit hole (gregory brown)... the volume of material is obviously so overwhelming, why haven't we seen a cross-publication investigative collaboration on the epstein files similar to the pandora papers?

strange redaction (yes, i searched "climate change" in the epstein files why do you ask) www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

ooo person deleted at least one of the bad posts and im not surprised because people with 10s of 1000s of followers were quoting and dragging it was a bad take but idk 1) i don't like seeing small accounts get dragged by big accounts and 2) there's just no reason to give the bad takes free promo

this is wild, considering what we're learning about weight loss drugs and nutritional deficiencies...

currently discussing in the group chat how much the guys would need to be paid to inject hyaluronic acid or paraffin in their...you know

sometimes i think about the banksy piece that shredded itself at auction and omg it is just so fucking delicious ai could never

ooooooo i want to dunk on someone with a HORRIBLE ai take but they are already getting dogpiled and they have less than 1k followers and im just not gonna go there

ughhhh this is so freaking cool.

wapo sports reporter telling bbc radio he chose to stay and report from the olympics as a last thing to do for wapo readers, he wants to write

did the donation-based, pay what you can yoga classes get a lot faster over the past decade or am i just 10 years older

fascinating thread...i love reading about the reporting process behind the story

When AI-enabled disinformation meets conventional warfighting...

why is apple labeling calls as "survey call" instead of possible spam now? i just picked one of these calls up in case it was idk, a pollster (have never been contacted by a pollster but it's theoretically possible) and got a robotic "hello this is" before it cut off and automatically hung up

request: i wish there was a bluesky feature where I can see both TOP and RECENT posts when i search a keyword because top posts will often pull posts from way beyond a reasonable/relevant time frame and recent posts contain too much low effort content to sift through to get to the good stuff

i refuse to cede the em dash to ai. absolutely not you can pry that long thin line from my cold dead hands

uh oh i signed up for the great saunter again, and i don't even know what the hat looks like (it sold out in record time last year so if you want to do it....sign up soon)

i will march for a mere *dr evil voice* one milllioon dollars. plus travel expenses

🚨JUST IN: Experts share their concern about the no-rules, no-inspections period that opens when New START expires on Thursday. They also see an opportunity to adapt arms control to a multipolar world. My round-up👇 - 1/n (More will be added over the next few days.) #NewSTART #armscontrol #nukesky

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

The fire season in Patagonia this summer will likely be one of the most severe in recent decades, and the crisis is not an isolated phenomenon, writes Bulletin climate editorial fellow María de los Ángeles Orfila.

I know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left? Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.

a win is a win?? "The nation had 86.2 million cattle and calves as of Jan. 1, the USDA said in a biannual report, after a persistent drought drove ranchers to slash their herds. That was down 0.4% from a year earlier, when the herd also hit its lowest level since 1951."

good day to reshare direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff...

on top of everything i'm annoyed by how much more wapo discourse there is on the other site

New @thebulletin.org: Why Patagonia burns every summer: climate change, shifting fire regimes, and policy failures. More than 45,000 hectares (111,197 acres) have already burned. In just a month, the fires scorched an area greater than the total area burned last summer.

i have lots of feelings about working in journalism rn but feeling alone is not one of them, so that's good!

find myself unexpectedly crying as i read posts about the post. i'd say i was irrationally upset but i think it's completely rational to be angry and sad about people hoarding power and money and pretending that intentional destruction is just a happy accident of the balance sheet.

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

so folks, do we think it was cheaper to kill gawker from the outside, or to kill the wapo from the inside? what gives a billionaire better bang for his buck

The layoffs at the Washington Post have begun, with newsroom leaders telling employees its sports and books sections will be 'eliminated in current forms' and its international coverage will be downsized

🚨 JUST IN: Greenland's geographical location provides no added benefit to a space-based architecture of interceptors and sensors for US missile defense, Igor Moric of @princeton.edu writes in @thebulletin.org. #Greenland #GoldenDome #Trump #NATO #nuclearrisk #nukesky

i support this

Although dehumanization shapes support for drones, the public favors human oversight of strikes. When strikes are conducted by “killer robots,” which use AI to identify, track, and target, the public begins to question the merits of operations, the authors of a new @thebulletin.org piece explain.

think of all the college students who were disciplined or expelled for protesting genocide

Columbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now.