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.

There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it

watching barbie for boys aka brad pitt the movie aka F1

🚨 JUST IN: If there was any opportunity to stop North Korea's march toward nuclear weapons, it was before the 1994 Agreed Framework, not after, Victor Gilinsky writes in @thebulletin.org. #nuclearweapons #NorthKorea #nukesky

Change in Headline

🚨 JUST IN: Nuclear weapons are not going to suddenly disappear. But they might create a more dangerous world in which countries are neither safely deterred nor meaningfully disarmed, Alex Kolbin writes. #nuclearweapons #NewSTART #Trump #Putin #nukesky

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

The Doomsday Clock is the closest it's ever been to midnight. The Clock statement explains why and is worth your attention. I know. I edited it. thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...

Seeing lots of dunks on this regarding the 2A hypocrisy, the Jan 6 hypocrisy. And like ya haha what a hypocrite, but this is so exhausting...no die-hard, gun-toting Trump supporter is going to watch this and think he's talking about them. Cause he's not. The hypocrisy is the point

What time is it? 85 seconds to midnight. The setting of the Doomsday Clock gets a lot of eyeballs, but the real juice is in the Clock Statement, where @meckdevil.bsky.social synthesizes the many intersecting global threats assessed by @thebulletin.org's Science & Security Board:

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 85 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been. When the New START treaty expires next week, there will be nothing stopping a new nuclear arms race. Trump and Putin could agree today to stick with New START limits. We can turn back the clock.

why is microsoft* word updating two days in a row. THAT does not give me confidence in your product *oh wait sorry i forgot: microslop

feel like the cuckoo emails always pick up after the clock announcement

this belongs in a museum!!! the museum of "these leopards won't eat MY face" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

convinced nobody is reading that bari weiss speech in full because then they'd be making fun of "SCOOPS OF IDEAS. SCOOPS OF EXPLANATIONS" more. no i will not give this a rest

there is so much to unpack here. "It's about simultaneous revolutions in our viewers' careers, their children's schools, their homes, and their communities" sounds like trad culture war fare...no mention of anything of national or global significance??

here's my thing here: these are things that broadly, every newsroom is saying they need to do over and over and over. which tells me that honestly, nobody really has any ideas how to fix the situation journalism finds itself, least of all bari weiss