Does anyone have recs for actually useful screen glasses?

Introducing @darkertimes.bsky.social - a new worker-owned website for cultural criticism about all things horror! www.darkertimes.com

Press are about to be arrested with protestors at Delaney Hall. State police just told them that if they don’t leave now, everyone is getting arrested.

"They are eager to shoot. You can see it in their face, their eyes." -- @statuscoupnews.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhCE...

Relatedly: if you know of faith leaders getting involved with these protests (as they have repeatedly elsewhere), feel free to let me know or hit me up on Signal at: jackmjenkins.60

days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com

OK, I'm officially regretting my choice not to install the A/C last night

"This silence, of course, conceals the way in which cultural capital is underwritten by capital capital; the ways in which literary legitimacy is made possible because someone subsidized it." Grateful for this frank discussion of the impossible economics of writing thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

this is a masterpiece

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Very hard to plan a future when the fields you work in are collapsing

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands march on Via Garibaldi to the Arsenale as part of a massive protest timed with today’s historic Venice Biennale strike. The 24-hour labor pause for Palestine and workers’ rights is the first cultural strike in the biennale’s 131-year history.

Good news: got accepted to a residency! so rare! Bad news: it's not fully funded 😭

Here it is, my first post for @weareravenous.com. It's about chef Telly Justice of HAGS, and her mission to bring pay-what-you-can dining to restaurants across the country, and the world. I'm so excited its out in the world. www.weareravenous.com/pay-what-you...

Ah yes, I see all the Pulitzer criticism finalists were men, cool cool

*logs on* *sees smoking discourse* *immediately logs off*

My coworkers at Hachette and I are unionizing!! I am so proud of all of the work we've put into this campaign. We are the largest union in trade publishing. Please sign our open letter to show your support and urge management to voluntarily recognize our union! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is such a hopeful project, but one that's struggled to gain support. A great place to drop some money, if you have some to spare.

Bought myself a lap desk and now feeling intensely like I have come full circle with my childhood self. (I made my own lap desk when I was a kid, in an art class somewhere, and it was highly uneven but had much more character than this ugly one I just bought.)

It really is laid off if you do, laid off if you don't with corporate media www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/b...

Cursing the economics of being a writer whose friends and colleagues are all publishing books. So happy for people, yet so broke!

This morning on the subway a woman was yelling at a man who was standing over & harassing her. She told him to move away repeatedly, and he refused. So I intervened as best I could. But what bewilders me most is the fact that no one else did anything or even seemed to glance at the situation.

Why does Amtrak wifi still suck so much??!!

This is like a preview of what it's gonna be like When It Happens

The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night (From Instagram)

Just went through security at LaGuardia, and it is entirely ICE doing ID security checks. Absolutely ghoulish.

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

If you want something concrete to do while so much is terrifyingly out of our control, here's one option: donate to a mutual aid effort supporting people displaced by Israel's genocidal war on Lebanon.

So, anyway: How about that Moon?! (The Earth isn’t bad either!)

Big media is contributing to the rise of authoritarianism and threatening workers across the industry. Join the National Writers Union Monday, April 27 at 7pm ET for a panel discussion on the dangers of media consolidation, how we got here, & what we can do about it. Register: bit.ly/FightBigMedia

We are Ravenous — food media with teeth. Ravenous is worker-owned food and culture media company founded by @francesdoingthings.bsky.social, @aemccarthy.bsky.social, @jayasaxena.com, @shokdiesel.bsky.social, and @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social.

Watched the Lego movie on a plane recently and now I keep hearing the song "everything is awesome" in my head, except my brain automatically changes it to "everything is awful!"

Hey, you! @51st.news is looking for a new reporter. Are you obsessed with D.C. news, history, culture, sports, events, or quirks and curiosities? Are you excited to tell stories about interesting local people and places? Apply!

The *only* place for the non-paying public to sit at Grand Central today is in the Station Master's Office, and at the open seating in the lower-level Dining Concourse. Grand Central's remaining public benches were permanently shipped-off to Springfield's Union Station masslive.com/news/2018/07...

Public seating has disappeared incrementally from Grand Central Terminal over 40 years. Benches were removed from the former Main Waiting Room—Vanderbilt Hall between 1989-92. The West Balcony benches were removed for Cipriani in 2002. The Lower (Dining) Concourse benches were removed in 2019.

Grand Central used to have public seating. Then they got rid of all their chairs, and now the little seating that’s left is policed. I will never stop being angry about this.

Might get yelled at for this but: I'd guess that some journalists & writers use AI as a shortcut because the economics of the field suck. I don't condone this! But I don't think we can get on our high horses if we're not also talking about how much work people are being asked to do for so little pay

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Scrutiny aside, as a critic why would you do this??? What is the point of being a writer if you don't want to write??? bsky.app/profile/jeff...

What a pitch

Took me three pharmacies to find Paxlovid, and the copay is $40. Love to live in a country that pretends the pandemic never happened and covid still doesn’t really exist!

I need a chronic illness grant for writers

Always happy to see a piece by my pal @jilnotjill.bsky.social arrive in my actual mailbox.

Being a lefty American Jew right now is really a mindfuck!

NEW: 92% of unionized staff @propublica.org voted to authorize a strike if management does not agree to a fair contract that includes guardrails around the use of AI. ✊ You can stand with @propublicaguild.org by donating to their strike fund! newsguild.org/unionized-st...

Remember when the New Museum busted its union? Would love us all not to forget that