This smiley face trash-and-recycling can at the bank, which drops everything into one singular plastic bag inside, is a metaphor for *something* but I'm not sure what

"Fired But Fighting" has created a searchable database of fired/furloughed federal workers available for side-hustle hire: graphic design, dog-walking, babysitting, etc: firedbutfighting.org/talent-marke...

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Interesting news on the Plastics/PFAS beat - Recyclers Ban Fluorinated Containers peer.org/recyclers-ba...

Juice fans of Crown Heights! Andre is such a wonderful dude and a good friend to all - let's not let him get forced out of the neighborhood! I just donated: gofund.me/132cc6100

We live in NYC, my family is in VA, and my husband's family is in NJ, so you just KNOW the Fam text chains are going to be LIT tonight

Extremely 2025 coded - Firefighters are donating their plasma to reduce the forever chemicals in their blood. "If a firefighter donates plasma six times a year, the PFAS in their blood could be reduced by up to 60%." (The plasma is "cleaned" before being used.) www.yourvalley.net/glendale-ind...

Have you checked out @coyotemedia.org recently? We've done some good shit in the last two weeks! 〰️ An essay by @emmaruthless.bsky.social on why all our options seem to suck right now 〰️ A guide to places offering free food to SNAP recipients: www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

HELL YEAH

Just going to re-up this question I asked at 2:46 am game 3, I haven’t yet gotten a good answer

Does anyone else find this user experience odd

Incredible epsiode of The Daily featuring @hannahdreier.bsky.social and her revelatory reporting on unmasked firefighters and the health consequences they face www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/p...

Ok THANK you Semafor for doing the dang door-knock that finally made this story make sense! (Like, wdym "Bill DeBlasio impersonator," NYT?) Side note, this is the most actual LOL funniest article ever www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

DEFEND THE DAILY NEWS

In this house we believe

New Yorkers: Come to City Hall Park tomorrow at noon and join the unionized reporters, photographers and editors of the New York Daily News, as we call on Heath Freeman and Alden Global Capital to pay fair wages and agree to worker protections.

"New chemicals used in data centers" / just in case you needed a little more nightmare fuel today www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ep...

In other, extremely-related news, my husband now owns multiple versions of this @roryblank.bsky.social T shirt in multiple different colors and I love it

"Maybe the only way to turn the tide of misinformation... is to flood the algorithm w/ the right stuff. Unfortunately, flooding the algorithm takes resources, policy changes, and a unified, evidence-based message—the things that a fully funded federal Safe to Sleep campaign had previously promised."

Tuned into baseball on a whim this eve, the first game I’ve watched in years bc I don’t really follow baseball, and now I’m pleased to announce that baseball is my entire personality

Me: Seems like Instagram really messes with kids’ self esteem! it should only be for grown-ups with fully-developed brains and value systems! Every single Instagram ad on my feed: Hi, if you’re like me, you’re a woman in your 40s and your skin looks like shit

Come work with me! I'm hiring a data scientist to join me at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @shorensteinctr.bsky.social careers.harvard.edu/job/senior-d...

Friday eve vibes

Who knew* I had 5k words in me about: -The hallucinatory pain of new-parent sleep-deprivation -Weirdo slop product listings -Contradictory ChatGPT advice -Fuzzy accountability in IG & TikTok shopping -Funding cuts to public health *(@consumerreports.org did) www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...

I love this idea, this was such a good read, and I hope this is still a thing when it’s my time www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/r...

didn't get enough sleep last night and now i'm crying laughing over this

New class action lawsuit against doTERRA, the essential oil MLM, says it is an illegal pyramid scheme www.classaction.org/doterra-well...

Awesome way to find out where you can donate your money or time if you don't need their resources today

Smart-bed update; this product continues to be unfortunately, unintentionally hilarious www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

....Rain Rain Barkels

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Trump's shutdown firings hit the CDC team behind the country's key survey on public health and nutrition "It will be very, very difficult for the survey to continue with this group gone," a former CDC official tells @statnews.com

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use: www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

🚨New @jacobsilverman.com alert! 🚨 Can’t wait to read this

<3 Free Shipping Day at Bookshop.org! <3

This article is great because it's like, Absolutely EVERYone is buying these gajillion-dollar high-end strollers, wow! And also, we can't find a single example of anyone actually using one, other than as an ironic photo prop www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/s...

I'd like to take a moment to reiterate my previous point

New venn diagram of fears just dropped www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Had a dream last night they were selling shirts and pants to put on your phone, so you could pick out your phone's outfit every day, like it was a little doll

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

omg yes I think about this ALL the time

every day

"AI art" is such a funny term. Just like, no, it's not

“Elections reward coalitions of voters, while markets respond to *consumers* — voters and non-voters — whose preferences show up not just on Election Day, but in audience ratings, subscription revenue, purchases (like trips to Disney World), etc…” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

Great investigation from @cnbc.com about counterfeit products being sold by 3rd-party sellers on Walmart's site www.cnbc.com/2025/09/19/w...

Task on HBO is the MOST STRESSFUL television I have ever experienced, and I’m obsessed