Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

Uh … guys … it’s literally a five-minute walk from the Rogers Centre, which has a pretty big retractable roof.

Happy Canada Day, folks.

come, see real flowers of this painful world ~ Matsuo Basho ~ #photography #mygarden #stunday #littlethings #visualnarrative

It’s been a while but what exactly is going on in this picture

I will never get over airport rules. Just saw a man chase a glass of prosecco with a double whiskey. Sir, it’s 7 in the morning.

Suuuuuper normal ad to see on the metro. Living in DC is sometimes just bizarre.

Achievement: unlocked. I’m now friends with @historicacanada.bsky.social

Seriously, I gotta do this for Canada Day next year. Anyone in DC want in, hmu.

Aww thanks for this!

Omg the @halifaxexaminer.ca wrote about my nerdy little Heritage Minutes project. Thank you! www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Good morning

I put all the Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event so you don't have to. 🇨🇦 (I was looking for this and couldn't find it, so it became a weird hobby. It genuinely may be of interest only to me.) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Is this 77-year-old Grace Jones hula hooping and belting it? Yes, yes it is.

I was THAT GUY recently and caught a mistake on the write up of a museum exhibit and “uh, actually”-ed the docent. (Anyone know knows anything about Ikkyu Sojun knows he would never “enlighten” a sex worker about “the evils of her profession.”) Once a fact checker, always a fact checker.

Spectacular Amy Sherald exhibit at the Whitney.

William Faulkner’s house, Rowan Oaks, in Oxford Mississippi.

It’s a small, rebellious, freeing thing to be indifferent to maintaining a streak.

Scenes from Canada

A private hobby is to read all stories about AI as though the I is a lowercase L and there’s this real problem with this unhinged and wildly chaotic guy named AL.

Old but ever useful www.poynter.org/newsletters/...

The Poynter leadership academy is a great way to not only level up your skills but to feel truly grounded, confident and present as a leader. 👏There couldn’t be a more important time for this in journalism.👏 www.poynter.org/shop/leaders...

Very cool thing: @404media.co offers free workshops to subscribers to teach them how to file effective FOIA requests.

Terrific and important (and free!) webinar coming up from @poynterinstitute.bsky.social April 7, 2025 1-2:15 p.m. Eastern time. Sign up here: 👇 www.poynter.org/shop/reporti...

Weird time to have an event near Washington, DC that sounds like you want to set the public sector on fire.

Astonishingly stark political shift in Canada in response to tariffs. newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/po...

New subscription push from Canadian media: That it's Canadian media. I've never seen anything like the patriotic surge in Canada right now.

My god, the actual panic and anxiety that an app experiences when you don't have notifications turned on.

Good evening, Bluesky, from this weird lil shrimp dude who lives in my office.

Spacing is a great little magazine. 10/10 recommend. Renewing my sub now.

Tremendous decision from Wired to make their work based on public records free. freedom.press/issues/wired...

Scenes from Mexico City.

👏 Student 👏 journalists 👏 are 👏 journalists 👏

Ten years ago, BuzzFeed’s post about The Dress – and whether it was blue and black, or white and gold – took over the internet, and our lives for a few days. It could likely never happen in the same way today. Here’s why: www.poynter.org/commentary/a...

Hey, I wrote a thing. The Dress was a light little distraction a decade ago. But it couldn’t happen now, and that says something much darker about how media works today. (BTW: the dress was black and blue.)

This is interesting, and feels largely true www.theverge.com/press-room/6...

Hey, I wrote a thing. The Dress was a light little distraction a decade ago. But it couldn’t happen now, and that says something much darker about how media works today. (BTW: the dress was black and blue.)

Give this headline writer a raise www.404media.co/email/855bf8...

Fascinating thread. I learned so much from this.

Let’s do cool things this year! www.poynter.org/from-the-ins...

Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

This entire thread - with multiple contributions and interesting anecdotes - is why I enjoy lurking in this space:

“Incarcerated firefighters have some of the highest injury rates among all prison workers and are four times more likely to sustain injuries compared to other firefighters. Also, they work some of the longest hours and have some of the hardest tasks to execute.”

2025 Out: parasocial relationship with TikTokers In: parasocial relationships with water-dropping helicopters

What’s everyone reading and loving right now?

this week huffpost announced they'd be laying off 30 editorial staffers. the media bloodbath is never-ending.

This is exactly how news outlets lose trust.

What’s happening California is breaking my heart

Have you ever seen sexier radicchio I ask you

In happier news, some of my mum’s things did survive shipping including this mantel clock, some antique books, this self-portrait I painted at 17, and some of my grandmother’s paintings including this sweet little watercolor of croci. Also pretty pleased with how my bookcase is shaping up.