Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

I'm going to bet @jayrosen.bsky.social & @dankennedy.net are aware of this brilliantly damning essay...but just in case... Thx to Celeste for sharing it, too. 👍

I find this a bit trite but hard to deny the fundamental accuracy behind it. @dicknixon.bsky.social

@dicknixon.bsky.social 🤦‍♂️

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

All good things... Dropping off the talented, brilliant and lovely Ann Alquist at TF Green for her flight back to Fargo after a few days in RI. I talk to her on the phone two or three times a week but DAMN it's nice to see your friends in person. 💖

Any idea what's up @vineyardgazette.bsky.social? This was the Monday 6:15pm from VH to WH. They stayed with us all the way to the dock. No obvious police presence on the ferry itself. Couldn't tell if they were actual police or USCG.

@wychstreet.bsky.social my ferry home from the Vineyard has a three-boat police escort. 😳 Send lawyers, guns and money!

"Just becoming partisan is not a long-term strategy. Personally, as a journalist, I also find it an uninteresting strategy." So much to say about this, but first let me tell you what it is. Thomas Evans, NPR's editor in chief, interviewed by Carolina Abbott Galvão in @columjournreview.bsky.social

The corporate oligarchy enshittification continues apace. Stop & Shop in RI is firing all its pro drivers and packers for grocery delivery (formerly Peapod), with trucks, refrigeration boxes, and dollies. Pushing to Instacart, which forces gig workers to "personal shop" in personal cars.

Your Intrepid Engineer has a long history of being something of a packrat. And part of that is having a car full of, well, stuff. Mostly tools, but also just random parts and supplies that came in handy. When I started working for L&R full-time, I wanted to organize things better. Here's how I did!

@mvyradio.bsky.social was anyone from the staff nearby when it happened? That must've been god-tier to watch in person! :)

Same deal here in Watchemoket Square in East Providence.

@askamanager.org Re-reading this post, I own my own business, but in the last six months I've had people ask me what it would take to hire me at their company. In all cases, it would be to do the work I do for my own firm, just concentrated at their company to the exclusion of my firm. I always say

This is a real blow, both personally and professionally. Greg was not just a hell of an employee at WEOS & WHWS-LP (the first, and so far only, FT employee I've managed!) but a hell of a newsman, and a hell of a radio guy. And a hell of a friend, too. 😭 www.fingerlakesdailynews.com/local/flx-lo...

Well that's not good. Car-be-que at the Shaw's East Providence (Taunton Ave) this afternoon. @wpri12.bsky.social

@aidanryan.bsky.social WBUR pulled a nifty slight of hand on their festival revenue numbers. $3.7 million in gross revenue is nice, but they only said it "turned a profit"? Well how much? $1mil was an anon gift; that's not replicable. So unless the NET revenue was at least $1mil? It lost money.

Something I've been meaning to do a writeup on for some time now is something my partner Michael LeClair has *also* wanted a writeup on: how to do an EPM for an FM radio station. Ergo, here it is! :) landrbroadcastservices.com/2025/05/23/e...

@danmcgowan.bsky.social I wonder how the East Providence "success story" of getting back to pre-2019 levels has been influenced by the opening of the new high school that opened in 2021. It's quite nice in there.

Hoping we see lots more stuff like this in coming years.

Have you heard about this, @peterneronha.bsky.social ?

We built a new radio station (WMVC) for our client MVY radio!

The enshittification is fast approaching on Bluesky. In the last week I've had three dozen new followers, every one is a pornbot. My notifications is FULL of likes from them. I say it's a matter of months, at most, before Bluesky is just another X-esque hellsite. @dankennedy-nu.bsky.social

I blame the West Wing, don't you, @wychstreet.bsky.social?

We did a thing! L&R installed a bunch of acoustic panels at WMVY over the summer. These are their stories. landrbroadcastservices.com/2024/08/14/a...

Wow, I suddenly picked up a bunch of followers! Thank you! :) Uhh, well, I currently work at The Public's Radio (WNPN 89.3FM) but I'm leaving to pursue my broadcast engineering consulting firm (www.LandRbs.com) full-time in February 2025.

@johnmarion.bsky.social does Rhode Island have security cameras on its ballot box dropoffs? www.katu.com/news/local/v...

@katiecandraw.bsky.social IT'S HERE IT'S HERE IT'S HERE!!! ❤️ By the way I got the first book explicitly to give to my wife and she was utterly consumed by the adorableness. 😁

@fybush.bsky.social I never realized WPLM's AM signal covers so little ground. I thought it was a figure 8 or *something* that might cover the South Shore but nope. Flashlight towards the canal and no more. I'm amazed they've waited this long to cripple it down to one tower & cheaper operation. 🤷‍♂️

@johnmarion.bsky.social thanks for the follow! 😁 Someday we should have another beer and talk again about that idea I had about objective ranking of pols' votes/positions to weed out the DINO's. Your point of increasing partisian divide was correct but we ended up getting that anyways without it.

Hey Rhode Islanders, invasive spotted lanternflies are now in Providence (one landed on me in my backyard today -ewwww). If you see one, take a photo, squash it and report it here dem.ri.gov/spottedlante...

Gen X: "We're Here. Go away."

The sign explicitly says if you pee on the #WPVD property, your picture is going on social media and that women will point and laugh. I've done my part. Ladies! The rest is up to you!

@dankennedy-nu.bsky.social HOLY SCHNIKES. 😬

I think I'm going to start promoting my blog posts for L&R here more. Well, assuming I blog more. Haven't had as much time/permission to blog as I'd like. landrbroadcastservices.com/2023/09/09/n...

I am now the proud owner of $27000 used Toyota Corolla that I will never get to drive. "Mawwage." 🤷‍♂️

So thx to @dankennedy-nu.bsky.social for the invite to Blue Sky! :) I do plan on moseying over here now and then, same as I plan to phase out my Twitter use (I'm only there for @dicknixon.bsky.social). I mostly use Facebook anyways; I keep it tightly under control, <200 friends, so it works for me.