The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

This is very important and a major pet peeve of mine. If you don’t know what you’re doing- and if you learned on the internet, then sorry, you don’t know what you’re doing- please leave old gravestones well enough alone.

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

Wait, what? In the deluge of atrocities, I missed one that makes my head spin. As a girl, I thought if armed forces were gender integrated they’d be less rapey. Turns out women joining the force doesn’t solve the patriarchy problem

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this: all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral. BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

This has been our experience as well. The bottom line is if you are running a publication and want an audience of people who actually read things, this is...basically the only option at the moment. Reddit sort of works. It's great for driving traffic. But not really an overall substitute.

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.

This might be worth a story, @carfreepvd.bsky.social It's not perfect; I see it says my street is plowed when it's really "half-plowed" at best. But it's better than nothing. And props to the mayor for promoting it on his FB page.

@celesteheadlee.bsky.social It's enraging to me that a white dude...possibly the whitest dude...is absolutely schooling a black woman. I get that she's probably worried about her job, but christ what a terrible look.

This guy gets it.

And yet notice that she decided to lock all replies to the thread immediately after I posted this. 🤔

This one clip from John Oliver's episode on Weiss and the Free Press back in Oct really captures their usual disingenuousness and deceit. It isn't just the casual dismissal of racism it's the way they don't tell you what the article was so people can assume it was not as obviously racist as it was

France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power. 1/

This is why I moved off Substack to Ghost. The Nazis will migrate to any big platform but when a platform actively promotes them, that is a choice

Gubernatorial campaign accounts by # of households they could pay 12 months of rent for at the 2-bedroom at market rate (via NHLIC's 2025 Out of Reach report: nlihc.org/oor/state/ri ): Shekarchi: 221 Foulkes: 143 McKee: 56 Guckian: 2

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

Mayor Smiley promised us the “best run city in America,” and we are curious when exactly we’ll make progress toward that goal. Here’s what he said when announcing his run for mayor in 2022, from a ProJo article by Amy Russo. ⤵️

I deleted TikTok back when the Oracle purchase was announced but if you've still got it, you GOTTA dump it. Especially for trans folks. It straight up says in the new TOS that they--Oracle, the company that has active ties to the Trump admin--are monitoring and documenting trans and NB users.

Worth noting given your current efforts! @rifoundation.bsky.social

Plese repost & share: "The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education." www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Kicking it old school. @npr.org I saved these out of Time or Newsweek some 25 years ago, framed them, and held onto them ever since!

The headline is bad, but don’t be fooled. The arguments presented in the article are also very bad.

I love passing this bridge and realizing that if a whole city can be this petty, I am not holding onto too many grudges.

This is a suddenly ubiquitous scam: the AI-generated email from a "book club" that can get your book into a couple hundred or couple thousand new hands. It's bullshit! Don't do it!

@danmcgowan.bsky.social @stephmachado.bsky.social the bigger Q is: what's Smiley done to hand control back over to the city? I don't recall seeing any particular changes that would indicate the city could run the schools any better than they did before. Never mind better than the state does now. 🤷‍♂️

Thx to Radio World for the chance to share my take on the future of radio! www.radioworld.com/news-and-bus...

I'm on my fifth or sixth Pixel and was an early adopter of Google Fi. Lacking any better information, I contacted Google Fi support and actually got a response on how to stop Gemini popups from taking over my Pixel 9 Pro screen. Yes, I threatened to switch to iPhone. Full instructions in alt

My number one tip for attending meetings hosted by small, picturesque colleges: Arrive early on the first day to lay claim to one of the few available power outlets in the lecture theater.

@samghoward.riliberator.com this was on the official Facebook page of the Hopkinton RI police dept today. 🤦‍♂️🤬 www.facebook.com/share/p/1CAz...

This isn't about democratizing the news. It's about elevating "vibes" and "feelings" to be on par with lived experience and subject-matter expertise.

You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.

Well well well. Suddenly my contempt for the NYT doesn't seem so crazy anymore, does it? @dankennedy.net

So the site currently isn’t working, but if you’re a California resident this is probably worth bookmarking to check out once it’s back up

@peterneronha.bsky.social I have to think there's a law on our fine state's books you could use for this?

A notable writing moment from 2025: This piece received an extraordinary response from readers, including texts from people I hadn't heard from in years.

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

Happy Eat the Christmas Tree Day to all who celebrate

I love Takei but this is not accurate. Let's take a dive into what actually happened. 1. Commercial TV networks in Canada such as Global, CTV and City make most of their $ by licensing US TV shows for rebroadcast. They *must* broadcast exactly the same content the US networks are carrying...

I like to fuck with people about how to spell my name, which nobody, not even me, gets right. DO I LOOK LIKE AN IRISH WOMAN TO YOU, MOTHERF**KER?!?!?

still my favorite christmas post

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This is a story of tremendous importance. Unlike the lead-up to the Great Recession, the NYT and WSJ have been relentless in sounding the alarm over what could be a financial crash. But no one is listening. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

Jesus @bostonglobe.com this is pathetic. Not even a week after you botched my password reset, now your website apparently cannot remember my cookie choices so it's demanding I confirm this in this giant popup that CAN'T BE CLICKED ON AN IPHONE. #clownshow

I will keep saying this. If you bought a calculator and it EVEN ONCE told you 2+2=5, you’d throw it out and demand a refund. If you had an employee who lied confidently to you, and was easily caught, you’d fire them. LLMs are the untrustworthy calculator and the confident liar. Fire them.