appropo of nothing, feeling dangerous close to a total crash out today

Ratboys with Florry @ Motorco next March. we're still three months away from 2026, and I'm not sure there will be a better lineup for a show next year than this

manifesting open.spotify.com/playlist/2BF...

A UNC program partnering with community colleges has lost a federal grant to help train future preschool teachers to serve students with disabilities. It's part of the U.S. Department of Education's crackdown on grants promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. Obscene www.wunc.org/education/20...

Uncertainty demands better listening, not louder leadership. In these times, what can you do to make things better? Make space for real questions. Don’t deflect. Instead, ask, follow up and check the room. Trust grows when people feel seen, not silenced.

I’ll post more about this on Monday but yes it’s true, ya girl got to draw the new covers for the relaunch of Animorphs. I am… THE LIZARD KING

That's today

Don't worry everyone, News Corp have a great track record of buying and successfully managing social networks.

thinking about big rice

1/ I tend to be skeptical of boycotts but 👀 this whole story about the internal and external pressure Disney is facing after suspending Kimmel. I would compare the situation facing Disney to something like what Target has faced this year after ending its DEIA efforts.

A bitch got drunk

Something something Goebbels something

Found it

Drunk and pissed off about the state of the world at the PUP/Jeff rosenstock show 🤘🏼🤬

Why the fuck am I doing grad school anyway

Thinking tonight about how PBS preemptively fired its DEI staff to appease Trump, and they still lost their money. 

Every day of 2025 has been a new version of "I will never forgive the people who let this happen."

I'm so tired, and hell month (October) hasn't even started yet 🫠

Kimmel is not “journalism” but it certainly is public commentary and jokes that offend the FCC are jokes that offend corporate owners looking for FCC merger approvals.

As media giants repeatedly bend the knee to authoritarianism, ”giant“ is the problem. Diseases spread faster in monocultures.

if that were enough to do it, wouldn’t it have happened already when CBS cancelled Colbert?

Quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

Got both my flu and COVID vaccines at the pharmacy today, which I did nownownow because of reasons, but also I have a dental appointment scheduled tomorrow for a cleaning and a filling. At 8am. Barely 15 hours after the double vax. So.

Palate cleanser

So anyway I'm reading Model Home by Rivers Solomon and thinking about generational trauma and my grandfather's death and how and what is being communicated about and around the memorial service

BREAKING: The recently merged Paramount Skydance is reportedly preparing a takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. If they're allowed to merge the combined company would have a valuation of over $60 billion.

because everything's totally normal right now: Newly released video at House UFO hearing appears to show U.S. missile striking & bouncing off an "orb" off the coast of Yemen

Let’s work on this lede

"The vague and subjective criteria of having a story that includes 'good talkers' ... end up favoring experts and guests with experience within and connections to white institutional spaces," writes @lauragarbes.bsky.social. current.org/2025/09/how-...

Many congratulations to Laura Garbes (University of Minnesota) on the publication of her pathbreaking sociology of the culture, idealism, and contradictions of public media. Out today on Princeton University Press.

I don't know what I want to eat

Me: So I just found out my grandpa died this morning Them: Oh no! I'm so sorry! Me: My feelings on the matter are ✨complicated✨

Major kudos to my friends at KEXP for a splendid 2024 report, released this week. This is what community engagement and active listening look like. www.kexp.org/about/annual-r...

Monday morning

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

I have done multiple scrubbings of the bathtub today and it is now cleaner than it has ever been. Yet I burned out before really tackling the bathroom floor

Watching the Past Tense 2 parter in season 3 of deep space nine and wolf, buddy

"It’s easy to understand why CBS’ newsroom staff are in full meltdown." Nepo-billionaire David Ellison's plan to acquire Bari Weiss’ right-leaning outlet The Free Press (not us) isn't about financial gain - it's a signal to the anti-mainstream media crowd that CBS News is being reshaped. A 🧵...

Submitted a Google form for consideration to be a diner in S23 of Top Chef, which is filming in Charlotte. You know, as you do.

i am simply too autistic for outdated organizational workflows and politics

An important argument from @benjamintoff.bsky.social about the need for newsrooms, researchers and funders to align on the definitions and goals of local news ecosystem studies: www.localnewsimpact.org/2025/09/01/a...

From "How Might We" to "At What Cost": uxdesign.cc/from-how-mig...

Sighh. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is going fully digital, meaning the South is losing one of its last major daily print newspapers.

Breaking News: After over 150 years, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of the year. The publication says the time is right to pour all of its resources into its online news operation and get its journalism “in front of the most people.”

I've been reading Demon Copperhead before bed and it's giving me some wild dreams

For decades, Argentina's yerba mate farmers benefited from state intervention. Now they're struggling to survive under a libertarian president

yeah, that sounds about what I'd expect

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.