Congrats to Oklahoma City on their first championship. Here’s Nacho repping the team.

From @kalhan.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

A few weeks ago, I was informed I was being laid off from NBC News. I’d been on bereavement and medical leave, so it was a bit of a shock. After taking some time to reset, I am now open and looking for work both in and outside of journalism. Get in touch at [email protected].

Best new newsletter just dropped. Subscribe to @kattenbarge.bsky.social’s SPITFIRE NEWS immediately!!!! spitfirenews.com

Little Monsters, we won 🥲

"TikTok users are pushing back against the looming TikTok ban set to potentially go into effect Sunday by downloading a Chinese app called RedNote." www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-... by @kalhan.bsky.social

For @nbcnews.com, I wrote explainers for the No. 1 and No. 2 apps in the App Store: RedNote and Lemon8. The apps have exploded in popularity amid the looming TikTok ban. Read more about the apps and why so many people are joining below:

I just downloaded League of Legends ….. am I going to die now?

Is Mouthwashing a Christmas game? It is now!

Here’s to new beginnings and old traditions 🎄 (I know my sugar cookies are ugly lmaoooo)

I wrote about why those scouring the social media of Luigi Mangione are fixating on a Pokémon called Breloom. Breloom, who appears in Mangione’s X header, has the Pokédex No. 286, which some people claim is a clue to the alleged shooter’s inner thoughts. t.co/3E2taFzFGY

It’s almost 60 degrees in NYC in December 🫠

THE SUBSTANCE IS NOMINATED AS A COMEDY????!!!!!

Oops! I was so busy I forgot to share that yesterday was my 8th anniversary at @nbcnews.com! I always called myself an NBC lifer and I still feel that way. The people I’ve met here, the work I’ve done here — it’s all been the greatest honor of my life. Here’s to many more years!

Playing my first non-coop horror game alone in the dark since I moved into my new apartment and I am both excited and terrified. If you’ve never played Mundaun, I highly, highly recommend it from its hand-penciled art style to its unique gameplay to its incredible storytelling. But it’s scary!!!

Internet sleuths seem to leap at the chance to solve real-world crime. But in the case of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, some have decided to sit this one out. New from me + Melissa Chan for @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

Deck Nine JUST released Life Is Strange: Double Exposure — a MASSIVE game in the franchise and now that the game is out they’re laying off members of the team. When I say this year has been a catastrophe for the gaming industry, I’m being delicate.

Having one of those days where I’m so busy I just looked up, saw it was 5pm, realized I haven’t eaten but also don’t want to eat. Is this what being a baby is like? Are we human or are we dancer? Nacho is giving me CPR

If confirmed, Mehmet Oz would be the first federal administrator to advertise health supplements on TikTok Shop. Top comments on his latest videos include “OMG WE ARE COOKED,” “The universe has to be toying with us,” and “we’re DOOMED.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

The powerful @errolmorris.bsky.social documentary SEPARATED airs on MSNBC Saturday. For this week's @longlead.bsky.social Depth Perception newsletter, I spoke with @nbcnews.com correspondent @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social, on whose book the film is based. depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/msnbc-jaco...

Spoilers for Wicked

TODAY: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

I listened to Disease so many times trying to get it to No. 1 and completely forgot how much I listened to Chappell Roan this year.

News team, assemble!

Follow our @nbcnews.com journalists on Bluesky, thanks to this handy starter pack from @mikehixenbaugh.com!

Literally had tickets tonight for Wicked and then I got a giant delivery and boxes are Nacho’s nemesis. Now he’s panicking so instead of watching a green witch sing like an angel I’m watching a blue French bulldog with an anxiety disorder try and cope with cardboard.

PlayStation is celebrating its 30th anniversary. In other news, I am a dinosaur. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkmo...

i still need to see “wicked” but everyone is talking about it like it’s citizen kane II and i’m so confused

Today in download rankings: iOS: No. 1 - Threads No. 26 - Bluesky No. 72 - X Google Play: No. 3 - Threads No. 20 - Bluesky No. 37 - X

When @stefficao.bsky.social and I were buying stuff for my new apartment we made a horrifying discovery that for some godforsaken reason the At Home store is selling chevron brooms and with mint-colored dustpans. I don’t know who from 2012 they’re catering to but this should be a federal crime.

In what has to be the most appropriate decision ever made, the 2024 word of the year is “Brain Rot,” according to Oxford University Press. For NBC News, I wrote about what the term means and why it was selected: www.nbcnews.com/tech/brain-r...

“A Million Gruesome Ways to Die” — a song from a pre-alpha game that doesn’t even have a release date yet — is the song of 2024 and I’m not going to argue with you about this.

I wrote about the cursed and recently unearthed 2003 Disney video game Piglet's Big Game, which some are saying is akin to "baby's first" horror game. If you’d like to find out why “Winnie the Pooh’s” Piglet might be your new sleep paralysis demon check out my latest for @NBCNews:

Hi. I haven’t been here in a very long time. How are you all?

BREAKING: Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy at LSU and stole her from the Drip King. Read my full report on this developing story over on NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/baby-gronk-livvy-rizz-explainer-rcna88392

So I learned a new Gen Z term today - “rizz” - as in to “rizz up.” From @kalhan.bsky.social: “Rizz” derives from “charisma” and is slang for charming or seducing another person. The word was popularized by YouTuber Kai Cenat in 2021, according to Dictionary.com.

Being kind to others is such an easy awesome scam because it makes everyone love you and you feel good and happy.

My day started at 7 a.m. — three TV hits and a story on Montana’s TikTok ban later, at 11:30 p.m., I finally called it a day 😅

I wrote about concert etiquette, the “mean girls” of The Eras Tour, and why it’s OK to sing along but maybe not scream. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/fans-encouraging-better-etiquette-concerts-rcna84913

I spoke with influencers and content creators in Montana about the newly-signed TikTok ban and what it could mean for their future in the state. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/montana-banned-tiktok-creators-state-are-bracing-s-rcna85195

deciding what to write today

sorry everyone I unstuck the boat

okay this one might be tough

I saw someone on the TL say we are minutes away from a boatse meme And then I saw the boatse 😞

mother is ✨mothering✨

Happy Succession Sunday! I replaced all the characters except for Logan Roy with muppets.

If Succession was recast with exclusively muppets who would you keep as the one human actor to remain on the show?

Welcome to Bluesky, Moises!!! Everyone follow Moises! 💖

Endless solidarity with the writers at WGA. Make the bosses pay!!