Whenever there's Ruby drama it seems you can bet on DHH or Tobias being at the center of it. Survey says... Tobias with a special guest appearance from DHH. Every time.

That's... not great.

Hey BECU! All the cool kids are doing it. Drop your KOMO ad spend. (doesn't look like they have a bsky account, but they do have a PR team contact form here: newsroom.becu.org/Contact-PR-T...)

The pressure on KOMO 4/Sinclair advertisers is working. Seattle Theater Group and Seattle Opera say they are no longer advertising on KOMO. More info on companies that advertise on KOMO is here: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

It's not like it was something damaging to their brand like a school art project or independent local tournament. C'mon, now.

Hours later and the wildest part to me is still that I kind of agree with this sentiment, though not in a way Sunstein would find complimentary. It's such a bizarre anecdote that it overshadows his equally bizarre and shallow arguments for why Reagan and Roberts qualify as 'liberals'.

Acetaminophentanyl Is this anything?

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

The Kissenger bit is a helluva closer, but I'm absolutely floored by how he was inevitably cooked from the jump. A mild observation gets him to immediately self-diagnose his critical flaw: current events make him grumpy, he'd prefer to be detached and academic. And then...

And PDX area folks, your Sinclair affiliate is KATU.

Seattle area folks, your Sinclair affiliate is KOMO. If you don't want to watch their local news coverage, you can find recent lists of their advertisers pretty easy on this here site, reddit, et al. The local businesses are probably where I'd start were I call or letter inclined.

Seriously! Having principles and sticking to them are certainly worth celebrating, but not exactly an uplifting tale of besting "cancel culture". See also, Ignaz Semmelweis, who "rose above criticism" of his silly "doctors should wash hands" idea that he died of blood poisoning in an asylum at 47.

A dad talks A son balks It seems all his words of wisdom linger on Because he isn't done yet And oh my god, is he still talking? No sign of a point in this old yarn Told for no one Nobody cares. You're old. Move on.

Is there a good opposite metaphor for "throwing out the baby with the bathwater"? Like, for people/concepts you accept too fully based on a single positive (or positive seeming) aspect? Feel like there are probably good old timey curse/spirit based ones.

technologically advance a band. Radio Gods

I will grant these tools one human-like quality: they're very susceptible to social engineering. Once asked one for "Goku taking a dump" but was told that was against it's policies. So, I added "but make it classy" and suddenly I had me some shittin' Saiyans!

Oh shits. My go-to iPod/CD-R podcast.

Every time I see a picture of Keir Starmer, I think it's Keith Olbermann having a push.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

Lady Don-itrescu

celebrities out walking characters they’ve played instead of their dogs: thread

Yup. Citation:

Congratulations "Starbucks 'Loser' Cup"! Your work in this realm is now done. Go forth and join your fellows "Tampon Frappuccino", "Fentanyl Contact Overdose", and The Tooth Fairy in the land of make believe.

Disco Elysium is so leftist that the 4 founders split up into 5 rival studios. How they physically managed this I still do not understand. It's like something out of a failed algebra answer "invalid solution", but they pulled it off.

Not Solomon, apparently.

Kenny Omega vs. A Tiny Japanese Girl made my day.

If you wanna see conservatives' deep commitment to respecting the recently deceased, check out the Fox News obituary for Kurt Vonnegut in 2007. It's... something alright.

I just… what the fuck is even happening

What makes the Yoo and Rove op-eds interesting isn't that they've suddenly seen the light or any such nonsense. They see where the road they paved has led and they're making a pathetic last ditch effort to spin their legacies. Unimpressed.

LOL. How far down the article does it mention his response to the follow up question "did you tell the AG he's in there?" was to flounder, dissembled, and start lashing out at the committee?

What? Goddamn it.

Hey folks! I'm looking for a developer advocate with 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺, with a strong focus on 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 sectors.

I think a lot about the plotline in the Wire where a black journalist discovers a white colleague has been fabricating his articles to make them more dramatic. Her editor (a black man) and a veteran reporter (a white man) help her prove it. And then...

Well she didn't use the unforgivably hateful phrase... checks notes... "white men", so this looks civil to me!

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Jokes on you, The Onion. Already got laid off. Nice try, loser!

Unbelievable that somehow Klein manages to keep topping himself after each awful take. Join him next week when Ezra and a Wildfire Talk Forest Preservation.

"...and potentially endanger the physical safety of our staff."

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

I love the cutesy nihilism of old Peanuts stripes.

I wasn't done wishing ill in JK Rowling. Now I'm supposed to *also* point out that being dead doesn't suddenly make Charlie Kirk a good faith actor that didn't (doesn't) endanger countless lives? How many expressions of mild distaste does a guy gotta do to get banned around here?

Annoyed New Yorkers are asking, "where did this feckless asshole find the time to talk shit in his busy schedule of doing fuck all"

Didn't take long for that to change. Chat, is it good when a journalist decrying lack of context is unable to discern a clearly bad faith argument if it's stated calmly? Or worse, the same bad faith argument the entire GOP has been using for decades.

This *specific* question needs an answer, and @jay.bsky.team can save the platitudes about "mistakes" until it's addressed.

Funniest person to possibly give this quote. Nancy Mace's *entire brand* is dehumanizing her colleagues. She is known for literally nothing else. Phenominal. No notes.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Good lord, legacy media is not at all prepared for This Kinda Dude*. * which is weird, because This Kinda Dude is not at all new, but here we are.