The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place

Meridian's newest solar farm is being built on stolen Māori land www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

it's really weird to have developed super specialized knowledge of the art industry and art crime for three years and then just suddenly stop developing it or reporting on it due to a layoff; but this happens to so many reporters and then I see discussions about declining public trust in the media

Dispatch from NYC: Mamdani's Election Party in Queens Some words and mostly photos. substack.com/@asadchishti...

reStarting a journalism newsletter called Solastalgia. The word means environmental grief/anxiety. solastalgic.substack.com/p/salaam-dun... It is powered by dread and more. Selfie for the algorithm.

At least Tish James is fearless, giving New Yorkers a way to push back on ICE. Which has totally lost the plot going after fake bag vendors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This Day in Labor History: October 19, 1980. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) forced the textile company J.P. Stevens to sign a contract for the first time in North Carolina and Alabama. Let's talk this epic campaign, made famous by the film Norma Rae!

June feels like years ago, not four months

Wiped out! The Sprawl put on two #yyccc candidate forums today on opposite ends of the city. Ward 3 with 6/8 candidates and Ward 12 with 5/5 candidates. Tomorrow is Ward 2 with 4/5 candidates. And Friday is Ward 13 with 1/2 candidates. Watch on The Sprawl's YouTube channel! 📸 @asadch.bsky.social

🎥 Video | The funeral of journalist Saleh Al-Jaafrawi, laid to rest after being killed last night in Gaza City.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

⚡️New video report from Drop Site News: Hundreds of Palestinian Captives Released in Khan Younis From Israeli Detention By Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Kouddous, with contributions from Jawa Ahmad www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...

🐖 #knitting 🧶

Thanks to @cpac.ca, here's where you can watch our press conference, where we address PM Carney, Minister Anand, and legacy newsroom leaders across Canada. Feat. @smohyeddin.bsky.social, @abihayward4.bsky.social, @asadch.bsky.social, @brishti.bsky.social www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

Around 250 media outlets from 50 countries, plus journalists and press freedom orgs, are uniting today to demand that Israel abides by international laws to protect journalists as civilians, and that Israel allows foreign journalists into Gaza. #protectjournalistsingaza #letreportersintogaza

Important scientific advancements have slowed considerably since 1948.

working on a windows 95 themed automation game about making powerpoint decks #gamedev

Thank you @asadch.bsky.social ‪ @agotoronto.bsky.social @toure.bsky.social for giving stage and space for these stories. - LBJ #HearThis

#HearThis Sharing 3 pieces of Black specific content with my kids this week. 1. Summer swim program for BIPOC, low-income families 2. AGO to unveil monumental bronze sculpture by Thomas J Price 3. Not Like Us Explained medium.com/@lanrickbenn... I think these stories are all worth #Amplifying

I had to drive my mom to the airport at 5am and I caught some NPR news (I love NPR, I support NPR, I can't listen to much NPR these days). It just hammered home to me how ill equipped news desks are for the current situation. There was like a 1-2min news read that was like reading a press release -

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... the court document is a good one if anyone wants to peruse it

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

@azshutter.bsky.social got your book! thanks for the discount code. #OnlySevenMonthsLater

In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”

Hmm. There's a ton of wonderful big reporting rn by nonprofit & indy media — all the States Newsrooms, ProPublica, Texas Trib, Fort Worth Report, Montana Free Press, The Appeal... Bolts! It'd be great to read & share the newsrooms that do this, rather than the quite vague hand-wringing.

I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.

"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Graphic design is my passion

The new verification system is just you have to find paul or eric in person and show them your ID and they give you a sticker for your laptop

supporting nonprofit journalism may not seem like what Black Friday deals are made of. But here's what you get —independent reporting brings you lots of info —sustains writers w critical beats —coverage of local politics you need —knowing thru 2025 that you helped —it's matched! boltsmag.org/donate

An interesting way to help people visualize what a ruin used to be.

Be the internal server error you wish to see in the world

It blows my mind that NASA is able to receive data from 4.67 billion miles away, but I lose Wi-Fi signal in my kitchen.

thinking about the time i was minding my business in berlin and suddenly there was an epoch times office just there on the corner. in berlin! like i was being stalked by the forces of right-wing misinformation

Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.

Netflix is so wild to me. There’s a first rate production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” starring Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington and I only know about it because of a post on BlueSky. Like, I’m watching it now while reading along and it’s BRILLIANT.

I’ve been very sick for the last few days, but this morning I got a lovely message from a student in a classroom I did a talk at earlier in the week and it turns out the best medicine is just a really nice email, and also a lot of Tylenol cold and flu

Whenever we make ourselves smaller for them, they just shrink our box again.

Last year, I spent months with Harold Miner, a former NBA star who retired from the sport at 25 & disappeared from the public eye. I wanted to understand what sport took from him & what it gave them both. The resulting 6K-word story made The Year's Best Sports Writing. www.espn.com/college-spor...

Avoided hopping on here until @elamin.bsky.social said it was cool. So that is what is up. #HighSchoolCoolEffect