can't think of anything more distinctly dillinger four than the band dropping their first song in 18 years on april fools day. i dug my 2015 profile on the band outta the archives for the occasion. open.substack.com/pub/danozzi/...

This issue is so nice I am in it twice! No foolin', go get it!

just once i want video to pivot to me

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Our local newspaper let go of three columnists for being too liberal. I've canceled our subscription and will be sending a letter to the editor that will probably go straight to the trash.

Only one Florida team has won a Super Bowl in the last 20 years (the Bucs in 2021) and it was the only team in the NFL with three Black coordinators and the first team in the NFL with multiple female coaches

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One of the best and most underrated bands to come out of the 2010's emo boom (not going to say "revival" because AFAIK using that term is still a cancelable offense in some circles).

STOP EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING

I've heard speculation Google is going to announce AI Mode as the new default at Google IO in May but I have a hard time seeing that going over well when they have obvious issues to work out. Like getting headlines accurate, let alone figuring out how to adapt *their entire ads business* to AI Mode.

2 points on Trump's media capture: 1. Fascists don’t need to turn all news outlets to their side. They win if major outlets are simply too weak to tell the truth about them. 2. Fascists don’t need to make you believe them. They win if they pollute the news so much that you don’t believe anything.

Exceptional record. Second one is very good as well.

a lot of businesses are in the process of learning this the hard way.

This feels like a capsule of a lot of things that have gone wrong with the Internet as it existed when Digg first launched, and the Internet as it exists now.

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Checked the website and it ... literally just does your homework for you. This startup is committed to making your kids stupid.

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Looking for new death metal recommendations. Who's gonna tell me what I should be checking out?

I'm pretty sure it's all three members of the classic rock band America.

we can stop listening to these people any time we're ready.

You wouldn't know it, but somewhere under here, there's an article on Punknews.org that I was trying to read. Bums me out that a site that used to be so important is now ... whatever this is:

incredible foresight.

Are there any good Tweetdeck-esque desktop Bluesky clients that people recommend? I'm on a Mac.

"Where's all the good writing about games?" It's right here, ready for you to take a look!

If you only read one passively scathing article about the sad state of modern sports video games, and Madden in particular, make it the one I wrote.

These people cannot imagine being such a part of a community that the bicycle shop mourns you. It's as alien to them as a language they don't speak.

"In an unsigned statement emailed to WIRED, ICE stressed that the filing was solely for information and planning purposes." I'm not sure that makes this any less unsettling.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

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More of this, please.

this poor little fellow that there is even one parent in this country who finds this acceptable is a severe indictment of the entire country

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

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Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

LaFleur’s new contract should include the following clause: Let Jordan Love Cook.

If you have family members saying things like, "If they're here legally, they don't need to worry," point them to stories like this.

We need a fully professional minor league system for football. I can't put my finger on why, exactly, but the amount of money spent to buy talent at the college level just makes me care less about college football because it seems antithetical to the purpose of collegiate sports.

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hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

confirms the universe is governed by chaos