I’ve watched this 500x

Shrey spelling 32 words in 90 seconds to win the Spelling Bee is the new greatest athletic accomplishment of 2026. I don’t even know how he said the letters that fast. Got a “Holy Mackerel” out of @minakimes.bsky.social

Spent 20 minutes this morning sitting with my 12yo and asking the new Google search questions about Pokémon. After laughing at all the bullshit and wrong answers, we had a serious discussion about the power of his human brain and the necessity of using trusted sources like Bulbapedia.

I'm so fucking furious. So, here's my podcast in a podcast app, which now has this nice "show transcript" button Perhaps it's taking you to our free, high quality transcripts that we PAY A HUMAN to make? Absolutely not. 🧵

@fspnwu.bsky.social @nwu.org members call-to-solidarity!

The workers at the papers are also calling for those looking to support them in their strike & ongoing contract fight to sign the below pledge to not cross the virtual picket line today. They say that 93% of workers voted to authorize the one-day strike. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

INBOX: Journalists at the five McClatchy newspapers in Washington and Idaho (the Idaho Statesman, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald, Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian) are calling a one-day strike today over wages and AI protections. That means no clicking on any links to their sites for today.

the Colbert cancellation is a labor issue, to my mind. Colbert’s show employed hundreds of union employees working nightly. Byron Allen’s non-union show costs CBS nothing (literal zero), and costs Allen very little as well since comics provide their own material for a nominal fee and exposure

Proud to have members @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social and @khawlanakua.bsky.social representing NWU at this year's @ifjglobal.bsky.social Centenary Congress, marking 100 years of international solidarity in journalism.

The bill wouldn't have passed without 8 Democrats voting for it.

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

before the internet was a corporate hellscape it was built by ordinary people! the slop was wacky and homemade just like mom (and David) used to make. alas the good old days are over but I can't believe how lucky we are to have @archive.org to remember them :') web.archive.org/web/20080803...

in 1997, "x.com" belonged to two guys named Dave and Rob and its slogan was "not nearly the worst place on the web!!!" web.archive.org/web/19970411...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Impossible to even calculate how many writers got their start at Paste (including me!), and impossible to fully express what @garrettmartin.bsky.social's generosity and willingness to say "yes" has done for the field, and how inspiring his commitment to new voices was to me as an editor

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

thinking of getting into Korean skincare (taking good care of your skin while throwing your corrupt president in jail)

Bro Buzzfeed is looking for a project-based assistant video editor in California for freaking 12 dollars an hour Just looking at their list of responsibilities, they're asking for the equivalent of full-time work, AT THEIR LA OFFICE, on what I can only assume is a 1099, for TWELVE DOLLARS AN HOUR

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

BREAKING: The Pentagon has fired the Stars and Stripes ombudsman — the role Congress created to protect the military paper's editorial independence — after she publicly criticized the DOD's overhaul of the publication. w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"Your job is so fun," yes, but did you know I have to single handedly fight no fewer than sixth algorithms every day for the privilege of telling people to not set their beds on fire.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

liberals on this microblogging website

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Hard not to be jealous of anyone bobbing gently the Pacific with three friends and no signal right now.

Among those killed in Israeli strikes today were 3 journalists: - Mohammed Wishah, an Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza - Ghada Dayekh, a presenter with Sawt Al-Farah in Lebanon - Suzan Khalil, a reporter and presenter on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV and Al-Nour Radio, also in Lebanon

🚨 ON STRIKE 🚨 Unionized staff at ProPublica @propublicaguild.org walked off the job today. Stand with workers: DO NOT cross the picket line. That means no visiting ProPublica's website, social media or engaging with its content today.

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

If you need to distract yourself for a few hours, no better way than diving into this darkly comic, hopeful sci-fi classic, even if you could not give one iota of a shit about football:

It’s just “Lemon, it’s Tuesday,” forever and ever until we pass out, huh

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

remember those other branches of government

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

If you're looking for an online event, I'll be speaking at this one: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even.... Join us!

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

You: People who write about TV need to leave the politics out of it. It’s just an escape from the real world! Me: The president’s aides are producing him a daily TV show of the war www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

JAVIER BARDEM NO TO WAR FREE PALESTINE YES BABYYYYY

In @fspnwu.bsky.social the secret third thing is you organize with dozens of wildly smart, interesting, radical(ized) freelancers to build solidarity and pugnacious collective power to improve creative workers’ labor conditions

me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

I'm out of words here

PELICAN DELAY IN SANTA BARBARA

New: Internal tension at the Associated Press over use of AI. One of the AP newsroom leaders leading the company's AI initiatives told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and told them when it comes to using AI in the newsroom "resistance is futile."