PLAYING WOLF: “Říhová is also a poet, and it shows in the lyrical and atmospheric language of the novel, impressively translated by Alex Zucker. It is a dark beauty, a brutal and violent novel, but one that ensnares.” — @bookriot.bsky.social bookriot.com/new-releases...

JUST ADDED: Join us on September 29th in DC to celebrate the reintroduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act, now with a reading from @lizpelly.bsky.social, author of Mood Machine! The show is free and open to all with RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/julia...

The doctor TV show trend isn't a coincidence. This wave of healthcare TV is the result of two major cultural movements colliding. (by @alexiskg.bsky.social) popheist.com/doctor-tv-sh...

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BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

I'm really proud to work at a media company that isn't made up of cowards, that can say All of This Is Really Fucking Bad over and over again because it is. defector.com/charlie-kirk...

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

⚡️Drop Site Daily | September 12, 2025 Israel kills 25 journalists in Yemen newspaper bombing, Forced march in the West Bank, Alleged Kirk shooter in custody www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-kil...

"WAGES OF UNIONIZED WORKERS ARE 13% HIGHER THAN THEIR NONUNION COUNTERPARTS" 🪶

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Part of the statement from the children of Mark and Melissa Hortman who were gunned down in their home by a right wing political assassin. Their children asked people to "Love their neighbors" and "Treat people with kindness and respect." Beautiful thoughts.

It was only last month that a guy mad about covid vaccines fired 500 rounds into the CDC building in Atlanta, btw

To be clear, this is also political violence.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

"On Labor Day, both the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CFT) announced they were joining the boycott."

Bookmarks. Huge timesaver. No more printing out our favorite Bluesky posts and taping them to the walls like some kind lower-tier Batman villain that gets defeated in the opening pages but kicks off a larger more important and emotionally satisfying story.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events

New Jersey said fuck you and your captive audience meetings.

American kids are almost twice as likely to die before reaching adulthood than kids in other high-income countries. This is unacceptable and completely preventable.

Massive away win for the little fella.

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

A good question to ask oneself politically is 'what do I need to ignore in order to maintain my commitment to x, y, and z?' Because if you, for example, need to ignore a whole group of people's humanity in order to vote for a horrible politician, then it may be too costly to your soul.

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

Labor Day isn't principally about collective bargaining (it's about worker collective action), but this "first day of issue" collective bargaining stamp from 1975 (!) is too good to not post. Note all the dudes in suits. Also, the text whitewashed the intent of Taft Hartley.

got her even more donations - we just need about $100 to get her to where she needs to be to keep her and Omar alive for a while longer! if 10 people who see this each donate $10, she'll have enough to afford vitamins and food to keep her son from starving to death

What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...

Polling shows Zohran Mamdani leading with Jewish voters in NYC’s mayoral race. But the New York Times keeps framing him as “alienating” the community—while ignoring polls that say otherwise. 📊 Read @ahjohnson.bsky.social’s breakdown.

Molly O'Toole: "On way 1st day teaching journalism course on covering immigration, met by ICE in Mt.Pleasant at Lamont - agents appear to take father driving young daughter, likely to school. Agents shoving bystanders, daughter sobs it’s her fault-she’d seen car parked for 2hrs. Trump’s America"

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Say "yes!" to community ✨engagement✨ at PGCMLS! 💍

If you're a translator pissed off about the impacts of AI, our members in the NWU Translators Organizing Committee are building collective power among literary translators as workers whose creative labor deserves to be materially valued. Check them out! nwu.org/chapters/toc

First came Encyclopedia Brown, a good teen detective. Then Wikipedia Brown who was fine. Now meet A.I. Brown who's always wrong & has caused 8 people so far to die. He's never actually solved a case, claims he's solved 40, all involving people who don't exist, committing crimes that didn't happen.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

For BID audiobook, I got a memo from the team: A list of words & names they wanted to know *exactly* how to say, so the audio artist said them correctly. It caused me extra work I was HAPPY TO DO. This *can* be done & always *should* be done in all kinds of situations. It's a matter of basic respect

hey, thanks for responding! this new information doesn't really impact my joke

One of our librarians just tracked down “a book with a red cover and I think a romance plot that I might have read in the 9th grade,” can AI do that? (unsurprisingly, the book was blue)

Next let's talk about the reliability of these holodeck safety protocols.