for @us.theguardian.com, I'm seeking to connect with folks who are involved in ICE watch organizing in their communities about how they have been and continue to stay safe amid ICE violence. can offer anonymity or pseudonyms for safety. reach out on signal lex_mcmenamin.68

the byline gave me a literal shudder

Everyone keeps saying bluesky is a doomscrolling factory is correct because this is the website I learned the Cuba, not the Mets, got Edwin Cabrera in a trade.

Me, coming back to an avalanche of replies after being right: what’s a winrar? I go outside.

This is genuinely one of the most horrifying things I’ve read in a minute on this website.

The rangers really are 5-10-4 at home and 15-8-2 away. Embarrassing.

Feel like the vibe here has gotten “stayed too long at your folks place during the holiday work break but still have 72 hours before work starts.” Just put on an R.E.M. record and vibe. Also work started two days ago.

The first half of 2026’s indie darling is going to be Ratboys I’m calling it now.

Massive massive result that really is needed in these times.

It’s the leftovers series finale and it’s not even close.

Interviewed Tirico in 2018 about what it was like to succeed bob costas and doing the super bow days before the Olympics. Considered it a professional accomplishment I caught him off guard asking how he felt about potentially interviewing North Korean athletes

There’s a parallel media that’s been around for years that’s run by sports books (and former media execs) and it got so many eyeballs early sports media basically pivoted itself to compete with that instead of just doubling down on being sports media.

They're just celebrating the coup since they got to return to power because they were not charged or tried for their actions.

its not believable because its not true, fyi.

Hes just going to his apartment what are you talking about

i uh once helped out monitoring replies and DMs for a friend who was the victim of one and needed to step away from a platform for her mental health and people do not understand the sheer scale of vitriol that comes towards someone and how destabilizing it is.

has always been the case, it was super apparent in 2013 when i went out for halloween as homestar runner and on the street the 18 year olds were confused but in the phantogram show i went to the drunk 26 year olds though i was the coolest person ever

Kind of a shot in the dark, and will follow up with editors I know for sure, but does anyone need a freelancer to help cover the Trans Athlete case before SCOTUS next week?

My dog is such a petulant shar pei she needs sedation to get bloodwork done so I’m dropping her off at the vet going “have fun with her! She’s your nightmare!” (They know her, know the drill etc) and the other patients are mildly concerned as I leave

I hate to sound elitist but if these guys took one political science class they really would not talk like this because they sound like the one guy who acts all brash in the class the first two weeks then gets a 63 on the first midterm then never raises his hand again.

I genuinely don’t know a trans journalist that isn’t existentially tired all the time and anytime these dogpiles happen more and more people go “why am I even doing this profession?”

There’s 100% been a vacuum of coverage on this outside some great reporters who cover Olympic sports full time (which is dwindling). But also if you read Italian media you’d know there’s real operational concerns with these games that the U.S. media has ignored!!!

I can’t wait to read this. Jules is incredible and a personal friend. I hope everyone preorders!

Working for the community college newspaper, I wrote a review of a musical. I lost the program, so I looked up the cast online but mistakenly used the Broadway cast's names. Thankfully, no one had ever commented on (much less read, frankly) any of our stories... Except That Time.

in one of the first stories I ever wrote, I mistakenly wrote that a prominent Texas LGBTQ group had endorsed a candidate who backtracked on support for trans athletes when they didn't and I also misspelled the spokesperson's name

Enough ragging for one night. Corrections happen. They’re a part of life. Journos of bsky let’s share our worst ones. I’ll start: Early in my career I used Google Translate on a Brazilian article and called a company hired to stop ambush marketing the “official ambush marketing partner” of Rio 2016

If I received a statement from a news outlet that framed trans people’s medical care as an open ended question I sure as hell would highlight those lines and contextualize which is a journalist’s job rather than decline to publish any of it in favor of a one sided interview.

So this appears to be the NYT statement that Trans News Network did not publish. There are definitely issues many trans people will take with the times defending its coverage, but the rest of it seems like the type of points that warrant more reporting or a correction.

Recession indicator 👇👇👇

Okay honest question are any of my mutuals going to Cortina in a month for the Games? Have a tiiiiny request that I will send $$ for.

One of the wildest subplots of 2025 was how that “He Cheated” anti trans advocacy group made a huge thread about me being a former runner in Atlanta and falsely claiming I finished top 20 at the 2022 masters national championships despite it being a 40+ event and I was aged 30.

I love county cricket so much, man.

If I received a statement from a news outlet that framed trans people’s medical care as an open ended question I sure as hell would highlight those lines and contextualize which is a journalist’s job rather than decline to publish any of it in favor of a one sided interview.

The raiders winning really just runs infinite salt in the giants deciding to play competent football wound.

Soooooo we absolutely have no plan and are just destabilizing and kidnapping foreign leaders for fun?

The Giants are incapable of losing when it matters most. Absolutely incredible.

this is why journalists should not cite grok as a source as speaking for xAI. It does what users tell it to do! And users are telling it to make CSAM and its gleefully doing it with absolute silence from the richest man on earth who is one of our two political party's largest donors.

My mom, seeing my phone screen: what’s that butterfly? Is that bluesky? Folks,,,,it’s time to leave

Wait okamoto went to the jays?!? What are the Mets DOING

LUKE THE NUKE REPEAT. BEDLAM IN THE STREETS.

If there ever was a time for bi partisan support for impeachment to show Congress is an equal partner in governing according to our constitution now would be the time.

To everyone informing me there’s corruption in the IOC and FIFA:

Quite frankly FIFA should revoke the World Cup today and banish the United States from international soccer until this is over. And the IOC should do the same for LA 2028. Suspend the USOPC. Prevent any U.S. athlete that has active military service from becoming a neutral athlete. Russia playbook.

The ice in this game in Miami is an absolute tire fire. It’s clear more rangers have played on these terrible surfaces than panthers.

I think it’s important to show how the mechanisms behind the scenes enabled this, as this interview lays out. But I struggle to take much of it as gospel as it has a lot of information relayed second hand without any sort of confirmation.

I do pretty well when I train. I’m 34 years old and in great shape. Pretty good for me is the equivalent of a senior in high school getting scouted by a mid tier D1 school compared to actual elite athletes 😂😂 The gap between pros and the gen pop is STAGGERING people do not get it.

I wonder if these replies by Grok were the ones that users prompted it to make an apology for the CSAM or if they were created by humans apologizing for CSAM.

The run up to Milan-cortina 2026 has been a disaster operationally but has created a boon for Italian athletes to be more Italian than ever

Ole Miss winning the title would be absolutely hilarious but I think IU-UGA would be the best possible final game wise.

Joe judge is ole Miss’ clock management coach yeah that tracks!