People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.
Edit: "You're not lacking conviction -- you're showing passionate intensity. And honestly? I love it. Studies show that's correlated with both personal and professional success, and I can't wait to see what you do next, Chief."
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I double checked. This is not being reported at WaPo.
www.ft.com/content/09fa...
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O chat filled with bigotry, O GOP party official piece of shit in Florida,
How can we know the nazi from the slur?
Man, I wish some lefty did a five-part podcast series on the modern history of Iran: thedigradio.com/History%20of...
As a geographer, please trust me when I say that Larry Visoski is dead wrong here. Oakland is actually located an average of 90 feet above the Bay Area.
Apparently Trump is upset about the Dalkey re-issue of The Tunnel; "I have to be part of the decision about what counts as an 'Essential' from here on out." Apparently strong men come up to him, weeping, saying you can't just change font sizes and claim the same stature as Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
If you've ever wondered how a Kentucky judge could threaten to bankrupt Oakland for the crime of bankrupting a coal company, have we got the long read for you:
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/
Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."
Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
and arguably was the immediate prelude to the construction of what everyone takes to be American Culture (which was, before that era, something actually quite foreign to what we think of as us)
if what you're saying is that we men need to finally crack this feminism issue--which the girls have been doing their best with, bless their hearts--well, brother, let's get er done
Jesse singal literally wrote a whole article about an imaginary me and then asked people to be furious at his fantasy version of me.
I was a bog standard woke male feminist before and then I had a daughter and now I want scientists to invent a theoretically-unstable form of unbelievably high potency feminism that would make Dworkin and Firestone write an Atlantic op-ed about how things have gone too far
Finally have an excuse to post this
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI.
The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom.
san.com/cc/what-your...
mouth rats
"It can be reductive to judge someone as stupid, thick or moronic. But it can also be true. It is clear that the overriding feature of Trump is his stupidity. Yes, he’s a sociopath, a child rapist, corrupt, vain, cruel and superficial. But most importantly, he’s an idiot."
The term for that is White supremacy and any coverage of Reform that does not include that term is complicit in whitewashing White supremacy. Sometimes things really are that simple.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Some good websites:
1. oaklandreviewofbooks.org
2. ebay.com (model train section)
3. zombo.com
that's all I can think of at the moment, check back later for more tricks and tips for surfing the net
I own the 7th largest Hyundai dealership in the Tampa St. Pete area and here’s why Reza Pahlavi is the legitimate ruler of Iran
that's bold talk, sir, I'm gonna need to see some polling on that
Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump
Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?
drawing of a notepad with the words SCRATCH - how your favorite writers are surviving (or not)
Image of four women in brightly colored clothing standing in front of a brightly colored mural
We are living through a moment where the labor of writers is being exploited to create rapacious technologies that make everything stupider, exponentially hasten the demise of the planet’s ecosystems, and prop up fascists and dictators worldwide. The concept of a free press isn’t even really a concept anymore. Cartoonishly evil billionaires control mainstream media outlets, which produce content accordingly, and at the local level there’s hardly anything left. And let’s not even mention the book reviews. Or rather, let’s: The increased stratification of race, class, and politics has extended to, and is fundamentally intertwined with, book publishing, in which there now seems to exist only two types of books: mega-bestsellers (mostly celebrity memoirs, political tell-alls that say nothing, too late, and books about dragon sex) and the rest
Scratch is back. It’s a newsletter now—written by me, Latria Graham, @rahawahaile.bsky.social , and @maggiemertens.bsky.social .
And yeah it costs money 💚
www.talkscratch.com/the-new-scra...
It's been a rough couple weeks so I'm really looking forward to a relaxing vacation in Dubai
Nadine Gordimer's July's People (1981) is a good example of how a lot of South Africans were starting to think about the future around that time ("surely they're going rise up and kill us soon enough")
Reservation Dogs shares a really interesting world-building move with the movie Sinners:
Every myth is history, every magical tool works, every spiritual vision is real, every cryptid lives... except Christianity just sits there, getting in the way of real spiritual power in the world.
“I wanted to do Joe Rogan’s show, and there was a lot of games being played, but I wanted to do Joe Rogan’s show,” Harris said www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
It's no defense of Platner, specifically, to observe that the company Gavin Newsom has kept on his podcast, and the things he's said, are qualitatively worse, but it is a thing that's worth saying
Donald Trump is doing a degrowth!
