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@sheats.bsky.social

Executive Director @Burnaway.org (a magazine of Southern and Caribbean contemporary art), digital @ the Apollo Theater.

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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

11.11.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9047    πŸ” 1705    πŸ’¬ 310    πŸ“Œ 377

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffingβ€”sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pensionβ€”and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

13.10.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 10855    πŸ” 2446    πŸ’¬ 228    πŸ“Œ 111

Forgive me if some of you have long ago sorted this out for yourselves. But I just realized that the problem with getting roasted by kids isn’t that they are so good at it β€” which, okay, some of them are β€” it’s that the adult is totally hamstrung! You cannot curse them out or break their spirit!

13.10.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 565    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 14

We really have destroyed the environment so much that this was of note.

28.08.2025 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

still kind of enjoying The Bear but I think we as a people deserve a prestige TV show about a Waffle House instead of this fine dining bullshit

30.06.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2527    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 69

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

19.06.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1496    πŸ” 443    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 20

It’s rigged. Middle America wants a chance again. Should’ve been the Cavs tho.

01.06.2025 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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27.05.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2719    πŸ” 310    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 19
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RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

27.05.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 18743    πŸ” 5545    πŸ’¬ 503    πŸ“Œ 334
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Lots of nostalgia for the golden age of magazines/expense accounts/travel and decadence. But whenever I take a spin through the Atlantic's archives, I yearn for the days of magazine writing where people were literally like, here is simply a piece of food/geography that exists

23.05.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 300    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

I am not entertaining any foolishness. The objectively true answer is green apple.

18.05.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 578    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 12

How cowardly, cancelling National Endowment for the Arts grants on a Friday night. At least do it in the daylight on a Tuesday.

To hell with Elon and his army of sad kids.

03.05.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, dies aged 88 Death of 267th head of Catholic church triggers period of global mourning and Vatican conclave of cardinals to elect successor
21.04.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn. Indeed.

11.04.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do itβ€”this zine shows you how."

Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do itβ€”this zine shows you how."

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

09.04.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1493    πŸ” 984    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 24

Same goes for NEA awardees, we never know when they'll try to pull this over there.

03.04.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You don’t say ….

03.04.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6901    πŸ” 1222    πŸ’¬ 260    πŸ“Œ 411

Why. Why? Why? Why! WHY! Why. Why? Why!!!

30.03.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2819    πŸ” 296    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 21

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

28.03.2025 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 19595    πŸ” 5664    πŸ’¬ 352    πŸ“Œ 312

Not sure how we get through all of this. It will require many of us to move completely differently, relate to people differently, make money differently, share differently.

But we gotta try.

28.03.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 960    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 5
Careers at The Onion

GREAT news everyone!

The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions.

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And a Staff Writer (!): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

Apply or die!

25.03.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8414    πŸ” 2448    πŸ’¬ 431    πŸ“Œ 201
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Is it safe to travel with your phone right now? Know your rights, but also minimize your risk.

iCloud needs a travel mode like 1Passwords'.

25.03.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At Club Quarantine’s fifth year party at the Apollo and I am not grown enough for this.

23.03.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can’t do this anymore at ATL, miss those days.

23.03.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dang, Clemson.

20.03.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my old toaster did this :(

14.03.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12173    πŸ” 1945    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 26
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A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.

14.03.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5119    πŸ” 1192    πŸ’¬ 121    πŸ“Œ 110

The only downside to New York besides rent is Adams, Schumer, Hochul, and Jeffries.

They are gonna turn my hair gray.

13.03.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Why is New York’s congressional delegation (minus a couple of notable folks) so bad at this?

13.03.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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