Joe Perin

Urge Congress: Save Public Media Save your local stations. Call your Members of Congress now!

The House will vote this week on a massive cut to public media funding. Your local stations are at risk. Call your Rep. now and urge them to vote NO before it’s too late. bit.ly/3T68Qgw #ProtectMyPublicMedia

What if history just didn't repeat itself, for once?

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NPR and PBS first target in MTG’s DOGE crosshairs The House DOGE Subcommittee is setting its sights on NPR and PBS for alleged liberal bias.

Public broadcasting costs about $1.60 per American per year.

Public media is by and for the community. And now public media needs the community more than ever.

PLEASE visit lnkd.in/eFQ2un4y to contact your legislators and urge them to protect public media.

Welp, that was disappointing...

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#Arsenal this transfer window 🙃

Senate probe finds Amazon manipulates workplace injury data The firm discourages injured workers from seeking outside medical care and ignored internal safety recommendations, a panel led by Sen. Bernie Sanders found.

A sweeping congressional investigation into worker safety at Amazon found that the nation’s largest online retailer manipulated data on warehouse worker injuries and disregarded internal research on improving safety.

Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands?

BBC reporter @annaholligan.bsky.social explores why cycling is so popular among children and what factors make it so easy for them to bike.

www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/vi...

The dichotomy (trichotomy???) of man #arsenal

Shared by an expat Englishman friend of mine, who added "in the 1950’s this was introduced in the UK, it’s illegal to park anywhere on the zigzag lines. Little paint goes a long way."

Infrastructure matters. People-oriented development matters.

I absolutely think OSU should fire Ryan Day. To the “but what if it gets worse” argument, OSU has been a winner for basically my entire life. I’m pretty convinced it’s plug and play. And that dude is slowly turning into James Franklin.

Fire Ryan Day

Old classic, new platform.

The tweets in question. The non-Bluesky one has 651 likes and 18k impressions. The Bluesky one has 294 likes and 9.4K impressions.

This is fucking hilarious…I posted a version of this tweet on Twitter and it wasn’t getting much engagement so I reposted it without the word “Bluesky” and it’s doing normally even though I didn’t even delete the original tweet.

Manipulation and lack of respect in action.

😂😂😂

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I wonder if Erling Haaland is staying humble this weekend🤔 #COYG

Catching Grand Rapids’ free DASH shuttle to downtown, because when you go to $2 beer night at the local minor league hockey game, who wants to worry about parking or driving home?

Not this guy.

The west side of Grand Rapids, Michigan

It’s giving Gordon Lightfoot here in West Michigan this morning🌊

Protect our short Belgian king at all costs!

Also, happy birthday! I’m 1.5yrs into my 30s and, honestly, it’s not too shabby.

Cheers!

I lobbied for BlueSky as its growth trajectory seems higher than Threads when it initially got going, plus BlueSky's UI seems better.

Plus, for public media, we need to be sharing news reporting in places where people are going for news.

My team's joined in on the fun! Check out @wgvupublicmedia.bsky.social, covering PBS for much of West Michigan and NPR for six counties in the region.

Artist, scientist, polymath — a new documentary uncovers the real Leonardo da Vinci We have a lot of labels for Leonardo da Vinci but a new documentary seeks to understand him as a person.

We have a lot of labels for Leonardo da Vinci but a new documentary seeks to understand him as a person.

I’m not entirely sure what content I post here will center around, but moments of calm are something I like to share.

So, here’s a little calming break for you from the offices of WGVU Public Media last week.

Oh, yeah. Support public media this giving season💯

[cracks open the door] We all cool here?