Dexter Thomas

it really is too bad that there isn't anyone who is uniquely qualified to do this!!!

Yeah I cant think of a good reason for this

Jimmy Bonner. A black pitcher who played in Japan, for Dai Tokyo, in 1936 (eleven years before Jackie Robinson broke the color line). I wrote about him a while back: www.npr.org/sections/cod...

Signal Award Winner - Signal Awards The Signal Awards seeks to honor and celebrate the people and content that raise the bar for podcasting.Luminaries and leaders within the industry will judge Shows, Limited Series & Specials, Individu...

ayyo, kill switch just got another award. thank you everyone who listens to us every week!

www.signalaward.com/winners/deta...

Big appreciation to @rossminor.bsky.social for being on the show! Even if you've already read the article, this is a whole different experience (because you hear his voice!)

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

the 'disability tax' applies to videogames, of course. more good work from @supercrip1994.bsky.social

LA Times union votes to authorize strike for first time ever The L.A. Times Guild has been negotiating over their contract with management for three years.

My union—the LA Times Guild—has authorized a strike with the support of 85% of our membership.

This comes after years of brutal layoffs and no cost-of-living raises since 2021.

Next up: we bargain. But if we have to strike, we will 🪧
laist.com/news/la-time...

South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

'...a Black bystander in the viral video of the feds placing a Black man in a chokehold in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood: “Y’all supposed to be out here choking Mexicans,” he said.'

thetriibe.com/2025/10/sout...

South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

Rod Johnson, a 67-year-old military vet, said he never thought the presence of federal agents in Chicago would impact him.

When asked why, he said, “Because I’m a Black man.”

thetriibe.com/2025/10/sout...

bless all of us

YouTube video by karma archives LIL UGLY MANE & ANTWON - UNDERWATER TANK (OG VERSION)

'I'm drinking Minute Maid, watching Al Jazeera /
debit card choppin up the grams in the mirror'

hall of fame verse opener right here www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaKE...

kill switch | iHeart Were we sleeping when everything changed? Seems like the technologically driven future is already here. On kill switch, we explain the right NOW of our super charged technological lives. New host Dext...

I've really been enjoying the kill switch podcast with @dexdigi.bsky.social

It's about tech, but not full of VC inside baseball, press release hype, or featurespeak.

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Thank you so much! This means a lot.

Hi, just a note—

The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

shout out non-substack newsletters.

an even bigger honor!!! bsky.app/profile/kati...

truly an honor to be mentioned next to names like this!!

a tumblr blog stats page: 149 posts, 2 followers, and Activity is completely flatlined

may it ever be so

pull up

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins
There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

dm sent

this is absolutely worth following!

The Bari Market With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.

oh, here's the article if you do have a sub and want to read though. puck.news/david-elliso...

i genuinely have no other comment than that; i haven't read full thing bc it's paywalled (i don't have a subscription)

well, my other comment would be: language is fascinating! You can just slap on a prefix (eg 'centi-'), and even if you've never seen the word before, you know the meaning. So cool

in case you are wondering how capitalism is going, i tried to write the word 'centibillionaire' and my autocorrect did not think it was a real word

i am teaching the computer how to talk about people with 100,000,000,000 or more dollars

that Golgo 13 is better by basically every measure.
- he's a better shot
- has no state backing; gets his own gadgets
- no nationalistic allegiance to any Imperial forces
- instead, he fought colonizers in Mozambique (and won)
- fought the KKK (and won)
- saved Nelson Mandela once lol

actually thinking about it, maybe the Guy that helps you transfer your VHS tapes and the Guy that helps you buy computers is the same kind of Guy

read this post yesterday and then today two people asked me for advice on what computer to buy, and realized that I am a Guy as well. also I transferred some VHS tapes for a friend. wow

i am multiple kinds of Guy, I contain multitudes

god bless all the Guys (gender-neutral) out there

one of my favorite things about your account is that it is 90% wild dystopian computer stuff and like 10% commentary on niche baseball stats i will never understand; and never knowing which it's gonna be