Richard Lawler

Please. The stories you like

the internet has *always* had a problem of hate-sharing, and if we want to get out of this, we gotta be equally committed to sharing good work and supporting the people who make it

Charles Pulliam-Moore Profile and Activity | The Verge Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

In general, @charlespulliam.bsky.social is one of my fav culture reporters who everyone should be reading www.theverge.com/authors/char...

hey so instead of that predictably terrible atlantic piece, what's a really strong piece of reporting or a great essay you've read recently that more people should read?

You put a little hot sauce on em

If you think that a graph with two points is a good example then i can only assume that you spent your entire school day eating smartphones

Gambling is for losers

Zaccharie Risacher, Ronald Holland and the 2024 NBA Draft class are at a crossroads (Gift Article) For a lot of these players, teams are done (or should be done) with charity minutes and gifted starting roles.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

Yeah the article is not like that.

Are you responding to the article or the tweet

You follow a lot of black people on threads?

🏀 FRIDAY'S FINAL SCORES 🏀

Jalen Duren's monster double-double leads the Detroit Pistons to victory in an OT thriller!

Cade Cunningham: 25 PTS, 10 REB, 7 AST, 2 STL
Ausar Thompson: 18 PTS, 8 REB, 5 AST, 2 STL

Verge headline: Warner Bros. Discovery agrees to $110 billion Paramount merger by Emma Roth WB logo

Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance’s merger agreement is now official. Paramount and WBD expect the deal to close in the third quarter of this year.

Read more from @emroth08.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Netflix walks away from its deal to buy Warner Bros. after Paramount came back with a better offer The streaming giant isn’t going to match the ‘superior’ bid made by Paramount.

Netflix walks away from its deal to buy Warner Bros. after Paramount came back with a better offer

I've reported 2-3 stories in my career that have sucked the spirit out of my body and this was one of them. But! Seeing the response of the fgc to help their brother genuinely put it right back. Im humbled to have been trusted with this. Help your neighbors friends those in need are all around you.

One way to avoid burning yourself out during times of stress is not repeatedly touching a hot stove when there's absolutely no reason for you to touch it as it is not your job and nothing of value is cooking on the stove

if you worked with a person like that, the word you'd call them would probably not be "superintelligent"

BASKETBALL PAUL BAPTISM

UNLEASH THE DUTCHMAN

I don't think it's exclusive to Twitter, although the algorithm's pull there doesn't help. But people go off the edge chasing more likes
bsky.app/profile/rjcc...

My immediate reaction! I got all kinds of problems that are actually in some way my responsibility

Prediction markets want to eat the news The fix is in.

I have some suspicions about why prediction markets are striking deals with newsrooms. www.theverge.com/business/881...

bsky.app/profile/homu... oh I got you

THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

Oh i see you're being anti durian, glad to know there are a few free, brave voices left in this fight that haven't been compromised yet

I knew the whole crypto thing was a front for being in the pocket of big durian

Everyone is like "oh here's why people like these videos, it's because they yearn for ...(X)" and like .. show me a niche that can't get 500k viewers with decent production and a conventionally attractive subject.

Something relatable? Millions

NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT

Nobody is saying durian because they're in the pocket of big durian.

When someone would make a big show about how they talk to people on whatever side and that they have to do that because otherwise how can you understand them or change their mind

I'd ask if they've actually changed someone's mind that way and the people who said those things, never had an example