Tom Jokinen

Was you father as bold as the sergeant major?

Big media isn’t dying—it’s going through a renaissance.

Journalist @jokinen.bsky.social explores how small outlets are quietly rebuilding public trust where big networks have failed: thewalrus.ca/canadian-journal...

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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

Pelicans forward Trey Murphy exited Monday’s game with a right shoulder injury after diving on the floor for a loose ball.

The team later announced that X-rays on his shoulder came back negative and that he would not return to the game.

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www.nytimes.com/athletic/621...

[Norman Rockwell guy] I personally wish publications were still paying writers wheelbarrows full of money

Screenshot from the film THE OMEN. Damien's mother (Lee Remick) holds her hand to her head in exhaustion, while Damien's father (Gregory Peck) stares straight ahead and clutches his sweet, screaming l'il antichrist son.

North American current affairs update:

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Those are Nazi salutes. They're Nazis.

Haha ever notice how we “drive” on a “parkway” but “god” “has” “abandoned” “us”?

A postcard of Winnipeg's Centennial Concert Hall dating probably to the 1960s. The angle is such that you can see the Manitoba Museum in the background and the photo was taken on a clear summers day.

Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg.

“I’m bummed oot…”

I’ll guess… Valerie Harper.

No! Met him in men’s room at Toronto’s Massey Hall before show. Never met Thatcher… but stood ten feet from her.

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Robert Duvall
Margaret Thatcher
Robin Williams
Raffi

Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano killing the appetite for a drink.

Trump names Pam Bondi as attorney general pick after Gaetz steps aside Ex-Florida attorney general is longtime Trump ally and was one of his lawyers during first impeachment trial * Trump announces Pam Bondi as new attorney general choice – live Donald Trump announced that he would nominate for attorney general Pam…

Trump names Pam Bondi as attorney general pick after Gaetz steps aside

I sing the kettle electric

One early lesson from the longshoremen's strike: the ocean shipping industry has the cash to pay for its own decarbonization.

I want to do a bunch of life stuff over again but with enough magnesium

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The only way to stop a bad guy from eating a goose is with a good guy threatening to murder every elementary school student in town.

I saw a werewolf buying Two-Buck Chuck at Trader Joe's, his hair was disheveled

If you put hot dogs and pickles against an AM radio tower, they act as speakers. Also, don't do that Acts as a speaker, yes. Also catches fire at an astonishing rate.

If you put hot dogs and pickles against an AM radio tower, they act as speakers (h/t Dan Bodah). https://buff.ly/3B7c1iv

How anti-disinformation research came under fire Academic and industry support has retreated amid a GOP assault.

In my first magazine story for @motherjones.bsky.social, I wrote about attacks on disinformation researchers, and the ways they echo attacks on climate scientists in the '90s. One person compared it to the Red Scare: “How do we not see the historical parallels?” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Comic cover Wonder Woman underwater battling mermen armed with tridents and guns.

H.G. Peter, 1948

Marjorie Also Known as Midge In ‘Vertigo,’ Barbara Bel Geddes plays a lovesick sidekick. What could have been a thankless part becomes as rich and moving as any role in the film.

For The Reveal I wrote about one of my favorite supporting characters in any movie: VERTIGO's Midge, whose crucial role in the film isn't always noticed (kind of like Midge):

i don’t think it’s sinking in for some white liberals that your neighbor putting up a trump/vance sign is the equivalent of supporting the KKK. it is an act of aggression. i really don’t care if they’ve been nice to you—they are objectively hateful people with whom you should not associate.

Roundtable: Navigating the Newest Social Media Era - The Open Notebook For the past decade, being on Twitter was part of being a journalist. But misinformation and extremism on the platform under new ownership changed a lot of what once made it indispensable for science ...

“You have to be on Twitter,” they said. So what now? @kaatefishman.bsky.social
gathered reporters, editors, and communicators to find out. With @annaleen.bsky.social, @nyaruai.bsky.social, @kendrawrites.bsky.social, @WhySharksMatter.bsky.social and more. www.theopennotebook.com/2024/09/17/r... 🧪