Ian (he/him/poppers to my kids)

How is that one? I read The City and The City and Embassytown, and while I loved aspects of both (especially C & C!), I found both kind of…unfulfilling? Maybe, cold?

An oil painting depicting a group of older men in a formal setting, likely a boardroom or courtroom. In the center, a blonde man in a brown tweed blazer and loose tie stands, holding a cigarette in his mouth and a small cup. He gestures toward the others. Behind him, a framed portrait shows the same man in an identical pose, creating a nested, repetitive effect. In the foreground, two men in suits look up toward him with attentive, curious expressions. The style is highly detailed and realistic, with a somber color palette of blues, browns, and grays.

It looks like I picked the wrong week to quit doom scrolling on BlueSky.

Thank for doing this project! I have my students sign up and reflect on their favourite entry! Really useful stuff for aspiring journalists!

The Book of George by Kate Greathead was a very funny book! TBH, it took me a bit to get into the book, but the last half and especially the last chapter really pay off!

to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself.

Example:

“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Pour one out for Dan Bongino

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me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight

The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.

NEW - The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims

As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech but it's Ellen Ripley

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Sang along to K-Pop Demon Hunter songs on the way to and from the No Kings protest with my two boys (5&7)! Couldn’t be happier (well, except for the whole “shithead, wannabe kings ruining our world” thing).

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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

I just got fired from my job for pointing out that poutine is only poutine if it involves cheese curds not mozzarella.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

#iamamerica I am one of the many Americans who doesn’t really love the US. In many ways I’d prefer to be back in Canada, but I’m here for work & love and I labour to make this country a better democracy. Not because I get all misty when I see the flag, but because we all need a democracy to thrive.

Séamas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth

... whereas right wing journalists and pundits often view their audience simply as marks to be exploited (I thought this from @seamusoreilly69.bsky.social was good on the phenomenon: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...) not as people they're engaged with in forming a movement...

I have a joke about Hestia, but it’s more of a private, family joke.

PSA: If you think a guy standing on a vandalized Waymo car with a Mexican flag is a bigger issue than the president calling for the arrest of a governor for no reason, you may have lost the plot.

Some of y’all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

Couldn’t agree more! Chaffey College is about to launch a journalism AA-T in the California Institute for Men (in Chino)! I’d love to hear from people who have been involved in similar projects!

They made it into a movie!

Putting together my own summer reading list:

Ernest Hemingway’s Professor Perkins and the Case of the Missing Phallus

Mary Shelley’s Mother!

Irvine Welsh’s The Prolapse Protocol

Sinclair Ross’s As for Me and My House Two: As for Me and My RV

Rohinton Mistry’s Now that’s a Spicy Meatball

CHARLIE KIRK GETS WARM WELCOME FROM COPS, OUTSIDERS AT UC RIVERSIDE | Left Coast Right Watch University of California, Riverside (UCR) found its guest lots filled to capacity on a sunny, Friday afternoon. Students and unaffiliated spectators gathered around the UCR’s bell-tower to attend a “P...

NEW from LCRW: @dmg713.bsky.social covers Charlie Kirk's visit last Friday to UC Riverside, where a lot of people who didn't really have anything to do with the school showed up to help TPUSA manufacture their usual slop.
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