Susanne Raines

Soo sad 😢

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this:

all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral.

BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

Sequoia Holmes announces her retirement on the last day of the AU Pro Basketball 2026 season.

so Sequoia Holmes is apparently retiring but I'm floored bc gworl is almost 40?!?!? My ass woulda never guessed anything over 30 ????

I would like this 1,000 times if I could.

Positive campaigning only in the primary. Save the negative 💩 for the general!

Why not stop saying publicly who you DON’T want, but if the person you DO want to run doesn’t, or runs & loses a primary, you do whatever it takes to vote for the Non-MAGA candidate who makes it onto the ticket In a General Election?
The USA needs to work on not voting for MAGA Majorities.

She WORKED for that

Oh noooooooo! I hate this.

Minutes for Makayla, but booooo (and not in a ghosty way)

🤗 I’m glad you’re here

On this site and in this world

Thank you

I am so happy for Odyssey Sims. I hope she gets a big ol’ WNBA contract in 2026

Occult deckbuilder The Killing Stone is introducing a 'dynamic' scare system originally considered for BioShock 2: 'It's very fun as a gamedev to be surprised by something in your own game' "That idea has stuck around in my brain."

Sometimes I just say things on here and then it becomes news. 😳 Anyway please check out The Killing Stone!

www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/oc...

After 26 seasons in the SWAC, Alabama A&M women’s basketball can call themselves champions.

STORY: hbcusports.com/2026/02/01/s...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you are attending the Unrivaled Semifinals in Brooklyn, yes?

They must figure the target audience won’t mind 🤢

YouTube video by Alan Pafenbach Volkswagen "Pink Moon"

The reality is that studios can spend the next 10 years throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into AI-produced, algorithm-driven "content" and yet they'll never produce a work even a fraction as emotionally evocative as a 90 second Volkswagen ad from 1999
youtu.be/_-kqUkZnDcM?...

Neil Sedaka, “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” and “Laughter in the Rain” Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 86 The Brooklynite's esteemed body of work also includes "Calendar Girl," "Oh! Carol," "Love Will Keep Us Together," "Where the Boys Are," "Bad Blood" and "Solitaire."

Neil Sedaka was so talented, and he inspired me to follow my dream of being a songwriter.

With love and gratitude and condolences to his family.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...

RIP Neal Sedaka

To his point - GO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MEDIA!!!!! Journalism requires people to report, research, edit, distribute and publish.
Yes it helps to have subscriptions. Do what you can afford, but there are free options as well. Every little bit helps.

Thank you for posting these. Just the dopamine I needed this morning.

She kind of is, though

No comment on this other than to point out that the advantage of non-profit news orgs (ahem) is that since nobody owns them, they can't be bought.

Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win In a stunning twist, the streaming giant's co-CEOs say the major studio was always a ‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price.

Wow. Say goodbye to independent journalism at CNN. The two Davids, Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Paramount CEO David Ellison will together likely drive a stake through the heart of one of the best global news operations on TV. https://loom.ly/cbDtaPA

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

in 1983, 90% of U.S. media was spread across 50 companies. in 2012, it's these six Comcast, Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, CBS

in 2012, it was six. now it's four.

Some of it must be down to being without power and then stranded away from campus for two weeks and then having to play a murderous schedule of top teams in quick succession.

Exhaustion and stress then additionally lead to injuries.

A rough patch in such a promising season…

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

These aren’t normal times. Any good capitalist can extract profit, but an oligarch consolidates control.

I feel like I did when that person was trying to and then succeeding in buying that microblogging site many of us formerly used

And like when that person bought the newspaper many of us formerly relied upon for investigative journalism

Netflix seriously has to lock in now
They can't just act like this isn't serious now. This will truly hurt the entertainment industry in the long form if Paramount, Trump and his goons gets their hands on Warner Bros than Netflix