I pretty much thought everyone knew about this and followed me for the drama so I'm pretty happy that isn't actually the case, I feel very good about the professional decisions and choices I've made <3 Also, the last few years are why I spend so much time posting about gardening, cats, and weed - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

brooklynmarie.bsky.social • 542 days ago

I pretty much thought everyone knew about this and followed me for the drama so I'm pretty happy that isn't actually the case, I feel very good about the professional decisions and choices I've made <3

Also, the last few years are why I spend so much time posting about gardening, cats, and weed

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amari.bsky.social•542 days ago

i followed the fun girl plant lady!

but as another writer that hit a wall & is burned out there’s defs deeper synchronicities here

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

Oh boy it's like sandpaper straight to the soul right now. I can't even remember who I used to be but I seem to recall she liked to travel or some shit

amari.bsky.social•542 days ago

dangg. if i was a gentleman farmer dilettante, i’d invite you to the salon for a month to ride horses, pet foxes, and float the punt along the river like rattie & mole discussing options, pick the wildest & then fund your relaunch like a misty angel investor

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

Solidarity and I hope you recover completely and quickly! Burnout is soooo fucked.

astuteaf.bsky.social•542 days ago

I had no idea you'd worked at snopes before today

elfy.bsky.social•542 days ago

so were not getting crock pot recipes?

well, shit.

katheward.bsky.social•542 days ago

Aw, I've been following you for so many reasons. You see things and make connections. You teach me things. You don't hold back. You give me... some hope. And now, I'm seeing something about plants! So there's also that! 🌿❤️

briesmith.xyz•542 days ago

I follow you because you and my late wife were LiveJournal friends a half a lifetime ago and she always thought you were impressive

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

!! Who was your wife? (It's possible I might not remember her real name, sorry)

briesmith.xyz•542 days ago

The late, great janierock/janietrain

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

Well, shit. I didn't know she had passed. I'm so sorry to read this. She was great!! I was just looking at LJ archives and missing those days so badly. Sending you and your family all my love.

briesmith.xyz•542 days ago

Yeah, it was a year ago in April. She was special.

kansaswoman.bsky.social•542 days ago

🤗💔🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

She was. I am so terribly sorry.

brentwaggoner.bsky.social•542 days ago

I had no idea you were associated with Snopes. I followed you on the old site because you shared a lot of good stuff and I was excited to be mutuals on here!

natesmith.dev•542 days ago

Same here!

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

This rules, it means you like me for meeeee

natesmith.dev•542 days ago

Depth and clarity of ideas is in short supply!!

colbosch.bsky.social•542 days ago

Hell yeah we do.

marlo.ooo•542 days ago

i have no idea how we became mutuals but i’m glad we did

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

Me too!

klm.bsky.social•542 days ago

Oh yeah I had no idea of your history when I first followed you here, you were just interesting

thatgirlrenita.bsky.social•542 days ago

Well I've known you online for... 20ish years? God. 😂 but point being... Since way before you were famous 😂

adampknave.com•542 days ago

Ugh. Don’t TELL.

readwryt.bsky.social•542 days ago

I get reunited with my landlady about a year after you started at Snopes, and I blew her mind by rattling off your career starting with KFMB call screening, through Alaska and CNN radio, KNX, Munk School Fellowship, KPBS and all and she asked me if I was your publicist.

"Nope, no maam. Just a fan"

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

HAAAA shit, I love you Ed

kmr.bsky.social•542 days ago

Check if Factal is hiring. You’d be good at that work.

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

Oooh looking now thank you!

cindym.bsky.social•542 days ago

Illuminating backstory, Brooke! I had memory-holed everything that happened with Snopes.

All of us suffer when our infrastructure will not support good journalism.

From the death of newspapers to the end of Twttr, the sea changes have been quite heartbreaking.
Signed me, a lifelong news junkie

4speech.bsky.social•542 days ago

I'm a news junkie. ln JrHi I was fascinated by Senate Army-McCarthy hearings. The '56 Dem Convention had epic struggle over VP and I listened as JFK almost won. By age 12 I'd read Churchill's multi-volume memoirs of WWII, based on his diarys. News is our history, in real time.

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

It is dreadful. I feel you. I am hoping that our satisfying turnaround is just around the corner

isomorphism.net•542 days ago

I keep hoping that Mackensie Scott will just dump a bunch of money on top of ProPublica's head and they'll go on a hiring spree

kansaswoman.bsky.social•542 days ago

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

That would be so awesome. They do great work

isomorphism.net•542 days ago

Honestly I think it's the only way out of our current situation, we need some big no-other-agenda foundations to just pay for journalism because the market is going to produce clickbait

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

Oh absolutely. Just to get us out of this mess. I hate the Benevolent Billionaire direct assistance model because it's so unstable and I hate being beholden to anyone, but if that sort of funding was done in the service of pulling us out of the grip of fascism, it would be great

cindym.bsky.social•542 days ago

I know you do. We deserve it, all of us. ✊

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

❤️✊

cindym.bsky.social•542 days ago

None of us are giving up.
Damn though. 💕✊

dysamoria.com•542 days ago

Actually I was aware of that site. It sort of fell off my awareness and I don’t know why. 🙁

patri.xyz•542 days ago

Had no idea. Glad I didn't say anything bad about Snopes, though I think everything bad I'd say would be post-2018.

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

It's fine if you do, I have no more dogs in the fight!

patri.xyz•542 days ago

You did mention starting fact checking up here once, months back. Glad you stuck with opinioning honestly. Enjoyable opinions have been more valuable than useful services at this scale.

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

Oh yeah you remember that! Yeah at the end of the day I think I'm too burned out to be particularly professional on a whole new site, hahahahaha

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

But also if you had criticisms I would absolutely hear you out, my ego is tied up in doing good, accurate work with integrity and accountability

voxexsinister.bsky.social•541 days ago

Nope, I had no idea until you posted about this.

amcatanzaro.bsky.social•542 days ago

I can't remember why I followed you but it's more likely because I liked your take on things and saw you showing up more than once.

banditelli.org•542 days ago

We all deserve cat gardening weed work balance.

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•542 days ago

This is a good story if anybody is interested https://www.fastcompany.com/90901113/inside-snopes-the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-an-internet-icon