periodic refresher that at the ripe old age of 19 i told an NYT reporter that i was teen vaper named "joe stevonson" who "missed how smoking cigarettes felt like gargling gravel" and was particularly fond of "Lil Ugly Mane's Courtroom Vape Juice" and she didn't so much as ask me for a photo of my ID - ThreadSky

adamsandler.click • 1 day ago

periodic refresher that at the ripe old age of 19 i told an NYT reporter that i was teen vaper named "joe stevonson" who "missed how smoking cigarettes felt like gargling gravel" and was particularly fond of "Lil Ugly Mane's Courtroom Vape Juice" and she didn't so much as ask me for a photo of my ID

Reposted from Oliver Willis

ny times, the most well financed, praised news source on the planet, able to influence govts, institutions, etc: "here's some lie, dont fact check it, just trust us"

me, who failed high school geometry, googling while waiting for a burger: "yeah, that's not true."

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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markhoofnagle.medsky.social•1 day ago

You should have seen the laughable nonsense on the Pope’s pneumonia they published same day. It had all of Medsky rolling. Just laughably false stuff, we were wondering if she called someone pretending to be a doctor using AI to answer her questions. It’s just not a good paper.

markhoofnagle.medsky.social•1 day ago

The comments were joyous https://bsky.app/profile/ericschul.bsky.social/post/3liipgpgny22u

adamsandler.click•1 day ago

they're the worst! the absolute worst! and it's been proven to me again and again and again every day for the last 10 years of my life!

markhoofnagle.medsky.social•1 day ago

The “Paper of record” I feel like is a bit like “King of Pop” just genius self labeling as a marketing ploy. Their reporting is actually grossly inferior to, say, the WSJ (editorial page not included), or propublica, or even WaPo pre-Amazon. Their opEd page is a bunch of clowns (excluding Bouie)

nothingfromnada.bsky.social•1 day ago

The front page of the Associated Press is a much better news source than the NYT if someone needs a default first thing to read.

marcyani.me•1 day ago

Fuck that was like a decade ago now I still remember how funny that was

scjreal.bsky.social•1 day ago

THE RAPPER LIL UGLY MANE will always kill me

evancook.audio•1 day ago

a medley of things you might want while waiting for the jury to convict!

tiffysniffs.bsky.social•1 day ago

Varsity foosball playing icon

thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social•1 day ago

Somebody’s smoking on that paradise

adamsandler.click•1 day ago

i spent my entire life growing up wanting to be a journalist. i got turned down by Northwestern like 4 times. when it became apparent it wasn't a field i was gonna fit into i started hangin around journalists online. if i've learned 1 thing in that time, it's that Northwestern did me a fucking favor

bizzo.bz•1 day ago

Lol I'm an ex journo

adamsandler.click•1 day ago

oh no shit? i guess that explains how we wound up meetin so early on hahaha

bizzo.bz•1 day ago

Got real disillusioned when a story about police abuse was stonewalled by cops and there was no institutional support for continuing it beyond the first article. Then they cut our pay and I was like yeah fuck it

adamsandler.click•1 day ago

nah that's exactly what i mean, like, i think if i'd gone into that field it would've crushed me in a profound way that i would've never recovered from. it seems really goddamn dire now

adamsandler.click•1 day ago

that's no disrespect to the journos i know. y'all are the good ones, honestly journaling the way i'd grown to admire. but my god, if this is how the supposed gold standard in that field vets their fucking articles, how they do their research, i'd rather die than put my working years into that world

espomarkers.bsky.social•1 day ago

My mom was a reporter/anchor for like 20+ years and she has some extremely choice things to say about the state of field atm (when she can see through her establishment lib fog)

dropkick.bsky.social•1 day ago

FUCK MEDILL

timeetranger.bsky.social•1 day ago

i went through this exact same story arc, though it was maybe expedited by "i live in the uk"

ithinkiplaygames.bsky.social•10 hours ago

still profoundly funny to me that you didn't make up Courtroom

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