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journalistic objectivity is a tool that is useful for certain things. it's been turned into an ideology by bad faith actors and cowardly, self-interested hacks with family money. like all cults, it gradually destroys its adherents.

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

i genuinely dont know what other industry has failed as speculatively as journalism has failed at meeting this moment we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like

submitted 4 hours ago • 33 comments

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

submitted 4 days ago • 432 comments

I quit Roll20 (paying subscriber since 2020) and you can too! A selectively enforced "no politics" policy (which files "political agendas" next to "other obscene material") is hostile to creators and the community at large. Trash the policy and reinstate Rebel Scum! @roll20.net @drivethrurpg.com

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Get Rebel Scum on itch! I own it, it is well worth your time. 9thlevelgames.itch.io/rebel-scum-2...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

monday comin'

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Why does oven-toasting bread make me feel way classier than just using the toaster?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The International Energy Agency estimates that 70 percent of the fossil fuel sector’s methane emissions could be cut with existing technologies—many of which would save polluters money. www.wired.com/story/cheap-...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

As we head into summer, I wanna get back to website advocacy. Tell me your site! Link me to your super cool newsletter that isnt on some fascist platform! Join my web ring! We can choose a better internet!

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

"If you show up on time, speak honestly and treat everyone with fairness, we will get along just fine." - Ron Swanson

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

"If you show up on time, speak honestly and treat everyone with fairness, we will get along just fine." - Ron Swanson

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

submitted 10 days ago • 879 comments

A opossum would be the most frightening thing to see on acid

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

For nearly a decade, I’ve seen various parties employ mental gymnastics to meet the right in the middle, and I have not yet seen it effective. This seems dangerous tactic in a time when the right has grown bolder with its use of violence as seen in the recent assassinations.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This is endemic in mainstream media, but also percolates down to small local media outlets.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

submitted 14 days ago • 262 comments

Pope Leo XIV will address a packed baseball stadium in Chicago on Saturday, greeting a U.S. audience directly for the first time and offering a glimpse of the potential impact of the first American papacy.

submitted 14 days ago • 238 comments

One party is assassinating members of the other party. Journalism organizations are out here saying, “we don’t pander to any partisan factions.”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

submitted 15 days ago • 1919 comments

A day at work with Jimmy Olsen. #Superman

submitted 15 days ago • 50 comments

it's the 10 year anniversary of a very important study

submitted 15 days ago • 61 comments

we've crossed at least 90 Rubicons by now, possibly more. we're casting dice at heretofore-unseen rates

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

submitted 20 days ago • 776 comments

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 2533 comments

KAIJUNE 2025 week one! #KaiJune2025 #TinyKaijuDoodle #Art #tokusatsu #怪獣 #Kaijū #Kaijune

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

KAIJUNE DAY 7 - GODZILLA 2000 [color markers, white ink, bristol paper] #KaiJune2025 #TinyKaijuDoodle #Art #tokusatsu #怪獣 #Kaijū #Kaijune #Godzilla

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

logging on this morning like

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments