My @applenewsroom.bsky.social juxtaposition tonight:

The Tooth Fairy Is Real. She’s a Dentist in Seattle.

My favorite Seattle story of the week. Thanks @elizashapiro.bsky.social & @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/p...

The book is fantastic and I’m looking forward to our talk.

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions and report international students who broke rules, among other steps. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

But where will @harvard.edu turn for legal help? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Unexpected cruelty coming by way of the @theathletic.bsky.social for @mariners.com fans: Editor’s note: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the Mariners’ playoff odds. The odds are 44.1 percent, not 92.4 percent.

a cartoon drawing of a paper clip with a face ALT: a cartoon drawing of a paper clip with a face

Well, I finally talked John Cook, @geekwire.bsky.social honcho to join me at @kironewsradio.bsky.social as a guest host of the John Curley show today (Friday 2/7) from 3-7PM. And what's on the agenda, you ask? A bit of @microsoft.com's upcoming 50th anniversary for starters. Tune in!

Questlove on Parsing 50 Years of Music for His ‘S.N.L.’ Documentary Digging through more than 900 episodes was bound to yield some surprises — and some warm memories. The experience didn’t disappoint.

Definitely watching this. First hip-hop appearance on national TV? Not Soul Train. SNL. Who knew? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/a...

‘If people are being killed through PDF files, and through claim denial letters, and through a deliberate practice of saying "no"... you cannot expect to live in a society in which that rage goes nowh... TikTok video by NowThis Impact

On the @kironewsradio.bsky.social tomorrow as a fill-in on Gee & Ursula. What are we going to talk about? Well, this for starters: www.tiktok.com/@nowthisimpa...

Los Angeles Times Owner Plans to Launch Tech-Driven “Bias Meter” On Articles Next Year Patrick Soon-Shiong says that his team is building a product where "the reader can press a button and get both sides" of a story.

Fun news for @kironewsradio.bsky.social listeners: I'm hosting the John Curley show Fri. Dec. 6 from 3-6 PM. Co-hosting for the first time will be @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social columnist Danny Westneat. What are we going to talk about? This, for starters: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

The first drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galilei after he observed it through his telescope in 1609.

"Many of you could be where we are—on the street—but for some simple and not uncommon twist of fate. This is part of your rejection, this fear that it could be you. You deny that reality because it is too horrific to contemplate, therefore you must deny us." Thank you for posting this.

My Life As a Homeless Man in America An extraordinary firsthand account.

You NEED to read this.

Dynamite book.

I realize I am a year late to the party, but that book is phenomenal. I’m about halfway in right now and I love it.

Maybe @Jack finally left the building?

If your world opened up thanks to the effort of an elementary, high school or college teacher, read this. If your young world never opened up thanks to the effort of an elementary, high school or college teacher, I'm sorry. But still read this. Thanks Elizabeth Egan and @nytimes: shorturl.at/rAQ79

Loved @mirjordan & @rachelbujalski's @nytimes story not just because I'm a fmr print journo or because I was born and raised in Modesto (and worked at the @modbee), but also because Gil Howard and the Afghan women he helps are so worth reading about: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/u...

Terrific @kuow.bsky.social story by LibbyDenkman, Stephen Howie Jason Burrows on how WA public libraries have become defacto social services offices: www.kuow.org/stories/libr...

Had a chance to sit in with Kiro Radio's Morning News a few days ago and talk tech layoffs with Dave & Colleen: mynorthwest.com/category/pod...

This
@PAPPADEMAS story in @GQMagazine about @davematthewsbnd (well, mostly about Dave) is ridiculously well-written & worth a read no matter how you feel about the man's music: https://www.gq.com/story/dave-matthews-profile

FROM THE NYTIMES: John Archibald, who has been a journalist in Birmingham, Ala., for years, was anxious about his son Ramsey’s decision to go into journalism. He needn’t have worried.

My favorite story of the day (and even better than the same-game homeruns by Griffey Sr. & Griffey Jr.😀): https://rb.gy/ixbyq

In the late '70s, my siblings and I bought #HarryBelafonte concert tickets for my mom & dad. My mom, a Panamanian, loved the man. She came back from the show dizzy with excitement. Dad too, but nothing like Mom's reaction. 🤣 www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/music/ha...

And there you go.
@Oakland, a city that not only had three major sports franchises, and had championships in each, will be left without a single team by 2027: www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/sports/baseba...

Lousy news.

Hey, @jaypeters.bsky.social. Nice Verge story on BlueSky. I’m here also and I like it but I’m not having much luck finding media members/orgs. I agree it is WAY less of a cesspool than Twitter but it’s also less interactive. Are you going to do a folo or a comparison to Mastodon or Post?

Auroral Storm over Lapland

Auroral Storm over Lapland - ©Juan Carlos Casado

HD: apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2304/AuroraSn...

Please read the following thread for an explanation of this image! 👇

At the very least it would add leverage to the originally requested apology which should have been central to any settlement. This agreement undermines the whole process of holding people and companies accountable. And the modern pervasiveness of horse-trading "fault" for cash is a societal cancer.

Why didn't some progressive multimillion/billionaire agree to match the Dominion lawsuit demand just to get the company to push this all of the way through trial? (More)