You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance | Defector I don’t remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...

I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about.

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"The fascist built environment is often not considered architecture as such but mere infrastructure. This is a huge mistake."

— @katewagner.wehwalt.net with an absolutely crucial reminder here—read the full essay at The Nation.

I can’t believe I have to go to bat for the fucking Church.

AMDG.

profane.

World Cup Transit Is Broken Before It Has Begun | Defector On Tuesday, the Athletic reported that NJ Transit plans on hiking up the price of return tickets to New York Penn Station from World Cup games at the New York New Jersey stadium in East Rutherford,…

World Cup transit is broken before it has begun: defector.com/world-cup-tr...

Once upon a time I did a bonus pod for @wtyppod.bsky.social with @garethdennis.uk to talk about (Western) farming.

Between this and the crazy drought they've been having all i will say is danger danger danger

www.patreon.com/posts/122067171

I used to mix everclear and caffeine powder. The kids will be okay.

If I can’t pack a fat lip I don’t want to be a part of your revolution!

Considered

GRAPPA.

Your holiness come on WTYP

Something very perverse about the way the Vatican runs its museum.

Florence, Y’all.

Sicko mode.

In Europe, which means that I get to complain about the cars we don’t get in the US

1 man is dead after a parking garage partially collapsed in Grays Ferry The parking garage was under construction at 30th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue across the street from the Grays Ferry Shopping Center.

update: a man is now dead because of this widely-opposed, stupid, and shortsighted project

www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

look man if we’re going to die in hellfire the least we could do is bring back OG FOUR LOKO

“Note: Mixing high amounts of alcohol with energy drinks can be dangerous”

Mind your business, google.

I’m going to make all the publicists who email the podcast fistfight in a parking lot. Winner gets nothing!

Gang gang gang

I have had some version of "he wants all of us to be buried with him" in stuff I've written about Trump in the past and usually but not always taken it out. It didn't like looking at it, mostly, but over time it just became one of those things that was too obvious to bother with. It's all sickening.

Lads.

Gamers Nexus video ca 2021: proper thermal paste application, does it matter?

Gamers Nexus video 2026: the fires of California will be quenched with the warm blood of the executive class

But ok if you insist on a Path to Redemption, here: you must join the French Foreign Legion for no less than 25 years. No comedy or contact outside the legion ‘til you’re done! Then you may resume life as an entertainer, but only as a humble but mostly-despised street mime.

That’s the Path.

i believe in redemption, grace, restorative justice and second chances.

but nobody is entitled to wealth, fame, or mass adoration—and if a path back to all that even exists for louis c.k., it ran in the opposite direction from putting on a tie and doing “trigger the libs” bits in saudi arabia

PHILS

Today on social work: backup fire marshal. I will not elaborate further.