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This will be your independent newsletter covering all things Golden State Valkyries from beat reporter @mingemi.bsky.social

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obviously i am going to white sox pope hat night

“what are your pronouns?” - rigid, unmoving, exclusive

“what pronouns can I get started for you?” - fluid, welcoming, open to growth and evolution

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

The Wisconsin Badgers win the NCAA women's hockey national championship

TRANS RIGHTS READATHON March 17th-31st all kith eBooks are free Donate, fundraise, tell a friend gift a book, thank an author, post your reads, spend a little money at your favourite trans press kithbooks.com #transrightsreadathon

TRANS RIGHTS READATHON is back!
all kith eBooks are free until the 31st!

free books are great but trans people are better. donate, fundraise, tell a friend, gift a book, thank an author, post your reads, spend a little money at your favourite trans press
#TransRightsReadathon

kithbooks.com/digital

yes 😭

it's international women's day. every person should venmo me if they misgender me as a woman.

we 💚 longform prose

excited to be co-editing another anthology with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, click through to learn more!

correct

“‘sroight, your fave IS problematicK”

DO THEY HAVE MERCH

UW receives approval to move L&S’s largest majors to new AI-focused school The UW System Board of Regents voted Thursday to move three departments out of the College of Letters & Sciences into a new College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence. 

I have bad news about UW-Madison 🫠 (the MLIS program was already rolled into the School of Computer, Data, and Information Science a few years earlier, which is why it’s part of this move)

OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST LAILA EDWARDS

ikr i’m competing for haiti easy

I don’t usually campaign for awards, but this year I’ve decided to go for broke for a Fan Writer Hugo Award. Yay me!
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my “journalism” “career” started just like this and lasted from 2012 to 2021 and the bookends of graduating from college into all that and COVID were pretty perfect, almost scripted

i remember when you shared one of my pieces years ago and i was like KIM LIKED THIS??? made my day actually

i’m learning how to accept that people who think i’m cool might have a point. so as a cool person you have to believe me when i tell you i think you’re cool!

In case you were worried women's hockey has gotten too advanced, let me remind you today is the first time three Black women have been on the ice together at the Olympics. Canada's Sarah Nurse and Sophie Jaques plus USAH's first-ever Black women Laila Edwards

hell yeahhhh

Laila Edwards shooting the puck during an ice hockey game. The puck is visible in the top right corner of the goal.

one of the sickest hockey photos I’ve ever taken (2023)

I love her and I think sometimes she doesn’t need to make the extra pass and should in fact shoot the puck

yes even curling like why do they know how to do those angles

empty-netter with the goalie still jumping off the ice is BRUTAL

I was among the layoffs at The Washington Post today. It has been an absolute dream to be a small part of this incredible team. Covering the Caps has been an honor; being a beat writer is an all-consuming thing that I love deeply. I hope I’ll get to continue that in whatever is next

I was among the many sports reporters laid off by The Washington Post today. Feeling a lot of gratitude for my time working for this paper.

Not looking back. Looking ahead to what’s next!

I was laid off by The Washington Post today. This is gutting for our readers and our section, but I’m grateful for the 4 years I had to cover sports alongside friends and legends.

If you’re hiring or know of someone who is: spencernusbaum(at)gmail(dot)com

kith digital kith so starved for touch i trace my own arms to feel skin on skin cracked lips tingle sinking battleship in the absence - ghost town salt box traces longing and desire over the c...

succumbed to the 202 books read in 2025 to 1 book read in January 2026 pipeline (it was @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social’s “salt box” and I read it on January 1)

it IS her