Working on some live stuff in this vein, aka mole man plugs his bangy paddle into the durned ol computer

lmao

A flyer shows a line drawing of two people sitting at a brightly decorated bar, with the following text: HAPPY HOUR THURSDAY APRIL 23 5-7PM MEMORIAL UNION DER RATHSKELLER AFSCME LOCAL 171 THE WORKDAY ENDS HERE ENJOY SPECIAL DRINKS AND A RELAXED EVENING WITH FELLOW UNION MEMBERS FEEL FREE TO BRING NON-UNION UW STAFF FRIENDS!

If you work at UW-Madison and are categorized as University Staff, you have a union! And we’re having a happy hour on Thursday, April 23 at the Terrace, 5 to 7 pm! Any and all campus workers are welcome—bring a friend or a coworker!

Idk if “I probably killed no more than a dozen” refers to blocking/deleting stupid comments but I choose to believe it’s just Ebert being really fucking funny

Let’s say your farewell to @tonemadison.bsky.social is salty because you were accustomed to a nonstop approval enema in Madison and noticed that we, one fucking exception, didn’t line up eagerly with bulb and bucket. That was the point! No apologies to you or your pampered fundament 😘

Really appreciate this given how many media people who should know better have drunk the AI-inevitability Kool-Aid. It really doesn’t have many uses for journalists except for embarrassing oneself. "I’ve always hated the zero-to-one process of writing a story.” Join the club, welcome to hell, etc.

Garage Sale on Steam It's garage sale day! Embark on a small scavenger hunt throughout Lettuce Village's community-wide garage sale. In this story exploration game, you'll collect items with strange backstories, help your...

Amelia Zollner aka @manateemailbox.bsky.social is a freelancer you should hire if you are an editor looking for games or music coverage steeped in wonderful internet weirdness, also made a lovely video game you can buy on Steam

Archive - The Crossover Full archive of all the posts from The Crossover .

We were lucky enough to publish @janeburns.bsky.social's writing on sports, Patti Smith, and more. Jane continues her longtime focus on women’s sports in her newsletter, The Crossover

Definitely need to add more to this thread later… we worked with so many awesome people that it’s hard to keep track of it all off the top of my head. Yell at me if I missed you

Lewis Peterson did a lot of wonderful film writing for Tone Madison. He is also still keeping an enduring Madison institution alive at @4starvideo.bsky.social, where you can rent many fine vidya discs and sign up for a monthly subscription

Grist From the Mills Wisconsin-based opinion, interviews, and suggestions covering state and national politics, environment, LGBTQ issues, music, culture, and more.

It just wouldn’t be Madison without @millbot.bsky.social running circles around the rest of us. They also have a newsletter you should get!

Heartbreaking Bravery @heartbreaking_bravery | heartbreakingbraveryllc@gmail.com | @hbreakbravery

Former Music Editor @stevenmps.bsky.social has re-launched his longtime project Heartbreaking Bravery, and is available to take photos and do other multimedia work

Or how about @jesseraub.online's anachronistic, generous, and often very personal writing about food and movies? He’s got a newsletter called Good Ones and I happen to think it’s delightful

Get more from Rachel DL on Patreon Queer, Disabled Cartoonist. Comics, & Graphic Novel updates

If you liked comics artist and writer @racheldl.bsky.social's penetrating journalism on disability and housing in Madison, there is more where that came from on Rachel’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/RachelDL/p...

If you have been donating to @tonemadison.bsky.social and want some other ideas for supporting good writing/art/journalism with your money, I have some suggestions for you, including ongoing projects from some of Tone’s wonderful freelancers:

The meanings of Tone Madison Current and former editors reflect on the publication's life and legacy.

Today is @tonemadison.bsky.social’s last day in operation. Some work ahead to make sure the site stays available in archival form, but for now some final reflections

We cannot take Flock or client police agencies at their word about who does or doesn’t have access to certain data, given the security problems and abuse we already know about. Keep the pressure on. Get rid of this shit entirely

If you think like this, please grow the fuck up and read The Dispossessed

I have a friend who subscribes to the print edition and occasionally sends me photos of the little “pepper and salt” cartoon

that’s for the best, considering “witness protection but for freelance writers” is not really a thing

can’t go to restrunt on sundee, gotta be up and chugging down the beltline in time to listen to my favorite drive-time programme it’s called Fish And Skeedaddle In The Morning and they have buttons that make fart sounds

Small Bites: How I would fix Madison dining Going out on Sundays and other thoughts on building a more sustainable food city.

This is a @jesseraub.online column about food but also about the gap between what Madisonians say they want/value and what they actually support ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve been kinda quiet but I have seen and appreciated the kind words about @tonemadison.bsky.social

Please focus your appreciation on those who’ve been running it since I stepped back: @stinadale.bsky.social, @nothingunfinished.bsky.social, Juan Carlos Garcia Martinez, and @stevenmps.bsky.social!

The Atlantic Subscribe IDEAS Where Are All the Campus Protests? Two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. Now the same places are strangely silent.

Honestly, fuck off.

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If you look through the Live Nation work Slack exhibit it just gets worse. Jesus

What the fuck? they should have to drink nothing but Jerry Saltz coffee until the end of time

Once again it’s completely nonsensical that UW-Madison PD’s spokesperson won’t disclose the locations of Flock cameras. The map I’m sharing here is literally a file that UWPD will send people in response to open records requests about this. What are you doing, UWPD? Do you even know?

Having filed my share of open records requests I… was gonna say something smart-assed about “well here’s how it works” but on second thought you are right. There should be accessible public repositories of all this stuff, with requests as a backup mechanism

A reporter asked for body-camera footage. UW-Madison police threatened her with a fine. A hands-on encounter with Wisconsin’s newest and most troublesome open-records law.

Police in general love to play fast and loose with public records laws and make up their own arbitrary nonsense rules about disclosure. UWPD can at times be really shitty, even when one grades on that curve: