The older you get the more often you think about a great sandwich from a place that’s closed now
Susan
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- what would be “cool” would be five million dollars a year to fund five alt-weeklies in cities that have lost them :) You can do it for a million a year in pretty much any city. the next one of these initiatives that decides to do that will be the first one I take seriouslyHalf a million dollars for local journalism isn't cool. You know what's cool? Half a billion dollars for local journalism. niemanlab.org/2023/09/can-50…
- This inquirer story--in which reporters find & call people and tell them they're owed five figures in unpaid wages & damages before time expires on the claims because the labor department "can't find them"--is really something
- I buy this being the choice, as it's the worst, most momentum-killing move possible ... time for the democrats to stop all the fun people had with their memes and get back to hectoring themSCOOP: I'm hearing from Philly Democratic Party members at their weekly luncheon today that Josh Shapiro is going to be Kamala Harris's VP pick and that local unions pulled for him. Apparently, her campaign is trying to get Wall Street to pour more money before announcing him.
- Nick Kristof went to go run for governor of a whole state and they let him come back, but Jazmine Hughes had to resign for signing onto the WAWOG letter. "New York Times Writer Resigns After Signing Letter Protesting the Israel-Gaza War"
- Replying to @BigMeanInternetcompounding factors: sunblock not invented, every venue he played full of indoor smoke
- trapped and fixed a group of stray cats in our alley. one turned out to be really friendly, we fed him daily, and then found out the week before the family moved away that he was pet of the 14-year-old next door who had been wondering for months what happened to his cat’s earAlright. We’re wrapping up the year. It is now tradition: Please tell me about the funniest and stupidest thing you did in 2023
- when I go to a show and everyone there is either 25 or 55? That's the post-punk revival crowd, baby, and I know I am about to hear some tight ESG, Gang of Four, Pylon-influenced bangers 👍🏻
- Replying to @SusanElizabethSo depressing looking at all the people who defended misinformation in the name of saving children. Also that there’s no more village voice or backpage but there’s still an Ashton Kutcher
- here’s all the tits and sass posts from 2011-15 about Ashton Kutcher’s crusades titsandsass.com/tag/ashton-kut…
- I’m calling it: we’re going to see a big embrace of broadcast TV and radio as people get sick of streaming services. get your digital tuner converters and receivers out. Put a big ol aerial on the roof. me personally I love turning on the radio!!I love my small tv/vcr with an antenna hookup. Best thing I’ve purchased… ever?
- I’m here once again to sing the praises of the locally owned Ace Hardware, from Texas to Oregon to Pennsylvania, from store owners to non-binary clerks to metalhead managers, they all solve my tiny hardware problems
