I can't stress this enough: Your local library. You would be amazed how many different groups, clubs, and orgs use your local library for holding events, publicity, teaching classes, or just a communal space. Libraries have never been more tech savvy. Go to their website. Look on their calendar.

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 4h ago

[Someone asked how I find classes but has quotes off and I think it's a Q of broader interest] Sometimes I just pay attention to what friends are doing or what orgs around me are offering, sometimes I think of a thing I might enjoy and then I search for whether classes are available in my city

two anti-fascist movies that I think you should watch as a way to realize just how cowardly, regressive, and dangerous this movie is

🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 6h ago

"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

My high school and college experience was pretty much watching every career path I was ever interested in get sucked dry by venture capitalists and tech industry idiots. I worry that we haven't begun to see the farthest reaching consequences of American industry's hard turn away from the arts.

K8 Hagen 🦂@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 7h ago

If I were ten years older I absolutely would’ve pursued music journalism over film, but even 2006 high school journalist K8 unfortunately knew that was not going to be a sustainable career path. Imagine trying to launch a new rock and roll band in this landscape, where do you even GO!

this is the kind of ruthlessness that gets you a win

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 8h ago

I don't think I can remember a US politician with better messaging than this man. Ever. And that includes Mamdani. Run him for President.

Ok sorry. Anyone still out there giving Ken Jennings the benefit of the doubt as a transphobe? He is a transphobe. So pretend he didn't endanger the life of a trans woman making her internationally famous for hurting his feelings. He blocks cool, critically minded trans women like Sage. He's trash.

Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️@trans.bsky.social · yesterday

wow, i was not expecting to be blocked by @kenjennings.bsky.social over this. We’ve previously interacted in friendly ways, so i reached out in good faith & not trying to drag him. I was giving the benefit of the doubt that maybe his transphobic behavior was unintended. really disappointing.

hello! i was on guys: a podcast about guys, one of my favorite pods ever. we talked about small business guys and i had an incredible time. www.patreon.com/GuysPodcast/...

Guys: Episode 183 - Small Business Guys with Gita Jackson | Guys A Podcast About Guys

I went back to my roots this week and we talked about small business guys, we brought Gita Jackson from Aftermath to talk about the army tha

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Here's the story I did tonight youtu.be/OKYiuvd8zVk?...

Wiener-dog-racing at Wood County Fair draws massive spectator base

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It's telling that every homeless person, even sober, is automatically a sign of "the drug problem." But belligerently intoxicated tourists — a far worse danger to those of us living and working downtown — somehow never are.

Pedestrianize Broadway now.

Pete@pete-nash.bsky.social · 4d ago

Not just because of this, but for every day, Broadway should be closed to vehicle traffic from 5th Ave to 1st, with AM delivery hours. It is absurd to pretend that this is a functioning state highway. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

This is a good way to write about the anti-trans sentiment popping up around the WNBA lately, imo. It's gross and bad, and people should say that plainly!

WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Minority Owner For Being Rude To Transphobic Shitheads | Defector

On Tuesday night, a small group of weirdos held an anti-trans rally outside of the Seattle Storm’s home arena. The occasion for their gathering was a game against the Indiana Fever and bench player So...

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If you're a Warren Zevon fan you'll know that his favourite crime writer Ross McDonald visited him when he was in the dregs of addiction to give him a pep talk but this account of their meeting is a rivetting & haunting read that adds mystery to the anecdote: kevin6ca.substack.com/p/lew-archer...

LEW ARCHER AND THE EXCITABLE BOY

Earlier this year I read two excellent crime novels written by Newton Thornburg – To Die in California (1973) and Cutter and Bone (1976) – both of them set in Santa Barbara, California.

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We already have a shitty, exclusionary place in sports: it's called men's sports. They built it like that on purpose. Let them own it and figure that out for themselves. Women's sports were built in opposition to that structure, built for inclusion. The WNBA has represented the best of that.

I am a product of this system. I loved it and, in some ways, I still do. I cherish a lot of those memories. But it’s all braided with several poisonous strains of thinking that have cast a shadow over my life and, in many ways, my whole generation. This is my attempt to reckon with that legacy.

Reckoning With the Youth Groups That Raised Us

We were meant to live for so much more. But we lost ourselves.

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Had this experience far too many times over the years as a prolific freelancer and eventually I just said fuck it I’m never freelancing again. And then I never did. Also why I pay Hell World writers the day the piece goes up.

Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com · 5d ago

Well, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:

There was a good 25-year stretch where i’d pick up as many 60s-70s African comps on CD as I could Some favorite V/A comps: Afro-Rock, vol. 1 (2001) *unfortunately, vol. 2 was never released strut.bandcamp.com/album/afro-r...

Afro-Rock Vol. 1, by Various Artists

15 track album

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i know better than to bet on the willpower of random celebrities but doing an "i got the pass" joke about it would be so obviously inadvisable about any other group it wouldnt even need to be said

Once again maddening for all the big outlets to have slowly killed their cultural criticism spaces only for the loudest headline in the last 24 hours to be cultural critique

More on John Henry, from The Republic for Which It Stands (White, 2017)

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everybody's talking about the odyssey, but america has a meaty epic poem with countless interpretations all its own: john henry www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-john-henr...

In honor of the late Sam Neill, The Fractured Favorite at Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas is the 1997 cult classic Event Horizon. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-fractu...

The Fractured Favorite is the 1997 Cult Classic Event Horizon

Back when I had regular freelance gigs, I felt ghoulish because every time a filmmaker, actress, or actor of note died, I would pitch tributes to the recently deceased.

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United Methodists are caring for frightened neighbors after federal immigration enforcement fatally shot two people in less than a week. Church leaders also are trying to help people who have seen their legal status stripped.

Amid ICE killings, churches defend immigrants | UMNews.org

United Methodists are caring for frightened neighbors after federal immigration enforcement fatally shot two people in less than a week. Church leaders also are trying to help people who have seen…

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I love the idea of a little free movie library but can we not brand them with the husk of the corporate ghoul that put all the independent video stores out to pasture? I am, perhaps, a little jaded as my family ran a video store in the 80s/early 90s.

I spent the last few weeks writing this piece about the end of tennis.com -- what it was like during the peak of the blog days, how it influenced young writers, how it changed in tandem with the Internet, and the void that's left now that it's gone. Gift link: defector.com/tennis-com-l...

Tennis.com Lived And Died With The Internet | Defector

A day after the French Open ended in May, the website tennis.com shut down its editorial operation. The brand dates back to the founding of Tennis magazine in 1965, and though the mag folded in 2022, ...

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Trea Turner is a true two-way player: defector.com/trea-turner-...

Trea Turner Is A True Two-Way Player | Defector

PHILADELPHIA — I thought I would be miserable going to this game, watching two teams I hate (the Phillies and the Dodgers) ride high on their own egos amid overpriced concessions that jam a “ph”…

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My favorite movie of last year is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

'Eephus' is more than a movie about baseball

Director Carson Lund's film follows the last game played by two adult Sunday league baseball teams on a field slated for demolition in Douglas, Massachusetts. "It’s baseball as life in all its gloriou...

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A brief visit with Trea Turner. buttondown.com/linda.holmes...

ICYMI: Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is Pure Pleasure, An Instant Classic, and the Funniest Movie of the Year nathanrabin.substack.com/p/gail-daugh...

all set for #SFB16

SURPRISE!!! I just unlocked our Hotwife Tier episode called Rocktober, it’s like shocktober but rock and we had Pat Finnerty come on!!! I’m not gonna do this often but this is just one of the shows we do over there every month www.patreon.com/GuysPodcast/...

Rocktober with Pat Finnerty (audio) | Guys A Podcast About Guys

This month on the Hotwife tier we are having our friend Pat Finnerty on to watch some rock videos, I introduced Pat and Chris to Hometown Se

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a very low-cost high-reward program would be to buy up and nationalize greyhound as inter-city transit and create a chain of USmotels to service them.

Conor@ernekid.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cats Don’t Dance is a mostly forgotten movie but I really do like the credits sequence with all the classic Americana iconography youtu.be/L5twnWYwqU4?...

a nice stand in until rail is laid out but also hey, lean into the americana of stepping off a bus into a new town