Sal r.r. tamarkin
@sal.gay
pronouns in bio Philly based writer and award winning editor of journalisms and ttrpgs // editorial director @cloudcurio.bsky.social
Texts I sent my former buzzfeed colleague (who is on the investigations team on the nyt) after she was on bluesky getting ratioed for defending our former bf colleague, the nyt’s Azeen Ghorayshi and her podcast The Protocol, against extremely accurate accusations of bias, poor reporting/ethics etc
Tired: cis journalists cashing in on the prestigious anti trans beat/grift Wired: cis journalists not doing that Inspired: cis journalists joining us in publicly naming the fact that this bandwagon is for extremists and their loser enablers only
Tired: cis journalists cashing in on the prestigious anti trans beat/grift Wired: cis journalists not doing that Inspired: cis journalists joining us in publicly naming the fact that this bandwagon is for extremists and their loser enablers only
Shout out to the nyt for enthusiastically laundering and mainstreaming anti trans extremism these last several years
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 19h agoPew Research Center poll on “transgender athletes competing on sports teams that don’t match their birth sex”: • 27% of American adults are somewhat/very/extremely comfortable with it • 73% are not comfortable with it Democrats are also NOT comfortable with it: 55-44% margin.
a prominent member of Film Twitter told me to "Suck his dick" just because i said that my favorite movie is the tv show Scrubs
what used to the the website of the Queer detainee empowerment project is now a site dedicated to covering crypto betting but they kept the URL, logo, etc??
Can androids ever be people and why do superheroes get sad sometimes are two stories no one ever gets tired of
Can androids ever be people and why do superheroes get sad sometimes are two stories no one ever gets tired of
tldr it is a coincidence but of like epic proportions so it's really the universe that is paying homage
Sal r.r. tamarkin@sal.gay · 3d agois it coincidence or is the World meteorological organization paying homage
which necessitate hiring someone like me in the first place. So, with that in mind, a couple of things to be aware of for my followers who are sex workers in the United States. (As always, this is NOT legal advice. This is just best practices stuff for informational purposes only.
Hulu’s decision making on ad break placements is absolutely sadistic btw
Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!
is it coincidence or is the World meteorological organization paying homage
LA sparks Sparks forward Cameron brink talking to a reporter about trans athletes and simply being absolutely correct:
Jane Schoenbrun has many skills as an artist, but the ability to distill a core affect of the piece into one killer resonant line? Absolute perfection "If it gets too real, you can just turn it off" joining the club with "there is still time" in my head/heart
Strahd gets knocked down, but he gets up again. And again. The Epilogues in Curse of Strahd offer endings, of a sort. Happy, not so much. All your favorites and least favorites are accounted for, except for the ones who are not. Vasilka we hardly knew ye. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Curse of Strahd Deep Dive 24: Slaughter Rinse Repeat
Podcast Episode · Critical Lit · August 27 · 1h 46m
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I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
What a wild defense—“And it’s true that there are many socialist writers and intellectuals, but almost none of them are able to write the sort of wonkish, detail-oriented opinions coverage that a major magazine can use”—given how many people who can do exactly this have been laid off or out of work
Ross Barkan got screwed
the scandal develops — what does naomi think? —the missing middle — the threat from AI — a murdoch publication
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Forever chasing the gender euphoria of picture day at age 10 when the photographer thought I was a boy and had me sit with the all-boy row in the very front
