Last year, KQED aired an episode of the Close All Tabs podcast featuring @changa.gay and me: How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye. A new update of the episode went live this morning, with an entirely new intro and outro. www.kqed.org/news/1209208...

How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload) | KQED

Anthrocon, the largest gathering of furries in the world, just celebrated its 20th anniversary in July — so we’re re-airing one of our favorite episodes yet. Furries are a community often known for we...

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Close All Tabs is doing some of the most exciting games coverage.

A Queer History of The Sims | KQED

“Did The Sims make you gay?” is a long-running joke among Sims players. For millions, The Sims has been more than a video game — it’s been a place to experiment, tell stories, and explore identity. Lo...

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BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

I was not looking anywhere in the vicinity of their butts! But perhaps I should have been? @morgansung.bsky.social and @goosenaut.bsky.social of the @kqednews.kqed.org podcast "Close All Tabs" help me process what I sat through, and I mean SAT through not too long ago. www.kqed.org/news/1208523...

Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics | KQED

For three weeks, all eyes were on a salacious courtroom drama unfolding in Oakland, California. The Musk v. Altman trial had everything you’d expect from a favorite soap opera: Backstabbing? Check! Se...

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Let's give @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social her flowers 💐! She's been nominated as an emerging leader by @inn.org as a luminary in non-profit news. Beyond her incredible reporting/editing on #LongCOVID, Betsy does so much unsung work that makes The Sick Times the force that it is. #INNYs2026

really good episode of close all tabs with @morgansung.bsky.social - this is about data centers in georgia

How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities — Close All Tabs

Picture this… You move to a cozy home in an idyllic neighborhood: fresh air and birdsong in the morning and gorgeous sunsets at night. One day, you wake up to find an AI data center is being built rig...

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I talked to @morgansung.bsky.social about sex work, surveillance, & censorship for close all tabs from kqed! www.kqed.org/news/12075321

Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws | KQED

Requiring internet users to verify their ages before accessing mature content may sound reasonable. Shouldn’t we be doing a better job protecting kids from online vulgarities? But free speech advocate...

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so thankful to @morgansung.bsky.social for having me on Close All Tabs to talk about how farmers have fought for right to repair! Thought this episode turned out really great and the show in general is amazing: www.kqed.org/news/1207746...

To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair | KQED

What do pissed off farmers and broken McFlurry machines have to do with each other? More than you’d think. Both are part of the story behind the modern right-to-repair movement. In this episode, Jason...

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The military is bailing out the AI industry. We interview author and activist @naomiaklein.bsky.social on our latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. Check out episode 72: How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

This is a good read. I'm also thinking about how almost all disability organizations, including ones for Tourette's, have very white leadership, which means many fail to approach situations like this with intersectional nuance. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

I Have Tourette Syndrome and I Have the N-Word Thrown at Me. I Have Thoughts on BAFTA.

As New York City Public Advocate, I’m in a very visible space with a very visible disability. Here's what I've learned.

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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

You don’t need to guard yourself against every threat unless you're willing to “live as a hermit on a 🏔️ and fling all of your devices into the sea,” says the #cybersecurity director at the @eff.org. www.kqed.org/news/1207040... via @kqednews.kqed.org @morgansung.bsky.social @goosenaut.bsky.social

How to Protect Your Information Online in 2026 | KQED

What are some easy digital habits you can pick up in the new year that can protect your privacy online?

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Do you have the right to record ICE? Criminal justice reporter @cjciaramella.bsky.social explains to @morgansung.bsky.social how the Trump administration is working to create a chilling effect around filming law enforcement. www.kqed.org/news/1206959... via @kqednews.kqed.org @goosenaut.bsky.social

Are You Allowed to Record ICE? | KQED

When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, it became an instant flashpoint in the ongoing escalation of federal law enforcemen...

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Three of the Ogala Lakota men who were taken by ICE are being held at a former concentration camp. ICE has no jurisdiction over Native Americans. They’re not breaking any laws. There’s nowhere to deport them to. They were here first. They’ve been kidnapped.

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT

The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

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I just enjoyed a Coldplay song. Is this what it means to be 41?

Before dunking on people for doing so, I'll raise that being undiagnosed with health issues is very much hell and people are desperate.

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records

I built a new PC less than a year ago. The RAM sticks I paid $99 for are now selling for $479! I knew about the global shortage but didn’t realize it was this bad..

We don't have the disability education infrastructure to support a growing number of kids who are going to be disabled because their parents didn't get them vaccines against illnesses that can lead to the development of disabilities.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

The whole clip disappointed me including the part where Stewart said he asks people if they’re sick for why they’re masking. It’s like, none of your business?!?! Weirdo behavior.

@elypaul.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.

Disappointed in Jon Stewart. There are good reasons to mask — you might be immunocompromised, chronically ill, living with someone who is, or have made the very rational choice to try to avoid long COVID. Masking is a sign of care. Jon has the cultural capital to change minds, and he chooses this

@elypaul.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.

For example

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

this episode is really special - it's a deep dive into queer history, virtual reality, and what grief looks like for furries thank you @dogpatch.press and @changa.gay for walking me through this part of the internet! www.kqed.org/news/1204677...

How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye | KQED

Furries are a community often known for wearing full-body animal suits at conventions — but the characters they inhabit, called “fursonas,” are much more than costumes. They’re deeply personal express...

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we did it guys we got furries on the npr app one.npr.org/i/fis-126707...

morgan sung@morgansung.bsky.social · last yr.

this episode is really special - it's a deep dive into queer history, virtual reality, and what grief looks like for furries thank you @dogpatch.press and @changa.gay for walking me through this part of the internet! www.kqed.org/news/1204677...

New from 404 Media: DHS’s immigrant-hunting app just got removed from the Google Play Store. Let’s local cops do facial recognition on people, app says to contact ICE or not. I’m told Google workers took issue with app in an internal report. We revealed app in Nov www.404media.co/dhss-immigra...

DHS’s Immigrant-Hunting App Removed from Google Play Store

The app, called Mobile Identify, was launched in November, and lets local cops use facial recognition to hunt immigrants on behalf of ICE. It is unclear if the removal is temporary or not.

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Such a good interview, thanks for joining us @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social !!

Nicole Carpenter@nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

do games go to heaven when they die? i talked to @morgansung.bsky.social on close all tabs about dead and dying games www.kqed.org/news/1206377...

do games go to heaven when they die? i talked to @morgansung.bsky.social on close all tabs about dead and dying games www.kqed.org/news/1206377...

Where Do Games Go When They Die? | KQED

When Ubisoft, publisher of the sprawling open-world racing game The Crew shut down the game’s servers, cutting off access to even its single-player mode, fans were outraged. The moment tapped into the...

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by the way the close all tabs team won a media literacy award from NAMLE, which means my letterboxd takes are always correct from now on

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.