Jerad Walker
@jeradwalker.bsky.social
Podcast Editor: @wunc.org Contributor: @npr.org Alum: @opb.org, @wamu.org Cheerwine enthusiast. Go Dawgs!
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
everything about this story of abandoned vats of rotting fish sauce in a tiny canadian town is incredible
How do you get rid of 110 vats of smelly fish sauce? This Newfoundland town is finally getting an answer | CBC Radio
It’ll take about 200 trips with a standard-sized dump truck to put an end to a stinky problem that has plagued the town of St. Mary’s, N.L., for the past 25 years.
cbc.ca
If Bluesky wasn’t the official app of sports I wouldn’t be here.
Saving Private Ryan was the first R-rated film that I ever saw in a theater. Its first 15 minutes are among the most intense moments in cinema history — loud, violent, chaotic. And I’ll never forget the person with a screaming baby who left midway through it all.
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2d agois there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
There’s an Australian man who reviews depressing cafes near factories and he’s so deadpan that I can’t tell if the whole thing is earnest or mean spirited. Either way, it’s hilarious.
This man should win an Oscar for his 2 hours of eye rolling.
Look at them KGB boys in the trenches with the alt text scolds and reply guys. True posters, I tell ya.
Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda
The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic.
nytimes.com
Ladies and gentlemen, the best goal scored on the planet today came from Greenville, South Carolina.
The Atlanta Olympic bombing happened 30 years ago this month. Many thanks for @wunc.org and The Broadside for republishing my podcast episode on the 21-year-old police officer who caught Eric Rudolph. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?!
How private equity destroyed an American pastime
A class-action suit against Lucky Strike Entertainment is a sad coda to the end of bowling.
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There it is. Some whispers of this immediately following the news release from UNC. You do, indeed, gotta hand it to Lombardi. Getting in trouble in an era where everything is essentially legal. No notes.
Pablo Torre@pablo.show · last wk.BREAKING: In addition to the Mike Lombardi HR matter, the University of North Carolina football team is also being investigated by the College Sports Commission — the entity which handles compliance and enforcement of NCAA and NIL rules.
Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social · last wk.Paramount "made its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery political," @rohangoswami.bsky.social writes, and now he senses some regrets: "Some executives have conceded that they may have gone a little too far trying to ingratiate themselves with the president." www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
Shoutout to all of my swampwise homies.
Okefenokee becomes Georgia's first UNESCO World Heritage site
The Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia is now a UNESCO World Heritage site, just the 27th such site in the U.S. and the first natural site in the country to be added in three decades. It’s Georgia’...
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