I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · yesterday

I hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.

Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/

Deeply disappointed at the comments on my Ken Jennings video. People would rather have empathy for a cis person than the trans person mocked. Yeah it’s the trans persons fault for lightly pointing out to a cis person the New York Times is bad actually to trans person. She’s making it about herself.

Since we’re talking about Jay Caspian Kang, a few months ago he wrote an entire piece on how AI will destroy education as we know it, and somehow managed to leave out an *entire* relevant employment sector from his chosen interviewees. No points for guessing who: buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/a...

Unasked, Unheard, Unquoted

It shouldn't be this difficult to be included in the future of our own work.

buttondown.com

When you pass the buck of American imperialism to the German Nazis, you don't just draw attention to how bad the US has become, you exonerate both the Nazis and the historic imperialists/authoritarians of your own country, since the former were inspired by the latter.

Michigan health authorities were in touch with Taco Bell’s parent company about a parasitic outbreak in early July, weeks before the company officially alerted consumers

Taco Bell owner, Michigan met on Cyclospora weeks before recall

Documents reveal Taco Bell was warned about a parasitic outbreak weeks before the company alerted customers.

detroitnews.com

That was fucking intentional.

NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people. n.pr/4w4pkH0

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d ago

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

You can all talk about how absurd this is, but we live in a country where it’s acceptable to turn the one time someone made you feel stupid into your entire personality right up to your last breath, even if said last breath came early because you refused to listen to people smarter than you.

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

The inferiority complex everyone has with California and LA is palpable every time I travel to more rural parts of the US. It's subtle, but always there. There's always a conversation where someone has to rag on it somehow, even just a little bit. Like a small dig, and I have to accept it.

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, if I had other posts in a drafts folder, do you think I’d press send on these?

richie@theregoesrichie.bsky.social · 4d ago

post your worst draft

I’ve been holding back on this so I don’t jinx it, but he’s been with us since Saturday and so far is settling in extremely well, so I think it’s time y’all knew. Meet our new five-and-a-half-month-old supervisor, Virgil, who loves snuggles, being comfy, and chasing his new dad around the backyard.

Por el amor de Dios, if you’re going to use ballplayer Enrique Hernández’s nickname*, could you at least put the accent on the end that makes it not a slur? * I still say it’s partly his fault for choosing to spell it like that, when my entire life, including in my own family, it’s been “Quique.”

It's weird when people bristle at the idea of abolishing billionaires. Are you a billionaire? Is your mum one? Why do you care? It would be good to abolish billionaires. More money for public services, less money for them to buy rape islands.

And this is at the same time that even people who can afford food are noticing how incredibly expensive it has become. I bought a bag of frozen peas last night that cost $4.79. I think the last frozen peas I bought were two dollars less than that. It's shocking.

Dennis M. Taylor@dmt4mt.bsky.social · 2d ago

More than 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid after sweeping changes to SNAP - NPR apple.news/AP6h88UCKQTW...

Carney approving the hiring of Pinkertons should show you who he really is. Mark Carney does not give a F about the Canadian working class or their labour rights.

Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social · 3d ago

The federal government using scabs. The Carney government seems to be committed to undermining labour rights www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Cymru am byth! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

James Stafford@jpstafford.bsky.social · 3d ago

Excellent. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.

More than 100 days without water: The crisis hitting thousands in Puerto Rico, on top of the blackouts

More than 100 days without water: The crisis hitting thousands in Puerto Rico, on top of the blackouts

Years of underinvestment and inadequate maintenance of key infrastructure have been compounded by a drought that threatens to trigger partial rationing

english.elpais.com

Cabo Rojo frontline communities under threat by luxury coastal developments that threaten habitability and permanently alter nature reserves. These megaresorts receive public subsidies and tax breaks but create parallel governments that restrict who can enjoy “public enhancements”.

#LetTheAstrosCheatAgain

Stephen aka Spike Stonehand@spikestonehand.com · last mo.

Everyone is so worried about how unfair the competitive balance with the Dodgers is when it's actually a solved problem. The only guaranteed way to stop the Dodgers from overspending their way to victory every year is to let the Astros cheat again

Loved that mom in the stands calling out the MLB for not being here to support the women. #wpbl

The franchise that had crimes_and_criminals.xlsx is just smarter than yours

I cannot imagine the set of circumstances that would get me to favor a salary cap, but what I *can* tell you is that I’m a lot less likely to care either way when even regular ol’ hating gets you called a fucking Pinkerton by some dick who’s given the economics of baseball two seconds of thought.

anyway “fuck the transphobes” scans in nicely to “Rock the Casbah”

“i can’t believe society is like this!” -covid forgetters/post pandemic pretenders who won’t even mask for grandma, dad in chemo, and damn sure not strangers just trying to survive unmitigated airborne viruses in this post public health crisis

I’m astonished by the ability of my fellow humans to forget the events we all just lived through. Folks remember the masks and the remote school. The million US dead are rarely mentioned. Folks, we lived through a plague.

I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

This is terrifying and disgusting. Haitians are being convoked to appointments, to wear ankle monitors from now on to prepare for deportations. And our tax dollars pay for the ankle monitors to line the profits of the GEO Group. investigations.resistmap.com/p/breaking-i...

BREAKING: ICE Is Using GPS Ankle Monitors to Prepare a Mass Roundup of 350,000 Haitian Refugees

Haitian refugees being summoned to check-ins are being fitted with GPS monitors and sent home — making them easier to locate and round up for mass deportation later.

investigations.resistmap.com

What drives me mad about online sports discourse is that I have to vociferously and constantly defend the right of a bunch of guys we’ve chosen to remunerate half-decently to cross picket lines, but I do a job that has to strike on behalf of other workers to get any goodwill from you fuckers.

Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺@nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 3d ago

You know who else crossed that picket line? www.peoplesworld.org/article/l-a-... You know who didn’t? The Astros, because, believe it or not, the IBEW told them not to and then-union rep Collin McHugh took that shit seriously. nwlaborpress.org/2018/12/hall...