Wayland Smith

@waylandsmith.bsky.social

today's the day: Off the Reservation's live. so scary, so wonderful, so all-of-it-at-once. thanks, y'all, for considering it (in the Rod Serling sense). wish I had a copy of it here, so I could show it off, but ... here's a couple stamps I got in line last night, that are the coolest:

an elk stamp and an RV stamp.

I would advise people not to talk to USA Today for any reason, about anything ever, based on this thread. It's bad enough that the whole profession is circling the drain, but for a remaining publication to feed interviews into a slopifier without telling sources? When it's about SA? I just.. 🌋

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 3w ago

USA Today’s online ethics policy explicitly allows for entirely AI-generated content, as long as a reporter reads it. I don’t trust that any of the reporters who used my interview this way have ever written a single word.

Daragh Fleming gets the last word tonight. Good night friends. "Men being silent needs to stop. Silence is enforced by shame. You’re shamed for speaking, calling problematic behaviour out. We need to call out other men who are saying fucked up shit."

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.