on the same stretch of road, within two minutes, i just watched
- one driver speed into the oncoming lane and run two reds while we all waited at the light
- a different driver pull around us at a different light so he could also run two reds
yes, both cars from Maryland
young people don't understand but this is exactly what Twitter was like back in 2012. actors casually posting about sports. Rihanna manual-RT dunking on randos. the Rock announcing bin Laden was dead. i miss it
My favorite thing about Twitter these days is movie star Ben Stiller live-posting contextless stream of conscious Knicks thoughts to his 5.5 million followers.
i’m kinda making light of it, but roads feel truly dangerous lately, right?
i almost got T-boned in an intersection a month ago bc a driver was blowing through 4-way stop signs at like 40mph in the residential part of Georgetown
I don't know how to describe what I am experiencing with Spotify, but it feels like...it is kind of unusable now to find new music? Like, it's just...cluttered and confusing and hard to navigate now, lol.
this whole thing is extremely silly, but 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙘𝘿𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙙’𝙨 i gotta say asking someone to park is v normal (usually to cook fresh fries/hashbrowns) and bringing out the drink is supposed to be a nice gesture
every social media manager falls into one of two categories
a.) So excited to BUILD ~community~ with our audience 🙌🙌
b.) i’m a little goblin who plays in the swamp
just pulled into my reserved parking spot at my local media job in my new car (Audi A5), about to file my one story a week. now it’s time to take a big sip of coffee and open up twitter..
We have alarming news.
The owner of The Sacramento Bee is trying to tie journalists’ pay to the number of clicks their stories get.
We’re urging the company to reconsider. Here's our letter to McClatchy’s new CEO about how this could hurt our community.
#NoPayForClicks
1/9
hello i did this internship, please ignore the “must have previous experience in a major newsroom.” it said that back when i did it and i applied anyway.
my previous internship experience was a small magazine and then a mid-sized daily.
Following the breakout success of
#TheLastDance
,
@espn
has ordered another docuseries about an athlete considered the greatest in his sport:
#TomBrady
A researcher says “he has seen white supremacist recruiters ‘raid’ QAnon groups with the explicit goal of recruiting disillusioned and hopeless conspiracy theorists.”
"God help us we’re beyond ready. If nothing happens I will no longer believe in anything," said one QAnon supporter in a chat obtained by NBC News.
“We all just got played,” said another, moments later.
“NFT art combines the nuanced social awareness of computer programmers with the soulful whimsy of hedge fund managers.”
nothing more satisfying than a clear-eyed, well-written takedown.
there is immense, blind privilege in the ability "not to take strong positions on public issues *even in private*," and this horrible standard will keep journalism homogeneous
“This MF paid for Twitter”
No, I didn’t pay for Twitter.
I paid for free speech.
I paid for 1776 to commence again.
I paid for the Founding Fathers’ vision.
I paid to tell Silicon Valley to go screw itself.
I paid to show support for a man who put himself in the line of
D.C. has its first confirmed case of the coronavirus, the rector of Christ Church Georgetown.
He was present for three services last Sunday attended by 550 people.
today is the day your well-meaning friend will try and do numbers by calling it “sportsball” or “the superb owl,” and it’s important to be there for them
"Hello?"
"Can I speak to a representative of the Washington Nationals?"
"You are speaking to a representative of the Washington Nationals."
lol this
@dougherty_jesse
story rules
Montanans’ dunking on out-of-staters can be a bit overblown at times, but the amount of tourists i saw in Missoula wearing this stupid fucking hat was STAGGERING