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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary

@craignickels.bsky.social
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Strategy and analytics for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and various other Gannett newsrooms. Ex-Boston Globe. Former blue-check. A good man in a storm.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h
You'd think there would be a transition stage to making old man noises but no. They just hit you one day. Suddenly you're grunting with exertion even when you're *sitting down* not only getting up. Not me of course because I'm young and spry. But other people probably
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Big Beautiful Bill Contreras
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What is your fav food from Aldi, and why is it the jalapeño kettle chips?
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
remember when you used to have a computer in one room and you’d go to that room for computer time and then you were done with computer time and your brain worked properly
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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*taps mic* anyone want some more stupid postseason content?
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was trying to figure out if this was Lake Forest.
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Who wrote the extremely famous phrase, "A shark on whiskey is mighty risky. A shark on beer is a beer engineer"?
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fish tacos are great and those look good, but also get the adobada tacos from Tacos El Gordo.
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some of my favorite childhood memories are "there was too much hose stuff in the last one."
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The streetlights rode our bicycles.
We are Gen X

Our parents were cigarettes.

We used to play until the streets ran us over.

The streetlights rode our bicycles.

Everything was brown.

There was too much hose stuff in the last one so no hose stuff this time.

Seatbelts?

We went to the arcade to play with sparklers and neglect.

Puppet cartoon breakfast cereal potato guns.

That white cloth towel hand-dry roll thing from the bathroom.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is extraordinarily well written.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Copilot just found a work document from 2016 for me. Given that it was stuffed in a sharepoint for a department that no longer exists…that’s not bad.
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Who else remembers drinking lead paint from the hose?
We are Gen X. 

We drank lead paint from the hose.

Streetlights were our bike helmet.

We didn't have Twitter. Our parents yelled at us through the window. 

Sugar was our hose water.

Dinner from a can was our dinner from a can.

We stayed out until the streetlights drank the hose.

Seatbelts?

All of our cartoons were guns.

Pop Rocks were lead paint chips.
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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
oh no @jrradcliffe.bsky.social
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is actually a pretty perfect encapsulation of one of the more real & immediate threats of things like AI (& broader media manipulation) in our social media era. Its not necessarily that someone like a Sue will become unable to distinguish btwn real & false things, but rather
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Star-Spangled Ice Cream (2003-2009): A line of jingoistic-themed ice cream flavors, launched to "provide a conservative alternative" to Ben and Jerry's. Flavors included "I Hate the French Vanilla", "Iraqi Road", "Nutty Environmentalist" and "RushMallow".
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Stauffer's Berenstain Bears Picture Cookies (1987-circa 1996) : A line of crispy buttery vanilla cookies in geometric shapes with images and names of various characters from the Berenstain Bears universe stamped on each one. Here's a wholesome 🧵 !
 A stack of yellow boxes with the Berenstain Bears logo and an image of the 4 smiling faces of the Bear family. Below that is a lineup of cookies with sketched faces of the main 4 plus Big Paw, Gran, and more
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JR Radcliffe @jrradcliffe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Can I interest you in a Thomas Pannone perfect game (after he fell behind 3-0 on the 27th batter no less)?
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Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 06/09/2026
I guess it's Enterprise Reporting Appreciation Nite. The Reg went deep and delivered. It's good newspapering. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
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Lenders, farmers accuse Lt. Gov candidate Derek Wulf of theft, fraud
"That's not your typical farmer," said Chad Zoske, an Eldora contract grower who accused Wulf of failing to pay $60,000 and ignoring him for months.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026
I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community.
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shardcore @shardcore.org · 31/08/2026
morning
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Charismatic Fronkensteen @westerberghs89.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🎶do you remember🎶
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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cloudflare says bots now make up more than half of all web traffic. Starting September 15, it will block multi-purpose crawlers unless site owners opt out.
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Search traffic has declined so much that some publishers are considering opting out of Google entirely
Back in 2024, Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, coined the term "Google Zero," which he defined as "that moment when Google Search simply stops sending traffic outside of its search engine to third-party websites." It increasingly feels as if that moment has arrived, an…
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Lake America" instantly just absolutely clogged with algae. Six uniformed National Guard guys standing on a beach dumping windex into it. It smells like a turtle tank.
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yeah, well, just wait until Trump renames him Hasan America.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
was trying to google “what are british barristers’ wigs made of” and for some reason google got “what are” and wanted to autocomplete it to “what are grits.” so, ok, fine, perpetually malfunctioning lie machine, what ARE grits? i see.

G.R.I.T.S. most commonly refers to the famous American Christian hip-hop duo
GRITS (Grammatical Revolution In the Spirit), but it can also mean the popular cultural slang "Girls Raised in the South" or the Georgia Immunization Registry.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We were on the verge of breaking up Ticketmaster, every music fan's dream for the last 4 decades, until Trump intervened www.wsj.com/business/med...
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The Trump Intervention That Got the DOJ Off Live Nation’s Back
Antitrust case started out aiming to force the concert giant to sell Ticketmaster. After two White House meetings, a deal kept the company intact.
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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This was fun. Before they play in the Little League Classic, I asked the Brewers about their Little League highlights and lowlight. From giving up two tanks to 12 year old Bryce Harper to a baseball-induced root canal, here are the stories: www.jsonline.com/story/sports...
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These were the Brewers' Little League highlights (and lowlights)
Take a trip down memory lane with the Brewers as they play in the Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 23.
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
💯💯💯
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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Just talked with Brandon Woodruff, who in a twist didn’t need surgery and will start throwing progression Wed. As he exhausted his options pre-surgery, 4-week scan showed unexpected healing, so he went to Dr. Meister, who said surgery was not recommended. “I’m thankful,” he said.
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 19/08/2026
wife: what's wrong? me: I just got diagnosed with dyslexia wife: wtf me: no actually this is bad
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bambeanos (1973-1977): A line of roasted, flavored soybeans, sold in cannisters like peanuts, marketed as a lower-fat snack option. Available in salted, onion, barbecue, and garlic. A cheese flavor was added to the lineup in 1976. However, this snack was also at the center of a major lawsuit...a 🧵
A black and white ad for Bambeanos. The copy reads "Less fat for le$$" above an image of a cannister that reads "Salted Snack Bambeanos" and a pile of soybeans. A coupon offers 20 cents off now, and 50 cents back later
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 13/08/2026
I really wanted to address this take by @mtsw.bsky.social and they have fairly closed it off, but I am going to use a screenshot because I think this is a really good topic to discuss and as someone for whom this is my entire job and has been for over a decade now I actually agree and disagree... 🧵
everyone  — consumers, publishers, writers — would wind up better off if web browser ad-blockers didn't exist and the rationalizations for using one are mostly clever justifications for what's just selfish behavior with obvious negative social consequences.

> Counterpoint - I like using the Internet to read articles and the ad blocker is the thing which makes that possible.

> Would the writers and publishers be better off if I didn't visit their website?

i mean if they are financially supported by advertising and you are a free-rider who views their content without seeing any advertisements, yes they are almost tautologically better off if you never visit their website
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Chris Thorburn @cbthorburn.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Editor: You get those photos of Elliott Gould and Grover? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what
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Milwaukee Record @milwaukeerecord.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Bad shirts.
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11 of the worst shirts I saw for sale at Wisconsin State Fair yesterday
NOT counting designs with political messaging or expressions about needing coffee.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Hey guys, remember this totally RANDOM GUY who had a 30 for 30 made about him? Yeah, the Heisman Trophy winner. And in all the Nike commercials. And the t-shirts.”
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ya know, this Wis Gov race might come down to the…sigh…the…crucial WOW counties.
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
What’s happening in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary is not your typical lazy leftist vs. establishment narrative. Perhaps it is pointing toward something new. www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/wisconsins...
therecombobulationarea.com
Wisconsin's Democratic primary is not your typical proxy fight
Francesca Hong is not a typical democratic socialist candidate and David Crowley is not a typical "establishment" candidate. That's what makes Wisconsin's Democratic primary so fascinating.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For Friday's newsletter, I suggested a productive way to address the AI elephant in the room. Subscribe here for our twice-a-week newsletter: www.lni.media
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@tomdaykin.bsky.social and @kristinbrey.bsky.social do a great job on this. www.jsonline.com/videos/money...
jsonline.com
Land and Space: Converting downtown offices into apartments
Journal Sentinel business reporter Tom Daykin and co-host Kristin Brey discuss the conversion of downtown office buildings into apartments.
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Need a quick catch-up on the WisGov race?
jsonline.com
Still undecided about Wisconsin governor race? Here's a guide to help
If you're just tuning into the Wisconsin primary for governor, here's a refresher on the remaining candidates and our past coverage, all in one place.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Interesting thread. Agree 💯 that “rural” is not a monolith.
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Does Adam Scott count?
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Craig Nickels Is Very Scary @craignickels.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Hell yeah brutha.
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