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Mark Slagle

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Twitterer in exile.

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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I want to party with the margarita raccoons.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think that you should be able to bring an Old Fashioned into a job interview so long as you are willing to make one for the interviewer and i don't think that anyone really disagrees
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Defector @defector.com · 24/09/2026
Revisiting Weezer’s cringe masterpiece at 30: defector.com/revisiting-w...
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Revisiting Weezer’s Cringe Masterpiece At 30 | Defector
The second project is probably always the hardest. This is especially true if it follows a successful debut. You make something great, and by some act of the gods it catches fire and becomes the new, ...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Colin Campbell @raleighreporter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From this week's WUNC Politics Newsletter: Did the "North Carolina Independent" newspaper show up in your mailbox? Are you seeing ads for the "North Carolinian"? As you might guess, they're not your typical news outlets: www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol
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Amid Senate race, partisan groups mimic news outlets
A newspaper I’d never heard of landed in my home mailbox recently. Titled “The North Carolina Independent,” it included a crossword puzzle and some other features of a typical print publication.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026
Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hi, yes hello. Would you like to play a game featuring Wolverine that's more than just Fine as most of today's reviews suggest? HAVE I GOT THE GAME FOR YOU! www.theverge.com/23490255/mar...
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Marvel’s Midnight Suns is an unexpected triumph of tactics and friendship
Unfortunately, you can’t romance anybody.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Eh, close enough. Via mydialect.us/quiz-extende...
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Kate Hudson: 'We're Here Because of the Music'
ALT: Kate Hudson: 'We're Here Because of the Music'
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 02/09/2026
California is about to do something really cool for local journalism: mattdpearce.substack.com/p/california...
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California is about to do something really cool for local journalism
AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, is going to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she's performing "Didn't It Rain" at a train depot in Manchester, England in 1964. She's often called the "Godmother of Rock & Roll" and influenced future music icons like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
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The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Durham Record Label Where Dolly Parton Found a ‘Little Spot of Heaven’ From Dolly to Doc Watson, Sugar Hill Records played a big role shaping American roots music. While many have forgotten its origin, the legacy its founder built lives on.
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The Durham Record Label Where Dolly Parton Found a ‘Little Spot of Heaven’
From Dolly to Doc Watson, Sugar Hill Records played a big role shaping American roots music. The legacy its founder built lives on.
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
STOP TAKING ALL THE WRONG 80-YEAR-OLDS
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
😢 youtu.be/-nEOjMI4p78?...
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YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: The editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes says he has been fired for insubordination after calling any censorship a "red line."
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Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
STOP POSTING THE BURRITO PICTURE
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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 27/03/2026
i got into journalism for the same reason most people do: i wanted more pictures of spider-man
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What if we kissed at the—
90s news Screen grab states: liberty university gay sex command center
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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠
An image of a boom box, a cd wallet, a travel atlas, business cards, dictionarjes a pay phone and various things people used before cellphones
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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Elim Garak from DS9 wearing a tuxedo, from the episode Our Man Bashir
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Raymond Chandler, novelist and screenwriter who excelled at hardboiled noirspeak, was born today in 1888 #botd “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.” - Farewell, My Lovely
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I have a good Pyrrhus joke, but it's not worth it.
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
One of my strongest-held opinions is that the “track listing” section should be higher on the Wikipedia page for an album.
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Burgess Milk
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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
R.I.P., Sam Neill, and thanks for a rollicking interview that went from “Please don’t mention that ever again, don’t even inquire about it, if you continue to try and find it, I will hunt you down” to “You’re very knowledgeable, aren’t you?” Although it’s that first bit that’s really stays with me…
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Sam Neill
Sam Neill
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My culture is not your overpriced, ill-conceived theme restaurant.
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Murderers in Agatha Christie novels 🤝 USA goalies Having your life ruined by a Belgian
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is deeply weird. Usually AI grifts are pretty obvious, but I'll be damned if I can figure out the endgame here.
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Incredibly perceptive essay about an incredible movie.
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
DOJ issued, then withdrew subpoenas to force Post, WSJ reporters to testify
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DOJ issued, then withdrew subpoenas to force Post, WSJ reporters to testify
Subpoenas for reporters to appear before a grand jury are exceedingly rare. The journalists have not testified.
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It me.
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Elder Taylor @taylornewc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration
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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
34-minutes of brazen swagger, spitfire hooks and barely sublimated desperation, the Replacements’ ‘Pleased To Meet Me’ is one of rock and roll’s great underdog passion plays. Bad debts, steep ledges and the flickering of a runaway dream. I’m so in love with that song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftTO...
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The Replacements - Alex Chilton (Official Promo Video)
YouTube video by UPROXX Indie Mixtape
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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Here’s the article btw: Cheng, Myra, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, and Dan Jurafsky. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, no. 6792 (2026): eaec8352.
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Mark Slagle @markslagle.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/05/2026
TIL a bunch of ex-Gawker folks sold a series based on their stories to Apple and Tim Cook personally quashed it when he heard about it www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing
Their weaponized wit made enemies, minted stars and helped define the internet as we know it. A decade after Peter Thiel engineered the site’s spectacular collapse, Nick Denton’s diaspora is still sha...
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Phil Rosenthal @philrosenthal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Happy Black Helicopter Day to all who celebrate.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"[Gosling] said, ‘I saw this movie last night with Abbott and Costello where they meet Frankenstein. I’d like to maybe give that type of energy a try.’ When he said that, what he really meant was: I’m going to do a pitch-perfect Lou Costello impression sitting next to a tree for 60 seconds.”
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