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#Facebook forces me to install their messenger app to choose how I want to use their messenger. I intentionally use it only in the browser.

Yikes how the fuck have i been milkshake-ducked by a *Linux Distro*, less than two weeks after making the switch?
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/112339955990992840
Where to now then? Silverblue I guess.

Some NBC News staff raise concerns that the hiring and firing of Ronna McDaniel will damage relationships with GOP sources, making breaking news more difficult (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/26/2024

NBC braces for the backlash to the backlash after hiring and firing top Republican | Semafor
The network parted ways with the former Republican National Committee chairwoman after an internal revolt. Now, Republicans are taking their turn to criticize the network.

With Caleb Williams making magic, Chicago Bears will be NFL's Cinderella team of 2024 https://www.nfl.com/news/with-caleb-williams-making-magic-chicago-bears-will-be-nfl-s-cinderella-team-of-2024

With Caleb Williams making magic, Chicago Bears will be NFL's Cinderella team of 2024
What would the Bears' ceiling be with Caleb Williams leading the way? Adam Schein says one of the best QB prospects in recent memory is poised to push Chicago on a Cinderella run in the 2024 NFL season.

Just had a hilariously great #helldivers 2 run with my brother.
We went in absolutely underpowered for two higher level runs - just to see new, bigger baddies than we'd ever seen before - and *somehow* survived both times
Laughed the entire time, my face was so sore. Such a great co-op game if you can find someone to run with.

weekend read-in: the debut issue of dummy, dedicated to the art & oral history of pee wee's playhouse. absolutely inspiring to hear how paul reubens ran the show, making space for gary panter & other weirdo artists to essentially rewrite/redraw the folk iconography of children's television for a new generation. consider myself blessed for being the exact right age when it debuted. excited for dummy #2, too, about air pirates funnies.

dummy zine
A new quarterly zine by comics historian and writer John Kelly. Each issue of dummy will focus on a different subject. Kelly has been a regular...

🥖 Run out of butter or eggs? Here's the science behind substitute ingredients
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-butter-eggs-science-substitute-ingredients.html

Run out of butter or eggs? Here's the science behind substitute ingredients
It's an all too common situation—you're busy cooking or baking to a recipe when you open the cupboard and suddenly realize you are missing an ingredient.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/27/the-vice-media-collapse-was-entirely-the-fault-of-incompetent-fail-upward-brunchlords/
“But as the recent collapse of outlets like Sports Illustrated and The Messenger illustrate, the real culprit often isn’t that journalism isn’t profitable, it’s that U.S. media is predominantly run by utterly incompetent individuals who fail upward into positions of power.”
No truer words.
Years ago I found myself reporting to a publisher who didn’t know the difference between the words quantitative and qualitative. I once gently corrected her and she asked “there’s a difference?” This person went on to a succession of higher and higher level publishing jobs even after she was ultimately pushed out of the job she held when I (briefly) worked for her.

Alright so I’m not really competing any more and some days I’m so undertrained I worry about making distance that formerly would have been a short eyes-closed training run. But I’m still out there with my crew and the community and my own head and I’m having more fun with more rewards than anyone could possibly deserve. Every moment of this sport is a gift. Some day will be the last time for me, but not today. Can’t stop won’t stop.

Anatomy of a Rom Com https://nebula.tv/videos/broeydeschanel-anatomy-of-a-rom-com

Broey Deschanel — Anatomy of a Rom Com
Anyone But You was supposed to revive the rom com, but it's missing something. This video breaks down the components of the Hollywood romantic comedy, and what gives it that magical quality!