The 1996 draft of the unpublished, unannounced Magic RPG is substantial. I made a few marginal notes when I reviewed it. I'm giving it away for a donation to Planned Parenthood, offered by secret silent auction. DM me with offers. I'm likely to get a few big offers.
"What if?" #mtg #ttrpg 1/2
just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
“This is the most transparent Department of Justice in history,” said an unidentified spokeswoman.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
It’s actually FEWER Misérables
Adding it to my summer reading list.
@apnews.com is calling it a war. Here's why: "The decision by the Trump administration and Israeli leaders to attack and the subsequent destruction and casualties are enough to call the actions, and Iran’s response, a war." apnews.com/article/iran...
It’s very cool that the American news outlet with perhaps the most robust reporting on Iran, The Washington Post, fired everyone at its Middle East desk 3 weeks ago.
New at Sports Media Guy: The February research roundup features a fascinating study about baseball box scores by my man @michaelmirer.bsky.social
sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/research-r...
Jesse Jackson helped popularize the term African American.
The AP does not hyphenate dual-heritage terms, including African American and Asian American.
apnews.com/article/jess...
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
A packed house at Politics and Prose last night for a moving tribute to the Washington Post Book World, closed by the paper’s executives. I grew up reading it. Bob Woodward and Rita Dove were among the speakers. “Awful and tragic” — Woodward on the changes to the Post.
NPR continues to bring you all the news you can use about Nazgul.
A cartoon showing two researchers in lab coats holding up a microchip. The caption reads "We've decided to call it the neutron chip. It eliminates jobs, but leaves the work-place intact!"
I am currently doing research on occupational health and safety in the 1970s and 1980s, and I ran across this cartoon pertaining to office automation. Struck me as very 2026!
Reuters is out with a writeup of how their photographer Phil Noble got the picture of Andrew in the car
www.reuters.com/world/uk/how...
Charlotte Observer columnist @paigemasten.bsky.social on identifying topics to focus on, editing and checking facts, and headline writing. editdesk.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/q...
An actual quote:
"This course does not violate discrimination against students."
Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.
I miss the possibility of a 5-5-1 season
Email typo averted: let me know what you thunk
Would AP style use ICE on first reference?
Stylebook editor Anna Jo Bratton answered in AP Stylebook Online's Ask the Editor. She said in part, "I would be OK with ICE in a headline, or even the lead of a story. I'd want to see it spelled out in the next reference up high in the story...
This morning, Executive Editor Andrew Julien, citing a "a highly competitive media landscape," told NYDN staff to expect layoffs.
The first cuts are primarily hitting our National Desk, but we're also losing some metro staffers and more cuts are expected — more than 25% of the unionized newsroom.
Here is the Czech pair dancing to their AI rip-off of You Get What You Give, replaced for the Olympics by an AI song with “original” lyrics that sounds pretty much the same
English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.
This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?
After 40 years, NC alt-weekly @indyweek.bsky.social will no longer endorse candidates during election cycles: "Making endorsements means taking an institutional position on which candidates we find best, which can undermine reader trust in the fairness of our reporting." indyweek.com/firstperson/...
If you're afraid to ask someone for a recommendation, please don't be. It's part of the job of being a mentor, editor, teacher, advisor, former boss, etc. to write recommendations or politely decline.
(I wish I could go back in time and tell my former self this.)
If you are an editor who used the CIA factbook, it’s gone, deleted, so you might want to bookmark this
