Every year the news slouches closer to an all clickbait model, where every article is called “this will make you mad”
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Every year the news slouches closer to an all clickbait model, where every article is called “this will make you mad”
Last night’s dream: I got a job with a local newspaper covering burritos. Exaggerated my burrito enthusiasm quite a bit in the interview.
I’m gonna make the most of International Women’s Day and soak in the unconditional appreciation for all 24 hours. Wait. 23.
Three days in to meteorological
spring aka Shauna Spring. Make way for linen sheets and Marshmallow Peeps. Take a walk before the pollen takes over and the humidity becomes oppressive. Not everything is terrible. Not everything is terrible.
Nashville Public Library main downtown branch finally has a tentative reopening date (March 30) after nine months closed. From the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social:
Dinosaur prices?
Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.
Forty buses grounded means lots of parents scrambling, lots of empty seats in classrooms and a learning disruption for everyone. I’m looking forward to seeing how the school board handles this and what candidates for the upcoming school board election have to say. www.wgnsradio.com/article/9789...
INVESTIGATION: Over the last 5 months, the Banner and a coalition of partners analyzed 52 hours of footage and thousands of pages of documents from a joint THP/ICE operation targeting Nashville’s predominantly immigrant neighborhoods. Here’s what we found: (1/11)
✍️ @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social
sigh
Halftime was gorgeous. Followed up by the most fatphobic, piece of trash, garbage butt commercial I have ever seen.
Takes the EGG?
This is happening a lot to female journalists. So here is a modest proposal for the White House press corps: Stand together. No one should ask another question until the President answers the question that was ignored.
“I’m not gonna go as far as saying that we caused deaths here,” Councilmember Jordan Huffman said. “But I would say there’s a damn good chance that it happened that way.” nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/03/n...
Best part of the Grammys was that Fugees moment, even if Wyclef Jean didn’t emerge from Lauryn Hill’s enormous skirt like I hoped he would. She could have hidden so many friends in there.
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✍🏻 Shauna Lavoy Reynolds @shaunashauna.bsky.social (?)
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a tree 🌳
a poem 📝
a friendship
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♥️ Stunning opening line
#PB #friendship #nature #poetry
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When the dogs walk on this ice, there's a graceful little crunch that only sometimes breaks the surface. When I walk on the ice, it sounds like dumping glass into the bin at the recycling center. I'm leaving enormous yeti footprints, too.
I didn't realize it was #ALAYMA day. I'm sad to feel so disconnected from that community these days, both as a reader and a writer. But I can still always get behind a joyful celebration of children's literature. And a little joy goes a long way these days.
“Women and girls are far more reluctant to use AI. This should be no surprise to any of us. Women don’t see this as exciting new technology, but as simply new ways to harass and abuse us and try and push us offline.”
At least eight colleges and universities across the United States received bomb threats targeting their libraries yesterday: bookriot.com/university-l...
Like Elmo.
What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
And you didn't "ball (your) eyes out."
Oh.
I hope your year exceeds all expectations. I hope your year is full of sweetness, love and light. ❤️
What if, and just hear me out, letting children get mad and learn to self-regulate is an important part of childhood development?
I feel like I didn’t read enough books, watch enough movies or TV, or listen to enough (new) music to write any kind of meaningful best-of list for my seven Bluesky followers. Next year?
A ton of middle schoolers home with the flu probably means a ton of middle schoolers in class with the flu, too. Hoping my kid makes it through Friday without getting sick. 😬
