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But whoever covers a story doesn't necessarily have to be geographically close, especially for something like this. (Most of the stories I do aren't in NYC.)

One other datum: the person who filed the print story for Forbes.com is based in New Delhi. Not a red flag: we ofc have no idea if that's the same person who did the video on YouTube. And that's not necessarily bad - global news orgs need people around the world for schedules, full coverage, etc.

So to answer your question kinda, I think it's relatively rare. It definitely surprised me when I saw it. Particularly bc I'd already seen the pic of the Mayuree Naree on cnn.com and I knew that there was at least one shot of the actual ship out there, if not on Getty Images.

i.e. - was this an aberration for them, or was this part of their normal approach/workflow? Laziness? Incompetence? Corner-cutting? Routine? I'm not familiar enough with their output to judge.

As far as the locations? I'm not sure if they ignored them, or meant to put a disclaimer in, or what their process was. I know that at my shop, this would NOT fly at all and if I published that video, I'd likely be in some trouble. I don't know if their standards/practices are different at Forbes.

at least - I was doing those searches myself to find material for a story on the Strait today and ran across several of those photos, which is why the Forbes video looked familiar. So someone was definitely trying to use recent material.

Good question! I don't know, really, how common it is. And these images were mostly found by doing searches for things like "cargo ship" or similar - they were posted in the last day or so. (Except for the HMS Severn photo; I'm not sure how they found it. I found by googling the pennant number.)

Super interesting to try! And I had more floaters than I'd realized.

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Chess!

SLEEPER CELL

The Fate of the First Amendment The Defense Department announced is barring press photographers from the briefings it holds on the war in Iran.

When the President decides photojournalists can’t take pictures at Sec’y Hegseth’s Iran briefings, it’s not a small thing. We’re connecting the dots to the larger efforts to erode our 1st Amendment rights, just when we need them the most. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

summon the emesis receptacle!

he did say that avoiding STDs in the NYC clubs in the '70s was his personal Vietnam..

Home Bar by Klaus St Rainer | Astoria Bookshop The home bar is open!It doesn't take much to turn an average Friday night at home into a special evening with exquisite cocktails. Klaus St. Rainer, one of Germany's most renowned bartenders, knows wh...

I just read about a forthcoming cocktail book by Klaus St. Rainer. It looks good and I've heard of his bar in Munich, but: nominative determinism much?

(Does he have cousins named Heinrich S.Haker and Rolf M.Uddler?)

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The Italian movie poster: “l’ultima missione.”

The Italian title for Project Hail Mary is not, for obvious reasons, “Progetto Ave Maria.”

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

BOMBSHELL: Trump Accuser Got Payoff from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Says Dem Lawmaker Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) dropped a bomb, telling reporters that a President Donald Trump accuser "was given a settlement" by Jeffrey Epstein's estate.

BOMBSHELL: Trump Accuser Got Payoff from Jeffrey Epstein Estate! Today Epstein's former accountant Richard Kahn testified under oath to Congress that a Trump accuser “was given a settlement” by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. So Epstein helped Trump cover up crimes! www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

shit! NAVAL vessel, not navel. Ship, not orange or bellybutton-gazing.

DOJ nopes out of Ticketmaster antitrust suit Trump gets donations, you get surcharges.

"Trump gets donations, you get massive Ticketmaster surcharges — service fees, platinum fees, per-order fees, payment processing fees, facility fees, magical money-sh*tting unicorn fees — on top of already sky-high ticket prices." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Screenshot from a video of Musk interview titled "Elon Musk: I'll Put a Man on Mars in 10 years". Video dated "10 years ago".

This will never be not funny to me

1.) why can't I find a gif of one of the "WHISKEY!" shouts from Snuff Box?

b.) however there are lots of Mary Berry gifs. Amused to contemplate her relationship with Matt.

100% in favor of this if it includes reasonably priced resident permit parking for cars registered here. Maybe 20% of the cars in The Bronx commit insurance fraud driving my rates up. Fuck those people w Pennsylvania plates.

between Court Square and Queensboro Plaza!

"Ultimately, the problem isn’t simply that this incentive-structure rewards Trump. It’s that the media is methodically remaking the entire political landscape in his image. The media may not love Donald Trump. But its own fucked-up incentives are creating a world designed for someone like him."

Snuff Box is my forever favorite.

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More of this, please! Keep challenging his lies.

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