Alan Scherstuhl

"Do not forget that it is your job to highlight what is important and memorable and unique, whether good or bad, and to dash the rest to the rocks": Here's the advice that I've sent to new writers during my years editing film pieces at the Village Voice adobe.ly/2TnazgQ

@alansch.bsky.social still on fb messenger Gmail is what you’d guess, first name last Get out if you can. Hate speech costs lives

@JustinKownacki Im just an Ariel, wanting to be where the people are

@studiesincrap Hive may win, but as an Android user I find Hive pretty janky. Post is also janky, but in a cleaner way? Like, at least Post actually loads for me? 🤷🏻‍♂️

@JustinKownacki Nope but I’ll prob be on there by Monday, I’m only now really getting serious about jumping and I know it’ll be a while before a true consensus alternative emerges

@studiesincrap Are you on Post yet? I'm spending more time there than on Hive so far.

Getting a peek

The Best Of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller 1944

I just learned that the ace French jazz label RogueArt has made some of its music available on Bandcamp. Several gems have been uploaded, incl. the excellent For the Love of Fire and Water by Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet rogueart1.bandcamp.com

only send me crypto if i can trade it for Kohls cash

Your occasional reminder that you can read Asimov’s or Fiyah or Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine or Lightspeed or Analog on your phone instead of this transphobic hellsite

"It must be a plot to make me look bad!" liars exclaim

Lotta playing dumb about why your audience tries to murder the people you demonize going around these days

@SketchesbyBoze One of literature’s premiere drips!

it’s never not funny how Dracula is literally scuttling up and down the castle walls like a lizard and Jonathan Harker is like “this seems fine”

@MatthewDessem The most permanent messages shared on the most volatile platform

My interview with the one and only @jamieleecurtis. What a delight she is! vulture.com/article/jamie-…

@larazarum @raywongy @markyarm @inversedotcom attagirl

@larazarum @raywongy @markyarm @inversedotcom healthy industry!

Prince at Sam Goody in 1988

@raywongy @markyarm @inversedotcom wait, two stories a day and daily pitch meetings is *part* time?

bloated idea: a "progress bar" at the top of an article goated idea: being able to highlight people's names throughout the article (e.g. "Mr. Schmidt") and having a pop-up with their initial descriptor (e.g. "a Brooklyn-based landlord") so you can easily remember who everyone is

I’m absolutely gutted to read this @TaylorLorenz story about misogynistic online harassment from a TikToker against a student journalist who profiled him. Weaponized online harassment threatens press freedoms and poses an existential threat to democracy washingtonpost.com/technology/202…