Posts tagged “radio”

• A lovely story about Dav Pilkey, author of the Dog Man series: He paid for a whole school’s book fair!
• I adore this brutally honest bio of Jane Krakowski from a recent Broadway production.
• You need to read this behind the scenes article on Minnesota Timberwolves coach’s decision to start Joe Ingles in a “must-win” game so his 8-yo son with autism could see him play. – via @richarddeitsch.bsky.social
• If you have an Apple computer, you can disable the incredibly annoying feature that attempts to guess what you’re about to type. Go to System Settings > Keyboard > Text Input and click the Edit button next to your input source. Toggle “Show inline predictive text” so it’s disabled and click Done.
• Great reporting on how a false story about the Dropkick Murphys getting banned for mocking the administration went viral.
• Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains – via @hpsc24.bsky.social
• Gross Stuff:
  • The story of what happened recently at the United States Institute of Peace is just inconceivable.
  • The USPS Union President has sent out an email to employees warning them of impending privatization concerns after [administration] moves to fire 10,000 postal workers. – via @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social
  • The Constitutional Crisis Is Here: By shipping men to a Salvadoran prison without due process, [the administration] has begun defying court orders in earnest. – via @kairyssdal.bsky.social
  • A lawsuit accuses the [current] administration of unlawfully shutting down the Voice of America and asks a federal court to restore the outlet that for decades has supplied news about the United States to nations around the world — including many that lack a free press of their own.
  • A CDC clone site with false vaccine claims is hosted by Children’s Health Defense, a non-profit, anti-vaxx organization started by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – via YLE
  • “if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders“

For ages the only copy I had of the Kon Kan 1989 hit I Beg Your Pardon was a cassette recording I captured from local FM radio, so any time I hear it I am reminded of Casey Kasem explaining how cool it was that they sampled the theme song from The Magnificent Seven.