jb

"If people don't either love or hate your work, you just haven't done all that much." -Tinker Hatfield

[jb @llyours]

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Not sure what’s popping still but I’m feeling Bluesky these days. I haven’t been on here in about a month.

[jb @llyours]

I haven’t been on here since 2024. I just came back to remind Haliburton these games starting at 8:00.

[jb @llyours]

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Not sure what’s popping still but I’m feeling Bluesky these days. I haven’t been on here in about a month.

[jb @llyours]

Not sure if anybody retiring from Twitter but I’m noname1191 on threads

[jb @llyours]

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[jb @llyours]

@druski The notification sounds be killing me

[bomani @bomani_jones]

#twoamericas

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

The most profound paragraph in all of C. S. Lewis, at least to me

[jb @llyours]

Daaaaaaaanng

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard is expected to be sidelined for indefinite period of time to start the NBA season as he rehabilitates the inflammation in his right knee, league sources tell me and @NotoriousOHM.

[ɪ ᴀᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴋᴀʏᴛʀᴀɴᴀᴅᴀ @chaclobro]

Your Tesla robot tryna tell you that you musty

[jb @llyours]

I think 40 years of violence on TV, movies, and video games has and is still rotting our brains. People will retweet a person getting killed on here like it’s regular.

[austin petersmith @awwstn]

hang it in the louvre

[graet @graetgalaxy]

i never even considered dr. pepper could be a woman. maybe i'm a bad person

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

BREAKING -- Detroit's newspapers, now homeless, lower subscriptions to 10 cents a month.
Readers complain they're still being gouged.

by Charlie LeDuff--

The Detroit News and Free Press have been evicted from their offices atop the Dan Gilbert-owned Federal Reserve Building in the heart of downtown.

The mortgage mogul has decided not to renew the papers’ leases, after first agreeing to renew them. People inside Bedrock—Gilbert’s real estate arm—tell me they have no idea why the boss decided to swat the newspapers from their sparrow rookery. Reporters know little more.

How does it come to this? Ink-stained wretches with a combined 344 years of publishing will suddenly find themselves homeless at the beginning of the year, wandering around town like a Roma caravan in wartime.

Executive put a cheery euphemism on things: Mobile Journalism.

The newspapers are mobile, all right. Since semi-merging through a joint operating agreement after their disastrous strike in the '80s, Detroit’s two major dailies have been living the American Dream. That is: They built themselves large homes, only to subsequently move into smaller and smaller homes. As earnings eroded, assets were sold off to keep the children fed. This summer, the Free Press moved from the 2nd floor of the Gilbert building into a smaller space on the 8th floor. And now they’ve been kicked to the curb.

What’s more, the decades-old operating agreement is set to expire next year.

Then there’s the journalism. And that is where their problems truly lay. First, it was the strike. Then came the advent of the internet and the disastrous decision by management to post their work product online for free. Google and social media soon cannibalized their advertisers. So, in order to maintain shrinking silos of subscribers, the decision was made to pander. Both newsrooms now careen to the Left, leaving what’s left of their readership recklessly misinformed.

To be clear, there is a cadre of extraordinary reporters and editors still working at the papers. But they are too few in number to save the enterprises. This group of gumshoes are true reporters, the kind who drink in public with the public, hold the powerful to account, and trouble the public conscience. I often ask them what they’re still doing in town. They should’ve sent their resumes to the Wall Street Journal long ago.

The remainder of the newsrooms are staffed by the new sort who consider themselves “non-fiction writers” and “video journalists.” They are like the Puerto Rican crooner at a Russian nightclub who calls himself a Moorish-American. They are over-exaggerated and self-important water carriers of the establishment; the type who drink in private with the public officials. They serve the high rather than hoi polloi.

Except for the sports pages and the opinion columns, there is little to read in the thinning papers nowadays. Political scandals are reported years after the perpetrators have left office. Those who bristled at the Covid lockdowns were mocked as conspiracy theorists. These reporters provided sanctuary to state authorities after it came to light that they covered up nursing home deaths. They posture as public relations officers for politicians who sign non-disclosure agreements and secret severance packages.

Meanwhile, the lives of ordinary people go ignored. Last week, Stellantis laid off 2,500 auto workers at its Warren Truck facility. The only news site to report on the actual event was the World Socialist Web Site. This, despite the fact that we are in an election year and more than a million people in Michigan work in the auto industry.

There are two rules to journalism. 1)Get it right. 2)Don’t be boring. If you forget those, you’ll find yourself homeless.

I for one, will continue to walk to the gas station to purchase the broadsheets ($3.49 a copy). Sometimes there’s good work in there. But the main reason is because it gets cold in Michigan, and I need something to help light a fire.

[jb @llyours]

Trump said I guess we just gone have to give illegal immigrants the death penalty. lol Bruh that’s so wild.

[jb @llyours]

The absolute funniest thing that could happen is Trump showing up on Sofia Franklyn’s podcast. 😂

[Detroit Lions @Lions]

🧐 is it us or is the scoreboard a little blurry?

[Detroit Pistons @DetroitPistons]

Chauncey giving a proper Detroit welcome in his Hall of Fame induction speech❤️

[jb @llyours]

Im going to get one of these and hack it to be a mean bodyguard.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Tesla Optimus Robot at $20k to never have to dishes again and have someone to beat af Settlers of Catan is a no brainer