Scott Fybush

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Former radio host, current radio consultant, storyteller/comedian, mostly harmless. He/him. Rochester NY

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There's no election night like UK election night. @countbinface.bsky.social

My father's best friend died today, a year and a half after Dad died, and they were so close for so long that it's like losing Dad again. 💔

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One thing that anti-woke “comedy” is good for is exposing differentiators between normal decent people, for whom freedom is simply the right to exist without being dehumanized and bullied, and conservatives, for whom freedom is mostly the right to dehumanize and bully others.

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Are you driving to Glastonbury on the A303 this week? As you pass Stonehenge on your left, please take time to ponder its timeless message. The message is that you’re going the wrong way. Stonehenge should be on your right.

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(Ann Telnaes/The Washington Post)

Because copy editors still matter!

The Twins won both a game and a headline, nice

"Willie Mays survives" - Noam Chomsky just now, maybe

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I unloaded my daughter's college dorm room and got everything relocated in just two (2) trips with my Subaru Crosstrek. And she had a LOT of stuff in there. Not a cubic inch went unused.

Welcome to the Annual Most Dad* Thing You Did In The Last Year Thread. Per tradition, I will lead off: I bought a mitre saw almost entirely because it was on sale, and now I will find the thinnest excuse to incorporate it into any home project. *You need not have kids or identify as male to Dad.

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Most Canadian bus ever

Endorse wholeheartedly.

I don't think people appreciate how bad things are in journalism and how terrible a blow it is to democracy. I have never seen the employment this iffy, wages this low, reporting this little in demand (by editors). You wonder how a column like Kathleen Parker's gets printed--that's who's left.

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#AcademicSky

I'm 52. I try to point my kids (20 and 16, both v. politically engaged) to the people out there doing good things. But they are fewer and fewer these days, my cynicism is at a peak after walking away from my own 30+ yr career in news, and too often the logical conclusion is "it does all suck."

So this is getting written up & discussed as scandalous rather than recognizing the youth are having a rational reaction to the social, economic and political situations they're encountering.

‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politicswww.semafor.com A new survey may help explain Joe Biden’s recent struggles with the under-30 set.

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POP FACT: Everyone who watched The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show died one week later, due to CBS accidentally booking John, Paul, George and Ringu

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Eclipse: You shall wait for years, make careful plans, drive hundreds of miles for five miraculous minutes. Aurora: U up?

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We are all so atomised. And then an eclipse happens. And an aurora. And we all share something wonderful, however briefly. It's like back when there were only two channels and we all watched the same game, the same final, the same finale, again. More of this please, shared humanity, sharing wonder.

More than 50 years in Rochester and I have never seen the aurora like this. Wow!

If I'm doing the math right... 0. Me 1. Walter Cronkite 2. Herbert Hoover 3. Hitler

I think it goes 0. Me 1. Myra Freeman 2. Elizabeth II 3. Edward VIII 4. Hitler

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A level of pettiness to which we can all aspire. Resident of Seaside, California was ordered to build a fence to hide from view the boat he parks next to his house. He complied.

This. So much this, filtered through the awful memory of how the scammers preyed on my dad in the early stages of his dementia. We could have a much better world if we wanted it.

It will always baffle me how we as a society have just let scammers ruin so many parts of our daily lives. We cannot take phone calls anymore, emails and texts are flooded with scams, and social media directs you to scam sites for everything from forever stamps to kids toys.

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Nature’s first food is brain, Her hardest hue to gain Her early leaf’s a worm; But only while it squirms. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So brainworm sank to grief, When it’s in RFK. Nothing brain can stay.

Data point: I graduated from high school at 16. The rest just follows.

imma make this my linkedin header

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It's obvious to everybody by now that universities are under attack by the far right same as k-12 schools, libraries, journalism, and the internet right? That this is a coordinated far right attack on our info worlds in attempt to rewrite our recent shared histories and equate truth with power?

FIRE - causing moral panics, silencing people fighting for diversity, sometimes lending a lawyer to individuals caught in their net.

My Subaru laughs.

To a beautiful beach on Nantucket A Musk fan planned to Cybertruck it He drove onto the strand And got stuck in the sand So the owner was forced to say fuck it (Photos via the Nantucket Current @ACKCurrent)

Yes.

anybody else have no idea what the fuck is going on anymore

This is some kind of bullshit. And I am free to say so, now.

UPDATE: The news cameraman for Fox 7 Austin who was thrown to the ground and arrested by state troopers at the UT student protest has been charged with criminal trespass, according to his colleague Meredith Aldis

This account is part of why bsky makes me so happy when so little else does these days.

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for History Extra, but here's an excerpt! 🧪🗃️

So, I'm not any kind of HR professional, but... if someone who's been at your org for 20 years just abruptly resigns, and if it's someone especially hard to replace... wouldn't you want to find out why and see if there's something going on that you might be able to fix?