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having a normal one over at youtube Cookie Monster dot com

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I put together an ABCs of new laws passed this year: Kake Pops! Xylazine! Roadkill! Imagination Library!

New Laws by the Letterrichmondmagazine.com Get to know the ABCs of the 2024 General Assembly session.

funny-not-funny that I’m editing a story now about 50 years since kepone dumping caused a ban on fishing

Tyson Foods dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, a new investigation revealed

Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakeswww.theguardian.com Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide among the 371m lb of pollutants released by just 41 plants in five years

Managed to strike some gold on #recordstoreday 🎸

@pftompkins.bsky.social mention on #jeopardy!!

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📸 eclipse pix at the Science Museum of Virginia

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you guys we talked about this

Put on my photographer hat to see a teacher get a surprise $25k prize.

I spoke with author and illustrator (and RVA native) Cece Bell about “Animal Albums from A to Z,” a surprisingly massive undertaking involving Roanoke-area musicians and two REM producers (among others!). richmondmagazine.com/news/sunday-...

Pet Soundsrichmondmagazine.com Children’s author and Richmond native Cece Bell celebrates album art in her new book.

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goku has touched and improved more lives than any president of any country ever has

Wrote about apartment and housing prices: things are bad but apprently less bad in RVA

Shelter From the Economic Storm?richmondmagazine.com While housing is more affordable in Richmond than around the country, costs remain a burden for many.

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1994: internet is ephemeral 2004: internet is forever 2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots 2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work

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new: noticed an uptick in bots on X / Twitter? you're not alone. new data provided to me by one cybersecurity firm found: ➡️ nearly 76% of traffic from X to its clients' sites was fake during Super Bowl weekend no other platform came close to that read more: mashable.com/article/x-tw...

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X was fake during the Super Bowl, data suggestsmashable.com These numbers are legitimately shocking.

Chicago has the rat hole, Richmond has the gun hole

TikTok - Make Your Daywww.tiktok.com

I traveled out to Middlesex County to learn about solar grazing — sheep help maintain a Dominion solar farm that helps power UVA.

Flocking to Solarrichmondmagazine.com A low-tech herd of employees helps out on Virginia solar farms.

Wrote about why a fox might show up at your school one day

Fox Pausesrichmondmagazine.com Wildlife sightings prompt “reverse evacuations” for Glen Allen elementary school students.

another heckin chonker

Frosty the fabulous fat cat up for adoption from Richmond Animal Care and Controlwww.wric.com Remember Patches, the chunky cat adopted from Richmond Animal Care and Control? Meet the new fat feline in town, “One Frosty Too Many.”

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Nice Shot: On the Fencerichmondmagazine.com Getting the point at the Convention Center

Wrote about what the Democratic control of the Genera Assembly means for LGBTQ+ rights:

A Path for Progressrichmondmagazine.com Democratic control of the General Assembly could boost LGBTQ+ rights.

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📢 App Version 1.60 is rolling out now (1/5) We have a new logo! 🦋 Bluesky is emerging from its cocoon of clouds to transform into a social butterfly. Read more about why we chose this logo here: blueskyweb.xyz/blog/12-21-2...

Honesty, I kind of had a similar weird experience. If 2022 was when I figured out YMO, 2023 was branching out thanks to LITA’s Pacific Breeze 3. I liked YLT and New Pornos, totally forgot about U.S. Girls, was meh about new Cornelius and adored The 3 Clubmen EP. Not a lot to take away from 2023.

New Newsletter: My favorite albums of 2023.

STE's Best Albums of 2023sterlewine.substack.com Blur and Turnpike Troubadours star in my favorite albums of 2023.

Followed by overnight snow. Normal stuff.

Gotta watch out for those December tornadoes nowadays, huh

Very cool to talk to a VCU class today about copy editing, getting into journalism, and setting boundaries. I wish I had their mindset instead of a grindset.

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this is exactly why i still buy discs in 2023. it's crazy to think that we are reaching a point where piracy will be the only option to own media once dvds and blu-rays are gone.

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Imagining a world where legislators didn’t prefile and were actually restricted to how many bills they could introduce.

Virginia's General Assembly won't be meeting until January, but that hasn't stopped some lawmakers from prefiling pieces of legislation they hope to tackle when they reconvene in Richmond. What's in some of the prefiled bills? Reproductive rights, gun legislation, environmental issues and more!

Looking ahead to January: General Assembly bills start trickling inwww.vpm.org Virginia’s legislators have started to circulate key bills and resolutions they want to tackle come January.