"Weâre living through an age of mass deletion, a moment when entertainment and media corporations see themselves not as custodians of valuable cultural history, once freely available, but as ruthless maximisers of profit." @zachschonfeld.bsky.social
The amount of media being wiped from the internet is worrying for viewers, and industry workers who need the exposure, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld
been saying this for a decade: buy hard copies of anything you love, even if all that's available is a dvd or a cd or something, because you cannot fucking trust a landlord
"Weâre living through an age of mass deletion, a moment when entertainment and media corporations see themselves not as custodians of valuable cultural history, once freely available, but as ruthless maximisers of profit." @zachschonfeld.bsky.social
The amount of media being wiped from the internet is worrying for viewers, and industry workers who need the exposure, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld
Me: I am a serious! journalist! Also me: www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... đ§Ș
Food science can explain why mozzarella melts like a dream while feta and ricotta donât
this reminds me of when someone asked Idris Elba at the height of the MeToo movement if he thought the climate was suddenly more scary for men and his answer was basically like âwell, for men who are predators, yeahâ he himself was like âthis is good shit, bring itâ
For the record, the guns are not coming illegally from Mexico. The illegal guns in Mexico are coming from the United States. www.npr.org/sections/the...
Just delighted that my @theconversation.bsky.social piece for their Curious Kids section still regularly hits USask's top most read articles, four years after I wrote it. It was a challenge to distill a PhD's worth of technical knowledge into a short, kid-friendly format but fun! đŠđđ§Ș
Squirrels and chipmunks are distant cousins who have grown a little more apart from each other over millions of years.
yeah, this is legit a thing Kids Today might not think is real: genxers who went to public school had to learn square dancing in gym class. I am not remotely making that up
What makes a wildlife photograph stand out? I take hundreds of wildlife photographs each week, and most get deleted. In this article, I talk about three characteristics that I look for when judging my photographs. (With lots of example photographs!) ko-fi.com/Post/What-Ma...#birds#wildlife đ·
ok at least a few people expressed interest, so here comes my spooky story for spooky season. i've posted it before, here and on twitter, so longtime followers may already have seen this. adding some pics this time to give you more of an idea what it was like.