Powderhorn @ Powderhorn @beehaw.org

Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

---

Read more

Posts

1,200

Comments

3,126

Joined

3 yr. ago

Moderating

---

The name change was about a year ago, IIRC. It is, indeed, the Minnesota Star Tribune. Apparently someone dropped the hyphen

I'm not a fan of papers doing this, but the Strib is now the Minnesota (nee Minneapolis) Star-Tribune.

Right. As though this is the only sex-abuse crisis we're going through.

I wanted to be an asshole, but Midwesterners opened up a tavern nearby, and the toasted ravioli is on point.

If you're at a real outlet, you throw a SCANDAL violator diagonally in the top left of your main art and call it a day.

"Hey ..."

To hell?

There's an issue with the hed: If you have been murdered, well ... you're not really live.

I don't know where to start with why this is an infuriating post. In addition to believing that virtually all words need a pound sign appended to them, the capitalization here is a crime against humanity.

Camel case for StatusCoup, followed by all caps for LIVE, then we can't be bothered to capitalize a city name. Then, it's just random tags. Yeah, we're a news aggregator. As such, "press," "news," "media" and the suddenly camel-cased "BreakingNews" is literally what people are expecting.

Now, why you placed this in World News is confusing.

But a book for what sort of audience? Are you saying James Joyce is approachable on account of his short sentences?

This strikes me more as a shift in reading habits; after all, you write for your audience. In academia and longform media outlets, that calls for lugubrious, wandering sentences. In other situations, you basically end up with Dick and Jane.

It seems as though the researchers picked their targets -- not uncommon -- but completely avoided the implications of texting and shortform like tweets, in addition to the increasing international use of English, where messages will be better understood with simple structure.

Granting corporations personhood worked out really well.

Oh, I'd head over to Seattle on the ferry when possible. It wasn't really a bastion of culture. I did like Central Market.

Glad I left Bremerton well before this. The Navy guys were bad enough.

I spent several years in Oregon. It was a pretty chill place. You didn't have the bullshit of a governor in a wheelchair who won a multimillion-dollar verdict ahead of making sure no one else could ever do that.

Texas politics are fucked. And that fucking tree should have finished the job.

God, do I miss being in a state where shit changes because of evidence.

Well, at least I didn't lose family members.

Excellent analysis. I wish some of it were surprising.

This should finally get him his Nobel Peace Prize.

Unlike my inability to spread toppings on a pizza with any efficiency. I'd sometimes end up with a side-heavy pie because all the cheese moved over there in the oven.