So far, I encountered viral tweets blaming the Baltimore bridge collapse on:

Covid,
The vaccine,
Defunding the police,
Wokeness and DEI,
Neoliberalism causing infrastructure failures,
Crew ethnicity…

Old Twitter was good to find niche expertise after major events. Alas.

This subtitled video, in which Russian TV explains to Russians what it’s all about, is quite instructive: it’s not about NATO, it’s not about foreign threats, it’s not about Russian-speakers. It’s just about Russia’s existential purpose to become the biggest empire on Earth.

Barbie & Ken...and Vladimir. How Russians are reacting to the Barbie movie (the pirated version) amid a push for more patriotic entertainment. Motherland...and Barbie Land. Producer Liza Camera anton chicherov BBC News (UK)

The fire was San Francisco Chronicle front page news for a week 🗞️⬇️

Huge impact on the Bay Area. Many lessons to be learned. Cal students emerged as heroes. And yet it's still mostly lost in time.

sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/…

If Musk could sabotage Ukrainian forces in the Black Sea during an attack, how did he know about it? How many other Ukrainian actions have been sabotaged, or their presence shared with Musk’s 'Russian officials' friends? Were Ukr personnel cut off, possibly inside Russia? 2/4

When is the last time the NYT had a San Francisco bureau chief who understands San Francisco at its core like Heather Knight?

ive been reading san francisco’s obituary since i learned to read

Yep.

Simple, easy and familiar experience.

Like the other clones, it *so far* over rotates on general conversation vs. finding your micro-community tribes.

threads.net/@seangarrett

How is it possible that the #SFGiants have a better record than the Padres?

What's it like running comms for one of the five oldest companies in the United States? Jen Hartmann (Jen Hartmann) can tell you. mixingboard.substack.com/p/jennifer-har…

Hope?

I talked with Sean Garrett’s mixingboard about my brute-force entry into tech, dropping out of college to join Robinhood, learning by osmosis, & shifting comms strategies as 💩 hits the fan. mixingboard.medium.com/jack-randall-o…

How did a college student quickly become the head of comms for what would become a billion dollar+ company? It started with a DM from Jack Randall. Read more here: mixingboard.substack.com/p/jack-randall…

I posted a mixingboard tweet with a substack link, and it doesn't show up in my non-algorithmic personal account feed. Crazy.

Comms people are expected to navigate and solve stressful situations while simultaneously being therapists for those around them. We can't talk about mental health enough... mixingboard.substack.com/p/q-how-are-yo…