Yo, it's drop day ... a show conceived during lockdown four years ago is finally live: HOLD FAST is 460 minutes of sex! drugs! guns! and spelunking through the history of Backpage.com and the alternative press.

Head to Mark Kelso and binge it: audible.com/holdfast

John Saward We could reframe the martyrdom of Aaron Bushnell, with Tommy Craggs: flaminghydra.com/fires-in-rows/

'a self-immolation in South Korea enters into an infrastructure of meaningful death...and [is] thus prevented from succumbing to the pious obscurantism that has characterized the official response here in the US to Aaron Bushnell's political martyrdom.' flaminghydra.com/issue-28/

'Any heightening of class tensions in journalism will inevitably play out along the axis of journalism's 'standards.''

I wrote about a couple pricks and the proletarianization of media for Flaming Hydra, a cool new thing you should subscribe to: flaminghydra.com/issue-4/

From Tommy Craggs: Slowly trotting home open.substack.com/pub/indignity/…

Zaslav getting hit with a Pay Your Writers chant in Boston. This is so good.

We just got the word — Evil is shutting down for the night. These three heroes walked the line for six hours, after an earlier group held it all day. And Evil has met its match.
#WGAStrong
Please spread the word.
And thank you IATSE // #IASolidarity
#IASolidarity

Join the WGA as we picket the Peacock NewFronts in NYC to demand a fair contract on May 2, 1:30pm - 4pm, at 415 5th Avenue.

RSVP: airtable.com/shrVGXLWGVlrkw… #WGAStrike #1u

I'm incredibly proud of how transparent our union is. In the Writers Guild of America West's strike announcement, we included a list of our proposals, and the AMPTP's responses. Read it for yourself: it explains in black and white we're forced to go on strike.

I'm new to TV writing, but I'm an old hand at working in an industry that hates its writers as much as it needs them and seems determined to casualize itself into oblivion. I voted hell fuck yes on strike authorization. #wgastrong

The NBA is reportedly getting rid of marijuana testing under its new Collective Bargaining Agreement. But why was the policy implemented in the first place?

From the mind of Rod #GametheoryHBO #WeDontMiss

Think sports washing is just something that happens in those other countries?

'I hated Karl Malone so much before I had a great reason, I only had good ones. Like just being a dirty player, elbowing people all the time.' bomani on Karl Malone's involvement in NBA All-Star Weekend in Utah. #anyquestion