Dean Miller
@2dogs0waiting.bsky.social
Managing editor @LeadStories.com, Beating skull against wall since '85 as a reporter, editor, author, prof and spox for Local #3 Union of Inkstained Wretches.
Gratuitous dog content is not something I am working to fix.
Gratuitous dog content is not something I am working to fix.
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Viet Spam is making our Facebook timelines unusable. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
Prebunk: Beware Of Fake Fan Pages Spreading False Stories About Your Favorite Celebrities -- How To Spot 'Viet Spam' | Lead Stories
This is what fact checkers call a "prebunk." A prebunk is like a debunk (another word for fact check), only...
leadstories.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Viet Spam is making our Facebook timelines unusable. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
Reposted by Dean Miller
Beware Of Fake Fan Pages Spreading False Stories About Your Favorite Celebrities -- How To Spot 'Viet Spam' #prebunkingatscale
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
Prebunk: Beware Of Fake Fan Pages Spreading False Stories About Your Favorite Celebrities -- How To Spot 'Viet Spam' | Lead Stories
This is what fact checkers call a "prebunk." A prebunk is like a debunk (another word for fact check), only...
leadstories.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Beware Of Fake Fan Pages Spreading False Stories About Your Favorite Celebrities -- How To Spot 'Viet Spam' #prebunkingatscale
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
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Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
God, I love this book.
I am not a sci-fi reader, but this story had me shouting aloud and reading passages to my wife.
Buy it. Read it.
Much love to Andy Weir.
I am not a sci-fi reader, but this story had me shouting aloud and reading passages to my wife.
Buy it. Read it.
Much love to Andy Weir.
February 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
God, I love this book.
I am not a sci-fi reader, but this story had me shouting aloud and reading passages to my wife.
Buy it. Read it.
Much love to Andy Weir.
I am not a sci-fi reader, but this story had me shouting aloud and reading passages to my wife.
Buy it. Read it.
Much love to Andy Weir.
Post-scrimmage, World Fangs O’ Fury A-Teamers do yoga in the sun.
January 15, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Post-scrimmage, World Fangs O’ Fury A-Teamers do yoga in the sun.
We have asked The Telegraph for correction of several errors here.
Facebook makes ALL decisions to reduce traffic, deplatform, etc.
BMJ published an oversold "investigation" featuring a "researcher" who turned out to be a documents clerk. BMJ quietly revised.
Etc
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Facebook makes ALL decisions to reduce traffic, deplatform, etc.
BMJ published an oversold "investigation" featuring a "researcher" who turned out to be a documents clerk. BMJ quietly revised.
Etc
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Five times Facebook’s fact-checkers got it wrong
Here are some of the missteps which led to the end of prevention measures against fake news
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We have asked The Telegraph for correction of several errors here.
Facebook makes ALL decisions to reduce traffic, deplatform, etc.
BMJ published an oversold "investigation" featuring a "researcher" who turned out to be a documents clerk. BMJ quietly revised.
Etc
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Facebook makes ALL decisions to reduce traffic, deplatform, etc.
BMJ published an oversold "investigation" featuring a "researcher" who turned out to be a documents clerk. BMJ quietly revised.
Etc
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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This 1974 Jimmy Carter speech — addressing an assembly of Georgia lawyers on the shortcomings of the criminal justice system — is a hell of a thing
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/la...
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/la...
Law Day Address at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia | The American Presidency Project
www.presidency.ucsb.edu
January 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This 1974 Jimmy Carter speech — addressing an assembly of Georgia lawyers on the shortcomings of the criminal justice system — is a hell of a thing
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/la...
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/la...
Tulsa should be taught so that Americans understand the danger of impunity and tyranny of a majority.
Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says
The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Tulsa should be taught so that Americans understand the danger of impunity and tyranny of a majority.
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Anyhoo, he kicks it off with a very bad misunderstanding of the 1st Amendment and the whole "fire in a crowded theater" thing. cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social @jkosseff.bsky.social
Not only is this wrong, it's meaningless. He runs a private platform and isn't Congress. Does he not have ANY 1A lawyers?
Not only is this wrong, it's meaningless. He runs a private platform and isn't Congress. Does he not have ANY 1A lawyers?
January 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Anyhoo, he kicks it off with a very bad misunderstanding of the 1st Amendment and the whole "fire in a crowded theater" thing. cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social @jkosseff.bsky.social
Not only is this wrong, it's meaningless. He runs a private platform and isn't Congress. Does he not have ANY 1A lawyers?
Not only is this wrong, it's meaningless. He runs a private platform and isn't Congress. Does he not have ANY 1A lawyers?
So...does that $900,000 wrist watch tell you when it's time to man up and apologize for slandering folks you have been bragging about for years?
www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...
www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...
An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers, nine years later - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...
www.poynter.org
January 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
So...does that $900,000 wrist watch tell you when it's time to man up and apologize for slandering folks you have been bragging about for years?
www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...
www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...
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Dispatch Editor Steve Hayes: "To be candid, I didn’t pay careful attention to the work [other fact checkers] were doing"
Also Hayes: Zuckerberg called fact checkers politically biased "...and I’d say he’s right."
That's some lazy-ass copy pasta, Steve.
Also Hayes: Zuckerberg called fact checkers politically biased "...and I’d say he’s right."
That's some lazy-ass copy pasta, Steve.
Fact-Checking and Our Business
A message from Steve Hayes.
thedispatch.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Dispatch Editor Steve Hayes: "To be candid, I didn’t pay careful attention to the work [other fact checkers] were doing"
Also Hayes: Zuckerberg called fact checkers politically biased "...and I’d say he’s right."
That's some lazy-ass copy pasta, Steve.
Also Hayes: Zuckerberg called fact checkers politically biased "...and I’d say he’s right."
That's some lazy-ass copy pasta, Steve.
These Athletes of the World Fangs O’Fury League are pretending to observe ancient canid rituals, but are instead gobbling addictive morsels dropped by cleverly camouflaged Canadian smuggler drones.
It’s the dark underbelly of the League’s wholesome public image.
It’s the dark underbelly of the League’s wholesome public image.
January 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM
These Athletes of the World Fangs O’Fury League are pretending to observe ancient canid rituals, but are instead gobbling addictive morsels dropped by cleverly camouflaged Canadian smuggler drones.
It’s the dark underbelly of the League’s wholesome public image.
It’s the dark underbelly of the League’s wholesome public image.
Zuckerberg, in my opinion, defamed hundreds of good journalists in his announcement that he has cancelled Meta's fact checking program.
January 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Zuckerberg, in my opinion, defamed hundreds of good journalists in his announcement that he has cancelled Meta's fact checking program.
Fangs O’ Fury mathletes know when there are two bites of the ginger cookie remaining and it’s time to mob the trainer.
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Fangs O’ Fury mathletes know when there are two bites of the ginger cookie remaining and it’s time to mob the trainer.
@willjames.bsky.social any suggestions for Josh? bsky.app/profile/josh...
For any Seattle people out there — is there a particular local publication that would be the right place to pitch a super-interesting story about early (1850s) Seattle history?
My first thought is @theseattletimes.bsky.social, obviously, but is there anywhere else that would make sense?
My first thought is @theseattletimes.bsky.social, obviously, but is there anywhere else that would make sense?
December 24, 2024 at 6:07 AM
@willjames.bsky.social any suggestions for Josh? bsky.app/profile/josh...
It is comical that The White House/NSC held a session to clear up what the FBI, FAA, DHS are doing to clear up the Jersey Drones question...and refused to go on the record.
It's like they don't get that accountability is at the root of credibility.
You cash a public check.
Talk to the public.
It's like they don't get that accountability is at the root of credibility.
You cash a public check.
Talk to the public.
December 16, 2024 at 6:35 PM
It is comical that The White House/NSC held a session to clear up what the FBI, FAA, DHS are doing to clear up the Jersey Drones question...and refused to go on the record.
It's like they don't get that accountability is at the root of credibility.
You cash a public check.
Talk to the public.
It's like they don't get that accountability is at the root of credibility.
You cash a public check.
Talk to the public.
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The past month I've been chasing the sunrise at the same place because there are feeding birds at short distance.
Occasionally when cormorants or a large fish are underwater the anchovies all leap at the same time.
I've never caught video or stills.
Until today
Twice.
In the sunrise reflection.
Occasionally when cormorants or a large fish are underwater the anchovies all leap at the same time.
I've never caught video or stills.
Until today
Twice.
In the sunrise reflection.
December 14, 2024 at 6:56 AM
The past month I've been chasing the sunrise at the same place because there are feeding birds at short distance.
Occasionally when cormorants or a large fish are underwater the anchovies all leap at the same time.
I've never caught video or stills.
Until today
Twice.
In the sunrise reflection.
Occasionally when cormorants or a large fish are underwater the anchovies all leap at the same time.
I've never caught video or stills.
Until today
Twice.
In the sunrise reflection.
Reposted by Dean Miller
James Webb telescope just dropped its latest image, Neptune, and its rings.
December 12, 2024 at 12:58 PM
James Webb telescope just dropped its latest image, Neptune, and its rings.
Reposted by Dean Miller
This cartoon is from 1930.
It could have been today.
It could have been today.
December 12, 2024 at 10:51 PM
This cartoon is from 1930.
It could have been today.
It could have been today.
This Trump quote, like the People Magazine snippet people love to post, is also bogussss.
(Keep your confirmation bias on a short leash when there's no receipts on a quote like this.)
(Keep your confirmation bias on a short leash when there's no receipts on a quote like this.)
Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump Said 'I'm Naturally Selfish' | Lead Stories
Did Donald Trump say, "I'm naturally selfish, and the idea of representing the interests of others is alien to me"?...
leadstories.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:26 AM
This Trump quote, like the People Magazine snippet people love to post, is also bogussss.
(Keep your confirmation bias on a short leash when there's no receipts on a quote like this.)
(Keep your confirmation bias on a short leash when there's no receipts on a quote like this.)
RFK, Jr's fans are selling the claim that he only says one thing about vaccines: They should be studied.
We're not buying that.
Lead Stories provides here the litany of false things he has said about vaccines.
We're not buying that.
Lead Stories provides here the litany of false things he has said about vaccines.
Fact Check: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s View On Vaccines Is NOT Only That 'They Should Be Studied' | Lead Stories
Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s only stated position on vaccines that they should be studied "like any other pharmaceutical product"...
leadstories.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:14 PM
RFK, Jr's fans are selling the claim that he only says one thing about vaccines: They should be studied.
We're not buying that.
Lead Stories provides here the litany of false things he has said about vaccines.
We're not buying that.
Lead Stories provides here the litany of false things he has said about vaccines.
Our athletes were baffled when they learned how the Yankees once locked out reporter Melissa Ludtke for being female.
No such nonsense in World Fangs O’Fury League locker rooms, where the athletes all share one locker room, saving journos the hassle of shuttling back and forth.
No such nonsense in World Fangs O’Fury League locker rooms, where the athletes all share one locker room, saving journos the hassle of shuttling back and forth.
December 9, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Our athletes were baffled when they learned how the Yankees once locked out reporter Melissa Ludtke for being female.
No such nonsense in World Fangs O’Fury League locker rooms, where the athletes all share one locker room, saving journos the hassle of shuttling back and forth.
No such nonsense in World Fangs O’Fury League locker rooms, where the athletes all share one locker room, saving journos the hassle of shuttling back and forth.