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newspaper, rss readers, email newsletters, text/sms blurbs, subreddits, social media, idk just gimme the deets.

by news i mean any news. whether it's anime, vidya, local news, international news, science, visual novels, you get the point.

recommendations are cool too. i feel like a clueless shut-in tbh.

i read whatever crops up on my fb feed that people repost. for daily stuff, i find i like checking in on the philip defranco show. i'm canadian and a lot of his news is 'american-centric', but he's also one of the ones that branch out to discuss global news (yesterday's included a discussion about what's happening in kashmir, india, and pakistan) and he'll give his personal opinion on things that hit him (like abuse stories or garbage people), but he's also open to discussion and tries to share it from as unbiased an opinion point as he can with most things. i enjoy it and have been watching it... gosh. for about five/six years now?

i rotate between 3-5 local news websites for local news that covers the local counties. some are more right-leaning than others which i read with much more scrutiny. i'll read the comments if i feel particularly masochist and want to be reminded how insane the "general public" is.

once in a while county official twitters or official police twitters if i'm digging for something--an event, an accident, something like that.

sciencedaily, the verge, wired are almost daily reads for me. and tbh most science/technology/video game orientated news websites you can find easily with google are fairly sound.

pbs and cnn and bbc for "world news". might pop in to read these bi-weekly or weekly.

io9, kotaku a couple of times a week. the gizmodo family is hit or miss, but generally okay. i take jezebel with some grain of salt but find myself coming back to them fairly frequently for the sassy presentation. "the barf bag" section is a quick convenient read when i want to quickly digest the current us administration in broad strokes.

same for huffington post, except their bias often excludes pertinent information, so just be mindful of that. a lot of articles are written poorly, but again, broad-strokes consumption or comments reading if you want to be reminded how much we suck.

i do not get any news from traditional tv* or social media. especially not fb. i highly do not recommend this.

*excluding the occasional youtube clip recommendations. Lately the algorithm is blessing me with a lot of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Last Week Tonight and Daily Show. And Jim Sterling though I wouldn't count him as a traditional source of news and more a source of cynical catharsis. Would also recommend Lindsay Ellis to that effect.

I also like the Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, Late Night and all those sort of comedic news ones that make light of the shitty, shitty things that happened.

animenewsnetwork and gematsu for my nerding needs. family and social media feeds for rl news.

time magazine, news and gossips and fansites sites i follow and my newsletters

metokur's videos, kiwifarms articles & happenings and the DSP subforum for when the fat pig does something stupid

tumblr and twitter. the best news sources evaaaa!!!

For IRL stuff I can read the BBC newspage at work so I do that between calls at work.

Everything else like games and stuff mostly just kind of osmosis from friends.

actual news:

reddit mostly. r/politics mainly but they're often posting nonsense or making a big deal out of nothing. r/news is also too much at once but good to check if you know something big is going on because they keep a running feed of twitter sources.

i watch the local news sometimes but they're so right leaning that it's starting to get gross, especially with local elections coming up and interviewing known leaders of hate groups who are running like they're legit.

i like the nbc nightly news but they don't cover a whole lot in 30 minutes and almost everything after the first 2-3 stories aren't really big. keeping up with shows like colbert's thing helps with making stuff a lot easier to understand if you're stumped about something or feel confused about a news cycle (because they will doublespeak at you sometimes and people like colbert are good at calling it out)

fandom news:

mostly plurk and whatever my friends are freaking out about. sometimes reddit but reddit + fandom = some toxic shit. I usually skim by posts on my front page, but it's good for knowing instantly when something big happens.

for new video games and stuff, i mostly find that on youtube. let's players like the yogscast and markiplier or reviewers like good ol' yahtzee at zero punctuation.

science news:

i'm a huge space/science nerd. reddit is actually a genuinely good place for this. r/astronomy and r/space are great for keeping up with new discoveries and missions coming up. they'll often go nuts when a new launch is about to happen and you can usually catch livestreams of it, which is fantastic.

if you want to keep up with a particular mission, NASA and ESA keeps social media accounts. for the ISS, i follow the NASA and ISS instagram accounts. the astronauts/cosmonauts also have their own accounts and i follow those, too.

a mission or so ago, a cosmonaut named oleg actually uploaded videos to youtube from the ISS which was amazing. you can check his stuff out here: https://www.youtube.com/user/OlegMKS

... i guess i should get back to work now

I'm old so I watch the actual news on network tv. Our local stations are blissfully unbiased but I refuse to patronize the NBC station because they ran a super sexist "for women" series that featured such important women's topics as picking out the right diamond.

National news is such bullshit though, they've been sadly influenced by the social media clickbait trends and you can tell - terrible misleading teasers, hyperbolic language, etc. But I don't have time to watch CNN for a few hours to make sure I catch all the big stories, half an hour is all I've got.

I was getting my science news from IFLS but they've also gone clickbait and I don't appreciate their vegan agenda. I may have to switch to sciencedaily per an above anon.

cnn has a website, anon. it has all the same shit on it.

i check buzzfeed news and huffington post several times daily, plus i have news alerts on my phone for local news. i also watch local news or cnn sometimes

for technology news, i have news alerts on my phone for wired magazine and some apple/mac shit bc I'm A Mac User

for fandom news, i just check here or sometimes something comes across my tumblr dash

oh yeah, an anon upthread reminded me i also watch last week tonight

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