I'm Peter Wade. Formerly of The @Daily

I also manage SNY's Tumblr

Here I blog about news, politics, media & pop culture.

A TIME Magazine Must-See Tumblr Blog: "A constant stream of news, politics and pop culture with just the right serious-to-meme ratio."


One of BuzzFeed's Best Tumblrs of 2011


One of HuffPo's 33 Tumblrs You NEED to Follow




Recent Tweets @brooklynmutt
Posts I Like
Who I Follow

At the start of a flare-up, immune cells invade bruised muscles. Instead of healing the damaged area, they annihilate it. A few progenitor cells then crawl into the empty space, and in some cases give rise to new bone.

“Your muscle isn’t turning to bone,” says Shore. “It’s being replaced by bone.”

My Tumblr Crushes:
shortformblog.com/ (9%)
inothernews (3%)
sportsnetny (3%)
kohenari.net/ (3%)
herblondness (3%)
motherjones (3%)
mar-see-ah (2%)
thisistheverge (2%)
kylegreggy (2%)
thisistheverge:

Need the best GIFs? 
Pros from BuzzFeed, Flavorpill, and yes, The Verge, pick perfection.

thisistheverge:

Need the best GIFs? 

Pros from BuzzFeed, Flavorpill, and yes, The Verge, pick perfection.

carlfranzen:

Yours truly.

(via thisistheverge)

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! “Father, the atheists?” Even the atheists. Everyone!…We must meet one another doing good. “But I don’t believe, Father, I am an atheist!” But do good: we will meet one another there.

Pope Francis, proclaiming that even non-believers will be redeemed by Christ, as long as they “do good” (not all Christians subscribe to this theory). source (via shortformblog)

“The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone! … After busting my apse in the vineyard of the Lord some godless good guy can just swoop in at the eleventh hour and and get redeemed? I want a refund!” - Stephen Colbert

More than anything people recognize me from “The Social Network,” which I was not in.

jkottke:

This interview with a 14-year-old girl about how she uses her iPhone and social media is almost equal parts fascinating and terrifying. Some choice quotes:

“I’ll wake up in the morning and go on Facebook just … because,” Casey says. “It’s not like I want to or I don’t. I just go on it. I’m, like, forced to. I don’t know why. I need to. Facebook takes up my whole life.”

“I bring [my iPhone] everywhere. I have to be holding it,” Casey says. “It’s like OCD — I have to have it with me. And I check it a lot.”

Not having an iPhone can be social suicide, notes Casey. One of her friends found herself effectively exiled from their circle for six months because her parents dawdled in upgrading her to an iPhone. Without it, she had no access to the iMessage group chat, where it seemed all their shared plans were being made.

“She wasn’t in the group chat, so we stopped being friends with her,” Casey says. “Not because we didn’t like her, but we just weren’t in contact with her.”

The most important and stress-inducing statistic of all is the number of “likes” she gets when she posts a new Facebook profile picture — followed closely by how many “likes” her friends’ photos receive. Casey’s most recent profile photo received 117 “likes” and 56 comments from her friends, 19 of which they posted within a minute of Casey switching her photo, and all of which Casey “liked” personally.

“If you don’t get 100 ‘likes,’ you make other people share it so you get 100,” she explains. “Or else you just get upset. Everyone wants to get the most ‘likes.’ It’s like a popularity contest.”

“If I’m not watching TV, I’m on my phone. If I’m not on my phone, I’m on my computer. If I’m not doing any of those things, what am I supposed to do?” Casey says.

Josh Miller asked his 15-year-old sister about social media trends. That was six months ago, so everything has probably already changed, but it’s still an interesting read. (via digg)

I think killing innocent people with drones is rude. I think keeping people who are innocent in indefinite detention for 11 years is rude.

There are a lot of rude things about our policies, speaking out is actually not rude, but it’s the basis of a Democratic society where people use their voices to try to make our country better and our policies more in line with the rule of law.
Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin defends “heckling” President Obama. (via mediaite)

(via poynterinstitute)

Just when you thought you were sick of Daft Punk’s Get Lucky THIS happens..

This video of Celine Dion “rocking out” to Saturday Night Fever during a show has had the Daft Punk track laid over it and it is incredible.

The Daily Edge

Pandas are also monarchists and hate democracy in all forms. They are filled with disdain for elected officials, who feign to represent the people, but the Pandas know better, and their time is coming. We will all soon bow to Queen Lun-Lun on her bamboo throne.

I, for one, welcome our new panda overlords.” - Max Rivlin-Nadler, Gawker

I can absolutely assure you that ITVS does not want your film to be buried.” She said of the title [Citizen Koch], “I think you understand why it’s problematic… . We live in a world where we have to be aware that people with power have power.

friendlyatheist:

reallyfoxnews:

Fox News’ new contributor Erick Erickson responds to the Boy Scouts’ change in their policy about gay scouts. 

Is Ok to have a gay son as long as everybody shuns/discriminates him for who he is. Wtf?

(via kylegreggy)