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• @Shelly@zeppelin.flights 2026-04-01 16:36

  Here's a thread of "behind the music" stuff I left out of the story for brevity. I've told versions of this on podcasts, but without the slap upside the head from my journalism professor. It feels weird to send the written version into the world though, mostly because it screams "you old!"

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• @Shelly@zeppelin.flights 2026-04-01 16:37

  I wanted to aim higher with my brand-new journalism degree, but most starting-out reporter jobs in those days would have sent me to small towns where you needed a car to do your job. So I pivoted to non-profits, local politics and a newsletter called The MacBulletin. Once I settled in, I learned to make myself indispensable by building databases and managing mailing lists on an IBM AT, and later, the Mac Plus.

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