Well don't I feel stupid

gives lie to the whole “but no one knew they were like that back then” (also would be nice to see someone bring her book back out)

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

@swaidcollective.bsky.social is a 100% sex worker run collective that takes all funding and redistributes it directly to community members in need. Please make a donation if you're able: SWAidVegas.org/contribute

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

Give Issac Chotiner subpoena power

404 media once again proving why they deserve your subscription dollars. they punch far above their weight for such a small team.

Vanity Fair can choose to hire Nuzzi, someone who broke every imaginable rule of the profession (and sense, and taste) by sexting with RFJ Jr. But if they do so, they will have hired someone who sexted with RFK Jr. and nobody will ever forget it

This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters. www.wsj.com/articles/sto...

For God's sake, Canada's notwithstanding clause shouldn't be used to harm the most marginalized in our society, it should only be used passive aggressively by Quebec to protest the Constitution Act of 1982

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

Today is a “The Vyvanse is working but I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not” type of day.

personally I care way more about this than jimmy kimmel but hopefully people who care about kimmel realize how it’s connected to mahmoud

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

I think the coolest thing you can do right now is live with integrity and care about the people around you, not just your friends and family but your community. Deny the lie they want you to believe, that taking as much as you can while giving nothing back is the goal.

dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts

Ouch... this one really hurts. There's a trans nerd in the Bay Area (whom I've met and can vouch for) and we raised some $$ for her in the past, getting her into a stable situation. But now? She's been robbed and lost everything. Please help if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/DWORD-0x62...

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Canada has never been more fake nor has it sucked so much ass.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

The best time for media, government and employers to actually understand social media and how it can be gamed by bad-faith actors and false outrage was a decade ago. The next best time is right now. Unbelievable how stupidly some of them are responding to blatant hateful opportunism right now.

You should listen to my album because I spent all my money making it and i don't have a marketing budget Theroughgo.com

Today in load-bearing album anniversaries: the 20th anniversary of Robyn’s self-titled album.

my latest for the Star, pointing out the v obv disconnect between bill C2 — the Strong Borders Act — and the whole elbows up thing pro tip: you can’t claim the entire security & economic partnership is over and then willingly hand over all sorts of info sans warrant to the US

kinda doesn't get brought up enough in context that the two richest corporate leaders in America are directly bankrolling and supporting authoritarianism seems like something our modern journalistic gumshoes might want to include in their articles about MAGA flyover country diner "populism"

I’m officially scared. Because of this ONE tweet being afraid of potential reverberations of right wing political violence from this — something many others have said — I’m now the first result on a website called “charliesmurderers.” This is putting me in genuine danger. What the fuck do I do

there should be consequences for andrew scheer for targeting rachel like this

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

look at this bullshit.

Yeah be careful! A quote message hide the video, but another person reposted the video and there was no warning. Kind of a fucked up thing to watch by surprise!!

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Already building up their narrative. “It prob wasn’t a trans but it COULD have been a trans. You probubly thought it was a trans at first for absolutely no reason and not at all because it’s what we’ve been propagandizing for years at this point, no it’s just cause the transes are bad.”

Jesus Christ that's a lot of talented people willing to collaborate with evil bigotry. Fuck British transphobic culture so much. Not gonna forget this when the project tanks a season or two in.

I must get over my inclination to avoid content that was shot in the 90’s/early 200’s that has since been remastered but shaped into a 16:9 frame. However, damn the cost, I want that $350CAD 4K box of Seinfeld for the original aspect ratio.

Bought last weekend, IT GOOD GO READ!

Another year goes by and I honestly don’t see the need to upgrade my iPhone 13 Pro Max. Yay! I will say, as someone who has taken blood pressure meds since 24, VERY curious how successful the hypertension notifications are compared to actual blood pressure monitoring.

So. The Davis Cup, which is a CANADIAN tennis event, is being dictated to by a FOREIGN NATION. I hate to say “if this were Russia,” but fucking come on people. How much do you hate Arabs that you cannot or will not see the hypocrisy??

As a reminder: GDP was not a porn studio. It was a crime ring. I wrote this story right after the federal charges in 2019, after writing several stories that year about the civil case, bc readers would reply with "they sign up for this in porn." No, one one does. www.vice.com/en/article/g...

The reason many of the commentators don’t like Bluesky is because the infrastructure is set up in a way that no longer benefits them. On Twitter it was always easier to gain an audience by purposefully saying things that upset people. Getting ratio-ed was a tactic. Here, that’s much harder.

Stop saying he’s doing things that only Congress can do!!!!

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

There are reasons I wrote a chapter in my book Burn It Down about SNL & a lot of them come up in this Devon Walker Q&A. That chapter was the culmination of the first big section of the book -- because SNL has been operating this way for decades & it embodies a lot about industry/comedy cultures

Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Whoops I spent 10 minutes ranting about the libertarian/conservative mentality that is abound in financial influencers and how awful their growing popularity in social media is.

i agree with helen here entirely. i believe one of the reasons those books took off is the unique brand of escapism they offered to millennial kids after 9/11. the world was very scary and sort of inexplicable to young people… but the books are very cozy and orderly (to the point of lite fascism!).