Anna Iovine
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associate features editor at mashable
https://www.annaiovine.com/
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Mike Stabile
10 days ago
“Portrayals of sex work in mainstream media such as Euphoria rely on reductive and harmful stereotypes, which often shape public perception of sex workers in ways that justify harmful policy."
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Dan Sheehan
19 days ago
A country whose population growth was dependent on rampant teen pregnancy is maybe not the healthiest country
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kelsey weekman
19 days ago
Cringe has evolved from a feeling of embarrassment to a tyrannical social code. After a Yahoo/YouGov yielded harrowing data about how much the fear of cringe has pervaded the lives of Gen Z-ers, I spent weeks doing interviews to understand how it happened + what's next.
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Gen Z's biggest fear is laughable at first. But it's quietly wreaking havoc on their lives.
The fear of cringe has become an internal censor that shapes what Gen Z-ers say, post, pursue and even feel comfortable wanting. It's a prison of young people's own making as they try to take flight a...
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/gen-zs-biggest-fear-is-laughable-at-first-but-its-quietly-wreaking-havoc-on-their-lives-090000347.html
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ProPublica Guild
20 days ago
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the
@propublica.org
website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Kashana
21 days ago
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Gillian Branstetter
22 days ago
This is really all they have left. "We have a pointless and criminal war pushing gas prices through the roof and the global economy to the brink but at least the government isn't treating trans people like they're human beings" will be the entirety of the midterm message.
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Kat Tenbarge
25 days ago
I wrote about how Lindy West discourse turned into a war over “millennial feminism” versus “Gen Z feminism,” which all started from a bad faith, anti-feminist place. Also, I sent a typo in the email subject so I’ll be cowering in shame for the rest of the evening
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In defense of 'millennial feminism' AND 'Gen Z feminism'
The generational infighting is the product of—and distraction from—the broligarchy.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/in-defense-of-millennial-feminism-and-gen-z-femin
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Woodhull Freedom Foundation
25 days ago
Thanks to
@annaroseiovine.bsky.social
at
@mashable.com
for continuing to report on the harms of age verification legislation and sharing our preliminary data on the impact of AV on sex educators.
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Age-verification is hurting sex educators, study suggests
These laws aren't working to keep minors off adult sites, but they are hitting creators' incomes.
https://mashable.com/article/age-verification-is-hurting-sex-workers-educators
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Imani Gandy
28 days ago
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
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Kat Tenbarge
about 1 month ago
Newsletter bundle alert—me,
@marisakabas.bsky.social
, and
@katelynburns.com
are offering a 1-month trial for 50% off our usual subscription prices! It's a one-time payment, no strings attached. With so many newsletters out there, we wanted to try something new!
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Trustfnd | Indie Media Bundle
Three creators collaborating.
https://trustfnd.com/kattenbarge/c/indie-media-bundle--BM6EYIT6WaSl6GG2MqgE
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Kat Tenbarge
about 1 month ago
Seeing ICE detaining people at airports is so sickening and so are the details about the LGA plane crash. Just a fraction of the money they’re using to brutalize families could be spent on rehiring air traffic controllers, who they fired so they could brutalize more people
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Kat Tenbarge
about 2 months ago
I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power
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Roxane Gay
about 2 months ago
I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.
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Gillian Branstetter
2 months ago
Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III
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Polly Esther Pants
2 months ago
I’ve been the subject of a number of pop culture news headlines in my day, but this is now a personal fav
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Kat Tenbarge
2 months ago
Years after his 2008 conviction, dating website Match sent Jeffrey Epstein suggested profiles as young as 20 years old, according to emails in the Epstein Files. Around the same time, Xbox Live suspended him for being a sex offender. From
@annaroseiovine.bsky.social
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Epstein used dating apps after sex offender status, files suggest
Match repeatedly emailed Jeffrey Epstein "members selected for" him.
https://mashable.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-match-dating-apps
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Noam Law
2 months ago
we need to look carefully at how the internet was fully hoodwinked into falling for an abuser’s narrative and shitting all over Amber Heard by Epstein’s crisis PR people we need mea culpas. we need retrospectives. we need accountability.
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Kat Tenbarge
2 months ago
Publicists who represented Johnny Depp during his 2022 trial against Amber Heard charged Jeffrey Epstein five figures a month for representation during 2017, according to invoices in the Epstein Files. Their PR strategies for Epstein reflect the later MeToo backlash.
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The Epstein-Johnny Depp-Justin Baldoni connection
These men shared some of the same crisis publicists and PR strategies.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-johnny-depp-justin-baldoni-files-hiltzik-nathan
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
2 months ago
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-abuse-harassment-stalking
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The NewsGuild of New York
2 months ago
“We have lost all faith in your abilities to manage the company," said our
@zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social
who overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in company exec Kate Gutman. Read more here
nyguild.org/post/ziff-da...
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Ziff Davis Creators Guild
2 months ago
Today, we sent a supermajority vote of no confidence to Ziff Davis General Manager, Kate Gutman. Here’s why. (1/7)
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Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈
3 months ago
"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
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Kat Tenbarge
3 months ago
Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.
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Proud to edit this important story
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3 months ago
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rax 🏳️🌈 she/அவள்/elle
3 months ago
My latest for
@mashable.com
! Ana's story led me to dig into who's behind all the censorship and financial backlash that adult content creators are facing. Lmk your thoughts 👀 Thank you to
@publicpubics.bsky.social
&
@internetmaggie.com
for your insights, and my editor
@annaroseiovine.bsky.social
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Ana Valens | 🔞
3 months ago
Most journalists have moved on from this story. Thank you Mashable and
@raxsha.bsky.social
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Adult creators are still getting debanked — and so are others
"The line in the sand continues to shift."
https://mashable.com/article/adult-creators-are-still-getting-debanked-but-not-just-them
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Kylie Cheung
3 months ago
Presenting a reading series musing on a timeless staple of digital media: The viral, narcissistic or delusional confessional essay...
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Hamilton Nolan
3 months ago
Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.
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MinnMax
3 months ago
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Ziff Davis Creators Guild
3 months ago
On Jan. 14, our parent company Ziff Davis laid off 5 of our members, days after our successful CES showing as the CNET Group. This is the third round of layoffs since Ziff acquired CNET in 2024. We’re sick of our members being on the chopping block. Read our full statement below:
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Sarah Lazare
3 months ago
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
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“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-labor-unions
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Mike Stabile
4 months ago
That Grok still has payment processing, when everyone I know — artist or gamer or adult creator —lives in constant fear of deplatforming and debanking over the mere hint of impropriety, is utterly mind-blowing.
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Chris Hayes
4 months ago
No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.
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Kat Tenbarge
4 months ago
I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment.
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Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?
Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepfakes-x-advertisers-investors-take-it-down
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Micah
4 months ago
what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
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Kat Tenbarge
4 months ago
Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
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Christopher Wiggins
4 months ago
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
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Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-ice-killed-wife
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With AI/robots apparently able to do our jobs, housework, take care of kids and aging parents, and also create art for us.....what exactly are humans supposed to do with our lives, exactly?
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🗽LOLGOP🗽
4 months ago
Republicans ban books for fear a fifteen-year-old might read The Bluest Eye. Meanwhile, the GOP's biggest donor has built an international salad shooter of child porn and Nazi propaganda, and Republicans are silent.
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Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors
When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies."
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/grok-says-safeguard-lapses-led-images-minors-minimal-clothing-x-2026-01-02/
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Mike Stabile
4 months ago
2025 was the year millions of Americans awoke to the danger of state surveillance, violent policing, rights erasure, online censorship, ideological funding cancellations and retaliatory doxxing. None of this was new to sex workers. If there's not rights for everyone, there's rights for no one.
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kelsey weekman
5 months ago
the last year has been transformative. my life looks radically different now, and so do i. spending a few hours as a rockette forced me to contemplate how i was going to talk about this, and to confront my greatest fear — being seen.
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I spent the last year transforming my life. Becoming a Rockette for a day made me confront a fear I couldn't shake.
The Rockettes, known for their athleticism and precision, let me join them for the day. No pressure, right?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/article/i-spent-the-last-year-transforming-my-life-becoming-a-rockette-for-a-day-made-me-confront-a-fear-i-couldnt-shake-200025090.html
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Kat Tenbarge
5 months ago
I’m beyond humbled to share that
@spitfirenews.com
just hit 10,000 subscribers 🥳 I started this little feminist internet culture newsletter this year after getting laid off and had no idea what to expect. You all showed up for me and I’m forever grateful.
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We hit 10,000 subscribers!
And we're celebrating with my first-ever discount!
https://spitfirenews.com/p/spitfire-news-discount-sale-subscribers-how-many
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Mike Stabile
5 months ago
The moral panic around "gooning" is just the latest manifestation of our anxiety around sex and technology. And older, more potent anxiety about masturbation. Somehow, people investing in pleasure has become one of the great symbols of societal decline.
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Clips4Sale names 'gooning' as fetish of the year
Chastity has been dethroned.
https://mashable.com/article/gooning-fetish-of-the-year-clips4sale
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Ziff Davis Creators Guild
5 months ago
FIGHTING BACK AGAINST AI with worker action AND solid contract protections. Last year, ZDCG took action online and in-person to gain AI guardrails. We swarmed Slack, spoke out at the bargaining table, and took to the streets to picket.
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Olivia Messer
5 months ago
can’t stop thinking about “quiet piggy” and what an uproar that would’ve caused in any other news environment
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More Perfect Union
6 months ago
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000
@sbworkersunited.org
members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
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Jiz Lee
6 months ago
Thank you
@annaroseiovine.bsky.social
@mashable.com
for including my thoughts about the adult studio alliance and industry code of conduct. Got to give performer-led safety initiatives credit where it’s due!
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Adult industry leaders like Pornhub release code of conduct
Pornhub and other studios formed the Adult Studio Alliance and released a safety standard for the adult industry.
https://mashable.com/article/adult-studio-alliance-code-of-conduct
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It's infuriating when someone posts their grocery bill online and someone else says "you're just shopping wrong." You are flatly in denial if you don't think prices are outrageous across products and stores
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