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

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

I’ve been the subject of a number of pop culture news headlines in my day, but this is now a personal fav

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 mashable.com/article/jeff...

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.

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. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...

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. futurism.com/artificial-i...

“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...

Today, we sent a supermajority vote of no confidence to Ziff Davis General Manager, Kate Gutman. Here’s why. (1/7)

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

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.

Proud to edit this important story

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 💕

Most journalists have moved on from this story. Thank you Mashable and @raxsha.bsky.social for covering mashable.com/article/adul...

Presenting a reading series musing on a timeless staple of digital media: The viral, narcissistic or delusional confessional essay...

Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.

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.

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:

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

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.

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

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. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

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

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.

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. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

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?

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.

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.

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. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

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. spitfirenews.com/p/spitfire-n...

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.

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.

can’t stop thinking about “quiet piggy” and what an uproar that would’ve caused in any other news environment

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.

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! mashable.com/article/adul...

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

What is Mamdani's plan to restore $10/month MoviePass?

Amazing. The man isn't even mayor yet but he's already solving our trash problems.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

For a quick and easy costume may I recommend Peter Thiel’s vision of the Antichrist

A bright spot of news I’m excited to share is that I was honored this past weekend by SPJ as a Fellow of the Society. I’m so grateful to everyone who has supported me and @spitfirenews.com and I got to talk to student journalists about the future of our profession! spitfirenews.com/p/we-yes-we-...

The Hasan Piker dog collar incident shows that proponents of the surveillance state, like Larry Ellison, who claimed that mass video surveillance would lead to more accountability, are catastrophically wrong.

If you think ai porn "Avoids exploitation of sex workers" you REALLY don't give a single solitary shit about sex workers.....or people in general for that matter.

Kim Kardashian’s company SKIMS can advertise its “faux hair panty” to its nearly 7 million followers on Instagram, but a sex worker can sneeze and get banned from the platform

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Is Taylor Swift co-opting the term “showgirl” from sex workers? Thank you @gwenadora.bsky.social and @mssexysaigon.bsky.social for chatting with me for this piece mashable.com/article/shou...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop