Kelsey McKinney
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Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc
incredible blog
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Would You Eat This Guy? What If He Were God, Or A Baby? | Defector
Imagine you are seated at a table. A guy sits across from you. He is vaguely humanoid, with a long torso and two arms raised in fist-like clubs. His full name is Edible Agent, but we will call him Edd...
https://defector.com/would-you-eat-this-guy-what-if-he-were-god-or-a-baby
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WE ARE TALKING LOVE ISLAND
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What Do We Think About This Season Of 'Love Island USA'? | Defector
Everyone’s favorite summer sport is back in full swing. The country is tuning in. There are tears. There are shrieks of joy. There is a surprising and concerning amount of toe-sucking! Love Island USA...
https://defector.com/what-do-we-think-about-this-season-of-love-island-usa
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Five years ago my debut novel came out. Thank you to everyone who read this book in these first five years. Thank you for emailing me about your own experiences with sisterhood and faith and Texas. Thank you for making this book a small part of your life. Happy five years to my first book :)
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Lauren Theisen
11 days ago
I co-wrote a book of essays about the movie It's A Wonderful Life with
@emilystjams.bsky.social
! It's out in September. Pre-order it here!
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Every Time a Bell Rings
A fond and nostalgic cultural history of It's a Wonderful Life, celebrating the beloved holiday film's actors and creators, its unexpected journey f...
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/every-time-a-bell-rings-lauren-theisenemily-st-james?variant=45717421195298
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Sabrina Imbler
15 days ago
gorgeous
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blog about Van Gogh's sunflowers that I don't want to spoil here so you should just read it!!!
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Misery And Memory In Two Van Goghs | Defector
Beneath soaring ceilings, in a small darkly painted gallery off the main hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two immense sunflower paintings hang side by side. The paintings are bigger than I expe...
https://defector.com/misery-and-memory-in-two-van-goghs
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i wrote about two Van Gogh paintings on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Misery And Memory In Two Van Goghs | Defector
Beneath soaring ceilings, in a small darkly painted gallery off the main hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two immense sunflower paintings hang side by side. The paintings are bigger than I expe...
https://defector.com/misery-and-memory-in-two-van-goghs
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Daramola
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Cuck island was good tonight
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Madelyn Isidora 🏳️⚧️
18 days ago
Such a beautiful piece that captures why I love abstract art more and more in this age of practicality and minimalism.
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20 days ago
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writing about art (such as this piece on the Calder Gardens) is always worth reading.
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i wrote about the calder gardens and a piece there i really love
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Observing And Breathing At The Calder Gardens | Defector
Calder Gardens is not so much a museum as it is a shrine to abstraction. The 1.8 acres of land it sits on is immaculately landscaped so that the flowers and grasses change throughout the year from vib...
https://defector.com/observing-and-breathing-at-the-calder-gardens
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my trainer would not count this rep lol. doesn't count
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does anyone have a recommendation for a good non-fiction book about mccarthyism?
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If you live in Philadelphia and are celebrating Pride this weekend, I really recommend donating to the The Attic Youth Center, which is doing great work and needs support:
atticyouthcenter.org
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The Attic Youth Center - A safe space where it's OK2BU!
Creates opportunities for LGBTQ youth to develop into healthy, independent, civic-minded adults within a safe, supportive community.
https://atticyouthcenter.org/
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Sabrina Imbler
about 1 month ago
my favorite thing about working for a boy company (a company abundant in men) is that it's always a gamble to see who will be the first to sing Creed at karaoke
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Defector
30 days ago
No, a bird did not write this blog.
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Let Birds Masturbate | Defector
No matter what brought you here—if you live with or without birds, if you have lain awake at night pondering the problem of your parrot’s predilection for wanking it in the wee hours, or if you have…
https://defector.com/let-birds-masturbate
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i wrote about why i love love island
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I Finally Understand Why I'm Obsessed With 'Love Island' | Defector
I call them my dummies, the people who I watch on my big screen in the evenings as a way to calm my nervous system. It’s not necessarily that my dummies are stupid, but anyone who agrees to go on a re...
https://defector.com/i-finally-understand-why-im-obsessed-with-love-island
30 days ago
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totally normal website. nothing to see here at
@defector.com
about 1 month ago
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Jerad Walker
about 1 month ago
lol Scott Pelley and the old guard at 60 Minutes eat people like this alive for breakfast.
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Defector
about 1 month ago
The tragedy of appreciating SOBs too late:
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The Tragedy Of Appreciating SOBs Too Late | Defector
The deaths of NASCAR driver Kyle Busch and hockey player Claude Lemieux are chronologically circumstantial but linked in a broader sense by public reaction, which has run largely along the line of…
https://defector.com/the-tragedy-of-appreciating-sobs-too-late
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Barry Petchesky
about 1 month ago
Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or
[email protected]
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Emma Baccellieri
about 1 month ago
Blanked when I got to the deli counter and came up with “It’s a beautiful day for a sandwich” to have something to say
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one of the most frustrating things about co-owning this company is realizing how fucking easy it is to treat people well and pay them for their work
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Brandy Jensen
about 1 month ago
lots of reasons I love working at Defector but the latest is that we decided to increase our freelance rates, simply because they’ve been the same for 5 years and it felt like we should be paying more now
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Thomas
about 1 month ago
:: tapping the sign ::
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Josh Gondelman
about 1 month ago
Fortunately, there are numbers to multiply by that are bigger than two.
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it is so wild to admit in stories like these that you had $80 million dollars in podcast revenue and were laying people off left and right.
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The pitt spinoff show called the DMV where every season someone from the DMV gets into a fistfight and gets transfered to the Pitt
about 2 months ago
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feel so romantic about the passenger side rear-view window. everything is so beautiful in her eyes
about 2 months ago
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Eva Holland
about 2 months ago
"Boy, I love working" might have been my favourite line out of a whole bunch of good ones in The Devil Wears Prada 2, so of course this
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joint was right up my alley.
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Even In The Movies, Journalism Is Fucked | Defector
For the duration of my childhood, it felt like all of the romantic-comedy heroines were journalists. They worked at newspapers in Kissing Jessica Stein, Sleepless In Seattle, The Holiday, Never Been K...
https://defector.com/even-in-the-movies-journalism-is-fucked
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Seth Rosenthal
about 2 months ago
THIS POST HAS REAL VIDEOS OF SKELETONS DUNKING
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beginning my campaign for Jeff Probst's Biggest Hater
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Jeff Probst Is Ruining ‘Survivor 50’ | Defector
There is nothing that sucks the life out of a good time like someone self-consciously asking whether you are having fun. Maybe a moment ago, you were having fun, but now, faced with their anxiety (or ...
https://defector.com/jeff-probst-is-ruining-survivor-50
about 2 months ago
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philadelphia flyers listen to me: plz win
about 2 months ago
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Jaya Saxena
2 months ago
So we’re a few days from the end of our subscription drive at
@weareravenous.com
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Lauren Theisen
2 months ago
We're getting a Wild-Avalanche series, which is neat because when I watched them play in March it was maybe the most impressive hockey game I'd ever seen.
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I Have So Many Nice Things To Say About The Avalanche And The Wild | Defector
DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche’s home building, 26-year-old Puck Arena, is a blandly serviceable midpoint between the old-school kookiness of Calgary’s Saddledome and the blinding shininess of Edmont...
https://defector.com/i-have-so-many-nice-things-to-say-about-the-avalanche-and-the-wild
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I LOVE WINNING
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Two Walk-Off Wins? In This Economy? | Defector
One walk-off win can cure you of any emotional or intellectual ailment. The smack of the bat, the moment of anticipation as you wait to see if all you’ve wished for could come true, and the immediate,...
https://defector.com/two-walk-off-wins-in-this-economy
2 months ago
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can't stop laughing at the inhaler FOR DOGS
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2 months ago
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come help us build something cool!
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2 months ago
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David_j_roth
2 months ago
This is a really good job for someone who understands math/business and is also willing to deal with blogger-style personalities in the workplace.
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Justin Ellis
2 months ago
We are in the market for new director of revenue! This is a truly hands-on job to steer how defector’s business grows and help solve for the unknowns of being a cooperative media company
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Jasper Wang
2 months ago
Somehow a professional sports front office is poaching from
@defector.com
's business team, so I need to hire a new Director of Revenue. Apply here:
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Director of Revenue - Defector Media
Defector Media is a 100-percent worker-owned and -operated media company that launched in 2020. You can read about our origin story in the New York Times, the recent state of our business in our 2025 ...
https://apply.workable.com/defector-media/j/81AA49B001/
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Ronald AKA DJ Regularity
2 months ago
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on the Michael Jackson biopic, and our current moment of anti-thought.
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[delusional voice] what happened the last time the Phillies lost a ton early in the season and fired the manager?
2 months ago
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i wrote about LOVE OVERBOARD lol
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How Close To The Stanford Prison Experiment Can A Reality Show Get? | Defector
“Ahoy there, perverts!” are the first words out of Gabby Windey’s mouth. The host of the new Hulu show Love Overboard stands on the deck of a 280-foot superyacht named The Chakra, wearing a gorgeous, ...
https://defector.com/how-close-to-the-stanford-prison-experiment-can-a-reality-show-get
2 months ago
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threatening all my friends until they read Middlemarch
2 months ago
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Defector
2 months ago
Bonk! This ball went somewhere new!
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Bonk! This Ball Went Somewhere New! | Defector
There are 30 Major League Baseball teams, and every summer they play a combined 2,430 games. There is baseball on every day all the time. Someone is always hitting a ground ball into a 6-4-3 double…
https://defector.com/oneil-cruz-home-run-foul-pole
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Justin Ellis
2 months ago
An incredible early review from Kirkus called The Cruelty of Nice Folks, “An urgent critique of ‘polite’ racism that demands attention.”
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THE CRUELTY OF NICE FOLKS | Kirkus Reviews
An understandably despairing view of race relations in the wake of racist murders in Minneapolis.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/justin-ellis/the-cruelty-of-nice-folks/
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i gotta get in
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Philadelphia's Hottest Club Is The Penalty Box | Defector
This isn’t Berghain; they’re not going to turn you away at the door; the more the merrier. Everybody who’s anybody is in the penalty box in South Philly, from the generation’s greatest skater to the l...
https://defector.com/philadelphias-hottest-club-is-the-penalty-box
2 months ago
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i am always available to accept playoff tickets :)
2 months ago
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sean
3 months ago
this is what supply chain risk looks like 👇 hedge your risks in the Information Space with a defector subscription:
defector.com/products
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Defector
3 months ago
My year in November 18ths:
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My Year In November 18ths | Defector
Time began tormenting me in March of last year. I had been traveling for weeks to promote my book about gossip, a kind of capstone to the fastest-paced era of my life. All of it—the podcast we made,…
https://defector.com/my-year-in-november-18ths
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