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Jack Yan
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CEO, Jack Yan & Associates; founder and publisher, Lucire and Autocade; co-chair, Medinge Group. You can find me on Bluesky at @jackyan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy‬, where I headed to in 2017 and waited for Twitter to collapse.
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Heck, does everyone have a Jane Goodall abusive staffer anecdote?
A few years later, Dr Jane Goodall was the victim of a rude staffer, Mary Lewis. In an article, we referred to her as Dame Jane, since she received a DBE, and her citation from the Palace referred to her this way, too. The email an intermediary received from Mary was, ‘There is no such person as Dame Jane.’ I told the intermediary that there most certainly was and sent him the Palace link. Mary then started being belligerent to me directly, saying that Jane had the right to refer to herself any way she wished. Of course she did, but that wasn’t what her email said: she said there was no such person. If only she had been polite with her request, and said, ‘Jane Goodall prefers Dr Goodall and not Dame Jane,’ but, like Rick Pallack’s staff, she thought it was better to ask a favour by insulting someone. I called her out, noted she had failed to apologize, pulled the article, and blocked the Goodall Institute, as I no longer felt comfortable with recommending them to over 200,000 readers if salaries were being spent on abuse. Soon after, they lost US$5·5 million as the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE killed USAID. While they didn’t deserve that loss, part of me wondered if Mary had told the us that her boss didn’t exist! Jane passed away not long after, so Mary got her wish.
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Christina Applegate in Samantha Who?.
January 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Really have no clue how this works—the fediverse bridge won’t let me check anything here.
'Mastodon.social is not a valid or supported web site'.
December 29, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Our new #Autocade annual!

lucire.biz/product/auto... #book #car #yearbook
Autocade Year of Cars 2025 cover, with a gold Avatr 12.
December 2, 2024 at 1:08 PM