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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈
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Pulitzer prize winning editor and news developer. Bluesky elder. Now: Data Editor at @statnews.bsky.social
✉️ emory.parker@statnews.com 📸 jemoryparker 🐘 @jaspar@mastodon.online | Signal: jaspar.01
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November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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A stunning leap of logic here. A person who “works in finance” and spends $1100 a month on dining and travel is not “in line with” the rest of her generation.
"Sometimes you need that little pick-me-up," said DaSilva, 23, who works in finance. She estimates she spends $500 to $600 a month going out to dinner and another $500 a month traveling. She tries not to feel guilty about how much she spends. But her habits are in line with others of her generation. About 87 percent of Gen Z. — people between the ages of 18 to 28 - say they are willing to spend money on nonessential items, like streaming services, dining out, and fitness memberships, no matter the state of their finances, according to a new poll. The Harris Poll questioned 2,074 US adults for Intuit Credit Karma, a personal finance platform.
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I am tired of baseball. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.
October 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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This is a thing now actually on the newer iPhones
October 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Astonishing: The cost of health insurance for a family jumps to $27,000 from @tarabannow.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/h...
Chart showing the cost of family insurance rising from about $7000 in 2001 to $27000 in 2025
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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An underrated feature of fancy hotels is NHK World on TV. This is a 30-minute documentary about the engineering challenges of frozen food vending machines. Absolutely peak television for me.
A screenshot from NHK world the international version of Japan’s public broadcaster. It shows a man holding a frozen package that has been dispensed from a vending machine machine.
October 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Wait so the government would have a direct hand in controlling the new version of TikTok? How far we've come from the freakouts over the Biden administration even talking to social media companies. www.wsj.com/tech/details...
The arrangement, discussed by U.S. and Chinese negotiators in Madrid this week, would create a new U.S. entity to operate the app, with U.S. investors holding a roughly 80% stake and Chinese shareholders owning the rest, the people said. This new company would also have an American-dominated board with one member designated by the U.S. government.
September 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I am fascinated by the concept of “extra strength” saline
photograph of a bottle of extra strength simply saline nasal mist by Arm and Hammer
September 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Kash Patel’s FBI recently got rid of the highly qualified person responsible for counterterrorism in Utah, seemingly in their war on “woke.” One wonders how this kind of thing might have impacted today’s events.

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September 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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warning and fyi: there is a VERY GRAPHIC close up video of the Charlie Kirk shooting out there. It is not the one you’ve probably already seen on here. This is what the first frames look like if you want to avoid it:
September 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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My Chemical Romance at Fenway
September 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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literally a post I just saw
A person posting a link of MSM coverage of a topic while asking while there’s no MSM coverage of that topic
September 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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« le trollisme »
Cris et trollisme Comment le gouverneur de Californie s'inspire du style Trump pour le « combattre »
September 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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how did i do
iced matcha latte
August 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Attention edgelords and standups: here is the current list of politically incorrect words and topics
Privilege • Triggering • Microaggression • Safe space • Critical theory • Cultural appropriation • The unhoused • Food insecurity • Cisgender • Heteronormative • LGBTQIA+ •Patriarchy • Incarcerated people - Involuntary confinement
August 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The realest part of this story was when the reporter thought she was just arguing with a source about the ethics of accepting an *opened bag of chips*
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Greco and Honan walked to the Whole Foods next door. While inside the store, Greco handed Honan the opened bag of chips with the top crumpled closed. Honan, thinking it was an offer of a light snack, told Greco more than once she could not accept the chips, but Greco insisted that she keep them.
August 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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zapps voodoo chips
August 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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pikachu is shocked ⚡️
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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August 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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One day after an apparent armed attack on the CDC, RFK speaks… about his fishing trip.
Tweet from RFK Jr. with photos from his fishing trip that says “Fishing the Kenae with Ninilchik Chief Ivan Encelewski Chairman of the Cook Inlet Tribal Council and Council President Gloria Oneil The 1948 photo is Ivans grandpa Chief Larry Oskolkoff Sr. with a skiff load of King salmon from a Cook Inlet fish trap. The Kenae Kings are also in collapse. Last pic is gathering of chiefs at the Dena'ina Health Center”
August 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Here’s an example of a pitch email from a PR firm. This the body is obviously written by a native speaker. And a PR firm of all places would know better if this wasn’t an automated email based on information they scraped from the internet.
Hey J. Emory, With the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus now spreading rapidly in China and across 16 countries, headlines are focused on controlling the outbreak. But infectious disease experts warn the real danger may come after the virus: a surge in secondary bacterial infections that often prove far more deadly. During COVID, one in five patients developed a bacterial co-infection, and more than 80 percent of those cases were fatal. This pattern is part of a much larger and worsening crisis: drug-resistant bacteria, or superbugs, which already kill 35,000 Americans and 1.2 million people globally each year. The WHO projects that number could reach 10 million annually by 2050, surpassing cancer. The problem is that bacteria are evolving faster than antibiotics can be developed, a trend accelerated by decades of overprescription, agricultural use, and
August 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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How this snowballs:

Users on TikTok criticize the ad → Fox News and Twitter claim there’s a left-wing “meltdown” over the ad → normal people start talking about that → editors at mainstream outlets are like “people are talking about this, do we have anyone who can write up a take” → this 👇
screenshot of Fox News showing headlines from MSNBC the Washington Post and Vanity Fair about Sydney Sweeney‘s ad. The Chyron reads “ media outrage erupts over Sweeney‘s jeans”
August 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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wow, like right there
August 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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You are arguing against a position I don't have
August 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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lol that’s about how fast I type on my phone
July 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM