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Yes; and I want to make a different point.
Editors *shouldn’t* be invisible. They should have bylines. YOU DESERVE to know who shapes the stories you read. Editors do that no less than writers/reporters do. Very often, they’re the ones who assigned the piece, not the writer, and who headlines it.
Editors *shouldn’t* be invisible. They should have bylines. YOU DESERVE to know who shapes the stories you read. Editors do that no less than writers/reporters do. Very often, they’re the ones who assigned the piece, not the writer, and who headlines it.
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Yes; and I want to make a different point.
Editors *shouldn’t* be invisible. They should have bylines. YOU DESERVE to know who shapes the stories you read. Editors do that no less than writers/reporters do. Very often, they’re the ones who assigned the piece, not the writer, and who headlines it.
Editors *shouldn’t* be invisible. They should have bylines. YOU DESERVE to know who shapes the stories you read. Editors do that no less than writers/reporters do. Very often, they’re the ones who assigned the piece, not the writer, and who headlines it.
rip alfred hitchcock, you would loved being banned from bluesky.
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
rip alfred hitchcock, you would loved being banned from bluesky.
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Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
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there is no "ironic" racism just like there's no "ironic" misogyny, and all the cool girls who laughed along to degrading and violent jokes have cooked their own brains
free yourself, cooperating in your oppression only gives you the illusion of control, these people aren't your friends
free yourself, cooperating in your oppression only gives you the illusion of control, these people aren't your friends
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
there is no "ironic" racism just like there's no "ironic" misogyny, and all the cool girls who laughed along to degrading and violent jokes have cooked their own brains
free yourself, cooperating in your oppression only gives you the illusion of control, these people aren't your friends
free yourself, cooperating in your oppression only gives you the illusion of control, these people aren't your friends
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Cenobite at open mic night: we have such sights to show you…such exquisite pain…but enough about being married FOLKS haha I kid, my wife is a great teeth monster
November 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Cenobite at open mic night: we have such sights to show you…such exquisite pain…but enough about being married FOLKS haha I kid, my wife is a great teeth monster
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Deep Space Nine: We Want You To Be Uncomfortable
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Deep Space Nine: We Want You To Be Uncomfortable
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Incredibly funny bit to make a website populated exclusively by radical leftists that is overseen by right-wing bootlickers
Getting subpoenaed by the US government over bluesky posts
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Incredibly funny bit to make a website populated exclusively by radical leftists that is overseen by right-wing bootlickers
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ya know I’ve always said the legend of zelda series could be *really* great if it looked like a sterile and soulless amazon prime show
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
ya know I’ve always said the legend of zelda series could be *really* great if it looked like a sterile and soulless amazon prime show
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those legend of zelda shots look, i am sorry, like they came from onlyfans
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
those legend of zelda shots look, i am sorry, like they came from onlyfans
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No. No, this is not what our Monday is going to be about
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
No. No, this is not what our Monday is going to be about
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"Get his ass” Is so unreasonably funny to me. A huge win for the English language. Today's version of "seize him" imo
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
"Get his ass” Is so unreasonably funny to me. A huge win for the English language. Today's version of "seize him" imo
scrolling the timeline after i slept through my alarm
November 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
scrolling the timeline after i slept through my alarm
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Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
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"BREAKING: UK MINISTER MAKES MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT - "
NO. RUN. GO TO BED. IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE THEY'RE AWAKE
NO. RUN. GO TO BED. IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE THEY'RE AWAKE
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"BREAKING: UK MINISTER MAKES MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT - "
NO. RUN. GO TO BED. IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE THEY'RE AWAKE
NO. RUN. GO TO BED. IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE THEY'RE AWAKE
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calculating my girlfriend’s drive time to see if i can squeeze in The Lost World: Jurassic Park before she gets home.
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
calculating my girlfriend’s drive time to see if i can squeeze in The Lost World: Jurassic Park before she gets home.
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Trans awareness week trans day of visibility what about pay a trans person's rent week huh how about that
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Trans awareness week trans day of visibility what about pay a trans person's rent week huh how about that
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You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design.
This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
Gonna try to hold that.
This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
Gonna try to hold that.
November 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design.
This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
Gonna try to hold that.
This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
Gonna try to hold that.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.