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Will Wins
@twentyweasels.bsky.social
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Twenty weasels in a trenchcoat and not hiding it anymore. Likes: improv, theatre, SFF, writing, pro wrestling, and metal gigs. Cursed, absolutely cursed.
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I’m sorry for your loss. Best wishes to all.
July 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Simple - twenty votes per SIM card.
May 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I didn’t see the part where they talked to her babysitter… 😬
May 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Never have I wanted to visit a crab museum more.
April 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Hi! You popped up on my Discover tab as I was making my way back from WR. Looks like we were in the same row. What a great show! :)
March 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It really isn’t.
March 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I loved them at Download! By the time they came back around to our town they were all sold out. Which reminds me that I need to book a ticket for their 2026 gig…
February 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I hope you have a lovely Monday. 💖
February 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
‘Twas a good sign!
February 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The paper…

- Does not once use the word ‘woman’.
- Advises that certain foods can cause a drop in testosterone for both men and women.

🤔
January 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM