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Jan 5

hello after spending most of my career writing about Facebook in some form or another, ive decided to do a book on the company and those who made it what it is. Would love to talk to employees over the years who wish to share their experience. emails in bio, DM for my cell #.

W. W. Norton & Company

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(she’s fine, ear infection, got antibiotics)

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no 10pm trip to the ER veterinarian would be complete without the takeout restaurant accidentally keeping my credit card and then immediately closing

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cooking influencer instagram is basically just hot people doing ASMR with meat

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Sep 3

recognize the shout out to the jesus lizard in nope (which exceeds the hype)

Sep 3

New York’s hottest nightclub: committing crimes

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Sep 3

viral trends are getting lazy TikTok’s latest craze is literally the “steal a car challenge” lol

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burning man did little to curb the line for pizza full internal rage mode by the time i hit the front but the slices made it all better

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Barbara Ehrenreich, Explorer of Prosperity’s Dark Side, Dies at 81

Sep 2

strong obituary for a true voice for good rip

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Her book “Nickel and Dimed,” an undercover account of the indignities of being a low-wage worker in the United States, is considered a classic in social justice literature.

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Sep 2

fam sent me an el pollo loco gift card so yes i do have plans for saturday sunday and monday

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please read this and then listen to the song. you are not prepared for the song

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evening writing music them playing this at the Berkeley Greek in 2011 was a heart-stopper

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Portishead · Song · 2008

Sep 1

why the fuck is everyone tweeting like hodor

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Sep 1

some real “almost Labor Day weekend” energy on the TL today

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Aug 31

wild that Disney basically thought “we need to bank the franchise’s fiscal future on people loving baby yoda” and they were basically right that adorable mf is a gold mine

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afternoon writing soundtrack (this was a great first record that i feel like they never really followed up on in the same way, though the sophomore effort was decent)

The Vines · Album · 2002 · 12 songs.

Highly Evolved

My Weekend as a 28-year-old in Chicago Illinois

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1. i wanna see this bad 2. has radcliffe always been this stacked

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Daniel Radcliffe stars as Al Yankovic in the first trailer for ‘WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY’. The film releases on November 4 on Roku.

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this is what every guy in Austin looks like

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i should catch the tour (last time i saw her was at the fillmore with EODM)

Sitting down (and fucking the pain away) with electroclash icon Peaches, twenty years since 'The Teaches Of Peaches' was first released.

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Peaches · Song · 2002

cannot believe this album is 20 years old

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Peaches and CREEM

every single part of this is like reading cuneiform

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a lot of the time im like “hey ill never get old and lame!!!” then i scroll past headlines like this and know that i have already lost

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highly recommend reading this

@sfchronicle

report on SRO evictions under Mayor Breed over the past few years and the morass of rules (or lack thereof) that are supposed to guide the process by

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Aug 28

it is never a bad time to rewatch this sad, wonderful love-letter-to-a-city of a film

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twenty years old today. perfect album

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Queens of the Stone Age · Album · 2002 · 15 songs.

Songs For The Deaf

Aug 27

Betty says hello

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how are things on the west coast

The Heinrich Maneuver

Interpol · Song · 2007

Aug 25

welp, power just got knocked out in Oakland affecting about 7k people (including me) so i know what im doing for the next three hours

im a little bit surprised he went for it but also not surprised, especially after andreessen’s appearance the other week I bet bezos does it eventually

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Listen to this episode from The Joe Rogan Experience on Spotify. Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc., the company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other digital...

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hi currently on leave from the Times for the next few months to write this thing, so if you see me on twitter tell me to go away to the many current and former FB folks who have reached out and i havent gotten back to yet, ill be in touch! (and welcome any new folks, too)

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the “you must have kids or your life is meaningless” Twitter guy is a v*ralhog psyop, please do not fall for it

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