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Anne Helen Petersen
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I write Culture Study & also books — most recently, OUT OF OFFICE. Speaking:
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A literal islandannehelen.substack.comJoined October 2008
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Some personal news! Last week was my last at BuzzFeed News. This week, I’m going full-time w/my newsletter at Substack, where I’ll be writing features, doing interviews & old fashioned blogging & more. You can read about how all of this will work here:
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Some Personal News: Welcome to Culture Study
For the last four years, I’ve written this newsletter sporadically, as a sort of Sunday treat — and only when it felt good. Which is why it never felt like a side hustle, or a burden. It didn’t feel...
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Curious how Armie Hammer decided to do this story? According to the Air Mail pod Hammer “approached [Kirchick] through an intermediary.” What intermediary and why Kirchick? It’s not disclosed! But Kirchick started seeing “a lot of holes” in the accusers’ stories.
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I understand why so many podcasts are now including video elements AND YET being perceived while talking is an additional skill set (and requires more labor, in the moment, in the set-up, in the grooming)
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cosign, cosign, cosign
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Mary Childs
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this is so correct!! if i had a dime for every time someone confesses they haven't read my book .... im honored when someone actually spends the time to read it, but if u didnt?? it's ok! i dont need to know. (buying it is what rly matters anyway🙃) thecut.com/article/tippin @NYMag
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Last year my county actually did invest in weeks of tree-trimming (the primary cause of outages). But what if they REALLY INVESTED in putting the wires underground? What if Texas....acted and allocated funds as if these storms are the new reality?
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It's a very Texas thing but it's also a very California thing, a very Washington thing — I live in a place that loses power at least once a month in winter; low/no-cost small generators should be available for all (we're all on propane! this is easy!)
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Really feeling for those without power in Texas right now — our new reality is that most people should have some sort of generator situation, and reality of that is that generator situations cost $$$ most people don't have
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Yesterday me and a 3rd grader were talking about amber and fossils and Jurassic Park and the kindergartner busted into the conversation WHO’S AMBER WHO’S AMBER WHO’S AMBER?!?!?!?
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About once a month I log on to Facebook just to see what wildness is going on, and the truth is that the only groups still active and displaying are Buy Nothing Groups filled with incredible need and community groups filled with bitching about service workers
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“African American history is not just male. It’s not just straight. It’s not just middle class,” she said. “It has to tell the story of all of us.”
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there is no reasonable standard by which anything Coates has written would be inappropriate for a college level African American studies course nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/
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Also I am long on the record as thinking all printers are a scam, a posture I share with many people others who dealt with printers from, oh, 1998 onward. I was told printers are better and guess what, my printer is extorting me
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