Kirstin Butler

@kirstinbutler

Cultural canary, unapologetic generalist, pie-lover. Currently working on my first novel, a satire of startup culture by way of Nikolai Gogol.

Cambridge, MA
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Joined January 2009
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  1. 10 hours ago

    This is the kind of servicey journalism I like to see from Buzzfeed ty

    I fixed Katy Perry’s tweet that no one could understand
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  2. 10 hours ago

    Portmanteau alert @ "fansubbing"

    "Seems like we filled the gap.” on China's samizdat subtitlers, bound by their love 4
    Translated from Danish by

  3. 10 hours ago

    This video has to be the premise of a George Saunders story, it just has to

    9:26 PM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details
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    Brb screaming into the void

    8:16 AM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details
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    12 hours ago

    "Your secret weapon against the Three-Foot-Tall Stack Of Unread New Yorkers Sitting In Your Apartment." THIS IS GREAT

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  6. 13 hours ago

    Well lordy be, a piece of land art might actually figure in the 2016 presidential race

    6:05 PM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details
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  7. 13 hours ago

    Also there are two new letters for sequencing genomes now??

    5:50 PM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details
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  8. 14 hours ago

    "[L]ike all revolutions, it's perilous." Three years ago scientists found an easy technique to edit DNA--now what?

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  9. 17 hours ago

    Young hipsters review old hipsters, I go cry quietly in the corner

    2:01 PM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details
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  10. 18 hours ago

    I realize this is ancient by internet standards but you should stop whatever you're doing to read it (via )

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  11. 18 hours ago

    I'm so-so on the new Tessa Hadley story in this week's New Yorker but really like these bits from an interview w/ her

    1:00 PM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details
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  12. 18 hours ago

    There's a physicist in Omaha working on a warp drive in his garage which sounds like the plot of a Shane Carruth film

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    4 Hours Scrolling Through Facebook Before Bed Referred To As ‘Winding Down’

    9:15 AM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details
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  14. 20 hours ago

    Paging & , the entire British Movietone collection is online (via )

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  15. 20 hours ago

    Close cinematic encounters: what aliens have looked like in the movies, from 1902 to today

    11:02 AM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details
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  17. 20 hours ago

    The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town

    10:45 AM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details
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  18. 21 hours ago

    The new Detroit: driverless cars have their own city in Michigan

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  19. 21 hours ago

    A non-Francophone New Zealander just won the French Scrabble championship after memorizing a dictionary in 9 weeks

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  20. 21 hours ago

    This. Is. Awesome.

    The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature's Most Epic Road Trips
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