In which I finally lose my shit a little regarding a topic that drives me up the goddamn wall
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Molly Templeton
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I read, I write, & I pet cats. Columnist & more ; publicity for the estate of . Previously: , ,
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Omfg this absolute legend
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mandy patinkin came to the WGA picket with a sign that says “you killed residuals prepare to pay”
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What if I told you it was actually worse than that, that many of the workers powering generative AI are in Africa and being paid $1.50-2 an hour. time.com/6275995/chatgp and vice.com/en/article/wxn
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In honor of the end of MTV News. The best moment of pure chaos
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I hold my tongue a lot On Here about the wild publishing takes I see, but some of you folks are really just seeing one person's opinion and treating it like the gospel truth forever and ever with no room for nuance.
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"He gets two gummy bears as an evening snack and spends the night on and off his owners’ bed, pawing at them for attention." I LOVE HIM.
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RIP Frank Kozik, King of the Concert Poster. I always wished I could visit the world you created, even if i would have gotten beheaded by a panda.
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Three big legal victories for Me Too today: A jury finds for E Jean Carroll in New York, a judge tosses Marilyn Mansion’s defamation claim against Evan Rachel Wood, and Tory Lanez is denied a new trial after his conviction for shooting Megan Thee Stallion.
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Portland! Heads up, if you haven’t voted yet. SO important that we get every vote possible against Peterson. Every vote counts. Please.
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PPS board candidate Derrick Peterson pledged last week to resign if elected over his ties to a Christian nationalist church.
He may have changed his mind. “If I get voted in, I will remain on the board,” Peterson wrote to a current board member on Friday. wweek.com/news/2023/05/0
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without saying party girl, fav parker posey film?
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Republicans keep blaming mass shootings on mental health, but then defend the killing of the mentally ill too.
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Housed people have the privilege of having their worst moments in private; unhoused people don't. This gives some people the profoundly mistaken impression that the person they see acting belligerent on the street is and will be that person every single moment of their life.
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a thing that must be documented: today the Wordle was the word I start with every day
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For the , I wrote about the ruin of public life, who gets to stand their ground and what supposedly good citizens will or will not do:
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respectfully, consume this dick
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Paramount CEO on Impact of Writers Strike: “Consumers Really Won’t Notice Anything for a While” thr.cm/UWecDWJ
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I cannot overstate how misinformed/misleading this is.
We are at the "I've been cancelled because The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science did not publish my jeremiad about the state of science"
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She did, in fact, make it up
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The is seeking witnesses to #JordanNeely's killing.
There were a bunch of people on that subway car.
If you know them, encourage them to call the number below.
Please share.
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I’m old enough to remember when murder was a bad and horrible thing, not a sporting debate twitter.com/AP/status/1654
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Hey! You! With the manuscript and the stack of notes and the free-floating doubt! Want some revision strategies for your fiction or creative non-fiction? My 3-hour Revision Strategies class is happening in 10 days and I saved you a spot:
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what Leah does not mention here is that I had no idea the Carter speech existed until they told me about it!!! THANK U FRIEND
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Look we know @mollytempleton's column is always good, but this time she quotes Claire Dederer AND Jimmy Carter?
Come on.
tor.com/2023/05/04/a-r
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Artistic work isn’t “content” and readers aren’t “consumers”.
In the latest Mark as Read column, talks about the importance of the language we choose for the work we love:
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I don't know about you, but if I could spend $100 to keep somebody from being strangled to death, I'd happily hand over $100. So if you see someone in distress in public, before you strangle them to death, consider just giving them $100.
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SHAN'T
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A growing contingent of people says caffeine is just as potentially addictive and dangerous as other psychoactive chemicals, and that it's time we start thinking about and regulating it as such.
I write about the anti-caffeine movement for @Esquire: esquire.com/lifestyle/heal
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Aaand there it is. The deal has been sealed. Hospitals are no longer required to report hospital-acquired COVID to CDC. I guess now hospitals can get away with infecting their own patients with SARS-CoV-2, CDC does not care. 🙈🙉🙊
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Snoop gets it.
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the way I gasped when I first saw this photo
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My sweet leftist babies, pitting the people who make $30k a year against the people who make $60k a year is what the people who make $600k a WEEK want.
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Encountering people who are distressed and agitated can be upsetting, but it is truly more upsetting to be distressed and agitated because you have to endure the kinds of dehumanizing deprivations people are forced to under capitalism. Literally walk away, you anti-social demons.
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Y’all I beg you, if you can, don’t share screenshots or the video of the man being murdered on the subway.
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This white ex-Marine just walked away from the murder he committed. No charges. It's apparently totally fine with New York City's government to kill mentally ill people in public.
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New York subway passenger strangles ‘aggressive’ homeless man to death in chokehold independent.co.uk/news/world/ame
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Tell me this murderer has been arrested.
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This seems to be a straightforward case of someone murdering someone else in broad daylight? twitter.com/nypost/status/…
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Holy shit. The Texas Senate just passed a bill to give Greg Abbott’s handpicked Sec. of State the power to overturn elections in the 3rd biggest county in the U.S.
Republicans weaponizing 2020 election lies to rig elections. This is a HUGE story.
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Why are we letting a Semafor executive write a guest essay for the NYT about why a competitor to Semafor and the NYT is partly responsible for the collapse of the media industry
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the whole Trek universe is ships full of family but now we get a season in which having a son is the only way to have REAL family? COME ON BROS
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EMMET IS RIGHT AND THEY SHOULD SAY SO
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I wish to erase Jack Crusher jr from existence and give Beverley a better last three-ish decades, not sorry. #StarTrekPicard tor.com/2023/05/02/why
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may the momentum of the writers strike also be granted to vfx workers, animation workers, stop motion workers, below the line workers in iatse, video game workers, and all other creative workers without enough protection i love you and i wish for your success as well <3
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