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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Jun 17

The Abolish Everything World Championship is up now on @nebula.tv!!! I love complaining almost as much as I love doing dumb bits, so doing this show is basically a dream come true. THANK YOU @chandlerjdean.bsky.social, Amy, and everyone else who made it happen!!!

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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Mar 4

The next SOME FUN LINES satire and humor showcase is THIS SUNDAY at @caveatnyc.bsky.social!!! Featuring a wildly talented lineup of hilarious writers/artists! Grab your tickets and use code "somecheaplines" for a discount! yay! caveat.nyc/events/some-...

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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Dec 6

Yesterday Vox laid off almost 40 of my colleagues, reducing Thrillest by 80 percent and gutting the Eater Cities sites. If you'd like to help these enormously talented people — some of whom are pregnant or on parental leave — you can donate here:
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union, organized by Ashok Selvam

On Thursday, December 5, nearly 40 members of the Vox Media Union, Thr… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union

www.gofundme.com

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · Dec 6

If you’ve got some spare cash, I’d love it if you could toss a few bucks to my colleagues who lost their jobs today.

www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union, organized by Ashok Selvam

On Thursday, December 5, nearly 40 members of the Vox Media Union, Thr… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union

www.gofundme.com

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Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · Dec 5

Hello Bluesky. Sucks that this is our first post. A statement from the Vox Media Union and @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs. Please stay tuned for more details on how you can support our colleagues who were impacted today.

Today, we were blindsided by news from Vox Media management that many of our colleagues at Thrillist and Eater would lose their jobs. We are devastated to lose writers and editors who produce invaluable work each and every day, and disgusted by Vox Media’s short-sighted decision making. As always, it is the workers who bear the brunt of management’s poor choices, and this close to the holidays, their callousness is especially galling.

We are incredibly disappointed by management’s decision to decimate Thrillist, a vertical that it has invested almost nothing in since acquiring it from Group Nine. As we have made clear to management with our demand for One Union, One Contract, the WGAE-Vox Media Union views our colleagues at Thrillist as members of our union, and we will make sure that they are made whole in light of management’s decision to essentially shutter this beloved publication.

Many of those impacted by today’s layoffs work on Eater’s Cities team, a group of powerhouse journalists who produce some of the most impactful local journalism in the country. Their work has always differentiated Eater and built it into the country’s most prominent food website, and management’s treatment of these workers is both irresponsible and reflects a complete lack of understanding of the journalism that is needed in this moment. We need more boots on the ground doing this essential work, not fewer.

As always, the Guild will continue to demand that members are treated fairly in the aftermath of layoffs. As we approach the upcoming negotiations for our third collective bargaining agreement, we want to make abundantly clear to management that the status quo of constant, cyclical layoffs will not continue. We will fight like hell to ensure that our industry has a future, no matter how many times those in charge attempt to run it into the ground.

Details on how you can support laid off workers at Vox Media will be forthcoming. Solidarity forever.

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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Nov 30

thank you!

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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Nov 21

Wrote about being a teensy tiny faerie lady for @newyorker.com
✨🧚🧌🐉✨🧚🧌🐉✨🧚🧌🐉

Description of a Guy in a Fantasy Romance Novel

In his human form, Algor resembled a mix of George Clooney, Tom Cruise, and a Boeing 747. In his magical form, Algor resembled a demon rhinoceros with wings.

newyorker.com

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · Nov 20

the haters said you could never buy and play jet lag the game with your friends anywhere in the world. the haters were WRONG

store.nebula.tv/hideandseek

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james folta @jamesfolta.com · Nov 19

Are you a short humor writer? Reader? Fan? Skeptic? Enemy?

Come on out and have a drink with us! These are always fun hangs!

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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Nov 17

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ttans.bsky.social @ttans.bsky.social · Nov 17

If you’re looking for an incredible satire show in NYC - click below and go see Some Fun Lines. Best hosts and humorists around!

maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Nov 17

Trying out a new marketing tactic (putting a hot fudge sundae next to my comedy show links to trick your brain into clicking). Anyway, come to our delicious humor showcase!!! Lineup is 🤌🤌 get a discount with code “somecheaplines” !!! 💕🍨
www.caveat.nyc/events/some-...

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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Nov 17

Trying out a new marketing tactic (putting a hot fudge sundae next to my comedy show links to trick your brain into clicking). Anyway, come to our delicious humor showcase!!! Lineup is 🤌🤌 get a discount with code “somecheaplines” !!! 💕🍨
www.caveat.nyc/events/some-...

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Tom Smyth @tomsmyth.bsky.social · Nov 13

if you want to write a successful novel just cater it directly to nicole kidman so she’ll turn it into a limited series! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

How to Write a Book That Nicole Kidman Will Turn into a Limited Series

The goal of any author isn’t to write the next great American novel or take home a Pulitzer Prize—it’s for Nicole Kidman to turn their book into a ...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Nov 13

girl you won’t be the pope, when I was sixty-two someone said that

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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Nov 13

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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Nov 13

"create beautiful images with Grok 2"

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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Nov 13

me: it's so annoying when my cat wakes me up in the morning :/

me, repeatedly, the whole rest of the day, stirring my cat from slumber and shoving my face in his: HELLO MY SLEEPY ANGEL!!! SLEEPY BOY! KING SLEEPY, NOBLE RULER OF THOSE WHO SLEEP :))) <333 !!

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maeve @mdunigan.bsky.social · Nov 12

"I hate the muppets bcuz of the Pig girl, she was disgusting, i hate her with my life, she does not leave the lizard alone"

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