Tom Hawking
@thawking.bsky.social
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Writer for many places | Editor for The Australia Institute and others | Former EIC of Flavorwire | Opinions mine, not yours
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a) wtf? why is ICE advertising?
b) yet another reason why Spotify should be fired into the sun
imo it was also one factor in why Trump resonated so much w people with whom he has absolutely nothing in common. they sensed some level of authenticity in him, insofar as that he is authentically a terrible person and doesn't pretend not to be a terrible person
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it's completely fucking fucked
my favorite was not even getting an interview for a senior editor job at the Baffler when a guy who used to work for me was EIC there a few years back

.......although maybe that's why i didn't get an interview lol
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McLovin

United States, Census, 1930
not to mention that there's a lot of evidence that remote working increases productivity/profits across a whole range of industries--perhaps bc it lets you get on with things without some dickhead staring over your shoulder. but hey, what use is evidence when you have ~*CEO ViBeZ*~
@kyleor.land hey Kyle, i hate to do this, but i've sent you several emails re a story pitch, and i'm not sure whether they've actually gotten to you or fallen foul of a spam filter. could you lmk? many thanks
@russmarshalek.bsky.social i got back from two months in Spain and the entire time can be summarized as "let's see about this ham"
the American obsession with what does/doesn't happen on university campuses will never make sense to me
omg is that from Jam/Blue Jam or am i remembering wrong??
@acerola.gg but Acerooooola i thought you would appreciate this street name from a rural village in southern Spain
why do Americans say "go ahead" so much
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every centrist pundit is currently gathering screenshots for their horseshoe theory ass take
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i look forward to seeing how somehow zohran is to blame for this
thoughts and prayers
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
loooooooool at the choice of picture here
Adolph Buttrock
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Wisconsin, Death Records, 1867-1907
how about get fucked Westpac
and i did not speak out, because i was not a storm