for ~10 years, I would change my dating app preferences from men to women until I got too anxious + switched back to men. turns out that this is common for sapphic women, and many of us are now coming out and being gay af. wrote about it for
@mashable
<3
gl*nn gr**nwald and j*ck posobi*c are directing insane harassment to a literal INTERN (!!!) at USA Today
what kind of grown adult speaks this way to random young women doing their job.. it’s sickening. love this cute industry where harassment is supposedly par for the course.
my hinge date said he’s going away for the weekend so I asked where and he said Mystic Connecticut and I said omg my home state! with a friend? and he said uhhh with a girl I’ve been dating haha so I said oh so you have a girlfriend and he said no no that hasn’t come up yet
SCOOP: Etsy is removing all QAnon-related merchandise.
In a statement, an Etsy spokesperson said the decision comes from the company's policy prohibiting items that "promote hate, incite violence, or promote or endorse harmful misinformation."
Taylor Lorenz was “permanently suspended” after
@elonmusk
said it was temporary 🚨
After asking
@elonmusk
for comment for a
@washingtonpost
story, her account was suspended. Elon said she’d soon be reinstated. Taylor appealed the temporary suspension and then received this:
I said she is waiting for him to ask her to be his gf and he said wait do you really think so? and then I put on my jacket and thanked him for the burger
of course the posobi*c tweet uses this intern’s first name, an extremely popular tactic on the far right to make their target seem/feel weak and unimportant. the amount of emails I get calling me rach.. 🥸
@xXxBlinxXx
i literally gave him medicine, texted after he left several times, and then didn't hear from him again!!! lol not making fun of him, i literally have IBS and texted him saying not to be embarrassed
right now (and in all other moments of israeli-palestinian terror) a lot of posts say things like “your jewish friends are hurt by your silence” so let me just say, I’m ur jewish friend and I give u permission to NOT post. u don’t ever have to post. hope this helps!
the public’s almost desperate excitement to hate amber heard says a lot about our post me too world. everyone seems thrilled to believe him over her. i have never seen a turn in public opinion quite like this
dating is awful for many reasons. one of them is that ppl you’ll never speak to again are walking around knowing miscellaneous pieces of personal information about you
The FBI confirms the news of Jake Paul's mansion being searched this morning. A representative for the agency's LA field office told me the federal search warrant is sealed, but that it's part of an ongoing investigation.
recently i hung out with a guy i’d been seeing. we were eating pizza and chilling. suddenly, he goes, "this is not the vibe i'm looking for," and left. anyway i just finished the last piece of the pizza
✨professional news ✨
I am now a digital culture editor at
@thisisinsider
!
Being on the
@InternetInsider
team for the last 14 months has been incredible. The opportunity to help oversee and grow our coverage with
@BenjaminGoggin
&
@sirenabergman
feels like a dream. (1/?)
Very excited to announce some ~personal~ news: I’m shifting my beat from general digital culture reporting to cover QAnon full-time at
@thisisinsider
through the election.
Spoke to
@ImNotScottySire
about his new music, and the YouTuber said he's taken to calling himself a musician more than a vlogger: "I'm more passionate about making a song than I am to make a new YouTube video," he said
Glenn Greenwald’s unhinged tweets railing against disinfo reporters were so disgusting I almost cried, but
@oneunderscore__
’s perfect response stopped the tears! Read this thread
i'll admit it: i do get covid tests on a ~weekly basis. our healthcare system is broken and they're offering this shit for free! cvs minute clinic appts are so easy! & it's basically the only thing that stops me from having a panic attack when i do activities. i recommend it xo
antisemitic tweets pointing out jewish journalists are so weird? if I wanted it to be a secret that I’m jewish I prob wouldn’t go by the name “rachel greenspan” or tweet things like “I’m a jewish ibs queen”
Some news: Today is my last day at
@thisisinsider
.
Next week, I start a new adventure: working with brands on social media strategy at
@VMLYR
✨
I am SO excited to try something new while applying everything I know about the internet, & how we use it, in a different way.
1/
a fellow writer on hinge said he followed me on here
so I checked out his twitter. he tweeted about his partner’s christmas present 2 days ago 🤡 I called him out and, just before he unfollowed me, he said:
“there are clearly no good men on here”
(1/?)
Hi! Wayfair is not selling human children disguised as furniture items! If this mega-viral conspiracy theory sounded similar to Pizzagate, that's because it is. I debunked the unfounded claim here, and explained its connections to QAnon.
I chatted with
@litdesu
about the racism she faced while cosplaying, & why she won't let it scare her away from the community — "Especially if it inspires little Black girls that like anime like me," she said.
Story by me and anime expert
@haasch_palmer
Before the “blue checks are a conspiracy” crew finds this: yes believe it or not there is a concept that people working in the same industries form actual relationships w each other. Taylor is able to get this news out quickly via peers b/c that’s how professional life works lol
REPORTER: QAnon believes you are secretly saving the world from this cult of pedophiles and cannibals. Are you behind that?
TRUMP: Is that supposed to be a bad thing? We are actually. We are saving the world.
…and the person replies refusing to remove my cell phone number from her twitter 💖🫡 finally twitter deleted the post hours later and the user continued posting as normal. So any argument alleging that elon is taking action on accts “doxxing” *before* he took over is just..
Parler has registered its domain with Epik, which hosts Gab and previously hosted 8chan. The
@splcenter
said in 2019 that Epik was "cornering the market on websites where hate speech is thriving"
no break-up will ever be as funny as the time my then-boyfriend came over for dinner, handed me a pint of ben and jerry's, and announced "i'm breaking up with you"
u guys know that iconic chris evans profile from like 2011 when the writer went to a party with him and slept over his house and they kind of almost hooked up? it lives in my mind rent free
QAnon has masterfully invaded the world of yoga, where influencers use veiled language about 'the awakening' and human trafficking to spread QAnon.
@GabbyLandsverk
and I wrote about how and why it got there, and what yogis are doing to stop it.
BREAKING: Patreon joins the growing group of platforms banning QAnon conspiracy theorists.
In a blog post released today, the company cited other platforms’ bans as part of their decision.
@moorehn
heidi he also brought a poland spring bottle of vodka water to our date </3 i did partake... and then looking back i am seeing that DIFFERENTLY lmao
The “past doxxing” excuse is deeply unserious. U have to laugh. I changed my cell number because a right wing influencer posted it on here for millions of followers. I engaged with the tweet asking the person to remove it bc I was receiving hundreds of threatening calls
sorry, but no, it's not. my mother almost had to go to the hospital last year only to get covid again this summer while vaccinated. not taking any chances just because strangers on twitter tell me I'm 'insane'
NEW: After an
@mmfa
report found QAnon influencers thriving in podcast form, Spotify tells me it removed 4 QAnon-related podcasts, including Praying Medic
"I did not make my video because of vitamins. I made it as a result of all of the poisonous lies that were fed to me by Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star."
SCOOP: Triller says it's going to ban QAnon, effective today.
CEO Mike Lu told me in a statement that the platform made the decision when reflecting on the FBI's 2019 reference to QAnon as a possible domestic terrorism threat.
Simply impossible. Anyway, ppl are finding this tweet and I did tag elon, so he may come here and insult me and/or allege I am incorrect/idk. I’m gonna go about my sunday but talk to y’all later 👍
A couple months ago, I was so excited to meet up with one of my best friends for a masked walk. We hugged for half a second.
Then I had a panic attack.
I wrote about how the pandemic set my anxiety disorder on fire.
this is such a perfect encapsulation of why media companies are failing right now - they’re looking to vanity metrics divorced from reality to solve immediate business challenges. to suggest that individual reporters be responsible for repeat user site visits is a joke
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng tells staff that the new “North Star” metric for success is 2+ days on site per week, which will help BI become the go-to publication for “disruptive go-getters (DCGs).”
I'm not really understanding Blackout Tuesday on Instagram. After days of seeing so many resources for anti-racist content to consume, places to donate, ways to help, my feed is just full of nothing
QAnon’s original belief in a secret group that dominates the world and kidnaps/abuses children sounds familiar to anyone with a basic knowledge of the history of anti-Semitism.
So I wrote about the ways the movement echoes centuries of hate towards Jews:
the far right continues to show how they can adapt to distract + attract new audiences depending on what's happening in the mainstream.
pizzagate --> qanon --> save the children --> stop the steal --> anti-vaxx --> anti-trans, the cycle continues
For those asking how the extremist forums/chats are looking 12 hours after the 1/6 hearings.
Users are aware the hearings broke through to "normies," but they're not worried about it.
Far-right extremist spaces have moved onto full-time anti-trans panic. It has consumed them.
I just made eye contact with a cute guy on the street who looked really familiar and I couldn’t figure out why. As he passes, he goes, “thank you madame”
"Guys and gals, I'm losing my everloving mind right now. Is this really happening?"
"So, was Q just one big lie and psyop that I foolishly followed and believed for over 3 years?"
For some QAnon believers, today was the beginning of the end.
Here's a roundup of Marjorie Taylor Greene's conspiracy theories.
When reached for comment, her spox told me, "Aren't you in the 'news' business? None of this is new."
"He had a way of making people who barely knew him feel included,"
@dianelyssa
told
@kattenbarge
. Mat George will be remembered, "for not just his humor and how infectious his own happiness was, but for how welcoming he was."