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deputy editor @businessinsider

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Joined January 2012
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@sophiekleeman
Sophie Kleeman
2 years
learned today that randy johnson is now a professional photographer (??) and shoots nfl games (???)
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3 months
is that why they made her stand in the woods
@nypost
New York Post
3 months
Kate Middleton gives first health update since cancer announcement: ‘I’m not out of the woods yet’
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Sophie Kleeman
5 years
just a masterful tweet
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The Oregonian
5 years
Tonya Harding and the exploding whale were both born on this day in Oregon and both left behind a trail of debris that would captivate people for decades to come
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2 years
frankly, this rules
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Sophie Kleeman
3 years
LOOK at this cat my friend discovered today
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4 months
it’s the beginning of summer baby you know what that means. time to bring six almost empty bottles of sunscreen from last year to the beach
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3 years
just learned there’s a cat named sweet tea sam who visits my friend for food and to get their attention he does this
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2 years
here is his website! he also shoots concerts and... wildlife lmao
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1 year
you know what kind of weather it is
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1 month
guess i’ll just kill myself then
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1 year
incredible sweatshirt spotted in the office
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@sophiekleeman
Sophie Kleeman
3 years
not peloton stock going down because it ****** ***
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@sophiekleeman
Sophie Kleeman
9 years
Funny, you could say the same thing about the killing of unarmed black men and women http://t.co/kU5PEm3wnd
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Sophie Kleeman
3 years
i’ve been thinking about this for 10 minutes and i still have no idea what she could possibly be referring to
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Bob Hardt
3 years
In a scathing interview, former Cuomo ally Christine Quinn says she feels "duped" by the governor. "This was like 'Lord of the Rings.' It was bizarre." @NY1
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4 years
oh my god shut UP
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2 years
today i went to the employee fridge to retrieve my leftover banh mi and discovered it was gone. i then learned there are regular "lunch bandits" at the office. this is my new investigation. i will not sleep until i discover who is doing this
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Sophie Kleeman
5 years
what
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Sophie Kleeman
2 years
folks, it finally happened... my "working knowledge of photoshop" resume bluff came back to haunt me
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2 years
A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence.
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6 months
people say new yorkers are unfriendly but i just helped a man pick up his groceries after they fell out of his bag at which point he gave me a pack of toilet paper that wouldn’t fit and yelled “everybody wipes!” as he biked away
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Sophie Kleeman
4 years
my “my record on race and IQ” post has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my post
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4 years
Beautiful: These Journalists All Came Together To Publicly Dunk On Their Horrible Coworker
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Sophie Kleeman
5 months
many ask why i defend the for you tab on twitter and the reason is because whenever i scroll there is always a high probability it surfaces grade A, uncut, purified, nitro level shit like this
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vydamo
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It is with a heavy heart I announce the sale of my long term ape, Salazar. Most of my early followers know me as this ape. My kids know me as this ape. I met my wife when I WAS this ape and had my first kid when I was still proudly wore this ape. By extension, it is part of me.
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Sophie Kleeman
9 years
This is how the fatal shooting of Walter Scott was reported before the release of the video: http://t.co/4bOt4X8PGA http://t.co/F33JWQZ8H6
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3 years
is she waluigi
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Sophie Kleeman
1 year
the surveillance state has unleashed many horrors on the world, some worse than others, but i will never forgive them for making me stand in a walgreens in a hat that says “sandwich pervert” while i wait for someone to unlock the deodorant cabinet
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Sophie Kleeman
4 years
hahahahahahahah fuck off man
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CNBC
4 years
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: The 'best solution' is to not need health care and for Americans to change how they eat and live (via @CNBCMakeIt )
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4 years
if you're looking for a place to pitch essays/analysis/reporting about the protests + what's happened over the past week, please reach out. rates starting at $400: skleeman @businessinsider .com
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Sophie Kleeman
5 years
brief update on this saga: @WellsFargo has decided *not* to give me my money back, and is insisting that this wasn't fraud. so! now I'm writing a story about it. if this has ever happened to you, either with WF or another bank, please get in touch! skleeman @businessinsider .com
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Sophie Kleeman
5 years
someone skimmed $1000 from my bank account and one of the ATM transactions was at a sbarro. i hope whoever did it is cursed with eating shitty pizza for the rest of their life
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Sophie Kleeman
2 years
absolutely, and i cannot stress this enough, no notes
@9NewsQueensland
9News Queensland
2 years
An 18-year old is accused of robbing a Gold Coast service station at knife-point. The young man allegedly demanded money from a shop attendant while armed with a machete. The teen has been released on bail and denied any involvement in the alleged robbery. #9News
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5 years
incredible how the duggars continue to say the absolute darkest shit possible
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5 years
lmao
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Sophie Kleeman
2 years
@miadegraaf first period started at 7:30 and one year i had lunch at 10:30 lol
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Sophie Kleeman
3 years
cooking is a scam. why do i have to make different tasty shit every night! just invent a Food Pill already!
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1 year
woke up to a good reminder that attempting the crossword drunk after midnight never pans out
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5 years
sir. SIR
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4 years
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3 years
fell asleep doing the crossword last night, and, well
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Sophie Kleeman
4 years
i haven’t been able to get my new york times app to refresh since november and boy does that feel like approximately 600 years ago
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@silverjocelyn i would give up unspeakable treasures to know which song
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5 months
imagine being stoned out of your mind today and seeing this
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5 years
bought my nephew a giant teddy bear but forgot to buy an appropriately large bow
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Sophie Kleeman
4 years
sephora fired thousands of employees on tuesday, some via conference calls
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4 years
we live in hell, part 204980
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5 years
tonight i find out the answer to my biggest question: whether bringing my australian passport to outback steakhouse will result in scorn from the entire restaurant or a free bloomin’ onion
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3 years
every time this story pops up i am just as delighted as the first time i read about it
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cool potato(new pinned)
3 years
Garfield-shaped phones have been polluting the shore of the Finistère coasts of Brittany (France) for 35 years. The reason is due to a container wedged between the rocks that is slowly pouring them into the sea.
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Sophie Kleeman
8 months
amateur
@nypost
New York Post
8 months
I used my phone 4 hours a day — now I suffer from chronic pain and can’t sleep
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3 years
what a blessed anniversary
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4 years
thank u for the suggestion google docs
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Sophie Kleeman
2 years
thumbed my nose at god tonight by ordering “clotted cream” at a vegan restaurant and paid dearly for my hubris
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Sophie Kleeman
3 years
starting next week i will be joining insider's investigations team as a senior editor. i will be working with a very stellar team of reporters on culture and lifestyle-focused stories...
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Sophie Kleeman
5 years
some news: I’m joining @thisisinsider as the (first ever!) essays editor! I start on monday and I’m very excited!
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Sophie Kleeman
4 years
"Selling it for $250 even though my boyfriend and I bought it for over 11k and it’s in pristine condition. Need someone to pick it up ASAP as my new boyfriend hates it and sadly this is non-negotiable for him." just tremendous
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karen han
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huge opportunity for one lucky new yorker
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4 years
king lear........the sims universe i am about to create........who can say which is the bigger work of genius
Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote King Lear.
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5 years
this may be what finally breaks me
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4 years
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5 years
these pants and kevin smith’s huge jorts deserve to be buried next to each other
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Sophie Kleeman
3 years
earnest cautionary tale: I had a malignant melanoma removed today (I am going to be fine)! please wear sunscreen and get regular skin checks, because even if you are an otherwise healthy 29-year-old like me you can still get skin cancer!
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Sophie Kleeman
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i have no idea if people are still on here, but if you are, i have a new job! i am now editing features, analysis, and fun blogs. that includes freelance! send me pitches!
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Sophie Kleeman
3 years
many months ago, @kimrrenfro had the brilliant idea to track down the people behind tom holland's unforgettable lip sync battle performance. today, on the episode's 4th anniversary, i am excruciatingly happy to present: THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY
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Sophie Kleeman
2 years
the rush of serotonin i just felt
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New York Metro Weather
2 years
One week from today, sunset in NYC will be at 7:00pm. The sun won’t set any earlier than 7:00pm in NYC until September 19th, 2023.
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5 years
CATS (2019)
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5 years
the quaker oats wikipedia page takes a real fuckin turn
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it’s His time
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4 years
the only constant in my life now is this no-knead bread recipe. it never fails and takes zero effort. long live the no-knead bread recipe
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5 years
a beautiful sentence
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1 year
accidentally bought “small” eggs. what the fuck. why are they so small
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4 years
once again i have scooped the new york times
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Sophie Kleeman
5 years
the work @BrandyZadrozny is doing on online radicalization/disinformation and how it affects women in particular is really important and you should read it:
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4 years
thrilled that the new bachelor, a former employee of mic dot com, is finally bringing blog representation to television
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Sophie Kleeman
5 years
@WritersofColor editing essays and features at @thisisinsider ! looking for pitches about sex and relationships, labor, parenting, drugs and alcohol, food, travel, & more. but mostly just into funny/thoughtful/dumb (in a good way)/weird writing. skleeman @businessinsider .com
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imagine being an editor and reading in a draft that your writer did not prepare for an interview WITH RIHANNA
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3 years
no that’s daniel craig
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2 years
For the past year, Insider's investigations team has been reporting on transgender people who were killed across the US and Puerto Rico between 2017 and 2021. We published our introduction to the project this morning:
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4 years
@cwarzel getting rid of them and starting over
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4 years
When you run a disinformation news empire but you also need some affordable and ergonomic furniture from IKEA
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2 years
to be fair, i know how to crop things...what is that if not working knowledge...
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10 months
jezebel once let me blog an interview with someone who had an 'executive producer dick wolf' tramp stamp. rip jezebel, a great website killed by idiots
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5 years
@GMPaiella really came out of nowhere
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3 years
you never see self owns this pure anymore
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3 years
devastating
@verge
The Verge
3 years
Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th
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3 years
congratulations to me for completing 1 out of 3 childhood dreams
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4 years
my gift to everyone is this photo of my sister’s cat
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2 years
in 2017, prompted in part by the #metoo movement, @mattdrange started looking into teacher misconduct at his former high school. nearly 5 years later — including over 40 interviews and two dozen record requests — this is what he found:
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3 years
i love local news
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3 years
everyone i know this week
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2 years
what
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5 years
my favorite lunchtime tradition is ordering a sandwich the size of a hefty toddler
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it’s really happening
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5 years
We Here For You
@annamerlan
Anna Merlan
5 years
The what now
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i love today!!!!!!!!!!!
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1 year
mondale the dog who doesn’t remember shiv
@mariskreizman
Maris Kreizman
1 year
Tag yourself in tonight’s episode of Succession. I’m Substack meets Masterclass meets The Economist meets The New Yorker.
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9 years
this is the best day in twitter dot com history http://t.co/Zwdxy15R4R
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4 years
i tried to warn you
@nypost
New York Post
4 years
'Red Sweater Guy' Ken Bone is still an undecided voter for 2020 election
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