Choire

Choire

@choire.bsky.social

I work at cnn where I am the guy who rakes up the extra piles of news at night

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The music industry is having a huge problem of albums that open with bangers and then quickly slide into mediocrity. What is happening?

Extremely harrowing story!!!

We’re each attached to years of texts, Slacks, searches, and pictures, a digital archive of self-incrimination and humiliation. Now, hacks, lawsuits, and data breaches are increasingly exposing these records. What if it all got out?

Bless whoever at Amazon got Lana out of her alligator hut to record this excellent James Bond game theme song, maybe capitalism is good

The Epley maneuver should be the fakest science ever — oh, you think I simply need to move the crystals in my ears to feel better??? — but every time it’s amazing.

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I invented gawker stalker and it was all day after posting. Half the sightings were sent in by celebrity publicists desperate to let everyone know their clients were seen at Nobu or whatever, but that didn’t stop some celebs from claiming their safety was threatened

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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Ben Mullin@benmullin.bsky.social

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

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CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

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How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."