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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 9h

you should read things before you dunk on them. it's good opsec

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 9h

read the blog.

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bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 1d

from @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social's *The Week in 15 Selections* newsletter

"A picture’s worth a thousand words! In this case the picture is of the Pitchfork scores for Taylor Swift’s last six albums."

(big red arrow going down)

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 4d

hello to u and your friends

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 4d

“what a ridiculous game to care about, to watch, to enjoy” good. blog.

That game stands out in my memory because the Phillies got wrecked by the Brewers. But-but!!-they got destroyed so badly that people left early and Rob Thompson put WESTON WILSON (outfielder) in to pitch, and he didn't give up a run! | cackled in the stands. What a ridiculous game to care about, to watch, to enjoy. Weston Wilson! It felt ludicrous to have that much fun at a game they lost.

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 4d

ty craig.

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1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 4d

this is so, so good. it's also, in its way, a paean to the regular season and why it matters in and of itself, even if MLB is doing its best to pretend it only exists as a prelude to the playoffs.

Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 4d

i loved the 2025 philadelphia phillies. no playoffs can make me hate them. defector.com/what-ill-rem...

What I'll Remember About The Phillies | Defector

At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon arch and let someone take our photo, people around us were feeling optimisti...

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Lisa @mladydwinter.bsky.social · 4d

I love (hate) this team with every fiber of my being but being here with all of you is the best--especially when they're at their worst.

Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 4d

i loved the 2025 philadelphia phillies. no playoffs can make me hate them. defector.com/what-ill-rem...

What I'll Remember About The Phillies | Defector

At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon arch and let someone take our photo, people around us were feeling optimisti...

defector.com

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 4d

go phils forever

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 4d

i loved the 2025 philadelphia phillies. no playoffs can make me hate them. defector.com/what-ill-rem...

What I'll Remember About The Phillies | Defector

At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon arch and let someone take our photo, people around us were feeling optimisti...

defector.com

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 5d

ooooh

Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 5d

I loved this series when @sabs.bsky.social started it for us at Defector.com in March!!! defector.com/meet-the-civ...

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 7d

thank you for reading!

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 8d

ty rebecca lmao

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 8d

The state of online media is such a bummer, I sometimes think: who cares? Then, I read something so smart and so funny and so uniquely the product of this compromised but generative space, that I remember: I care!
This, by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social, is a tour de force. defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 8d

support worker-owned media and leftist independent journalism while you still can

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Defector @defector.com · 8d

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 8d

uhoh they let me cook

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 8d

same lmao

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 8d

ty!

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8d

You could read @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social’s excellent take or you could trust @rollingstone.com’s four star review given after they fired all their critics (conveniently shared in Taylor’s Instagram stories!). I’m going to choose the former and certainly did not click on the latter.

There is very rarely money in trying to make something that matters to you. But there is a lot of money in making things that are just good enough to get people to buy them. That's how we end up with Marvel movies and infinite remakes and one
thousand books about fucking vampires and bad paintings reselling for millions of dollars. If you're willing to compromise everything-to have no public morals or beliefs, to make your work palatable to everyone-there is so, so much money to be made. Of course, that compromise is going to be the version of art that corporations want made. An artist is supposed to fight against that, to try to make something good even if it doesn't make them a billion dollars. Greed will always destroy good work, because money and art have drastically different priorities. On The Life of a Showgirl, it's undeniable which path Taylor Swift has decided to value more.

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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 8d

Great @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social blog on The Greed Of A Showgirl: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 8d

i wrote about The Life of a Showgirl

Defector @defector.com · 8d

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

defector.com

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