Mark Yarm
@markyarm.bsky.social
Exec editor, features & special projects, PCMag ↔️ adjunct, Columbia Journalism ↔️ bylines: the New Yorker, NYT Mag, Flaming Hydra, etc. ↔️ author, EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN ↔️ [email protected]; Signal: markyarm.99 ↔️ https://markyarm.journoportfolio.com
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Text Preview: The test results came back, Kafui, and I’m scared. I’m so fucking scared.
Message: Kafui, I’m Macy Cosway. Patriot, intelligence asset, and Proud Dem. I’m running for Senate in America’s most racist state. My patience with Donny Drumpf has been tested LONG ENOUGH. Chip in $9 today?
Message: Kafui, I’m Macy Cosway. Patriot, intelligence asset, and Proud Dem. I’m running for Senate in America’s most racist state. My patience with Donny Drumpf has been tested LONG ENOUGH. Chip in $9 today?
August 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Text Preview: The test results came back, Kafui, and I’m scared. I’m so fucking scared.
Message: Kafui, I’m Macy Cosway. Patriot, intelligence asset, and Proud Dem. I’m running for Senate in America’s most racist state. My patience with Donny Drumpf has been tested LONG ENOUGH. Chip in $9 today?
Message: Kafui, I’m Macy Cosway. Patriot, intelligence asset, and Proud Dem. I’m running for Senate in America’s most racist state. My patience with Donny Drumpf has been tested LONG ENOUGH. Chip in $9 today?
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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Airport lounge access is governed by a complex array of memberships, airline alliances, and credit-card partnerships, with rules stipulating duration of stay and hours of entry. Zach Helfand visited as many as he could in a week. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/UgvCvK
The Airport-Lounge Wars
When you’re waiting for a flight, what’s the difference between out there and in here?
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Airport lounge access is governed by a complex array of memberships, airline alliances, and credit-card partnerships, with rules stipulating duration of stay and hours of entry. Zach Helfand visited as many as he could in a week. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/UgvCvK
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November 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Do you know a relatively well seasoned Community Manager looking for work?
Does this person like shit posting, understands charities, can corporate speak AND has experience in marketing technology? Probably not, but hey I'd take one or two of them?
Reach out! I am looking to hire someone soon.
Does this person like shit posting, understands charities, can corporate speak AND has experience in marketing technology? Probably not, but hey I'd take one or two of them?
Reach out! I am looking to hire someone soon.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Do you know a relatively well seasoned Community Manager looking for work?
Does this person like shit posting, understands charities, can corporate speak AND has experience in marketing technology? Probably not, but hey I'd take one or two of them?
Reach out! I am looking to hire someone soon.
Does this person like shit posting, understands charities, can corporate speak AND has experience in marketing technology? Probably not, but hey I'd take one or two of them?
Reach out! I am looking to hire someone soon.
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The Best Album of 1989 is
Pixies, DOOLITTLE
Pixies, DOOLITTLE
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The Best Album of 1989 is
Pixies, DOOLITTLE
Pixies, DOOLITTLE
Happy Thanksgiving! Who else is having Tofurky or the like today?
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Who else is having Tofurky or the like today?
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
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Obliged to stump for what, as far as I know, is the only podcast series about Shattered Glass (they get some great guests!)
shatteredglasspodcast.buzzsprout.com
shatteredglasspodcast.buzzsprout.com
Are You Mad at Me? A Shattered Glass Podcast
Two longtime political journalists, Erica C. Barnett and Josh Feit, do a monthly deep dive on the 2003 movie Shattered Glass, about the first major journalism scandal of the digital age. Stephen Glass...
shatteredglasspodcast.buzzsprout.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Obliged to stump for what, as far as I know, is the only podcast series about Shattered Glass (they get some great guests!)
shatteredglasspodcast.buzzsprout.com
shatteredglasspodcast.buzzsprout.com
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classic male writer
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
classic male writer
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Feel like people should be using "I did Nuzzi that coming!" more.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Feel like people should be using "I did Nuzzi that coming!" more.
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Going to get and cure autism over the break
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Going to get and cure autism over the break
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Leave motion smoothing on this year. Who cares. Your parents or in-laws are upscaling a compressed HD image to 4K anyway. Also nothing matters.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Leave motion smoothing on this year. Who cares. Your parents or in-laws are upscaling a compressed HD image to 4K anyway. Also nothing matters.
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one of the purest Everyone Sucks stories I can remember
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
one of the purest Everyone Sucks stories I can remember
What is the feeling on Stranger Things S5?? Are people on here watching right away or nah? (I bailed on S2 or S3.)
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
What is the feeling on Stranger Things S5?? Are people on here watching right away or nah? (I bailed on S2 or S3.)
This thing apparently was on Canadian TV?
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This thing apparently was on Canadian TV?
lol
“Did Donald Trump set up a false flag operation in Butler, Pennsylvania? You’ll have to buy my book to find out, in June 2027.”
November 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
lol
OH, HI! is on Netflix now. I've only seen the poster, but it looks like my shit. Any good?
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
OH, HI! is on Netflix now. I've only seen the poster, but it looks like my shit. Any good?
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very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
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Also I am pretty sure I could have made out with my number-one celebrity crush but I was on assignment and very carefully extricated myself, while you were all out there banging governors and engaging in regime change? I’m such a loser.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Also I am pretty sure I could have made out with my number-one celebrity crush but I was on assignment and very carefully extricated myself, while you were all out there banging governors and engaging in regime change? I’m such a loser.
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This is a newspaper headline from Back to the Future 2 when Marty McFly travels to the Biff world.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is a newspaper headline from Back to the Future 2 when Marty McFly travels to the Biff world.
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If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.