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Saloni Gajjar

@salonig.bsky.social

I’m so very sad that I don’t get to work with MK & I encourage everyone to read her beautiful writing!!! It’s a stark reminder of what The A.V. Club is losing out on:

M.K. @mkcarr.bsky.social · 7d

Earlier this month, I got laid off from The A.V. Club after 3.5 years. It changed my life and I’m going to miss it so much. Don’t know what’s coming next but I do feel more committed to the work than ever. I wrote about it on Substack if you care to check it out ❤️

open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Everything dies baby that's a fact / We keep singing even so

Another digital media worker joins the unemployment line, ponders the meaning of everything

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November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM

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M.K.

@mkcarr.bsky.social

Earlier this month, I got laid off from The A.V. Club after 3.5 years. It changed my life and I’m going to miss it so much. Don’t know what’s coming next but I do feel more committed to the work than ever. I wrote about it on Substack if you care to check it out ❤️

open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Everything dies baby that's a fact / We keep singing even so

Another digital media worker joins the unemployment line, ponders the meaning of everything

open.substack.com

November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM

drew updates

@drewupdates.bsky.social

Just remembered that how you spend your days is how you spend your life

a woman making a funny face next to another woman in a cheerleading uniform

ALT: a woman making a funny face next to another woman in a cheerleading uniform

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October 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM

drew updates

@drewupdates.bsky.social

my phone broke over the weekend and I can't get into a single account on my laptop because everything now requires I verify with an SMS code... the apps have become too secure... the cure is worse than the disease...

September 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM

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Nathan Grayson

@nathangrayson.bsky.social

rest in piss

Kirk’s death, like much of his life, took place on a stage. Despite the artificiality of such a setting, that makes him more real to some Americans – and clearly to those eulogizing him. More real than the Democratic lawmaker and her husband who were killed just a few months ago. More real than the 11 people killed last week by the US government in what was almost certainly an illegal strike on a boat in the Caribbean. More real than tens of thousands – or, more likely, hundreds of thousands – of Palestinian civilians.

Kirk’s violent rhetoric helped shape this world, and yet, it has been deemed “civil” by those on both sides of the political divide. This is the mark of a sick society, one that is perfectly fine with an unconscionable body count as long as none of the disfigured, barely recognizable faces are ones we know from a screen. Some of the pundits fake-crying for Kirk probably found his views privately appalling. Again, networks made the deliberate choice to shy away from engaging with the substance of his debates. They were almost certainly aware, at least on some level, of the kinds of things he regularly said. But that didn’t matter. They had to put on a show. The show, after all, is what keeps the meat grinder that is America moving, and it must – at all costs – go on.

September 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM

drew updates

@drewupdates.bsky.social

The reason everything seems like a “recession indicator” is because we’re in a recession. If not depression. Btw

September 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM

drew updates

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So good

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

September 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM

drew updates

@drewupdates.bsky.social

Where’s a deus ex machina when you need one!!!

September 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM

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Tom Scocca

@tomscocca.bsky.social

There's nothing chaotic about the race! The runaway winner of the Democratic primary has a comfortable ongoing lead in the polls! The only chaotic element is the mind-traffic of the small circle of self-appointed civic elites melting down over their refusal to accept a straightforward situation.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Sep 3

Amazed by the sentence "But the topic has taken on added urgency in New York in recent days as an already chaotic race steams into the last stretch of the campaign season." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...

Trump Advisers Have Discussed a Job for Adams if He Quits Mayor’s Race

www.nytimes.com

September 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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Jacob Oller

@jacoboller.bsky.social

Here's the first round of what I've been working on for the past few months: A 32-combatant tournament bracket to determine the greatest action franchise ever made. There's also a reader poll if you want to correct our choices www.avclub.com/best-action-...

What's the greatest action franchise of all time?

Round One: Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to follow along in our 32-combatant tournament to find the best action franchise.

www.avclub.com

September 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM

drew updates

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I’m in Cabo

September 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM

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The A.V. Club

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Get ready for a weeklong slugfest at The A.V. Club: Starting Monday, September 1, the biggest action film franchises will be battling it out in our bracket. You can have your say in the reader poll.

August 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM

drew updates

@drewupdates.bsky.social

I think planned obsolescence is really wack!!!

August 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM

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M.K.

@mkcarr.bsky.social

The New York Times recently reported that the primary audience of The Summer I Turned Pretty is 25- to 54-year-old women… three of us weighed in on what makes the YA love triangle so irresistible! Cc: @emmakeates.bsky.social & @salonig.bsky.social

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