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Chance Townsend
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Journalist @mashable, cat father, and Cade Cunningham's biggest fan. Chicago 📍
Two new features out: one on annoying celebrity ad culture and the other on the terminally online and annoying Trump cabinet. S/O @ryangeddie.bsky.social for his help on this one

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Trump administration wields X like a weapon
Trump cabinet members and his administration's departments use X to hurl insults and push their nativist agenda.
mashable.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Small little feature about the terrifying reality of AI when it comes to scamming and catfishing. Please read 🙂‍↕️

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This OnlyFans model found her photos on Reddit — with someone else's face
AI may be taking catfishing to a whole other level.
mashable.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Researchers claiming to be with the University of Zurich used AI bots to generate thousands of comments in r/changemyview.
Anonymous researchers used AI bots to experiment on a Reddit debate subreddit
Researchers claiming to be with the University of Zurich used AI bots to generate thousands of comments in r/changemyview.
bit.ly
April 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The people yearn for the oars. bring back boats powered by hundreds of dudes rowing rhythmically to a drum beat
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This will be the first ever non title 1v1 women’s match at WrestleMania in 19 years

Also the first ever 1v1 women’s match at WrestleMania with no stipulation or title involved
Naomi vs Jade Cargill is set for #WrestleMania

LET'S GO!

#SmackDown
April 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The Oprah Show and it’s consequences have been disastrous for the human race
Senator Ron Wyden on Dr. Oz:

"If confirmed, the person running the Medicare program thinks it's acceptable to not pay the taxes he owes into the program he's running."

Dr. Oz is unfit.
April 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I'm a young mom who now smells like a sandwich and looks like a wreck. So, Botox and fillers are certainly top of mind.

But for MAGA, something...different...seems to be happening. And American politics, like our faces, may never recover.
In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?
www.motherjones.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I did my first in-person panel ever this evening, please clap.
March 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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the feminine urge to
Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
mashable.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Nico Harrison might be a bigger villain than 2009 Randy Orton
March 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
It’s 2005 and Detroit is good again. Come over. We’re gonna eat pizza rolls and watch the Pistons game in my basement and then play Halo 2 co-op on legendary
Make that 7 in a row for the DETROIT PISTONS!

#DetroitPistons #NBA
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ngl Frank Underwood woulda never let this happen
February 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I love my cat ❤️
February 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Gonna travel back in time and show Issac Newton a “Best NBA dunks” compilation so I can thank him for discovering gravity
December 3, 2024 at 6:04 AM
This is gonna hit like crack #AEW
November 25, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Why’d it take me so long to get a crockpot
November 25, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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Rewatching Modern Family for the first time since I was a literal child and reflecting immensity of it’s impact on gay rights/acceptance
November 24, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Death, Taxes and A&M going 8-4. Thank you Auburn 🤘🏾
November 24, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard is on a TSA watch list because of her suspicious foreign travel patterns

Maybe — just maybe, hear me out here — the nominee for Director of National Intelligence should NOT be someone who made a TSA watch list for her suspicious foreign travel patterns
November 22, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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oh goodie
November 23, 2024 at 9:05 PM
SecDef nominee Pete Hegseth in his book “The War on Warriors”:

“I define a woman as someone who is actually a woman.”

What a fucking idiot 😭
November 23, 2024 at 8:45 PM
November 23, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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MUSTARDDDDDDDDDDD
November 23, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Gonna post some articles I’ve written these few months for anyone whose interested in my work and wants to follow

mashable.com/article/righ...
Why does the alt-right love interracial porn so much?
Even fascists have kinks.
mashable.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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50+ notifications on this app is welcoming.

50+ notifications on that other app & u feel ya stomach JUMP
November 19, 2024 at 3:24 AM