then sort of miraculously the bigger blogs got spun off, each to a local public radio station, in a transaction i don't fully understand (i've always wondered if selling/"spinning them off" to nonprofits made the handover tax deductible for said finance guy)
so now there are 4(?) local "ist" sites that are no longer affiliated with one another in any way and have very different look and feels (they used to be all on one publishing platform). sort of like how in baltimore there are 3-4 local groceries named "eddie's" owned by diff ppl
"gothamist" was started as a hip NY blog in the early '00s, expanded to a "blog network" multiple other cities all with the "-ist" label over the next decade, never made much money, then got bought by a finance guy who tried to shut them all down when the staff unionized in '17
it's kind of interesting that this article talks about the history of KPCC but doesn't get into the history of the "-ist" sites, which is the story of new media in a nutshell
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-01-31/kpcc-is-changing-its-name-to-laist-89-3
KPCC is changing its name to LAist 89.3
L.A.'s most popular public radio station, KPCC, is changing its name to LAist 89.3.
Greg Gallant on Twitter
“Oh my God I JUST got that “Tar” is short for conductar”
new comics curmudgeon post!
https://joshreads.com/2023/01/tuesday-soapers/ truly one of the more embarrassing sentences a human being can utter
Tuesday soapers – The Comics Curmudgeon
you know who else ran a large spiritual organization where the inner circle perpetrated and covered up sexual abuse ross
RT @[email protected]
Just an incredible as well as terrible story. (Notable that "inner-circle sex cult with a larger spiritual organization built around it" dynamic was basically what Keith Raniere tried to do with NXIVM.)
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/january/jean-vanier-l-arche-abuse-sect-report-thomas-philippe-catho.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1620217752849104896
Report: Jean Vanier’s L’Arche Hid ‘Mystical-Sexual’ Sect for Decades
An independent commission concluded that dozens of women were violated by Vanier and his mentor under exploitative spiritual disciplines.
this is a tweet for like five people, who i assume all follow me on here
natasha lyonne's power on POKER FACE works exactly the same way that lie detectors do in slylock fox
RT @[email protected]
grabbing a guy who says he's allergic to seeds or seed oils by the lapels and pushing him against the wall to be like which seeds motherfucker do you know what a seed is
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/swolecialism/status/1620173597523480576
your himbo boyfriend on Twitter
“grabbing a guy who says he's allergic to seeds or seed oils by the lapels and pushing him against the wall to be like which seeds motherfucker do you know what a seed is”
