i wonder i wah wah wah wah wonder
― Rallsballs@onelist.com (stevie), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
Max's lengthy Game of Thrones explainers were pretty earnest
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
http://gawker.com/justine-sacco-is-good-at-her-job-and-how-i-came-to-pea-1653022326
― gr8080, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
heh
― example (crΓΌt), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 23:10 (nine years ago) link
SPLOID is one of the better gawker subsites. "I Don't Understand This At All, But Holy Crap Can You Believe How Cool It Looks?" is a hell of a lot better than "Installment 14 of our Weird Grudge Against Amanda Bynes" or "Making Fun of Celebrity Baby Names".
― how's life, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
destroy tech blog hegemony
― maura, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 13:01 (nine years ago) link
the rockism of blogs
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
i liked gawker when it first came out, back when it focused mostly on the NYC publishing and media scene. now it's all about publicly humiliating mentally ill actresses and reposting Reddit content.
"so what's in the news today? a popular former child actress is slowly developing schizophrenia - what a loser!" it's like one of those dark parodies of tabloid journalism, but for real.
― CoolRadio, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
probably the worst site for those stories that i've read is LAist (don't know about the other "ist" sites)
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
Jalopnik and Deadspin are good reads IMO.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
i liked gawker when it first came out, back when it focused mostly on the NYC publishing and media scene. otm tho gawker stalker was gross back then too.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
love me some gawker
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i don't want to be disingenuous, i probably read gawker too much for my own good
― CoolRadio, Thursday, 8 January 2015 03:52 (nine years ago) link
This was the most tone deaf thing I've read so far this year:
http://gawker.com/woman-who-sleeps-22-hours-a-day-craves-unhealthy-food-1678481884
This is a sensitive topic for me because my wife has a debilitating sleep disorder. It has ruined her life. And one of the challenges that people with sleep disorders face is that there's almost no public understanding of them, and a tremendous stigma around them. So here we have a Gawker writer mocking somebody with a debilitating disease, undermining its severity, like, "lol, you sleep 22 hours a day? who hasn't been there? I wish I got to sleep in all day!"
I just don't get the lack of basic sensitivity. I'm sorry, but if you can't understand how having to sleep 22 hours a day would completely torpedo even your most basic hopes and dreams, or your ability to live something resembling a normal, happy life, then you are a monster. The basic lack of decency/sensitivity our society extends to the disabled is utterly appalling, and I don't get how somebody could write this, or how an editor could allow this, without realizing how cruel it is.
― Evan R, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Again, sorry to vent about all this, but lack of public awareness about diseases is a huge challenge that many disabled people face. Insensitive shit like this, as inconsequential as it might seem on the surface, can actually have a huge on people's quality of life, because it fans the stigma around certain conditions. I usually try to temper my outrage over stupid Internet content, but in this case it's actually making people's lives worse, so I feel the need to try to do something to correct it.
― Evan R, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
having been in the professional blogging trenches, i think in the grind you become a cross between joel mchale on the soup and jake gyllenhaal in nightcrawler
― da croupier, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
p4reene to reenter Gawker trenches btw
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
dan lyons seems not very bright and very un-gawker-like :(
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Lyons, whose idea of a joke involves strikethrough text and whose idea of a lede is "Imagine a room full of these things,"
loool
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
i'm never ever #teampando but their piece on lyons was in very nice form http://pando.com/2015/01/18/dan-lyons-career-an-obituary/
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Friday, 23 January 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/28/why-i-m-coming-out-as-a-christian.html
― hunangarage, Monday, 2 March 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
a fish a barrel and ilx
― mushaboom kids (rip van wanko), Monday, 2 March 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
St. Ann O'Tate
― maura, Monday, 2 March 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link