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@kathrynfiona
kate lindsay
21 days
Tomorrow at 10AM EST I'm dropping another batch of Wordle Mugs (and introducing CONNECTIONS Mugs!!!) head of Mothers Day. All profits donated to @ThePCRF . Keep an eye out here:
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@kathrynfiona
kate lindsay
5 years
brought my bike to a screeching halt to take this
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kate lindsay
3 years
Rolling Stone rescinded my job offer after I attempted to negotiate the salary.
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3 years
I had to take on dog walking gigs to afford my first two years as a full-time employee at Rolling Stone. Unionize.
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2 years
genuinely one of the more unsettling videos i've seen on TikTok
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kate lindsay
2 years
Making memes about domestic violence allegations doesn't make you "neutral." It makes you an "asshole."
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kate lindsay
1 year
The first Facebook parents used it as a modern scrapbook for their children. Over 15 years later, though, the children have grown up, and many have come to resent the digital footprint that was created for them without their consent—for @TheAtlantic
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kate lindsay
11 days
there are actually four people on the Challengers press tour: Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O'Connor, and the 2007 animated Pixar film "Ratatouille"
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kate lindsay
8 months
The morning after a wedding in Vermont this summer, while my friends were relaxing in a hot tub at their hotel, my boyfriend and I were cleaning the kitchen of our Airbnb. "Wait," we said to each other. "Why are we paying for this?" For @TheAtlantic :
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kate lindsay
5 years
bandersnatch but for the “dinner party” episode of the office
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kate lindsay
3 years
it’s high time we unionize against boss baby
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kate lindsay
4 years
two previously-married-to-men mommy bloggers now appear to be dating, scooping me on the pilot I've only just now realized I was born to write
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kate lindsay
6 years
meg ryan's engagement announcement looks like something the police would keep as evidence
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kate lindsay
3 years
Twitter literally will not rest until every single person feels they are undeserving of a life-saving, pandemic-solving vaccine
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kate lindsay
3 years
For two years I assumed my Rolling Stone offer was rescinded because I was a woman who attempted to negotiate the salary. I was later told it was because I was a union member who attempted to negotiate the salary. I regret the error—won’t happen again!
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The Fine Print
3 years
For two years @kathrynfiona has wondered why a staff writer job offer at @RollingStone was abruptly rescinded. She recently learned the reason: her union support in social media posts. To read the full story, subscribe today at
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kate lindsay
5 years
I shan’t doxx but a son has come forward
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kate lindsay
9 months
When my mom dies, I'll receive all 5000+ of her emails. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with them. With the help of stories like @offbeatorbit 's, I wrote about how technology has complicated grieving:
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kate lindsay
2 years
knew this would come in handy
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kate lindsay
2 years
@deannaschwartzz very me in 2015—"this is girlboss, actually"
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kate lindsay
4 years
I spoke to the two girls behind the Instagram @TikTokRoom , Elasia and Nat, who stayed up all night on FaceTime to diligently post updates from Monday’s insane TikTok drama and hit one million followers in the process.
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kate lindsay
6 years
PLOT TWIST: pete davidson and ariana grande have probably been together for months, and it all hinges on a set he performed in APRIL at KENYON COLLEGE in GAMBIER OHIO
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kate lindsay
2 years
@geometricsleep watching it felt like those videos that show you what english sounds like to other languages
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kate lindsay
5 years
I don’t know what soccer is
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kate lindsay
3 years
this comment is about the queen of England
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kate lindsay
7 months
I spent four straight hours watching every single @brianjoralvarez TikTok character to bring you this definitive guide to the lore for @vulture and now i'm omw to the brain hospital!
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kate lindsay
5 years
can someone explain what it is
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kate lindsay
3 years
a true, genuine gasp at the unmasking of Your Fave Is Problematic, a Tumblr that I personally believe is where all this *gestures vaguely* started
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kate lindsay
8 months
the amount of Airbnb ads that have stalked me since I started working on this piece are all worth it for finally getting to the bottom of what cleaning fees can actually mean:
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kate lindsay
3 years
thank u for ur service 🙏
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kate lindsay
4 years
did a deep dive into influencer pandemic parties: over the past two months, they've thrown at least 14 parties, ignoring increasingly desperate warnings and, most egregiously, the still-rising COVID-19 death toll in CA (12K+)
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kate lindsay
1 year
parents are locking down social media handles and other kinds of digital real estate for their children so they can inherit them when they grow up—for @nytimes ✨💃
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kate lindsay
2 years
wrote about "you look 30" becoming a common insult on TikTok, and the misconception (I hope) of being too old to use the internet
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kate lindsay
4 months
“If you met your partner on a dating app two years ago, you caught the last chopper out of ‘Nam.” For @bustle , I wrote about why singles think dating apps have lost their luster:
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kate lindsay
27 days
don't make me tap the sign...
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kate lindsay
11 months
I'm obsessed w the girl on TikTok who has been running a social experiment on her boyfriend by seeing if he'll pick what he wears each day based solely on where she puts a gap in the closet. The answer is "yes" every single time @GQMagazine
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kate lindsay
7 years
i've changed my mind 280 is good
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Cincinnati Zoo
7 years
Fiona hitching a ride then doing an impressive dismount. Hippos can hold their breath for up to 5 minutes before pushing off the bottom to come up for air. Resurfacing for air is so instinctual that a hippo sleeping underwater will rise and breathe without waking up.
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kate lindsay
3 years
hilaria and alec baldwin are blaming the media for all this which is 1) false and also 2) every publication WISHES they got the scoop on this instead of aggregating a twitter thread
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kate lindsay
11 days
@letterboxd , specifically, tried three times to get Josh O'Connor to talk about anything other than "Ratatouille," and each time, he immediately brought up "Ratatouille"
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kate lindsay
8 months
with creators beginning their careers younger and younger, and older creators having been on the internet for 10+ years now, some are feeling trapped in the online personas they created. a fun one for @bustle !
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kate lindsay
2 years
wrote about why TikTok comments have started to suck:
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kate lindsay
2 years
if you are struggling to properly adhere a jack sparrow mustache to your cat to make a video parody of domestic violence allegations please take that as a sign from The Lord to pause and reconsider
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4 years
My last story for @Refinery29 is also my favorite: I took a deep dive into the ill-fated 2014 reality show I Wanna Marry Harry, speaking to a producer, three contestants, and "Harry" himself about the tactics used to make these women feel crazy
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kate lindsay
9 months
"When there’s no face to it, it seems like it’s a corporation, and corporations to a lot of Gen Z equal bad or untrustworthy." I wrote about the perks—and pitfalls—of gen z news consumption for @verge !
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kate lindsay
9 months
we know about saving passwords and memorializing Facebook accounts, but our digital footprints have expanded so rapidly that most things we don't think about until the time comes @offbeatorbit
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kate lindsay
2 years
I will no longer apologize for delaying meals to take pictures because @bettinamak shows us just how much is POSSIBLE if u believe
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kate lindsay
3 years
media reporting makes me queasy bc I know any publication I write about has the power to retaliate by releasing a cover letter I most certainly sent them five years ago for a job I didn't get
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kate lindsay
8 months
I guess what I'm saying is yea I have a boyfriend...
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kate lindsay
2 years
and don't even get me started on the placement of that cat's mustache
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kate lindsay
2 years
"It's impossible not to see this as a backlash to #MeToo —like women have gone too far. Okay, ladies, we listened to you and locked a couple of men up. Don't get too greedy, now."
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kate lindsay
5 years
if ur a movie character ur allowed one pair of glasses and you have to keep buying THOSE glasses no matter how old you get
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kate lindsay
1 year
why is every media exec fumbling and spiraling their companies when the answer is simple: I want to read stuff like this
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kate lindsay
6 years
was this..........jerry seinfeld's first time meeting lesbians
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kate lindsay
1 year
how chronically online was your year? I created a lil system for @vulture — add up your points and then go outside!
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kate lindsay
1 year
Now that we know more about the permanence of social media, some parents want to keep pictures of their children entirely offline—a rule that can be hard to enforce when everyone has their own phones and opinions:
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kate lindsay
6 years
i do like that five years ago its creator told us how to pronounce "GIF" and we, as a society, went "no :)"
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kate lindsay
5 years
I took a trip down memory lane with the very first YouTubers like @mememolly @GloZell @brittanitaylor & MORE to find out why so many of them are leaving YouTube — & why just as many are determined to stay
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1 year
But other parents, lured by likes and the algorithm, have continued sharing intimate and sometimes invasive videos of their children in an increasingly public social media arena. So the children are fighting back:
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kate lindsay
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@offbeatorbit another person I spoke to, Marie, only learned her late mother was a Swiftie after getting access to Spotify account
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"After two years of online interaction being the primary way of socializing, hearing that someone is nice when they’re not on Twitter feels as reasonable as someone being like, 'They’re actually really nice when they’re not in the living room.'"
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kate lindsay
2 months
@katienotopoulos and this is a "Girls" plotline!!!
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kate lindsay
2 years
I spoke to a Johnny Depp fan who changed her mind. "The whole thing started to feel really insidious ... like I had been manipulated to support an abuser. This situation has definitely changed forever how I will look at information on the internet."
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kate lindsay
2 years
there's no larger force making all these bad world events happen one after another, so I tried to muddle through why the internet makes it feels like there is
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kate lindsay
6 years
my favorite christmas tradition starts tomorrow — VLOGMAS!! i talked to its creator @ingridnilsen about how it started, and what it's turned into 6 years later
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kate lindsay
5 years
A GREAT steering wheel that doesn't WHIFF out of the window while I'm DRIVING
@bombsfall
Chambraigne Socialist
5 years
holy crap who is doing design for cory booker this is a nightmare
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kate lindsay
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"We need to abolish the media party until you all learn how to be actually interesting again." someone had to say it!!! showing up to a media party is realizing certain people are popular *only online* for a reason...;...............,,,.
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kate lindsay
8 months
23-year-old Kelsey Russell decided to solve Gen Z's media literacy problem by...literally just reading the New York Times out loud on TikTok. And it's working?? I love her and I loved this interview for @getembedded
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kate lindsay
6 years
I interviewed Nick Bakay, the original voice of Salem the cat. If you love Sabrina The Teenage Witch as much as I do, every single thing he says will bring so much joy to your heart. If you have never watched Sabrina, you are beyond help!!!
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kate lindsay
5 years
I spoke to Heather Burns, who played Christina, about the horror that is having to move! TO BROOKLYN! and learned that Nora Ephron served crab cakes on set
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kate lindsay
3 years
if they're filming a video in the car like this u know it's time to buckle up for some racism/bullshit
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kate lindsay
3 years
not usually one for prompt Twitter but my sister ordering a rowing machine in the early traumatic months of covid and then, after tons of hold ups and back and forth, receiving instead a small plastic satchel of synthetic hair, still makes me choke
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grace spelman
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it’s time for another round of: please tell me about a time you laughed so hard you cried. (not from tv/movies/internet. It has to be an IRL situation) Even if it’s an inside joke and you don't think it will be funny to anyone else – i still want to hear it. thank you
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2 years
the latest "trend" is influencers with day jobs, but this movement is born out of a larger frustration with the creator industry that might be reaching a tipping point
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kate lindsay
4 years
Today is my last day at Refinery29. I have been trying to write this tweet all day, so instead I'll share the message I sent to the team and the photo taken on my very first day as a full-time writer, when I was feeling the luckiest I've ever felt. I still do.
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1 month
What's it like to date the TikTok guys making content women thirst over? I asked their girlfriends 😈 for @bustle !
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kate lindsay
5 years
all books look like this now
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kate lindsay
3 years
wrote about the experience of everyone in your life sending you the same tweet, making you uncomfortably aware of how you are truly Perceived
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kate lindsay
1 year
Taylor Swift getting canceled for dating someone because of his appearance on The Adam Friedland Show has finally given my boyfriend and I a single shred of pop culture we can talk about <3
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kate lindsay
3 years
in Olivia Jade's first vlog since the college admissions scandal she shows us how she makes rice
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kate lindsay
1 month
glad SOMEONE is speaking truth to power about the most frustrating social faux pas of our time...............
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kate lindsay
2 years
"Rather than a standalone platform, as it was in its early days, TikTok has become the ocean into which—and out of which—the streams of all the other platforms run. It’s no longer a corner of the internet, but the whole town square."
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kate lindsay
1 year
wrote about a very niche gripe that is more about the (understandably?) weird relationship between creators and journalists
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kate lindsay
5 years
@Ceilidhann @Refinery29 Hi Kayleigh! This has been updated. Thanks for flagging.
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kate lindsay
8 years
my parents are ruthlessly committed to loving their daughters equally
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kate lindsay
3 years
interviewed the queen! @cmcoving ✨✨✨
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kate lindsay
3 years
wrote about "gentle guy internet," which is what I glimpse over my boyfriend's shoulder as he sits on his laptop wearing big headhpones in bed
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1 year
Jury Duty has been a slow burn among audiences outside of TikTok, but is one of the funnier shows to have come out this year. I spoke to Ronald about his experience, and what it was like to learn he was at the center of such an elaborate prank:
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kate lindsay
6 years
this......cannot be a coincidence #ACSVersace
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kate lindsay
1 year
I am pro-Instagram and take no pleasure in reporting this etc etc
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kate lindsay
2 years
my phone keeps telling me that my live-in boyfriend is following me around
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kate lindsay
4 years
the deeper story on this is that Rebecca's husband passed away from cancer a few years ago—this is very sweet and they deserve nothing but happiness!
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kate lindsay
4 years
two previously-married-to-men mommy bloggers now appear to be dating, scooping me on the pilot I've only just now realized I was born to write
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1 year
this was my last week at the atlantic, i'm going full time with writing and @getembedded
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kate lindsay
5 years
@jennyslate "It makes sense to me that where I would finally land and have my life partnership is in a house for partying. I wouldn't be upset if I saw one of those party ghosts and I wouldn't be upset if I became one one day."
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