Adorably out of touch.

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

The Louise Linton stuff that you probably heard about happened last night but it is the platonic ideal of a jaw-droppingly appalling Instagram post that I had to include it:

Come for the tacky photo, stay for the absolutely bananas comment.

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Turns out, this is not the first time Louise Linton has been in the news:

Seems heartfelt.


*insert all popcorn or sipping tea GIFs*

Article author:

Truly, couldn’t be happening to two nicer people.


I will never turn down the opportunity to shout into the void that Peter Thiel is a super villain who must be stopped and today I have an opportunity. We lost Gawker one year ago, and its spectre hangs over much of the Internet, this newsletter included.

(tl;dr background: Peter Thiel funded the Hulk Hogan lawsuit, among many, many others, that ended up bankrupting Gawker Media.)

folks, she’s talking about the pee tape.

From last year:

It would be irresponsible to point out that, like all your faves, Gawker was problematic as hell, and many arguments against it were very legitimate.

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What I do know is that the Internet was better with Gawker, and I miss it!


Approximately every two weeks, a man who puts the “men” in “ban men” seeks advice on the Internet and goes viral. Today’s installment:

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