@Rawiya Kameir on Cultural Specificity and Hating Twitter

Rawiya Kameir is a writer and editor in New York. She edits The Outline’s culture section. This week she and I talked about three of her favorite tweets, plus frustration, Virgil Abloh, and why Twitter’s not a reporting tool. me: hello white person: pic.twitter.com/5xT4gjtEiG — rawiya kameir (@rawiya) June 7, 2017 Kameir: The genre of […]

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@YungInstitution on Sexuality, Caffeine, and ‘Law & Order’

@YungInstitution aka Josh lives in New York. He has a job that asks him to sign a lot of Non Disclosure Agreements and would replace him in a minute so he’s quiet about any other details. His pinned tweet is about depression and getting dick, which is a quicker sum-up than anything else. Instead of […]

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@CarinaHsieh on Engagement Tests and Barnes & Noble Flashbacks

Carina Hsieh is a writer and comedian living in Delethisburg, Brooklyn. She’s currently a Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan.com (Candace Bushnell once called her the Samantha Jones of Tinder—a comparison she feels she doesn’t deserve, but brags about anyways). In her free time she writes and produces sketches, hosts a monthly comedy show at […]

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Mariah Smith (@mRiah) on Twitter and the Social Circles of Celebrities

Mariah Smith is a comedian, writer and producer in New York City. In 2015, Smith created Keeping Up With the Kontinuity Errors, a blog that tracks the continuity errors in Keeping Up With the Kardashians, using Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and common sense. KUWTKE can be seen most widely on seen New York magazine’s The Cut […]

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Iliza Shlesinger Came After Other Female Comics, and It Did Not Go Well

As the host of a new late night show on Freeform, Iliza Shlesinger has been having a very successful 2017 so far, but this week the standup has come under fire for some comments she made about women in comedy. It all started with an interview with Shlesinger Deadline posted on Monday, in which she’s […]

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The Daily Show opening The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library in NYC across from Trump Tower

Since we’ve reached an agreement that each and every Twitter burst from Donald J. Trump now holds weight as an official statement of the current sitting President of the United States of America…and yes, that’s as of now still a fact… The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has gone ahead and made the future present, […]

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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (@sadqueer4life) on Tweets, Poems, and “Me: / Also Me:”

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, AKA @sadqueer4life, is a trans woman poet living in California. Her work has been featured in The Offing, The Feminist Wire, PEN America, Lambda Literary, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of i’m alive / it hurts / i love it (boost house 2014), and THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS […]

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Adam Pally Is Developing a Hulu Comedy Based on @LosFelizDaycare

A popular parody Twitter account might get the TV series treatment at Hulu. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network is developing a comedy produced by Adam Pally based on @LosFelizDaycare, a parody Twitter account run by Jason Shapiro since 2013 that currently has over 85,000 followers. The Hulu series in development will be […]

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@NateVarrone on Tomi Lahren and Tweeting Before Bed

Nate Varrone is a comedian and writer living in Chicago. He performs in large theatres and small synagogues across the United States with The Second City National Touring Company. When he’s in Chicago, you can catch him every Friday at midnight in The Holy Fuck Comedy Hour at The Annoyance Theatre. You can check out […]

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