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@renkencen @firozera The Barbie name/branding was licensed, so it wasn't Mattel itself putting on the event.

@firozera I don't get how Mattle fumble so badly (yes there logo was on the website)? A rhetorical question since it's the typical "being cheap" and expect large numbers to disguise how small it is. Like the other three are nobodies and thus scam people, Mattle is a proper brand?

Back when I did event management, one of my jobs was to research failed fandom/hobby-events and find out what went wrong. These honestly fascinate me, especially since I ran events for kids for years on just a skeleton crew and a few thousand dollars. It's wild just how easily you can see the thought process of the organisers be summed up as: "Just how little can we get away with giving the attendees vs how much we can fleece off them". The fact they can't even fill up the space they rented because they expected thousands more people to fall for it is crazy too.

@shreyabasu003 Love that they are positioning operating under U.S. law as a choice, rather than, you know, the law

Our “we operate under US law” ad is raising a lot of questions already answered by the ad

@margaretvsdd Please don’t get me excited

christine daae in guillermo del toros phantom of the opera

Woman Drinking Nine Beers and Eating Nine Hot Dogs Didn’t Even Realize She Was at a Baseball Game: ow.ly/8SZL50YxTuu

A few years ago, my wife I endowed a scholarship for book sellers hoping to write their first book. Applications for the 2026 awards - totaling $50,000 - are now open! You can apply at bit.ly/3NNOr0G

Can't wait to read a meta DFW-style news-cruise piece on this.

@dissproportion @ChandhokHursh The lyric is about the stock market and when it declines…

@ChandhokHursh Oh, mine won’t descend. I know a surgeon who can fix that.

They’re taking their sugar babies to CANCUN?! SELL! SELL! SELL!

@Nsolenee @1leio Love that the one reply answering everyone’s question about what the account was, was labeled “probable spam” by this platform.

@1leio The user name is derozehuismus on Instagram for those asking

I’m very confused

god forbid a girl be both whimsical and full of rage

@jakebackpack @newrepublic I’m quite convinced that gambling will mimic the excessive drinking culture/alcoholism of the 19th/20th Century wherein families are destroyed by it (which led ultimately to the temperance movement).

@EmilyGouldNYmag Don't know if you saw this, but it's a good piece on this issue allure.com/story/carolyn-…

just possibly people are losing sight of the fact that this was a real person and she died?

@lanikaps @IrisBlasi @Arc_Literary @Running_Press Amazing news! Congrats.

I have some news ✨ It is both incredibly exciting and bittersweet that I share i sold my second book in December: an oral history of DAWSON'S CREEK in honor of its forthcoming 30th anniversary !!!

@sailaunderscore Pablo Picasso famously picked up a woman (who became his mistress) on the street by saying “Hello! I’m Pablo Picasso. May I paint you?”

This might be the funniest version of “just be yourself”.

This administration has forced us to say phrases like “Free Don Lemon” and “Jimmy Kimmel is being silenced”

@matthew_petti @novussubsole The Times did an in depth story on this, with a lot of new reporting that adds color nytimes.com/2025/12/16/mag…

@eos Spotlights Body Mists In @SuperBowl Ad, @gopuff Partnership With Edible Cake Versions Read more: bit.ly/4bSSXVh

@Jeremybtc Could you elaborate on: Chopard, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Breitling and Longines?

If you don’t know much about watches, here’s a simple way to understand them: Rolex = Mercedes Benz Omega = BMW Patek Philippe = Rolls Royce Audemars Piguet = Ferrari Richard Mille = Bugatti Grand Seiko = Lexus IWC = Porsche Tudor = Genesis Casio / G-Shock = Toyota Apple Watch = Tesla

@HanaaTameez @NiemanLab Definitely feature Dave Jorgenson, formerly of WaPo.

At @niemanlab we're starting a new series called Creators of Record, where we interview news influencers about how they do their jobs. Let us know who we should talk to next!

@cgduckworth The only good ones come from Laduree, honestly