Kelly Dilworth

Chronically lapsed tweeter, but have stuck around for the reading + haphazard news monitoring (when the algo lets me, that is ...) Also still writing, designing and drawing––and reporting when I can ... asja.org/member/kelly-d…

I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Very few people appreciate what America lost when we lost newspapers. Just being able to sit down every morning in silence and peruse news, opinion, sports, advice, recipes, interesting human interest stories all in one place was such a pleasure. The Internet has never produced anything that comes close.

100+ journalists, including Cory Doctorow, Rachel Maddow and many more, are backing the Internet Archive’s #WaybackMachine as essential to preserving the public record 🗂️ Read more at Fight for the Future 👇 fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-1… 🧵⬇️ @doctorow @maddow

Loved. This by @colsonwhitehead is a very funny read. Gifted link: nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opi…

In writing a cultural history of the 21st century, I realized that so many key texts have been expunged from the living internet. The notorious Vice founders interview with New York Press and Gavin's piece for The American Conservative were buried deep in there

The Wayback Machine has provided key factual evidence for my clients in arbitration, litigation, and bargaining. It is an essential tool for preserving history when faced with the dynamism of our digital world.

If not for the Wayback Machine, I would not be able to find the articles I wrote between 2007 and 2017, because the publications either actively or passively killed their archives.

Read @RebeccaSolnit and absorb that hope is not a bird in the sky you hope lands near you, it’s an active orientation. You find it in the care for someone else or something else outside of yourself. It’s bigger than you. It’s an act of cultivation. Rub two sticks together.

Loved this: “What three beautiful randos taught me about bouncing back” wapo.st/3YvmUUz

Really appreciated this by @StephenMarche re: Alice Munro, tho have some quibbles w/ end. Nicely captures the horror & bewilderment I also felt Sunday + the many Qs still spinning in my head. But also has lots more food for thought re: human nature, Cdn culture, et al. Recommend

Resharing this post on Juneteenth because well, I’m a Black woman who is trying to open a romance bookstore here in Portland, Oregon. We’ve been opened for seven months and it has brought me a whole lot of joy. I hope that you’ll consider sharing and/or donating ✨

I get that editors don't control budgets, but they have control over the empathy they express, as well as the scope of work they assign. You shouldn't expect the same level of work from a $400 story as you got from an $800 piece, but in my experience, the workload stays the same.

📖 The 'Longform' Podcast Told the Story of an Industry: "More so than any individual interview or moment, Longform's greatest gift will be its archive. Its 12-year run chronicles the media landscape in a more defined way, perhaps, than any other outlet." defector.com/the-longform-p…

@AdultingADHD Yes! My neurodivergent son used to do this a lot, too, when he was younger.

I mean a lot of Neurodivergent people have been doing this for a while, welcome to the floor

Paths forward: publish stuff that makes readers come directly to platforms you control; depth of engagement and habit matter; reduce churn; niches are your friend; commodity is your enemy; meet people consuming news ambiently where they are and find a way to the above.

Been wanting to inject a bit of context into the WaPo discussion this week. An important note is nearly every publisher has experienced similar precipitous declines in audience since 2020. No sugarcoating!

New (w/ @ealini): So many aspects of our financial lives – some tax credits, social assistance, health benefits, etc. – are not indexed to inflation. That's a big problem when inflation hits a four-decade high. theglobeandmail.com/investing/pers…

The already-fragile math that long underpinned the #arts is now utterly broken. @joshokane has talked with dozens of people across the country for @GlobeArts about what can be done. @CdnHeritage @PascaleStOnge_ @CanadaCouncil #culture theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-s…

From my latest piece of writing, touching on my resignation from Adobe, listening to my body, and the magic of Bob Ross. accidental-expert.com/p/the-bob-ross…