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If you’re bearish on Twitter, let’s still keep in touch, 🙂 my Insta is “leighcuen” & my Substack is (I routinely answer subscriber emails)👇 leighcuen.substack.com

@eriktorenberg The AP is laying off/paying off a bunch of journalists who are great at conducting interviews/facilitating conversations. I’m sure if there’s $ to help them move some would be willing to relocate to SF.

I still haven't found this person by the way. They're either too retarded, or not retarded enough.

Said was beautifully dressed, although I think there's only a tenuous connection between intellectualism and an interest in aesthetics. Nonetheless, an interesting thing about Said is that he used tailors — real tailors — who are among the last to treat customers as real individuals in an age of mass production. My friend Eugene Rabkin, who's coming out with a book this fall titled Torn: Fashion and Post-Modernism, recently sent me this quote by Walter Benjamin: “On the theory of dandyism. The tailor’s the last line of business in which the customer is still catered to on an individual basis. More and more, the person commissioning work plays a heroic role.” If we're to take Marx's theory of alienation seriously, then having a relationship with a tailor — depending on how the shop is set up — can be a way to mitigate some of the alienation inherent in capitalist production.

@nic_carter Way back machine can help with some.

from 2020 to 2025, I wrote 38 opinion pieces for Coindesk. today the link to almost every one is broken. and my author page is gone. so they are effectively erased from the internet. this is why you have to own your own distribution

Sending a first draft of my enterprise story to my editor:

And last but not least, research! @ZackPokorny_ @wowens @fund_defi @Ipsos and Callan Quinn

The best news story of the year is almost impossible to narrow down, but we did it Great work by @whosknave @sander_lutz @vronirwin

Come work with me: @PoetryFound is hiring a full-time multimedia producer to develop audio/visual accompaniments to Poetry magazine. Based in Chicago; $90,000 - $100,000 salary. recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…

There’s a unique sadness writers have when a site that published our work puts up a new paywall or vanishes entirely into the abyss. 😭

some new Substack details I found interesting … - the platform now hosts 100,000 paid revenue-generating newsletters - there were only ~50k at the start of 2025 - 30% are published outside the US - Europe’s most popular categories are lifestyle, fashion, food … compared to news and politics in the US

@jyn_urso Congrats! 🍾🎊

Hello. Dr. Paez is in the house.

@jackmallers Congrats 🎊🍾🥰

@asal_alizade Congrats! 🍾🎊🎈

Life update: we said Yes!

whenever you tell someone at a party you’re a journalist and they clamor to clarify that they’re “off the record” it’s like. you just told me a story about your cat throwing up after eating funfetti cake batter. should we call the new york times? should we invite bella hadid ?

Giving your partner a break from decision fatigue is a love language. Removing someone's mental load is the highest form of consideration.

@MechaAO Dude changed the name slightly so he couldn’t be dinged for impersonation. New tactics 😑

@La__Cuen Already tried...

Please help me report the crypto scammers that hijacked this account: @defemisback

@MechaAO @defemisback

@La__Cuen @defemisback What category should it be reported? Can't report itself for impersonation 🤔

Couldn’t be more thrilled that comedic musical propaganda finally comes for the U.S. (Hamas & Kurdish songwriters still have my favorite bangers, but this is fun!) 😂

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@Peacockg @Support Didn’t disappear, it turns out it was hacked by a scammer (thankfully not my primary account,) haven’t heard from @Support although still trying. 🙃

@La__Cuen @Support 😳

@Support how do I submit for an account that disappeared (although it was still active up to a few weeks ago)?