Jessica Lucas

Thank you for sharing (and for spearheading the chaos that was pulling together the OG story)

YouTube video by Paramount Plus Thirst Trap: The Fame. The Fantasy. The Fallout. | Official Trailer | Paramount+

In early 2022, I edited Jessica Lucas's Input mag feature on TikTok heartthrob William White. Her eye-opening piece is the basis for a new documentary, THIRST TRAP, out on Paramount+ today. Here's the trailer:

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sad kermit stares out the rainy window

not smart enough for twitter, not unhinged enough for bluesky, not hot enough for threads

thank you!

The Doll Mommies Are Fighting Is breastfeeding really best…for a small silicone dummy? Do make-believe babies deserve real diapers? Are medical ethics applicable to inanimate figurines? Inside the extremely niche (yet surprising...

i wrote about reborn doll mommy vloggers and their fake silicone babies and honestly you should “read” this just for the pictures

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a44094061/reborn-doll-baby/

were they tears of PURE TERROR?!?!

I need to see the pictures???

A shirtless Tom Hanks looks wistfully out to sea (idk I’ve never actually seen the movie) in the film Castaway. He is using a rock to write a note on a rock. He looks haggard af and has no clothes

how I feel every time i send a bluesky post into the void

i like this app, but wish it could be more dedicated to enjoying posts from my favorite actor, Jeremy Renner, and celebrating his achievements every Rennsday with sweepstakes and exclusive Renner content

I’m worried that my freelance writing career is going to collapse without Twitter so if you’re an editor looking for writers/pitches, let me know 😭

The internet would be way more fun if we didn’t have to use it to make money under capitalism

TIRED: Killing your service’s third-party apps

WIRED: Killing your service’s first-party apps

guys i haven’t been paying attention are we supposed to be skeeting for fun or professional gain??

Wish more media companies thought like this.

“This is our little business—we just need to have these margins, pay our employees, and that’s it." https://www.cjr.org/analysis/defector-last-good-website.php

Help Laid-Off BuzzFeed News Union Members, organized by Cody Corrall On April 20, everybody at BuzzFeed News was laid off. And last week, BuzzFeed … Cody Corrall needs your support for Help Laid-Off BuzzFeed News Union Members

https://www.gofundme.com/f/dnagfj-help

Driver’s Licenses, Addresses, Photos: Inside How TikTok Shares User Data Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents.

Internal TikTok docs show employees have been sharing private user data — from driver's licenses to locations — in Lark, a workplace collab tool accessed by China-based workers of parent co Bytedance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/technology/inside-how-tiktok-shares-user-data-lark.html

Satan followed me on bluesky

what an excellent omen for the week ahead, thank u satan

The real Twitter alternative is a sea of largely identical almost-Twitters

The higher you climb up the corporate ladder at Apple, the whiter it gets, data shows. https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/apple-still-has-a-diversity-problem/

The star of a PR email which says “Hi Jessica, Threesomes come in all forms,”

there are multiple forms ?!?!

Ooooooo I’m excited!!!

Girls Gone Wild Changed The World Forever. Joe Francis Is Finally Ready To Talk About It. Joe Francis' porn empire was everywhere in the 2000s. How did it all fall apart?

For the last year, I have been trying to make sense of what happened to Joe Francis and Girls Gone Wild. Last fall, I flew to his compound in Mexico to ask him. Our final banger for BuzzFeed News, now hosted by our pals at HuffPost: https://t.co/3J8wRmWfK5

❤️❤️❤️❤️ currently trying to decide if I stay wholesome or rebrand and start screaming “SERVE CUNT” but I don’t think it suits me tbh

I think I have bluesky anxiety guys. almost like i’ve started at a new school and I don’t want to weird anyone out so now my brain goes smooth and empty whenever I try to skeet

what …the actual fuck

I bought groceries with an AI this morning and had a realization about AI: It's basically a large-scale acknowledgement that no one really cares about anything anymore.
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-ai-demands-more-habanero-salsa

Tumblr: BATTLEGROUNDS How do you do, fellow news consumers.

Maybe finding “viable business models” isn’t actually the problem we need to solve.

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/tumblr-battlegrounds

Good story about all of us moving into Bluesky https://wapo.st/3nimSQa