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Kristen Radtke

@kristenradtke.bsky.social

Creative Director at The Verge, author of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS

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Oh it somehow got even more boring than the beige from last year www.theverge.com/24316196/pan...

04.12.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times Zoomers get all their news from TikTok โ€” and refuse to go elsewhere

If reading about college students using AI to cheat made you feel crazy, wait till you hear about where they get their news

24.11.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

@cathvirginia.bsky.social always delivers

05.11.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ty beloved editor!

08.09.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How to watch a baby A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.

Very cool that @kristenradtke.bsky.social won an Online Journalism Award for excellence in visual storytelling for her comic about motherhood and surveillance awards.journalists.org/entries/how-...

08.09.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How dupes turned online shopping upside down When everything is the same, who gets to claim ownership over ideas?

A terrific (and hilarious) feature from @miasato.bsky.social, with brilliant design from @kristenradtke.bsky.social and @macaree.bsky.social.

25.07.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So kind of you!

22.06.2025 19:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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All gas, no breaks.

Only you can make this poll a reality: zohranfornyc.com/events

12.06.2025 00:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9835    ๐Ÿ” 1550    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 181    ๐Ÿ“Œ 163
05.05.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6228    ๐Ÿ” 1751    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46
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American War ๏ปฟA special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.

Today marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. To commemorateโ€”and challengeโ€”the legacy of the conflict, The Verge commissioned five stories from five Vietnamese writers in a series called American War.

Illustrations by Nguyen Tran ๐Ÿงต

30.04.2025 17:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 396    ๐Ÿ” 120    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

The only accounts I want to follow are coral reefs

01.05.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Comic: Wandering Souls The sounds that still haunt us, even 50 years after the Vietnam War.

Just an incredible piece of visual storytelling from the great @mattyhuynh.bsky.social www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

01.05.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mourning the Trans Boyhood I Never Got I won't ever be nine or fourteen or twenty-one again.

before I like, bury my head in a garden bed for the rest of the day, however literally, i want to re-share my piece about what we rob from children when we don't allow them to authentically be.

fuck all the monsters who've abetted this genocide. i curse you.

www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...

01.05.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I missed this the first time; it's beautiful. <3 Sending lots of love to you (and the plants!)

01.05.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Watched this four times. Hey lil bud!

24.04.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

no better pitch for a movie in 2025

18.04.2025 18:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We had a rare black hamlet hang out in the field of staghorn corals today ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ–ค๐ŸŸ๐Ÿชธ #blackhamlet #hamlet #rarefish #staghorncoral #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf

15.04.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2434    ๐Ÿ” 213    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 50    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows โ€” Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.

Hello, I somehow won a Guggenheim??????? www.gf.org/stories/anno...

15.04.2025 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The beautiful, retro tech of two theatrical sound designers How a pandemic reading group and some color swatches led to one of Brooklynโ€™s coolest creative partnerships

"Tell me about your TV garden and your synthesizer library," asks @theverge.com's @kristenradtke.bsky.social.

And I am so glad @jessiechar.com & @maxy.bsky.social answered.

www.theverge.com/tech/631922/...

20.03.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cartoonist R.E. Burke returns to UK after three weeks inย detention Cartoonist R. E. Burke has been returned to the UK after three weeks of detention and international outrage

Cartoonist R. E. Burke has been returned to the UK after three weeks of detention and international outrage

18.03.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 669    ๐Ÿ” 215    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

If a legal permanent resident can have his green card revoked for exercising his first amendment rights, thereโ€™s nothing to stop them from going after citizens, too.

09.03.2025 23:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 146    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Shocking But Not Surprising Strikes Again (and Again) The Caprices of the Oligarchs Shocking but not surprising is a phrase I've often reverted to in the past eight years, for things that are both hideous and predictable, maybe transgressive against the...

If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.

06.03.2025 01:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2050    ๐Ÿ” 580    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46

Ash I am so sorry.

25.02.2025 16:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.

20.02.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3244    ๐Ÿ” 807    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 69    ๐Ÿ“Œ 69
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The women who made Americaโ€™s microchips and the children who paid for it The US wants to manufacture chips again โ€” but thereโ€™s a dark, overlooked history.

Women who worked at semiconductor factories in Silicon Valley are at higher risk of miscarriage or giving birth to children with disabilities due to exposure to toxic chemicals. With a new chip fab boom underway, are we just repeating the mistakes as the past? www.theverge.com/features/611...

19.02.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โ€œThe truth is that most of us are brave, generous, altruistic, creative as we rise to meet the demands of a sudden disaster by rescuing and taking care of each other and re-building the terms of survivalโ€

05.02.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Six ways to send a message to your representatives Let politicians know what you want.

Six ways to send a message to your representatives

05.02.2025 13:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 161    ๐Ÿ” 81    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter amps up his crusade against Amazon The bookselling platformโ€™s next frontier in the fight against Amazon: ebooks.

Bookshop CEO Andy Hunterโ€™s crusade to save books from Amazon

03.02.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 159    ๐Ÿ” 41    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Page dessinรฉe, qui montre le texte : en 1951 Hannah Arendt รฉcrivait que la dรฉsolation est le "fond commun de la terreur". Quand on perd contact les uns avec les autres on commence aussi ร  s'extraire de la rรฉalitรฉ.

La page montre un baraquement, un grillage avec le slogan "Trump 2020" et plus bas des รฉcouteurs. Un trousseau de clรฉs et la couverture du livre d'Annah Arendt : les origines du totalitarisme.

Page dessinรฉe, qui montre le texte : en 1951 Hannah Arendt รฉcrivait que la dรฉsolation est le "fond commun de la terreur". Quand on perd contact les uns avec les autres on commence aussi ร  s'extraire de la rรฉalitรฉ. La page montre un baraquement, un grillage avec le slogan "Trump 2020" et plus bas des รฉcouteurs. Un trousseau de clรฉs et la couverture du livre d'Annah Arendt : les origines du totalitarisme.

On est d'accord pour dire que ca ne s'arrange pas, n'est ce pas ?

Page 141, "SEEK YOU" voyage dans le solitude contemporaine
- Kristen Radtke

12.01.2025 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cray

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