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Posts by Barry Petchesky

BIG BLOGS

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Hugo spritz is really having a moment

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NHL fans love complaining when there are actually good first-round matchups

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You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance | Defector I don’t remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...

I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about.

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A few years ago, I was attacked by a dog. It changed a lot about me, including the book I was writing. I tried to describe it all here:

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Give him the chair, that’s what I say. Now what’s this about an indictment?

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Goddamnit we had a whole set of meetings and PowerPoint decks to tell Roth never to say we are “extruding” blogs.

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Today should be a national holiday.

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Just Venmo me, I’m not learning how to use crypto

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I would like to announce that I am also blockading the Strait of Hormuz

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Finally learned today, after literal years of hearing my coworkers talk about her, that Helen DeWitt did NOT write a book that got turned into the Tom Cruise movie.

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Cat checking her bowl as if she might've somehow missed wet food being served. Motherfucker, not once in your life have you slept through a can opening.

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Really good Albert blog

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Not so strong now, are you

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You just gotta serpentine

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I just wish Angine de Poitrine were like 30 percent less ... Quebecois about the whole thing

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During a March 26 meeting of the Souderton Area School District’s board of directors, board member Kim Wheeler alleged that an Inquirer journalist “right now is under investigation with the Philadelphia police for misleading information, and reporting on inaccurate information.”

But Sgt. Eric Gripp, a Philadelphia police spokesperson, said that the department does not conduct criminal investigations into journalists for their reporting, which “falls squarely under protected speech and free press rights under the First Amendment.”

During a March 26 meeting of the Souderton Area School District’s board of directors, board member Kim Wheeler alleged that an Inquirer journalist “right now is under investigation with the Philadelphia police for misleading information, and reporting on inaccurate information.” But Sgt. Eric Gripp, a Philadelphia police spokesperson, said that the department does not conduct criminal investigations into journalists for their reporting, which “falls squarely under protected speech and free press rights under the First Amendment.”

Lmao this is such a funny lie. "Uhhhhhhh the cops are investigating him for bad reporter-ing." www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

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Love the Evil Building.

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Can’t believe I just got to watch an earthset live. What a cool species we are.

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Neal Stephenson - Read the first 26 pages of Seveneves

If you're new to the Moon fandom, you should read Seveneves. It has one of the wildest first lines in a book. www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04...

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It's always kind of freaked me out how the Moon appears "upside down" to viewers in the Southern Hemisphere. Like I get it but I don't Get It.

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This really got me.

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Frame #58300 from S03 -E05 - Lamb-627679

Frame #58300 from S03 -E05 - Lamb-627679

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Artemis Boldly Goes Where No Toilet Has Gone Before | Defector It was about 65 minutes after liftoff, the Integrity spacecraft 800 miles above the Indian Ocean and moving at about 16,000 miles per hour, when the historic words were spoken: “Integrity, Houston, to...

At the very least, listen to the embedded audio of Apollo 10 astronauts giggling about the zero-g turd that escaped its waste bag and was floating around the cabin. defector.com/artemis-bold...

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The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is: Boat | Defector I am going to ask of you a level of intimacy and trust I would not afford even to a lover, or to my own child: I am going to ask you to watch a 10-minute video online. Wait! I promise. I promise you w...

watched Boat again this morning, almost cried, became randomly angry as shit, and now feel cleansed and energized. god bless you, Boat. defector.com/the-sports-h...

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Uh oh the toilet mysteriously lost power.

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Boldly going where no toilet has gone before

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Still watching the Artemis coverage and just heard, “Houston, toilet is powered.”

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We're sending three people and one Canadian to the moon

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