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That’s weird, the comments work here. 

‘Faces of Death’ looked so real back in the day

Stick to people crapping on the floor of chain restaurants

Re: the Deadspin meltdown, here’s the Google cached version of the since-removed post the other day apologizing to readers for the autoplay video content.

and they are handling things with far more grace and class than the turds at splinter did.

That was not the lone dispute among management and staff, which is unionized. Management removed posts on the site telling readers how to complain to management about the auto-play videos that had become prominent on Deadspin in recent days.

I’m presuming everyone else was in suits? 

“We have plenty of other sites that write about politics, pop culture, the arts, and the rest, and they’re the appropriate place for such work.” — G/O Media bigwig Paul Maidment, ignoring the obvious fact that he just killed their dedicated politics site a couple weeks ago. Fuck that guy.

Where have you read about the sports-only edict?  

Where have you read about the sports-only edict? (nm.. just thought to google ‘deadspin sports only’)

Ironically, or I guess not, their “sports-only” site is useless, basically not covering sports at all.  That site was my entre into the Kinja world and it was the perfect blend of exhaustive sports and non-sports content, but at the moment it’s just crap.  I hope they work something out and stop sucking. 

Is it just me or is Deadspin pretty much on its last legs? It used to be the go-to place for breaking sports news, and at the moment (Tuesday, late pm) the lead story on mobile is still about a forgettable play that happened in an NFL game 28 hours ago. World Series game 6 had a controversial call that I’m reduced to

White chocolate is actually not bad. The question is why they’re both stuffing bars into the same kids’ bags. 

I have this fantasy where I meet Mitch McConnell, exchange pleasantries, say “Merrick Garland” and punch him in the fucking face. 

“Staff is fleeing for the exits, what should we do?”
“We have old shit we can recycle, right?”

As an employee of G/O Media, I can’t relate to such a thing.

Today in Precrime. 

I’m always perplexed by tired “They say this now, but they said that then!” takes. Different situations are different. And people defend their people. And do you even know it’s the same individuals positing the two positions?

This is the hottest story. 

If he didn’t expect boos he would have had gone to a baseball game by now.