This is good kinja.

Unions are integral to how labor works, and how management interacts with labor. Back in the early 2000s, I was working for an adult novelty and marital tools company called Head & Spin.

Esther, it feels like everything is on borrowed time at this point, so I just wanted to say thanks for all your work here. Jezebel has been “my” corner of the internet for 8 years, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that there were some days when looking forward to reading Jez was the one thing I could bring myself…

Do you really think so, though? Because when it comes to women it feels like everything moves really fucking slowly. I’m betting about 100 years before everyone’s blase about it. 

I’m so gonna miss this place :(

I didn’t appreciate it at the time, but killing of Splinter - which I still maintain did itself no favors, but that’s another issue - was the first step in what will be the killing of each property. It seems obvious, now, that Jez and The Root are to follow.

This place is basically a Taboola farm overrun with auto-playing video.

I am not that into cricket but I did enjoy the movies Lagaan and UnIndian.

Fuck Jim Spanfeller.

Nah, you’re right. Gone gone gone. I think maybe it was because I was logged into Drew’s article for hours, glancing & commenting whenever I had a few free seconds, that I was able to remain logged into (& interacting with) the comments long after they were removed from public view. I went back after reading your post…

Given the level of incompetence they have displayed over the past few days, I would not be surprised if the comments section was up and down.

This is the 2nd time that I've read this & I'm confused because I was commenting over there AFTER you posted this. 

I suspect that was the goal all along--ownership just thought they could do this without muss or fuss.

I only follow football, but I’ve always found myself reading a lot of Deadspin’s articles because the writing was just so fucking good—and the comment section was dependably terrific as well. Was. Jesus, whatever the many and legion faults of men like Pulitzer and Hearst, they were true newspapermen, not “outside the…

Truly. Spanfeller and co. can fuck right off. Time to go back to only reading the Guardian

At the end of the day, it was bought out along with the rest of the sites. But absolutely nothing in that chain of events was remotely fair, moral, ethical or correct. If it wasn’t clear what the mission of the Private Equity group were before this, the destruction of Deadspin, arguably one of the most valuable of the…

I found Gawker via a Burneko recipe.

Agreed. The Jez staff is trying, but you can’t fight the entropy resulting from all of the ownership changes and subsequent layoffs.

Splinter never seemed like they had their shit together. Half of their posts were less than a paragraph long or simply a posting of someone’s tweet. Sure, Deadspin did the latter on occasion and Kotaku did the former with smaller news stories, but Splinter took it to a whole other level. Furthermore, much of the…

There is a huge gaping hole. I’m glad to see people trickling back to Jez/The Slot but even Jez has been only a shadow of what it used to be, back in the Gawker days when I first started.