“Appropriately catching heat”

The products that Theranos promoted perfectly performed the function they were designed for: Making the founders a shit-pile of money.

I find this part of the original WaPo article especially interesting:

It’s a matter of time before a woman dies due to being denied abortion services for these situations.

I get there was a lot of controversy around the Gandhi character, but man, as stoked as I am about this series returning, things won’t be the same without him

In fact, the Kardashians couldn’t even destroy the planet of Bajor, much less Angela White and Jordyn Woods!

1. This is the goverment running a private business’ land for them.

2. They were talking about ‘changing the programming’ that disney aired. So they thought they were getting 100% control of the company.

3. They already had that control for decades, they were being punished for speaking against a discriminatory law.

Don’t tell anyone else, but I’m starting to question if capitalist corporate law is really helpful to society. Thinking maybe not.

Yes, perhaps it is cheaper to shred than store, but having worked in licensed merch I think another explanation is ‘contractual obligation’. Most licensing contracts require the destruction of any product left after the term of the agreement expires. So if you can’t sell every last unit of inventory, you gotta…

The problem is they started mass producing Funkos of, like, everything. I mean, no one aside from The Nightmare Before Christmas diehards probably wants a Jack Skellington Santa figure.

All this stuff is really bad but I’m just coming away with the thought: “This is just modern American Conservative behavior.”

Well, now I feel guilty for buying some Wyrmwood stuff for my best friend last Christmas. I saw their stuff at a con and though it looked cool. I had no idea about Wyrm Life or who the CEO was. Now I know and will take that into account.

As a former employee of Wyrmwood from 2021-2022, I have seen everything described first hand. I left on my own accord for mental health reasons and the toxic work environment. I thought the company was for nerds but I found out quickly that it’s for nerdy guys and no one else. I do have fond memories from when i first…

If anyone out there finds themselves still in the market for a gaming table but suddenly less excited about owning a Wyrmwood, I’ve had an exceptionally positive experience with Uniquely Geek.

Yes, imagining that is exactly what I said I was doing in my last sentence.

tyyy i have to fit in investigative reporting in between SEO news posts lmao but this is the stuff i love to do.

I haven’t been a fan of your writing for this site so far Linda, but this was absolutely fantastic. They need to let you write more long-form investigations like this. You absolutely killed this piece. Well done.

I’m super glad you were able to cover this, Linda. You’re delivering a level of critical coverage of the tabletop gaming space that I think is desperately needed.

Tom can see Suri. In their divorce agreement, he isn’t allowed to disparage or alienate Katie from Suri.