Kelsey McKinney
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The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off has a gem of a time during Biscuit Week: defector.com/the-not-so-g...
The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Has A Gem Of A Time During Biscuit Week | Defector
Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home…
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wrote about how much i loved the new east of eden show for the defector culture newsletter! defector.beehiiv.com/p/we-re-goin...
We're going East of Eden
Don't worry, it's worth the trip.
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I saw Phoebe Bridgers in DC last week and I can't stop thinking about it. Easily one of the best shows I've been to. @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social wrote this about the Philly show which does a really good job of capturing the magic defector.com/phoebe-bridg...
Phoebe Bridgers Showed Us How To See In The Dark | Defector
PHILADELPHIA — When the lights went out, a crisp, adolescent shriek rose from all sides of the arena, anticipating her arrival. But she did not come, not just yet. Instead, a silence fell heavy and un...
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the Phoebe Bridgers show in Philly last week was the best arena show I've seen in years and the magic of it is captured really well in this @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social piece:
Phoebe Bridgers Showed Us How To See In The Dark | Defector
PHILADELPHIA — When the lights went out, a crisp, adolescent shriek rose from all sides of the arena, anticipating her arrival. But she did not come, not just yet. Instead, a silence fell heavy and un...
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Target is having a Buy 2, Get 1 Free sale on BOOKS, including MY book, Every Time a Bell Rings! What a great chance to buy three books, including mine, OR just buy three copies of my book! www.target.com/p/it-s-a-won...
Every Time a Bell Rings - by Lauren Theisen & Emily St James (Hardcover)
Read reviews and buy Every Time a Bell Rings - by Lauren Theisen & Emily St James (Hardcover) at Target. Choose from contactless Same Day Delivery, Drive Up and more.
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Phoebe Bridgers showed us how to see in the dark: defector.com/phoebe-bridg...
Phoebe Bridgers Showed Us How To See In The Dark | Defector
PHILADELPHIA — When the lights went out, a crisp, adolescent shriek rose from all sides of the arena, anticipating her arrival. But she did not come, not just yet. Instead, a silence fell heavy and…
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i wrote about the beautiful light ball at the phoebe bridgers concert defector.com/phoebe-bridg...
Phoebe Bridgers Showed Us How To See In The Dark | Defector
PHILADELPHIA — When the lights went out, a crisp, adolescent shriek rose from all sides of the arena, anticipating her arrival. But she did not come, not just yet. Instead, a silence fell heavy and un...
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wow tomorrow in my newsletter i will send you all my mexico city recs from my vacation huge day buttondown.com/mckinneykels...
Kelsey McKinney — Notes from Me!
This is a newsletter by me (Kelsey McKinney) about whatever I want.
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There are ways to both engage with the challenges facing readers and reading today while also rejecting this kind of triumphal doomerism; the booksellers I spoke with for this piece are exemplars of that. Maybe you'd like to read this today instead?
What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector
If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...
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Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · last wk.Today in I want to burn this place down:
the genius Sophie Abromowitz is back with an essay on Resident Evil and addiction
Accept The Expanding Ball Of Infected Corpses You Cannot Change | Defector
“Here are the main things you need to know about the Resident Evil games,” I explained to my friend Liz over the nonsense of the Digger trailer. “There’s a big outbreak of some kind of mutagenic virus...
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If you’re looking for something to watch as the weather cools down, The New Yorker has you covered with Your Parents’ Fall TV Preview!
Your Parents’ Fall TV Preview
Have you considered “Six Hours a Day of MSNBC” on MS NOW (or Fox News, depending on your specific parents)?
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Another banger from @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
Defector@defector.com · 3w agoEd Sheeran, perhaps best known for writing the kind of music that your second cousin chooses to play for the father-daughter dance at her wedding, cemented his status as a floppy-spine dummy this week by bending the knee to American billionaire idiot Robert Kraft. defector.com/massive-own-...
This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3w agoBREAKING: The House is going home again—this time to avoid a vote on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s impeachment.
every week i send a little newsletter with 15 links to stuff i think is cool! You can find it here: buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey
Kelsey McKinney — Notes from Me!
This is a newsletter by me (Kelsey McKinney) about whatever I want.
buttondown.com
nothing more terrifying than the optimism of putting playoff tickets on your credit card
I cannot explain how many AI emails I'm deleting every day from people who REALLY think they're doing something. (All of them are identical)
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last mo.People keep telling me the chatbots are getting really good and then I open my inbox and it’s 30 messages like this
i think about gloria steinem's dedication in "my life on the road" all the time. she was an astronaut.
i talked to an expert about what the hell is going on with these Beatles wigs defector.com/possible-red...
Possible Red Card: The Beatles Movie Wigs | Defector
Four movies about The Beatles are currently in production. There will be one movie for each Beatle, and director Sam Mendes has said that the four movies will be the “first binge-able theatrical exper...
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The A's just did one of the coolest things I've seen in their broadcast: Just unfiltered audio of the live director calling a Lawrence Butler plate appearance...that went about as well as they could have hoped for.
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
Our favorite Dolly Parton performances: defector.com/our-favorite...
Our Favorite Dolly Parton Performances | Defector
“High Sierra” On Tuesday, in the moments after I heard that Dolly Parton had died, I returned immediately to “Light of a Clear Blue Morning.” It’s a song I’ve always loved, even when I was a child, an...
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unlike the other phillies' fans, i think it's cool and hot that the team has won 9 straight
I wrote about the importance of literary friction and how the acts of thinking and learning and growing are anathema in our increasingly fascistic world. Which is all the more reason to double down on them. lithub.com/in-praise-of...
In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)
More than two years ago I wrote an angry piece about how lame the bulletpointization of books is: the point of reading and engaging with books is not so the reader can consume little bullet points …
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i wrote about my ADORABLE scorekeeping class and how I'm obsessed with everyone who came!! defector.com/i-taught-a-s...
I Taught A Scorekeeping Class And Everybody Came | Defector
Several times a week, I sit myself down in front of a baseball game either in person or on television, I retrieve my book and my pen, and I keep score. I feel my brain relax, my mind soften, my attent...
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