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Tim Marchman
marchman
Editor at Special Projects Desk

I love it! Obviously there are things you miss out on but I think the psychological distance is good both for me and for the work we do, and also I don’t have to live in New York, which is expensive and sucks. Read more

I sort of got proposed to by a feminist though it’s probably better characterized as us talking about what sort of thing would be good. Point being I contest your premise. Read more

As a manager, it is a legitimate struggle to get people to take as much vacation as I want them to and think they should, and I also have to be told to go away. I think unlimited vacation is sincerely well-meant but in practice leads to people working more and vacationing less. Read more

We got REALLY busy. Samer yells at me about this every couple of weeks. We’ll get caught up eventually; being years behind seems “on-brand.” Read more

Drew and I have lots of time off coming up so it may be irregular but we’re here to awkwardly yell at each other. Read more

Reading a James Blish novel about a dude who gets a headache and discovers he has godlike psychic powers. It’s not really very good but it’s July and I’m here for fun pulpy genre stuff. Read more

The terms on which our Democratic Party paymasters give us our weekly checks for services rendered preclude us covering such topics. Read more

This post has been updated to clarify that why the ban was imposed remains unclear from the ruling. Read more

If “the strong fucking home run slam” is good enough for America’s greatest baseball writer ... Read more

Vote Snyder. Anything detailed above or detailed in anything linked to above aside, he started an image-maintenance charity called OAF! Read more

Reasonable points ... but then only one of these teams got investigated by the Feds. Read more

The broader perspective is capital making war on labor. Read more

I actually set up a robot in our staff chat that posts that picture when a certain topic comes up. Read more