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Kate Knibbs ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ
@Knibbs
senior writer at Wired ๐Ÿฆ Story tips: [email protected] (or DM me for Signal/WhatsApp!) extremeknibbs on Insta/Threads and @knibbs.bsky.social
Chicago, IL
Joined October 2010
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    Hereโ€™s a supply chain issueโ€ฆ I ran out of fucks to give!!!!!!!!
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    When your kid really really loves one specific song from Moana
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    got rejected by the "george r.r. martin summer writing workshop" at northwestern, which is sad, but the rejection notice came way past deadline, fully over a month later than they originally claimed, which is objectively very funny
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    SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details:
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    I thought the whole โ€œcats can have a little salamiโ€ meme was a quote from the Irishman and I just sat thu 3 1/2 hours of a movie waiting for them to say โ€œcats can have a little salamiโ€
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    a great socially distanced activity would be to get picked up by a forklift and gently lowered into a vast cranberry bog
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    the jeremy renner app is absolutely out of control
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    if aoc isn't ready to run soon i think the dems should go all-on on the big boys. imagine a fetterman/pritzker ballot
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    If you look at Acronym's "About" page today it says "we invested in Shadow" but if you look at the Wayback Machine from last month it's "we launched Shadow"
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    As someone who has lived in both NYC (7 yrs in Brooklyn) and Chicago (cumulative total of 21 years, all south side) I am sorry to say that if you find Chicago โ€œmiserableโ€ itโ€™s a skill issue
    Hi, Iโ€™m a NYer who lived in Chicago for 2 yrs. It has its charms but I found it mostly miserable: the winters, the measurably worse violent crime, the exceptional scale of segregation, the vast transit gaps, the monotonous suburban sprawl into farmland. Itโ€™s cheaper for a reason.
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    crazy that Grimes and I were in the same Russian lit class in college and now she's pregnant w/ a billionaire weirdo's child and i'm in an LL Bean robe with the phrase "Cozy Time" stitched into the side. (yes...it cost extra)