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Kate Knibbs
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Senior writer at Gizmodo.

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation Read more

Apologies to anyone who actually read all that. Read more

It’s worth pointing out that DeRogatis played a large part in breaking the R. Kelly story, and his careful, meticulous work on that story couldn’t stand in greater contrast to Rolling Stone’s UVA piece. His work gives such a lie to Rolling Stone’s excuse — we were just too sensitive to rape victims, you guys! — Read more

This is SO French Canadian. When I was in Montreal every woman's face was like this. Granted, that was awhile ago, but it's a pretty classic look. I'm surprised she didn't try to dye your hair that purply auburn color. Are they still all doing that?

the real heroes are internet commenters who are always here to remind us how much everyone sucks Read more