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Hey, So I'm having a bad week and would really like an outed Kells and Em fic, it could be as angsty or fluffy as you want, I just need a happy ending. A little joy from a situation like that would be really nice right now, Thanks P.S. I've been reading your writing for a while and I think they're really great!! I hope you keep having Inspiration to do so!!!

Sorry I'm so late replying to this!! Ive had a shitty busy week myself and i feel horrible its taken me so long!!

I feel like instagram would be Em and Kelly's downfall. Just because the younger rapper is constantly on it, posting little snippets to interact with his fans, going Live, and of course posting pictures.

Slip ups are inevitable once he and Marshall start spending more and more time together.

Because Colson can't just cut back, when he does that fans start speculating. Questioning why exactly he's suddenly getting more secretive or searching through what he does share with a fine tooth comb to spot a new mystery girlfriend.

So Colson continues posting away on instagram and filming his lives, even when he and Marshall are together. Ignoring the headshakes and looks the older rapper shoots his way everytime he's on live laughing it up.

At first it's awkward, Marshall and him keep alternating who's going to duck into the bathroom or step out for coffee. But eventually they get used to it and comfortable enough that Colson can walk around their hotel room filming while Marshall naps on the couch.

The blonde even gets cheeky enough to start teasing his partner, like snapping photos of their shared brunches, or taking after sex selfies that always get Marshall hiding under the blankets or kicking him.

Really Colson should have seen it coming. You can only fly so close to the sun before you get burned afterall.

The mistakes start piling up soon enough.

Marshall accidentally yelling to ask him something when he's recording a live, Colson walking a bit too close to the couch and flashing the hoodie clad rappers back, the bottom of Marshall's AA necklace in the back of a breakfast shot, and more minor incidents that branch out from there.

At first Colson can just brush the unfamilar voice and thankfully covered up body as one of his assitants or friends. But as soon as that necklace peek gets out the internet does its thing and speculation over a possible collab strikes up.

The assumption being he gave everyone the glimpse on purpose.

Of course he's relieved the public isn't immediately jumping to the crazy possibility of them banging. Even though thats exactly what theyre doing. But him and Marshall AREN'T actually making any music together, and neither of them has publicly squashed their beef. Afterall, what better cover than pretending to still hate eachother?

But now that's all out the window. Colson's lack of an immediate excuse and rapid deletion of the photo just convincing the media their theories are correct.

Paul is of course furious, reaming both of them out over the phone about how they better get on a track together or figure out some new cover. And Diddy, well Diddy rarely comes off his self made throne to speak to Colson, let alone acknowledge most of his success, but the rapper actually does inquire to him about the whole spectacle. And Colson can't help but find himself wishing he had a guy like Paul who knew about them and could just simply yell at him because he still has no idea what to even say.

They settle on quiet ambiguous statements from their labels about how the two of them are working towards mending their beef and that a collaboration isn't exactly out of the question at this moment.

It works. For about a month or two, mostly due to them being apart yet again. The major hype dies down and Colson avoids any and all questions relating to Marshall in his lives and on twitter. The two of them are able to breathe a sigh of relief as temporary as it may be.

Until the next time they make time to see eachother. Colson's got a small charity event in Detroit that he plans on using as an excuse to linger around the city and steal some much needed time with his secret boyfriend.

Of course all eyes are on them yet again, questioning whether the young rapper might also be stopping in to work in some music with his rival.

With paparazzi tailing him more than ever it's impossible for him to just go to Marshall's place like he'd planned. Instead forcing him into renting a suite and wasting most of the day stressing over just how the hell he's supposed to sneak Marshall in with the bastards sitting outside the building like hawks. The other rapper isn't exactly helping either, just sending his usual cryptic texts telling Colson not worry about it but never expanding on what his plan is either.

By the time the blonde finally finishes his busy day and drags himself back to the room he has fully accepted that their rendezvous is not going to happen. Marshall had stopped texting him more than two hours ago and he wasn't about to act even more like a spoiled child by blowing the man's phone up. Colson's just given up. He can't even muster the energy to give the paparazzi outside his hotel more then an annoyed comment about how his life doesn't revolve around collaborations and the finger before slipping inside.

Marshall's presence in his hotel room, already stripped down to his night tee and briefs almost looks like a mirage. But when he shuts the door and crosses the room to bury his face in the other man's neck he smells like ivory soap and that woodsy beard oil the blonde bought him and Colson can't help but hug him closer.

He's so relieved to see him he doesn't even snark back at Marshall's muffled comment that he looks like shit.

The moment is sweet and Colson honestly should have realized it was just the calm before the storm but he's too caught up in complaining about the media and basking in his partner's soft agreements to care.

Before taking off to take his shower he hands Marshall over his phone, suggesting the brunette look through the mess his instragram comment section has become, all the questions and posts he's been tagged in over that little picture and their statements. Because why not? They would inevitably end up laying against eachother in bed scrolling through them all together anyway, at least this way Marshall can get a headstart.

And Marshall does actually swipe through them for a bit, spending more time admiring some of his partners pretty posts than he does reading the never ending stream of comments. The rapper rarely gets on the app himself except to post the occasional merch drop and promo. Social media isn't his forte, and it's not like he could follow Colson's account anyway. Navigating the app and searching for his boyfriends account was too much work when he could just asks for selfies over text.

Thats why when Marshall finishes his browsing and begins backing out of a post back to Colson's homepage he doesn't even care to pay much attention to what he's tapping. The flash of black and loading wheel that lights up the screen completely missed when he tosses it across the bed in lieu of playing around on his own phone.

The livestream he accidentally starts mainly films a blank ceiling through the rest of Colson's shower. The occasional creak and shift on the bed from Marshall's weight and blare of music from his own phones speakers all anyone tuning in can hear.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon for fans to realize the Live has been started unknowingly, but thats not going to stop any of them from filing in.

Maybe if Colson hadn't set his phone to silent the string of text messages might have alerted Marshall to his mistake. But the older rapper relaxes back on the bed less than a foot away blissfully unaware until Colson finally exits the bathroom.

Neither of them notice the phone when Marshall sits up and scoots to the edge of the bed, his body briefly flickering past the frame. They don't see the explosion of comments flying past the screen while they talk and Colson shoves the other man back onto the bed again. Bouncing the phone high enough to almost flip it if fate didn't decide to just scoot it closer to their tangling bodies.

Colson's whole upper body and face is in frame from then on. His cheeks flushed and smile cocky while he straddles his unseen partner. Marshall's fingertips peeking onto the screen where they're tickling the skin covering his ribs.

Its not until after Marshall's sat back up and begun peppering kisses down the front of his throat that he finally catches sight of his half blanket covered phone. An amused accusation about the other rapper trying to sneakily film them prompting Marshall to scoff and reach out for it.

"Probably just the app, shits always opening up to the camera on my phone-"

The rush of comments speeding past the screen and the unmistakeable red dot next to LIVE has Marshall freezing. His wide eyed face fully on screen for 10 seconds before Colson finally pries the phone from his hands to see whats got him so spooked.

Instead of panic, anger is what rushes through Colson's veins. A slew of curses leaving his mouth, before he finally manages to end the live. Phone promptly flying out of his hand against the wall afterwards.

The blonde wants to scream and thrash around. And thats what he does, fingers tearimg at his hair in frustration.

It takes Marshall's fingers softly prying them down for Colson to finally open his eyes again. The utterly terrified look on his partner's face chasing away his residual rage. "Fuck Colson I'm sorry-" its not the first time he's heard Marshall apologize, but it is the first time the man has ever done it while looking so scared of his response.

All the months he'd spent dreaming about his rival making such an expression have nothing on the real thing. And that smug powerful feeling he'd imagined was completely absent now. Just an uncomfortable knot seizing up his chest in it's place.

"I'm not--" his own voice feels tight. Tears threatening to bubble up in his eyes while the reality of the whole situation continues to wash over him. "I'm not mad at you, alright?"

He's mad at the media, at his fans, the rap industry, everything that makes him feel like this little slip up and intimate moment of theirs going viral will ruin their lives.

Colson's sick of hiding who he is and who he's with. Its utter bullshit. Its 2019 for chrissakes, who gives a shit who's banging who? They both make bad ass music either way and liking dick shouldn't change that.

Pushing up off of Marshall, Colson moves to climb off the bed. His hopefully not smashed phone across the room his current focus. But the older rapper snags his wrist and wont let him take more than one step.

And thats when Colson realizes just why Marshall looks so terrified. The man's worried that this is it, that he's going to just leave.

Run away from their problems and abandon the relationship they've been cultivating. Just go full scorched earth.

And that hurts.

So instead the blonde softens his expression and climbs back into bed, onto the other man's lap to hug him tightly. "Fuck Marsh--" He's not about to let the media ruin another relationship. "I love you."

The responding hug is so tight it hurts but Colson doesn't stop. "I fucking love you."

They're falling back onto the bed, legs tangling and Colson's teeth grinding while he rubs his face along the older rapper's shoulder. "I love you"

He doesn't even know what else to say. Now that the words are out it's all his tongue can shape.

"Colson-" Marshall's warm palms are cupping his face, pulling him back so they can stare at eachother

"I love you-" that one hurts the most, maybe because they're eye to eye and just looking at Marshall's soft expression and the possibility of losing it makes him want to crumble. "Please-"

He chokes back a wet sound in the back of his throat before they kiss. Pressing as close as he can, practically trying to glue their mouths together permanently.

Marshall's afraid to lose him just as much. They're idiots for ever thinking it might be a possibilility.

The media can get blown, and so can the industry and their so called fans. The cats out of the bag now and theirs no turning back. If they don't like them together than tough shit. They've both dragged themselves up out of the pits before, this will be no different.

Except, this time they have eachother to lean on.

"I love you to you cornball."

(((Ffffff this sat in my drafts cuz I got distracted by work and life. Im so fucking sorry anon!!!)))

((Also! Thank you anon! For the compliments! Im glad you enjoy my works!))

What are some of the tvd to fandoms greatest hits so to speak... I was only in it for a short time and then jumped out because I couldn't stand to

Oh, well allow me to be your guide. This will be under a read more because I already know, I’m gonna write a whole essay. Shout out to my ride or die @hellsbellschime.

I don’t think any overtly crazy happened during the good!TVD years. No wait, I’m lying.

The year the spin-off got announced, I believe it was tvguide, that posted an article with like info tidbits for currently airing shows. And one of them, was that Hayley was pregnant with Klaus’ kid. I remember this shit so clearly, man. Everyone was so confused. And then they were like SURPRISE, APRIL FOOLS. Because it was in fact April 1st. So ha-ha we all had a laugh, great. Fastforward to what, late April? Episode 4x20 airs, and it’s exactly what happened???

That whole day btw, the day the backdoor pilot for TO aired was just insanity. I’ll say that about a lot of days in this answer, but that day was really just something else. Like we were delirious, that’s the only way I can explain what happened on here. It was a nightmare but also one of the funniest night’s I’ve ever spent on here. I gotta go back for old time’s sake and reblog some of the shit from that night because we all snapped. And not in the good way. 

The TVD 100th. Now, we knew Joseph was coming back for that episode so they hype was real. Because up until that point, we’d gotten a huge load of nothing in regards to Klaroline. They released a trailer, a short one, that’s still in my favorites folder on youtube to this day. I rewatch it all the time because it’s iconic. And there was literally .002 seconds of Klaroline. It’s Caroline standing and then Klaus says “hello, caroline” and everyone lost their shit so much when it dropped that ‘hello caroline’ trended ww on twitter. 

THE DAY THE NETWORK THAT AIRED TVD IN AUSTRALIA AIRED A PROMO WITH THE KLAROLINE KISS IN 5X11. ICONIC. I literally woke up, logged on at around 11 AM my time, and my dashboard was on fire. It was the BEST. We didn’t know wtf to do, it was amazing. 

Paleyfest. Ohhhh buddy, lemme tell ya. So TVD/TO got chosen to have the CW panel’s at Paleyfest that year. Everyone was on a bit of edge because TO to that point was what, almost done with S1 and Klaroline had been given the mega cold-shoulder despite being the very thing other than the Mikaelson’s that got used to lure people in? After the pregnancy plot from hell, everyone was ready to peace tf out, but we got halted because it was a ‘ohh of course it’s gonna continue’ then they tried to nip Klaroline in the bud with 5x11 and no one was having it. So Paleyfest was where we were gonna get some ANSWERS, DAMMIT. I live on the east coast and the festival was held in the west coast so I wasn’t awake when it was happening. I remember making a post about how ‘going to sleep, and hoping when I woke up the answers were good.’. So I went to sleep, woke up a few hours later like 2-3 AM my time, and checked my blog and the first message I had was ‘don’t wake up stephanie, everything is a mess, stay asleep where everything’s fine’ I—

The gist of that was, they basically set JoMo up to be the bad-cop in shutting down Klaroline. He gave this long answer that made absolutely zero sense. The girl who asked the question about Klaroline, who was like 13 at the time, got called a bully for even asking a question at an event she paid to be at. A mess. And JP was like NO CROSSOVERS, ORGANIC, BLAH BLAH. And Paul was sitting next to her going “why can’t the show’s just intersect”, he was right and he said it. 

I can’t remember if this was S1 or S2, but somebody tweeted something and Carina replied ‘when you’re found dead in your basement with klaroline written on you this is why’ or something like that, that was a ~fun~ night. And then like half an hour later she was like “I’m sorry, I’ll never tweet about Klaroline again just leave me alone” if you’ve ever seen this fandom refer to ourselves as basement dwellers, this night is why. 

NARDUCCI. Can’t forget him. Talk about a man who just didn’t get it. And I don’t mean Klaroline, he just didn’t get anything, nothing in his head has ever clicked, I’m convinced. He used to pick fights on twitter repeatedly. Admitted once that he missed his flight because he was on twitter…arguing with a fan. AND ONE DAY, he decided to just—snap. Went on this hours long tirade against the Klaroline fandom, essentially calling everyone stupid because no one was appreciating the ‘art’ of the show. So when I say it lasted hours, I mean that. Now, you’d think, that he would be done, right? WELL, apparently that wasn’t enough, so the next day, he continued. I remember because I was in this gc on whatsapp, and I remember Erika sending a message to the gc going “omg, Narducci vs KCers round 2″ when I tell you I screamed. The man went on a two-day rampage against this fandom and it was insane. 

S6/S2 of TVD/TO was not a fun time. I can genuinely say it was borderline a chore to come on here during that time. It wasn’t fun, every day someone was in argument with someone from production on twitter. Truly the worst year of the fandom, imo. So S7/S3 rolls around and that’s where shit went nuclear. 

Hillary and I, are minding our own damn business, when someone come’s to us with information regarding the new seasons. This was post-SDCC, so it’s like the lull of September, waiting for the seasons to start in October. And we get approached with information, talkin bout how Caroline’s gonna be pregnant with Alaric’s twins in S7. When I tell you we didn’t know wtf to do. And we had to like wait on confirmation about it but then we found out it was legit and we were pissed. Literally ask us if we wanted to be in the spoiler game, the answer is no tf we did not. And she and I basically spent two days complaining. LIKE UGHHHH WE DON’T WANNA DO THIS, BUT ALSO THIS IS DISGUSTING, WE CAN’T JUST LET THEM SPRING THIS ON EVERYONE, BUT AGHH WHY US. So we chose collectively, as a duo, because das my other half yo, to blab. 

That went over as best as anyone could hope for it to go. Now, flashforward yet again, this time to around late Novemeber/December. I had been sent word that something was going down. TVD/TO lost their Thursday slots and got bumped to Friday’s, so a plan was going on, and they made one. We’d heard that they were rearranging something mid-season because they were gonna make a crossover work, publicly we found out it would be Paul and JoMo that crossover back-to-back. THEN ONE NIGHT—I call it black friday bc  that day was a fucking mess—, a friend of mine was friends with an SCer, I wanna say, and she was hearing word that the crossover did have Klaus and Caroline interact via phone call, but that it was very definitively an ending. Because they spoke about Camille and Stefan, etc, etc. Like a closing of the book type thing. So okay, we were like devastated, everyone on twitter was losing their shit. Everyone was pissed, and @-ing the writers all these crazy, sad things, we were a wreck. Ask Hillary about this night because she, I remember, describes it as ‘logging on and reading what everyone else had and not understanding why tf everyone was mad about it’. It was the first and last time that our roles were reversed, and bless her for it. 

SO WE’RE SITTING THERE, it’s Saturday, and we kept getting more information and we were like…something isn’t right here. So we did a bit of digging, spoke to a few people and waited it out. LO AND BEHOLD, everything we’d heard about the phone call was false. There was a phone call but the CKers and SCers were so mad about what was actually said in it, that a few of em, ring leaders of the feeble minded, made up a version and passed it around their fandoms as legit till it eventually worked it’s way over to us. So we all jumped the gun on fake information, lmfskdnknsks. Rumor has it, you can still hear Hillary yelling ‘I told you so’ at me through our group chat. 

So all was well, I couldn’t tell everyone why not to panic, just that they didn’t need to. Until, this account popped up called tvdspoiler or something on twitter, also saying false information about the phone call. Sending everyone into a panic yet again. I remember this because I was at  kmart with my mom, and the kmart by my house was in a basement so I had no cell service. I was able to send like a couple of messages, and was basically like ‘tell everyone to chill, I’ll clear it up when I get home’ did that in like a couple of hours cause then I had to leave to the midnight showing of the force awakens with my friends. So that day was chaotic, but fun. It was the first time I reached 99+ messages on my inbox, lmao. 

So that all happened like a good while before we actually saw the episode. But cut to a few weeks later. I woke up at 1 AM my time to drink water, was on tumblr trying to go back to sleep. I checked my inbox and there was this bizarre message talking about ‘got some scoop’ and they were like ‘Finn dies in 3x17, Aurora gets put into some weird sleeping spell in 3x18, Camille and Davina die in 3x19, Lucien dies in 3x20′ and I quite literally laughed??? Literally who wouldn’t. Like who tf would ever believe TO had the balls to do all of that when they never killed anyone off. AND, WHO WOULD BELIEVE THAT SOMEONE WOULD JUST STOP BY, SHARE IT AND LEAVE. So I sent a screenshot to Hillary and was like ‘yo did you get this because wtf’. We often got duplicate messages. And we often got messages of people who were pissed about the two previous times we, from the klaroline fandom of all places, had legit info that wound up being true, that they were just waiting for us to fuck up. So we used to get messages of people pretending they were sharing info, and it was just antis trying to make us look stupid. 

SO, Hillary says ‘just answer it because it’s obviously fake’ top ten moments before disaster. I answer it and am like oh haha, and where did that info come from. And they came back like a minute later, saying ‘I have a source’ THEN THEY ELABORATED. They mentioned that Lucien drags Freya and Vincent to Mystic Falls to do this spell with some bullet and etc. So at that point we were like fUCK because that same day we’d found out was in 3x16, which ended with Lucien and this white-oak bullet, having kidnapped Freya. And that’s when we knew, that someone showed up in the middle of the night, spoiled the whole back-half of TO S3—and then left.

The back-half of S3 was so fun??? Every week the info just kept coming true. On the wikia everyone hated me, probably the most anti messages I ever had was during that time, honestly it was great, 10/10 would recommend. 

THEN, at some point in our blog history, Hillary had been getting quite a few messages about PT. And she had this fucking line in one of the messages about Phoebe’s pronunciation with her accent for the show, or lack thereof. And she said “weeches and woves will always have a place in my heart” SO THEM PHOEBE TWEETED IT. THAT EXACT LINE, and we were like was she...? So we shrugged off okay. A few days later, she tweeted “hellsbellschime enough, there’s plenty of other things to watch on tv, I hear mad men’s great.” And I—

THIS WAS ON SOME RANDOM ASS SUNDAY. Like I was lounging around, waiting for the new episode of game of thrones and then WHAM, chaos. AND AS IF THAT WASNT ENOUGH, Leah joined in too. Putting a target on my friends back...about her blog that no one was making them read. You can’t make that shit up. And Jenn actually replied to Phoebe’s tweet and got a reply back, and she was all “you’re right, I’m sorry” and then deleted the original tweet, which I still have a screenshot of btw. And then Leah showed up in Hillary’s inbox with this ridiculous three part ask about how she shouldn’t criticize women in the acting industry because of how hard it is for women in that industry which is true, but it doesn’t make you exempt from criticism??? So not sure where she meant to go with that one.

SO THERE WE HAVE IT, our fandom’s greatest hits. I’m sure I can elaborate and insert more, but I’ve been typing for a good 40 minutes. 

Told ya, I wrote a whole dissertation, lmaooo.

Pluralistic: 08 Mar 2020 (Ghost flights over Europe, Patagonia joins Right to Repair, EU's R2R showdown with Apple)

Today's links

EU airspace is full of empty planes: Flight slots are use-em-or-lose-em.

European Right to Repair for phones is finally on the horizon: Will the EU finally defy Apple?

Patagonia offers tutorials and supplies to fix your clothes: Companies that guarantee their products for life have different incentives.

This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019

Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

EU airspace is full of empty planes (permalink)

In the EU, airlines that do not fly at least 80% of scheduled flights risk losing their spots to competitors, so Europe's skies are filled with largely empty "ghost planes," burning tons of fuel for no reason.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-airlines-run-empty-ghost-flights-planes-passengers-outbreak-covid-2020-3

Covid-19 has crashed aviation demand, but not flights themselves. Miraculously, UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps – an otherwise useless idiot – has led on this, asking British aviation regulators to relax the 80/20 rule.

https://twitter.com/grantshapps/status/1235614933292920832

European Right to Repair for phones is finally on the horizon (permalink)

The EU has led the world on Right to Repair, with extensive regulation mandating both easy-to-repair designs and manufacturer cooperation with the independent repair sector. But there's been one glaring omission in EU rules: smartphones. Though the official reasoning for not mandating Right to Repair for phones – which are universal and a major source of e-waste – is that the sector is too fast-moving to regulate, it's far more likely that the EU shied away because were scared to pick a fight with Apple.

Apple, after all, is the most repair-hostile manufacturer in the world. It's official reasoning on this is laughably terrible and transparent.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/33977/apple-told-congress-how-repair-should-work-we-respond

Especially when considered in light of its investor disclosures, which make it clear that the company views the tendency of customers to fix and keep their phones (rather than buying new ones) as the major threat to its profitability.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/letter-from-tim-cook-to-apple-investors/

Apple is a one-company environmental apocalypse, with the industry's worst practices for old/broken electronics. Others fix systems, re-use parts, and keep parts available. Apple literally orders its partners to shred it all and turn it into landfill.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yp73jw/apple-recycling-iphones-macbooks

This has the major advantage (for Apple) of curtailing the used equipment market, which means that potential customers are herded into buying new. It also means that those new devices have a hidden drain on their value, because they have no aftermarket commercial life. It's no wonder, then, that Apple led the industry coalitions that killed all twenty state-level Right to Repair bills in 2018.

Which brings us to today, as the EU is contemplating a new set of Right to Repair rules, including rules for electronics, including – possibly – phones. The new rules will be published this week, and Apple has lobbied heavily against this outcome.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/03/right-to-repair-will-the-european-commission-have-the-guts-to-stand-up-to-apple-et-al-details-on-wednesday.html

If the new ecodesign directive covers mobile phones, the Commission will finally be addressing one of the great e-waste sources worldwide. If they do, though, expect Apple to squawk, as they did when the EU mandated a single charger for smartphones, which Apple publicly freaked out about as though it was an extinction-level event.

Patagonia offers tutorials and supplies to fix your clothes (permalink)

People buy Patagonia not just because it's long-wearing, but because it comes with what amounts to a lifetime guarantee.

https://help.patagonia.com/s/article/Ironclad-Guarantee

Companies that offer lifetime guarantees want their customers to be able to effect their own repairs and maintenance – unlike companies whose profits depend on you throwing away and replacing your purchases every 18 months.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/08/ghost-flights/#eurighttorepair

So it's delightful (but not surprising) that Patagonia have partnered with iFixit to produce detailed repair and maintenance documentation for its products.

https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Patagonia_Product_Care

The official Product Repair Guide fits right in with the company's longstanding ethic and messaging (after all, these are the people who ran an anti-consumerism campaign called "Do Not Buy This Jacket!").

https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-fashion/patagonia-will-teach-you-how-repair-clothes.html

This day in history (permalink)

#15yrsago Waxy and his mom trying to save journalism program in SoCal's Oxnard College https://waxy.org/2005/03/my_mom_fights_t/

#5yrsago Stomach-churning details of CIA waterboarding crimes https://web.archive.org/web/20100310233037/https://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/03/09/waterboarding_for_dummies/index.html?source=rss&aim=%2Fnews%2Ffeature

#5yrsago Imaginary ISIS attack on Louisiana and the twitterbots who loved it https://render.betaworks.com/media-hacking-3b1e350d619c

#1yrago The media company paid by the EU Parliament to make a video promoting a copyright law it stood to make millions from once sued a photographer for complaining that they'd ripped him off https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190307/16175941758/eu-parliament-paid-news-publisher-afp-to-create-bogus-propaganda-video-favor-eu-copyright-directive.shtml

#1yrago Thanks to audiobooks, reading's popularity still strong in America https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/25/one-in-five-americans-now-listen-to-audiobooks/

#1yrago Millions of Americans have left Facebook, led by young people aged 12-34 https://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/06/tech/exclusive-look-numbers-showing-users-leaving-facebook-by-the-millions/

#1yrago A machine-learning system that guesses whether text was produced by machine-learning systems http://gltr.io/

#1yrago Towards a general theory of "adversarial examples," the bizarre, hallucinatory motes in machine learning's all-seeing eye https://perma.cc/3ZQQ-A7MY

#1yrago Chelsea Manning has been jailed for refusing to testify at a grand jury about her whistleblowing https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/8/18256173/chelsea-manning-wikileaks-jailed-testify-refusal

Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources: Slashdot (https://slashdot.org) and Naked Capitalism (https://nakedcapitalism.com/).

Hugo nominators! My story "Unauthorized Bread" is eligible in the Novella category and you can read it free on Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

Upcoming appearances:

Museums and the Web: March 31-April 4 2020, Los Angeles. https://mw20.museweb.net/

LA Times Festival of Books: 18 April 2020, Los Angeles. https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/

Currently writing: I'm rewriting a short story, "The Canadian Miracle," for MIT Tech Review. It's a story set in the world of my next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation. I'm also working on "Baby Twitter," a piece of design fiction also set in The Lost Cause's prehistory, for a British think-tank. I'm getting geared up to start work on the novel afterwards.

Currently reading: Just started Lauren Beukes's forthcoming Afterland: it's Y the Last Man plus plus, and two chapters in, it's amazeballs. Last month, I finished Andrea Bernstein's "American Oligarchs"; it's a magnificent history of the Kushner and Trump families, showing how they cheated, stole and lied their way into power. I'm getting really into Anna Weiner's memoir about tech, "Uncanny Valley." I just loaded Matt Stoller's "Goliath" onto my underwater MP3 player and I'm listening to it as I swim laps.

Latest podcast: Disasters Don't Have to End in Dystopias: https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/01/disasters-dont-have-to-end-in-dystopias/

Upcoming books: "Poesy the Monster Slayer" (Jul 2020), a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. Pre-order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=socialpost&utm_term=na-poesycorypreorder&utm_content=na-preorder-buynow&utm_campaign=9781626723627

(we're having a launch for it in Burbank on July 11 at Dark Delicacies and you can get me AND Poesy to sign it and Dark Del will ship it to the monster kids in your life in time for the release date).

"Attack Surface": The third Little Brother book, Oct 20, 2020.

"Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a very special, s00per s33kr1t intro.

How Trump swallowed the GOP whole, or why Paul Ryan should never be allowed in public life again

Joan McCarter

There's another book coming about the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the White House, penned by Politico chief political correspondent Tim Alberta. The Washington Post got an advance copy of American Carnage and highlights the parts that demonstrate just how irredeemable the Republican Party is.

There's former Republican National Committee aide Madeleine Westerhout, who "broke down crying, 'inconsolable' over Trump winning the election." That was election night, 2016. Now? "To the amusement of her RNC peers, she was later chosen as the president’s executive assistant and now sits just outside the Oval Office," Alberta writes. "Westerhout now tells others she would do almost anything for Trump, and he calls her 'my beautiful beauty.'" There's plenty more in the article about all the pre-election "never-Trumpers" who rolled over for the guy once he won: Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus, Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. But three stand out: Mike Pence, Mick Mulvaney, and Paul Ryan.

Alberta writes that Karen "Mother" Pence didn't want to appear in public with her husband after the infamous "grab 'em by the pussy" tape was released, and that Pence fundamentally disagreed with Trump on most key issues. And now his "oldest friends" joke about whether or not Trump is blackmailing him. According to the Post, Alberta writes in the book that "Pence's talent for bootlicking" has earned him the nickname "the Bobblehead" from fellow Republicans because he is so obsequious, nodding along to everything Trump says in meetings. With him, Pence brought the whole evangelical right, or "Those fucking evangelicals," as Trump called them in a meeting with Republican lawmakers, according to Alberta. In a subsequent meeting with evangelicals, he reportedly told them, "I owe so much to [Christianity] in so many ways […] because the Evangelical vote was mostly gotten by me." Attendees "walked out of the room in a daze," but they still love them some Trump.

Then there's Mulvaney. Before Trump's inauguration, when he was still a lowly House maniac, he told Alberta that "We’re not going to let Donald Trump dismantle the Bill of Rights," and that they'd fight Trump trying to overreach just like they did President Obama. "When we do it against a Republican president, maybe people will see it was a principled objection in the first place," he said. Then he got the nod as Office of Management and Budget director, with the side job of taking over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and eventually the other side job as acting White House chief of staff—a job in which he tells people he "lets Trump be Trump." Incidentally, his salary is tens of thousands more than it would be as permanent White House chief of staff because he's still drawing pay for the job he's on paper as doing at OMB. There's some principle for you.

Taking the cake, however, is Paul Ryan.

The former House speaker fully admits that he used retirement in 2018 as an "escape hatch" from Trump because he couldn't face having to deal with him for another two years. Now he tells Alberta, "We've gotten so numbed by it all. […] Not in government, but where we live our lives, we have a responsibility to try and rebuild. Don't call a woman a 'horse face.' Don't cheat on your wife. Don't cheat on anything. Be a good person. Set a good example." Says the guy who refused to stand up to Trump for the two years in which he had the ultimate power to do so. Like in the fight over the 2018 spending bill that didn't include border wall funding. Trump apparently reamed Ryan over it in person, but then "said he would sign it if Ryan were to give him time to build suspense on Twitter." Not only did Ryan agree to that,  but he "publicly sang the president's praises after the meeting."

The hypocrisy is one thing, a thing that so defines the Republican Party that it's hardly worth talking about anymore. It's the utter blindness that the likes of Pence and Ryan have for their own moral failures that's galling. It's the fact that Ryan, who presumably still sees a future for himself in national politics, and plenty of other Republicans willing to criticize Trump absolutely refuse to take responsibility for having created him in the first place, much less for rolling over entirely for him now. For this alone, Paul Ryan should be condemned to washing already-washed pots and pans for eternity.

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Today I wanted to share with you some advice on How to become a Frontend Developer.

The reason why I wrote this is because I received many messages in my social media and mail, asking things like: "How can I become a Frontend?", "When will I know if I'm ready or not to apply for a job?"...

And I thought I had to answer those questions publicly.

Before you start reading let me tell you: I'm just a designer who codes, but I have enough experience and I understand the industry needs, so here you have my advice on How to be Front.

This article was published in Spanish here.

🖐 Before we get started... What does actually mean to be a Front Dev?

If you've been around for a while you probably know each professional says a different thing.

Some people say design is not a part of Frontend area, not even semantic languages as HTML... They kind of customize their role.

I want to share with you the definition I think, by my experience, that suits a Frontend Developer: A professional who is familiar with semantic languages (HTML), styling languages (CSS) and web programming languages (JavaScript, PHP, Python), and is able to create a functional page.

The Frontend role must not be mistaken with other roles like Web designer, UX designer, or Graphic Designer.

📍 You start here: the 3 'ends' of Frontend

There are 3 languages you shall totally be familiar with if you're willing to join the Frontend Devs Fight Club, listed below these lines:

➜ HTML: Literally, every page you visit on the internet its been built with this language. The Internet's basically about HTML. It makes a webpage be a webpage. (And for those claiming "HTML isn't a language..." WELL, then what does the L in HTML stands for then?!).

➜ CSS: This language is the one building those fancy-really-colorful-amazing interfaces you're madly in love with. It's a VIL (very important language) here, you must TOTALLY understand how to use it.

➜ JavaScript: This guy makes the page and the interface work. Its the language you'll be building your web's functionality with.

🤔 I've heard about React? Angular, Vue... Which one should I choose?

I hear this question all the time in my mentorships. "I've seen x it's been asked a lot in job offers... Should I learn it?".

The answer is: it depends. Are you really good and familiar with HTML, CSS, and JS? Then go for it. You aren't? Stay way.

Either way, if you want to focus in Frontend I suggest you go learn Vuejs since it's a framework focused on the interface building (which is, pretty much, your job as a frontend).

🎨 How do I build my Frontend Portfolio?

Now, that's another really common question.

I've heard a lot of things like "your portfolio shouldn't be a sticker collection"... Now, WHY NOT? Painters don't organize expositions about their failures, but about their amazing drawings and pictures. Go ahead buddy, show 'em what you know.

On another hand, I suggest you to focus not only in your portfolio but also in your social media. I understand you'd like to remain "anon" but online presence has its benefits. Now, you don't have to write 100/posts a month, or have 50k followers, you could just follow and interact with those who inspire you, those who you admire and share their content.

Some of the benefits of having online presence are — ➀ people will know about you and your work faster than sending 55 CV's a day, — ➁ you'll meet people from inside the industry who are able to give you help and feedback, — ➂ you can help others, too!

You can build online presence around Twitter, Dev.to, or Medium, for example.

✅ The Frontend checklist

Another question I've been asked a lot is "How will I know if I'm ready to apply for jobs?"... So I created a very simple checklist so you know where you must work harder and what skills you already master:

❒ You're familiar HTML, CSS and JS at an advanced level. ❒ You're familiar and have experience with external JavaScript libraries. (Momentjs, Chartjs). ❒ You're familiar and have experience with CSS Frameworks. (Bulma, Bootstrap, Foundation, Materialize). ❒ You have experience with CSS Grid and Flexbox. ❒ You have experience with API's. ❒ You have experience with JSON's. ❒ You can connect an API to an interface. ❒ You have minimum experience with databases. ❒ You know how to deploy a web application. (For example via Heroku, Netlify or GitHub Pages). ❒ You're familiar with JS Frameworks. (Vue, React, Angular). ❒ You're familiar or have experience with authentication. (JWT).

You don't have to become a ninja-master-pro-jedi, you just need to be familiar/experienced with those techs listed above. Remember that you won't get the "professional experience" until you face a real project with a real client.

🕐 Some tools that may save you time

I wanted to share with you the most useful tools I use to organize my job and projects:

➜ Notion: To take notes and document all my learning and projects. ➜ Miro: To create useful flows and schemas. ➜ GitHub: All my projects are here, literally. ➜ Netlify: I deploy all my projects with this platform since I don't usually have a backend. If you do, use Heroku instead.

🌼 Last but not least

To end this post I'd like to share some useful advice that helped me develop my career up until now.

📌 If you want to test and learn new techs, don't learn all of them at once and in the same test project. Go one by one, make sure you're familiar enough with the current one to get started with the next.

📌 The sentence "this tech is better than that one" it's a lie, like the cake. There are newer and older techs and they all work and get the job done. The difference's about how they work and how simplified they are.

📌 Reuse. You don't have to create your projects over and over again.

📌 Comment your code and your projects.

📌 Don't forget taking notes of everything you learn or even creating a simple guide or tutorial for yourself. That'll help you retain what you've learned.

📌 There aren't any "gurus" or "magicians" out there, just people who practiced with the same tech as you but for a longest time.

That's it for now, hope this was useful.

Anthony Bourdain, TV chef and travel host, found dead aged 61

CNN, which aired Bourdains show Parts Unknown, strengthened his death and said it was suicide The girlfriend of TV cook Anthony Bourdain has paid tribute to his” gorgeou, unabashed heart” as family members or friends reacted with collapse to his death at the age of 61. CNN, which hosted Bourdain’s globetrotting culinary pas template Parts Unknown, approved Bourdain’s death on Friday and said it was suicide. The CNN chief executive, Jeff Zucker, transmitted a greenback to staff mentioning the circumstances of the extinction are still ambiguous but that” we do know that Tony took his own life “. ” Tony was an exceptional ability. A novelist. A skilled novelist. A world traveler. An adventurer. He returned something to CNN that nobody is had ever bring forward ,” Zucker said in the character.” This is a awfully, very sad epoch .” Bourdain’s girlfriend, the actor Asia Argento, said she was ” beyond devastated “. In a statement posted on Instagram, she wrote:” Anthony made all of himself in everything that he did. His brilliant, fearless tone stroked and aroused so many, and his generosity knew no bandageds. He was my adoration, my boulder, my champion. I am beyond destroyed. My estimates are with their own families. I would request that you respect their privacy and quarry .” Bourdain was understood to have been in France working on an upcoming escapade of his award-winning CNN series. His love Eric Ripert, the French chef, experienced Bourdain unconcerned in his hotel room. Barack Obama, who shared cheap meat and lively joke with Bourdain on camera in Vietnam, tweeted a very warm and poignant personal tribute. “‘ Low plastic stool, cheap but luscious noodles, cold Hanoi brew .’ This is how I’ll retain Tony. He taught us about nutrient- but more importantly, about its ability to bring us together. To offset us a little less so worried about the unknown. We’ll miss him .” Barack Obama (@ BarackObama) ” Low plastic stool, inexpensive but yummy noodles, freezing Hanoi brew .” This is how I’ll remember Tony. He taught us about nutrient — but even more importantly, about its ability to bring us together. To prepare us a little less afraid of the unknown. We’ll miss him. pic.twitter.com/ orEXIaEMZM June 8, 2018 blockquote > With evidence of Bourdain’s wide appeal, Donald Trump on Friday also issued a statement saying he had enjoyed the prove , memorandum his shock at the word and transporting condolences. Bourdain pioneered a new generation of culinary storytellers with his groundbreaking 1999 notebook about the chaos and competitiveness of moving a leading professional kitchen, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. He also wrote Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the Beings Who Cook. The British luminary chef Nigella Lawson tweeted:” Heartbroken to hear about Tony Bourdain’s death. Unbearable for his family and lover. Am departing off Twitter for a while .” Van Tieu (@ Van_Tieu) An empty-bellied chair at Barney Greengrass with Anthony Bourdain’s regular breakfast seek: Nova Scotia Lox and egg scramble. Staff say his humble feeling is enormously missed at the deli bar. @NY1 pic.twitter.com/ MLvhiOWgRZ June 8, 2018 blockquote > In his television series he hung with Obama in Hanoi and Iggy Pop in Miami. ” I’m proud of the fact that I’ve had as dining companions over its first year everybody from Hezbollah backers, communist functionaries, anti-Putin organizers, cowboys, stoners, Christian militia masters, feminists, Palestinians and Israeli pioneers, to Ted Nugent ,” he once explained. ” You like meat and are reasonably nice at the table? You show me hospitality when I travel? I will sit down with you and break bread .” Iggy Pop tweeted that he was in shock at the information of Bourdain’s sudden death.” I adored the person, and he was a glowing of kindness and good vibes in “peoples lives” ,” he wrote. The chef Gordon Ramsay saidon Twitter that he was ” stupefied and saddened” by Bourdain’s death, including:” He introduced “the worlds” into our residences .” He included a advise helpline figure in the UK. Anthony Bourdain at Parts Unknown live show in Las Vegas in 2013. Photograph: Isaac Brekken/ WireImage Bourdain raised an image as a” culinary bad son”, and charmed in feeing from the extreme intent of nutrient range, whether sheep’s testicles in Morocco or raw seal eyeball in the Arctic. Besides a chicken McNugget, he replied the most outraging act he’d ever consumed was unwashed warthog anus. He was also acclaimed for his informal role as the distinguished ambassador to American video audiences for the rest of of the world. Civil rights partisan Imraan Siddiqi, a director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations Arizona branch, hailed Bourdain’s representation of the Middle East. ” In this age of Islamophobia and otherization of Muslims through media, Anthony Bourdain used his scaffold to humanize Muslims through culture and food ,” Siddiqi wrote on Twitter. Julian Ventura, the Mexican ambassador to the United Kingdom, praised Bourdain on Twitter as” one of the greatest, most versed representatives of Mexican food and an sturdy champion of the contributions of Mexican migrants to the US “. In the past time, Bourdain was also a fierce counselor for the #MeToo movement, which had been invigorated in part by Argento, one of the first performers to publicly accuse the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of rape. Bourdain championed brides coming forward with accusations against high-profile men as well as affected those they alleged and reflected on his own role in perpetuating this type of demeanor.” Look, there was a period in “peoples lives” in the kitchen where I was an asshole. I was. I would do the classic, shed plates on the grind … curse, bellow. But I like to think I never made anyone tone unpleasant, creeped out, or coerced, or sexualized in the workplace. ” If somebody was taking their personal business out on a female work, or creeping on individual employees, the latter are get ,” he told Slate last year . Bourdain was candid about his history of drug use. He said he had also inhaled cigarettes and pissed alcohol to excess. Bourdain outside French bistro Les Halles in New York in 2000. Photograph: David Rentas/ Rex/ Shutterstock ” We were high all the time, sidling off to the walk-in refrigerator at every opportunity to’ conceptualize ‘. Scarcely a decision was attained without doses ,” he wrote in Kitchen Confidential. In 1999, he wrote a New Yorker article, Don’t Eat Before Predicting This, which grew Kitchen Confidential. Those storeys were based on his many years working in restaurant kitchens before eventually becoming exec cook at Les Halles, a French bistro on Manhattan’s Park Avenue South. He loved in the surprising or unhygienic various aspects of the chef’s trade. In 2013, while accepting a Peabody award, Bourdain described how he approached his work. ” We invite simple question. What builds you happy? What do you gobble? What do you like to cook? And everywhere else in the world we go and ask these simple question ,” he suggested,” we tend to get some really stupendous reacts .” In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email jo @samaritans. org . In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support assistance Lifeline is 13 11 14. 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Stop the Presses - How to get Journalists Talking About YOU

In Hollywood, they say any publicity is good publicity.

Tesla did publicity right when they launched their product at an event specially hosted for Hollywood stars.

Tesla was by no means the only electric car manufacturer in the US. In fact, it wasn’t even the first. But if Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bunch of other A-listers publicly thought Tesla’s product was great and they actually wrote checks to preorder it—then it’s about to get some major press time.

From Automobile magazines to Wired, CNET, Fortune Magazine, the New York Times, you name it—the press was glowing.

These days, if you think electric cars, you think—Tesla.

Now we're not saying you should go TMZ on your business just to get some attention, but we do believe a little press goes a long way.

Love 'em or hate 'em, journalists are still the keyholders of the press. So if you want to get featured, it always pays to get journalists to talk about YOU.

And that, dear subscriber, is why we came up with these strategies on how to use Ninja Outreach to help you connect with journalists.

Using the Prospecting Tab to Find Journalists

Most journalists maintain their own social media profiles, so that’s one good place to start looking for them.

Say you’re a SaaS company and want to find tech journalists to write about your business.

Just go to the Prospecting > Social Influencers tab and type a keyword like “tech,” or “tech journalist,” for example.

Through this tab, you can quickly comb through millions of Twitter and Instagram profiles. You can also use filters and tags to find the most relevant journalists to cover your brand or business.

Next, check the filter tag for Journalist. Checking “Include” means the engine will specifically search for the words “Journalist, PR, Writer, Author, Editor, and Press in each prospect’s bio.

Hit enter and add the relevant results to your list. Add as many relevant journalists as you can. The bigger your prospect pool, the better.

Once you’ve exhausted all possible prospects from this search, start another one.

How about searching for prospects using the keywords “Forbes contributor”?

Some alternatives you can also use are:

Forbes author

Forbes writer

Forbes columnist

You can even use these keywords for other publications such as Inc., Business Insider, and Entrepreneur magazine, among others.

You can do this search in the Prospecting > Social Influencers tab.

Alternatively, you can also make this search in the Prospecting > Find Leads tab.

Every time you see a good fit, just click the Add button at the top right section of the prospect card to save them to your list.

Once you’ve exhausted all the prospects you can find using Ninja Outreach social search, it’s time to switch to other Prospecting tabs.

How to Find Publications

Go to Prospecting > Promotion opportunities and search for relevant publications. Use a keyword like “tech magazine” for starters.

Next, sort the results by Alexa Rank, Domain Authority, or Social Shares—whichever metric fits your goals best.

As before, you can review each prospect one by one and add them to your prospect list individually, or you can click save all, which saves all results into your list instantly.

Again, try to collect as many prospects as you can.

Once your search runs dry, try other keywords. “Tech blogs,” “tech publications,” “tech news,” “tech press,” etc.

Importing Results from Google Search

It’s no secret that Google has one of the most advanced search engines out there, so why not make use of it?

You can run your search on Google as well. For example, here’s a search you can do using Advanced Operators.

[Topic+Target-keyword] site:[URL of your target publication]

Ex.

Tech contributor inurl:forbes.com

If you’re mostly satisfied with what you see, simply import your Google search results into your prospects list using Ninja Outreach chrome extension.

Here’s how to install and use the Chrome extension.

And here’s how to import Google search results into your NinjaOutreach web app list.

Building Relationships with Journalists

Once you’ve added enough contacts to your list, it’s time to jumpstart your relationship.

First, you have to remember—the early rapport-building stage is NOT the right time to send a pitch.

Why?

Forbes contributor Josh Steimle, who covers marketing and entrepreneurship for the online magazine, had this to say:

From a journalist who, by his admission, receives tons of pitches a day, this advice is golden.

So with this in mind, you can start with an intro outreach, follow them on social media, subscribe to their newsletter, comment on their posts—anything to help put your name on their radar.

For example, once you’ve checked out a prospect’s blog or articles, you can send them an intro outreach.

Here’s one example from our pre-written templates.

Another example using our original pre-written template version:

The next one below is an edited version modified to fit your specific needs.

It’s a good intro outreach because it shows you read your prospect’s content, you’ve shared this interest with your audience, and you want to know more.

  For more examples of pre-written templates that you can use (or modify), just go to Outreach > Templates > Create Template

Click Load Pre-Written Templates and choose the most relevant one from the selection. Modify this to suit your particular campaign.

If all else fails, you can always create a fully personalized outreach email from scratch.

As you do this, update your prospects’ relationship labels.

Relationship labels identify what stage of the relationship you are on with your prospect.

Here’s more on how to manage your Relationship labels with prospects.

All changes to your relationship labels are recorded in NinjaOutreach, so you can track when you first sent your email, first retweeted a post of theirs on Twitter and other actions.

This lets you gauge when the time is right for you to finally send your pitch.

It also provides you personalized points of reference for when you’re crafting your outreach email.

For example, instead of yet another generic intro, you can see in your Relationship label history that you shared an article of theirs on a particular date.

With this data on hand, you can then say something like this in your message: “Loved your recent post! I actually shared it all over my social circles last week and I got a lot of comments about how [something about a point prospect made in the article]…”

Making an effort to build a relationship with a journalist may take a bit more time, but pitching to someone you’ve already built some rapport with will definitely up your chances of success, compared to a blind outreach to journalists who’ve never heard of you before.

So, connect with them first, be patient, and see how far this will take you.

As Forbes’s Josh concluded:

Outreach to Journalists

Once you’ve built enough rapport, it’s time to prepare the perfect pitch.

Take note:

Journalists receive as many as 20 to 50 pitches per day on average. Some even get at least 100 or more. Out of these journalists, the majority write only two or fewer stories per day. And, on top of all this, only a few often write a story based on pitches.

As you can see, the margin of acceptance is pretty small. So if you must pitch something, make sure it’s something relevant and worthwhile—not what’s interesting to you, but to your target audience.

If you did your prospecting well, then the audience that you’re targeting should be the same audience that your journalist prospects would also want to please.

Take for example the case of Klooff, a social media app for pets.

Klooff, based in Chile, wanted to enter the American market.

But, instead of doing a traditional press release barrage, the PR firm they hired suggested three story ideas that Klooff could pitch to US media.

Now, if you look at these headlines below, you won’t immediately see anything directly promoting the Klooff app. What you see, instead, is an understanding of the interests of Klooff’s potential readers and by default, target users.

3 Ways Pets Teach Your Kids Important Life Lessons

How to Take Better Care of Your Pets and Save Money

Which dog breed is most likely to score you a date?

But, they didn’t keep the ideas to their internal drawing board. Klooff also asked their target audience what interested them most.

After surveying 1k people, they finally got the results—the third headline, under the dating and relationships angle.

With a data-backed decision, they then pitched this to the media.

The result? They loved it.

Klooff’s story was featured in major publications across 21 countries, and their app went from zero to 20k users.

So what should you do?

Do research on the things your target audiences are interested in, what’s trending in their community, find out who the talking heads are, and what story angles do journalists in that niche typically cover.

What you absolutely shouldn’t do? Mass send a generic pitch to all your journalist prospects.

But what if you have a thousand (or more) prospects?

The answer is, no, you don’t have to write 3,557 outreach emails for each of your 3,557 prospects. (That’s a random number, by the way.)

You can change some details to fit each different prospect at least—just don’t send the exact same outreach message to everyone.

For example, below is our pre-made outreach templates pitching a blogger to feature you in an interview or podcast.

Obviously, you can’t send that as is, but it’s a good place to start crafting some ideas.

Some personalizations you can do are:

Use Custom Fields so you can tailor for each prospect's first name, blog title, website URL, etc. For a more detailed guide on how to create custom fields and templates,

Edit the templates from within the email text section

Click Create new template to craft a specific message for each group of prospects.

Of course, bloggers understand outreach, and are more likely to respond to outreach templates such as the one we shared above.

But journalists for bigger publications are tougher nuts to crack. So you have to step up and actually do a bit more work with your pitch.

For reference, below is an example of our own non-generic pitch sent to TC:

As you can see, we put a little more effort into that one.

How to Set up an Automated Outreach Campaign

When we say automated campaign, we don’t mean you simply click a button and all your work is done.

What we mean by an automated campaign is you get automated sends and follow-ups.

You still personalize your messages, but you don’t need to sit in front of your computer all day, sending each of those outreach messages and follow-ups to each of your thousands of prospects one by one.

To know more about integrating your email and setting up an automated outreach campaign, read our helpdesk article here.

Once you start getting replies, NinjaOutreach will track all these and you can view analytics such as the number of Clicks, Replies, and Opens, for each template you used.

As your campaign goes along, update the relationship labels of your prospects. That way, you won’t mistakenly send a follow-up to prospects who have already replied to you.

Last Words

As your outreach campaign machine chugs along, stay patient.

Most importantly, stay firm. Keep sending worthwhile pitches to as many journalists as you can. It may sound cliche, but don’t give up.

Why? It might seem daunting to think of pitching to, say, 5,000 tech journalists.

But think of it this way, if you manage to get through to at least 1% of these leads, that means you get covered by 50 publications—which is not bad at all.

Hazel Mae Pan is Content Manager for NinjaOutreach. She is in charge of content writing, co-editing, and developing the strategy for the NinjaOutreach blog.

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Please never forget Texas lost to Kansas in American tackle football in the year 2016

The Horns’ catastrophic loss created a meme.

The Texas Longhorns and Kansas Jayhawks meet in Austin on Saturday (6 p.m. ET, LHN). Tom Herman’s team will try to do what Texas couldn’t do last year: beat Kansas.

The Jayhawks’ 24-21 overtime win in Lawrence last Nov. 19 was the lowest point in a miserable three-year run for Charlie Strong. Losing to Kansas is a low for almost any Power 5 team, but this was a particularly rough gut punch.

On the verge of the teams’ rematch, let’s look back.

Losing to Kansas requires a team to do a lot of things poorly.

In the last two seasons, just one FBS team has managed it: Texas.

But here’s what’s so weird about Texas losing to Kansas, aside from the core fact of Texas losing to Kansas: The Longhorns didn’t even do anything that egregious. They had more yards than Kansas, both per play and in total. Even though they threw three interceptions, the Horns scored 14 points off turnovers to Kansas’ 10. They had a field-position advantage all day, starting the average drive at their own 35-yard line. They had a slight time-of-possession edge and a 21-10 fourth-quarter lead.

Somehow, Texas lost to Kansas anyway. The Horns let the Jayhawks drive 52 yards in six plays and 51 seconds to tie the game on a last-minute field goal. Shane Buechele threw an interception on the second play of overtime, and KU kicked a field goal to win. Even Kansas fans remain baffled as to how their team actually won.

Down go the goal posts.

The loss became an instant meme for the following 12 months.

A light sampling, going back to last year:

Don't let this World Series distract you from the fact that Texas lost to Kansas in football. http://pic.twitter.com/ViayqLXR3I

— Switzer Statue (@switzerstatue) November 2, 2017

Good morning all! In case you forgot.... Texas lost to Maryland... and Kansas... #ohwhatabeautifulmorning http://pic.twitter.com/DRMSFXHZId

— B. C. Ker Fuffle (@medschoolislife) September 3, 2017

With all of the excitement today being the first full Saturday of college football, don't forget that Texas lost to Kansas in football. http://pic.twitter.com/pUnjho9Heu

— Chaz Cook (@ChazCook) September 2, 2017

You can stand here and argue but Texas still lost to Kansas http://pic.twitter.com/JBNel61fIi

— Trelynda Kerr (@tre0808) August 29, 2017

24 of 25 teams in the preseason @AP_Top25 won at least 8 games last year Except for Texas who went 5-7 and lost to Kansas http://pic.twitter.com/A54IXiBhMe

— FANK. (@dfank_BU) August 21, 2017

Tomorrow is going to be a hot one, but don't let that distract you from the fact that Texas lost to Kansas in football. http://pic.twitter.com/euuejDJY6u

— Kahlie (@KahlieRhae) July 11, 2017

Currently on the field where Texas lost to Kansas in Football http://pic.twitter.com/zcnNxcEYh5

— Josh DeMoss (@jdemoso) May 14, 2017

Texas lost to Kansas AGAIN!! KU takes the series 2-1. http://pic.twitter.com/HUDXrud8pu

— Gig Em Gazette (@GigEmGazette) April 2, 2017

*An event happens in sports* Twitter: "DON'T LET THIS DISTRACT YOU FROM THE FACT TEXAS LOST TO KANSAS IN FOOTBALL!" http://pic.twitter.com/svb6GSmcX5

— Josh Remington (@joshremington) March 21, 2017

When I am scrolling through my TL and come across a "Texas lost to Kansas" joke. http://pic.twitter.com/0CxA0tN1rW

— Ted Harrison (@tedvid) March 4, 2017

During the Oscars, at least 11 people tweeted the following at the same time:

"Texas lost to Kansas in football" http://pic.twitter.com/OEgLggvVNp

— Trevor Rogers (@TrevorRogers247) February 27, 2017

Don't let this distract you from the fact that #Texas lost to Kansas in football. http://pic.twitter.com/yDESwM0iKt

— OKCMouthpiece, Esq. (@OKCMouthpiece) February 6, 2017

"texas lost to Kansas... in football!" http://pic.twitter.com/zqFpCrka5k

— *redacted* (@TxAg1802) January 22, 2017

“Texas has never lost to Kansas. Period.” http://pic.twitter.com/kXDlAMo2fe

— Process Truster (@zoocat) January 22, 2017

Don't let the National Championship distract you from the fact that Texas lost to Kansas http://pic.twitter.com/t8c8HWs2DE

— abogado malo (@LawTalkingGuey) January 10, 2017

"Mack, can you please explain to me how in the world Texas lost to Kansas?" http://pic.twitter.com/0rO2ub9EQw

— Recovering OSUaholic (@RobertW_OkSt) December 29, 2016

Me: Texas hasn't lost to Kansas since 1938, we should be fine. Charlie Strong: http://pic.twitter.com/ucuKrvtgLK

— EJ Adams (@ej_adams98) November 20, 2016

Lots and lots and lots of fans posted phrases like these on social media in response to news events related or unrelated to either team, but this example goes above and beyond:

Always remember to accessorize. http://pic.twitter.com/HEm1KHHGIk

— Deva❄️ (@DevaFreeman) May 22, 2017

This one’s from a full eight months after the game ended, just one of many outcomes Horns fans have had to endure:

Internet, you wanted a Titanic version of Kansas beating Texas in football, well by God you've got it. http://pic.twitter.com/luxOZYGz8A

— Barstool KU (@BarstoolKU) July 10, 2017

And it wasn’t just limited to social media, either.

Before the fumble, Baylor student section behind the Texas bench was chanting "Rock chalk Jayhawk, KU".

— Anthony Geronimo (@ATXANT10) October 28, 2017

You can also buy a shirt in honor of one bad Big 12 team beating another once.

Design by Humans

By losing to Kansas, Texas put itself in some bad company.

The only teams to do it since 2011 started:

McNeese State (FCS)

Northern Illinois (MAC), by three points

South Dakota State (FCS)

South Dakota (FCS)

Louisiana Tech (C-USA), by three points

4-8 West Virginia (Big 12)

Southeast Missouri State (FCS) twice, one of them by six points

Central Michigan (MAC)

2-10 Iowa State (Big 12)

Rhode Island (FCS)

One of the biggest and most powerful athletic departments in the country and the winners of four national championships

It snapped a bunch of Kansas streaks in embarrassing fashion.

Texas hadn’t lost to Kansas since 1938. The loss bumped UT to 13-3 against KU all time.

Plus all of these:

Kansas ended all manner of losing streaks with its win over Texas. http://pic.twitter.com/ZPUo9ebyLT

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) November 20, 2016

And the loss sealed Charlie Strong’s fate in Austin.

It dropped Texas to 5-6, putting the Horns’ bowl eligibility in peril. It also dropped Strong to 16-20 in three seasons. Word leaked that the Longhorns would fire Strong, but they still had a game left in their season.

The Texas players who spoke publicly were devastated, and some reportedly threatened to boycott the season finale a week later against TCU. Texas lost that game and missed out on bowl season, then fired Strong officially.

But Strong’s face and demeanor at the podium in Lawrence a week earlier made it clear that he knew what was coming. Someone asked him, basically, if he thought losing to Kansas would get him fired:

The most painful part of the Strong post game presser. "Do you know what this means for your future?" http://pic.twitter.com/MRNuTko8au

— Casey Keirnan (@CaseyKeirnan) November 20, 2016

“No, I don’t. No idea,” Strong said, near tears.

At Longhorns blog Burnt Orange Nation, in the immediate aftermath:

Now it’s time to look towards the future, with another head coach at the helm in Austin.

This just wasn’t acceptable and the decision facing president Greg Fenves should no longer be difficult.

Strong never got traction on the field, and his end might’ve come soon anyway. But Texas can’t lose to Kansas, and that happening made it clear that Strong was done.

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Birding Brothers of the Bronx A Bird Show Spots a Rival, and Bird-Watchers of Color Are Angry

A chance sighting of a hungry peregrine falcon gave a homeless teen a lifelong passion; now Jason Ward and his brother Jeffrey star in “Birds of North America,” on topic.com.

By Anna RussellMarch 25, 2019

When Jason Ward was fourteen, he spotted a peregrine falcon devouring a pigeon on the windowsill of the South Bronx homeless shelter where his family was living. “I was literally witnessing a nature documentary unfold,” he recalled, adding, “That was definitely my spark bird.” Ward, now thirty-two, has five siblings, but only he and his younger brother Jeffrey are birders. (Jeffrey’s spark bird was a barn owl, which he saw in Central Park.) “These peregrines are really powerful fliers,” Jason said. “They have the ability to just change their immediate surroundings. Growing up in the Bronx, that was something that I admired, and wanted to be able to do myself.”

Last week, Jason, who has lived in Atlanta for more than a decade, was back in the Bronx for a birding trip with Jeffrey. A documentary series, “Birds of North America,” starring Jason, with occasional appearances by Jeffrey, had just premièred on topic.com. The brothers met in the Orchard Beach parking lot, in Pelham Bay Park, at the end of the 6 train. Jason wore a puffy jacket, hiking boots, and an Osprey backpack full of gear; Jeffrey had on a red Adidas cap, spotless white Nikes, and a sweatshirt that read “Thebronx.”

In “Birds of North America,” Jason and Jeffrey, who are black, spend time with groups, such as the Feminist Bird Club, whose members don’t resemble that most common varietal of birder: the mature white male. “That’s the vast majority of the makeup, but I don’t think it will be going forward,” Jason said. “Birding is going to become more colorful.” Like most serious birders, they track their findings on the app eBird. They also compete on Twitter to see who can spot the most species in a year. Last year, Jason won, two hundred and seventy-nine to two hundred and thirty-nine. This year, after a trip to the Bahamas, Jeffrey, who still lives in the Bronx and works for New York City Audubon (and a juice place downtown), was ahead by twenty birds.

“I look at twenty birds as a nice, comfortable lead,” Jason said.

“Was twenty a comfortable lead last year?” Jeffrey asked.

“Migration is about to start,” Jason added, kindly.

“Red tail,” Jeffrey said, noting a passing red-tailed hawk.

“Red tail,” Jason said.

They set off toward the beach. On the boardwalk, past a shuttered snack bar and a fenced-in pen with an ominous N.Y.C. Parks Department sign that read “lost children,” Jeffrey set up a scope on a tripod. Jason peered through his binoculars. “What’s that raft out there? Cormorants?” They were surf scoters. “Scoters?” he said. “Man.”

An airplane passed overhead. Jason turned. “What was that? Finch?”

“House sparrow,” Jeffrey said, deflated. “This is why I hate the house sparrow.”

Jason said that a recent post on the Birdist about underappreciated birds had named crows, starlings, and pigeons. “Pigeons are amazing fliers,” Jeffrey said. “I’ve seen a video of pigeons doing backflips in flight. They’re tough.”

“They’re like the Impala of the sky,” Jason said.

The birding community has welcomed the brothers, although there have been odd moments of tension. “Like when they meet us in the park and they walk right past me to try to find the leader. I’m, like, ‘Hey, I’m Jason!’ ” In Crotona Park, at the edge of a pond, Jeffrey was once questioned by the police.

Near an inlet, they logged mute swans (“killers”), buffleheads, red-breasted mergansers, and more surf scoters, whose heads resemble a clown in full makeup. At the end of the boardwalk, they spotted an osprey gliding on an air current. “First of the year!” Jeffrey said. “That’s a hundred and twenty-eight.”

“Damn it,” Jason said.

They decided to look for a horned owl that Jeffrey had seen in a tree hollow the previous year, up a muddy path. Jeffrey stepped carefully over a log, wary of dirtying his sneakers. At the tree, he stopped and listened: “Nothing.”

Near the parking lot, they passed a man letting his dog chase a flock of geese. “That’s just obnoxious,” Jason said. Cats are another menace. (Jonathan Franzen, an avid birder, has summarized the community’s position as “cats must die.”) “To allow cats to roam freely is completely irresponsible,” Jason said.

In the car, Jason took out his phone and logged his stats. Twenty-six species, including ring-billed gulls, common loons, and a long-tailed duck. (“Late, but not unexpected,” he wrote.) On Instagram, he scrolled until he landed on a chart of fourteen types of sparrows. “Ha!” he said, and showed it to Jeffrey, who laughed. The image of the house sparrow had been scribbled over in red letters: “Trash,” it read. ♦

This article appears in the print edition of the April 1, 2019, issue, with the headline “Spark Birds.”

Two nature series with black hosts debuted online recently. The makers of one say their rivals are playing into racial stereotypes.

Jason Ward, host of “Birds of North America,” birding in Atlanta recently.

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Jason Ward, host of “Birds of North America,” birding in Atlanta recently.

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By Cara Buckley

June 28, 2019

For Jason Ward, an animal lover who grew up in homeless shelters in the South Bronx, hosting the bird-watching web series “Birds of North America” is beyond a dream job.

Ward, 32, has birded in Prospect Park with the comedian Wyatt Cenac, near Brooklyn Bridge with the Feminist Bird Club, and in Cape May, N.J., with his mentor, J. Drew Lanham, a wildlife biologist and fellow birder of color. Birders of color are pretty rare, which is why the program exists: to show that they do, too.

So Ward and his producers were shocked earlier this week when Rolling Stone unveiled a new bird-watching web series that shared uncanny similarities with Ward’s show.

Called “Birding With Charles,” it also featured a black host, Charles Holmes, taking a guest bird-watching — in the first episode it’s rapper Valee, who visits Central Park with Holmes. Accompanied by a tinkling piano overture and a British narrator, the host commits a series of bird-watching no-nos: he harasses a bird by chasing it, he disses a mourning dove and a robin as “basic” — “us top-tier bird-watchers don’t even care about ’em,” he says — and stands by silently as Valee lights up a blunt.

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For Ward and Anna Holmes, the editorial director of Topic.com, which produces “Birds of North America,” it seemed that Rolling Stone was making fun of their show. “It felt like it was a co-option of our series, and on top of that was mocking the very idea of what we are trying to do,” Holmes (who is unrelated to the “Birding With Charles” host) said in an interview. She and scientists and birders of color took to Twitter to criticize Rolling Stone for, as one bird-watcher tweeted, “damaging the work that we black birders and biologists have done to bring our people into these spaces.”

But Rolling Stone says it’s all a coincidence.

A spokesman for the magazine, Jeffrey W. Schneider, said “Birding With Charles” was not based in any way on “Birds of North America” but instead on the 1991 television series “Fishing With John,” in which the hip downtown actor and musician John Lurie went fishing with his equally hip friends, among them Tom Waits and Jim Jarmusch. Indeed Lurie responded to the controversy with a tweet of his own: “I believe if anyone should be upset then that would be me — but they are going to have me on a future episode — shaking my fist and yelling — You dirty crooks!”

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Schneider said the Rolling Stone editorial team, which considers the show a celebrity interview program, settled on birding because “anyone could do it” and its offices are close to Central Park. The staff members had not seen “Birds of North of America” when they developed the show, he added.

He provided a screenshot of a producer’s handwritten calendar entry indicating, he said, that they were kicking around an idea for a “Fishing With John”-esque show on March 14. The first episode of “Birds of North America” was posted on March 17, though a teaser trailer went up March 8. More “Birding With Charles” episodes are planned.

While “Birding With Charles” has the tongue-in-cheek feel of a Portlandia sketch, Schneider would not address the criticism from birders of color that the show was promoting stereotypes, saying only that Ward’s show “is really cool and it is not something we would ever try to parody or ridicule.”

Told of Rolling Stone’s response, Anna Holmes said one of the basic steps in developing a series is seeing what comparable products are on the market. “Jason Ward put himself out there, publicly and prominently,” she wrote in an email on Thursday. “One would have had to work very, very hard to avoid clocking his show doing that kind of scan.”

“Birds of North America” was shaped by serendipity, a meeting of the minds and Ward’s lifelong fascination with wildlife.

Ward grew up poor in the South Bronx, he said. As an animal lover whose family could not afford cable and channels like National Geographic, he hit the library, getting lost in books about animals because they transported him to the places animals lived. One day in his early teens, he saw a peregrine falcon attacking a pigeon outside his window. Ward was enraptured, and his fascination with birds began. He started birding after moving to Atlanta; soon he was leading nature walks and tweeting (as it were) about hard-to-identify birds.

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Holmes, meanwhile, had been wanting to develop a series that highlighted people of color interacting with the natural world, in part because of her roots. She is African-American and the daughter of a ranger with the National Park Service.

“It’s very important to me, and has been my whole life, to underscore that people who engage with natural world — campers, hikers, birders — are not just white people who wear Patagonia,” Holmes said.

She had Ward shoot a pilot. On camera, he was great: slightly awkward but authentic. “In this really crazy world we live in now, where everyone looks at their phones and is distracted,” Holmes said, “he is celebrating the idea of stopping and being quiet and looking around you, because that’s how you bird.”

The show did not have a big following — the teaser trailer drew 31,000 YouTube views, others episodes a tenth of that — but it did get some traction. The New Yorker ran a “Talk of the Town” item; other articles followed, and Ward forged more connections with people of color working in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math.

“There are black people in the STEM community working very hard to dispel the whole myth that black people aren’t wildlife savvy and that we don’t enjoy being outdoors,” said Ward, who also works as an outreach coordinator with the National Audubon Society.

If “Birding With Charles” is not meant to be serious, Ward said Rolling Stone should make that much clearer.

“I cannot get behind anything that paints people of color in a less-than-flattering light,” he said, “or attempts to poke fun at something that has brought so many people innumerable amounts of joy.”

Anthony Bourdain, TV chef and travel host, found dead aged 61

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In a statement posted on Instagram, she wrote:” Anthony made all of himself in everything that he did. His brilliant, fearless tone stroked and aroused so many, and his generosity knew no bandageds. He was my adoration, my boulder, my champion. I am beyond destroyed. My estimates are with their own families. I would request that you respect their privacy and quarry .” Bourdain was understood to have been in France working on an upcoming escapade of his award-winning CNN series. His love Eric Ripert, the French chef, experienced Bourdain unconcerned in his hotel room. Barack Obama, who shared cheap meat and lively joke with Bourdain on camera in Vietnam, tweeted a very warm and poignant personal tribute. “‘ Low plastic stool, cheap but luscious noodles, cold Hanoi brew .’ This is how I’ll retain Tony. He taught us about nutrient- but more importantly, about its ability to bring us together. To offset us a little less so worried about the unknown. We’ll miss him .” Barack Obama (@ BarackObama) ” Low plastic stool, inexpensive but yummy noodles, freezing Hanoi brew .” This is how I’ll remember Tony. He taught us about nutrient — but even more importantly, about its ability to bring us together. To prepare us a little less afraid of the unknown. We’ll miss him. pic.twitter.com/ orEXIaEMZM June 8, 2018 blockquote > With evidence of Bourdain’s wide appeal, Donald Trump on Friday also issued a statement saying he had enjoyed the prove , memorandum his shock at the word and transporting condolences. Bourdain pioneered a new generation of culinary storytellers with his groundbreaking 1999 notebook about the chaos and competitiveness of moving a leading professional kitchen, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. He also wrote Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the Beings Who Cook. The British luminary chef Nigella Lawson tweeted:” Heartbroken to hear about Tony Bourdain’s death. 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Bourdain championed brides coming forward with accusations against high-profile men as well as affected those they alleged and reflected on his own role in perpetuating this type of demeanor.” Look, there was a period in “peoples lives” in the kitchen where I was an asshole. I was. I would do the classic, shed plates on the grind … curse, bellow. But I like to think I never made anyone tone unpleasant, creeped out, or coerced, or sexualized in the workplace. ” If somebody was taking their personal business out on a female work, or creeping on individual employees, the latter are get ,” he told Slate last year . Bourdain was candid about his history of drug use. He said he had also inhaled cigarettes and pissed alcohol to excess. Bourdain outside French bistro Les Halles in New York in 2000. Photograph: David Rentas/ Rex/ Shutterstock ” We were high all the time, sidling off to the walk-in refrigerator at every opportunity to’ conceptualize ‘. Scarcely a decision was attained without doses ,” he wrote in Kitchen Confidential. In 1999, he wrote a New Yorker article, Don’t Eat Before Predicting This, which grew Kitchen Confidential. Those storeys were based on his many years working in restaurant kitchens before eventually becoming exec cook at Les Halles, a French bistro on Manhattan’s Park Avenue South. He loved in the surprising or unhygienic various aspects of the chef’s trade. In 2013, while accepting a Peabody award, Bourdain described how he approached his work. ” We invite simple question. What builds you happy? What do you gobble? What do you like to cook? And everywhere else in the world we go and ask these simple question ,” he suggested,” we tend to get some really stupendous reacts .” In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email jo @samaritans. org . In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support assistance Lifeline is 13 11 14. 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