Mia Sato

New: What do RuPaul's Drag Race, Clavicular, and a GOP congressional candidate have in common? Anonymous social accounts are paid to semi-covertly promote them through clips. Social content is rapidly getting shorter and shorter — we're calling it The Clippening. 🎁 www.theverge.com/report/92000...

i have been thinking a lot about “overconsumption” discourse and how it only ever targets female-coded stuff (labubus, fast fashion, makeup) but could absolutely be applied to things like guns

New from @tinanguyen.bsky.social and me: Charlie Kirk's shooter left behind bullet casings with a furry sex meme and a bunch of Helldivers video game references. Subreddits for Helldivers immediately picked up on it. www.theverge.com/politics/777...

A lot of people are mad and defensive that I pointed out Kalshi is deeply entangled in the viral Knicks rhyme, which is fine! I’m just pointing it out because I’ve reported on the covert marketing and advertising these prediction markets are doing www.theverge.com/business/905...

Do people know the “My mayor is Muslim” thing is a Kalshi ad or has that truth bomb not yet hit Bluesky

How do you even do this? Is NYPD going to sit there and ask every pedestrian if they're going to the Macy's or the Empire State Building or the worst Sephora? What happens to homeless New Yorkers in this area? You also apparently cannot have a backpack within here unless you have a train ticket?!

ever since i saw the tweet about jalen brunson looking like elliott smith i cannot unsee it

USDA + HHS are pushing the "Great American Cotton Plan" — subsidies for farmers and MAHA marketing promoting cotton products to consumers. There are (understandable) concerns around polyester, but also a lot of oversimplifying. I tried to untangle some of that: www.theverge.com/report/94394...

What’s the best song of all time and why is it Maria by Blondie

Was looking up famous people from San Antonio and….

This changes nothing for me, a freak who will always be in light mode, but I know some of you guys were absolutely feral for this

Oh

Watching Euphoria really does feel like a horrible job i have to clock into once a week