“Of course, the emotional distress faced by journalists is nothing compared to what our subjects endure. We are not victims. We chose this line of work, for whatever reason - adventure, prestige, ego, idealism or the conviction that recording history holds intrinsic value. But that relentless flow of violence and suffering takes a toll.”
- NYTimes

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I can literally calculate how many dollars I have lost on my paychecks (which were in British pounds) as a result of Brexit.

I am a non-British citizen living in Pakistan, and I AM BEING FUCKED. All I want to say is fuck you Britons. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.

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“In early-nineteenth-century England, a good way to get rid of your husband was arsenic..” “Husband-poisoning was so popular that, in 1851, the House of Lords contemplated a law forbidding the sale of arsenic to women; the eventual decline in arsenic poisoning is attributable, in part, to the legalization of divorce.”
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- Kinetic, when used in terms of military action, particularly versus political negotiations. “Their ‘kinetic’ approach was lauded for…”

Fuck you. Stop using this word.

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“However, I’ve noticed that “being awkward” has become this weird shield for guys to excuse behavior that is way closer to creepy, harassing and downright rapey. They act as if “never learning how to talk to girls” is some sort of mental disability the rest of us should be tolerant of rather than a conscious choice on their part not to bother ( Read more... )

The word for ‘water’ in the Malay language is “air.”

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“There’s an awful word that Western media folk sometimes use to describe my kind of journalism that’s meant to be flattering but always makes me cringe precisely because it expresses so well this gap between audience and subject, and the conflict therein. The word is “humanizing.” By my own standards, if my article has succeeded, if I’ve done what ( Read more... )

MOSQUITOES.

Mosquitoes on my forehead, mosquitoes on my chin, mosquitoes on my nose, mosquitoes, mosquitoes, mosquitoes.

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“The numbers on your social media accounts may never match those in your bank account.”
- “The Sad Economics of Being Famous on the Internet“

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When you’re still waiting for 4-5 different British publications to pay you and watching the pound drop, and drop, and drop…

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