A Thousand Natural Shocks · Jul 16, 2026

Why I Left BuzzFeed

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The offices were like a college campus. I’d never worked somewhere so well-funded. The vibes were a very glamorous Spahn Ranch.

Since so many of you joined my newsletter last week, I felt like I should do a retrospective. I’m exhuming the body of my Internet past and tossing it back on the autopsy table for y’all. (I’m so sorry.) Okay.

Why did I work at BuzzFeed?

Well, there was a guy I was trying to hook up with.

A Thousand Natural Shocks is my favorite writing that I do. It would be awesome if you’d subscribe so I can keep doing activism, anti-fascist work, and also write my way through understanding my weird lil life.

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