Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky

health & medicine writer; words @nymag @slate @msnbc @thedailybeast @vice @longreads; past:staff @inversedotcom, @anxymag; threads: @katiemacb. Librarian always

[Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky @msmacb]

I wrote about how a $20,000 psychedelic medicine training that promised education & healing ended with warring lawsuits, a hospitalized trainee, & multiple allegations of sexual assaults. Unpaywalled link for accessibility in reply https://t.co/woReuiF9TA

[Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky @msmacb]

seems like we’re doing great

[Will Kremer @WillKremer]

We need a season set at a political campaign where the only real person is the comms director.

[Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky @msmacb]

@rohitvangimalla Oh that’s very kind of you. And im glad you appreciated the piece!

[Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky @msmacb]

Actually I wrote this one, but thank you for sharing it!

[Rohit R. Vangimalla @rohitvangimalla]

Hannah Zeavin in Slate got to this first, from a different angle. Worth reading alongside.
https://t.co/ygdtONaHQY

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Reasons to use an em dash:

1) reclaim it from the machines
2) you don't know what a semicolon is for
3) it has incredible vibes

[Marco Cerino @CerinoRoyale]

@jesswelman @Slate @msmacb This is a stark explainer on how out of touch publications can come off, largely due to the decisions of editors who aren't as directly involved in news gathering or the lives of their consumers.

[Jack Gorsline @JackGorsline]

@msmacb is one of my favorite journalists on any beat - she always calls a spade a spade and fwiw produced the most nuanced coverage of the Lykos MDMA-FDA rejection saga that I've read to this day.

An essential follow (to say the least) out with another must-read article:

[Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky @msmacb]

@JackGorsline JACK!!🥹 thank you so much!

[Jessica Welman @jesswelman]

Just going to keep stoking the fires bc, yay chaos. @Slate has an interesting response to the essay that shall not be named from @msmacb with an interesting take: https://t.co/SZwurkDXGn

[Slate @Slate]

“If the point was to say that gambling apps are addictive, it makes it even more unethical.” https://t.co/rmDlGjgfVu

[Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky @msmacb]

Wrote a little something for @Slate about that viral Atlantic story in which the editors give a writer $10k to use on betting apps. Gift link: https://t.co/tLCLemFPrR

[Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky @msmacb]

how quickly they go from an event (ostensibly) supporting the first amendment to "do you think articulating your opinion of the president is violence and you should stop?"

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens?

RASKIN: What rhetoric do you have in mind?

BASH: That he's terrible for this country and so on and so forth

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Think it’s kinda weird that Raskin gets bullied into saying he doesn’t have a personal problem with Trump. Is that true? I don’t think so.

Words aren’t violence. Heated rhetoric is part of democracy. Saying someone is terrible doesn’t mean you want them shot. We can be grownups

[Acyn @Acyn]

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

[(not) NOT jackson @JacksonFromTwit]

drinking with someone who likes martinis is always weird cuz they’re like “i want it filthy and wet raw missionary with eye contact and sloppy making out” like alright man. cool. im happy u found a drink u like

[Jordan. 🩺 @ChoiceReznikov]

me after saying “no worries” when I am, in fact, constantly full of many worries
#ThePitt #PittSpoilers

[meredith 🍉 @dietz_meredith]

i don’t irish exit, i do the american withdrawal (constantly change my story about when im leaving, if im leaving, who invited me)

[Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky @msmacb]

@crawf34 💛💛

[Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky @msmacb]

well, shit https://t.co/vTkcwZBNHa

[Hanna Kozlowska @hannakozlowska]

I'm looking to speak with people about AI and dating for my book, a social history of online dating (for One Signal/S&S). Do you use one of the AI assistants such as Rizz or ChatGPT for help? Or maybe you have a romantic AI companion? You can be anon! [email protected] 🙏