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Stel Pavlou @stelpavlou.com

Is this you? Did you write this stupid fucking headline, or were you saddled with it?

Dumbest headline
aug 28, 2025, 3:16 am • 30 0

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social

Based on my knowledge of how the industry works it was almost certainly the latter.

aug 28, 2025, 3:58 am • 49 0 • view
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Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc.bsky.social

Yes, that tends to be the case. And Graham's article is good: “But where Ronald Reagan joked that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were 'I’m from the government, and I’m here to help', Trump’s credo is 'I’m from the government, and I’m here to take over.'”

aug 28, 2025, 12:28 pm • 22 3 • view
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Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social

Headlines are usually written by editors or copy editors in newspapers and magazines.

aug 28, 2025, 12:11 pm • 5 0 • view