I’ve played 361 games of asphalt soccer in the last three and a half years. It’s been the one constant in a period of change.
It feels silly to dedicate so much time to glorified pickup footy, but @stfc.la has given me a second home, even if that home has shifted from a Ktown rooftop to a cracked West Side school playground to The Bridge.
I’m grateful that @streetfc has given us a chance to build a community and provide a place for others to play, no matter who they are. Here’s to another 361 as long as my joints don’t give out on me.
GIVEAWAY CLOSED! Today marks 20 years since Twitter first launched and Jack Dorsey made his famous first tweet ("just setting up my twtr")... there's no better way to acknowledge the impact of Twitter on social media than by offering readers the chance to read Kate Conger and Ryan Mac's account of the beginning, and end (?) of Twitter—Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.
We're giving ten (10) readers a copy! To enter, tweet at us in the comments ;-)🐤
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Giveaway begins March 21, 2026 and ends at midnight on March 28, 2026. Open to US residents, 18 and older. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.
BRAZIL! Thank you so much for reading & supporting Limite de Caracteres! It was an honor to meet some of you at the Serrote Festival and @websummit . Brazil is an essential part of the story of Twitter, content moderation and the internet writ large, and @mac_ryan_ and I feel so grateful to everyone who read our book, came to an event or told a friend about our work. Thank you so very much to our publisher, @todavialivros , the Serrote team, and everyone at Web Summit for making this possible. We’ll never forget it!
We’re so excited to bring Character Limit to Brazil! Our Brazilian readers have been incredibly supportive of our book and we can’t wait to see you IRL.
Tacos, Water and ‘Homies’: A Gas Station Becomes a Uniquely L.A. Relief Site
Out of desperation and a need for social bonding, volunteers have banded together to help Altadena residents.
Four lowriders, parked alongside gas pumps, gleamed in the afternoon sun. Carne asada sizzled on a grill at a pop-up taco stand in the corner. A group of old friends sat on camping chairs and passed around a freshly rolled blunt, cracking jokes and showing each other photos on their phones. Hip-hop played on a wireless speaker. Just feet from the taco stand were a dozen tables piled with donated shirts, blankets and toiletries that were meticulously organized. A moving van loaded with cases of water, boxes of chips and crates of diapers backed into the gas station. The filling station, perched across the street from one of the most destructive wildfires in California’s history, had suddenly become the vibrant hub of a traumatized neighborhood, a harbor for residents desperate for food, clothes and, especially, community.
Photographed for @nytimes Article by @mac_ryan_ and @kenbensi
#eatonfire #altadena #wildfire
In search of: mulled wine, waves, Christmas markets, sun, a working car, a teenage prodigy, a cure for grumpiness, two dinners a night, and more folks to listen to us yap about our book.
Kate called me in the middle of 2022 and asked if I wanted to do a book. I quickly dismissed the idea as insane over the phone. That was pretty much the end of the conversation. The story wasn’t over yet.
Ours wasn’t either. It was just starting. So when he bought the damn thing in Oct. 2022 and the daily coverage could no longer fit in the rectangles of broadsheet columns I called her back. It was time.
Kate came looking for a writing partner. What she got was a best friend, speed dial favorite, brother, tandem bike sharer, hater, roaster, ride-or-die, tattoo buddy, bad listener, and left brain all in one. I’ve spent more time talking to Kate in the last two years than anyone else and we created something that hopefully will stand for a long time.
Our book is about the limitations of a powerful man as he bought his favorite thing in the world. While working with her, I realized Kate has none. She can do it all. That’s my Kate!
We’re really happy to share that our book on Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is available in France, Brazil and Germany. Merci! Obrigado! Danke! Visit characterlimit.net/translations to pre-order.
