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Alissa Walker
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Alissa is the former urbanism editor at Gizmodo.

When I first started at Gizmodo, I didn’t know anyone. It was, frankly, pretty intimidating to walk into this huge open office that is always completely silent but for the clicking of keyboards. The first few weeks at any job are strange and lonely, but Tommy—who had only a mutual friend in common with me—was Read more

Tommy Craggs gave me a second chance. I spent nearly three years writing for a different Gawker site, and I hit a point where I was just done. I couldn’t do it anymore. I was looking elsewhere, and my time at the company was up. I didn’t want to leave though, and in a passing conversation, I told Tommy I felt Read more

That’s because you were eating all that yoga mat bread Read more

If you are subsisting on not much money for whatever reason, Subway is pretty much the cheapest option besides dollar pizza. There’s a pretty steep food to price ratio. I know this because after graduating when I was working for free like a millennial chump, I ate Subway a bunch and got SO SICK and had to go to the Read more

Thanks for fighting the good fight. I can completely sympathize, and you are doing a wonderful job. Read more

Nothing short of modifying the actual mesh could you fix her. Read more