because everyone wants to blame journalists, especially those who've been freshly laid off, for the crumbling infrastructure of our industry, what about sharing a time you tried to flag up a concern or introduce a new idea — and what kind of reception u were met with

the art of the Read (as taken and inspired from/by Black and gay culture) is to so accurately tell you about yourself that you feel inflamed to retort. and be defensive. but you can't. because you've been read so clearly and accurately. it's quite a beautiful art form

you guys do realize there are similar groomers, enablers, and handlers in the influencer and social media world right now that we're just now trying to rectify in traditional entertainment media right

jeff bezos still has enough heart and funding for projects that are important for the public, like the Melania film and Sydney Sweeney's many boob-centered enterprises

I appreciate the editors offering freelance work opportunities but know with these scales of layoffs it will cause your/their inboxes to be plenty busy and we face another tough congestion economically Peer-to-peer help can only strap us for a lil while longer, the industry needs an overhaul or

For anyone claiming that they have the secret sauce to funding sustainable journalism: ethics and morality has always run counter to profit and business. They can meet in the middle of a hard road, but there is always conflict if you don’t want to collude ethical work

JOURNALISM WAS NEVER GOING TO TURN A HUGE PROFIT MARGIN YOU C-SUITE BOZOS SO TO PUNISH THOSE WHO ARE DOING GOOD JOURNALISM BUT NOT LINING THE POCKET BOOKS IS SO FUCKASS BACKWARDS

it's becoming weird if journalists are NOT tired and depleted with sending "thinking of my colleagues who are laid off today" tweets and thoughts into the ether

AND on top of the absolutely heinous and EVIL politics of the trump administration and his cronies (including everyone implicated in Epstein's charades and abuse) MAGA politics is incredibly LAME as far as cultural cachet. like they don't understand how to affect or align themselves with even an

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Do the white immigrants of this country recognize that if their late ancestors also didn’t migrate here they would also not have any of the privileges and rights that they enjoy

Also as it relates to layoffs. Sometimes for the longevity of a company it is inevitable. But a lot of the time the money you save by laying off people you have to spend as much for restructuring. And then you inevitably lose a bunch of people who you did not want to lose

Y’all are propping up people in high positions who have lived through the same history as us and who continue to make dumb decisions and investments so that we will have to relive the horrors of our recent history again. Excellent

the intense feminized toxicity that resumes the stiff and optomized bodies of the lauren sanchezes and the kristi noems — these women would shower with their cold hearts in their hard as rock fake tits and a power suit if they could

Honestly, shame to churches or sermons today that don’t bring up what’s happening in minneapolis and what’s been happening across this country

the biggest threat to you, American, isn't a low wage worker, even if they're here illegally. it is our president and his cronies, even if you're a supporter. because that man and that admin will take away your own access to work, health, and independence the moment u betray him

One day you wake up and realize all the weirdo corporate behavior especially from the top down is cause some dude wasn’t loved properly enough by their dad, or someone wasn’t picked on the junior softball team so now they’ve turned their jobs into sport to flaunt and grunt about

the most interesting part of Bari Weiss's run as an editor of an organization she's mostly unqualified for, and has made precarious choices for, is she's going to get a rude awakening of how media works when all eyes are on her now

One day we’re going to realize how sad it was that we’ve romanticized work culture - à la DIMLS (or day in my life videos) for one example - in order to survive it

He came to me in a dream

I used to resent the toxic on again and off again couple in my life for obvious draining reasons. But lately I’ve been really missing them - I’m bored, and it was a stimulant/drama I took for granted. Keep fighting and trying, babes, next time will be the time it works for sure

the 2016 nostalgia trend is killing my brain! okay yes the bygone eras of the 2010s were nice and delusional but why 2016?????????????? why not 2015! or 2013! even 2014! good choice! but 2016???????????????? do you guys remember????????????? i feel crazy

Just fuxxin around

The optimization model relies on the myth that 1+1=2 every time. And I can’t believe even the smartest in the industry fall trap to this stupid thinking every time

Can I say something about The Media Industry? among so much that feels unsustainable financially and ethically in the industry right now, one thing they/we have normalized is slutting out your most intimate personal experiences and stories for the click economy

Innovation helps the disabled in a real way, and, imo, enables and gives the very capable and privileged hacks and shortcuts (that ultimately do not serve them either)

i hope venezuelans, even in their longed suffering under an autocrat, look at america right now and is like, outside of more money circulating i don't want any of that. y'all are not that much better off lol

Day two of mamdani new york and I’m hearing reports that they’re forcing everyone - kids, dogs, hedgefund daddies - to do mutual aids. Mutual aids everywhere, clip boards, soup cans, clothing drives everywhere, people are being aided, suits are openly weeping in the streets

Sometimes I just want to have a word with people who design things. I would ask them if they’ve ever experienced a thing ever in their lives

My review of one battle after another: doing revolutionary vigilante crimes CAN be quite horny yes!

now that we've had some time to reflect on the Me Too movement - for what was an important moment for mostly women victims to regain their power has also become the groundswell for men to judge their actions and morality. and not for who they hurt but how they're perceived

Shoutout to everyone online who’s had good home training at home - it shows and I appreciate you

(Talking to my young daughter this christmas) now don’t be alarmed if santa looks a little bit different this year - he’s on a glp 1

i'm sorry the hill i guess i will die on is that Girls *was* revolutionary (in the way that I Love LA isn't - as much as i'm enjoying it) Lena did something groundbreaking in her writing & portrayal of young women at the time, and how they/we were coping, how bodies and sex were represented

The human condition is vast and complex — it’s produced the likes of both Erica Kirk and Ned Fulmer

We talk a lot about emotional safe spaces online but some days it feels like there is a lack of INTELLECTUAL SAFETY when u enter some corners of the internet do you know what I mean that buffoon 1+1=3 logic that makes pretty stupid shit spiral into ginormous discourses every day

I, the owner of a privatized prison, am looking for a successful draconian private equity firm to seize control of our facilities so that we can maximize profits while maintaining our usual barbaric and punitive standards on ppl we no longer deem to be full ppl. Can you help?

the rise of Klarna and buy now pay later programs is a huge recession indicator and also a good time to remind us of a simple piece of financial advice i heard when i was younger: buy into what you can sustainably afford these programs will suck you DRY for a moment of instant gratification

i do believe to a real extent that you can find most answers you're asking chatgpt by just adding "reddit" to the google search bar. good reddit threads have never disappointed me

with our communication and mediation continuing to skew to tech and immediacy, some friends (who don't live near me) and I have started to try writing to each other via email and physical mail 🥰 it's been so lovely in contrast

something weird and random is popping up on tiktok videos, especially mundane "DIML" ones geolocated in nyc — it's a banner link to a third party vendor called Viator that does diff tour guides around the city

Anyone who currently uses aave or drag derived lingo needs to watch paris is burning or any earlier educational texts

The only good algorithm hole on most visual platforms is when u like one shrimp meme or image ur page is blasted with like a million shrimps

the reason we're not in a recession officially is because billionaires are passing around their billions toward AI to inflate its value while we're all scrambling underneath their games and losing work (and our minds!!!) to it

It is absolutely psycho when execs of social services or the arts make crazy cuts to “optimize” and expect the result or product to remain good

Can I be vulnerable. After hearing about the successful heist all I can think about is stealing whenever I step foot in a museum or gallery now (in a purely curious and imaginative and logistical way lol I am not planning to steal, maybe ever)

Not to take the hones off taylor swift directly but bc she is more of a corporation today than she’s artistry i do wonder how much her stockbroker dad and her team out for domination influence how she sees/steers her career and how much she connects commercial success with art in general because

Los Angeles is the first place i've ever been or lived where people as a practice and/or culture actively forage and harvest aura