For @Polygon, I wrote about how the ending of Sex Education illustrates how the show forgets it may be about therapy, but it’s also supposed to be… fun. And romantic! Alas they dropped the ball https://www.polygon.com/23890995/sex-education-ending-finale-season-4-maeve-otis

So I guess I’m back here now

Some of y’all know I got a huge book deal to write a memoir in the pandemic, then was like “nvm” but… I think that memoir is turning into a novel. Subscribe, read what might be the opening, lmk what you think 👀 https://t.co/IaClFeS9FP

People don’t get how unbelievably freeing it is to live without a car in places where that’s possible. Most of human civilization didn’t have cars (or horses) and they were perfectly able to get around!

Please send me work 🙏 www.nicolefroio.com

When staff reporters are like "I've been reporting on this for months" it makes me so sad that I can't report on anything for months bc a flat $500 rate at the end of months is literally me losing money as a freelancer 🤡

i’ve gotten to $730! can anyone help close this out? https://bsky.app/profile/roslyn.bsky.social/post/3jzikajhkwj2f

So tired today. Didn’t get enough sleep at all

For my Patreon, I wrote about the aunt I lost bc of my mom’s volatile relationships, all the other “aunties” I lost for the same reason, and recently losing my own “adopted” niece and nephews bc their mom moved similarly https://www.patreon.com/posts/85622334?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

I said I wasn’t doing work today but I wrote something about my mother, and losing my best friend yesterday, and searching for my mother in other people and losing my mother over and over again https://www.patreon.com/posts/85580740?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

Ugh, this. If it’s helpful (and you don’t already subscribe), I know Sonia Weiser puts out a freelance opps newsletter every week or so: https://soniaweiser.wordpress.com/opportunities-of-the-week-newsletter/

For Sweet July, I tried face tapping as a way to manage anxiety. I still ended up in the ER for a panic attack but the technique brought me so me relief. Check it out, it might work for you! https://sweetjuly.com/editorial/face-tapping-the-anxiety-away-does-eft-work/

Soggy Toronto

Not sure if I can go for my walk by the lake bc the river is flooded this AM apparently sksksksk

Is tomorrow like… a working day lol?

I’m of cracker descent

I need to get my Patreon going so I wrote Bad Mom content, about the worst thing my mother ever did. Which surprisingly, was not to me. But it’s stayed with me for almost two decades, especially how she made me an accomplice https://www.patreon.com/posts/85424256?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

I need to get my Patreon going so I wrote some Bad Mom content, this time about the worst thing my mother ever did. Which was not to me. But it’s stayed with me for almost two decades https://www.patreon.com/join/nylahburton/checkout?rid=9390790&redirect_uri=%2Fposts%2Fworst-thing-my-85424256

I’ve spent two decades of my life with mental illness so severe lots of y’all can’t even imagine and I’ve read so much about mad liberation, etc etc… I am still using these words lol

Ok soooo since me and every other freelancer is spiraling about the loss of contacts from Twitter, I’m starting an editor thread! Tell us where you work, what you’re looking for, YOUR EMAIL, and your rates.

I’m a lit mag editor (Stone of Madness Press) and would be interested in being added! I’d also love to see a list just for small presses/magazines, that’s the one thing I miss from Twitter.

Nylah’s a brilliant, thoughtful writer whose work has taught me a lot (and tweets have alternately made me laugh and sob) — follow! and, if you’re in a position to do so, let Nylah write awesome things for you!!

I think I’d appreciate an editor thread more! Like if you’re an editor let us know where you work, your email, what you’re looking for, etc.

I have this deep need to write a dramatic essay/article about breakfast sandwiches, y’all know any editors who would be good for that?

Nylah is sharp as hell. Hire her.

I’m worried that my freelance writing career is going to collapse without Twitter so if you’re an editor looking for writers/pitches, let me know 😭

Well worth it to read the in-depth story that covers the perspective of the teenage boy, who also has receipts https://newsone.com/4592993/sarah-jane-comrie-update-citi-bike-teens-mother-speaks-out/

She did this to a child & is being rewarded for it. She pushed herself on to his bike, put her hands on him, snatched his phone away, endangered him by yelling "help!" lied that he hurt her fetus. He stayed calm. https://newsone.com/4592993/sarah-jane-comrie-update-citi-bike-teens-mother-speaks-out/

Please donate and share to help the boy she threatened hire a lawyer. Racists have given her $100k… https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-family-of-the-young-man-in-citi-bike-incident?member=27119691&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

Global names for orcas: -kakaw’in (enforcer of the sea) -polossatik (the feared one) -mörderwal (whale murderer) -ballena asesino (whale assassin) -zwaardwalvis (sword whale) -spaekhugger (fat chopper) -vaghund (hunting together like dogs) -repun kamui (master of the open sea)

Spent the past two days watching white supremacists threaten to lynch a Black woman journalist for talking about CitiBike Karen and the only people supporting her publicly were Black women, who should not be doing that

I love Charlotte day Wilson’s music more than I love my own mother which admittedly isn’t saying much but STILL

I’ve been here for two weeks and still don’t have invite codes fuck this

Moose is an Ojibwe word, and there IS a plural and it's moozoog.

This whole time I thought at the end of the 2 weeks I was going to get several invite codes… now y’all are telling me it’s only one?? I’m sorry I can’t with this app

The fact that a Black entertainer who many KNEW around the fucking world from the digital space that got OTHER PEOPLE everything from blue checks to bank checks died in a videotaped chokehold While hungry is probably something an app whose popularity is creating around Black labor SHOULD discuss

I still can’t block people bc all it shows me is this, I can’t actually press the block button LOL

Why does my body crack so much I hate being 28

Do you ever feel like you’re trapped in a video game and you have to do stupid tasks all day just so you can collect tokens so you can pay for things in the avatar shop

STOP TALKING ABOUT BLUESKY ON BLUESKY, ITS BORING

I’m such a weirdo hype man bc why did I just respond to my friends story like “you have great hands!”

Everyone at the met gala looks like absolute losers so far

Did any of y’all (Black folks) see the screeners for the Queen Charlotte show? I need to speak to folks for my Vox article

Do y’all ever get the urge to eat hunks of bread and cheese like you’re a 15th century peasant

Excuse me, not to be disrespectful or rude but could you please take this post down. that is my sister who was killed by metra train. And this post is very disrespectful. idk who you are or if you even know her but I need you to take this down please

WHEN DO I GET SOME DAMN INVITE CODES I WANT TO DO HOODRAT SHIT WITH MY FRIENDS

I feel like this site needs some dating hypotheticals to really set things off

Mermaids are definitely fish and if they were real, we would eat them