I need to start drugging myself I think
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I need to start drugging myself I think
this would be a good alternative to counting backwards from 100 a million times
Hmmmmmm. A handful?
revenge is a dish best served by writing a short story about them
and Hugh Grant is manipulating it all from above.
There needs to be a feature on a dating app where you can recommend someone go to therapy and if enough people recommend therapy the app sends them a message and connects them to a network of available therapists.
Dear freelance writers: Broad Sound (a journal of arts and culture) is looking for new pitches to run at broadsoundmag.com beginning in November (queue’s full through then!) Pay is $100 per piece. Write us the essay of your dreams. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
seeing my parents. will report back on the thing they heard on npr that they can't remember the name of but that they think I'll find really interesting so hold on they'll send me a link for it.
a museum of museum gift shops
there's also a dumpling zine abovethefoldpress.com
anyone want to hire me to write a marvel movie?
thank you!!! I'm working on a book proposal now and I keep mentioning your book to my agent as an example of what I'm trying to do.
classics!
Discovered that an article I wrote for Slate was cited in @sophiegilbert.bsky.social's book Girl on Girl and DO YOU KNOW HOW EXCITING IT IS TO BE VIEWED AS A CREDIBLE SOURCE?????????????????
Any book suggestions? I want them to be super on top of pop culture
seeing my 1 year old nephews next week. What are the cool 1 year olds into these days?
So how’s everyone’s innermost critic doing today?
if we don't who will
watching Josh immediately makes me look for vintage Boston t-shirts on etsy. He releases all my born in Mass pride
always so good!!!!!
Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.
can someone with access to the Taylor & Francis database do me a solid?
the other day I had to explain What Not to Wear to an 18 year old who was working at a vintage shop in Park Slope and I'm not sure the children understand what millennials endured and why we hate our bodies so much.
invite me to the next one!
has anyone tried rushing Just In Time? Do I have to show up at the crack of dawn to get tickets?
congrats!
not into metal or screamo type stuff. Otherwise I'm pretty open
I've started a new personal project where on every run, I listen to album in its entirety. I'm 100% open to suggestions and they can be all over the shop thematically as long as you can argue that they have real artistic merit.
It's happening! I'm starting my journey as a crying influencer by launching the Public Places Where We've Cried newsletter. It's free and will feature a weekly interview with someone who's cried recently. Subscribe today! cryingismykink.beehiiv.com
I'm looking to talk to people who've cried in public for a new newsletter I'm starting called Crying Is My Kink. Every week, I'll publish an interview with someone about the last time they cried in a public place. More details to come. In the meantime, if this is you, DM me!
I'm trying to think up a new business venture. What are people looking for these days?
Does anyone need an audio engineer/producer person? My wonderful boyfriend was effected by the layoffs at StoryCorps and is looking for freelance or full-time work. He's a dream to collab with and is much nicer than me.
This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
Oh, just reading about how this college president uses AI in academic leadership and wondering why, exactly, they need such salaries?
ICYMI: beginning this spring, Broad Sound will be publishing weekly arts and culture longreads online. Our rate will be $100 per essay. Write on any arts-and-culture topic you want. Surprise and delight us. More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
now let's do this but for health insurance
Seriously, where is all my work? (I’m free! Hire me!)
so how's everyone doing?
Fair enough. Thanks!
how much research do you want in your pitches?
For @objectivejournos.bsky.social I wrote about the ethics of using social media posts as sources objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/the-...
I turn 33 tomorrow. Seems like a good reason to give me work.
I've been at this for roughly a decade and you'd think that would account for something but behold my empty calendar and even emptier heart. I'm available for work!
How worried should we be that one medical is going to share (if they havent already) all our health records?
This sociologist lays out really really good strategies and exactly why the right is using this flood zone tactic in an attempt to overwhelm us and freeze us in place
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
People who get constipated every time they travel: what do you do?
@studyhall.bsky.social
I want to get the study hall advice column back and running. Ask me questions about the media industry! The more specific the question/situation, the better
Journalism folks: There are several open jobs at ProPublica (including Florida reporter) plus there's also a freelance pitch form here: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g... #jobsky #jobs #hiring #media
What do people think of footnotes as asides in books? Are they fun? Are they annoying?
I have a full draft ready to go too.
hail mary post: I did an interview with the host of the Kill List podcast that was killed by the original publication due to conflicts with the subject matter and I really want to place it somewhere, especially because the last episode dropped this week. Editors, come at me. STAT.
job postings are like "remote! Must be in Schenectady!"
it's so hard to justify giving a fuck these days
my mom once told me that my family is from "everywhere they didn't kick us out of"
I still have a really good interview with a popular true crime podcast's host to land. It was commissioned and killed (nothing to do with the quality of it. It was because of the publication's stance on a specific issue discussed). It's about tech/journalism/crime. Interested? DM me.
Overheard a high school boy turn down a snowball fight because he didn’t “have any gloves, bro” and I want nothing but the best for this young man.
🎤💥 Dutch cartoonist @tjeerdroyaards.com made this for the national newspaper @trouw.nl. In support of @anntelnaes.bsky.social. And this paper published it.
Editors! Don't forget about me in 2025! I won't be nagging you about pay rates on social media anymore, but I'm very open for assignments!
Yearly reminder that ppl don't post about the times that sucked, the jobs that look evil, the tiny daily hurts, the friendships broken, the empty moments. You're seeing years tuned to perfection, a set of lists and photos laden with an assumed public perception.
"Hi, I have 10+ years of experience and nothing to offer. Hire me."
Does anyone else feel like they're losing market value in double time these days?
I have no idea what my career is going to look like in 2025. Aside from the stories I already have going, I don't know where my money is going to come from. It's a really shitty feeling and so demoralizing.
Unexpected family movie: Herzog's Theater of Thought. Saw it with a 12 year old and he said it was cool.
Anyone want a complete draft of an interview with a popular true crime podcast host? My interview was killed after I wrote it all up and I'd love to sell it before the new year.
Looking for the two journos who were sitting near me at Variety Coffee in Park Slope. I have some thoughts I didn’t get to share
I worked stupidly hard on this. Enjoy! Open to subscribers and non-subscribers.
they look so soft!
I’m going to a dj set in bushwick tonight. Truly, what do I wear
Fall Guy is the ultimate plane movie. I was entertained the entire time and the sound quality was clear enough that I could hear it which I cannot say for uncut gems which I couldn’t hear at all and abandoned quickly
I want to know what's up with Topher Grace being in The Heretic for 5 minutes.
Feeling super alone. It's awesome!
Have a low stakes goal for 2025? Want to reflect on your low stakes goals from 2024? Leave a voicemail at (914) 295-2193. I'll eventually do something with it!
I haven’t seen the last episode yet!
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#JobAlert: we’re hiring! The Foundation is seeking two new Sociological Review magazine editors to build on the excellent work of our outgoing editors @asiyaislam.bsky.social and @idleethnographer.bsky.social Don’t delay! 19 December is the deadline to apply. buff.ly/3B99lBe
For info and how to apply visit birdpop.org/pages/jobs.php Don't delay, positions are open until filled.
We’re hiring! Debug are looking for a writer with editorial experience and a passion for indie games to join our team as a staff writer. This is a paid, long-term freelance position with regular work in every print issue! If that sounds like you, our DMs are open. We’d love to see your portfolio!
🚨🚨WE'RE HIRING: @levernews.com is expanding our newsroom. We are hiring: - Political Newsletter Writer - Two Political Reporters Apply here - and pass it on👇 LeverNews.com/jobs
Bookish people, we're hiring a freelance reader at @ldlainc.bsky.social! It's part-time and remote. We want someone sharp, with a good critical eye, who enjoys commercial fiction (both adult and kids). And a good written communicator, because, well...reader reports. Info at: ldlainc.com/jobs
I'm currently the only tech reporter at NPR, since the great @darakerr.bsky.social moved over to the Guardian. So we're hiring a tech reporter to join NPR's Business Desk. Apply! job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
enough people have accused me of selling out that I might as well actually sell out.
I don't know if I can emotionally handle the end of Somebody Somewhere
Watched Cha Cha Real Smooth last night and it was cute but the Jewish component felt so arbitrary.
It's only 5???? Are you kidding me, sun?
thanks!
TV
I could use a good British mystery. Recs?
Prediction: Paul Krugman is gonna join Malcom Gladwell's podcast network.
Actors on Actors is just a fancy real estate term for two people sharing a Manhattan studio apartment.
Do I know anyone who knows anyone who knows any of the members of My Bloody Valentine? It's a Christmas gift situation.
there was a moment when every guy I went on a date with had to show me how he could control the color of his lights from his phone.
This illustration is too good for this internet
I might broaden the scope
Spottingfy Wrapped
Not enough people submitted to the Golden Dryer Sheet Awards to make it worth the time and energy to judge it. Putting it on pause until I have the capacity to organize a better marketing campaign and prize.