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@TimHerrera

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does one single person know what salesforce is or does

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the heaviest substance known to humans is the psychic weight of all the emails you haven't responded to

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when was the first time you realized just *how* wealthy rich people are? mine was my first semester at nyu when someone pointed out that another student was wearing a $4,000 coat and my brain literally couldn’t comprehend that a coat could cost that much

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Like lmao for real tho I’ve been on this hellsite for 11 years and I can’t recall a nuttier day????

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This is the best thing I’ve ever seen on this website

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I’m dog sitting this princess today and she just literally just hangs out standing up like this lmao, she held this pose for like a full minute

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6:22 p.m. put the bad laptop away and switch to the party laptop!!!!!

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4 years

okay tell me if this is just me or everyone is dealing w/this: i feel like i have gotten much worse at general ~keeping in touch~ with ppl cuz i feel like i have nothing to say. i don't have updates, i know you don't either, so what is there to really talk about? so i just don't!

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serious answers only: are there stable industries where you're not worried about getting laid off every day? i know this sounds like a facetious question i've only ever worked in media where you live in fear every second but are other careers like this?

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3 years

I literally quit my job for this reason (btw I left NYT lol)

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Does anyone who worked the entire pandemic feel permanently burnt out?

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4 years

Protestors marching across the Williamsburg bridge right now

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@TimHerrera

4 years

good lord: a master's degree in data journalism from columbia — a 12-month program at the gold standard for j-schools — will cost you wait for it you're not ready for this you literally will not believe it $159,206 how is this not a broken system

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@TimHerrera

3 years

I wish there were a way to ask rich kids when they realized they were rich but I don’t even know if rich ppl have that level of self-awareness? (This isn’t a joke or snark I literally don’t think they do??)

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@TimHerrera

4 years

lol okay the last stupid thing i'll say about this and then drop it is that everything people have said about whatever salesforce is, especially the real descriptions, reads like it's literally a 30 rock joke where jack donaghy is explaining "business" to liz lemon

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@TimHerrera

4 years

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3 years

Okay hear me out: 2021 is *worse* than 2020?? Like I know so many people who are just having absolute fucking trainwrecks of a year so far — myself extremely, extremely included — in a way that seems worse than last year?? What???

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4 years

Oh my god I just told someone that Kristie Alley is a Qanon person and they literally responded “what’s qanon?” CAN YOU IMAGINE

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4 years

Fantastic, good, great, more fun news keep it coming

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4 years

lmao whole buncha people in mentions talkin about crm like i know wtf a crm is lolllll

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4 years

lol god i'm sorry, i cannot let this go, it is so insanely funny to me that dozens of very smart people gave what they thought were accurate descriptions of salesforce and *all of them* described something different hahahahahaha we live in an episode of hbo's silicon valley??????

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4 years

Literally me and it sucks

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4 years

Cool good great

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@a_symonds Irl lol I LOVE instances of rich people not knowing how much common things cost, like that will literally never not be funny

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@TimHerrera

4 years

remember to wear a mask when you open the door for food delivery!!! it's easy to forget but the driver just now specifically thanked me for wearing one which is kinda sad cuz it makes me think people aren't, it's easy to forget to put it on so put one by the door!!

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@TimHerrera

3 years

is there any worse part of doing journalism than listening to a recording of yourself asking a question JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SPIT OUT THE QUESTION ALREADY GOD

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4 years

Lmao I just realized not a single one of these is even about coronavirus hahahahahahaha

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4 years

LIKE!!!! how is it possible that people *in the industry* cannot describe with any level of precision a company that has 50,000 employees and is worth $220 billion dollars????????

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@TimHerrera

4 years

wait lol mj just told me she used to call into radio stations ALL the time when she was young to request songs/talk to the DJs. this whole thing is entirely foreign to me, is this a thing you did???

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4 years

Um okay mind your business

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@TimHerrera

4 years

Omg I just got paid for the freelance story I did two years ago 🙌🙌🙌 chase down those payments!!!!

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@TimHerrera

2 years

Freelance journalists! Here are 60+ pitch guides for Vox, NatGeo, Wired, BBC, WaPo, Wirecutter, Slate, and so, so many more

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4 years

Don’t check your work email until you sign on for the day you do not get paid to read personnel memos in bed right after waking up!!!!!

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@TimHerrera

4 years

lmao can you imagine what it’s gonna be like for people who are going to *wake up* to this news jfc

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4 years

Tbt to that time I got absolutely thrashed into oblivion by a bunch of teens via snail mail, still the highlight of my 2020

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@TimHerrera

4 years

the coolest part about getting retweeted by @nytimes is no matter what your story is about, literally any topic you can imagine, like weather patterns in the andes, your mentions and DMs will be full of accounts like @ryan484694883 shouting about hydroxychloroquine

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I am absolutely LOSING MY MIND

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4 years

i'm sorry but i simply have no fucking sympathy for people who held a wedding this year then got butthurt that people didn't show up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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4 years

this will never not be funny i'm sorry, this whole thing has just completely thrown off my evening/week idk how i'll be able to think about anything else for a while

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4 years

there's no context or backstory to this, but i think a lot about how in 2012 i interviewed for a job at the huffington post and the expectation was to write 10-12 posts per day and it paid $30,000

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the fact that harper's, a prestigious, top-tier, national magazine, still doesn't pay its interns in 2020 shows you precisely who it is made by and for

Internships

Editorial Internships The internship will be conducted in person. All interns must be fully vaccinated in accordance with CDC guidelines before their first day of work. Harper’s Magazine is accepting...

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@TimHerrera

4 years

what the fuck google

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@TimHerrera

4 years

what do u think twitter is like rn for ppl don't follow journalists

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@TimHerrera

4 years

read through a few dozen freelance pitches today and i have some thoughts that can help you write better pitches!!!! thread 👇

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@TimHerrera

4 years

6:10 put away the work laptop and switch to the party laptop 🥳

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@TimHerrera

4 years

I need to concuss myself so I can just sit this one out

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@TimHerrera

4 years

I’m re-listening to the @replyall where they track down and recreate a missing pop song from the 90s and imo it’s the best single episode of a podcast ever??

#158 The Case of the Missing Hit

A man in California is haunted by the memory of a pop song from his youth. He can remember the lyrics and the melody. But the song itself has vanished, complete

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4 years

okay so it's an advertising company that's what i'm going with thanks everyone!!!!!

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@TimHerrera

4 years

Three things: 1. That NYT Opinion staffer's thread is a deeply misleading characterization of discussions happening internally. I'm in many of the channels these talks are happening in — she is not. (I just checked.) The discussions are ...

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4 years

The strongest bond on Twitter is people you met in 2011 who live in a different state work in a completely different industry and you’ll never meet irl yet you’ve spent a decade gassing each other up 🤝🤝🤝

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@TimHerrera

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this is the only account that should be allowed to tweet about politics

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@TimHerrera

4 years

why does tony hawk get a game but she doesn't

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@TimHerrera

3 years

Wait the Facebook report is so much worse than you think

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@TimHerrera

4 years

big yikes: the entire staff of washington square news, NYU's student newspaper, has resigned in protest of their new editorial adviser:

We’re Resigning from WSN. Here’s Why.

We, the undersigned WSN Fall 2020 Editorial Staff, have collectively decided to resign from Washington Square News, effective immediately. This was extensively deliberated in collaboration with 43...

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@TimHerrera

4 years

My spiciest take about working in media that I actually believe is you should be compensated for tweeting stories from the pub you work at, that is free labor and PR and not written into any job description

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@TimHerrera

4 years

imo we don't talk enough about how good flight of the conchords was

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@TimHerrera

4 years

me as an editor: this is great but we need to cut it in half should i start chopping? me as a writer: but ... my words ... 🥺🥺🥺 ... they're all important ... they all deserve to live ... 👉👈 ... pls don't kill them ... 😥😥😥

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@TimHerrera

4 years

editors: quote-tweet this with what you pay freelancers. all the responsibility for increasing transparency around rates shouldn't fall exclusively on freelancers, we need to step up i start writers out at $1/word

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@TimHerrera

4 years

ALSO, a noticeable trend: lots of *former* journalists in the replies here (and many more in my DMs) saying their stability — and mental health — skyrocketed after leaving the industry. yikes yikes yikes

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@TimHerrera

4 years

i keep forgetting to say this but i joined @NYTStyles lmao my first story is an investigation of whether it's style or styles watch this space

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@TimHerrera

4 years

@enkisrightnippl honestly this makes exactly as much sense as any other description i've read

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4 years

i love this horror show of a website

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@TimHerrera

4 years

It's been 8 months of isolation and the end still really isn't in sight. So I talked to an astronaut, a researcher in Antarctica and a woman who spent two years sealed off in Biosphere 2 to get some advice on dealing with long-term isolation:

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4 years

i'm not looking to switch or anything, i guess really what i'm asking is: is the state of terror in our industry singular, or is it just a result of capitalism?

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@TimHerrera

4 years

there is literally no point in watching tv news or reading news online for the next 15 hours it will add literally nothing to your life go watch schitt's creek for a few hours then pass out!!!!!!!!!

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@TimHerrera

4 years

here's my advice for young journalists: never put your employer's name in your twitter handle, it looks dumb and also your employer isn't your identity and they don't own you lmao

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@TimHerrera

4 years

. @amandamull is imo better than any working journalist at taking those “huh yeah that’s interesting” ideas you talk about with your friends and spinning them into substantive, newsy, engaging, must-read stories

The High Cost of Panic-Moving

Fleeing a big city because of the pandemic is a bigger gamble than it might seem.

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4 years

what's the dumbest purchase you've made in quar that you absolutely do not regret

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4 years

this is my absolute favorite genre of personal finance content

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3 years

twitter dot com is a website where your former heroes continually and relentlessly expose themselves to be dipshits

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4 years

Lol I’m in the office for the first time since March, and the only thing of note on my desk is this absolutely devastating letter from a group of teens tearing apart my professional life

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3 years

Omfg if you’re in New York go outside the sunset is goooooorgeous tonight

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3 years

If I were applying to jobs right now I would absolutely ask what type of surveillance programs are used to track employees working from home, and if the answer isn’t “none” it would 100% be a dealbreaker

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... respectful, emotional, nuanced, PAINFUL, thoughtful. 2. By definition, she can't be privy to many of those discussions, as she is an Opinion employee and there's a firewall between Opinion and the newsroom. 3. I can be reprimanded for these tweets. She can't be for hers.

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4 years

Sorry, I said three, but one more: 4. Breaking this discussion down into two adversarial sides divided generationally — while being simply untrue — erases the profoundly good work that our older colleagues are doing around this.

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@TimHerrera

4 years

@DowntownLouGirl maybe!!! that's certainly something that sounds like a company!!!!

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@TimHerrera

4 years

sorry but people who say they don’t like prosecco are just stuck-up snobs pretending to hold an opinion they think makes them look cool literally everyone likes prosecco

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@TimHerrera

4 years

what publications have public guidelines for pitching stories? pls send me any you've seen!!!

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@TimHerrera

3 years

@raedear1 Woof, this is a tough one lmao

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@TimHerrera

3 years

EDITORS!!! quote-tweet this with what you pay freelancers. i did this last year and dozens of you spoke up and it was so so helpful for so many freelancers (you can DM me if you'd like to say anonymously!!!!) at nyt i started writers out at $1/word

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@TimHerrera

4 years

@lenikacruz The world’s cutest lil zombies 🥰🥰

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@TimHerrera

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The Voice but it's editors hearing freelance pitches "I feel like your energy is right and you've got a strong news peg, but, you know, it just doesn't fit with our publishing schedule right now. But best of luck!!"

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@TimHerrera

4 years

lol the replies to the original tweet here are pretty dang depressing on the whole. basically: yes there are a few stable industries, but the rest of us are just out here hanging on a thread. very cool stuff!!!!

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@TimHerrera

4 years

lol remember how on march 12 the biggest concern in the world was simply washing your hands for 20 seconds and buying purell from duane reade lollllllllllkillme

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@TimHerrera

4 years

@farahlearned Why read books when I can destroy my brain reading tweets????

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@TimHerrera

4 years

i love to tell this story because i am still furious about it: while in school i took an unpaid internship HOWEVER @nyuniversity and that news outlet wouldn't let me take it unless i got *class credit* so i had to PAY NYU $3,600 to work as an unpaid intern 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Ever wondered why newsrooms/mainstream media outlets are disproportionately white? Especially when it comes to leadership? The unpaid internship. They could afford to live in NYC for a summer w/o pay; they then had the necessary experience/contacts to stay & rise the ranks

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4 years

oops accidentally had a coffee after 1 see you at 3 a.m tonight i guess

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@TimHerrera

4 years

Here’s a theory: Twitter is the only product in the world whose most dedicated users are also the people who hate it most. Like is there any other thing people willingly use that they also despise???

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@TimHerrera

4 years

“I can’t believe this website is free” — people who don’t realize this website takes everything from us ☺️✌️💫

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This a truly exceptional push alert

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@TimHerrera

4 years

does anyone else feel like today has lasted for 29 hours already

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@TimHerrera

4 years

grammar scolding is imo the worst, laziest scolding there is. the less/fewer rule is something everyone learned in 10th grade and now CLINGS to in an effort to project intellectual superiority, when in reality, language use evolves and there is *no* ambiguity when either is used

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We’re free!!!

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Running this puts Black @nytimes staff in danger.

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Hahahahahahaha I just got the most beautiful, satisfying answer to this: I did some research after @CarterRunMDC tipped me off. This person is in Scotland, where these bread clips have been banned for *years*. We’re all just ignorant-ass Americans who wanted to dunk on him ☠️☠️☠️

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@TimHerrera

4 years

Here’s that reddit/wallstreetbets commercial that aired for like five seconds

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@TimHerrera

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like if you're like an accountant or a mechanic do you wake up every day being like "huh wonder if today's the day?"?

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why is everyone having a weird day today!!!!!! what is this bizarre energy????

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@TimHerrera

4 years

Even if you’re not going to read them, open your friends’ newsletters to bump up their open rates!!!! (A variation on: “Buy your friends’ books even if they give you a copy”)

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