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Soo, after 2.5ish years of Approved Pitches for freelance writers, I'm starting a second newsletter for PR and comms people (agency or in-house) called Placements. All the info here: bit.ly/3ib83ch #journorequest

@mcdermott exactly why.

@RaeWitte Of all the pitches they receive, they take this Cut reject essay

The failure of men's magazines can be summed up by GQ publishing an Annie Hamilton essay about befriending Tavi Gevinson, a story no one outside of the most insufferable, self-important corners of the NYC publishing industry cares about.

@jessicaschiffer I beg.

Can we stop using “cool girls” in headlines please? Who are the cool girls?

Yall don’t know that there are other words to use to express the “it’s not just______, it’s ________” sentiment bc you use ChatGPT too much

Every stereotype about women that men made up, is just men projecting.

@edzitron the literally the entire basis of the Sam Altmans and Elon Musks type “smartness” - lying

So…lying?

how it feels sending pitches to the same editor each week

@jazzyrae i saw someone "teach" their followers one (1) singular way to tie a bandana on their head their other day with like 2400 likes. it's insane.

Just saw a woman on IG teaching her feed how to style themselves as a ‘sneaker girl.’ The sample fit was: baggy camo pants and a Nike t shirt.

@tremblebot this doesn’t surprise me at all. I always think about how susceptible people who ever never been on a team of any sorts are when joining these communities and spaces. Belonging hits like crack.

@RaeWitte Alt-R, antivaccx, dietary insanity, hyper-religious rhetoric of fitness and the body, prepper style hypervigilance. Narcissistic personalities to start for sure but fitness was like a hyperscaler for darkness.

is fitness the gateway drug for the looksmaxxer to red pill pipeline 🫠

@tremblebot 👀 such as?

@RaeWitte Much of my fam is Croxxfit and it has led to so so many dark beliefs.

@sydegee not to be so Taurus about it but it’s also just more efficient. They will get pitches aligned with what they pay and not need to do all the extra negotiating once the rate is revealed. 🫠

@RaeWitte pubs need to lead with the rates like c'mon now it's 2026

it's like a complete disregard of the negative impact it has on women and an unabashed pursuit of it lol

it's hysterical that women have actively been trying to free themselves of harmful beauty standards and men are like addicts for it with their cute little name

@sophianjune SCREAM.

never forget when my associate creative director at uni*lo told me: “copywriting isn’t like journalism. It’s actually hard.”

trump campaigning in 2016 initiated the decline

@michaelmiraflor I’m thinking about lying and saying I have mine set to filter out AI text lol

Trying to find a nice way to ask someone to please stop using AI to answer every email.

you can’t let the two of them get on camera together. the new york charm would get trump panting.