this has @noelfielding11 written all over it #history #horror #cake #GBBO @BritishBakeOff
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Ruth Terry
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Ruth Terry
@Ruth_Terry
American in Istanbul writing about everything from race to rollerskating. Bylines in: @AJEnglish @NatGeo @nytimes @TIME @washingtonpost @yesmagazine. She/her
Istanbul, Turkey Katılım Ekim 2009
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Are you scrambling to get a U.S. tourist visa before the end of the year due to the new integrity fee or canceling 2026 U.S. travel plans to avoid the fee? If so, I’d love to talk to you for an article. Please get in touch asap to lolaannmendez@gmail.com #jounrorequest #prrequest
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@Ruth_Terry I’m sorry Ruth. It’s rough out there.
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Today I broke $10,000 in earnings for 2025. For reference by the end of May 2024 I was at $16,000, in 2023 $17,000, and in 2022 $19,000. Every year it gets hard and harder to earn a living as a freelance journalist. I'll be lucky if I make $20K this year.
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@NicoleHaase @lolaannamendez So sorry to hear this! I feels like it’s just so hard to know what to do next and where to put our effort.
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@lolaannamendez @Ruth_Terry I finally got close to making what I call a real adult salary in 2019 and still haven't come close to bouncing back since Covid. It's absolutely brutual
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this whole situation is just i can’t with it
Insider Union ✊@InsiderUnion
And if that wasn’t enough, management decided – incredibly in the same email announcing the layoffs – to say “we are going all in on AI,” praising themselves about the use of AI in our newsroom. Tone deaf doesn’t even begin to describe this.
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Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event? newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…
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Oh yay! Everyone go follow @CBackstreets on Instagram! open.substack.com/pub/flanor/p/g…
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I earned a badge from University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education! @ruthwrites.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">api.badgr.io/public/asserti…
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Ruth Terry retweetledi
My latest for @PortholeCruise is a print feature on how rosé all year is the standard in France and we should all be following suit.
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@Wejolyn @AlpacaAurelius Here in Istanbul they may not kick you out, but you could get charged... This is more economic than cultural though turkiyetoday.com/turkiye/some-c…
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@AlpacaAurelius Not being kicked out of your table when you’re having that long lunch, that only happens over here in America, where they kick you out and tell you there’s someone else waiting for table…. Over there it’s expected you will stay - and maybe family joins.
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huge fan of all the strange european quirks
refusing to use AC, room temp water, unrefrigerated eggs, walking everywhere, extremely long lunches for no reason, kissing on the cheek, taking all of August off work, not cooking with seed oils
what did I miss?
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@Manishmenna @ISASaxonists I was just thinking the same thing... The thought of that sex gives me full-body cringe...
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@ISASaxonists The thought of *any* woman having sex with that hideous creature makes me feel sick.
But it seems all these babies are IVF or surrogacy. So they don't have to put themselves through it ... and just get plenty of 🤑💰. It must be the money.
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Why are women having kids with Elon? Like I understand that they think alimony or whatever is gonna be great but why the fuck are these women bringing human beings into the world and pretending that *he* cares about them?
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Ruth Terry retweetledi
I am hearing of hard working Americans who voted for Trump and now are being fired from their jobs with the Parks Service, with Veterans affairs, with USAID, with NIH etc. If you are a Trump voter who is being fired or has a family member being fired, please share your story.
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@Emily_Krivograd I def try to do this but it’s hard when so much content is pay-walled. I’d love to see pubs offer free freelancer subscriptions so they can see not only what was covered and how — they may bring a different lens or angle even if the topic was previously written about.
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Quick tip for my freelancer pals: PLEASE go through a publication's website to ensure there isn't an already-existing story on the restaurant/food/travel experience/[insert any other review-worthy topic here]. I got lots of pitches for stories we already have over the last week!
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@alipantony Hi Ali! Do you have any favorite first-person pieces you can link to? I may have a pitch for you, but I'd like to get more a sense of what you're looking for first. TIA!
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I'm looking to commission first-person beauty/ wellness pieces and would particularly love to hear from WOC writers. Please get in touch with your best pitches: ali.pantony@condenast.co.uk
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@lolaannamendez That’s like 100x more than me 😫 Been in a real idea slump lately…
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Just sent out my 600th pitch of the year!
I believe in my story ideas and pitch them until they land. Many of these are recycled pitch ideas — not 600 individual unique ideas.
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Ever since the election, some people are just done with the news. I spoke with some of those news quitters— and learned why this is actually not usually how humans behave! washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…
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jeez if only kamala had taken the time to explain tariffs coulda had real impact
Jon Cooper 🇺🇸@joncoopertweets
My MAGA neighbor five minutes ago: “I just read that tariffs are going to raise prices for stuff. I don’t get it. I thought China was going to pay them.” I explained how tariffs work. I wish you could see the look on the guy’s face when it sunk in. So much ignorance out there.
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