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AmyAwes0me

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👋🏼 Hi! I’m Amy, a writer of all sorts, media critic, watcher of film & TV, book nerd, pop culture geek, & service dog mom
✍🏻I have bylines all over the place, but this isn’t a resume
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AmyAwes0me @amyawes0me.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hi, hello, I’m new here! How do I find my people and make new friends? #firstpost

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Vox Media Union

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Hello Bluesky. Sucks that this is our first post. A statement from the Vox Media Union and @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs. Please stay tuned for more details on how you can support our colleagues who were impacted today.

Today, we were blindsided by news from Vox Media management that many of our colleagues at Thrillist and Eater would lose their jobs. We are devastated to lose writers and editors who produce invaluable work each and every day, and disgusted by Vox Media’s short-sighted decision making. As always, it is the workers who bear the brunt of management’s poor choices, and this close to the holidays, their callousness is especially galling.

We are incredibly disappointed by management’s decision to decimate Thrillist, a vertical that it has invested almost nothing in since acquiring it from Group Nine. As we have made clear to management with our demand for One Union, One Contract, the WGAE-Vox Media Union views our colleagues at Thrillist as members of our union, and we will make sure that they are made whole in light of management’s decision to essentially shutter this beloved publication.

Many of those impacted by today’s layoffs work on Eater’s Cities team, a group of powerhouse journalists who produce some of the most impactful local journalism in the country. Their work has always differentiated Eater and built it into the country’s most prominent food website, and management’s treatment of these workers is both irresponsible and reflects a complete lack of understanding of the journalism that is needed in this moment. We need more boots on the ground doing this essential work, not fewer.

As always, the Guild will continue to demand that members are treated fairly in the aftermath of layoffs. As we approach the upcoming negotiations for our third collective bargaining agreement, we want to make abundantly clear to management that the status quo of constant, cyclical layoffs will not continue. We will fight like hell to ensure that our industry has a future, no matter how many times those in charge attempt to run it into the ground.

Details on how you can support laid off workers at Vox Media will be forthcoming. Solidarity forever.

December 5, 2024 at 5:04 PM

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Jaya Saxena

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Got a gofundme here for all our affected colleagues today gofund.me/1699cd82

December 6, 2024 at 12:59 AM

AmyAwes0me

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OMG. Ok AI, we see you 😱 #filmsky #replicants

Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · Nov 22

You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search?

I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.

"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...

December 7, 2024 at 3:24 PM

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Dec 7

It's a drag that, as the movies have shrunk down to nothing over the last decade, one of the few genres to have survived is Authorized Musician Biopic. They used to make like two movies per year that were just "veteran character actor and Ashley Judd pursue a serial killer."

December 7, 2024 at 3:20 PM