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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 13d

This last round of agent querying for me was waaaaaaaaaay different than my first two rounds. Last time I queried (2016), the folks who got back to me got back within a month. This time around, I've had agents get back to me nine months after I sent the query. Chin up, chin up.

Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 14d

I know it's a new national pastime to move to Seattle and then shit all over Seattle. It's gloomy. It's expensive. We're all frigid bitches. I get it. But, like, it IS gloomy, it IS expensive, we ARE going to silently judge you if you say "Pike's Place," so......

#don'tletthedoorhityouonthewayout

Seattle Police spend 2.25x as much per officer as Boston, which has similar pay.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23d

SEN. @ossoff.bsky.social : “Money in politics is the root of all of this… the vast sums of corporate & billionaire money in our political system - with or without Trump - are why ordinary people are so ill-served by elected officials and congress.”

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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 23d

Seattle folks! If you aren't already subscribed to Ron Davis's newsletter, git on it. It's a banger.

Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 23d

Seattle Police spend 2.25x as much per officer as Boston, which has similar pay.
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Where the hell is all that money going?

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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 24d

If I could possibly skip the days I roam around the house doing fuck-all because I'm trying to bite off more than I can chew instead of breaking the problem down into chunks because I won't admit to myself that I'm just one person and not a whole-ass writer's room.....man, I'd get that framed.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 24d

Revisiting a writing project I hadn't touched for a few years and well I could be nicer to myself I suppose

PLAN IT OUT BEFORE YOU JUST STARE AT THE FUCKING SCREEN FOR DAYS

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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 24d

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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 24d

I know, like, this whole season of the Christian Right is jumping the shark, but man oh man....

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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 26d

Nobody bats a thousand, but I read this *just after* I listened to him tell Kara Swisher that he wasn’t endorsing Zohran because he “wasn’t involved” in NY politics. Cool.

Pete Buttigieg backs Harrell for Seattle mayor

Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 26d

Dude. Boo.

With respect, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, you got this one wrong. Bruce Harrell might be nationally recognized, but locally, he's been actively working against affordability in Seattle until *checks watch* about three weeks after he lost a primary to Katie Wilson.

Although Bruce Harrell has won the support of mayors from around the country, Buttigieg is by far the most well-known endorsement from outside of Washington.

www.seattletimes.com

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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 26d

Step 1 was cancel your streaming services/park visits/cruises/etc.

Step 2 is contact Sinclair advertisers.

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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 27d

Hey, what’s the publication here?

Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 27d

Hold the line, Dems. If my health insurance is going to go up 75% (which it will because I’m self employed and on the exchange), I want it to go up NOW, not quietly 18 months from now when nobody’s paying attention.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 27d

The federal government shuts down in 8 days.

Democrats are fighting for a funding package that reverses Trump and Republicans’ health care cuts — but they're refusing to negotiate.

Trump and Republicans would rather shut down the government than give you health care.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 27d

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation.

More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

We the people must never accept government threats to our freedom of speech. Efforts by leaders to pressure artists, journalists, and companies with retaliation for their speech strike at the heart of what it means to live in a free country.

Last week, Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after the government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation. In an attempt to silence its critics, our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives, and entertainers across the board. This runs counter to the values our nation was built upon, and our Constitution guarantees.

We know this moment is bigger than us and our industry. Teachers, government employees, law firms, researchers, universities, students and so many more are also facing direct attacks on their freedom of expression.

Regardless of our political affiliation, or whether we engage in politics or not, we all love our country. We also share the belief that our voices should never be silenced by those in power – because if it happens to one of us, it happens to all of us.

This is the moment to defend free speech across our nation. We encourage all Americans to join us, along with the ACLU, in the fight to defend and preserve our constitutionally protected rights.

A graphic listing the names of the more than 400 signers of the ACLU's letter condemning the federal government's retaliation against Jimmy Kimmel. For the full list of signatories, visit aclu.org/kimmel-letter-bk

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27d

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · 29d

Do. DO stop your doomscrolling and listen to this story. This is everything right here. The whole reason for the whole damn thing.

Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 29d

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

In Order to Keep Our Editorial Page Completely Balanced, We Are Hiring More Dipshits

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29d

"By the end of the year, we aim to have 200 percent more dipshits writing columns for us. As long as you are a Ben Shapiro knockoff who can string together the words 'the intolerant left' and occasionally criticize Trump, you have a home here on our opinion pages."

Here at the New York Times, we believe that all sides of the story should be tolerated and explored, from white supremacists being actually kinda c...

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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · Sep 18

YEAH! GIT it, lady! We will, I trust, be seeing an announcement when said essay comes out???

Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · Sep 18

What're y'all workin' on?

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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · Sep 18

Who's got two thumbs and 5500 words of A New Thing?

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Gen Z and Millennials Prefer Socialism To Capitalism, New Poll Says

Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · Sep 17

To every student who rolled their eyes when I told them to read their work out loud: I AM VINDICATED.

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Sep 16

A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.”

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...

“Young progressive voters are stepping into their full economic and political power."

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Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social · Sep 14

I wish I could have any reaction to this other than squirming, ants-on-your-skin embarrassment. I want nothing but shame (and boredom, mostly, actually) to come out of the National Guard being in DC, so to that end, bravo this guy, that video makes me want to crawl in a hole.