@juliedicaro.bsky.social
I my defense, I also stepped down as EIC because of Spanfeller and wrote a banger of a resignation letter, if I do say so myself. It's just I don't know where you go these days to NOT work for a Jim Spanfeller, you know?


I should have kept my mouth shut like I unsusally do because now this exchange will probably end up in a newsletter where everyone can laugh at us some more.

I also loved your iteration of deadspin, I always wanted to work there. When I lost my job in radio because of the pandemic I thought, maybe I can do something to try to live up to what you guys did. Instead I spent four years miserable and got called a "scab" every day.

Ugh. I can't even imagine. I left law to get into journalism at exactly the wrong time.

Her back and forth conversation today with a former Deadspin writer that she didnt even know about. And it included numerous spelling errors. She really is dumb and will probably have to take a job at a fast food restaurant going forward.

Do you want fires with that banger burger?

Of course I like meat well done.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

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Elections have consequences.

There is no doubt this happened.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

She meant 'usually' but the typo reads 'unusually'. A freudian typo?

Mitch thanks the Covid downturn every day.

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Elections have consequences.

I really don't get her. She could have practiced law AND done her job in sports, which is what a lot of the people in her situation have done. It's tough to serve two masters but a collar county public defender isn't that demanding. My friend has a government lawyer job and wrote a novel "during his off time"

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

You new here ? She's complained many times how demanding and exhausting her lawer gig was . Believe all women !!

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Your friend doesn't spend 22 hours per day valiantly battling trolls on social media.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Enough. Quit bagging on the writers at Deadsoin.

maybe she can join Pitchfork now

Write about the writers who wrote the writing?

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Nigel: What’s wrong with getting laid?
Ian: Laid off…laid OFF!

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Can't anyone file FOIA requests? Isn't that kind of the whole point of the "F" part? She doesn't need a title from Deadspin in order to do it.

Not to mention if the story was worth printing, she would get paid for it.

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starting to think this has been a terrific ruse by ms. d. The ridiculous spelling errors should've been an easy detection

Yes. And if she feels she is getting "stonewalled" the attorney general's office of all states have a division that will look at any "stonewalling" on behalf of any citizen. All you have to do is file a complaint.

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You’d think a lawyer would know that wouldnt you ?

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Especially a competitive lawyer

She believes "journalists" are special people. That's why it hurts her so much when she is credentialed by an organization made up of idiots that aren't her.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

My guess is payment didn't go through.

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That helped you how?

And I’m starting to think the misspellings are intentional. How do you type “we’re” instead of were? That wouldn’t even be an autocorrect. You’d have to type the apostrophe.

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There's a lot to discuss regarding the unionization of journalists in our current society. Writers of previous generations unionized or created guilds in opposition to those who controlled the means of production, i.e. the printing press. But a printing press is no longer necessary. Anyone is capable of creating their own means of production in the field of journalism and many have.

Which leads us to the second point, and that is that so many so-called journalists are resentful or jealous of those that have been able to do so. Julie apparently longs for the Monopoly Man to control media so that she can unionize in opposition to him.

In fact, if she really had the slightest ability or was capable of writing anything that anyone wanted to read, she could be as successful as Bari Weiss or Freddie deBoer and she wouldn't need to think about trying to unionize against the owners of a dying business model.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

It’s a great point, and probably under-explored by people who fetishize unions and therefore commit themselves to fighting yesteryears’ fights.

How do you protect workers? Some stump for UBI in a sort of fatalistic, “we’re fucked anyway” approach. Some try to keep tech out of their industries altogether. What recourse can workers legitimately have when most can be replaced with non-humans?

My idea - normalize white collar unionization. If the managerial class, which is reflexively vilified by the tallest of midgets, finds common cause with the proles…maybe both have a chance. It’d take a rethinking of who does work and what work looks like, but incentivizing behavior is the only thing that actually makes changes.

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Howard Stern talks about this by way of podcasts. When he was growing up he dreamed of being on the radio and busted his ass to get on the air anywhere. Now anyone can have a "radio show" - all you need is a microphone and an internet connection. If you are good you can make money doing it. Same goes for "journalists" like July. Work at your craft instead of complaining all the time and looking for a handout.

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