Julia Carrie Wong

@joolia
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Guardian reporter, formerly @juliacarriew
tag urself I’m conventionally secretive and insincere
from December
turns out crochet is a real reaping/sowing situation when it comes to making granny squares vs joining granny squares and also weaving
in all the freaking ends
A win for Mastodon and journalism: The successful campaign to stave off closure of the @TexasObserver got a boost from the magazine’s fan base in the #fediverse. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/29/texas-observer-closing-gofundme?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Texas Observer journalists raise $270,000 in bid to save publication

Magazine’s editors asked board not to lay off anyone for a month if staff raised $200,000 after Friday’s vote to cease publication

The Guardian
decided to learn how to crochet
I don’t know if it’s good for us as a society that we’ve created the expectation that normal members of the public should be regularly exposed to traumatic imagery of violent crimes in the course of staying up to date on the news.
I’ve been using an app to track my mood every day for *reasons* and I swear to god every time I’ve opened it up and seen these awful Santa faces I go down a level
like lol dude he’s been baselessly accusing individuals of pedophilia and rolling out the welcome mat for literal Nazis but the link thing is fucked too
Kind of fascinated by the fact that they didn’t even bother trying to make this seem like a legitimate leak. It wouldn’t have been that hard to at least maintain deniability and yet…
challah with fig jam and goat cheese looks kind of wonky but tastes so good