kitoconnell

@kitoconnell@kolektiva.social

They/them type middle-aged queerdo. GLAAD-award nominated journalist. Formerly Digital Editor at the Texas Observer. Disabled with #fibromyalgia.

Also follow https://federate.social/@oconnell

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    kitoconnell,

    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs that looks like an excellent cave for a kitty

    kitoconnell,

    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs that's a great idea. Ours are much more relaxed about the people's meals if there's an extra empty chair to hop onto and supervise us from

    kitoconnell, to random

    TIL a lot of people cut their pizza with kitchen shears. It makes sense, they're great tools, but my slices would be so crooked (I'm a chef's knife pizza slicer, myself)

    kitoconnell,

    @mentallyalex lol it does sound kind of wet!

    No judgment though I do love using a knife over the razor wheel. Picking bits of melty cheese off the razor wheel after is pretty fun if dangerous tho

    kitoconnell,

    @papilio (hiding my garlic clippers behind my back)

    kitoconnell,

    @justafrog more pizza for all! 🍕

    kitoconnell,

    @teslas_moustache I usually cut on a big cutting board. I would love a pizza stone but don't have one yet, so it's pan or even just a piece of parchment on the oven rack. I'm not making scratch pizza yet but maybe that's in my future if I can figure it out. I just got cornbread down so I'm a beginner at doughy stuff.

    kitoconnell,

    @WearsHats that or a rocker knife both look great for pizza

    kitoconnell,

    @pandanus anecdotally I've been told it's a popular pizza cutting tool in Korea too?

    kitoconnell, (edited ) to random

    I've been laid off at the @TexasObserver today. The publication no longer has a digital editor or social media manager (I was both), and has also fired its editor-in-chief and laid off another member of the editor team.

    If you have leads please send them my way. And please consider joining my Patreon to support my continued writing. https://patreon.com/kitoconnell

    kitoconnell,

    @DeliaChristina Thank you 💜

    kitoconnell,

    @inquiline @TexasObserver appreciate it 💙

    kitoconnell,

    @papilio It was absolutely a shock to me.

    kitoconnell,

    @dave it was a cocktail of things, including diversifying onto several new social networks including here, optimizing a bit more for SEO, and having a successful newsletter. We also got some very good writers who hit some viral stories for us, so of course we were quick to assign followups to those where appropriate. But that was about organic interest in readers and a need for more exposure of the issues involved, as much as it was a factor of them being very clickable.

    kitoconnell,

    @fuzzychef I understand they'll have an official statement in the near future, but yes financially they felt forced to let 2 folks go and also are parting ways with our editor in chief.

    kitoconnell,

    @Orca you can see the official statement @TexasObserver but basically severe budget cuts. "reorganizing" so they can prioritize business hires who will try to make the company more financially viable.

    kitoconnell,

    @expert fortunately there's a bit of severance and I've freelanced before. And I've got a spouse with a good job so we will make it.

    kitoconnell,

    @Orca appreciate it 💜

    kitoconnell,

    @ordabchao not nearly as long as some, but since summer of 2022.

    kitoconnell,

    @ordabchao Thank you, appreciate it. It was a really fun place to work for awhile. Hopefully the next thing is rewarding

    kitoconnell,

    @Doppelganger75 I truly hope my former colleagues at @TexasObserver are able to keep holding the powerful to account despite these losses.

    kitoconnell,

    @dave thank you that's very kind of you. I'm OK today, just had a nice lunch with a good friend, outdoors even for some fresh air. And fortunately my spouse has a solid job to back us up.

    I'm definitely open to jobs outside journalism, though I do love being a journo/editor, but I also feel like I got a crash course on nonprofit politics, good and bad, that I can make use of elsewhere too. And you're right, I know I've learned so much that I can take onto my next position. TXO had & still has some of the smartest people I've ever worked with and it was mind expanding to be there. So in that sense I do feel well equipped as possible to look for the next thing.

    kitoconnell,

    @dave are anyof your case studies publicly available anywhere?

    kitoconnell,

    @dave also Texas Observer has a really unusually responsive newsletter in my experience, but yea I am dubious about the possibility of building a list from scratch right now.

    kitoconnell,

    @doctormo @YorksBylines we absolutely need better, more sustainable models for journalism out there. Thanks for the kind words!

    kitoconnell,

    @dave Thank you for sharing. It's all but inevitable we end up putting more time into others' sites. I'm definitely hoping to use some unemployment time to update and refresh mine.

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