Rick Paulas

@RickPaulas

"charming generalist” Bay Area journo-writer / bylines: NYT, VICE, NYMag, Longreads, Awl, EBX, presumably others / book: / rickpaulas@gmail.com

Oakland, CA
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    Aug 31

    I wrote a book. It’s called Eastern Span, and is a neo-noir set in Oakland, circa 2013-14. It’s 215 pages long. It includes amazing art by locals, and can be downloaded for free or $$$. All donations will go toward Bay Area homeless services. Get it:

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  2. 6 minutes ago

    I don’t even know who this guy is.

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  3. 20 minutes ago

    I’m here to announce that I have officially joined the freelance writers boycott of The Outline, and that it has ~~VERY LITTLE~~ to do with the fact that they rejected my last dozen or so pitches.

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  4. 32 minutes ago

    The ideal life lived is one that gets through it without fucking up things too much for others.

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  5. 4 hours ago

    (fwiw yes of course boycott the Outline, too. that isn’t bad. but this one seems already dead, is the thing?)

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  6. 4 hours ago

    “Staff salary” should be locked in as tightly as “design development” or “sales” or like “rent” or “insurance costs” or whatever. But they never are. They’re what can be trimmed, and so they are.

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  7. 4 hours ago

    For instance, during the funding process to create The Outline, clearly not enough was allocated to pay staff, likely because it’s seen as a way to trim costs. At least, costs that aren’t concrete. “That can’t happen in the future,” is the message that needs to be sent.

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  8. 5 hours ago

    The goal for the writers is a sustainable model that allows them to write and live. The goal for the owners is profitability. Between the two is a huge gap in priorities, and that’s what needs to change, no matter the specific outlet.

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  9. 5 hours ago

    The boycott of freelance writers of The Outline is interesting, but maybe misfocused? The outlet’s model is clearly failing, so not writing for it may not do much. But boycotting properties (current and future) owned by The Outline’s management may send a stronger message?

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  10. 5 hours ago

    "I Am Part of The Resistance Inside the Nazi Party"

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  11. 6 hours ago

    Master class in how one joke utterly whiffs and how another is expertly executed.

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  12. Retweeted
    6 hours ago

    How government public information officers prevent information from getting out and use social media to avoid questions from reporters:

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  13. 7 hours ago

    Here’s a good thread that offers further, and important, context to a point in my piece about organizing tech workers.

    So this article by on tech worker organising came out yesterday, and I was quoted a few times. I'm not entirely happy with how my comments were described & contextualised, so here are some clarifications (thread)
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  14. 7 hours ago

    I haven’t promoted my novel today, so this is that. It’s called Eastern Span, a neo-noir set in Oakland (circa 2013), featuring art by locals, and available for free or $, the latter of which will go to local homeless services. It can be downloaded at .

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  15. 8 hours ago

    This is a big deal, particularly in SF. Voters in 2010 made “sitting/lying” on SF public streets a $100 ticket, and then 30 days in jail... Oh, there’s also currently a waitlist of 1,104 for a 90-day stay in a shelter.

    Federal appeals court rules U.S. cities can't arrest people just for being homeless if they have nowhere else to go. Comes after a superior court ruling in Seattle earlier this year that cities can't tow cars that people are living in
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    16 hours ago

    Silicon Valley workers are beginning to demand a say in what types of work their companies sign on to. reports on how that could lead to broader efforts to organize.

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  17. 19 hours ago

    This is a really good thread detailing exactly how the Chronicle flubbed a story on BART fare evaders.

    I'm late to the party, but wow this piece is bad. The article tallies how many people evaded a fare in 90 minutes--it sounds like a lot!--but doesn't bother to report how many paid. 1/
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  18. 20 hours ago

    Food $200 Data $150 Editors $800 Design(?) $1.3 million dollars Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my online publication is dying

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  19. 21 hours ago

    This is a wild story.

    Background here, from the ever-insightful at
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  20. 21 hours ago

    Is uh this how much money you need to run an online publication?

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  21. 21 hours ago

    I can’t tell if The Outline is good or not. It’s a pretty great publication, but also seems to lay off writers every other week?

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