Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

I’m in awe.

Hey Charlotte folks-Compare Foods has waived delivery fees for groceries, so if you know anyone who'd like to get groceries delivered rather than go out to the store while the nazis are in town, spread the word

Please look at their faces. See them.

Posting this PSA again: Authors! Please post on your contact page that you have ONE EMAIL account, make clear what it is, and let people know you don’t use any others. I’ve already received THREE emails from folks who saw my message & realized a spam email was fraudulent. #booksky

Hope I said that PLEASANTLY enough for the fuckwits.

Hey, for those who have trouble reading between the lines—or just reading?—“lost” implies something taken away. Something missing. Nostalgia. They could have gone with anything else. Corrupt, unfair, vile, power-mad, disgusting, disturbing, immoral, depraved. Can you really not see that???

Women are ruining the workplace AND my own social media posts. Damn it, I knew this would happen.

OH NOOOOO!

The NYT is just explaining how time works! That year really doesn’t exist anymore! Thanks, that makes sense. We needed to hear the truth.

If I see one more “Ignore the headline, when will you plebes read THE ARTICLE?” take… The NYT understands exactly what they are putting out there for the entire world to see with a split-second glance. I mean, DID women ruin the workplace? It’s just an innocent question, right? Kiss my gd grits.

Times Stories Reveal A Lost Idea Of Print Journalism

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

I read this aloud to my husband. Him: “Before women ruined the workplace?” Me: “Bitches, AMIRITE?” Seriously, is the NYT determined to burn themselves down? WtaF???

The systemic rot is the thing that’s unfair to the remaining journalists who do good work, not the public reaction to that systemic rot.

If you don't have a library card, you should get a library card. Once you have that library card, you should get the Libby app. Once you get the Libby app, go browse the newsstand. Good chance your library card gives you access to ALL THE MAGAZINES. I'm talking the real good shit. AND BACK ISSUES.

I’m eating a very messy diner sandwich & I have long hair, so I asked my husband “Do I have any mayo in my hair?” He looked at the TOP of my head & said no.

I am really hating everyone today. Not you guys. But everyone else for sure.

Jesus. Just remembered the Ronan Farrow book about Weinstein, CATCH AND KILL, in the context of “these are baseless conspiracy theories, real newsrooms wouldn't ignore stories" bs floating around this week. JFC.

And access is so easy and available anywhere at any time of day. Devastating.

Whoa. This never, ever occurred to me about sports betting.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

Not a great start to the day. Woke up to someone I admire posting an obvious AI video on IG like it was news. Now I’m literally screaming about someone who compared AI ruining art to “streaming services ruining Blockbuster.” Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

I want to make a joke about RFK! But I also want to say that it’s considered normal for men to pathologically lie to *trick* women into sex. As a society, we just call women stupid for buying into it bcuz boys will be boys. No one shuns a friend or colleague for this. How fun!

Even more insidious, sometimes these scam emails claim to come from non-famous authors like me. And that makes them more believable! Helpful tip: authors almost never reach out unless we’re forced to.

These Trader Joe’s Horseradish & Chive chips will be the death of me. 1) because I can’t stop eating them. 2) because I accidentally inhaled. (Hey, inhaling can be a wonderful thing, just not with horseradish.)

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

Do NYT defenders now want to explain that The Intercept simply doesn’t understand how newsrooms work?

Again, people do what they want to do. They don't do what they don't want to do. If the New York Times decision makers/publisher wanted to put the full weight of the Grey Lady's resources behind investigating the Trump/Epstein connection, they would have. They didn't.

Excuse me so you’re saying legacy media has been captured by the GOP and that’s why we *cant* get mad at them?

The defenses of the NYT are getting wiiiiiild. “Of course they would have run the story if they knew about it! That’s what they do! Break stories!” I’m sorry, WHAT. That’s how dumb they think we are???

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

SCAM ALERT: I reported to the website host and the site has been removed! I might have gotten lucky because it was hosted in Europe & they’re more strict. But report as many places as you can if this happens to you. #booksky

JFC, can we get some coverage of his cognitive decline? What if someone uses AI to turn this into Biden speaking & then we spring the surprise on CNN & NYT that it’s actually Trump?

Chat, is it bad when there’s a stock market bubble AND a housing bubble?

Don't get it twisted...we old women want to move abroad, too.

You’d think “Jeffrey Epstein offered our reporter pictures of the president with bikini-clad girls in Epstein’s kitchen” would be a story all on its own, no?

Horrifying. 💔 Hey, I wonder if billionaires want you renting from them instead of owning your own home. 🤔

he said God can make me celibate but he’ll never take my drip

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Listen. I think JANE DOE is a movie we all need right now if anyone is interested in film rights. Just saying. (And, yes, I’d be happy to write Jane Goes to Washington as a follow-up.)

It’s funny to think about how right wingers treat someone like Zohran as if he’s going to do another 9/11 when he’s just some guy from New York vs. how they treat the Syrian president, who was an actual top level member of Al-Qaeda

If you think you should be able to see the northern lights from your location but you can’t see them, try taking a picture. It’s wild how much more a camera can pick up than the naked eye.

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

The Northern Lights are back in Utah! 🤩🤩🤩

I adore how every Neko Case love song is a version of “Please don’t be afraid of me; I will destroy you.”

Fellow Olds, did you discover any new favorite bands this year? Last year it was Big Thief for me. This year it’s Pinegrove. “Old Friends” is my current top pick. It has a great grungie slouch to it. #GenX

Please be aware of HOW MANY scams are out there right now. You can tell AI “create a book promotion website for me in English” & it’s done. I got a chilling email last week, asking if I’d used “The Author’s Edge” services. The site used me as a reference with a fraudulent VHStone gmail address.

Marty Makary thinks that menopause kills women and shortens their lifespan, except women live longer than men