I’m so excited about this! Really looking forward to the conversation.

Seems like if we, as a party, decided to a) trust women and b) distrust the Nazi-adjacent, we’d be most of the way to fixing our problems.

The list of things I will never, ever do in my life is small, but it includes going on a cruise and swimming in a Florida river.

All your favorite artists are demanding a pause on AI in NYC schools - you should too!

Alma: MOM!!!!!!! Me: What's up? A: Why does the person who sings "Doe, a Deer" and the person who sings "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" sound EXACTLY THE SAME? Me: They're both Julie Andrews! The most iconic back-to-back roles of all time! A: NO WAY!! (Why working from home can be great).

In all seriousness this is why the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social is fighting so damn hard this year to get a moratorium in our schools.

My kids go to a public school with a NEST program - which means classes are integrated with autistic and neurotypical kids. 10/10 recommend the school, and my kids’ classmates are infinitely more talented, funny, charming - and deserving of every advantage - than this genocidal clown

Proposal at the Mets game! Can’t beat NYC sports vibes this weekend omg. #lgm!!

I pre-ordered this for my dad from a comic shop in Austin - very excited to get to be cooler than my brothers this Father's Day.

KNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN

There are going to be a lotta baby Jalens running around NYC pretty soon!

A tree on our block got hit by lightning yesterday so there are a bunch of workers taking it down—my husband is outside giving them champagne in solo cups. Greatest city in the world. Let’s go Knicks!!!

put the fact that Trump was the only game the Knicks lost in every ad this fall

Also: Trump curse averted.

Just extraordinary. Greatest comeback in NBA history. Most points by a Knick in a finals game. 53 year drought ended. Thank you Jalen Brunson & the NY Knicks. Greatest city in the world.

The birdhouse told you! Knicks in 5!

Fireworks in Brooklyn!!! Knicks in FIVE!!!!!!

David Siffert rocks!

My contribution to city spirit, from the kids' birdhouse painting event last night.

A short, perhaps boring, thread about editing. When people approach me about books, they often want someone to edit them chapter-by-chapter. I empathize with this impulse, but I always tell them to find another editor, or to hire a developmental editor when the book is ~80 percent of the way done.

A poem.

That’s my mayor! 😂

FAFO, as we say in New York…

I loved this queer alien book so much I left my copy in Belgium with one of my besties so he could love it too ❤️ so glad it’s on this list!

Every moment I haven’t been editing over the past nine months has been working on this—and we’re so close to a moratorium on AI in NYC public schools. Could you take a second to share/follow the coalition and sign our petition? Thanks!!

12 year old, tonight: “Hey Mom, do you know the song ‘Seven Nation Army?’” Me: “Totally! I saw the White Stripes play in Austin back in like 2003.” And for another week, I maintain some grasp on coolness.

This should not be allowed.

Reminds me of some folks at a fancy PhD program down the road from mine who said there was no point in doing fieldwork when you can just come up with a novel algorithm…

Happy Birthday, Epilogue Editing! My musings on five years of editing all of the great stuff you all are putting into the world. epilogueediting.substack.com/p/happy-birt...

On my to-do list for today: "make a google doc." Obviously it was something urgent enough for me to remind myself to do it...but what might go into that doc, for what purpose, I forgot to tell myself.

Has anyone set up a Go Fund Me for the spider?

It’s like Pac-Man, but our cells. Bodies are so cool.

Paige, this video is gorgeous - thanks to you, Mel, Gergo, and Jason for putting it into the world! ❤️

This is so very far from my experience...

They want a civil war.

Good morning to everyone except the person who wrote the DOE calendar to give kids Monday and Wednesday (but not Tuesday) off this week. Every parent in the city loves having five weeks left of school with days off scattered about like little routine-destroying gremlins.

As a language and ideology person I also endorse this message!

In case anyone's wondering what we're getting up to lately, here's a whole thread...

I'm just gonna say nothing ever changes in Texas...until things change in Texas. Everything was Forever Until it was No More and all that.

We just watched the Princess Bride for the first time with all 3 kids. One of the best movies of all time, supported by the kids’ ratings. 12 yo: 9/10. 8 yo: 20/10. 6 yo: 10/10. Inconceivable!

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

My son loved Alone and Away by Megan E. Freeman. He liked that they were written in letters/screenplays/poetry/other bits of text. Any books you can recommend like that? High school reading level, but middle school content-wise. Thanks Bluesky!

If we were watching this in another country we’d say it was the opening shots of a civil war.

misogyny, racism, & fascist ideologies ai systems encode and exacerbate that we've been telling you about for yrs never went away. it's just that governments & those in position of power said "we don't care about that. just adopt ai at whatever cost"

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Liking your kids - and being curious about them as humans - goes a long way. I feel like lots of adults are trying raise future adults. That’s sort of our job, but we also need to be excited about who they are right now as well. And it’s fine for them to roam free and make messes. We did.

I’ve started inviting my older kids to hang out as I’m editing. I try to narrate the decisions I’m making. How to recast a sentence, why I reject spell check suggestions, things I leave in place to honor the author’s voice. I badly want them to think of writing and editing as a human art…

Rainy Sunday = homemade guac and Grosse Pointe Blank with my 12 year old. This movie is still incredible. 10/10.

Deleted Chrome from my phone. Duck duck let’s go, I guess.