Some personal news!
Last week was my last at BuzzFeed News. This week, I’m going full-time w/my newsletter at Substack, where I’ll be writing features, doing interviews & old fashioned blogging & more. You can read about how all of this will work here:
https://t.co/T3J0YUdcd7
I haven't tweeted in *a year* but **we do not have to resign ourselves to this future.**
We can, indeed, have an open convention. It seems wild but it is absolutely not, and anyone who doesn't want a Trump presidency should get on board:
https://t.co/1Lek9N1ir0
Do you want to learn how to container garden? Talk about plant stereotypes [why are hostas so preppy]? Figure out groundcover and glare at invasive blackberry? HERE IS THE NEWSLETTER FOR YOU
https://t.co/GQqOEcA43r
I had the pleasure of appearing on the Work Appropriate podcast and spending some time with @annehelen to talk about career reselience and chat through a few listener questions.
Check it out ⬇️
https://t.co/mJtxBbRuSk
That, ultimately, is why people in the West are annoyed (and also, I should note, annoyed that they're annoyed). It sucks, it all sucks. But very few workplaces thought to manage w/that understanding until it hit their HQs in New York.
Anyway this coming summer when this reality lasts for *weeks to months* in the West remember how you feel, remember how hard it is to work, remember the crankiness, and extend some grace
"I think contributing, healing, and caring are ambitious. I’ve found there is so much for me to be ambitious about, way beyond the context of accomplishment."
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@DearSplenda Is the solution to change bodies or to change fatphobia, though? She really, really thinks that if we could change all bodies it'd be better
Like truly a greatest hits of fatphobia. Her greatest fear is that taking this drug will make it so people don't learn habits of self-discipline!! She is just casually okay with the diarrhea!!!
I know that it's hard to understand things when you haven't experienced them personally and yes it's truly shitty but: the West has been dealing with this, it's been horrible, we all need to take it seriously
The air quality in New York City is horrifying. Quebec is *400 miles* away but you can smell burning wood in every corner of New York as if it's right here in town. The sky is ominous and post-apocalyptic dark yellow-green. It's so intense that it stings your eyes.