Darby McCarthy

TN ➡️ WI. I want to meet the whole world. Haven’t found home yet. Compulsive writer.

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

It's been four years since I first saw this tweet, and I'm still quoting it at least once a month.

"No love, however brief, is wasted."

[Louise Miller 🐐 @louisethebaker]

I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted.

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

@someguyinunder ?

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

Sophie’s dad is Bill #mammamia

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

Do boys ever get called bossy or is that just a girl word?

[LC 🇻🇨🇯🇲 @MrCampbell98]

Sorry I’m in tears

[corb @awshuqs]

spotify wrapped is SO LAZY this year

they didn’t tell me whether that gay little town in Vermont still matches my music taste

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

Hey, so I’m working on something that’s pretty hugely #important to me.
I need access to a very expensive document in order to complete the retelling of my life story, so if you have any amount you’d be willing to spare, here’s the link to my #GoFundMe: https://t.co/3gk3Buti1n

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

“I only use her/him for singular object pronouns.”

That’ll make idiom usage weird for you, but to each their own, I guess.

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

When I was a kid, I didn’t understand why you’d teach #Pokemon moves to boost their stats. Thought it was a waste of a turn when you could just keep attacking. I’ve since changed my mind about the usefulness of that choice.

Anyway, I take vitamins now. #itmakesadifference

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

Also I hate this app and never learned how to properly use it, so someday if people start actually reading and responding to my tweets (my Xs?) I’ll look up basics like how you’re supposed to construct threads and tag stuff

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

I don’t have a solution. But I’m practicing boldness a little more every day. In online spaces it seems like that’s more valued than accuracy, which is exhausting. I do want both confidence and credibility, though, ultimately.

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

I think people are drawn to social media personalities for news and perspectives because it feels more local and less corporate.
I’m not convinced anything dedicated to the pursuit of truth can brand itself out of seeming far removed from the Everyman. #journalism #marketing

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

But YES everyone has personal bias no matter what. And since public trust in media has been very ruptured, I think that sense that these perfectly manicured public figures are hiding something is giving major ick in many cases.

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

The guy with the camera phone doesn’t have a contract that says he can be fired if people figure out how he feels about a topic.
And YES your personal bias SHOULD NOT mean you intentionally leave out important facts of objective truths.

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

And as a professional reporter, it can be scary to be direct about your perspective on things because of bad faith interpretations of excessive influence of personal bias, or unprofessionalism, or worrying whether boldness means getting fired.

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

I think it’s a trust thing. Anything produced by a company run by a guy in a chair far away from you gets filtered through more layers of removed persons in a chain of command than something directly uploaded by a guy with a camera phone far away from you.

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

Like, obviously it’s problematic when these personalities can say anything they want without fact-checking regulations in place. And that local feel shouldn’t apply if you’re watching a West Coast vid on the East Coast. But sometimes it kinda does? So, why?

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

I think I’d be valuable in a sitcom writers’ room because I’ve had a strange variety of jobs.
Related question, are any sitcoms hiring rn? Pitch: she’s never pitched comedy before but she’s written for newscasts.

[Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC]

Menasha is 150 this year! The city’s planning lots of fun ways to celebrate, and the year is kicking off with a collectible button hunt. More info in the link 👇
https://t.co/j2iNt1kJXJ

[Tyler Job 🏳️‍🌈 @TylerJobWISN]

NBC 26 EXCLUSIVE: Menasha neighborhood reporter Darby McCarthy @DarbyMcC reports a local Lyft driver was recently attacked by a passenger.

“I thought I was going to die,” the driver said.

Full story below 👇.