Ria Misra

Travel & Outdoors Editor, NYTimes Wirecutter. Previously: APM podcast host, PBS NewsHour, io9, Gizmodo.

Mostly on Insta:

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@halophoenix @WIRED @PCMag yes! congratulations!

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thoughts and prayers for the 3.3% of Iowans who just aren't quite sure yet

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obsessed with the quarter of Idahoans who looked around and said, idk, feels like the midwest to me

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midwesterners already know this to be true

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now that I live safely in california, I can tell the truth I never could in DC: a half-smoke, it's just a brat

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forgot how much of better call saul is just an extended cinnabon commercial, but I'm not mad at it

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someone asked me if my stanley cup was a limited-edition she hadn't seen yet and I told her, no, it's just very, very old

my buying hack is to keep stuff for so long enough that people start assuming it's some kind of collectible

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changing the time of the sun set to just as I'm getting out of work is late stage capitalism

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the best part about a solar eclipse day is how many times I get warned not to stare at the sun

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never not thinking of these 2 little space probes, out there just doing their best for 45+ years

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Welcome back, Voyager 2.

@NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2. We shouted 12.5 billion miles (19.9 billion km) into interstellar space, instructing it to turn its antenna back to Earth – and after 37 hours, we found out it worked! https://t.co/bJDKh6Icg5

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found a little piece of floating glacier ice 🧊

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@aliszewski whoa, congratulations!

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me, crushing up a bag of sour cream and onion ruffles into a salt shaker, whispering 'yes, chef' to myself

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the part of the ocean the titanic is located in is called 'the midnight zone', and everything living there is either a transparent, eyeless monster or a glow-in-the dark thing with entirely *too many* eyes altogether

we're not wanted there

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@naanking so stressful for everyone involved

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not quite sure how to explain this but there's nothing less trustworthy than someone insisting that they make the best chocolate chip cookies

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peak equinox, honestly

[Sapna Maheshwari @sapna]

an incredibly Manhattan photo atop the @nytimes wildfire smoke coverage... https://t.co/yfFYKSWGrV

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60+ feet of snow melt in the sierras is doing some wild things

this waterfall wasn’t even here last summer

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finally storing my gear and calling a wrap on my very first (best?) snowboard season