went to a queer Halloween party today in San Francisco where there were five Velmas dancing together and several of them made out and this IS the future liberals want
why did nobody tell me we were apparently supposed to have spent the year filming short videos clips of everything we did for an end of year Instagram reel!!! all I’ve got are pictures like a geriatric millennial!!!!
had some people over last night and a friend and I got talking about making potions as kids (mixing any liquids you could find in your parents’ bathroom) and both of our partners looked at us like we had six heads. were the rest of you out here really not making potions?
My first story is out today and it's an intense one about privacy, consent, public health, and why, MY GOD, people on the internet need to stop trying to play diagnostician.
staying with a friend from college for a few days and really struck as I sit listening to her on work meetings in the other room by what a gift it is to to get to watch your people grow and come into their own over many years
look I respect why she did it but I need Joni Mitchell to put her music back on Spotify purely so I can listen to River on a loop while riding the subway home after precisely two martinis
brb omw to fill out this cute little settlement form so i can get seven bucks back from the fancy period underwear company it turns out was trying to poison me 🥰😇😊
experiencing my first west coast album drop and did you know people over here just get to listen to a new album at 9 PM and then go to sleep at a reasonable hour????
had precisely three drinks and you know what that means!!!! time to listen to a sad song on a loop the entire train ride home until I’m on the verge of tears even though objectively my life is good and things are pretty alright
Are you a former theater kid who went on to a successful adult career in literally anything else? I wanna talk to you for a story. Slide into my DMs please.
have decided the thing I will miss most on this website is crowdsourcing (skincare! gift ideas for picky friends! gynocologists!) so today please tell me your favorite main character songs! (my go-to is always "suddenly I see" preferably with an onion bagel in hand)
a thing nobody tells you about being a theater kid is it’s like 90 percent bopping up and down stage left pretending to be excised about a mode of transportation (clanging trolley, the Wells Fargo Wagon, greased lightning, the boat you’re rocking and really should sit down in)
my mom is sending me pics while cleaning out the basement and she just reminded me that when I was like 10 all I wanted were those american girl interior design boxes (IYKYK) so I improvised and built my own out of shoeboxes
The truth is
@nytimes
is a blank page without
@NYTimesGuild
members. It's time they gave us a contract that reflects our worth. I pledge to walk out with more than 1,000
@NYTimesGuild
members to demand a fair and complete contract.
I feel like we've reached the point in the Wes Anderson TikTok trend where I'm convinced none of these people have actually ever watched a Wes Anderson movie.
New from me: I spoke to over 2 dozen TikTok creators who say their talent agency preyed on people of color and withheld profits to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. It's an all too familiar scheme and a cautionary tale for the creator economy.
I know internet things can get stale and overplayed really fast but for a brief moment in October of 2021 the bones/no bones day drama was truly delight.
On the front page (!!) today with
@sapna
digging into what the Hollywood strikes mean for influencers. Spoiler: Standing with SAG is costing some of them tens of thousands and not every creator feels they owe loyalty to a union they’re not in.
Do you like your couch? I need a new couch. Please tell me about your couch. (Parameters: NYC apartment scale, preferably L shaped, doesn't have to be cheap but preferably not one million dollars, MUST be comfortable.)
gonna start sending weekly text messages to friends to find out if they got engaged/married/moved/took a vacation/baked something good because the Instagram update wants to make sure I never see a post from a human I actually know ever again
not to brag but I just filed my taxes and there is a chicken roasting in my oven and a really excellent bottle of wine sitting on counter and I’m about to have myself a perfect Friday night
a few years ago I interviewed a bunch of hollywood animal trainers and i'll never forget one of them stressing to me how he often had to remind directors that animals can't act, any emotion you're seeing (anger, fear, whatever) they are genuinely feeling
if you listen carefully you can hear the sound of a thousand "are we still on for tonight or do you wanna cancel because of the rain i'm DEF still down but wanted to make sure you were lol" texts being sent
In August, I broke the story that a secret documentary was being filmed during Bama Rush. The doc is finally out this week! I spoke with director Rachel Fleit and, most importantly, several PNMs about how the documentary impacted their rush experience.
I have boldly gone where NO journalist has gone before and launched a newsletter!!! Today, I'm talking about Twitter and a truly delightful song about a fish that has taken over TikTok. Subscribe here:
wishing truly a lifetime of misery and a perpetual UTI to the man who stood up on our fully boarded doors closed flight and said “uh I’m supposed to go to a different city” and demanded to get off the plane which meant we all had to get off the plane
@alexlaughs
i make some version of this (whatever green thing and alium thing is in the fridge) once a week. it's good on toast but i've also been known to just eat it by the spoonful.
The
@nytimes
is giving employees branded lunch boxes this week as a return-to-office perk. We want respect and a fair contract instead — so I’m working from home this week along with 1,300 of my
@NYTimesGuild
and
@NYTGuildTech
colleagues, with support from
@wirecutterunion
✊✊
🫡 to Christmas tree boyfriends everywhere today solemnly lugging trees back to their apartments while their partners walk alongside them silently making Instagram content
it is precisely put on a sweater, make a pot of coffee, and blast There She Goes (the original version by The La's not the Sixpence None the Richer cover) degrees outside in Brooklyn today
can't wait to feel very smug about not using the AI portrait thingy when we eventually learn the full depth of the privacy risks while ALSO knowing I have already given away my personal information and image a zillion times on the internet over many many years 🙃
I have never been as confident as the 8 year old girl who just sat down next to me in a cafe (her mom was in line for a brownie she said) said hello asked what I was doing and proceeded to grab my computer and send a slack to one of my colleagues
My column this week: Being verified on Twitter could soon cost $8 a month. Or you could just get
#RatVerified
🐀for free. Does that sentence mean nothing to you? Great, I got you covered.
Recently learned my best friend enjoys eating handfuls of raw spinach as a snack so I will now be holding an open call for a new best friend who is not a psycho
Tried explaining lanternflies to some non-new Yorkers today and they just looked at me completely confused and horrified. “No no you are supposed to squish them!!! It is imperative that you slaughter them on sight!”
happy national coming out day to those who are out of the closet, those who aren't able to come out, and those of us who didn't really mean to come out but started kissing our best friend when Take Me or Leave Me came on at a pregame for a Rocky Horror party and that was that!!!
I love women. I AM a woman. Our voices are higher than men’s voices. Women's voices can get into the annoying area if it gets too high. If you’re doing a podcast, consider lowering your pitch a tad. If you think I’m being sexist about this then I don’t know what to do with you.
i'm be covering my beloved internet culture beat for
@NYTStyles
so please get at me if you ever see something online that makes you go hmmmmmmm what's with THAT????
and vice versa, it's so nice to have people who have known and loved you through many seasons. apologies for the sappy tweet, but turns out the (ongoing) pandemic has really fucked with my emotional state!! somebody should really look into that!!!
truly nothing funnier than the “WET FLOOR” signs next to the Laguardia water feature. A million dollars on a glorified shower and you still couldn’t figure out how to keep the floor dry??
For years, a TMZ employee named Kristi Cook led a double life as the YouTuber
@spillseshYT
. Today, she's revealing her identity. We talked about secrets and money in a candid convo that offers a rare behind the curtain glimpse at YouTube's drama economy.