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Megan Morrone

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Journalist. Current: @Axios . Former: @MorningBrew , @bbc_worklife , @FastCompany , @dtnsshow , @Protocol , @Medium , @ozm , @TWiT , TechTV. megan.morrone @axios .com

Petaluma, CA
Joined May 2008
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6 years
My robot vacuum is fighting with my smart scale. This is an IoT nightmare.
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4 years
TROS SPOILER The best review of this movie came from my sons’ friend who is a girl (“but not a girlfriend, mom!”) “Kylo Ren is my favorite Star Wars character of all time so I’m glad he got to turn his frown upside down, but I thought that could have been developed more.”
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3 years
I want to hear all of your positive second vaxx stories.
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something tells me this isn't the real invite from Apple.
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5 years
Today was my last day at @TWiT . I got a new gig that I can tell you about soon. A million thx to my TWiT on-air family @jasonhowell & @leolaporte & my off-air family @wagley , @anielsen , @TheRealHassey , @karstenbondy , @PDelahanty , @lisadlaporte , & the rest of you who never tweet.
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4 years
My birthday is this weekend and due to social distancing, I won't be celebrating it. This also means that I will not turn 47, but will remain 46 for another year. I am not taking any questions at this time.
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5 years
Next week I start my new job at @Medium as Senior Platform Editor for @ozm . I’ve been following OneZero since its launch and I’m thrilled to be part of this amazing team. I’m flying to NYC on Sunday to meet everyone and figure out how we’re going to save the world. Stay tuned. 💙
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💫 finally some personal news 💫 I am beyond excited.
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Thrilled to share the news that @meganmorrone will be joining @axios starting next week as technology editor, working with me and our intrepid tech coverage team
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Megan Morrone
3 years
I tried to complain to my kids that I have meetings today at 8, 9, 10, 11, and 1 and they said, "that is school."
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2 years
Ya’ll! I am looking for work. Please don’t hesitate to find me in my DMs. I’m an experienced tech and business journalist with over 20 years of experience as a Senior Editor, writer, podcaster, and TV star (maybe star isn’t the right word for it, but if you know, you know.)
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4 years
My twins turn 15 today. Everyone is wishing them happy birthday, which doesn’t make any sense because I did all the work. They both weighed over 7.5 lbs. That’s 15 lbs of baby I carried and I will never stop bragging about that.
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3 years
My daughter will graduate from high school tomorrow. When I was pregnant with her I appeared on a daily live cable TV show about computers. Even if you watched that show when you were a little kid, you are old now. You’re welcome.
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5 years
Can we at least agree that the only alternative to a plastic straw is no straw or a metal straw? Paper straws are mouth garbage.
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6 years
I feel like I should make my husband set up screen time for our kids on iOS 12 because I gave birth to TWO 7.5 lb babies at ONCE and this is almost as difficult.
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4 years
I hate to admit it, but I started the cake meme 20 years ago when this pile of books was just a wedding cake.
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5 years
I still can’t believe there isn’t a new Star Wars movie this holiday season. It’s like we’ve forgotten the true meaning of Christmas.
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5 years
I am verified. Please clap. I won’t remove the emoji heart that I used to fool people because love is still > verification.
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3 years
Gilbert had a benign bump removed from his noggin. First time in a cone and he doesn’t even seem to notice. Also, he’s incredibly high.
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5 years
Owlexander Hamilton is waiting with his wings for you
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Dear Tokyo twitter: Victor bought me a very old, tiny taxidermied owl at a Japanese flea market but I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to bring him to America so I need someone in Tokyo to take Owlexander Hamilton and love him as I would. DM me.
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Some personal personnel news! Today I'm starting a temporary gig helping edit @HR_Brew at @MorningBrew . Mostly because of how they embrace the emoji. ☕️ ✍️ 🫶 Keep me in mind for all your workplace scoops!
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Megan Morrone
5 years
Thanks especially to every one of you who listened, watched, encouraged, criticized, complained, corrected, cheered, called in, emailed me, let me interview you, made suggestions, tweeted at me, sent videos and photos and funny stories. My DMs will always be open. 💙💙💙
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5 years
My husband asked me to marry him 18 years ago tonite. He thought the Y2K bug was going to destroy the world the next day. Haha. He’s been stuck with me ever since.
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Megan Morrone
4 years
How could anyone ban this?
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6 years
Screen Savers Sandwich
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Megan Morrone
3 years
This is my friend Violet, who is just one of the many sweet, soft, smart, devoted pups at @LilysLegacySDS dog shelter right now. Please share this with any Bay Area friends who are looking for a dog to rescue them.
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Megan Morrone
2 years
How does one become a cheesefluencer? Don’t ask me who I’m asking this for, because you know very well that I’m asking this for me.
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3 years
@darth Gilbert wants to know why a pup would choose not to go where you are going
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2 years
I survived colonoscopy prep. Please clap.
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Megan Morrone
3 years
If you're exhausted, close some of your browser tabs. You'll still be exhausted, but you'll have fewer open tabs.
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Megan Morrone
5 years
Just finished my first day at @ozm in NYC. I was going to work remotely from home in Petaluma, but I love it too much here and I felt so welcome that I’m just going to live in this hotel forever. I’m sure my husband is perfectly capable of finishing the job of raising our 3 kids.
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4 years
I do not think this is true Axios, my friend
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Megan Morrone
2 years
For years a road trip with my kids meant stopping for diaper changes every 2 hours, lots of crying by everyone, and a laptop with a DVD player attached to a cooler via bungee cord to keep them constantly entertained. Now one kid is driving, one navigating, and I’m tweeting. 💫
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It’s my first day at @axios and yes I am still a proud user of BeReal.
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Megan Morrone
6 years
@darth Gilbert is tired of carrying this sign, but he will do it for you @darth .
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5 years
My New Year’s resolution is to live life in the spirit of Tom Hanks’ Twitter bio.
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3 years
Some professional news! Thrilled to be joining this team, covering this space, and working with all of these spectacular journalists.
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Protocol | Workplace launches tomorrow, but let’s make some news today: Six more extraordinary journalists are joining the fast-growing @protocol team: @meganmorrone , @amberbburton , @Levitskyyy , @Sarahroach , @TheBeccaEvans and, as a contributing editor, @betsy_ .
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7 years
This is what I came home to after leaving the kids alone all day. 🤔
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Megan Morrone
6 years
This guy was not only a great and generous co-worker, he was also an inspiration to my kids and all their friends who they brought to the studio and who watched his shows. @padresj will be missed so much.
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5 years
My 16-year-old daughter drew this picture of me with my reading glasses and a wine glass and I think she is a very bad artist and is grounded.
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3 years
Thank you to the person who didn’t show up for their Kaiser vaccine appointment yesterday. I took your first shot of Moderna last night and I’m not giving it back.
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Megan Morrone
5 years
Some advice. If you ever find yourself starting an email with the phrase, "I've reached out a few times and I haven't heard back..." Stop. Just stop.
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5 years
My daughter just sent me this Animoji in response to a text asking if she wanted to watch TV with me. I have raised a perfect human. Please clap.
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5 years
Today a 12-year-old who is not related to me tried to convince me that there was a Windows 94. I am not proud to say that I argued with him until I had internet access and could prove it.
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5 years
@darth You're in luck, because I had enough extra cheese lying around to get Gilbert to pose for you.
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5 years
This is the worst video game I’ve ever played.
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3 years
I got incredibly drunk last night. Do NOT recommend.
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Megan Morrone
2 years
I am available for all of your freelance writing and editing gigs starting now. I just remembered that I can write, as long as someone gives me a deadline. Please share this if you like me.
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Megan Morrone
7 years
I just published “Has the Internet Gotten Meaner or Have I Just Gotten Older?”
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Megan Morrone
2 years
@darth @MikeIsaac This is the only good idea on this thread. Come to Petaluma to adopt these mini Brunas.
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Megan Morrone
5 years
If you’re taking babies or toddlers on vacation this summer I’m here to tell you that if all goes well they’ll be teenagers one day & they’ll carry their own stuff & sometimes yours. They’ll apply their own sunscreen & you won’t need to remind them to bathe. Hang in there buddies
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Megan Morrone
7 years
Since Twitter still only gives me 140 characters.
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6 years
My favorite thing about this photo is the fact that I thought I needed to crouch standing in front of @jasonhowell .
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Megan Morrone
4 years
A new decade starts on January 1, 2020. It also starts on January 1, 2021. It also starts right now and five years from now. A new decade starts whenever you want it to start. I’m not drunk. This is just the truth.
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Megan Morrone
3 years
I don’t ever want to tell anyone else how to parent, but if you have kids at home right now who spend a lot of time online, you might want to check in with them and talk about what’s going on and what lens they’re watching it through.
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4 years
I’ve mentioned this here before, but it bears repeating on the morning after this anniversary. My husband asked me to marry him on New Year’s Eve 1999 because he thought computers were going to destroy the world and he wouldn’t be stuck with me forever. We sure fooled him.
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Megan Morrone
5 years
Welcome to Petaluma, Buddy!
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First time meeting @meganmorrone in person but it felt like meeting a familiar friend for a jaunt through town! ☺️ She’s the best!
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2 years
I tested negative for Covid, but positive for crazy eyes
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5 years
I want a credit card made of gorilla glass, tbh
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3 years
I haven’t been in an airport since I was 46 years old. I didn’t wear glasses back then and I took my 20/20 vision for granted. I had a different job, three kids in high school and I thought I knew exactly what the future looked like. But, you know, I had no idea. I’m OK though.
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Megan Morrone
4 years
My husband turns 50 on November 10th and he keeps saying that all he wants for his birthday is democracy. Can you help?
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4 years
It’s probably very self-centered of me to think you would enjoy seeing my daughter’s senior portrait vs. my senior portrait from 30 years earlier. But at least I didn’t fleet it.
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Today marks 17 years of marriage to a man who still has no social media accounts. So since I’m talking to you and …
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Megan Morrone
4 years
I know you don’t like to be told what to do, but if you have more than eight browser tabs open, please close some of them.
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7 years
These feet will march in DC on Sat. to stand up for the strength of our country. I know you might not agree with my politics & that's OK.
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6 years
I’m thinking of starting a podcast called “Tell Leo” where I just read all the messages people send me of things they want me to tell @leolaporte .
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Megan Morrone
5 years
I’m so glad that @mikahsargent will be bringing his wit, wisdom, and enormous heart to @TWiT . I’ll be watching. 👀
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4 years
The grocery store was out of hand sanitizer, but I was only there to buy tequila. So I win.
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7 years
Sliding into 17 years of marriage to this old fella next month.
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6 years
I tried my best to solder ⁦ @padresj ⁩ to his chair, but I am bad and soldering so I guess he is really going.
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2 years
All done with my colonoscopy and it was so easy. If your doctor tells you to get one, get one. The only side-effect is that the anesthesia made me dream that Elon Musk tried to buy twitter.
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Megan Morrone
3 years
I complain about my social media-averse husband a lot, but reader he cleaned our fridge and made it look like new and I feel like we just renewed our vows.
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1 year
This year I turn 50 so my 2023 resolution is to post more bathroom selfies. Please join me.
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3 years
Today is my daughter’s 18th birthday. She’s an adult. I gave birth to an adult.
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7 years
Sugar is joining the team @TWiT . She is in charge of being sweet and furry and eating taco meat.
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Megan Morrone
6 years
The @bestofnextdoor account is hilarious because these people are not your neighbors. The actual Nextdoor app is terrifying because these people are your neighbors.
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5 years
I just told my family to MapQuest an address and now I feel very old and ashamed
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Megan Morrone
6 years
Happy Birthday to the many faces of ⁦ @jasonhowell ⁩. So grateful to know you.
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4 years
There is no silver lining to Covid AND I will always and forever be grateful for the extra time I got to spend with my baby girl during her last year at home.
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6 years
I didn’t ask for much for my birthday. Just a forced family dinner and a forced family photo. Oh, and that beer in front of me.
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5 years
I’m tired of people expressing shock when a young-looking famous person is 40 or (god forbid) 45. I am 46. I don’t need you to tell me I look younger than that, I just need you to know that I’m not ready to be put out to pasture anytime soon.
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Megan Morrone
3 years
Me to my almost 16 year old twins: What do you want for your birthday? Twin A: A Worker’s Revolution Twin B: A Tesla
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Megan Morrone
6 years
My ER doc friend just saved someone’s life on a plane and the airline gave he and his wife a free flight. I am going to start demanding the same treatment when I show a fellow passenger all the iPhone games that don’t require internet access.
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4 years
Luke Skywalker liked my tweet. My job is done here on this earth.
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5 years
My son has a future as a portrait photographer
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2 years
Periodically I like to remind the world that in 2005 I carried twins who were each over 7.5 lbs when they were born. I did this while I was often carrying my not yet 2-year old in my arms. I can do anything
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Who is still working besides me?
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Megan Morrone
5 years
To you and yours from me and mine
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5 years
I don’t follow our President on Twitter, but somehow his tweets show up in my timeline and manage to ruin my day. So, now if he wants to send me a message, he will have to find another way.
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I had just begun to ask my echo the weather. “Alexa,” I said and then my husband came in the room to apologize to me about something we’d been fighting about. I wasn’t read to accept his apology, but Alexa was listening and said, “that’s alright.” So she is married to him now.
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These two photos from my Freshman year of high school are my favorites to share on Father’s Day because the fake/smile real smile tell you everything you need to know about how much I love my dad.
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6 years
How did people fix things before YouTube?
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6 years
@darth Here is Gilbert recharging with his tiny robot friend after our long walk this morning.
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6 years
The LG Watch Sport is an amazing fitness tool. I just put it on and it instantly makes the rest of my body look a lot smaller. #TWiTSwitch
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I have exactly one week left in my 40s and I am living it up. And by “living it up,” I mean working a whole lot so I can pay my mortgage and figure out how to get 3 kids thru college and also casually wondering why various parts of my body just hurt for no good reason
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Megan Morrone
4 years
Having to commute every day into an office is bad for working moms with young children. Having to work from home forever is bad for working moms with young children. How can both of these be true? Because the workplace has never been designed for working moms with young children.
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5 years
Some personal news. My husband has never smoked a cigarette, drank a cup of coffee, or signed up for Facebook, Twitter, or any social media account. I just thought ya’ll needed to understand the kind of asceticism I’ve dealt with in the 19 years of my otherwise happy marriage.
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Megan Morrone
6 years
Disrespecting your mother, especially before coffee = Unflattering photos posted on Twitter. I am here with more parenting tips if you need them.
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Megan Morrone
4 years
I got my eyes checked this week and when the doctor told me I needed readers she said it was just part of “growing up.” She said “growing up” instead of “getting old.” It was the nicest thing.
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