Megan Carpentier

STOP SEXTING WITH YOUR CAR AUDIO SYSTEM IN TRAFFIC

But only the one year because he lost the election the following year to someone more popular.

lol, I took the SATs more than 30 years ago. He took them at some point before *1969* (when he started college) so his were like *60* years ago!! He’s old enough to be my dad lmfao.

What must your life be to still:
A. Remember your SAT scores
B. Be impressed with your SAT scores
C. Think your SAT scores are an indicator of your professional qualifications as an adult
D. Think about other people’s SAT scores in relation to your own
E. Not know how much the SAT scoring changed

You could give me a shit ton of money and a fancy UES mansion and I would also be like “it ain’t Astoria.” If you don’t live here, you don’t know. Not everyone aspires to what you think the apex of New York life is because some of us have our Sesame Street.

Oh, yeah, sheer volume of crushed up recyclables blown into my driveway is at 10 year highs. (Moved here in 2015.) Also the trash trucks blocking evening traffic randomly is way up the last few years.

It improved astronomically under BdB. Like, day-of plowing for the first time since I moved to NYC (and I came from Virginia, my standards were low). But the trash trucks are the plows! And honestly I think Adam’s fucked up with his back and forth on composting, all vibes, no planning.

Trash pickup is meh (bad after a storm) but plowing in our area remains miles ahead of when Bloomberg made sure Manhattan was bare roads but fucked the boroughs (esp Queens).

They have really good sales, truly! I mean, idk your body type but I bought my first pair in Italy in 2017 and I was THRILLED to find them in the US over Covid and haven’t bought anyone else’s tights since.

I’ve always had really, really good luck with Calzedonia (but have penguin walked in H&M and Target ones for SURE). Their cashmere blend ones are 100% my sale season stock up.

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

What happens when love tips over into the infatuated state of ‘limerence’? A neuroscientist decided to study the addiction-like obsession of limerence, while overcoming it himself

Also thinking of this great article on the neuroscience and psychology of limerence for some… desire today. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

You shouldn’t want to read this anyway but here is the alt text: And so began the bipartisan compromise congress Barack had been hoping for. He moved between chambers with more ease than normal, giving Nancy a hand when John got too swept up in hammering away at her, filling John's mouth with bipartisan words to spit out when he forgot himself, making sure Harry and Mitch swapped when their negotiations began to bottom out and always making sure that no one ignored his need for attention, love or political satisfaction.

In honor of the latest weeklong blowjob cycle, I present to you my 2011 attempt at satirizing Washington as one big bisexual orgy. It seemed so over the top at the time but this timeline has, again, surpassed the limits of even my sick imagination. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-so...

I met one at a bbq this year!!

🤷🏼‍♀️

Me to my partner: My cousin’s coming!
Him: K
Me: She’s my dad’s sister’s son’s kid, so my first cousin once removed because her dad is my cousin but I call him my uncle because he’s older than my dad but her uncle from her mom’s side is also my aunt’s ex but she’s also my cousin not my aunt
Him: 🤯

And, like, ya girl loves free shit. (I did… not get branded merch fwiw.) But also it struck me as tacky AF. It struck me like “newbie reporter taking selfies in the hotel suite with the candidate” (IYKYK) levels of problematic.

100% not violating any NDAs but one time I worked for a start up that was enamored with a substacker and they had a meeting and she openly asked for a branded hoodie.

PS: Gardasil is available for men and women up to age 45, covers nine strains of HPV, and is nearly 100% effective at preventing cancers caused by seven of the strains it covers. Those are responsible for at least 90 percent of all cervical cancers and most of the HPV-related anal and oral cancers.

In 2021, I traced the rise of anti vaccine advocacy in conservative circles back to the aughts, and the development of a vaccine originally only available to women to prevent cancer. www.damemagazine.com/2021/07/14/t...

I remember (at the teacher’s command) leading a class discussion in grad school and being shouted down! My professor in my study abroad program remembered his antipathy towards me at least a decade later! People have apologized for bullying me *and I’d forgotten they did so*!

I realize it is part of being young to crave something beyond the grudging respect of your peers but I truly believe that a huge percentage of Americans of all ages need to internalize the idea that you are not entitled to have other people like you, even if you like them or crave their regard.

Real talk, Cracker Barrel could keep the new logo if it brought back the Sunrise Sampler but you can’t force people to chose either grits or baked apples, that’s not right.

I have watched a lot of veterinary shows and it looks like something that requires expertise and skill. Apparently they can migrate and are barbed! (Also they sedate the animals.)

Oh nooooo

The next one drops Thursday at 10pm ET, but apparently the less popular ones do brisk business in reselling sites like Poshmark. m.popmart.com/us/products/...

It’s a Gen Z beanie baby with a plastic goblin face that’s marketed like a Cabbage Patch Kid (aka you get what you get and some are more coveted than others).

$2300 is not a rent stabilized apartment in Astoria. (Please don’t move here and raise non-stabilized prices, though.)

Also many landlords here are long time owners and don’t gouge us on rent increases year over year, preferring stable income to high turnover rates that ultimately cost more.

I knew people who worked there!