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#146 - Hope Scrolling

#146 - Hope Scrolling

or: save me nancy pelosi (/sincere)

#145 - Happy Birthday, Smoke Show!

#145 - Happy Birthday, Smoke Show!

or: milestones and the markers we make for ourselves

#144 - Prompted

#144 - Prompted

or: get to know yourself (well, your relationship to your job at least) better in 3 minutes or less! In ways that I could not have predicted, a surprising amount of time at my job is dedicated to writing prompts. And while I have a literal books-worth of shit to

#143 - The World On Pause

#143 - The World On Pause

or: just how many people in bushwick actually work from home? Well hey hi hello happy eclipse day! All day, every single time I have read the word 'eclipse' I have read it in the voice of the girl on MTV's My Super Sweet 16 who

#142 - April fools pranks & thoughts on Tech Magnates

#142 - April fools pranks & thoughts on Tech Magnates

or: cultural obfuscation caused by the iPhone Good morning/afternoon/evening, welcome to April! The best April Fools Day prank I've ever seen happened when I was in the fourth grade – the local radio station (95 triple X) pretended that a Krispy Kreme had opened in Burlington, Vermont

#141 - Voting Uncommitted, but Still Committed to Voting

#141 - Voting Uncommitted, but Still Committed to Voting

or: what to do when nothing feels okay I haven't been writing lately. Which is usually my first sign that somethings wrong. The times I find myself avoiding it most is when I'm not ready to face myself or my feelings. But that's not

#140 - Rabbit rabbit! Goal check in time babeeeey!

#140 - Rabbit rabbit! Goal check in time babeeeey!

or: it's been a weird time plz don't worry if plans haven't panned out Hello hello, welcome to the end of week 9 and the tip-top start of March (spring equinox is coming there will be PINK TREES in NYC this time next month

#139 - Hey, quick question, why did the Governor of New York just threaten to nuke Canada?

#139 - Hey, quick question, why did the Governor of New York just threaten to nuke Canada?

or: the discord of the democrats & a disaffected democracy Kathy Hochul is a terrible Governor. She never should have been Governor in the first place but the NY Democratic Party is run by absolute know-nothing losers who couldn't organize their way out of a paper bag. They

# 138 - Smoke Show Reviews (theatre edition) | Oh, Mary!

# 138 - Smoke Show Reviews (theatre edition) | Oh, Mary!

or: back at it again in the west village I love the West Village. (Gotta be one of my top three favorite villages.) It's a weirdly quaint part of Manhattan, which makes it perfect to walk through. Cute crowded cozy restaurants with steam clouding the sidewalk windows and

#137 - Learning How To Breathe

#137 - Learning How To Breathe

or: this thing that i had been doing incorrectly my entire life Three years ago I read a book about how breath works that turned me into a full-time nosebreather. It's a pop science book and I definitely didn't believe every word he said, but it

#136 - I killed the [second] largest roach I've ever seen in my kitchen last night

#136 - I killed the [second] largest roach I've ever seen in my kitchen last night

or: ridgewood roach update!!!!!!! So yesterday I was hanging out with my best friend and she was worried she had left her coffee machine on, so we after we put out the spliff we were smoking, we donned our layers of sweaters and prepared for a quick 8 minute trek

#135 - Rabbit Rabbit! Let's Recap my January Reset

#135 - Rabbit Rabbit! Let's Recap my January Reset

or: i renovate my living room & lift weights now Well hey hi hello there, it's been a minute, I kind of took a break in January (theeeee longest month of all time??) but we're back babes!! Rabbit, rabbit! Welcome to February! (&& welcome to

#133 - Au Revoir, Substack!

#133 - Au Revoir, Substack!

or: ew, who invites Nazi's to their dinner parties? “If you have 10 people and one Nazi sitting at a dinner table and willingly eating together, you have 11 Nazis.” The quote above has no source. I definitely read it on Twitter first, but digging around the internet

#134 - Go, Ghost!

#134 - Go, Ghost!

Well, we're here now instead of Substack. Because that #othersite made a real fucking weirdo statement about how they didn't like Nazi's but wouldn't ban them from the platform, and frankly, despite the fact that I don't monetize this newsletter