Sarah Begley retweeted
About all of those viral Instagram stories...
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So crushed to hear of Javier Marias's death. I would have read new books from him for years to come. If you haven't read A Heart So White or Thus Bad Begins, I highly, highly recommend. What a shame that he'll no longer be a perennial Nobel frontrunner. theguardian.com/world/2022/s…
I love @NirZicherman's way of thinking about what motivates you professionally: is it new opportunities, new experiences, or getting better at the thing you already do? medium.com/@NirZicherman/the…
Sarah Begley retweeted
Have you updated yet today? Mobile editing is back in our @medium apps!
ALT Picture of iOS app store release notes that says story creation, editing, and draft access is back in our Medium apps, there's a new icon showing membership, and the following feed is now true reverse chron
Happy 10th anniversary to @Medium — I loved reading back through this timeline all we've done and the incredible voices we have hosted in our first 10 years blog.medium.com/it-happened-…
New @Medium: Custom domains are back! Mobile editor is coming back! Reverse chron feed is here! blog.medium.com/custom-domai…
"You ever have somebody come to you and you get the vibe they want something from you, but they’re also telling you that you’re a piece of shit?"
Truly good interview with Wheatus frontman on the ups and downs of "Teenage Dirtbag" observer.com/2022/08/the-man…
Thinking about my favorite passage from Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children,’ the Indira Gandhi green and black fever dream. Arguably the greatest book of the 20th century.
Exciting new beta at Medium!
our team at @medium launched a new Tipping beta today, making it easier for creators to earn money directly from their readers and fans.
it’s basic right now, but it opens the door to other potential tools we might develop in the near future.
the deets:
blog.medium.com/introducing-…
“Instead of a street serving diverse purposes — as they did for millennia, before the automobile came along — today’s urban roads have only one major function: Moving gas-powered vehicles around.” — @pomeranian99 link.medium.com/KHgQfmb11rb
“You can try to cut back [on screen time] through discipline. But why not just make your life more interesting instead?” link.medium.com/l5C83WgvGrb
Sarah Begley retweeted
When women don’t have the right to make reproductive choices about their own bodies, we lose a foundational right. When we lose foundational rights, all rights are threatened. 2/5
Now you KNOW this doesn't happen on This Old House.
(TOH fans, reveal yourselves!)
Home renovation TV shows are the stuff that derams are made of. But not for the homeowners who file lawsuilts instead of jumping for joy. nyti.ms/3NDtuQn
Always a bummer for artists to lose big bucks…but The Irishman really is the poster child for carte blanche. There could have been an amazing 1.5 hour movie somewhere in there!
Netflix will stop green-lighting “expensive vanity projects” such as ‘The Irishman’.
“This tendency to do anything to attract talent and giving them carte blanche is going away,” says one source.
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com/busine…)
Sarah Begley retweeted
I am more certain of this than I have ever been. Stop lockdown drills in all schools, immediately. It does nothing to protect kids. All it does is traumatize them, and in the worst case, plant the idea for some of them.
“States’ rights” until states do things Republicans don’t like.
See also, pending SCOTUS ruling on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen.
Just days before the recent mass shootings in Texas and New York, both committed by 18-year-olds, a federal appeals court struck down a California law that banned the sale of some semiautomatic weapons to people under 21. nyti.ms/3GlmDbX
Wow. I will never forget using a pay phone on Avenue A after Hurricane Sandy knocked out power and cell service to make two calls: one telling my mom I was ok, and one telling a Newsweek cover writer that his meeting with my boss was canceled because our office had flooded.
Saying goodbye to The city’s last public pay phone booth 50th and 7th. Times square @1010WINS
Sarah Begley retweeted
Q: Are you comfortable with the protests that we saw outside the homes of Supreme Court justices?
Schumer: Yes. my house, there's protests 3, 4 times a week outside.. That's the American way to peacefully protest.. [his phone rings].. that's my wife. Maybe there's a protest."
"There are espresso martinis, chocolate martinis...a “tequila-lime martini” is a fraud but traveling under its rightful title of Margarita, it is one of the world’s great cocktails. But all such false martinis are insults to the original."
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Jason B. Rosenthal, of "You May Want to Marry My Husband" fame, on leaving the family home where he spent so many happy and full years with his late wife, Amy. medium.com/moms-dont-have-ti…
