Thank you! Finally, a sense of agency about something today. Done.

Where are the grownups???

We need a button for “I see this, and I hate it.” Hitting like on way too many awful things, just to acknowledge the source.

LinkedIn really is a vibe

Omg love this! Thank you and sorry I’m seeing it so late. I’ve been neglecting Bluesky like I neglect my nails. ❤️💕❤️

The weather app should show yesterday’s weather so you can see if it was this cold, or if that was just practice.

As the saying goes…yup!

Subscribers in my newsletter's welcome sequence:
"I'm obsessed with your emails! They're already making me a better writer! I'm so glad I signed up!"
Also subscribers in my newsletter's welcome sequence:

I want it to take over my life and become my personality. I want to be codependent and stay up way too late watching because that’s what the show needs from me. I want a show to demand I sacrifice work opportunities and friendships and become my whole world. Who’s still making those?

Everyone seems to love all these limited series of 6-7 episodes because they’re “low-commitment.” No thank you. I want heavy commitment. I want a 12-episode season. Make it 22. I want to be married to it for months.

I’m so used to putting in AirPods that, twice now, just because they were in my hand, I’ve almost popped a couple of cashews in my ears.

Married pre-FB. Pics went in a physical album, not a timeline.

Built an online biz right when starting one required not much more than a laptop and wifi.

I think I was born at the right time! #GenX

I grew up before internet. Talked to friends on the phone. Was bullied 1 year, but only by snail mail.

Post-college, stayed out late and did very stupid things, before there were phone cameras. 🙏🏻

Joined the work force before remote work was a thing. Went to an office. Made friends for life…

Impressive skills!

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No, but I have just enough energy to copy paste that for the next one!

Ha!

Shoutout to everyone stubbornly typing on their phone when the laptop's right there.

My friend was ranting about people who leave voice messages instead of a text. She couldn't believe most of my biz friends choose to communicate by Voxer.
I live for it! It's almost never the right time in my day for a phone call, but an asynchronous chat? All day long.

Guess it's that first pancake almost every fiction writer needs to make!

TFW a BIG FAN reaches out and fills in "[NAME OF BRAND]" in the cold-email template with the full url. Feelin' the love! 🙄

She's def not. I did love her first movie, though, and didn't read The First Bad Man. I'd say I haven't given her stuff a fair chance.

Just selected as one of NYT's 10 Best Books of the Year - maybe I go back to it? Or then again, maybe f the NYT

I'll take taglines rejected by the National Poultry Council for 200!

Oh I'm aware! And the BJs chapter and all that. But there was really a minimum of *graphic* bumpin' uglies business in it.

Site: Enter your email to unlock 20% off!
Me: *enters email.*
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Me: Like hell I will, I know you just sent the code to my email!
Me: *Feels smug, then ends up not purchasing after all.*

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I started it and…I know this is going to be hard to believe, but I think I might be too prudish!

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It’s all about the brine! That one looks great but of course the blur adds juiciness.