Dara Kaye

35?! Time to join the Middle-Aged Republicans group chat my guy

SCBWI NY Metro Character-Based Writing Workshop Stories Like Friends: Character-Based Writing Join New York Times bestselling author Betsy Cornwell and Crystal Kite Award-winning author and illustrator Lisa Anchin for a workshop on creating unforg...

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Increasingly grossed out by the very common phrase "[PERSON] is worth [DOLLARS]"

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Iced take: cafes should offer simple syrup next to the sugar and milk as a matter of course

oh boy yes

Second in terms of visibility, but just as bewildering --the apostrophe at the bottom

Is the implication that "come on" is a contraction?

If so, for what?

Sorry had to pause because a toothless man on the street got a little too close to my 3 y/o and then said "Hey princess-- go to medical school. Those baby boomers are going to need a lot of help!"

I am still processing

First, weirdly combative tone!

it's a "joke"?

Ok so was Mrs. Lovett's idea about the pies until it wasn't anymore, grow up

This sign has been haunting my commute and I can bear it alone no longer

The internet should be a place you can find weird stuff if you want but the weird stuff should not be able to sealion you there

Was the first part like a male sheep or the last part like a Brit addressing the queen

A defining characteristic of mainstream political discourse during my lifetime has been the insistence that implausible deniability on the right is, in fact, plausible.

I'm the dummy for imagining there would be a breaking point for that

Yeesh

the 2 genders are "I should call her" and this

Feels like seeing a drunk aunt go on a rant at Thanksgiving

Making elaborate meals + treats for my family, Disney princess movies with my 3 y/o, work (a lot)

So many problems are addressed by having a giant bowl of spicy Korean stew and an array of banchan placed in front of me while someone else takes my 3y/o on a walk

Me scrollin socials after binging the last season of Strange New Worlds: Captain Kirk did what now

Rilo Kiley's opening act in DC started at 8pm on the dot and planned a 43 minute set, and I wish to thank him on behalf of both DC millennials and our babysitters

appreciate the consideration

Real galaxy-brain move to a) be a country desperately trying to prevent China from solidifying a monopoly on batteries and semiconductor tech and b) arrest everyone at a factory run by one of very few allies successfully building out infrastructure to rival China's

Just another morning making pancakes for my kids and thinking how weird it is to be an evangelical German-Welsh family in Indiana naming your extremely gentile babies "Shekinah" and "Zachary Levi"

So no one on Hillary Clinton's team asked "is 'seminal' the word?" when drafting a note celebrating the anniversary of the 1995 UN Conference on Women in Beijing, huh

I don't know which of you in DC needs to hear this right now but if you bring your receipt from Lost City Books to Andy's Pizza, you can get a free slice

Have a great Friday

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Like, I have spent the last 7 years pregnant, nursing, or both, I read a lot about women's health and safe pregnancy care, and the only reason I have heard a peep about elevated risks for surrogates is because purely by chance I have an author client whose proposal covers it

I think this is a key part of the article!! The elevated risk of placental anomalies when the pregnant person isnt genetically related to the fetus is so, so far from common knowledge

(quietly chanting) Start something, start something

(Loudly shouting( START SOMETHING, START SOMETHING

I think about @jsx.bsky.social's tweet about appointing a biblically accurate 70-judge SCOTUS ("Oh, you like Judeo-Christian values? GIVE US A SANHEDRIN, YOU COWARDS") like... daily

I interpreted this as being about the fact that the pregnant surrogate almost died!