Megan Carpentier

I met one at a bbq this year!!

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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!

I’m old enough to remember why.

20+ years ago, the Post set up its digital news operations in Arlington, Virginia (a “right-to-work” aka non-union state) to avoid the unionization of its digital reporters and editors. It included an online opinion section. (They joined the Guild in 2010.)

The table next to us in this higher end steakhouse was farting SO BAD the waiter brought us a second dessert. (At first I thought it was just bad Brussel sprouts but SADLY I was so wrong. That man has stains.)

The Q hasn’t gone to Mamdani’s Astoria district since the 2nd Ave extension opened and this guy can’t even pop out of the N at Ditmars station to go to the Sweet Spot.

He gonna drive by here via the Kosciusko in a ‘32 Packard and wave at us again? nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/04/28/c...

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.” The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart."

During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:

Col. O. Nie!! I’m still shook by that. Like, what, your sexual proclivities require access to mid-80s ranch houses with beige carpets?

Still remember the time Dennis had me on his radio show and then cut my mic because he said that all men, without (his) God, would be like rape-y chickens in the barnyard and i guffawed because it turned out I had a more optimistic view of masculinity and men than him.

My friend who is from North Carolina and lives here in Queens has some cheaper suggestions for you.

I get a LOT of dumb shit via Act Blue because my phone number pre 2001 was a landline owned by a now-elderly Black man in DC named Frederick but this shit takes the fucking cake SIR

Including East Elmhurst and Maspeth?! Jesus Christ, the East River is not the Pacific fucking Ocean, and there’s 700,000 more people here than in Manhattan.

Like honestly if you sent him and Hegseth into Diamond Dogs or the Let Love Inn on a random Tuesday, guarantee the guy who “looks terrible” gets hit on more.

LMFAO “looks terrible” I live in Astoria and despite the fact that Mamdani is both significantly younger than many of my friends and married, he’s gotten hit on a LOT by women my age and younger in the last 18 months, including one of my long time acquaintances. (He is always politely uninterested.)

This is not, in fact, how LLMs are trained which is probably one of the issues with their performance on questions like “how many r’s are in strawberry”.

It is a very good, very attentive-looking dog.

I am trying and failing to imagine any positive consequences of trying out part of a newsy stand-up routine at a bus stop in NYC. Or, honestly, in the upstate village I grew up in. (There is one bus. It goes from the next closest city, through us and to the Walmart.)