Judy Berman

Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

It's all so clear

Brilliant

I would like a Traitors UK season that is 100% barristers pretending to be something else

Spent so much time outdoors enjoying spring weather today that I now have no idea wtf 80% of the vague posts on here are about, and frankly, I look forward to repeating the experience as often as possible now that the deep freeze has ended

I'm so sorry, Matt. No one deserves this shit, especially not you.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Sorry, I wrote about it.

Sorry, I wrote about it.

he really does seem to think in extremes (though to be fair, he doesn't have writing or directing credits on this particular show)

Love Story's depiction of Hannah isn't just arguably defamatory. It's also lazy writing. You don't have to frame someone's ex as a monster to suggest they're more compatible with someone else. But crafting 3 characters with nuance and specificity is certainly harder than doing 2 heroes and a villain

I guess what strains believability for me is the idea that her experience of perceived invisibility would be at all representative of what the typical 50-something woman has to contend with

There's ambiguity, and it isn't necessarily bad—the whole story is filtered through her perceptions, and we get a lot of clues that there's distance between her mind and reality. Nor are there many actors I would rather see instead of Weisz in anything. But the role doesn't require someone super hot

Seems about as far-fetched as the idea of Rachel Weisz losing sex appeal, at this point

Can Sex on College Campuses Be Funny Again? Netflix's 'Vladimir' and HBO's 'Rooster' meet the post-post-#MeToo moment with levity—but still feel a bit dated

Wrote about two new comedies trying to make sex on campus funny again: Vladimir (which I quite liked) and Rooster (which I prefer to most Bill Lawrence stuff, but that's not saying much). Both are likely to age rapidly now that the biggest threat to freedom in academia is coming from outside!

NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?

WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.

Ugh, same

I might get there sooner, honestly

A classic!

Seem to have unlocked a new level of hangover where you don't have to drink a drop, just get home after 11pm on a weeknight. Being in your 40s rules.

Lo and Behold, Harper Stern Has a Soul Out of a generally pessimistic show comes the surprising argument that people can change—and change for the better.

I actually... love this for her?

Thank you, Jason! And I agree—Ivlev was excellent in a role that, quite intentionally I think, both asked a lot of her and didn't give her many details to go on about her character.

Definitely! And I think the show has really done the work to develop both of them. You don't fundamentally change the first time something fucked up happens to you, maybe. But as your experiences pile up, how could you not?

It would've been so boring if they just made her a sociopath

Lo and Behold, Harper Stern Has a Soul Out of a generally pessimistic show comes the surprising argument that people can change—and change for the better.

I actually... love this for her?

🙏

We’ll see if anyone sticks around long enough to get there, I guess.

Also: There *has* to be an Eimy episode coming, right?

Either way, entirely appropriate that the show's structure would also resemble an uneven love triangle where someone ends up dead.

I felt pretty similarly. Also wish that one of the two wolves didn't have to be the same murder-mystery wolf every other show has.

People should really consider this as an alternative to getting really into *being* a tool.