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Now: Running Decoder @ The Verge. Earlier: editor/reporter for Protocol, Ars Technica, CQ Roll Call, Consumerist, and Kotaku; decades of other writing strewn across the internet. Boston-born, now DC-dwelling. She/her.
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My body's response to all the stressors it is currently living through is apparently "prolonged fatigue" and body, that is so, SO unhelpful for getting all the things done that need doing

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Catching up on yesterday's Who and... I take back everything I said over the last two (mostly excellent) seasons about RTD having learned better since his first go

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The most banal bad part of having someone in and out of hospitals all the time is living off a bag of protein snacks and never being able to get real mealtimes anymore.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm stepping back from work for a bit to focus on my mom. FMLA is far from perfect but it's definitely one of the more humane workplace laws we've got and I'm very glad to have it. The show is in awesome hands with the rest of the team and I am looking forward to seeing what they do until I'm back!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Weird to say I "enjoyed" reading the book, because mostly I had to avoid shouting swear words aloud on the train while I read it, but I've covered PE deals *a lot* since 2012 and it's absolutely one of the most accessible, page-turner reads on the matter I've read.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

I've got two kids and even with as many childcare challenges as we've had along the way, I think eldercare is BY FAR the worse, harder to navigate situation in this country and I wouldn't be surprised if it drives more women out of the workforce than kids do.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I swear malls were smaller and less exhausting when I was my daughter's age. It's certainly not the difference between being a tween and being a fortysomething, right?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

If you insist. 😎

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

You would think, after living in the area since 2008, that I would remember I do not want to be driving on 395 or near the Pentagon / Cemetery on Memorial Day Weekend, and yet, here I am, surprised by motorcycles for 18 years running

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

All those semesters of Mongol and Turkish history in college, just so this could land for me 20+ years later, perfection

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The transition to "there is an adult-sized person on my doorstep but it is my middle-school kid's middle-school friend" was just very abrupt and startling lol

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments