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Travel & Outdoors Editor, NYTimes Wirecutter. Previously: APM podcast host, PBS NewsHour, io9, Gizmodo. Mostly on Insta: https://teapaw.org/t.co/NkPh6IlIcE

Los Angeles
Joined July 2008
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obsessed with the quarter of Idahoans who looked around and said, idk, feels like the midwest to me
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thoughts and prayers for the 3.3% of Iowans who just aren't quite sure yet
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now that I live safely in california, I can tell the truth I never could in DC: a half-smoke, it's just a brat
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midwesterners already know this to be true
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someone asked me if my stanley cup was a limited-edition she hadn't seen yet and I told her, no, it's just very, very old my buying hack is to keep stuff for so long enough that people start assuming it's some kind of collectible
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changing the time of the sun set to just as I'm getting out of work is late stage capitalism
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the best part about a solar eclipse day is how many times I get warned not to stare at the sun
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never not thinking of these 2 little space probes, out there just doing their best for 45+ years
Welcome back, Voyager 2. @NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2. We shouted 12.5 billion miles (19.9 billion km) into interstellar space, instructing it to turn its antenna back to Earth – and after 37 hours, we found out it worked! go.nasa.gov/3Y9qP7D
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found a little piece of floating glacier ice 🧊
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me, crushing up a bag of sour cream and onion ruffles into a salt shaker, whispering 'yes, chef' to myself
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the part of the ocean the titanic is located in is called 'the midnight zone', and everything living there is either a transparent, eyeless monster or a glow-in-the dark thing with entirely *too many* eyes altogether we're not wanted there
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not quite sure how to explain this but there's nothing less trustworthy than someone insisting that they make the best chocolate chip cookies
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peak equinox, honestly
an incredibly Manhattan photo atop the @nytimes wildfire smoke coverage... nytimes.com/live/2023/06/07/…
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60+ feet of snow melt in the sierras is doing some wild things this waterfall wasn’t even here last summer
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finally storing my gear and calling a wrap on my very first (best?) snowboard season
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someone stole my credit card and used it at a rare book shop with a website that just says 'on vacation, don't expect to hear from us until we're back,' and, really, I'm not that mad about it
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otoh, they also tried to book themselves a trip to florida, so not celebrating all their choices
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crazy the way this week's succession opened with a 20-minute cut of zombified logan roy cracking open his children's brains one-by-one and pronouncing them each inedible
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maybe he fired the person who knew how to remove the checkmarks
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