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That is just adorable

Never cross a photo editor

It’s a thriller for real

He is, and also a lovely person and a delight to work with

Like it’s not impossible, but a pandemic exactly like Covid from animal spillover had been predicted to a T

Reading David Quammen’s book SPILLOVER, which in 2012 posited the imminent spillover of a coronavirus pandemic from animals, and then working on this WaPo story with him, convinced me the lab leak hypothesis is highly unlikely wapo.st/4yMTb9H

I don't get this. I staffed an Ivy League writing center as a grad student, working with not just undergrads (incl ones who'd never written a college paper!) but also diss writers and professors working on books, and it was a HUGE resource moving everyone toward greater skill and completion of work

I mean what lady can hold down a baseball stadium

Graphic kind of says it all, innit

This woman is far more effective than a lot of people in meetings

Oh my goodness

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Oh, that's not a side effect, that's 100% intentional

I didn't even get one of your better Covid shots, and I wrote at the time about why it was STILL completely worth it, odds-wise. (I have since gotten both Moderna and Pfizer at different times, so now feel equipped with the complete sampler pack.) interpreter.substack.com/p/i-got-the-...

That is a really sweet story

That newborn, now four, is sometimes nervous about getting shots at the doctor. But that is because he is four, while these elected officials are theoretically grown-ass men. We need to make medical policy like we have completed preschool

Listening to these guys rail about the "injection injured" is making me think back to how excited I was to finally get Covid vax access when I was pregnant and the payoff when my newborn and I got basically no symptoms from Covid seven months later. 10/10, would inject again

If you happen to know someone at Harvard who’d like to take my creative nonfiction workshop this fall, here’s the application. Part of what’s fun is I can accept students from any part of the college, undergrad and graduate students: hms.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The genie said you can only wish for things that make Sam Altman's net worth go up

People are so mad about movies and arts criticism! I love both of these things and what she said made me want to see the movie more and I am flummoxed that people are mad