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"Screensick," adjective, coined by my 5yo to mean "the feeling when you watch screens too much and it makes you unable to act normally or have good behavior"
Emily Dreyfuss
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Emily Dreyfuss
@EmilyDreyfuss
Culture Editor at The San Francisco Standard. Your mom. [email protected] | Signal: emilyrobin.83
- there's a kid annoying his exhausted mother in the row next to me on a small plane right now so I asked him, "Have you ever thought about how weird it is that sounds existed for billions of years before ears evolved to hear them?" and now he's looking quietly out the window.
- Guy at the hardware store sized me up at checkout and said, “You look like someone who likes jeans. There’s a documentary on PBS next week you’ll enjoy about the history of jeans.” Nailed it.
- Warning: If I tell you “next week I’ll be less busy” please remind me this has never been true. This mythical next week does not arrive, it just hovers out of frame, a fantasy of time and space where I’ll be able to say yes to plans, receding into the distance as I reach for it
- Two year old woke up screaming last night. Me, running in: what’s wrong honey? Him, still dreaming: I can’t make the soup! I’m just a baby!
- I am in awe of the bravery of the Times journalists tweeting their opposition to the publication of that op-ed. This is against the paper’s social media rules, and it’s a terrifying time to be putting your job on the line to take a stand as a journalist, but they are doing it.
- Schooled by toddler 3yo: Why can't babies cry inside their mommies tummies? Me: Cuz babies can't make sounds until they are born 3yo: Why? Me: (trying to rush out the door) I don't know 3yo: Why don't you know? Me: Cuz I'm not a scientist 3yo: You're a journalist. You could ask
- Email openings of 2021: Hi, hope you had a good break before the insurrection! Hope you're hanging in there! Hope you're surviving ~gestures wildly at all this~! Sorry to bother you as democracy crumbles, but wanted to follow up on the capitalist work that we must keep doing
- Replying to @oliverdarcyNow that this rule is so public, you might want to get a team to go through and remove all the “I hope Obama dies” that are still up on the site, along with threats to Clinton, etc., not to mention against so many women whose names I couldn’t search individually
- YOU CAN RESIGN FROM YOUR FAMILY!?
- it's really not fair that the big boat is unstuck while the rest of us are just left here, sitting in our eternal stuckness
- Replying to @EmilyDreyfuss"Silence them with science," to the tune of she blinded me with science 🪩
- My son has been trying to get me to stop working all day, first by begging, then by promising a party when I stop. But he just came to me in tears and said he doesn't actually know how to plan a party, and since I'm too busy to help, the party is cancelled.
- This is amazing, and I hope she isn't grounded for life. The replacement parents part is my fave. When my Dad was MIA in my childhood, he was doing moralistic Honda commercial voiceovers so whenever a Honda ad would come on my brothers and I would yell "Daily dose of parenting!"this tiktok of sofia coppola’s daughter… this means so much to me
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