In my endless (and endlessly annoying) quest to find somewhere to post on the internet that doesn't suck:

- TikTok www.tiktok.com/@juliaccarpe...
- Instagram www.instagram.com/juliaccarpen...
- Substack Notes (kinda fun, honestly) juliaccarpenter.substack.com

Anyway! Good luck out there, y'all!

Here are some nice mushrooms

making money moves

i love the public library. an elderly woman helped me print out some interview transcripts and i helped her print out some photos of roosters she pulled off google. two queens maximizing their joint slay.

As part of the Poynter Institute’s National Advisory Board, I sat on a panel w/Politico’s Anita Kumar led by fact checking expert Angie Holan on state of fact checking and attacks on press. My take: Supporters of a free press expect us to fight. READ: loom.ly/XAIEInc

Journalists covering all things animal, vegetable & mineral have really been bright spots in my feed of late

While Owens says she wants to cover mainstream issues affecting mothers and women, she primarily rallies her audience around conspiracies that attack women.

Is it just me or is everyone in a collective mid-life crisis

Hi Bluesky! I'm looking to chat with new aunts and uncles for a story for @wsj.com.

I want to talk about how you're financially involved in the new baby's life, how you're budgeting for travel and gifts, the convos you've had with the new parents, etc. Please DM if this is you!

Seen in Venice Beach today

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

Hi, Bluesky! I'm a writer based in Brooklyn.

I write and report on all sorts of things:

- the wealth gap between single people and couples
- the rise of the divorce memoir as its own subgenre
- the ways in which burnout and anxiety affect our spending
- how people get books past prison censors