Megan Carpentier
@megancarpentier.bsky.social
Editor, writer, cat lady
Me to my partner: My cousin’s coming!
Him: K
Me: She’s my dad’s sister’s son’s kid, so my first cousin once removed because her dad is my cousin but I call him my uncle because he’s older than my dad but her uncle from her mom’s side is also my aunt’s ex but she’s also my cousin not my aunt
Him: 🤯
Him: K
Me: She’s my dad’s sister’s son’s kid, so my first cousin once removed because her dad is my cousin but I call him my uncle because he’s older than my dad but her uncle from her mom’s side is also my aunt’s ex but she’s also my cousin not my aunt
Him: 🤯
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Me to my partner: My cousin’s coming!
Him: K
Me: She’s my dad’s sister’s son’s kid, so my first cousin once removed because her dad is my cousin but I call him my uncle because he’s older than my dad but her uncle from her mom’s side is also my aunt’s ex but she’s also my cousin not my aunt
Him: 🤯
Him: K
Me: She’s my dad’s sister’s son’s kid, so my first cousin once removed because her dad is my cousin but I call him my uncle because he’s older than my dad but her uncle from her mom’s side is also my aunt’s ex but she’s also my cousin not my aunt
Him: 🤯
100% not violating any NDAs but one time I worked for a start up that was enamored with a substacker and they had a meeting and she openly asked for a branded hoodie.
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
100% not violating any NDAs but one time I worked for a start up that was enamored with a substacker and they had a meeting and she openly asked for a branded hoodie.
In 2021, I traced the rise of anti vaccine advocacy in conservative circles back to the aughts, and the development of a vaccine originally only available to women to prevent cancer. www.damemagazine.com/2021/07/14/t...
The “Pro-Life” Party’s Long Fight Against Vaccines - Dame Magazine
“I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, FL," a Republican politician appearing on The TODAY Show said, "and tell me that her little daughter took that vaccine, tha...
www.damemagazine.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In 2021, I traced the rise of anti vaccine advocacy in conservative circles back to the aughts, and the development of a vaccine originally only available to women to prevent cancer. www.damemagazine.com/2021/07/14/t...
I realize it is part of being young to crave something beyond the grudging respect of your peers but I truly believe that a huge percentage of Americans of all ages need to internalize the idea that you are not entitled to have other people like you, even if you like them or crave their regard.
August 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I realize it is part of being young to crave something beyond the grudging respect of your peers but I truly believe that a huge percentage of Americans of all ages need to internalize the idea that you are not entitled to have other people like you, even if you like them or crave their regard.
Real talk, Cracker Barrel could keep the new logo if it brought back the Sunrise Sampler but you can’t force people to chose either grits or baked apples, that’s not right.
August 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Real talk, Cracker Barrel could keep the new logo if it brought back the Sunrise Sampler but you can’t force people to chose either grits or baked apples, that’s not right.
$2300 is not a rent stabilized apartment in Astoria. (Please don’t move here and raise non-stabilized prices, though.)
Also many landlords here are long time owners and don’t gouge us on rent increases year over year, preferring stable income to high turnover rates that ultimately cost more.
Also many landlords here are long time owners and don’t gouge us on rent increases year over year, preferring stable income to high turnover rates that ultimately cost more.
August 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
$2300 is not a rent stabilized apartment in Astoria. (Please don’t move here and raise non-stabilized prices, though.)
Also many landlords here are long time owners and don’t gouge us on rent increases year over year, preferring stable income to high turnover rates that ultimately cost more.
Also many landlords here are long time owners and don’t gouge us on rent increases year over year, preferring stable income to high turnover rates that ultimately cost more.
I’m old enough to remember why.
20+ years ago, the Post set up its digital news operations in Arlington, Virginia (a “right-to-work” aka non-union state) to avoid the unionization of its digital reporters and editors. It included an online opinion section. (They joined the Guild in 2010.)
20+ years ago, the Post set up its digital news operations in Arlington, Virginia (a “right-to-work” aka non-union state) to avoid the unionization of its digital reporters and editors. It included an online opinion section. (They joined the Guild in 2010.)
July 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I’m old enough to remember why.
20+ years ago, the Post set up its digital news operations in Arlington, Virginia (a “right-to-work” aka non-union state) to avoid the unionization of its digital reporters and editors. It included an online opinion section. (They joined the Guild in 2010.)
20+ years ago, the Post set up its digital news operations in Arlington, Virginia (a “right-to-work” aka non-union state) to avoid the unionization of its digital reporters and editors. It included an online opinion section. (They joined the Guild in 2010.)
The table next to us in this higher end steakhouse was farting SO BAD the waiter brought us a second dessert. (At first I thought it was just bad Brussel sprouts but SADLY I was so wrong. That man has stains.)
July 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The table next to us in this higher end steakhouse was farting SO BAD the waiter brought us a second dessert. (At first I thought it was just bad Brussel sprouts but SADLY I was so wrong. That man has stains.)
The Q hasn’t gone to Mamdani’s Astoria district since the 2nd Ave extension opened and this guy can’t even pop out of the N at Ditmars station to go to the Sweet Spot.
He gonna drive by here via the Kosciusko in a ‘32 Packard and wave at us again? nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/04/28/c...
He gonna drive by here via the Kosciusko in a ‘32 Packard and wave at us again? nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/04/28/c...
July 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The Q hasn’t gone to Mamdani’s Astoria district since the 2nd Ave extension opened and this guy can’t even pop out of the N at Ditmars station to go to the Sweet Spot.
He gonna drive by here via the Kosciusko in a ‘32 Packard and wave at us again? nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/04/28/c...
He gonna drive by here via the Kosciusko in a ‘32 Packard and wave at us again? nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/04/28/c...
Reposted by Megan Carpentier
“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart."
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
www.texasmonthly.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart."
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
Still remember the time Dennis had me on his radio show and then cut my mic because he said that all men, without (his) God, would be like rape-y chickens in the barnyard and i guffawed because it turned out I had a more optimistic view of masculinity and men than him.
an actual loyalty test to hold a state job
July 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Still remember the time Dennis had me on his radio show and then cut my mic because he said that all men, without (his) God, would be like rape-y chickens in the barnyard and i guffawed because it turned out I had a more optimistic view of masculinity and men than him.
I get a LOT of dumb shit via Act Blue because my phone number pre 2001 was a landline owned by a now-elderly Black man in DC named Frederick but this shit takes the fucking cake SIR
June 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I get a LOT of dumb shit via Act Blue because my phone number pre 2001 was a landline owned by a now-elderly Black man in DC named Frederick but this shit takes the fucking cake SIR
Including East Elmhurst and Maspeth?! Jesus Christ, the East River is not the Pacific fucking Ocean, and there’s 700,000 more people here than in Manhattan.
Not the New York Times calling most of Brooklyn and Queens the Commie Corridor.
June 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Including East Elmhurst and Maspeth?! Jesus Christ, the East River is not the Pacific fucking Ocean, and there’s 700,000 more people here than in Manhattan.
LMFAO “looks terrible” I live in Astoria and despite the fact that Mamdani is both significantly younger than many of my friends and married, he’s gotten hit on a LOT by women my age and younger in the last 18 months, including one of my long time acquaintances. (He is always politely uninterested.)
June 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
LMFAO “looks terrible” I live in Astoria and despite the fact that Mamdani is both significantly younger than many of my friends and married, he’s gotten hit on a LOT by women my age and younger in the last 18 months, including one of my long time acquaintances. (He is always politely uninterested.)
This is not, in fact, how LLMs are trained which is probably one of the issues with their performance on questions like “how many r’s are in strawberry”.
June 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is not, in fact, how LLMs are trained which is probably one of the issues with their performance on questions like “how many r’s are in strawberry”.
The thing about this story is that, when I was a high schooler in the 90s, I volunteered for and eventually ran (and won a statewide award for) this exact program that served elderly people who mostly lived alone in their homes. It’s gone now. www.wsj.com/health/welln...
The Friendly Caller Who’s Helping Seniors Feel Less Lonely
An AI companion is just a phone call away for residents of this senior living community—and their mental health is improving as a result.
www.wsj.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The thing about this story is that, when I was a high schooler in the 90s, I volunteered for and eventually ran (and won a statewide award for) this exact program that served elderly people who mostly lived alone in their homes. It’s gone now. www.wsj.com/health/welln...
Apropos of nothing, I’m running underground with the moles, digging them holes.
a picture of a man with the words i 'm not sick but i 'm not well below it
ALT: a picture of a man with the words i 'm not sick but i 'm not well below it
media.tenor.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Apropos of nothing, I’m running underground with the moles, digging them holes.
If there is one major thing I have learned in life, is is that there are Lyrics People and there are Musical Vibes People who not only do not know why in the world Lyrics People are upset at how they assign absolutely incorrect meanings to pop music songs, but will never agree when you tell them.
June 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If there is one major thing I have learned in life, is is that there are Lyrics People and there are Musical Vibes People who not only do not know why in the world Lyrics People are upset at how they assign absolutely incorrect meanings to pop music songs, but will never agree when you tell them.
Mark Harmon once glared at me from the opposite side of a revolving door.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Mark Harmon once glared at me from the opposite side of a revolving door.
I’m a bitch
A bad writer
I’m a loser
Not a fighter
Got an egg shape o’er my brain
The Dems should never change
I’m in Hell
You’re so cruel
I’m so mad that I’m not cool
You know that everything was better in my day!
A bad writer
I’m a loser
Not a fighter
Got an egg shape o’er my brain
The Dems should never change
I’m in Hell
You’re so cruel
I’m so mad that I’m not cool
You know that everything was better in my day!
June 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I’m a bitch
A bad writer
I’m a loser
Not a fighter
Got an egg shape o’er my brain
The Dems should never change
I’m in Hell
You’re so cruel
I’m so mad that I’m not cool
You know that everything was better in my day!
A bad writer
I’m a loser
Not a fighter
Got an egg shape o’er my brain
The Dems should never change
I’m in Hell
You’re so cruel
I’m so mad that I’m not cool
You know that everything was better in my day!
Reposted by Megan Carpentier
Some quotes are too good to cut
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May 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Some quotes are too good to cut
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It’s not the em-dash, it’s the em-dash without spaces (not WaPo style) and the fact that it’s not an en-dash (British variant). www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
May 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It’s not the em-dash, it’s the em-dash without spaces (not WaPo style) and the fact that it’s not an en-dash (British variant). www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The closest thing “the left” has to a Joe Rogan (if you define this as “influential talker” in general and aren’t reducing this to “man who other men will listen to”) is Rachel Maddow, who (like Rogan) got her start in entertainment (morning zoo radio) and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
May 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The closest thing “the left” has to a Joe Rogan (if you define this as “influential talker” in general and aren’t reducing this to “man who other men will listen to”) is Rachel Maddow, who (like Rogan) got her start in entertainment (morning zoo radio) and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
I had a client once who, every night, would follow porn stars and an implicit part of my job was to log in every morning and unfollow all the X-rated accounts. If I failed to do this, questions would be raised by him in meetings about why he was following these accounts and if he had been hacked.
IRS nominee Billy Long's X account recently followed a lot of XXX material. Team Trump insists he was hacked:
Team Trump Investigating Why IRS Nominee's X Account Followed Sexual Content
The Trump administration says it’s investigating why IRS nominee Billy Long’s X account follows a string of sexual accounts, suggesting he was hacked.
www.rollingstone.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I had a client once who, every night, would follow porn stars and an implicit part of my job was to log in every morning and unfollow all the X-rated accounts. If I failed to do this, questions would be raised by him in meetings about why he was following these accounts and if he had been hacked.
After talking to a lot of Trump voters at the 2017 inauguration and hearing them all repeat a few stock quotes from what I eventually realized was The Apprentice, I pitched my editor on a total rewatch but you couldn’t stream it, torrent it or even buy old DVDs of it on eBay until last month.
this is worth digging into. very nuanced analysis but my general takeaway is that Trump has a near mystical attraction for low-info, low-propensity voters catalist.us/whathappened...
WHAT HAPPENED IN 2024 | Catalist
AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Introduction Catalist’s What Happened reports offer a comprehensive voter-file based view of the electorate after every major presidential and midterm ele...
catalist.us
May 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
After talking to a lot of Trump voters at the 2017 inauguration and hearing them all repeat a few stock quotes from what I eventually realized was The Apprentice, I pitched my editor on a total rewatch but you couldn’t stream it, torrent it or even buy old DVDs of it on eBay until last month.