Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with ALS at 21 & given just 2 years to live. Not only did he defy the odds for 52 years, even as his body failed him, his mind soared. I hope his meeting with the Universe was beyond even his wildest imagining. 💜
It’s kinda wild seeing pics of so many police officers all over the USA wearing so much paramilitary gear they look like Robocops while some doctors in our hospitals are still wearing garbage bags for PPE.
I’m happy for Mr. Wordle. He made a game for his partner because she loved word games, then he shared it with all of us for nothing. Now he gets a million unexpected dollars. Because he loved someone!
So many messages telling those who are struggling to reach out. Fair enough, but part of what depression does is mutes your ability to reach. If you are NOT depressed & you see someone struggling, YOU reach out. If you don’t see someone who used to be around, YOU reach out.
@HBOMaxHelp
Dear Intern, I was using my desktop calendar to make a monthly note of when I started my menstrual period, but after several months I realized I was making that note on a calendar I shared with all of my colleagues company wide. I was 37 years old.
DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!
Saw a guy on the picket line & not to profile, clocked that he wasn’t a writer. Way too much swag. Turns out, he was an agent, mad that he was the only agent out there with us. I said, “Well, thank you for being here. It’s very cool of you.” He shrugged & said, “I love conflict.”
I got my son a SAD lamp because he lives in New England & his apartment doesn’t get a lot of natural light & he told me his cat taught herself how to turn it on & she has been using it a lot.
Saw a girl in a Ramones shirt & asked her to name her five favorite songs & she just looked at me & said nothing. Then her mom was like, “She’s 11 months old.”
One time backstage at Letterman, I dropped a glass coffee pot & it smashed in a million pieces & I said, “Oh my god, I’m such an idiot.” I did not know Charles Grodin was behind me & he said “Lots of people are going to call you an idiot in this business. Don’t be one of ‘em!”
Once in a writer’s room we jokingly tried to come up with the most heinous prank show ideas. My pitch was that we convinced people coming out of anesthesia after surgery that they’d been asleep for 30 years. This one actually might be meaner?
Jets co-owner Christopher Johnson says he will pay any fines his players might be subjected to as part of the NFL's new national anthem policy, per
@BobGlauber
My bag was pulled out to be hand examined at the airport. TSA agent: Ma’am, what is this? Me: It’s...a...thing, you put in the tub & it fizzes & um melts? TSA agent: Is it a bath bomb? Me: Well...I was trying not to say that word. 😬😬😬
Women, have you ever told a guy you know a story about another guy that they don’t know doing something that didn’t sit right with you only to have the guy you’re talking to start defending the guy that only exists in his mind because of the story you told him? Wild phenomenon.
I really wish Daft Punk had not told us they were splitting up. Just give a new guy the helmet & let us think everything is fine. I also wish my parents had worn helmets & done this. Maybe this is more of a conversation to have with a therapist.
It seems so clear to me that he read a bulletin that said “All Bahamas” & thought it said “Alabama.” And now we have to live through this ridiculousness. Sending love to everyone who is being affected by this hurricane while this goober tries to spin & save orange face.
I just saw a woman in a coffee shop writing a script on her laptop. She bit her pastry, smiled, tapped out a line, then giddily clapped for herself. I would never take her picture to share, sorry, but that’s the voyeuristic love story that gave me an extra life today.
Why do you keep asking your family members when they are going to get married or have kids? Why don’t you ask them what it’s like to do whatever they want & pee without anybody walking in? Single family members are like celebrities to me.
Maybe we could bring back “Pop Up Video” but it’s where the news show is fact-check by a team as it airs, then instantly or quickly, is rerun with fact-check bubbles. News networks, consider this my pitch. DO @ me!
I understand you can’t always fact check in the moment. (Although that one was a softball.) But I have a solution. If a mouthpiece goes on a show 3 times and tells a flagrant, demonstrable lie they are not ever invited back.
@calebsaysthings
One time an AirBnB lady asked me to keep an eye out for her cat & if I saw him, to catch him & bring him back in the house where I presumably was to cat sit him for the rest of my stay. Ma’am, I’m not here for a capture & rescue mission, I’m on a business trip.
To everyone who said, "Yeah, but Hillary will be a hawk," I want you to know I have procured a hawk. I have named her Hillary. And I'm training her to peck your faces off.
Ugh. I skipped lunch all throughout middle school because I was on the reduced payment program & they made us flash this pink laminated badge of shame. What bitter, cruel asshole would make this decision?
Am I wearing a Prince t-shirt? Yes. Was a man walking toward me in Grand Central also wearing a Prince t-shirt? Yes. Did we high-five as we passed each other? Yes.
Everybody on Facebook is bragging about what colleges their kids got into. I mean, I guess that’s fine? But tonight my son made dinner. And dinner was nachos. You can’t learn those kind of instincts, it’s a gift.
How many popular songs from, say, 1950 until now, are an adult man singing his creepy thoughts about a teenage girl? Like, 80%? If you told me there was a song called, “If There’s Grass on the Field, and We’re Gonna Play Ball” that was a hit in 1965, I’d believe you.
Seeing so much, “What about the man’s rights?” surrounding the abortion debate. He’s got rights. He’s got the right to not have sex. Any man who is anti-abortion should exercise his rights by abstaining immediately, completely & indefinitely.
So many songs about partying all night, being up all night. We need more songs about leaving at a reasonable time & getting 8 hours of sleep. We need songs about how there was gonna be a party but nobody could agree on a date so there’s been an indefinite rain check.
Do we really think “take her out” meant he wanted her fired? Like, he’s definitely familiar with the word “fired” & never hesitates to use it. Seems weird that he wouldn’t just say “fire her” if that’s what he meant? I’m not trying to start shit. I wouldn’t want to get “fired.”
Any journalist saying Michelle Wolf attacked Sarah Huckabee Sanders for her looks is not a very good journalist. Lordy, there are tapes! You just outed yourself as someone unable to relay basic, fresh-from-the-oven facts!
@VanityFair
Six New Year’s Resolutions for Vanity Fair’s Hive Editors: 1) Don’t make videos on Ambien 2) Show some fucking respect to the 1st female Presidential nominee of a major political party & the former 1st lady & Secretary of State 3) Learn what funny is 4) Fuck off 5) see 4 6) see 5
Please know that I am the kind of person who wants to consume what is on HBOMax, but am reluctant to switch from Roku because I would miss the silent purple scrolling fictional cityscape screensaver, which is truly my favorite TV show & what I watch most.
@MarkHarrisNYC
I got a gift card to go to a fancy spa in NYC & felt like a fish out of water. This very regal older woman made conversation with me as we sat in our robes & put me at ease. Then she chewed through several pieces of decorative potpourri from a bowl on the table & I said nothing.
My Facebook timeline is literally just people asking for advice on what they should consume. Podcasts. Sock brands. Juice. These are minor decisions, folks. Pick up a juice & see what you think. If it doesn’t work out, God willing, you can start over. You can rebuild.
This is not a subtweet, I'm speaking directly to those who fill a dirty pot or dish with soapy water to "soak" saying you're gonna come back & wash it later. You're a liar. You lie to yourself & you lie to anyone you live with. You're never gonna wash that dish.
Seen some guy friends saying they don’t know how to feel about the Louis CK thing. Might I suggest feeling terrible for his victims? I think that’s the best feeling for the occasion.
I don’t even have the energy to joke about Jeffrey Toobin. I’m tired from decades of concealing tampons to not make anyone feel weird. Could my energy have been replenished by eating a banana? WE’LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE I WOULDN’T FUCKING DARE!
You guys are not gonna believe this, but I remembered to cancel an account I was no longer using BEFORE I was billed for it! I assume I'll be nominated for some type of genius award?
I was in the audience on this night, nominated for an award I don’t think I won? I honestly can’t remember. But I will never forget this & I think of it, truly, at least once a week & I always take ten seconds to think about people who have made a difference in my life.
P.S. I want to say if someone you know died by suicide, it is not your fault. It is depression’s fault. I just want us to remember, if someone is on the side of the road with 4 flats, we shouldn’t drive by b/c we’re not the tow truck. We can all do something if we see something.
@gawdiemuva
@jaimetoons
She escalated it by not minding her own business in the first place. She went to confront him. And she called him a liar while apparently lying herself. Why should she be coddled?
Buy Plan B. It has a shelf life of four years. Hang onto it & live your life so that girls & women know you are the kind of person who would stock up on Plan B & that they can come to you if they need it.
It can be kind of scary to a regular person who thinks they don’t know what to do. It is certainly awkward as hell. Who cares, though? Ask, “Are you ok?” Say, “I am worried about you.” Ask, “Can I get in touch with someone for you?” Even here on Twitter. Don’t mind your business.
I asked Aidan Cook, an animal rights activist who jumped onstage to interrupt Kamala Harris, if he had considered the optics of literally taking the microphone away from women of color.
“I did,” he said. “I tried to show my profound respect for each of the people onstage.”
Kyrsten Sinema is like an Adam West-era Batman villain. “I am wearing a bright, quirky costume & gleefully doing a bad thing in front of cameras for no apparent reason! FILM ME AT A DUTCH ANGLE!”
I know people still love him. Can...can someone, ANYONE, make him stop doing this? The median income for Trump voters in the primary was $72K. The real reason they voted for him has been proved time & time again. It ain’t economic insecurity.
@evepeyser
@BernieSanders
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@BernieSanders
: "I think that the vast majority of Trump supporters are people who are in pain, who are struggling economically… and they turned to Trump because Trump said things that made sense.”
The worst thing that could happen if you overstepped in your genuine concern is so much less bad than the worst thing that could happen if you didn’t. It is our duty to try for each other. And if you want to say something but you’re scared, ping me. I’m always here.
Marie Kondo never said get rid of everything, btw. She literally gives you permission not to hoard those items that no longer serve or make you happy by voicing gratitude/passing them on. Maybe if you tidied your drawers your panties would stop being in knots over her?
Caucuses are voter suppression & people with jobs, or people who need childcare, or people who are elderly, or confined to wheelchairs shouldn’t have to show up to a weird competitive pep rally at a certain hour to get in formation & scream the loudest for their vote. It’s dumb.
Health care has consistently polled as the No. 1 issue voters care about in Iowa.
With the caucuses less than 72 hours away, voters have to decide not just which candidate to back — but what health care should look like in the future.
Hearing that Jeffrey Epstein was arrested made me unexpectedly emotional. I feel like many of us just really need to see someone held accountable for what they have done. He’s a good start.
Remember when Paul Ryan lied about how fast he ran that marathon? Remember when he pretended to wash those dishes that were already clean for a photo op? Never forget that he is a petty image-obsessed worm.