using these as rewards for completing tasks

copyediting quizzes from the times

but also just being a person

April Ryan. Illustration: Lauren Tamaki. Courtesy of The Cut.

loved this bit from the cut’s interview with white house correspondent april ryan:

On diversity in political journalism:

All of it’s a big responsibility: being a woman, being African-American, but also just being a person. That’s why we need to have diversity in newsrooms, and particularly in that briefing room. I remember many years ago, George W. Bush said we need more minorities in there because you don’t hear a lot of the issues unless it’s coming from a person of a certain background. When you’re not at the table, you often don’t hear stories that are in your community. There are all these problems that have been percolating for a long time, and mainstream news organizations only deal with them when there’s a crescendo moment — the Trayvons, the Flints, the Katrinas. There are so many facets of America, and a lot of the American story is untold.

i always find this spelling disturbing

just no reason to add that h

this is a cool story and cool woman

Sheila Minor Huff, center left and partly obscured, was just beginning her career when she was photographed at the International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via The New York Times

discovered this twitter thread via the ny times cooking newsletter, about a writer trying to identify a person in a photograph taken at the 1971 International Conference on Biology of Whales. jacey fortin wrote about the quest, and the identified woman, sheila minor huff, for the times:

She [Huff] said she was not too bothered about going unnamed in the 1971 snapshot.

“It’s kind of like, no big deal,” she said. “When I try to do good, when I try and add back to this wonderful earth that we have, when I try to protect it, does it matter that anybody knows my name?”

letter of recommendation: pickled jalapeños

(image via walmart)

damn if they don’t improve so many snacks

spring break is so over

watching forgetting sarah marshall in the background while catching up on email and trying to eject myself back into school mode and start thinking about my two papers due this week and also work up the courage to work on my taxes. spring break is mos def over. also made this cake and rate it as pretty B-, the printout i had on the fridge for 5 months is going STRAIGHT to the recycle bin (raw feedback from one ny times cooking reader: “I was disappointed in this. Flavor was fine but the texture was too grainy and rough. Yes, firm enough for visiting indeed but even sturdy for a football field.”) also we watched the bill hader SNL and this sketch got me.

strong look

no idea where or who this is or WHEN even but it’s so good. via émilie richard.

tamborine

just watched chris rock’s tamborine: recommend. laughed so much at this:

I remember, right when my divorce was final, I was at a party and I saw Rihanna. I was like, “OK, let’s start this again.”

So, I’m at this party, I see Rihanna. I was like, “Ok, let me say what’s up.” Right?

And I’m like, “How you doing, Rihanna?”

[beat]

You ever forget how old you are? Rihanna looked at me like I was one of her aunts.

No follow-up questions!

from heather havrilesky’s conversation with daniel mallory ortberg on coming out as trans:

And then, I also became aware of gender dysphoria, I guess is the term for something I’d been experiencing without being conscious of what it was. In some ways it felt like a demon snuck into my room in the middle of the night and said, “What if you were kind of a guy?” and then just left and was like, “No follow-up questions!”

what the actual fuck