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Susan Rigetti

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I am having way too much fun in Antarctica

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

where is the goddamn vaccine for kids

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2 years

@blgtylr Yikes

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@fordm @Popehat This is the dumbest thing I have read in a really long time, and I just read that stupid NYT first amendment editorial

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2 years

“Astrology didn’t fall out of favor until the Enlightenment period” Hmmm I wonder why Maybe Google “the enlightenment”

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2 years

On having sexual assault in the new GoT series, the co-showrunner and director says: "You can’t ignore the violence that was perpetrated on women by men in that time." Ummm last I checked this is fantasy and you guys made the whole thing up, so...

‘House of the Dragon’ Won’t ‘Shy Away’ from Showcasing Sexual Assault

Co-showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik explained that "Game of Thrones" prequel series "House of the Dragon" will be NSFW.

www.indiewire.com

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

I told toddler we should go apple-picking and she asked if we can go Mac-and-cheese picking too

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2 years

d e r a n g e d

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

the svb collapse isn't something to joke about. tons of startups bank with svb and now won't have access to their money. employees at those companies could lose their jobs, not get paid. it's not about the vcs or the "rich" -- it's about the people who *indirectly* rely on svb.

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Instagram is full of “suggested” posts and has become basically unusable. I don’t want to see a ton of photos from people I don’t follow!

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

“So-called girlbosses” is such a misogynistic and belittling way to describe someone’s life and work.

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Emily Weiss, founder of Glossier and a face on the Mount Rushmore of start-up culture, will no longer be the beauty company’s CEO. She's the latest of the so-called girlbosses to step away from their creations, effectively marking the end of the archetype.

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

I have some very exciting news!

Susan Fowler Rigetti Joins Slate’s Future Tense as Its New Editor

She's a journalist, author, and screenwriter.

slate.com

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

2 years

This is deranged. Completely deranged.

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@POPSUGARUK

2 years

Dating app bios are full of "don't swipe right if you believe in star signs," or "astrology tattoos are a major ick," but what do cis men have against astrology?

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Let @calebsaysthings host the oscars

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

@rachsyme I am the only young Susan I know

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

I’ve said it a thousand times and I’ll say it again: we need Lucas Kunce in the Senate.

Lucas Kunce

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I've got a message for America's men about abortion.

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

@AlfredoAndere Either this is a very funny troll or you don’t know anything about engineering:

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Today is a very special day: Cover Story is now out in the world and available wherever books are sold!! I had so much fun writing this little book and I hope you have fun reading it, too ❤️

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

okay but really: the big tech giants are crumbling, and there's going to be a huge hole. there's no better time than right now to start building the internet, tech, and companies you wish existed.

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Today my daughter asked me: “when I’m a mommy, will I send emails or play with my kids?” Excuse me while I go feel like the worst mom ever 💔😭

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Awww look, I have been cast! @evavictor as me! 💞

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@Variety

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‘Super Pumped’: Uber Series at Showtime Adds Six to Cast (EXCLUSIVE)

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

substitute "svb" with the name of the bank that your employer uses to pay you, and i promise you'll find this a lot less funny

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

The only person who is allowed to say they did their own research on the vaccine is Dolly Parton.

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

@matthewstoller God you have to hope someone is looking into this 😳

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

Going to bed really broken hearted and not feeling hopeful about the future. At all. The pandemic. Texas. Climate change. It’s not looking good, folks.

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

I really took my free time for granted before having kids lol

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

Two things you should do today: 1. Vote NO on the recall 2. Update your iPhone

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

This morning, toddler told her baby brother “you got a friend in me”

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

What on earth is this ad

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

At first, I was annoyed by the metaverse because, frankly, it’s incredibly stupid. However, I’m starting to come around to it: What if we could get all the awful and insufferable people to spend all their time there, with headsets on, instead of here in the real world?

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

My daughter just walked into my office with her toy phone to her ear. She shushed me, then pointed to her phone and said, “I’m on a big call for work.”

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Everyone is moving on and acting like the pandemic is over and I’ve got a high risk unvaccinated kid I’m trying to protect

Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

2 years

where is the goddamn vaccine for kids

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

A big day for @rigetti 🎉🍾

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

The baby asked to try some sparkling water. He took one sip. “Yuck” Another sip. “Too spicy” And another one. “Don’t like it” He continued like this until he finished the whole thing lol

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

Sometimes I’m just sitting around doing my thing and it hits me: I’m 30 and I have two kids and I write for a living and how on earth did I manage to make this happen??!

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

One of my favorite things about kids is that everything is new to them. They haven’t heard the cheesy jokes before, they get to read books and watch movies and tv for the first time, and it’s just amazing to be part of that.

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

This is so cute (and such a great way to teach kids to program lol)

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@MaartenvSmeden

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This is why programming is an acquired skill

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

the idea that “the wealthy” is a negative label of some kind is beyond hilarious to me

APStylebook

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1 year

That is why we recommend avoiding general “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the wealthy, the disabled, the college-educated.

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

So…are everyone’s little kids just constantly sick with random colds or is it just mine?

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

3 years

which circle of hell is this

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@TheInsiderPaper

3 years

WATCH: Sneak Peek at Facebook metaverse

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Susan Rigetti

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2 months

It’s the new “pivot to video”

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@maxwelltani

2 months

AI is a major component of the Post's internal strategy announcement today. WaPo's chief tech officer told staff that going forward, the paper has to have "AI everywhere in our newsroom."

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

Ok so I ordered what I thought was a tiny Christmas tree ornament from the @MuseumModernArt store and got a giant white paper ball that is wider than my Christmas tree lol

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

2 years

The self own here is really something

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2 years

Taylor, if you want to keep this going we can. But I think if you think you and I go about journalism similarly, that’s surprising to me.

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

At long last, after combing through math textbooks until my eyes nearly popped out, here is my guide to learning math. Godspeed!

Math — Susan Rigetti

www.susanrigetti.com

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

2 months

One year ago, I nearly died in a horrible horseback riding accident. I had a broken collarbone and a brain injury so bad I couldn’t walk. When they brought me to the ER, nobody knew if I would ever walk again. Feeling lucky and thankful to still be alive, walking, and riding 🥳

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Can we talk about how “daddy long legs” is the best name for any insect and it’s a real name

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

2 years

If you’re a young reporter just getting started, follow Taylor’s example, not Maggie’s. Build your own beat. Work your ass off. Do good work. Be kind and wonderful to work with and a joy to know. Some people will envy you and be nasty but many more will look up to you.

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

Please, stop saying that SVB shouldn’t get a bailout. It *can’t* get a bailout — it was already shut down! SVB shareholders and investors already lost everything and had their investments wiped out. The open question is whether depositors will get their money back and when.

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Susan Rigetti

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10 months

Kindergartner confronted me today and asked me if I have been lying about paw patrol not working on our tv anymore

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

I was a self-educated teenager living in poverty. If not for standardized testing (specifically, the ACT), I never would have gotten into college. I never would have gone to college. The ACT made it possible for me to go to college. My ACT score got me a scholarship.

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

I keep seeing people tweeting about how much the NFT market is worth, as if that legitimizes it, and all I have to say is that at the height of its heyday, LuLaRoe was also worth billions.

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

First, whoever told her that this profile was a good idea was a really cruel person. Second, the truth is that ranking 23rd in your class and getting 1550 on your SAT is not 'extraordinary' and will not get you into an Ivy unless you have something else going for you.

The Wall Street Journal

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Kaitlyn Younger applied to five Ivy League schools, plus Stanford and Berkeley, with a 1550 on her SAT. None accepted her.

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

Preschooler made something really cool and unique with her toys. I asked her how she made it and she said, “I think it in my brain how to make it and then I can make it on my own, all by myself.”

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

Today I wore hoop earrings for the first time in many, many months, and couldn’t figure out why I hadn’t been wearing them. Then, this afternoon, the baby grabbed onto one and yanked it, and, I swear to god, my life flashed before my eyes.

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

I’ve seen multiple outlets downplaying Kanye’s tweets. Call it what it is: antisemitism. It’s not “language [that] users of the app criticized as being antisemitic” — it’s antisemitic, period!

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

3 years

What’s a good wine to pair with… *checks pantry*…Walmart sour gummy worms?

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

3 years

I just mailed in my ballot and voted NO on the recall. Please vote NO on the recall!!!!!!

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Preschooler was staring off into space, lost in thought, so I asked her what she was thinking about. “Oh, just rainbows, unicorns — stuff like that,” she said.

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Susan Rigetti

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9 months

i used to post on here and get an insane amount of likes, tweets from weird reply guys, and usually like one or two people complaining that my tweet was offensive to them and how dare i. but now i get none of that! this place is more dead than a kmart.

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

I spent my whole life preparing to be one of those moms that “has it all” aka has a successful work life while being a very involved parent but I did not prepare for trying to do that during a pandemic 🥲

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Now that I'm fencing and horseback riding regularly, I just need to add archery and a falcon to complete my training as a medieval knight

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

What would probably be useful to many people is a book about how to survive and thrive and find meaning and happiness even when you can’t just quit and do your dream job and have to work a job that may not be all that great

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

@jgownder @MollyJongFast The money is coming from the FDIC deposit insurance fund, not from taxpayers.

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

SVB was one of the largest banks in America. I worry that most people do not understand the gravity of the situation, and I also worry that the media is not doing a great job communicating about this when there are so many reporters out there tweeting complete nonsense.

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Every time I pick up a book, I’m basically chasing that high I got from reading books like Nancy Drew, The Hobbit, and the Saddle Club when I was a kid

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

The way I wanted to jump up and down and shout “this is my book! everyone look! I wrote this book!” 😂

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

3 years

So…what do other parents of very young children do on the weekends? (Tell me your secrets!)

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

3 years

This is so gross. What is wrong with these people 😵

Drew Harwell

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Facebook researchers here seem baffled that kids during playdates are actually talking with each other, as opposed to staring at their screens: "Is there a way to leverage playdates to drive word of hand/growth among kids?"

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

The preschooler offered to make me “look beautiful” for my meetings today. How could I say no?

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

This man is a fool. Imagine speaking like this to Garry Kasparov, who has put his life on the line multiple times opposing Putin.

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@Kasparov63 We gave Starlinks to Ukraine & lost $80M+ in doing so, while putting SpaceX & myself at serious risk of Russian cyberattack. What have you done besides tweet?

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

It is taking all of my self control to not throw away my 2022 reading list and read all of these instead 🔎

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Preschooler just threatened to put me in time out for not playing with her. “Mommy, I’m going to count to three, and if you don’t play with me by the time I get to 3, you have to go to your room all by yourself.”

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

Now whenever preschooler wants to know about something, she asks me to get her a book about it. “Get me a book about the moon.” “Get me a book about bones.” “Get me a book about brains.”

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

The media commentary failures around the Elizabeth Holmes trial are pretty depressing. It’s no wonder she was able to fool the media for so long. Good lord.

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

Daughter: “There’s no dinosaurs in our house, right?” Me: “Right.” Daughter: “But why not?”

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Susan Rigetti

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7 months

My funniest TIME Person of the Year memory is that I had no idea the photoshoot was for the Person of the Year issue and was shocked when I woke up that morning and it was on the cover. Nobody told me!

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

@chenchenwrites Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made.

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

The baby told me tonight that he’s no longer a baby. “But you’re my baby,” I said “No baby” “Okay, then what are you?” “Big” “You’re a big kid now?” “No. Big baby.”

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Susan Rigetti

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1 year

I don’t believe the UFO stuff for one simple reason: I can’t believe that Trump would keep his mouth shut about it if he had learned about it while in office

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2 years

Today, the preschooler gave me a big hug and said, “we’re becoming really good friends”

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3 years

I’m so glad I’m married to someone who doesn’t care about anything on the internet. One extremely online person is more than enough for a whole family. Can you imagine talking about this crap over the dinner table?

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

To everyone saying “vote”: we DID vote. That’s not the problem.

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Susan Rigetti

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3 years

Growing up, my friends who went to school would tell me all about the scholastic book fairs and I was so sad I had to miss out. Now that my daughter is in school and I get to order her books, I get to sort of live out my childhood book fair daydreams📚

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

1 year

I’ve found it really challenging to build back up my social circle after the pandemic. Any one else have the same issue? If so, how did you build it back up?

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

2 years

Now that my kiddo is getting older, I agonize over school rankings and curriculum quality and wonder how important it is for her to get the best possible education and then I remember I never had any of this and neither did many of the people I respect the most so… 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

2 years

why is this so funny to me

‘Girls Who Code’ Team Up With Tomahawk Missile Maker Raytheon

The defense manufacturer has partnered with the STEM oriented nonprofit to provide leadership and technical training to college students.

www.vice.com

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

2 years

Both kids have gotten one Pfizer shot 🎉 The Covid vaccine is safe, effective, and available now for everyone 6 months and older. Get it!!!

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Susan Rigetti

@susanthesquark

3 years

This. Does. Nothing. To. Stop. The. Spread. Of. Covid. And. Is. Probably. Dangerous.

32BJ SEIU /// #BuildingJustice 🧹✊🏽

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Our COVID-Busters are out in full force cleaning & disinfecting to make a safe return to the classroom possible. Good luck to all NYC students & staff on your first day back! #BacktoSchoolNYC

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Me, when the baby doesn’t want his bottle and pours the formula on the floor: “That is a 2022 Nutramigen! Do you have any idea how rare that is?!”

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Susan Rigetti

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2 years

I’m so proud of this incredible guy @ChadRigetti . You did it, baby!!! 😍🎉🍾

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2 years

We should go back to using Twitter as god intended it: as a public forum for customer service complaints.

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2 years

Preschooler made me “soup” in her toy kitchen. When I asked her for a second serving, she shook her head and said, “mommy, I think you’ve had enough”

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3 years

I shoulda bought a roomba ages ago. This thing is incredible. I feel like I’m living in the Jetsons universe.

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2 years

THIS BOOK

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2 years

Happy almost birthday to this sweet happy smiley boy, who loves hats and books and vegetables and bread and has the biggest heart. I love you little guy ❤️

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3 years

Me: “why are you crying?” Toddler, in between sobs: “I wish I could be a grandma”

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6 months

hello from antarctica 🇦🇶

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2 years

ah yes, the useless microservices! turn them off! what could possibly go wrong

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2 years

thankful for my family ❤️

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1 year

@chenchenwrites I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

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