Maggie Astor
@maggieastor
Reporter at The New York Times writing about the intersection of health and politics, especially in marginalized communities. NYT Guild steward. No, not one of those Astors.
tfw you're working on a story that involves summarizing a large body of research this is one of my seven tab groups
Unfortunately they didn't have the dark chocolate sorbet that is Sugar Hill Creamery's single best contribution to humanity, but this one's pretty good too
This is the button I've wanted all this time in Google. One goddamn button, clearly advertised the moment I open the app, to turn off ALL of the app's AI features.
I don't know why this was the last straw, but it was: I've swiped this away for days and it won't stop. Maybe there's a way to stop it in settings. But I'm tired of going hunting for a way to disable what I never asked for. I uninstalled Chrome and am dropping Google for search. I'm done.
Good morning, I'm watching the Fauci hearing www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
lol we have a slack channel where people can post about free food in the building, and someone posted about salad and these are the reactions
No. This isn't an accomplishment. If you haven't taken a sick day in 50 years, you've been some combo of: -incredibly lucky (never incapacitated or hospitalized) -incredibly reckless (jeopardizing your health when you should rest) -incredibly inconsiderate (you've absolutely gotten colleagues sick)
Nooooope and you know what, wordlebot — no, my third and fourth guesses weren't real words, but neither was the answer Wordle 1,852 5/6* 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I have a 610-day streak that would be a 1270-day streak if not for the Tech Guild strike, and I refuse to be defeated by whatever this fucking garbage is
(Not redacting because this is a 16-month-old puzzle from the archives) Doesn't this violate the rule about clue and answer tenses matching? Doesn't "completing" in the clue call for the answer to be "speedrunning"?
Who are the Connections testers and why do their difficulty ratings never bear any relation to how difficult mortal humans find it
Infuriating to finish an article in what I thought was a reputable local paper and see this at the bottom
Me seeing that Webster's New World College Dictionary, the preferred reference of NYT, wants me to say a baby is "waked" from a nap instead of "woken"
I was looking for news updates on the future of Doctor Who, and I'm just saying I think pre-enshittification Google could've handled that
TIL that when people ask my in-laws if they have grandkids, they say they have a grandcat
"My tab situation is completely under control," I say before my browser crashes and Chrome restores my tabs with all the minimized tab groups open
I don't know why this, of all things about online betting, was the thing to break me, but I simply cannot deal with the fact that people are placing actual money on a question this meaningless
No other person or entity in my entire life thinks I'm offline as much as the games app does. It's almost flattering.