Yes, the plant is from EasyPlant.
No, I will not view this as negating the achievement.
Maggie Astor
@maggieastor.bsky.social
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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.
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We all need some wins, and today I'm proud to announce that for the first time in either of our lives, my husband and I have kept a houseplant alive long enough to have to repot it
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I am not being facetious when I say one of the single biggest improvements in my quality of life from leaving the politics desk is not having to watch and write about the Sunday shows anymore
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
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'Tariffs threaten to hit antibiotics particularly hard. The drugs have very thin profit margins, they are vulnerable to shortages and U.S. production is very limited. Other widely used and vulnerable antibiotics include ciprofloxacin and doxycycline.' www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/h...
Where Your Medicines Are Made
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if you're not from or have never been to new york i cannot stress enough how normal the subway is 99% of the time. kids take it to school. everyone is basically chill. you learn to be in proximity with harmless weirdos or minor irritations pretty quick. for all its issues it's an incredible thing
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Three of the words in today's 🐝 are not words and no dictionary you cite can convince me otherwise
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I HATE IT
my college kid was heartbroken when on the first day of class the professor said "I used to spend 3 weeks teaching this part, but just have AI create it for you and we'll skip it." Skipping the most creative part of the work. The part my kid most looked forward to.
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I wish I could give you a name or a public product, but it was the excellent NYT tech team that built our in-house CMS
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It feels like the OCD "did I turn off the oven?" thing — did I check that fact? I know I checked that fact. But there's no checkmark. Maybe I should check it again to be sure
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Our CMS has a feature for fact-checking — once you've confirmed a name/fact/quote/whatever, you hit a button to underline and put a checkmark next to it.
I'm fact-checking an interactive that had to be produced in a different CMS, and being unable to put a visual indicator as I go is tormenting me
