Christina Roman

@AnInvitation I would join TikTok just to follow your account! Always so insightful

@kneadtotalk Long walks and looking for birds

How did you get through the darkest times of your life?

@PeterTMcKenzie @TinaBrownLM @aagalloni @stecklow @Reuters Ah congratulations!

So grateful to @TinaBrownLM @aagalloni @stecklow and many others for this unbelievable chance to work with and learn from @Reuters world-leading investigative team in 2025. In a tough landscape for young journalists, it’s a miracle of an opportunity. 1/3

This might be my favorite fake citation example ever. Now that “cite your sources” has become more mainstream, the creativity (especially in wellness spaces) to provide citations both tickles and horrifies me

@cat88966620 @klhicks912 Hahaha I need a break but I’ll check it out. The writing was good in the beginning, which made the content and choices so much more disappointing

@ActingLikeRoman @klhicks912 I did not force myself to finish this one. To Paradise (same author) mesmerized me.

Are there any books you regret having read? If yes, then why?

@AffordAnything I think it demonstrates that she was looking for a good VP to govern and not just a good VP to win! I was surprised too, but like the choice the more I learn.

Minnesota? Two great swing state candidates and she picked Minnesota?

Two of the best!

@RowanBrightonB A surprised/stuccato/sharp exhale. “Ha” for vocalized. Hiccuped as a verb (slightly more surprised/positive connotations.) Silly descriptive sounds like piff turned into a word.

Anyone got a good word for that little sniff laugh you do when something is only kind of funny? My characters really can't keep "snorting" this much.

@EthanMidkiff Try communicating desired outcome instead of or in addition to individual tasks. I notice this is a big disconnect in communication between folks w/ different ways of thinking Easier if you understand *why* something needs to be done xyz way and *how* it fits into the end goal

16 yr old working for me this summer invited Ash and I to a BBQ today, So we went. I’ve struggled with this kid this summer. He’s always on time, and he’ll bust ass when we need to, but he struggles a lot of days with staying on task, and I redo much of what he does some days

@EthanMidkiff Lots of folks mentioning this: sounds like neurodivergent struggle. Being smart and capable but being told you’re “doing it wrong” and therefore given less opportunity takes the drive out of a kid so fast :/ But given a clear challenge and a chance?!

@JenLouiseWilson It’s cruel to not name although I have ideas

Lmao everyone in my DMs guessing correctly!

Reading a much lauded book that is so terrible, I feel disconnected from my life and everyone in it. How is it possible that I am surrounded by people who can enjoy something so false, hollow and self-involved? I want to fake my own death and leave New York, it's so bad.

@JenLouiseWilson You know how all self help books are mostly the same but they sell well because if someone reads the right message at the right moment for them it feels revelatory? It doesn’t matter the quality of the book or the depth of the advice. I think some books are like that too.

@APompliano @TheMindBrew This study isn’t about heteronormativity and says nothing about a mother and father together. Notice the graph says “intact” as the first structure. It is about support networks. Don’t push agendas by bending data

Young men are more likely to go to jail than graduate college if they grow up in a household without their mother and father together.

@TheMindBrew @clairezagorski Citing c sections as the cause of difficult childbirth is a wild choice. As with the rest of your list, the tiny grains of truth are lost in the radically incorrect framing pushed by wellness conspiracy and not science

@clairezagorski I think much of your points are due to what we have been doing to our bodies. Eating habits have changed jaw shape, increased c section or poor gut microbiome/oversterilization lead to more allergies, etc.. dental infections are serious=pain as body’s red flag.

@pschofie79 Academic articles? Textbooks? Non fiction books? Novels? Recent novels or older texts? What’s the level of comprehension you are hoping to achieve? Page-count-as-progress is useful on an individual level (as in personal writing and reading goals) and silly as a general marker.

Hey, how many pages do you think a college student should read in a week? I say 600.

@irinibus Haha maybe for those seemingly intimidating books! Ease the initial worry until curiosity takes over I never had a professor assigning audio either, but leaning in to tech instead of away is interesting. (I always thought critiquing an AI summary would be a great assignment.)

@irinibus Awesome! I still remember the opening of the Canterbury Tales from *high school* because of a class exercise like this. Plus the musicality is hard to read and easy to hear!

@irinibus Also, it seems there is a shift in work satisfaction that understanding “why” is important beyond simple requirement. You may already do this, but I wonder if providing explicit reasons for why each text is selected and what you hope they absorb/consider would provide that?

@irinibus Definitely troubling! Anecdotal and offered only in case it sparks ideas: I struggled post pandemic and found that audio books were a great tool for a “first pass” that allowed me to consider big themes first and then return to sections that sparked curiosity for closer reading