Cara Michelle Smith

✌🏻 More or less bidding farewell to Twitter! I’m @carachute on IG & I’m a pretty chill follow. My brain is so happy I’m finally typing this sign-off. Why? Because this place is bad for brains. Happy Sunday, have a wonderful week, and protect your big beautiful brains! 🧠💚

Breaking my three-year twitter hiatus to say: if they run Buttigieg as the VP, all the campaign signs would be “HARRIS BUTTIGIEG” and we could spray paint them to say “HARRI BUTT”

If you’ve seen SKINAMARINK without fleeing the theater you would’ve been fine in Desert Storm

it’s all renaissance paintings tonight

fact: The Other Two is gay 30 Rock

BEHOLD: the cover for EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE, my disgusting debut essay collection from @deystreet! it’s packed with Y2K humiliation 💋 in fact, if you pre-order it *right now* + post your receipt, i will assign you one (1) humiliating Y2K moment harpercollins.com/products/every…

The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at Home Depot is 455:1. neverleave.substack.com/p/75-of-middle…

Making it a matter of public record that my wild card bet for the 2024 Democratic Presidential nominee is none other than Prince Harry

HOUSTON: The arctic blast arriving Thursday will be different than what hit in February 2021. It will present its own unique set of challenges including the possibility of a “flash freeze.” NOW is the time to prepare, and here are some thing you can do. A 🧵 1/

In lieu of racking up women & money like equally material possessions, @brckhmptn opted to explore their psyches as outcasts, addicts, mourners, and tough guys who didn’t always like their impulse to be tough guys | bit.ly/3V5nW4v 📷 by @lapommedeterre & @thisisminnow

@_BlackerMamba thank you king! the universal appeal of boobies is not lost on me! (yet another thing John & I have in common)

@caramichelles I did not know that you were queer. Congratulations!

I wrote about the complicated experience of being a woman & queer person who loves hip-hop, and how @brckhmptn carved out a joyful, saturated sanctuary in a genre that (at least in the mainstream) often doesn't love us back. 💛💛 For @floodmagazine: floodmagazine.com/123065/bidding…

a massive thanks to @lizzzzzielogan for helping me get this off the ground! 💫

so, she was forced to play in Russia because of systemic sexism. then, when she got imprisoned, nobody cared because of that same systemic sexism (and loads of racism & homophobia, ofc). my god. IT’S SO SHITTY!

even more disgusting is the reason Griner was in Russia: because so many women have to play overseas during their off-seasons because they make $0 playing basketball in the US.

THANK GODDDDD she’ll be coming home. the lack of national concern over her entrapment in Russia was so shitty though. imagine if Kevin Durant was imprisoned in Russia for 10 months? it’s all we’d talk about.

We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.

@jakeprizant_ these resolutions make so much sense, considering how much you talk about your “virility” and “muscled male progeny.” happy for you ❤️

New Years resolution on lock 😤😤

this is not a person vomiting — this is a person who loooooves broccolini & is eating it so quickly it hurts :(

@jenaesitzes this is heartbreaking. so happy your job's safe for now, but holy hell. sending you a big hug ❤️❤️❤️

to be clear, my job is safe for now — I'm just pissed at the way this industry chews people up and spits them back out, no matter how hard you work

Some of my fellow commerce team members were laid off today, by email, without warning, right before the holidays (but right *after* Black Friday, of course). And dozens of others across the company. This industry is fucking hell and my heart breaks for everyone affected