Sharon Steed 👩🏽‍💻

Ten years; lots of no’s; endless networking; huge doubts; countless red eyes in middle seats; and 100k words later: the smile of a woman who just sent the final pages of the completed manuscript of her first traditionally published book to her editor!🥹 “Leading with Empathy For Dummies” drops 9/29!

Remember a few years ago when you couldn't open your refrigerator without it playing that Sabrina Carpenter song "Espresso"? A simpler time.

I mean yeah

whoa

Scaramucci right now

A second cup of coffee. Because whats more America than vibrating with anxious doom while still be absolutely exhausted.

Is this. A fucking joke. ?!

So anyway I missed my domestic flight because I forgot my passport because I don't have a "real ID" and I'm both angry with myself for putting myself in this position and also angry with the government for putting me in this position

At 42, I’ve finally accepted that my favorite place to be - other than the gym - is at home. Not traveling to some fabulous country. Not at the new cool restaurant. Not at some gala or event. It’s at home on my couch with ice cold sparkling water, unlimited movie options and reliably good wine.

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This is so unbelievably cruel, and for absolutely no reason at all.

Somebody called Abdul El-Sayed "Mean Mamdani" and yes. It's perfect.

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my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

Dolly could have been a billionaire, and she chose not to be. Let that sink in.

Parton's legacy is proof that you can be a wealthy, powerful, genius who is kind and loved. The jerks at the top are like that by choice.

As a south sider, I am by default a White Sox fan. I went to a bunch of games when it was still Comiskey, and I have a soft spot for Frank Thomas. So I of course love all the "Pope Leo is a Sox fan!" stories. And fun fact: we grew up 15 minutes away from each other! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/b...

Jon Ossoff is like if Gavin Newsome wasn’t evil.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

resounding boos for that man lolololol

Clive Davis really did curate the soundtrack of my childhood, and I’m truly thankful for that. What I’ll remember him most for was continuing with his Grammy party while Whitney Houston’s still-warm dead body was upstairs. May he rest in hell.

“Parable of the Sower” fundamentally shifted how I viewed the world: specifically religion/spirituality and what community really is. A true masterpiece.

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

People who wear shorts on planes. People who are barefoot on planes. People who try fill their water bottle up in the bathroom on planes. People who drink the coffee made on planes. (A list of people I don’t understand on planes) (That last one is niche, look it up at your own risk)

Farmers are getting hammered by Trump’s erratic policies. And before we jump straight to FAFO, listen to this Wisconsin farmer. I’m not even sure he was ever a Trump voter. His analysis of the situation is smarter than most of what’s coming out of DC right now.

The airport is nature’s Adderall.

Hunter Biden spending his whole day every day on Twitter being like "I'm not a pedophile, I was smoking crack with ADULT hookers at the Super 8 outside of Newark, you guys have pictures of all of it INCLUDING my hog from My Leaked Stolen Laptop™" is a masterstroke. Should've done this years ago.

Chips and wine for dinner, it must be a travel day 🫩🫠

Officially at the "I can't tell if this is genius or nonsense propaganda" point of writing this book. Pray, saints.

Being a woman is struggling with fertility, being told you won’t have biological children, seeing other women announce their pregnancies, being angry sad frustrated spiteful, watching their updates a ball of nerves while holding your breath, and feeling immense joy to hear mama and baby are all good

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Hope this helps

Happy anniversary of this not happening

I truly don't care how bougie or expensive or colorful you make them, I will never want a fucking matcha. Please.

Booking hotels in NYC is crazy because is it a $400/night nice hotel with a decent wine list or is it a $400/night roach-infested nightmare shithole with bathrooms that haven't been updated since 2010?

The year is 1996. It's Christmas. You are 12 years old. And you get your first boom box and very first compact disc. That CD? New Edition "Home Again" Fast forward 30 (😵‍💫🙃🫨) years and, when you hear any of those songs randomly on Spotify, you will still know and sing every single word Life is good

Mamdani needs to have this team make movie poster-style subway ads with these quotes

Imagine being so evil that you force a church that was spawned from straight-up hate of another church to join forces and call out how evil you are. Crazy work.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.