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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 23h

The best assignment of the year—Good Housekeeping's Best Toy Awards—is live! 🎉 According to our 370 kid testers, these are the toys everyone's going to want this year. www.goodhousekeeping.com/what-to-buy/...

goodhousekeeping.com

These Are the Toys Everyone Will Be Talking About This Year

Parents, kids, and Good Housekeeping Institute experts put this year's biggest toys to the test to find the most fun, innovative, and well-made picks.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No music-recommendation algorithm has ever understood that I really, really love The White Stripes and I really, really don't like The Black Keys. How can AI make infinite music for me when it can't tell something that sucks from something that doesn't?

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It should be a law that if your movie is divided into chapters, you have to say up front how many chapters there are. Are we doing three? Five? The movie I just came out of had seven.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday Scaries vibe is strong at the Holiday Inn Express free hot breakfast close to the Olivia Rodrigo show. Everyone wearing their tour shirts and looking sad.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The rain and wind has picked up in Hartford. Strength to the fans Olivia Rodrigo fans waiting outside in the rain in their babydoll dresses.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Back in the news. This works...for now.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes I wonder about what it would have been like if I married someone who didn't love They Might Be Giants as much as I do. Then I remember I'm married to @rockmarooned.bsky.social. In any case, here's his interview with the Johns! www.pastemagazine.com/music/they-m...

pastemagazine.com

They Might Be Giants unpack their weirdest myths and obsessions

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is not paywalls, fyi - this chart looks roughly the same for sites that have had paywalls since long before 2022. this is all former SEO traffic that has now vanished in exchange for ai search summaries

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You're not allowed to say, "Oh, I forgot X TV show!" about your NY Times TV list without saying which show you'd kick off to fit it in—sorry, them's the rules.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just came out of this movie and it was great, even though I was tense the whole time.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So glad I got to vote for @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social for @wgaeast.bsky.social council! When he was co-chair of our union at Hearst, he showed how it was possible to lead with kindness.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm at the Sleater-Kinney/Liz Phair show in Prospect Park and I swear every single person I ever met or even knew about when I was young & going to shows is here, and all of us are old now, and there is no way to make this sound sincere but I really do mean it: my god we all look so much better now

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Saw Practical Magic 2 with my daughter, as you're supposed to do. On the way home, we thought of all the ways we'd practically use magic OTHER than just stirring things.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh is this Lizzie Borden TV show scoring historical events to contemporary music? How edgy.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I still can't believe this was on NBC in primetime.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jesse would take E to ~almost~ anything she asks (Heathers, Suicide Squad 2, and Hazbin Hotel have been the only hard-nos so far), but he was a lot more evenhanded when it came to Resident Evil. www.vulture.com/article/can-...

vulture.com

Can I Take My Kid to See Resident Evil?

I mean, no — unless you’ve got a horror kid.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A Pepsi ad comes on scored to the fun, "do do do" part of "Semi-Charmed Life." Me, to E: This song is about doing drugs.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? Can't wait until we get to this one in the #HannibalRewatch

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I didn't realize until last night I had no idea what she actually looked like. This was my only mental image.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have to say, I liked The Family Stone enough when I saw it, but in the years since I have never once wondered what the characters were up to. Time for some new ideas, Hollywood.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On last night's Disenchantment we got to Lucie in a barrister's wig 😍😍😍

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The start of middle school has unlocked a new kind of Dad Mode in Jesse...BusTime Dad. Always keeping an eye on the time until the next bus/how many people are on the next bus, the way Weather Dads check the radar.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My kid is actually on her way to school! NYC public school parents, you made it!

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since school STILL hasn't started for E yet (😭), Jesse made her a list of things to do today. She took the list and said, "I'm going to ChatGPT-ify it!" and just drew random underlines, squiggles, boxes around text, and icons next to everything.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In lefty spaces, there are often a lot of abstract paeans to unions on Labor, but since most people don't actually belong to a union, it often feels like a platitude more than a lived reality. But I am in a union: Writer's Guild of America East. I'm also one of two union stewards at Salon.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day! I love being in a union.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The pre-play/intermission soundtrack at Paranormal Activity is a whole mood. Cherub Rock!

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Standing in Duane Reade trying to describe to the 10yo what the Virgin Megastore was like, and she is NOT getting the vision!

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The place where we went on vacation had a soft serve shop that had teeny-tiny ice cream cones. They called the size a "baby baby," I think to shame people into getting the next size up out of embarrassment, but I cannot be shamed. I dream of walking the streets of Brooklyn with a baby baby in hand.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I know I'm biased but how good does this look?

A row of tiles for four different Good Housekeeping stories: What to Consider Before Buying a Game, What Even Is an Educational Video Game, Why Video Game Are Actually Good for Kids, Best Parent-Approved Console Games. The art looks cute and pixelated like an 8-bit game.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At the Jellycat Diner experience in FAO Schwarz, and it's definitely the earliest in the morning I've heard a sing-along to "Good Luck, Babe."

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Bennett Morrison @bennettmorrison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As someone who grew up gaming, this article hit home for me. I played turned-based strategy games, and joke that it is still how I work. Now, I watch my young child learn through puzzle and resource allocation video games (!), so, yeah. Gaming can be pretty great. Thank you @martogo.bsky.social

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's video game week at GH, and so far this was my favorite story to write this year. I set out hoping researchers would make me feel OK about the amount of time I let my kid play video games. I left thinking that, actually, we should ENCOURAGE kids to play. www.goodhousekeeping.com/relationship...

goodhousekeeping.com

The Research-Backed Reasons I'm Fine With My Kid Playing Video Games

We should be looking at video games as something that’s actually good for our kids.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I think I've lived my life right because people know to text me when they overhear other people talking about the ube pizza at Pizza Moon in Epic Universe. 🍕🌝💜

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kuromi really has more of a Battra vibe than a Mechagodzilla vibe.

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Why am I cursed to have the Jevil battle music stuck in my head when my kid isn't even here?! (Chaos! Chaos!)

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Whisper Man has a particularly bad case of "this kid is somewhere between the ages of 4 and 8."

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Now that I am one day back from my summer vacation, I need it to be fall NOW. 🎃🍂

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Now having exhausted The Simpsons, Futurama, and Bob's Burgers, the 10yo has moved on to Disenchantment, and ever since she watched this episode I will NOT stop saying this every time I have a sweet.

Elfo is in a cage, and when Bean asks him what he's doing there, he says, "Having a cookie, making bloooooood."

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Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

really sad. we all know celebrity deaths come in 3s. or is it 2 +1 +1

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I percieve anyone who posts a back-to-school photo before my child goes back to school—15 whole days from now, btw—as just bragging. 😆

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Marisa LaScala @martogo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In addition to all the other good stuff she did (and BECAUSE of all the good stuff she did), Dolly Parton was also the first and only person to hold the Good Housekeeping Seal. RIP to a real one.

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