Olivia Carville
@livcarville
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Investigative reporter for @business ; feature writer for @BW . President of @NYFWA . Adjunct Prof @Columbiajourn . Kiwi 🥝
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Days before my
@BW
cover story on sextortion dropped, Meta rolled out a new feature: automatically blurring nude photos shared by minors.
And that’s a (pre-pub impact) move I hope all other social media platforms follow…
🎁 link here:
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Some fun facts:
- BTS is the most tweeted about band on Earth
- Buying power of their fans is unparalleled: They sell out anything the band touches, even a global supply of fabric softener
- Latest hit song is expected to pull in $1.4b for SK's economy
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The cousins who own the sole Covid swab manufacturer in the U.S. hate each other so much they refuse to speak. White House officials asked them to set aside their quarrel to save the country.
My latest about an epic family feud that threatened us all:
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This story was frightening to report for many reasons. Like: The Mexican villa Lauren was attacked in -- which was permanently banned by Airbnb after her death in 2018 -- popped back up on the platform this year.
You could rent it for $800 a night.
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Lauren Kassirer was attacked in an Airbnb rental on the Yucatan Peninsula three years ago this week.
Her mysterious death was never made public. And her family says that's because they got caught up in an Airbnb "damage-control campaign."
via
@BW
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Four years ago I moved to the U.S. with the hopes of becoming an investigative business journalist. Upon graduating from
@columbiajourn
, I was told by a male recruiter that it would take a decade to get there. It didn't.
Today I'm joining Bloomberg's investigations team in NYC💫
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Terrifying scenes from Auckland’s flood being live-streamed on TikTok. Airport, highways, supermarkets closed 🤯
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Just overheard an 8-y-o girl on the subway in NYC: “Her name is Jacinta & she’s the boss of the whole NZ place.” Power to you
@jacindaardern
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Since Lauren Kassirer's death in July 2018, two other U.S. women have been allegedly raped in Airbnb rentals in Mexico.
The three cases have haunting similarities: They were all traveling alone, no one has ever been charged and the attacks have never been made public.
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The Amazon will soon become a savanna rather than a rainforest. As many as 10,000 species may be at risk of dying off -- and this stellar investigation by
@jessicavbrice
reveals Brazil's government is fanning the flames of deforestation
via
@BW
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Hospitals are not only threatening to fire staff for talking to the press, they are gagging them from posting on social media and reprimanding them for sending internal emails questioning safety protocols. With
@kristenvbrown
+
@emmarcourt
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Fun fact: To report this story out, we had to fight for access to the legal documents in court. The entire case file was sealed after Puritan received $75 million from the government. That's likely why this story had never been told before
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My latest
@BW
cover story on the dark side of Airbnb. Violent crimes. Multi-million payouts. Forced arbitration. Here's how Airbnb makes nightmares disappear:
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A young tourist raped at knifepoint near Times Square and a $7 million payout.
My latest for
@BW
: What happens inside Airbnb when stays go horribly wrong and the safety team's internal struggles over lavish payouts and a culture of silence.
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🚨 Every day, 30 million kids (under 13) play on Roblox. And the internet's biggest playground is drawing in predators.
@cecianasta
and I spent months tracking police arrests linked to the platform for
@BW
via
@BW
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Update: Made it home to
#NZ
🇳🇿. Mum was waiting in the terminal, like she always does. But this time I was years overdue. I dropped my bags and we just hugged & cried for a full five minutes.
Heart goes out to all those who have been separated for far too long 🤍
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After 2.5 years of pandemic lockdowns, canceled flights and closed borders… I AM GOING HOME 💫
#NZ
🇳🇿 bound and so, so happy about it. Will 💯 be one of those people clapping on touchdown
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Two physicians -- who originally wanted to share their fears over
#COVID19
, who wanted to warn other cities of what's to come, who wanted to urge young people to stay inside -- are now too scared to talk as hospitals fire staff that speak to the press
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“Death is a gift”
“The perfect ending”
“I wanna die”
I spent hours watching videos like this on the TikTok account of a NY teen who killed himself last year. It shows the platform can't stop its algorithm pushing suicide content to kids
via
@BW
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For all those wondering if Silicon Valley elite have descended to their underground bunkers in New Zealand -- I did some research.
And yes, it appears
#COVID19
has unlocked a few bunkers for the first time:
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While studying my master’s at
@columbiajourn
, I spent months helping
@andrewrsorkin
track how mass shooters purchased their weapons. We found 62% of the deadliest shootings were financed by credit in this epic
@nytimes
investigation
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An
@AustinCarr
byline is always worth the read.
His latest for
@BW
's Heist Issue is a made-for-Hollywood tale of a junior Microsoft engineer who stole $10 million worth of Xbox gift cards
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Every 67 hours a young person in New Zealand takes their life. It's time to talk.
#breakthesilence
via
@nzherald
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New
@BW
cover story: At least 15 children died trying an online dare last year. Most saw it on TikTok.
The world's most popular app knows it can do more to protect kids. So why isn't it?
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Wasn’t going for “dogged AF”, but I’ll take it… 💁🏼♀️
Sourcing is a numbers game. And sometimes the numbers are ugly👇🏻
#ire24
This woman is dogged AF!!!
@livcarville
talks about reaching out to 1200 people only to find 8 who will talk to her, for investigations into Airbnb, TikTok etc. Businesses are so hard to penetrate, which means her findings are all the more impressive
#ire24
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With this email, it's become official: I'm soon-to-be bound for New York & a Masters degree at
@columbiajourn
Graduate School of Journalism
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Hello. I’m the latest addition to Bloomberg’s wealth team in New York City. I’ll be covering how fortunes are made, nurtured and lost in America and around the world. Say g’day, wish me luck or send me tips at: ocarville1
@bloomberg
.net
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Highlight of the trip so far: When some guy in a bar told
@kirsty_johnston
she was “really good at speaking English” after she said we were from New Zealand 👏🏼
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A huge honour to win Best Investigation & Editorial Campaign of the Year at the
#Voyagermediaawards
for a project that meant so much to me and really changed things. Thank you to the families who helped us Break the Silence. This award belongs to them.
@nzherald
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🥳, thank you
@Bagehots
,
@columbiajourn
.
Proud to be recognized as not only WERT’s business journalist of the year, but as it’s *female* business journalist of the year
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After being locked out of New Zealand for two years it’s hard to describe the level of joy I felt buying a stupidly expensive 25-hour flight home today 🇳🇿 🤍
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After a year of sleep deprivation, thesis angst and corporate finance torture, I’ve emerged with a master’s of business reporting from
@columbiajourn
and an outstanding financial journalist award. Looking forward to the next step: making use of it all at Bloomberg
@business
!
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Standfirst in Chicago Sun Times calls the All Blacks a "legendary Aussie team". Epic fail.
http://t.co/blvH4pSTVC
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NEW: Borders are closed, immigration offices are shuttered and a quarter million H-1B workers are about to lose their legal right to stay in the US. Gulp. via
@business
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🧵 On NYE 2020, a group of teens from the same Long Island high school discovered they’d become victims of violent deepfake porn.
That’s where our story starts. But it twists and turns in so many unexpected ways..
Read my latest in
@BW
with
@MargiMurphy
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Tonight’s
#FinancialFollies
highlight reel included a
@CNBC
reporter vox-popping people in Times Square.
Reporter: “What does Nasdaq stand for?”
Random guy: “Oh god. I worked on Wall Street for 15 years and still have no idea.”
Solid gold 🏆
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I think we’ve all got that *one reporter* we’d love the chance to work with and learn from.
For me, that’s always been
@bykenarmstrong
. I’ve been quietly obsessing over his narratives for over a decade, from newsrooms in 🇳🇿, 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸
So holy moly am I excited about this 👇🏻
I've got a new job.
Thrilled to be joining
@business
; grateful for my years
@propublica
; lucky to keep doing what I love (reporting) while adding new things I love (coaching & editing). Hoping to keep my one and only suit in the closet.
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🚨My
@BW
investigation on Airbnb’s elite safety team that cleans up after vacations turn into nightmares is on its way to the screens...
Thrilled to be working with
@scoutprod
&
@WME
to bring this story to life.
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Fifth anniversary of living in the U.S. and the *best* gift arrived in the mail: my green card! 🇺🇸
Still an American Alien — but one with resident status now 👽 ✅
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And the Prime Minister's wife is on the board of the "new preferred supplier" that won the now $1.4 million dollar contract. (More soon)
Govt axed $800,000 Lifeline suicide prevention training contract earlier this year
#BreaktheSilence
@nzherald
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Well folks, that’s a 💥 pop 💥
Airbnb opened at $146 a share, a 121% increase from its $68 IPO price. And it’s now rallying.
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🚨 SCOOP: Dozens of kids have died in the US from fentanyl poisoning after buying fake pills via Snapchat.
The FBI is now questioning the app’s role in these deaths, with
@JasonLeopold
+
@m_ccuri
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Life update: My US visa has been approved and I'm now an 'alien of extraordinary ability'! HUGE thank you to
@business
&
@technology
for all your support. And forever grateful for my legendary referees:
@andrewrsorkin
,
@JimNeff4
,
@_kevindonovan
,
@brianmrosenthal
,
@ShayneCurrieNZH
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And I was afraid business reporting wouldn’t be a sexy enough topic to draw a crowd…
Thanks to everyone who turned up for the art of business investigations 🙌🏻
@IRE_NICAR
Full house for our “Art of the Business Investigation” panel with
@oliviacarville
@janesasseen
#IRE24
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Trump's latest order has separated families & locked out thousands of people who call the U.S. home.
Including: A scientist studying Covid, an IT worker who may miss the birth of his child, a (U.S.-born) 2-y-o girl who is allergic to mosquitos in India
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The people of Jersey City have spoken -- and they want stricter short-term rental regulations. Early results show about 70% voted in favor of new home-share rules. Big loss for Airbnb tonight; big win for
@StevenFulop
& hotel industry. More soon.
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@buttman5000
The swabs are highly specialized devices requiring precise manufacturing in proprietary machines to meet the strict regulatory requirements of hospitals. No other companies could quickly step in. But a few are making nasal swabs today, like U.S. Cotton
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This story is particularly significant because Minister Coleman has refused to speak to me on this exact issue for months
#breakthesilence
'We have got to do things differently': says Health Minister Coleman on NZ suicide rate
#Breakthesilence
@nzherald
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Thousands are stranded outside the U.S. after Trump's H-1B decree. Like Mili Widhani Khatter, who hasn’t seen her children in four months. Her 2-year-old son has forgotten how to say “mama” since they’ve been apart, w
@sbanjo
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Murray Cox of
@InsideAirbnb
goes to war with
@Airbnb
every day. They say his data is "garbage." He says they are "an obnoxious multibillion-dollar corporation that thinks they are changing the world." Read this and decide for yourself:
via
@technology
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Diana & Carlos Aguilar (married 35 years) were both infected with
#Covid
-19. Both intubated. Both extubated.
This miraculous survival story serves as a reminder of the recovery hell that awaits the lucky few who make it off a ventilator alive, w
@faycortez
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Hundreds of Google employees stream out of the Hudson River Park to protest the
#GoogleWalkout
— including a women dressed as a unicorn 🦄
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Leaving
@IRE_NICAR
inspired, excited and grateful.
Thanks to the masters of the craft for sharing your tips, tools, tricks and collective wisdom with us all 🙏🏻
#ire24
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Readers asked to lift the paywall on our Roblox investigation so it could become a PSA for all parents.
Happy to report
@cecianasta
and I’s deep-dive is now available for free on
@business
👇🏻
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It's hard to read the final moments of Jordan DeMay's life. But we all should.
Because kids are dying.
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IBM has fired as many as 100,000 employees in the last few years in a bid to boost its appeal to millennials and become as "cool" and "trendy" as Google and Amazon via
@business
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My Nan lives in a retirement complex in Mount Maunganui and has never travelled further than Australia.
Tonight she gave me a surprise call - via Facebook messenger👏🏼- to say she’s booked flights to the US to come see me!
She’s very excited about the hamburgers 🍔 🇺🇸
#queen
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We've published 57 stories over 5 weeks for
#BreaktheSilence
.
For the 58th, the Health Minister breaks his silence:
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"He took away my sense of self.. I didn't know who I was anymore."
For my latest in
@BW
, I spoke to Maggie Kehring, an elite rider who was groomed into a sexual relationship by her Olympic coach. He was 61. She was 17.
Watch the full doc here:
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My U.S. reporting career started out attending 'How does Congress work' events at the library and asking dumb questions like what does 'background' mean. Thanks for persevering with me,
@technology
. Thanks for sponsoring my visa,
@business
. Thanks for taking me on, I-team 🙏
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TBC: The FBI is not investigating
@Snapchat
. The FBI is examining Snap’s “role” in the deadly fentanyl crisis.
A small but critical difference that did not make it into
@TODAYshow
’s follow. We didn’t get a credit, but we did break the story — based on multiple sources, fwiw
FBI investigating
@Snapchat
. Attention Parents: watch this, know about this, talk with your kids. I have. So many times that my kids are sick of hearing it. One pill can kill. Take NO pill that is not from a pharmacy.
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🚨Personal news 🚨
Dog-sitting for a colleague and every couch cushion has been successfully napped upon.
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Pretty damn proud to see the
@nzherald
’s
#BreaktheSilence
campaign recognised alongside the best investigative journalism in the world at this year’s
@IRE_NICAR
awards for challenging NZ’s suicide policies and “questioning the rationale behind a culture of silence.”
Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2017 IRE Awards!
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Cannot wait for the next chapter, but will be forever grateful for my three-year stint on Bloomberg's
@technology
team🤍 We've got some of the best reporters and editors on the tech beat and they pushed me up that hockey-stick learning curve with ease
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Irrefutable measure of a good book = the length of the public library hold queue.
So someone should probably tell
@JohnCarreyrou
#BadBlood
has a 612-strong waitlist in
#NewYork
📚
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It's one of our fastest growing crimes & biggest secrets: The dark world of sex trafficking
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Anyone who’s covered online child safety knows these stories don’t come easy. Hard to report. Hard to write. And yea, they take a personal toll.
But this is why we do what we do👇🏻
63,000.
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🚨 A convicted sex offender in Kansas met an 8-y-o girl on Roblox. He traded her the platform's virtual currency for explicit videos.
He wrote: "I can tell your not really into this."
She replied: “Anything for Robux.”
For
@BW
, w
@cecianasta
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Honored to make it onto this list alongside such a stellar lineup of journalists💫
Thank you
@UMWallaceHouse
,
@BW
and, especially,
@rfriedman305
Announcing the 2022 Livingston Award finalists in the local, national and international reporting categories. See their names and reporting:
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Goodbye NZ, hello NYC 🗽
Goodbye
@nzherald
, hello
@columbiajourn
👩🏼🎓
Goodbye investigative stories, hello thesis 📝
#backtoschool
🤓
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Len Sloane is a NYC institution. He’s covered finance for the
@nytimes
&
@WSJ
— and been a
@NYFWA
member — since the 1950s.
To celebrate Len’s 90th bday 🎉, he’s joining us to chat about the personal finance beat, with
@ronlieber
,
@LaurenYoung
,
@Darla_Mercado
&
@ClementsMoney
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It was an intimidating and incredible honour to hold court with 250 of the best reporters and editors in the US at Manhattan’s Yale Club this afternoon, while accepting an Overseas Press Club award carrying the moniker of the legendary Roy Rowan. Thank you
@opcofamerica
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Ask Me Anything!
I’ll be on Bloomberg’s Reddit account at 1pm ET to answer questions about TikTok, trust and safety & dangerous online challenges. Read the investigation here:
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I've upgraded my
#WFH
situation by shifting from Manhattan to Maine. I'm no longer distracted by ambulance sirens; I'm now distracted by moose!
I got to meet this guy in between interviews today:
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Love hearing "GO, GO, GO!" yelled across the newsroom and my colleagues hustle over finance scoops again.
@business
is coming back to life 🥳
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Teaching investigative techniques at
@ColumbiaJournMA
this fall. And a very special guest attended last week’s class: my mum! 🤍
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I got to sit next to
@GerritD
for the first time since Covid! Being able to roll my chair 6-feet to chat/vent about, well, anything, at any time, is a kind of catharsis I haven't felt in six months. And would be willing to trade all the comforts of wfh for. Smiling behind masks:
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Long-form features take a village and while reporters get the byline credit, it's editors behind the scenes like
@rfriedman305
👇 &
@jeremy_keehn
scrutinizing, questioning and re-wording that get a piece over the line and really make it shine
A brutal rape near Times Square, a $7 million payout, a company’s worst nightmare. Amazing reporting by
@livcarville
on the secretive safety team that handles all the bad things that happen inside Airbnb rentals.
@BW
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SCOOP: Airbnb's revenue fell 67% in Q2 compared with the previous year, but the company is still planning an IPO before the end of 2020, with
@Katie_Roof
via
@technology
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7-year-old Emilie Ruel peeks out from behind her sign at Toronto's
#ferguson
protest
http://t.co/YjYpn2TKLs
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Me in 2020: Heading home to NZ in December, yay
Alpha: Nah
Me in 2021: Wahoo, home this year
Delta: Nah
Me *yesterday*: NZ’s opened the border! I’m going home in Feb!
Omicron: Yeah… nah
Joke’s getting mighty old, Covid 😒
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Was just informed by the bf that we have a “cute little mouse” living behind our washing machine (😱). He’s asking me to be an adult about the situation and said he’s devised a plan to catch said mouse.
“The Plan” seems apt for 2020:
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I once wrote about Silicon Valley entrepreneurs burying multi-million dollar survival bunkers in NZ to escape a killer germ. Got a lot of reader feedback on how insane that sounds.
Who's laughing now
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“Hey bro, if I’m not here tomorrow I ask that you remember me and forgive me.”
Chase Nasca sent this message to a stranger on TikTok who posted content about depression and anxiety. It was the last message he ever sent.
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Flying home to
#NZ
🇳🇿 to see my family for the first time in 2.5 years tomorrow.
I should be 🥳, but am 😬.
The excitement is overshadowed by crippling test-to-travel-anxiety. So much riding on this one result.
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Got to go live on air with these two 🌟 rockstar reporters 🌟 today to chat
@Airbnb
and it's upcoming public markets debut for
@technology
... Loved being part of this line up
@sonalibasak
@RiggsReport
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Feeling deep nostalgia for the Bloomberg newsroom and all its hidden treasures:
- Zen fish tanks
- Noon soup runs
- Pantry snacks (esp. Skittles at 3pm)
- Spiral escalator chats
- Tampon dispensers
- Double screens
- Wheelie chairs
-
@BW
on tap
- Book bins
- COLLEAGUES
Alas.
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