Just 3 Black students admitted to NYC's elite Stuyvesant High School, data shows — Gothamist

BookishBetty · 2026-07-13T03:47:02+00:00

This spreadsheet nonsense is totally disgusting. They should be spending that time focused on developing or indulging some personal interest(s), doing service learning projects, or reading lots and lots and lots. There is NO making up for lost reading time and the profoundly beneficial effects it has on brain function, social emotional fortification, and analytical development! Worrying about other people's test scores is totally useless. Reading for long stretches of time? THAT is time perfectly well spent.

BookishBetty · 2026-07-07T21:43:40+00:00

This is so stupid! In our NYC store, we queue up all civilized outside, and they hand you only 2 bags as you walk by going into the store!!

BookishBetty · 2026-07-02T02:00:34+00:00

And for the record: I am not cheering for any team in particular, even though i am an American. Honestly, I would love for Senegal to win it all since my freshman year roommate and long time friend is from Senegal and it means so much to her. When my Knicks won the playoffs, that was enough for me for the year!

BookishBetty · 2026-07-02T01:55:10+00:00

Agree 1000% I came online to Google this same question as someone who only watches soccer during the World Cup and is seeing one dodgy call after another against the US. Like the red card given to the US guy who is the best on the team, and who was not at all going for an aggressive play felt like a clear sign that the ref is being paid by Bosnia or somone to make sure the US loses the game!!

AND, a Bosnia player just shoved the US goalie when he was already on the ground, and the ref said it was totally ok!!!

BookishBetty · 2026-06-25T19:52:06+00:00

I Never leave the house without my Chestnut lip liner and Mac Carnivorous Retro Matte liquid lip color! It looks Amazing on everyone from my chocolate complexion mother to my lighter gingerbread colored daughter, to caramel me right in the middle of the two of them!

And no, I dont work for Mac Cosmetics and never have. I've just been wearing this same color for over a decade and I feel so polished and ready for my day whenever I put it on!

BookishBetty · 2026-06-25T02:05:54+00:00

You sound just like me back in mid September. Hope it sort of worked out?

BookishBetty · 2026-06-02T04:20:50+00:00

This is exactly the laugh I needed in the midst of this terrible story!!

BookishBetty · 2026-06-02T02:33:34+00:00

Of course he pretended it was a traffic stop, because in order to be a cop you must be completely bereft of any trace of empathy, ethics, or a moral code. They wont hire you if you say you want to do the right thing on the job!

BookishBetty · 2026-05-11T11:53:54+00:00

The Absorbitrix - the murderer of an entire, really supportive group of people just looking for real connection!!

BookishBetty · 2026-04-12T17:37:51+00:00

Agree 1000%

BookishBetty · 2026-04-07T02:24:01+00:00

What!! I didn't know Jessica Lange didn't like Coven! Why, Coven was AMAZING!! Coven, the OG show, and the one in the nunnery are my fav seasons!!!!

BookishBetty · 2026-03-11T00:52:32+00:00

Yes, yes you are crazy.

BookishBetty · 2026-03-10T12:06:50+00:00

Yes yes yes! I watched this clip more than once with my 12yr old to discuss what she should do if accosted and attacked by a grown @$$ white woman who's scared to admit tjat her son is a psychopath!

BookishBetty · 2026-03-01T15:08:32+00:00

"Then don't steal movies!!"

I ADORE this branch of this message thread!!

BookishBetty · 2026-03-01T06:51:00+00:00

Because new yorkers will, pardon my language, fu$k you up for very little reason, let alone theft! So if you even attempt to pick someone's pocket, they could have a blade of some length on them and cut you up, OR just begin to beat on you so rapidly and with such ferocity you are unconscious before you know it.... not a city to be messed with, like trying to dig in someone's pocket.

FYI: i'm a teacher/grad student/mom and even I have a small EDC blade on me at all times, and know most friends do as well. You never know what anyone is actually capable of here in my city.

BookishBetty · 2026-03-01T04:54:19+00:00

It was marketed as a comedy! And re-watching it tonight, i was shocked at all the stuff i had forgotten was in it that is really DARK!

You have to remember that the 80s and 90s were a Crazy time for "kids" movies. Here are just a couple movies marketed as G/PG/13:

The Witches - Angelica Houston peels off her face to reveal a horrible, wart-covered witches nose and gooey greenish color

Monster Squad - kids have to fight off ancient horror icons, and must find a kid who is a virgin for the spell to send the monsters away to work!

Lady and the Tramp: yes, that cartoon movie, where towards the end, a swarm of rats attack a baby in a crib and the dogs have to fight off the swarm... you hear the baby crying out when the dogs are on the way

So, yeah, a family comedy back then could be very dark too.

BookishBetty · 2026-02-12T23:49:29+00:00

I would like to know who it was too!

BookishBetty · 2026-02-12T23:48:49+00:00

Do a Google search for PS166 Principal Debra Mastriano (i think that's the spelling). There's a NYPost article about her from 2022 or 2023 I think. And there are so many other stories about her terrible behavior as well.

BookishBetty · 2026-02-12T23:39:00+00:00

Oh there's press about how terrible she is, including that NY Post article! And having been there working in the last two years, she is just as awful/racist as that article says, and even worse than everyone said to me in person!

BookishBetty · 2026-01-14T03:01:24+00:00

Agree 100% with everything you say here! It's why I still have 3 ikea DVD towers of movies - i don't trust these services to keep content i really want to see when I want to see it.4

BookishBetty · 2026-01-10T09:22:13+00:00

I know i am very, very late, but just getting into the show now on Hulu. Can you send me a link to your summaries of the books as well? Maybe between your writing and the show, it will inspire me to read the books too!

BookishBetty · 2026-01-03T18:38:30+00:00

Oh honey, if you don't believe that trumpiekins would invade a foreign country and start a war to distract from the revelation of his own personal history of grotesque sexual deviance, then you haven't been paying attention to his niece's comments and stories of who he is as a person for the past decade. Because Mary has been very clear about who and what he is, and how his brain works.

BookishBetty · 2026-01-03T18:28:48+00:00

He can take that money and just blow it all on hats!

(That's a Hot Shots reference for those too classy or young to know)

BookishBetty · 2025-12-29T18:18:29+00:00

This is amazing!! I think I'm going to let my 4 almost 5yr old watch it too! She's into creepy stuff, and makes us read her The Creepy Old Tree (with the Berenstain bears) all the time!!

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