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About Lisa Pertoso

Lisa Pertoso is a humor writer, learning designer, and facilitator based in NYC. Her work has appeared in Glamour, Insider, The Belladonna Comedy, and more. Follow her on Medium and Twitter, and if you’re feeling frisky, jump into her dating time machine at 100 First Dates.

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Quiz: Has sensational weather reporting desensitized you to danger — or made you paranoid?

Take this quiz to see if sensational weather reporting has numbed you to the sense of actual risk — or put your climate anxiety through the roof. 
Humour | March 14th 2023

Elon Musk shares brutal eggnog recipe

Same mission. Faster innovation. More milky opacity.
Humour | December 21st 2022

Humour: Egypt offers Greta Thunberg protest space inside King Tut’s tomb

Greta, as the world’s most influential climate activist, you deserve a luxury experience away from the hubbub.
Humour | November 17th 2022

Margaret Atwood’s cease-and-desist letter to the United States for plagiarizing the plot of The Handmaid’s Tale

Is America using Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale as a template for its own dystopia?
Humour | September 27th 2022

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