agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I realize I'm not the first person to make this complaint, but the Six Seasons series of cookbooks---which has some of my favorite recipes and I'd recommend them to anyone---appears to be unedited. Lots of basic errors (e.g., ingredients in the title but not in the recipe) throughout. 030
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is my first time reading Adorno and is he actually this much of an asshole or is it some quirk of translation? 000
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026THE TWENTYSOMETHING ECONOMIST I'M EDITING WITH A VELVET HEADBAND AND CHARLI XCX SHIRT: I'm like soooo bad at writing lmao, thanks for all your help! ME, SWEATING THROUGH A PAGE ABOUT HETEROSKEDASTIC ERRORS: uhhh yeah. Anytime 000
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm only 20 pages in so TBD! But the main topic at hand seems to be expressionism vs reality, particularly in a capitalist society, so I'm really looking forward to reading both sides. 010
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026(from #13 of the Radical Thinkers series, "Adorno et al: Aesthetics and Politics") 011
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I like a good straightforward opening sentence. "The conflict between Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács over expressionism in 1938 forms one of the most revealing episodes in modern German letters." I'm sold, I'm locked in, I'm simply too seated, etc 210
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My man doesn't deserve to be bodied by Wikipedia like this 020
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Finally reading Billy Budd and after a slowish start I'm having a fantastic time. Nobody has ever done it like Herman Melville. 100
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I've always enjoyed the H Street festival but these days I get verklempt about it. There is an effort to crush us into submission and we're still out here. Our friends, our neighbors, our community is really all we have. 031
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This stuff sounds cool in dystopian fiction but I have to emphasize how profoundly banal it is. It's miserable and we're exhausted. Luckily DC still has funk music. 120
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Even as the despot tightens his grip on the occupied capital, locals gather for a festival in the shadow of armored vehicles and watching soldiers with their sidearms. 131
Reposted by agrippinathe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134431142
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I've had multiple endocrine dysfunction issues and have been on various HRT since I was in my 20s. The recent availability and lower expense of HRT medication has been a godsend. Yes, this shoudn't solely be in the hands of private companies, but everybody who wants HRT should have it. 020
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There are valid and important points to be made about predatory marketing, to say nothing of the cesspool that is Instagram, but IMO this article veers a bit too close to "do they really NEED hormones?" 160
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Having a solid base of carbs and greasy food is important wine bar prep! 110
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The experience of reading is more than scanning words on a page and matching them to dictionary definitions. Engage with a work, push back, struggle a little. It's not supposed to be a passive experience! 030
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As someone finishing Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three, this observation is SO spot on. Umberto Eco even says as much in his essay "Hugo, Hélas!: The Poetics of Excess" - the extraordinarily dense and repetitive prose lends to the scale of the revolution and the odds against it. 271
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I would simply like people to be normal about gender for five minutes. 000
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Or what seems to be proof that whoever made this has clearly never read Rooney or Ferrante (and maybe not Dostoyevsky?) because anyone who had wouldn't say the themes are unappealing to men 100
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 07/08/2026What's the most offensive aspect here? The idea that Rooney and Ferrante "focus on themes" that are inherently unappealing to men? That men can't be expected to care about women writers or women's interior lives? That men are fragile snowflakes who need books that make other men nod approvingly? 100
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Apropos of nothing I resent the idea that we as writers can't tell the difference between using a spell checker and having an AI tool generate your work. This whole "oh, but where do you draw the line? Isn't it so nuanced? Don't be a gatekeeper!" stuff insults the intelligence of everyone involved. 030
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Tomato season = pasta, salad, and of course the silken tofu with pickled tomatoes from Hetty McKinnon. If you haven't bought sungolds yet this year now is the time! #cookingsky 130
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The short answer is that I love and value my work more than ever and I intend to keep doing it until my integrity is threatened or they march us out of the building. 010
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 27/07/2026We all know we're under stress, but there's nothing quite like someone reminding you if they had your job they would jump out of a window. 111
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Got an accidental psychic suplex from a stranger at a professional event yesterday when I described my current role and someone replied "What gives you the strength to keep going?" 110
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Mental health has, well, it's been better, but summer produce has cheered me up a lot. Plus a beautiful Penedès we enjoyed at a neighborhood picnic. #cookingsky #winesky 020
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 18/07/2026People's writing, even nonfiction, represents a lot of labor, care, and aspiration. I treat it with the utmost respect no matter what. Can we please leave the "all art is suffering and you should have your heart ripped out every day" back in, like, 2005? 040
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Re: editor discourse, I can't think of anything more harmful than letting writers believe abuse is part of the process. Editing is a conversation, a relationship, a team effort. It can deflate your ego---a lot of writing is learning you aren't as clever as you thought---but it should never be cruel. 130
Reposted by agrippinaAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Seriously, though, this is part of the weird moralistic way people talk about writing (of any kind) that dissuades people from pursuing it. No, writing is not always a journey of pain and misery that only the strong survive. It’s just not always sunshine and lollipops, either. It’s just work. 2447
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 14/07/2026That video of the people getting their hands splashed with chocolate like small children really made me think about infantilization of wealthy people but there's something else going on, too. Every service industry has to find new ways to cater to people affected by (waves hands) 010
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A much-needed perspective in a publication that's well worth your time and investment. These days "experience" seems to signal that you're paying for an intangible sense of luxury and self-importance. Why is that so hot right now? Why do we need restaurants to validate us? 120
Reposted by agrippinaRafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards. 132285798
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I'm already the kind of person more inclined to think of military flyovers as "waste" versus "inspiring", but flyovers every ten minutes is both wasteful and intolerable in a city under occupation. And this is the rehearsal! We have seven straight hours of this tomorrow. 020
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 28/06/2026This is so alarming and maybe related to the growing notion that discomfort is harm, that art (and life?) is meant to be experienced without friction or challenge to your pre-existing opinions. I don't know where it originated or how to remedy it. 1100
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I've briefed the president of the United States but I don't think I'll ever match today's career high of convincing two lawyers to delete a paragraph 020
Reposted by agrippinaPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 23/06/2026can god create a new doubt so doubtful that not even He could raise it 2774
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 20/06/2026monnezzaglia ("leftover") pasta + caramelized cabbage + homemade ramp pesto + Loire chenin blanc = dinner done quick. PS check out our newly stained fence! 110
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 20/06/2026DC is coming up on a full year of occupation, a full year of our neighbors getting snatched from the streets, seeing the National Guard patrol my streets every day, and losing what little self-determination we're allowed under home rule. I love this place more than ever. It's DC vs. everybody. 050
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 20/06/2026There's an underground tamale place in our neighborhood. You get a heads-up about when they're open and place your order a week or so in advance. Another neighbor pours free margaritas on the porch while you chat with everyone else eagerly awaiting the best refried beans of your life. 130
Reposted by agrippinaJessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 10/06/2026Wake up y’all new structure ambiguity exercise just dropped. #linguistics 23716210
Reposted by agrippinaarr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs. 435153724205
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 02/06/2026A writer called my developmental edits "a revelation", and compliment aside it's a nice reminder that there's no substitute (or automation) for another set of eyes. 040
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Used some Samin Nosrat and Nigella Lawson recipes as a jumping-off point for this delicious ras el hanout chicken and orzo with rhubarb, dates, and shallots. Served with Oller del Mas' Superbloom pet nat. #cookingsky #winesky 030
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The sweaty desperation here is sickening. On some level they know they're cheating, they know they shouldn't do this. They have to cope by saying we all do it. We don't. 010
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Hi, I'm a working writer who doesn't use AI because I have "incredibly valuable" relationships with researchers, translators, and archivists at the Library of Congress. 120
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Cold weather cooking for an unusually chilly weekend: mushroom bourguignon and polenta, plus a 2017 Hardscrabble from the inimitable Linden Vineyards #cookingsky #winesky 030
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Maybe more alarming than the AI prose is how every other sentence is a heinously overwrought metaphor and a real human judge called it "restraint" 041
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 04/05/2026If I hear a single person in Friendship Heights insisting that nothing's really changed I am going to scream louder than Achilles before the Trojans 041
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The mutual aid work I've done for years (with the blessing of the DC government) now puts me and my fellow volunteers at risk of arrest. The National Guard walks up and down my block every couple hours. Our local golf course, designed as a refuge for Black golfers, is being seized by the admin. 002
agrippina @agrippina.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Two nights of morel pasta, including the "Miles Morel-es": my husband's decadent mac and cheese (left) and my more spartan pasta with ramps (right). Plus a romorantin from Frantz Saumon that I'm still thinking about. #cookingsky #winesky 040