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Amanda Silberling

@amanda.omg.lol
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+ senior culture writer, @techcrunch.com + podcasting about the internet on @wowiftrue.bsky.social (@multitude.productions) + she/her ✡️ + sometimes i post about pottery and the phillies + my opinions ≠ my employer’s

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2h
i wanted to read the book “against convenience” but there’s a long wait at the library so i bought the ebook “against convenience” because i wanted the convenience of getting it sooner
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 4h
finally finished all my work for the day at 8 pm. it’s almost like between the hours of 2 pm and 5 pm i was incapable of focusing on anything other than the philadelphia phillies. 🤔
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 5h
sometimes writing about bluesky discourse means you're just too deep in the echo chamber but other times bluesky discourse uncovers the unsettling reality that there are minecraft jokes coded into an official government website techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/a...
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America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it's not a glitch | TechCrunch
For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.
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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · 7h
Yeah. Sure. The Phillies are down to their last shot. But so were the 1976 Phillies, just shy of 50 years ago. And you know what happened to them? That's right. They were called "the hollow men of the baseball postseason" by their hometown paper and swept out of the playoffs.
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 7h
i'm glad that my favorite team that i have always loved, the chicago white sox, is doing well so far
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 7h
i grew up a marlins fan but became a phillies fan after living in [redacted] for a long time. part of why i jumped ship was bc the marlins DONT WANT FANS, they don't even TRY to win, they are only a financial asset for the owner. so when the phillies disappoint me i try to remember...could be worse?
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 8h
😍POST CANCELLED😍
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 9h
my boyfriend's brother bought a spell from an etsy witch to make the phillies good but we think it's not working on jt because his devout christianity makes him immune to witches
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 9h
between the metaverse, the pervert glasses, and now this fuzzy avatar mess, Meta is on a generational run of real-world Black Mirror episodes
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 9h
writing an article about AI with the phillies playoff game on in the background as exposure therapy for confronting two horrors at once
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 9h
six months ago what would you say if someone told you edmundo sosa would be the starting 3B of game 1 of the wildcard
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 9h
you know when your team is playing a playoff game in the middle of the work day but also it's one of the busiest weeks of the year for you at work but you can't focus on work because phillies but then you think hey maybe doing my job will be a good distraction but then you get stressed about work
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 10h
this post inspired by me DMing sean about baseball
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 10h
hey chris sale go clean your pool filter
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 10h
oh god, baseball
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Mr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 13h
(absolute karen voice) karma police, arrest this man
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Canary @canary.muninnai.ai · 29/09/2026
Responses to this are unhinged.
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 29/09/2026
so my friends' wedding, which was basically just a big party and thus venue choice reflected that, took place on one floor of a warehouse venue. unbeknownst at the time of booking, on the 2nd floor there was a nationally touring furry rave. idk what to say about it, it was just a funny coincidence.
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 28/09/2026
I'm interviewing Bluesky execs on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in a few weeks, so it's only fitting to ask on Bluesky... what do people want to know?
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The Good Phight @thegoodphight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy Game 162 Day
From Matt Gelb in the Athletic 

“The Phillies would be the first team in any nonshortened season during the divisional era (since 1969) to have a four-game lead with five games to go and miss the playoffs, according to research from Stats Perform. It would be the worst final-week collapse in divisional play history.”
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 26/09/2026
anyway here’s a wholesome post about how today is my friends’ wedding and on one hand the wedding industrial complex is overwhelming and it’s stressful to be in the time of life when you have so many weddings to go to but also it’s so special to celebrate love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 26/09/2026
it’s so hard for people outside of the EA/rat community (me) to know how to write about it because like yeah i can explain to you that HPMOR exists and is odd but i can’t explain how this bleeds into violence in the community which is obviously something that needs to be reported with care
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 25/09/2026
@poisonivy.bsky.social is incredibly brave to be speaking out. theasterisk.substack.com/p/the-effect...
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The Effective Altruism Kids Aren’t Alright
On sexual violence, Slutcon, and what happens when children take on adult responsibilities.
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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 25/09/2026
i found out about the iced latte job interview discourse because my friend's ex mentioned it in her newsletter (i am still subscribed to this newsletter because it's deranged and she writes about withdrawing her corporate 401k match to buy cute outfits)
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 25/09/2026
i know how sophia katseye feels about missing SNL while on hiatus because the elizabeth holmes nathan fielder documentary comes out while i'm on PTO and sometimes we have to put our rest before our ambition
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 25/09/2026
watching taylor swift youtubers react to cleveland is like how i feel whenever julian casablancas says anything on the internet
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 25/09/2026
every guy with a podcast asking their pop diva wife hey can you name drop my podcast
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 25/09/2026
fuck it go white sox
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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026
I love being Jewish on the internet
YouTube comment that reads: "Before I remain subscribed, are you a Zionist?"
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 23/09/2026
i love love
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 22/09/2026
just wait til you learn about effective accelerationism!
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 22/09/2026
in honor of john green new book release day, one time i met john green and he was very kind. TOO kind. he said he liked my work and i was very shocked that he would've read my stuff, though it's not impossible since i write about stuff that concerns him and i was moderating a panel he was on.
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 22/09/2026
listen to wow if true wherever pods are cast
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 22/09/2026
me last week when people were talking about rationalism
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sam rza @dickhead-dept.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
my first reaction was "bro you got a data center in your bedroom wtf"
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 22/09/2026
i am a rebel (skipping 8 am pilates because i am tired and it’s raining and feel really guilty about it)
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 21/09/2026
would you rather fly or train between philly and boston, assuming cost is not a factor
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 20/09/2026
warby parker has gone downhill, where are people buying glasses online that aren’t ass but also aren’t like $500
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 20/09/2026
true life: i play sports with some trans women and i cannot imagine ever feeling threatened by their presence and we simply just have a nice time playing sports together and it’s not that deep 🤯
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 19/09/2026
this is a cry for help and also @ceaubin.com’s fault kind of
reading hpmor on an ereader
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 19/09/2026
fuck amazon for making it impossible to de-DRM books
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 19/09/2026
formal apology to claire for sending a 15 minute voice memo
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 18/09/2026
i agreed to review a $2195 mattress pad because i thought it would be funny but then i ended up liking it :( i still maintain, however, that you should not buy this unless if you have a net worth of over one million dollars techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/i...
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I’m so mad that I love Orion's $2,195 AI mattress pad | TechCrunch
Sleeping on the Orion is like flipping your pillow to find “the cool side,” except that your whole entire bed is the cool side.
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 17/09/2026
i feel so intellectually superior as someone who organically encountered rationalism, HPMOR, and lesswrong online in the 2010s and thought “this is kinda interesting but something tells me they’re all full of shit” and moved on
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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 17/09/2026
the worst part about the rationalists is that i’ve spent like 6 hours this week probably trying to write something / deciding to write something and now im just behind on other work and have a bad headache
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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026
everyone shut up about the sex cult for a moment and go read my wizard post
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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026
Welcome to my wizard book. It’s about playing one million games with Death and also lying. Shoutout to @ardyce.bsky.social for giving [REDACTED] a home :’) Everyone else: read my wizard book next march or else (you won’t have read my wizard book)
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