Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4hThere is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 6441141233
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 7hTaking a beat to appreciate Fat Bear Week. Likely the all-time most successful government social media campaign by every metric. NASA has to send people to space to get the same amount of attention. Remarkable work from NPS every year to coordinate the public observation of fat bears. 427438
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8hAgain, he doesn’t follow laws or court orders, so the solution cannot be more laws or court orders, & we need to stop deluding ourselves about that: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 513041
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026McCall's Costumes unlicensed Dr. Strange Men's Costume Multisize will return in Avengers: Doomsday. 713829
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if we keep inventing new terrifying names for our problems then no one can be mad if we don't do anything about them 5625
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ABSOLUTELY SCREAM CACKLING at this search prompt and image combo on the new trashbasket america.gov 0216
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing. 111087187
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Jac Mac @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it is truly maddening to go most of your life hearing there are no jobs or no money when you look around your neighborhood and see so many things that need cleaning or fixing while your government blows endless cash on venture capital fabulists promising to ensure even fewer jobs and more misery 2278
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...donmoynihan.substack.comDOGE vs. Civic TechAs DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure 19791258
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Starting the new season of Bake Off and I know it’s all been filmed but also I hope they get the baker using a wheelchair a station that’s an appropriate height, similar to the bakers who are standing. 210
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A group of major medical organizations released recommendations this morning for Covid, flu and RSV vaccination, including guidance for the general population as well as specifics for children, people over 65, pregnant people and immunocompromised people. Here's a guide.nytimes.comYour Guide to Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Vaccines This Fall (Gift Article)Major medical groups released new recommendations on who should get the shots, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government. 12317189
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 26/09/2026JUST THIS MORNING, I saw both this and a note on social media companies rejecting ads about some Elon thing. Organize! Work together! CALL THEIR BLUFF. Shame doesn't work, they do not feel it. Starve them of oxygen, say no to their shit, and be as loud as you can TOGETHER. 1104
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203187145293
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats 33672901087
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“Were there easter eggs in there you didn’t get the first time?”static.klipy.comTom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) NervousAlt: Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) from “Succession,” looking up nervously from a folder as the person he’s talking to says that he’s read Mein Kampf “a couple of times.” 021
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This “advice” is pretty much describing what civic tech was and was growing towards before DOGE rolled in and tossed it all. 280
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Better than Ezra Klein (1) @mr-sshhhhh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026People think politics is something that happens to other people on the television. 7458115
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have recurring annual calendar events for certain "grief seasons," even for things that happened almost a decade ago. It's good to have a reminder for my brain about what's happening in my body, especially years after the fact when I might not be as focused on specific dates as an anniversary. 192
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick. 2110693158
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026anyway congratulations to Calvin’s Dad on diesel prices 131760295
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 16/09/2026Nearly all of whom would cheerfully have been paid $9.5 billion *to* work. 15112
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking. 186151392694
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This essay by @anildash.com is very much worth reading today: “Many wonder how, or if, the United States will find its way out of authoritarianism. The only possible way is if people are joyfully running towards a better option, not fearfully backing away from the worst of what they face today.” 05812
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Today's task took a smidge longer (5 min) due to looking up a YouTube video, which I think completely balances out how it lingered for *almost six months* aaaaaa 080
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Does she understand that the bones are going to be inside her? What is she promising that dog?! 491822256
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I know the U says they don't have an "official" tagline, I but I kind of dig "Try Everything. Be Anything." What is amazing about the U is the scale and scope of majors that students have to choose from. Unlike states such as Iowa which splits programs between UIowa and ISU, the U truly has it all. 6448
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This week, in the shuffle of cars and pedestrians leaving a funeral at Ft. Snelling, a man on a bike was frustrated with a car driving slowly on his side of the road. He yelled some of the most heinous, shocking shit at what was clearly a crowd of mourners. Here's what I hope happens: 230
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/09/2026It's National Suicide Prevention Month, so you've likely heard a lot about 988 and the Crisis Text Line. This is different. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a guide to the numbers you can call before things get to the point of total despair: warmlines and other forms of peer support.docs.google.comPeer Warmlines and Specialized Support 3240149
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'm a white-knuckle hater of the "both parties are the same/uniparty" blackpill, which really crumbles if you compare GOP state trifectas and Dem trifectas for 10 seconds. 18759194
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The world was not yet ready 1182
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️ 70149113710
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026nathan fielder vs elizabeth holmes is like what if wario had his own wario 81056136
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 06/09/2026you can tell Claude writes great code because every website in 2026 has an ever-increasing frequency of timeouts, blank pages, weird errors, and downtime. imagine a carpenter telling you "use this or get left behind" and they hand you a hammer that hits your hand instead of the nail 20% of the time 3549131
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄bag of moons 🏳️🌈 @bagofmoons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026OH MY GOD YOU GUYS THESE ARE THE TWO ACTUAL MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH TEACHERS AND THIS BULLETIN BOARD IS OUTSIDE BETWEEN THEIR ROOMS HEELLLLLLLLLLP OMFG 2413116
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sherwin-Williams seems to really be going through it right now, huh 4233
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Always delighted to find out something like this isn’t actually a sketch from “30 Rock” 000
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is a fascinating initiative and I will be so interested to see if it juices coverage and the stability of news orgs in California 310533
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Me this year, reading "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" for the first time. 160
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Ahh, signs of the new school year. Buses puttering down the street, kids in backpacks, and whole FLEET of cars fully parked in the "Drop off and go, no parking" lane in front of the building. Also saw a parent car try to creep through a crosswalk where the patrol had the flags down! Great! 240
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Elon Musk: Haha I’ve done it. Surely I am now THE most embarrassing man in the world! Graham Linehan: Hello. Elon Musk: Shit! 1459984
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 29/08/2026We’re starting day 3 of 12 of the Minnesota State Fair, and I’m catching up on the french fry drama. Thanks @viamarsala18.bsky.social ! www.reddit.com/r/minnesotas...reddit.comFrom the minnesotastatefair community on RedditExplore this post and more from the minnesotastatefair community 180
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄college football enthusiast @tacoenthusiast.swifties.social · 29/08/2026The all-name team has some tremendous depth this year 149325
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 28/08/2026Sucks that the Univ of Minnesota libraries are closed to the public. If the past several years have taught us anything, it’s that knowledge is necessary to fighting stupid bad fascists. So here’s a helpful doc on how to assist good U people who want knowledge freed: docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comUMN Libraries Public AccessTHE CONTEXT After slowly closing parts of campus off to the public over a handful of years, in January of 2026 amidst Operation Metro Surge, the University of Minnesota’s upper administration decided... 1110344
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art 6342611314
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Re-upping the greatest MN state fair tip about a cookie fix! 051
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Velour Shirt @object.works · 26/08/2026Northeast Minneapolis excellence 17771121
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Need to put up some kind of alert sign by my front door, like “House wards are active, solicitors will be hexed.” 091