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Amanda French

@amandafrench.net
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PhD in English Lit. Villanelle = poetic form, not serial killer. Currently @ror.org at @crossref.bsky.social. Formerly COVID Tracking Project and THATCamp. Views my own. Folk, Americana, roots, oldtime, bluegrass. amandafrench.net

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No need to post about that op-ed. Tell us about a good book instead!
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 23/09/2026
Got my first one yesterday purporting to be from Regal Publishing.
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The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at a paltry $7.25 an hour since 2009. Guess how much the wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 04/09/2026
Great interview. In 1995 I was certainly enmeshed in the “problematize” flavor of academic feminism she identifies here, though I never liked it much and was never very good at it. And yes: Revolution from Within was a big book then and brought Steinem back into focus in a big way.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“.. Only the top two income brackets saw what the comptroller’s office called ‘real income growth,’ .. And that trend was largely driven by capital gains .. .. ‘What is driving the top 10 percent into the stratosphere is not what they’re getting in their paychecks.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/n...
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 31/08/2026
“Dr. Zink said she could not remember a time when the C.D.C. publicly questioned a state’s determination of cause of death. State officials are increasingly “choosing not to share data with the C.D.C. because of mistrust how it might be used,” she said.”
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In the late 90's people started using WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver to make websites, instead of by hand, and the html produced was famously complete dogshit. There were weird <br> tags everywhere, it'd look normal but be a huge pain in the ass to modify or figure out what fucked up, etc
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 31/08/2026
indyweek.com/news/educati...
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The New Federal Funding Problem
Universities like UNC-Chapel Hill major cuts to research funding, but the pipeline for new grants is shrinking. Researchers have been left in limbo.
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colors.bsky.social @colors.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#0E1F11
a square filled in with blackish green color  #0e1f11.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/08/2026
Tennessee governor says he backs airport name change to honor Dolly Parton
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Tennessee governor says he backs airport name change to honor Dolly Parton
Bill Lee says he favors proposal to rename Nashville’s international airport after legendary country singer Bill Lee, the Tennessee governor, on Friday said he favored a proposal to rename Nashville’s international airport after legendary country singer Dolly Parton, who died three days earlier at age 80. In a statement, Lee said he and the managers of the airport in Tennessee’s capital city – where Parton resided – wanted to create “a lasting tribute to her indelible legacy and the generations of people she inspired”. He said he had spoken previously to the 11-time Grammy winner and her team, who were “touched by the idea”. Continue reading...
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/08/2026
A secretary gets a better job.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/08/2026
Clearly a conspiracy by Big Bat
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
gillian welch on dolly
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 28/08/2026
Has to be Moby Dick. Also Lolita.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 27/08/2026
They will have to learn SHAME instead, which seems appropriate
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 26/08/2026
I would watch a whole spinoff series about Ray, the Palmetto front desk clerk from Hacks
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 26/08/2026
On to 9 to 5. “I’m as nice as I know how to be to everyone down at that office and they treat me like a bastard at a family reunion”
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 25/08/2026
Steel Magnolias
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 25/08/2026
Hank Williams would have appreciated this I think
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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"English is the most versatile major: 69% of its graduates work outside the field’s top two industries, the highest share of any major" bit.ly/4zCHT8n
bit.ly
The Most Versatile College Majors for Entering the Job Market, According to a New Analysis
As hiring falls across 20 top college majors, new LinkedIn data shows which degrees work best for versatility, with liberal arts such as English in the lead.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 13/08/2026
This bar’s music seems to be driven by a playlist of “First songs Amanda learned on guitar.” Currently: Sister Golden Hair Surprise. Am certain that Horse with No Name is next
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 23/07/2026
Sometimes I wonder why cryptocurrency is legal
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colors.bsky.social @colors.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#BED0D6
a square filled in with very pale blue, cloud blue color  #bed0d6.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@Kate_Kelly_Esq

Getting money from the government

@AnaSamways

What's considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich?
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 23/07/2026
The one I’m proudest of that some might find weird, though it’s really just niche, is rewriting the entry on “dead metaphor” for the 4th edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Villanelle, too, and rondeau, rondel, and roundel, but those are maybe more expected.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 21/07/2026
I’ve been buying tons of old #Books free of #AI slop for decades to train my mind on, give me a billion dollars
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 17/07/2026
Legends of the Fall. Walked out halfway through. Just couldn’t deal with its epic pretensions. www.imdb.com/title/tt0110...
imdb.com
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I really have to commend Al Gore for his restraint because if I was in his shoes I would be well into the fifth year of my worldwide “I Fucking Told You So” lecture tour
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 16/07/2026
There used to be a joke when I was a kid “Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” Not a joke anymore.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 14/07/2026
Great thread and lots of agreement in the replies. I took an R tutorial from @lincolnmullen.com at a #THATCamp and he emphasized the point that data wrangling / cleaning / normalization was most of the work of analysis: it resonated with me then and it still resonates with me today.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 10/07/2026
Right wing media CFO pleads guilty to breathtakingly loathsome financial crimes and calls it a “lapse in judgement” what a scumbag apnews.com/article/epoc...
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Ex-Epoch Times CFO pleads guilty in $67M multinational money laundering scheme
The former chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, interrupted jury selection at his money laundering trial to plead guilty to conspiracy.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 12/06/2026
Apropos of nothing: I deleted my PayPal account (after careful scrubbing and making sure all recurring payments were canceled) about a year ago and I’m very glad I did. Plenty of better options these days that are less of a magnet for scammers.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 10/06/2026
Tag yourself. I’m Carolyn (Buffalo Nuggets)
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 03/06/2026
This reminds me of the new combined toaster oven / convection oven I bought recently that I hate. It makes me punch in my (unchanging!) preferences every time, and it’s terrible at toasting. Definitely should’ve bought a plain old toaster oven that just toasts things when I turn it on.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 03/06/2026
it me
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 02/06/2026
It’s such a gorgeous day here in the Research Triangle. Temps in low 70s, bright blue sky, a little gusty so that all the bright green trees rustle and sway
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 02/06/2026
This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat
Beelzebub the flame point Siamese cat: cream colored fur with pale orange points.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 31/05/2026
Ah, 2008
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 31/05/2026
Years ago a few people asked me to put my song All My Internet Friends on YouTube but I never did — until now. Enjoy this very aughts-y take on internet culture. youtu.be/WYKzMkNvr1U?...
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All My Internet Friends
YouTube video by habitrailgirl
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 30/05/2026
Also today on a whim I untangled the enormous knot of cables in the Electronics Drawer and sorted them into plastic bags and labeled them. Look on my works ye mighty and despair
Cables in plastic bags labeled for instance USB-C to USB-C
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 30/05/2026
Attempting to drain my new (ish) hot water heater today. Hope it goes well.
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/05/2026
So many poseurs boosting this today and they didn’t even bother to live post through the finals last night 😁
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/05/2026
Guess I’m saving the #Hacks finale for tomorrow what with watching the #spellingbee
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/05/2026
Well played Shrey! #spellingbee
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/05/2026
Height difference ha #spellingbee
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/05/2026
How did he know it was NICOL not NICKEL ha #spellingbee
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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/05/2026
Wooowwwww #spellingbee
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