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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 30/09/2026

Agree! When I first heard about this I thought “That is such a stupid rule” but then I realized that no, I wouldn’t bring a drink to an interview — I’ve just never articulated that as a rule

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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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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 17/09/2026

Lack of internet on one’s phone

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 15/09/2026

I definitely am! When Google acquired the Usenet archives my old posts became searchable, ha, and my posts were even mentioned in an essay in a book on MST3K share.google/YJv0xnoGuQmw...

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In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000 : Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology and the Culture of Riffing

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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

Once you realize that competent professionals have lengthy discussions and group input about how best to accomplish something in a certain field, it leads to trust in experts in fields you don’t know anything about, because you assume that they’ve thought more about those issues than non-experts

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 04/09/2026

I saw someone say something once to the effect that people who don’t know how anything works see conspiracies everywhere, and I think about that often

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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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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 03/09/2026

Oh man I used to love Lapham’s Quarterly, but it’s been while. Very exciting!

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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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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 03/09/2026

I remember that story: it was horrifying

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 03/09/2026

“Do I have more useful things to do than answer this question?”

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 01/09/2026

Autocorrect was trying to change it to “recess” but I overruled it

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 01/09/2026

Death certificates all have multiple lines for causes! Health is complex! Them: “This person had diabetes so they didn’t die of COVID.” Me: “This person was alive with diabetes until they got COVID.”

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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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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 01/09/2026

I argued (very very politely) with several people via email about “died with COVID” vs “died of COVID” doing CTP Help Desk, man, can’t believe this shit is recrudescing

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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

Another thing I do sometimes while running is to recite poetry and/or song lyrics silently in my head: works well both for things I already know by heart and things I’m trying to learn by heart, though with the latter if I mess up I have to check my phone for the correction

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 31/08/2026

Counting. Timing each minute to see how fast you are, etc

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/08/2026

I’m sure you’re right. I did notice an Asian sex worker who is paired with a white player in the party scene though

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/08/2026

Agree - I don’t know how that matches up with what the demographics would’ve been at the time but surely even then in Texas there would’ve been more Black players, and more Black sex workers, and more Black dancers to portray them

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/08/2026

Yeah he was a wonderful dancer.

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/08/2026

If I ever rewatch the movie I’m sure I’ll pick a favorite Aggie. And wow they did a great job of getting male dancers who look completely plausible to me as college football players (although there are no huge defensive dudes)

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 29/08/2026

I have another thing to say about BLWIT which is that I felt rather dubious about all the partial nudity and sexy lingerie until it got to the fabulous locker room scene, at which point I was like, “Okay, equal time for male partial nudity and objectification, THANK you, I’m in”

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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 · 28/08/2026

I’ve read a lot of the Brontës (my PhD is in 19th-c British lit, first novels then poetry) and I think they’re overrated. Well-written for popular fiction, yes, but give me Hardy or Eliot any day.

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 28/08/2026

Especially since its emotion is undercut by the fact that 40 seconds later she decides to stay after all

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 28/08/2026

I watched it for the first time last night and I agree with this! Same is true of literally all the girls at the CR. Not sure I agree with your assessment that this is her best version of I Will Always Love You though

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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 · 27/08/2026

I thought they might have made an exception this time, but no - it’s a coincidence

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 27/08/2026

Wait, is it named after Dolly Parton???

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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

So I’ve actually never seen BLWIT but my family also loved musicals and thus I watched Gigi as a kid and was so confused by what the central problem of the film was for years. (That she’s being groomed as a courtesan and wants to get married instead.)

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 26/08/2026

Same! Of course I decline to say much of anything at all on social media these days anyway.

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 26/08/2026

I’m actually glad you said this (hope I’m not the only one) because I was thinking this too

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 26/08/2026

“Well, I say we hire a couple of wranglers to go upstairs and beat the shit out of him”

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 26/08/2026

“I never thought I’d live to see the day I’d say this about a human being, but you are evil. That’s right, evil to the core!”

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Amanda French @amandafrench.net · 26/08/2026

“Violet honey, could you come over here for a second?”

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