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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Splashdown. Tears in my eyes. What an incredible 10 days.

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Open access to research is SO important for the UX field. Please read!

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Last night while showering I wondered about the word origins of the word "conditioner," so now you're all getting an etymology lesson today. [NGL, one of the best perks of my job is access to the Oxford English Dictionary.]

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Just finished Dispatch. What a great game! Incredible.

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I read 105 books in 2025! My Top 10: 10: Temeraire (series) by Naomi Novik - I finally finished it! This series is basically what if the Napoleonic Wars had dragons? It’s really good. I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone (it can be a bit dry and battle-focused?) but it was extremely my jam. #booksky

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I need the @calm.com app to know that you all dropped a new BFG sleep story today and it is going to do NUMBERS at our house. My kiddo Minerva has basically worn the other two out, so we are so grateful. And thank you to Jerome Flynn, too! You’ve got a 5yo big fan who wants the whole audiobook.

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

and THIS is why I always buy @cardsagainsthumanity.com's dumb Black Friday thing. (Diamond Potato: still here, still shriveled, somehow not molding or decaying?)

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I have started my re-listen to the archive of the podcast Til Death Do Us Blart, an annual review podcast of the movie Paul Blart 2 by the McElroy Brothers and the dingdongs from The Worst Idea of All Time. This podcast is art. #DeathBlart is part of my Thanksgiving, can't wait for this year's ep.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 27/10/2025

The earliest known example of ‘brain rot’ comes from Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book “Walden.” “While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The project I've worked on for the last six months is live today! I'm a complex mix of relieved, panicked, happy beyond belief and dead-eyed realization that this was just the first step of several.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10/10/2025

Printing presses kept their letters in cases. Capital letters went in the upper case. Smaller letters went in the lower case. This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’ Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press? MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2025

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Kiddo brought home some kindy crud. We are both sniffling on the couch, but at least she wanted to watch old school Mr. Rogers. There’s some good today.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I love this for so many reasons: - I get to show this to my little girl, who loves to read more than anything (today is her fifth birthday! What a gift!) - Mychal is a gem of a human, the perfect person to carry the mantle - the world needs more Book and Library Joy!! 📚💙

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Hey, Notre Dame folks! This book was incredible, and I can only imagine how good the talk will be. I’ll be there, and you should, too!

A poster for “Historical Echoes and the Klan in Indiana,” a talk by author Timothy Egan, to be held Oct 3 at 4pm at Notre Dame.

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien Happy Hobbit Day/First Day of Autumn, everyone!

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Attending this talk today. Hoping to come out of it with a sense of peace and understanding that’s been lacking in recent years.

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payton mitchell @paytmitch.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

now is a good time to turn off video auto play in your settings!

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Yo @cardsagainsthumanity.com - figured y’all would enjoy a Diamond Potato update. We’re wrinkled. We’re shriveled. But we’re also seeing some growth? Read into it what you will.

A shriveled potato just riddled with diamond studs.

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Last day of #GenCon! As per tradition, the frantic Math Trade mad rush to get some new games and get rid of some old ones. Also tradition: our game of @divinationrpg.bsky.social to break our hearts. And finding some car charging for the trip home. It was a Gen Con for the books!

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

This was the highlight of our trip so far. We were the third game out of five - happy to know my lineage kept the royal throne!

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

July & August are going to be VERY busy months for me at work - two major projects coming online. But ALSO #GenCon is smack dab in the middle. A long weekend of gaming will be a welcome brain break. 🎲🐲🎉

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Hey @mattrudkinweather.bsky.social - I have a flight question! I’m coming home from Philly. My arrival time in Chicago just moved up 15 minutes earlier. How do they know the plane will make it there sooner? How accurate is it? I’m happy - makes my tight connection a little less tight!

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Just landed in Philly! ALA, here I come!

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Not to whine about sunny weather, but I live where winter hurts my face so I don’t have to deal with 81 degrees at 9:30 in the morning. Would love this heatwave to break!

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

So we are definitely playing catch up, but we watched this tonight and it was INCREDIBLE.

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Yoe forget, sometimes, how important some folks are, especially if you see them around town/have heard their story your whole life Betsy was South Bend. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/s...

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Betsy Jochum, 104, Dies; Last Original Member of Women’s Baseball League

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

My May Books! With this month, I’ve crossed the halfway point of my goal of 100 books this year! #ReadingRecap #BookSky 💙📚 🧵

A composite image of book covers that says “May 2025” and has 12 book covers: The Dark Between Stars by Atticus, Harbinger: Poems by Shelley Puhak, The Drunken Spelunker’s Guide to Plato by Kathy Giuffre, Peril at End House by Agatha Christie, Great, Big, Beautiful Life by Emily Henry, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by Amanda Hess, No New Things by Ashlee Piper, and four books by Ali Hazelwood: Problematic Summer Romance, Loathe to Love You, Two Can Play, and Cruel Winter With You.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 29/05/2025

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I had to turn the heat on in my house last night. On May 21. Three weeks ago, I had to turn on the A/C because it was 90 degrees. Please, Midwestern spring, get your shit together.

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

So sad to hear about the death of #GeorgeWendt. Did you know that he attended @notredame.bsky.social for a few years (but didn't graduate). I checked our archives and found some things! Here's an interview from student magazine Scholastic in 1993:

A scan of an article called "Who's Who: Norm! A closer look at Notre Dame's favorite almost-alumnus, George Wendt".

A scan of the page continuing the interview with George Wendt with Notre Dame's student magazine Scholastic in 1993.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

How is it already the end of April? It was a slower month for reading, but I did have some longer books in this month’s list. I really enjoyed everything I read this month! 💙📚 🧵

A composite image shows the words “April 2025” and eight book cover. The books are: Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley, Calling In by Loretta J. Ross, The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry, LVOE. Volume II by Atticus, Babel by R.F. Kuang, Feelings: A Story in Seasons by Manjit Thapp, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by Judi Dench, and American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time by Tracy K. Smith.

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We're excited to announce the theme for #BannedBooksWeek 2025 - “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” Join us Oct. 5 – 11, 2025! bannedbooksweek.org/banned-books... #CensorshipIsSo1984

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your Rights. Oct. 5-11, 2025. BannedBooksWeek.org

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University of Notre Dame @notredame.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“The Notre Dame community joins with the Church and the world in mourning the passing of Pope Francis. As Pope Francis often reminded us, no one is far from God’s merciful love, and the Church must be a ‘field hospital’ to warm hearts, heal wounds and open doors.” More: go.nd.edu/e0b453

Pope Francis sitting in the Vatican, greeting two males. They are both wearing black suits and white clerical collars.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Take action to support Federal Funding for libraries at SaveIMLS.org!

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I don't want AI in my word processing programs. I want Clippy. Give me Clippy back, you animals. Give me the dumb guy who can help me format a memo, not some soulless AI program that is killing the environment.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us

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Amanda Gray Perry @amandagrayperry.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I cannot fully explain how excited I am for this series. The exact tone I wanted for the show! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEio...

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Murderbot — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Hey, so it's National Library Week. You're going to see a lot of calls to get a library card and check out books. All well and good. But I'm going to ask you to do something a little more supportive: speak up.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

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