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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is true. I can 100% be controlled with cheese.

🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My second-favorite limerick: There once was a young man from Kent Whose penis was so long it bent. To save him some trouble, He stuck it in doubled, And rather than coming, he went.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Moron Pharmacy strikes again! And now we wait to find out the *full* extent of this month’s moronery.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The cat has got himself a girlfriend. She comes by our balcony most days now, and he, being obsessed with her, promptly loses his mind.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why do you have 2 water bottles? Because one of them is full of pineapple mimosa.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

About to watch Lawrence of Arabia for the first time. Settling in for the long haul.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I keep forgetting to take pictures, but tonight I made some BBQ chicken tacos with mashed avocado, apple slaw, quick-pickled shallots, crumbled cotija, crispy fried onions, and a sprinkle of lime. Very pleased with how they turned out.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one, but the lightbulb has to want to change.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What’s the opposite of a Karen? Is there a term?

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nachos are both a snack and a strategy game.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

TIL that the corporate office meeting rooms display the name of your meeting, even if you, the meeting host, are not the one who booked the room. So when my colleague ducks into a room to talk to me, everyone can see that we’re having a “Plan-n-Bitch.”

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 07/09/2026

@markrainey.bsky.social did not post it here, so I'm stealing it. Someone referred to RFJ Jr.'s wife Cheryl Hines as "The Marvelous Mrs. Measles" and that should win the internet for a bit.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My little brother’s name is Tim and my nickname since childhood has been Dolly, and August 25th was an EXTREMELY distressing day for my mother.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In the grand scheme of things, it remains to be seen whether the Great Internet Vowel Shift will be considered lorge or smol.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We are now entering the s’mores/pumpkin spice crossover period. Brace yourselves.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My husband says I’m not a trad wife, I’m a Rad Wife.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

(having no clue what is going on) the game is afoot

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My husband bringing up hyperconjugation and resonance as we’re discussing the One Orange Brain Cell (shared by all orange cats) as if this is some kind of orbital situation.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I got to use the word “boondoggle” in a professional setting the other day. Twice. It was very satisfying.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

God I love baseball. Even if it’s only watching the Giants and Rockies fight for not-last place.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s devolved to just pointing at the screen periodically and solemnly saying “…big.”

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Another month, another interaction with the Moron Pharmacy. They say it’ll be ready in an hour. Maybe. Pray for me.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s a dreary morning and I’m already tired just thinking about everything that needs to happen next week.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I told my husband about the whole Reacher “what if man was big?” thing and now we can’t stop saying to each other while watching.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My primary care physician is some kind of unicorn. I tell him about [problem] that I’m thinking could be [condition 1] and he says he thinks it’s more likely [condition 2] which can be addressed with [minimal intervention] BUT yes it could be [condition 1] so let’s do [imaging] TODAY in case it is.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I racked up a bunch of credit card debt right out of college. Don’t do this. I was paying for flights I couldn’t afford. So that I could come home to see my mom. While she was going through chemo. (She’s cured now btw.) I have zero regrets.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“Is my neck starting to look crepey?” “I don’t even know what that m… You look like a long-necked dinosaur!” “…” “…” “Good. That’s always the goal.”

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Missing my mother-in-law extra much these days. I think it’s the time of year, this period between her birthday and the anniversary of her passing.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I am reminded of one of my high school English seminars (“Autobiographies”) where we were reading Rousseau’s Confessions and the class decided to put him on trial posthumously for being [I] verbose and boring and [II] a terrible person. He was convicted on both counts.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

How, back in high school, my pair of black socks with little white mice on them inexplicably became *3* black socks with little white mice on them.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Broke out the *~Fancy Wok~* tonight to make some hibachi-style fried rice with pork and garlic butter. (This wok was a wedding present and is far too fancy to be part of the Ministry of Silly Woks.)

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Fall trip to New Orleans is officially booked! I haven’t been since pre-Katrina. My husband hasn’t been since ever. I’m psychotically excited!

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Someday, when I have a garden, the first thing I plant will be radishes. So many radishes.

A slice of buttered, toasted sourdough covered with “Easter egg” radish slices and sprinkled with fancy Maldon salt.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Scorpio: In the symphony of life, you are playing the kazoo.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

On my day off I had a couple of drinks and asked my Alexa: A) how long to quick-pickle shallots B) if it could please stop giving me such gross Uncanny Valley vibes C) if it was familiar with Bluesky

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I’m going to start a band called “Prodigious Rizz.”

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Forgot to take a picture, but I made a bed of Jamaican curried lentils and potatoes with bell peppers and onions for some pork medallions, plus some pineapple-lime slaw on the side, and it was bomb as hell.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Marriage is shouting “I’m a-peein’!” as you scamper off to the bathroom and he shouts back “EUROPEAN?!?!”

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So many "woke" issues are things that a doctrinaire libertarian ought to get right, like open borders, police reform--even abolition--and full bodily autonomy for trans people. Libertarian culture usually obscures all that, but these aren't difficult calls if you believe in self-ownership.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I went to the Moron* Pharmacy again yesterday. The people in front of me were picking up meds for their dog. “I’ll need to see [Name]’s ID.” “[Name] is our dog.” A few minutes later… “And lastly I’ll need ID for [Name]” “…he’s STILL a dog.”

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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’m not a democratic socialist, but I would be honored to be in an anti-fascist coalition of parties with them.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

5 years ago on Facebag I posted that I was going to start a band called “Nostalgia Porn” and then @tylerboschert.bsky.social followed up by saying it sounded like a band that’s “hard to remember” and it was 😙🤌

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Tomorrow would have been the 15th birthday of our sweet doggie, Gracie, the goodest girl. I thought The Internet should know.

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🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic @amandagv.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Make a band much worse: Jefferson Segway

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

to be clear, changing the clocks every year is in fact dumb and bad and we should stop doing it, but we should be on permanent standard time, not permanent DST

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