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Amanda Prahl

@amandaprahl.bsky.social
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Playwright | Lyricist | Freelance writer/editor || Words @POPSUGAR @Fangirlish @Paste & more

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Amanda Prahl @amandaprahl.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It’s been a rough couple weeks for my family, with probably more tough weeks to come. Any good thoughts/vibes/prayers are very much appreciated 🙏🏻
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Epstein matters, but there's a much greater story of American moral depravity that ought to be leading the news America is building an archipelago of squalid concentration camps. No one knows where this will end. The time to scream 'Never again'? Now! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
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This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 23/07/2025
Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an Al summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than use 's who don't encounter an Al summary. To be precise, only [my emphasis] 1 percent of users who encountered an Al summary clicked the link to the page Google is summarizing.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Convenient list of places where your donation would go the furthest
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
All, today is a good day to support your local PBS station.
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Congress rolls back $9 billion in public media funding and foreign aid
The House approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Aaron Long @aaronlong.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
when a company announces they're going to start using Al in their products all I hear is "our stuff is about to get noticeably shittier, but you should be excited because it'll be cheaper for us"
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/07/2025
Counterpoint: the last time we switched fuels we saved a ton of lives and cleaned up our air. We can do it again.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We need an OFF switch for bullshit.
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This romantasy starter pack is the most chaotic thing I've ever written. I can't believe the editor let me get away with this.
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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I never see this in reverse. Like I've talked to individuals still healing from family that cruelly threw them away for who they love or don't worship but I never see conservatives opining about a responsibility to love & accept their LGBTQ family. Or to stop terrorizing them.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“Why is no one covering-“ it’s because every local news outlet has been decimated if not collapsed entirely for a number of reasons, among them that people want the product but are shocked that it costs money to produce and therefore provide it
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
This is the sort of smoking gun connection between a decision and outcome that gets people fired in a normal government
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/07/2025
Fascism is evil. Fascism is scary. Fascism is awful. But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
gently: it's fine if you don't love explicit sex scenes in fiction but it would be cool if you could talk about it without sounding indistinguishable from moms for liberty
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 09/07/2025
"The masks frequently worn by agents make ICE seem like the type of secret police that operates in authoritarian regimes. But they are apparently meant to keep the police secret."
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Amanda Prahl @amandaprahl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I truly loved #Superman , thanks to its phenomenal cast, sweet spirit, and a story that manages to feel both fantastical and relevant. Yes, it can be goofy, but it's thoughtful too - and its flaws mainly lie in its sprawling ambition, not deeper issues. Read my full review ⬇️
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Amanda Prahl @amandaprahl.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Just left my #Superman  showing with I the biggest grin on my face! Earnest and humorous w/o losing itself in the quips, some serious and timely themes, and big-hearted (if perhaps a bit spread thin at times). Full review @ladygeeksmedia.bsky.social later this week!
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Amanda Prahl @amandaprahl.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Ready to #LookUp !! 💙 #Superman
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD. Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Feline Feces (lib catturd)
@kitttenn.bsky.social

M dashes (the long dash) are a dead giveaway. LLMs love using them for some reason, while actual human beings have no idea how to type that into the computer.
They also love sets of three, overtly parallel structure, and impersonal writing.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
lol. lmao. jesus fucking christ.
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
To me this feels like a similar moment to Sandy Hook. If republicans aren’t willing to accept responsibility and change policy to protect young white christian girls in Texas, they won’t do it for anyone.
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Amanda Prahl @amandaprahl.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"Elphie, now that we're friends, I've decided to make you my new project!" #TheGildedAge
Image of characters from The Gilded Age. A young man looks into a mirror as he is fitted for a suit, while a second young man, holding a cigar, smiles in the background.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/06/2025
Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
On how A.I. can transform media consumption:
Reading the A.I. summary — I think it can be useful. I think it has a powerfully inoculating effect. Like, I think long-form, lots-of-episodes TV is a waste of time. But it’s very tempting, right? You watch an episode and you’re like, “Oh, geez, I really want to know what happens here.”
And so I discovered a couple of years ago, obviously, that the solution is you immediately go to Wikipedia and read the entire summary of the season, and then you’re cured of the desire to watch any more episodes. So there is a therapeutic benefit to A.I. summaries.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The result will be chaos for this Nation’s public schools.
Requiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance
to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent’s religious beliefs will impose impossible
administrative burdens on schools. The harm will not be
borne by educators alone: Children will suffer too. Classroom disruptions and absences may well inflict long-lasting
harm on students’ learning and development.
Worse yet, the majority closes its eyes to the inevitable
chilling effects of its ruling. Many school districts, and particularly the most resource strapped, cannot afford to engage in costly litigation over opt-out rights or to divert resources to tracking and managing student absences.
Schools may instead censor their curricula, stripping material that risks generating religious objections. The Court’s
ruling, in effect, thus hands a subset of parents the right to
veto curricular choices long left to locally elected school
boards. Because I cannot countenance the Court’s contortion of our precedent and the untold harms that will follow,
I dissent.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
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Amanda Prahl @amandaprahl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
tfw a major legacy publication drops a big ol' spoiler in the middle of a feature review, while the rest of us struggle to even get access 🙃
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a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames
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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 25/06/2025
raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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Dr. Jacqueline E. Whitt @notabattlechick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This move is abhorrent and antithetical to the fundamental principles of a democratic society. Five-alarm fire time for historians and others who care about access to the nation’s past and its documentary record. 🔥 🔥 🔥 #historians #history #skystorians
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Between June 10 and June 16, there were FOUR bomb threats sent to public libraries across the US. That this doesn't make wider news–the ongoing targeting of public libraries with bomb threats–is mind-boggling. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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One Week, Four Library Bomb Threats
Bomb threats at libraries have become a far too common occurrence. In the summer of 2023–two years into an unrelenting attack on public librarians, as well...
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I was a teenager in the early aughts, and it felt out-of-step with so much mainstream opinion to speak out against war. What is happening now is cruel and sad and wrong, and you don't have to let anyone make you feel bad for thinking and saying so.
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Kim Shumway @kimshum.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Oh, look, a new MIT study shows that LLM use rots your brain. Quelle surprise. Your Brain on ChatGPT: "the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring." arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
Figure from the front page of the MIT study, "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task." Text reads: "Figure 1. The dynamic Direct Transfer Function (dDTF) EEG analysis of Alpha Band for groups: LLM, Search Engine, Brain-only, including p-values to show significance from moderately significant (*) to highly significant (***)."
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/06/2025
this is the most bullshit logic that I have ever seen and my rage CAN NOT BE CONTAINED. the supreme court does not need to be deciding WHAT MEDICAL CONDITIONS ARE TREATABLE and no one should ignore this just because this time it wasn't yours, holy shit
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025
"In sadness, I dissent."
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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
at this point, i just want this dumbass country to exist long enough for john roberts to be pilloried in history textbooks as the worst chief justice since roger taney.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
If a pregnant woman is brain dead, in a coma, and no longer has rights to make decisions about the pregnancy according to E. Bruenig, that means we don’t have a say in what happens to our organs and corpses after we die. We are public property upon death. Quite an argument!
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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My god! They've discovered TELEVISION!!
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Amanda Prahl @amandaprahl.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I know I’m in my 30s because I just got irrationally excited over figuring out a more effective spreadsheet for my business accounting.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Remember in 2014 when the new U2 album was automatically installed in everyone's iTunes and everyone got really annoyed? Imagine if they'd installed it on every other programme you ever used. And it also somehow meant Bono could interrupt what you were doing and take over That's modern AI, that is
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Jason Carl @vampiresnvino.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Make no mistake: creating in the face of hate and despair is an act of defiance.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/06/2025
Exactly this. There are so many alternate options.
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Amanda Prahl @amandaprahl.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I’ve been browsing job boards and the like lately (looking for more freelance/contract clients!) and the algorithm on one suggested I apply to V*lnet 😬
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a woman from schitts creek is holding a book and saying i won t be doing any of that
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Jeremiah Oshan @jeremiah.sounderatheart.com · 11/06/2025
Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I'm not a historian but my analysis is it's "Not good" when a government constantly commits crimes and tells the legislature, courts, and general public "What are you gonna do about it"
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