Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 53mPeople like to ask "what would your life be like if genAI disappeared?" and I find the answer "the exact same as it is now" to be silly. No it would not be the same! I would get back the time that I currently use complaining about and arguing against that particular brand of determined stupidity. 1201
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was." In honor of the day, I bring you a Jane Austen × Mean Girls (2004) mashup. It is not Wednesday, so I am not wearing pink. But my hair is at least tidy, which was all my ambition. Get in, losers. 1377
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Good morning. It's October 3rd. Stay tuned. 😌static.klipy.comAnya Taylor Joy as Emma Woodhouse Sips TeaALT: Anya Taylor Joy as Emma Woodhouse Sips Tea 1250
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I was 15 when "Firework" came out and I thought the lyrics were the dumbest thing I'd ever heard. But now I'm more than twice that age and you know what? Maybe I was too hasty, because actually yeah, sometimes I do feel like a plastic bag 2190
Reposted by Amy ColleenThe Pomegranate @thepom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I bounced the idea for this essay off of my husband while we were making dinner one night. “I don’t know that Mom Rock is really a thing,” he said. “What do moms even listen to? Taylor Swift?” I don’t think he was very prepared for my gleefulness as he fell into my trap. @lindsayfickas.bsky.socialthe-pom.comIs There a Mrs. Dad Rock?Exploring whether there can ever truly be a “mom rock” 1124
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Who here has experience with both Beehiiv and Substack and would be willing to talk to me about pros and cons? I really don't love the Substack platform ethics (I know, I know, every big app has issues) and I'd like to eventually switch to Beehiiv but I'm a little annoyed by the heavy AI push there. 331
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Really loved this essay! Why are dad hobbies so often coded as cool while the mom counterpart is assumed to be "loser?" 1131
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Today I met with my academic advisor to plan the last few classes I need to take in order to graduate in May with my bachelor's degree at age 32. Also today, Anna Sofia & Elizabeth Botkin published a retraction/public apology for "So Much More" and the stay-at-home daughter movement. Fitting. Idk. 9720
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Blowing a whistle does not ruin a reputation. He already chose to ruin his reputation by doing evil in the first place. The rest is natural fallout. Tell the truth. 0325
Reposted by Amy ColleenCori @pnwcori.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The bears don’t have a group chat where they say there’s fresh meat available. 0253
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The thing is, the other bears won't tell you to keep quiet so you don't ruin the bear's reputation or career 1506
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My 5yo is turning 6 🥹🥹🥹🥹 and because he is in SCHOOL now we have a tighter schedule and I agonized over how to do birthday presents. First thing in the morning? Overwhelming, won't want to leave for school. Once Dad gets home? Bedtime. Weekend? Special museum trip for birthday. But I think I came up 1210
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Incredibly depressing recession/lack of food safety indicator: I've never seen so much marked down meat at Walmart in my LIFE, and yet everyone I saw--including myself--checked a reduced price and put the package back.static.klipy.comKristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop: This Is The Bad Place!ALT: Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop: This Is The Bad Place! 6300
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm *not* saying that people who insist Taylor Swift is a lyrical genius (whose work is simply ✨️not understood✨️ by the haters) are the same people who went to bat for Yesteryear and wanted to die on the hill of "complex layering" instead of lazy writing. I'm not saying that, ok?static.klipy.comI'm Not Saying A Word - Parent TrapALT: I'm Not Saying A Word - Parent Trap 3150
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yes, @howdroll.bsky.social wrote this in fact! guffaw.substack.com/p/the-pet-do...guffaw.substack.comThe Pet Doesn't Die in this Movie Where Everyone Else Suffers Gruesome FatesDon't worry, you'll only see humans killed in my movies. 172
Reposted by Amy ColleenSarah 钟怡珊🎃 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And then there's something to be said about the piles of moms who have been carelessly slaughtered throughout children's literature because otherwise they would have to be nagging the heroes to finish their vegetables and fold the laundry and then there'd be no time to go off on Adventures™️ 0141
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yah babe you didn't see them voting, paying rent, peeing, snaking a drain or using social media either, because they're characters in a children's book and their presence is dependent on and in service to the ✨️fictional✨️ child's experience 4151
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026No one: Absolutely no one: No one at all: Me for approximately four days every month: "ok so you know how everyone who has ever met me secretly hates me and wishes I were dead? Well," 6220
Reposted by Amy ColleenJeannie Prinsen @jeannieprinsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This Is Just To Say I have brought the iced coffee to the interview which I thought would be completely acceptable but I now realize was the ultimate corporate faux pas Forgive me it was delicious so sweet and so cold 0386
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Today is the birthday of the little girl I babysit, and I can think of no better way to honor Dolly on 9/25 than to make a present of some picture books. 🥰 (and schedule my covid booster, while I'm at it) 1280
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Now, there will be a great marriage! And, you know, that will throw the girls into the path of OTHER RICH MEN!" 1143
Reposted by Amy ColleenThe Pomegranate @thepom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I find myself wishing [for the] answer of a UTI. If it’s a UTI, then I did the right thing by bringing him in. If it’s a UTI, we’ll get an antibiotic and go home. He’ll feel better by the end of the day, & I was not an overreacting flake who rushed her baby to the emergency room for an upset tummy.the-pom.comSecond-Guessed Equations in the Emergency RoomThe constant uncertainty of motherhood math 042
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Before I became a mom, I could never have imagined how much mental math I'd need to do about things like pickup schedules and wake windows and when to go to the hospital. (Spoiler: everyone is fine.) I wrote about this today at The Pom: www.the-pom.com/p/second-gue...the-pom.comSecond-Guessed Equations in the Emergency RoomThe constant uncertainty of motherhood math 0140
Reposted by Amy ColleenAmy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tomorrow’s essay at The Pom is not clickbait. I am telling you right now: this story will end happily. Everyone is okay. But the process of getting there? It feels like trigonometry. (I didn’t take trigonometry.) 0112
Reposted by Amy ColleenKristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026LIVE LAUGH LOVE is a NEW YORK TIMES Best Seller!!! Thank you to all my readers and defenders, and to my incredible team at Liveright. ❤️❤️❤️ 69311
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tomorrow’s essay at The Pom is not clickbait. I am telling you right now: this story will end happily. Everyone is okay. But the process of getting there? It feels like trigonometry. (I didn’t take trigonometry.) 0112
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm aware, theoretically, that we are in the second quarter of the twenty-first century. Yet my mind refuses to grasp that Virgina Woolf's most influential works are a century old. That sounds fake 5221
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I made my Jane Austen / Parks and Rec mashup into a short video and posted it as a reel to my Facebook page and it has more engagement than anything I've ever put there in the last five years. I don't WANT to give in to video. I SHAN'T. 5290
Reposted by Amy ColleenAmy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Mary Bennet: 🎵 Bye, byyyyyye, lil Sebastian! Miss you in the saddest fashion! Bye, bye, lil Sebastian! You're five thousand candles in the... wiiiiiiiiiiind. 🎵 1171
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Watching The Truman Show for the first time with @hubby2sewistwrites.bsky.social who had never HEARD of The Truman Show before tonightstatic.klipy.comAlexis Rose's Shocked GaspALT: Alexis Rose's Shocked Gasp 9391
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Jane Austen characters × Parks & Recreation quotes, a resurrected Mashup Thread from long-ago Tw*tter days. Mr. Darcy: "When people get too chummy with me, I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don't care about them." 44910
Reposted by Amy ColleenAmy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I wrote about #LIVELAUGHLOVE; part personal essay, part book review. I hope you'll take a few minutes to read it, and more importantly I hope you'll read @kkdumez.bsky.social 's LIVE LAUGH LOVE. It's a story we need to know. www.amy-colleen.com/p/book-revie...amy-colleen.comBook Review: LIVE LAUGH LOVE by Kristin Kobes du Mez (out now)On fascinating womanhood, the power of positive thinking, the 2020 election, Napoleon Dynamite, and the domino effect meme, among other things 2213
Reposted by Amy ColleenDouglas S. Bursch @fairlyspiritual.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I heard they are having a credenza play the wardrobe. 182
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 19/09/20265yo, eating a smoked beef stick: Wow, this snack is so delicious. [3yo], let me tell you about it. It is kind of like eating a shriveled up hot dog, except it is made out of beef, and not out of dogs. 2371
Reposted by Amy ColleenJordan @jspray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@amycolleen.bsky.social’s review of LIVE LAUGH LOVE (which I forgot I preordered until I went to buy it this week and found jt in my Kindle already) is good but also it’s encouraging.open.substack.comBook Review: LIVE LAUGH LOVE by Kristin Kobes du Mez (out now)On fascinating womanhood, the power of positive thinking, the 2020 election, Napoleon Dynamite, and the domino effect meme, among other things 021
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I wrote about #LIVELAUGHLOVE; part personal essay, part book review. I hope you'll take a few minutes to read it, and more importantly I hope you'll read @kkdumez.bsky.social 's LIVE LAUGH LOVE. It's a story we need to know. www.amy-colleen.com/p/book-revie...amy-colleen.comBook Review: LIVE LAUGH LOVE by Kristin Kobes du Mez (out now)On fascinating womanhood, the power of positive thinking, the 2020 election, Napoleon Dynamite, and the domino effect meme, among other things 2213
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm going to spend this entire day tweaking my LIVE LAUGH LOVE review and not actually posting it, I fear. There's just SO MUCH to say and I am VERY INADEQUATE in the saying thereof. #livelaughlovebook #livelaughlaunchteam 2170
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Left my car window open last night because of a mosquito and of course the heavens had to open too, so my seat was SOPPING this morning in 90% humidity and despite my best towel efforts I have now arrived on campus with wet denim shorts. Ask me anything; I wish to be taken Seriously as a writer. 7301
Reposted by Amy ColleenThe Pomegranate @thepom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“To be a mom, I rearranged my life. At first, I had to concentrate on her with every fiber of my being, protect her at all cost. Now she needs to pull away, which she does—a little bit more each day. I have to learn how to focus elsewhere more and more. It feels like a trick.”the-pom.comI No Longer Laugh at Amy Poehler's “Cool Mom” Character In Mean Girls. Because, Now That I’m a Mom of a Teen Girl, I Basically Am Her.The uncool “cool mom” deserves some understanding, not our scornful laugh. 192
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I don't have teens yet, but I heartily enjoyed @lilyehirsch.bsky.social 's debut in The Pom! (Wild to think Amy Poehler was also in her early 30s when she played this role.) How much of our own self-worth are we finding in our kids, & when do we need to step back? thepom.substack.com/p/i-no-longe...thepom.substack.comI No Longer Laugh at Amy Poehler's “Cool Mom” Character In Mean Girls. Because, Now That I’m a Mom of a Teen Girl, I Basically Am Her.The uncool “cool mom” deserves some understanding, not our scornful laugh. 1101
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Two survey questions: 1) What is the default Fresca flavor, the original one? 2) Where are you from, generally speaking? 2060
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I've lost track of the number of times I've posted a joke and a man has hopped into my replies to *inform* me of or to explain the pun/reference that I have obviously inadvertently made I have yet to observe this phenomenon in the replies of any male friend who approaches poasting in the same waystatic.klipy.comPete Davidson: How Weird Is That! SNLALT: Pete Davidson: How Weird Is That! SNL 7371
Reposted by Amy ColleenOzymomdias @ozymomdias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So what I am gathering from the whole Macklemore the hero into Macklemore the milkshake duck brouhaha today is that people are discovering in real time that somebody can take a genuine stand for something good without it making them a flawless hero 1141
Reposted by Amy ColleenZoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I've been a reader of the Pom for a while so it was a pleasure to be able to write for them about my experience of motherhood and picking your battles. 1163
Reposted by Amy ColleenStephanie Rotramel @sometimeswitty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Actual footage of me waiting for book 9.static.klipy.comRose Dawson: It's Been 84 Years (Titanic)ALT: Rose Dawson: It's Been 84 Years (Titanic) 011
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Actual footage of me finishing Emma M. Lion volume 6:static.klipy.comCharlotte from Princess and the Frog LaughingALT: Charlotte from Princess and the Frog Laughing 2100
Reposted by Amy ColleenAmy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"But what if I live on the top floor of a concrete apartment building and it's impossible for me to touch grass? What then?" Then delete TikTok and pick up a BOOK, babe www.amy-colleen.com/p/we-need-to...amy-colleen.comWe need to read more slowly(and no, I do not mean we need to read fewer books) 1253