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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 14h

This seems to be a very good week for women surviving

Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In a drug store and I just passed by a busy mom with four young kids. A brother bumped his sister and the mother said to him: I TOLD YOU TO KEEP YOUR BODY TO YOURSELF! I hope she follows him to college

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One solution? Dismantle the cynical relationship between residential fraternities and sororities and colleges

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The College Around the Corner Has a Rape Problem

When bad things happen at good schools

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As fallout from the Cornell story continues, do you want to hear some history about the rape-on-campus/false-accusation panic from someone who was starting college as it took shape? Because this isn’t new, and it’s going to get ugly

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week: I defy my mother's example and let people witness the runaway goldenrod. These are the ties that bindweed.

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Bless This Mess

A late-summer tour of my garden

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And another thing: why don't alumni and donors give a damn ...

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Jane Burns @janeburns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today in Everyone Needs an Editor: Could you send some 11-point Calibri to room 717, please and thanks

A hotel lobby sign that says Font Desk instead of Front Desk

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Absolutely disgusting. This school, which now costs almost $100,000 per year to attend, should ban all fraternities and sororities. Victims of criminal acts and hazing rituals should sue the school administrators and the national "Greek" organizations that shield criminals on campus.

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👻BOOryan BlessDEAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy International Boot Day, to all who celebrate. It's that one day in fall when you pull your winter boots out of the closet. Also ,,, BIG news for cats. And reader responses to what favorite film they would choose to remake.

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Giving this season the boot

Falling toward fall … featuring reader feedback.

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My terrier is outstanding in her field

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Donald Trump has killed the Kennedy Center, one of this country's most important arts venues. Home to so many great performances and indelible memories for three generations of my family -- and millions of audience members and performers. I didn't think I could hate him any more. And yet ...

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bob Mackie and Cher had a spectacular partnership

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At least I paid for my own wedding

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Burnett explained that while the sketch was brilliantly written, it called for "Starlett" to "come down the stairs with the curtains just hanging" on her. Mackie, thinking the visual element could be funnier, "came up with the idea of making the dress with the curtain rod. I fell on the floor."

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Carol Burnett remembers designer Bob Mackie – 'I loved him very much'

Carol Burnett remembers longtime collaborator Bob Mackie, the legendary costume designer behind her show's most hilarious gags.

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Jane Burns @janeburns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“I saw it in the window and I couldn’t resist it.” RIP Bob Mackie

A photo of Carol Burnett wearing the Scarlett O’Hara curtain dress

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I had 22 million daily readers. I once tangled with Barbara Walters on The View. Now I'm wearing a hot dog costume and harassing toddlers

Amy is shown wearing a full-length hot dog costume and talking to a young child

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When you own a vintage car, you also need to make friends with a tow truck operator. My 1967 Morris Minor is headed to town for a spiff-up

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NellMinow @nellminow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

George Noble told William Cohan that he thinks the current A.I. mania and rash of inflated technology stocks could foment a crisis “far worse” than the dot-com bubble of a generation ago.“ puck.news/george-noble...

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It’s the Elon Economy, Stupid

George Noble, the former Fidelity wunderkind, argues that hyperscaler capex, SpaceX euphoria, and passive investing have created the most dangerous market bubble of his lifetime. The only question, he...

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/09/2026

Update: the dialect map quiz thing going around is a cheap knockoff of the good one, which is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Within a few minutes at a lunch in Malibu I was treated to a number of very unflattering Natalie Portman anecdotes. And my trip across the country to California just paid for itself.

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton .... such a hero and lifesaver and icon. And a fantastic authentic musical talent and performer who spread JOY. 🩷🩷🩷🩷

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A lone kayak traverses the ChIcago River. Chicago is at its most shimmery in the summertime.

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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Under MTA rules, dogs are allowed on the NYC subway only if they are fully enclosed in a container or bag and carried in a way that does not annoy other passengers." 😂

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This Halloween ... I wonder how many little kids are going to go as Natalie Harp

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I just learned that Nancy Kissinger was still alive ... until very recently.

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In ten years no one will know what "polite company" is

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/08/2026

White House Taps Mean Teen In Zara Fitting Room As New Press Secretary theonion.com/white-house-taps-mean-…

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Please ... nobody tell me where truck stop hard boiled eggs come from (aside from hens) - because I LOVE them. I could live on these and pouch pickles. I need nothing more. (Well, maybe a nutritionist...)

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Wow I had the pleasure of seeing The Odyssey projected on one of the very few 70MM IMAX screens in the country - in Rochester, NY - home of Eastman Kodak. (That's little me standing in front of the mammoth screen)

Photo of an empty IMAX theater with one person standing in front of the huge screen.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You misspelled "wine box".

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Jean Shepherd, Maggie Smith, Tallulah Bankhead, or my mom.

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

After I quit my job, I bought a small building on Main Street in my hometown (pop. 505) and opened a lending library and free cinema, where I show movies on Friday nights. Last night: JAWS (My terrier is the official usher and full-time crumb-Roomba)

A photo of the outside of the Freeville Literary Society with a large home made poster for Jaws and a cute dog at the window

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Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is hitting me with the force of a grand piano falling off of a rooftop. Yippee!!!

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