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Amanda

@asnabors.bsky.social
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cats, cooking, cobbling together a better world. brooklyn/atl, education research and policy. opinions are my own.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Really hit the gray cat lottery this year, look at these silly angel graybies. Many things are mid to bad but having three perfect gray cats really soothes the despair.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
year 1: there's still grant funding, but we may need to change how we talk about our work, or what we work on year 2: the government has disappeared one billion dollars of science funding. it is unclear why they did that or where that sits within concepts like "the rule of law"
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blueminder @ohnoim.online · 08/08/2026
@dril: turning a big dial taht says 'Racism' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Continuously disappointed that I can't take my cats to the spa. Mr. Frank would love a sauna so much, MetroCard would love a cold plunge.
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I know in my bones that I was not meant to spend my one wild and precious life being furious about org charts, AND YET
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ꕷꛕ𖣠𖢧𖢧 𖦪ꚶꕷꕷ𖤟ꚳꚳ (2-1) @pscottrussell.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Humanities students:
Always Sunny scene with Frank on the phone, cackling as he says “Ha. So you come crawling back, you cheap sack of shit.”
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Bought some kettlebells off a dude from Craigslist yesterday and today he tried to add me on LinkedIn. why are y'all like this?
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
such a deep irony in how many establishment Dems who are doommaxxing over DSA aligned candidates sweeping last night are the same ones usually crowing about the sanctity of our precious competitive markets. I thought y'all liked a little competition, where's that enthusiasm now??
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It hasn’t kept me from seeing a damn thing. Instead, seeing people come together in joy and enthusiasm has reminded me exactly what I’m fighting for. Sorry if you can’t walk and chew gum tho.
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
All of New York feels like a senior skip day today, everybody just outside with a smile on their face (screaming about the Knicks). Completely delightful energy
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Caught myself singing a little song to myself that goes "you don't have to be a bitch, even if you really want to be a bitch". Assuming that has no bearing on my mood and won't be exploring it any further!
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I hope Jose Alvarado has a beautiful day and that Wemby has the day his gangly ass deserves
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
amazing weekend for gay puerto rican new yorkers
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Someone needs to break one of his gangly ass limbs
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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
OH MY BAD THERE IT IS
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This series is turning me into a ref conspiracist, open to a number of theories
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 09/06/2026
Trump lives in a sort of Tartarus of his own construction where his eternal quest for a good time leads him to every great party in the world only to find that things started to sour when the news broke to the rest of the attendees that he was en route
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Knicks stress syndrome
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 03/06/2026
There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Tonight if you’re a New Yorker with children you need to set a good example and get arrested. Prove to your children that you stand for something, particularly New York basketball
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Didn't need to be watching the Knicks game to know they won given the immediate exploration of horns and fireworks, lfgggggggg
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
rewarding myself for enduring a Difficult Ordeal (switching over my closet for the season aka trying on every piece of clothing that fit me at this time last year) with a Stoop Drink and have been immediately rewarded with a loud breakup happening across the street, the universe provides
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 26/04/2026
“damn that’s crazy” shall be the whole of the Law
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Perfect weekend with perfect pizzas, cannot recommend highly enough having a partner who asks "what cocktail can I make you while you're in the shower?" and a partner who brings you a neat whiskey when you're reading in the Fancy Corner with the cats.
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The Graybies are VERY much enjoying this 85 degree day, melting into my mattress in front of the open window at an internal temperature of 1000 degrees
Two gray cats lounge sleepily on a pink duvet cover and sheets.A grey cat snoozes languidly on a pink duvet cover with his paws outstretched.
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
the place I work has been migrating from Gmail to Outlook this weekend 🫠 on one hand it's the first time I haven't received an email all weekend in 10 years, on the other hand it seems a fresh hell awaits me
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A lot of people could stand to read this until they have it memorized.
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
big shout out to the little girl walking down my block absolutely housing a Costco sized pack of mini cupcakes
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 06/03/2026
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I don't really have words for how embarrassing it is that they are willing to do this crybully authoritarianism to assert dominance. Like way more embarrassing than the usual behavior.
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This cold streak feels like a divine punishment, I'm ready to sacrifice a goat or my dignity or whatever it takes to get the temperature up above freezing.
A screenshot of a weather app showing that the temperature in Bed Stuy is 6 degrees Fahrenheit, feels like -10, with a high of 17 and low of 3.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
girl not the apophatic darkness beyond all understanding 😭
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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Where is the outrage about schools having to close now, due to ICE/CBP attacks (with no end in sight)? No concerns about learning loss? It’s bad to have to close for public health reasons, but not because our society is being ripped apart at the seams, and our government is attacking us?
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 01/01/2026
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
saw a great play (Tartuffe!), had a cocktail at one of my favorite bars, ate some excellent Korean food, and now I'm going the fuck to sleep. I've seen more than enough of 2025, good riddance and better luck to us all next year.
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Fun fact: whichever team loses the Poptarts Bowl has their coach fed into the toaster alongside the Poptarts mascot!
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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Let that truly be said of us, and, all of us
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.
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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Spotify inadvertently clocked exactly the kind of year I'm having, my desperation "please god let me get some SLEEP" space noise playlists absolutely dominated all of my streaming categories lmao
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's gloomy and cold and I wish my perfect fluffy angel kitty cat was still here. I see her out of the corner of my eye everywhere and I really miss her.
A gray and white cat sits on a man's lap at the thanksgiving table, eyeing some turkey.A gray and white cat is curled up asleep on a couch.A gray and white cat is snoozing very sweetly in a patch of sun on a bed in front of a window.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Brain eating vending machine
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Amanda @asnabors.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Peking turkey is looking G L O S S Y
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Right before the holidays, the Trump administration is making sure that poor families starve and that no one can go visit their moms. 👍
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 05/11/2025
tired: leaders throw folks under the bus wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane
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