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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My newly 5yo can’t read yet, but I just bought a pretty copy of The Railway Children and she’s been quietly pretending to read it while I read my own book, and she just came to me like, “Look! You’d like this page becuase it has em dashes like that writer you like.” (Emily Dickinson)

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The Daunt Books tote is so popular that not only do I constantly see them around Geneva, but now I have my 4yo (who has her own mini version) shrieking “REGARDE a papa with the même sac as us!!!” when she sees one in town.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Have taken gender role reversal so far that my daughter thinks cooking is just for fathers (unless it’s for fun… like making cookies) and tries to console me if she thinks I need to cook. “Let’s just order, Mommy.” Oops.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Love to have my 4.9 year old hold up a page of The World of Interiors and say “you can order this for me?” like oh honey, do I have news for you.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Posting dog sightings feels like a different era, but we went to our tiny local lunch spot today and delightfully, there were 4 dogs inside when we arrived (a dachsund, a corgi, a pointer, and a Appenzeller Sennenhund) and then a golden lab puppy arrived and they all stood up to bark in welcome.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that if you leave your home chaotically dressed as a(n albeit well-dressed) little boy from the 90s for a lunchtime walk in the park, you’ll run into everyone you’ve ever known *and* your mother so she can wave her hand over you and say “what’s going on here?”

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I didn’t realize what an essential part of Christmas illness and ear infections are until my child turned 2, and I have to say we could all do without this part of the festivities.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

One thousand reasons I hate AI but one of them is that it is normalizing people thinking they can just take other people’s words without consequences, whenever they feel like it.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Sitting amidst a bunch of paper pumpkins cut out of old New Yorkers (we’re crafting) while my 4yo daughter is crying that she wants to “go out! to the restaurant!” and Florence + the Machine is playing in the background, and idk I appreciate these moments that parody the hell out of my parenting.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I love my hometown 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 01/05/2025

Em dashes, of course, were named in honor of Emily Dickinson, because she used so many of them.

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

people who act like no one uses em dashes are essentially saying “I don’t read books!”

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Anyway, I went to Paris and I feel very confident in my deserving Swiss citizenship now because despite having grown up in the French school system, I looked a waiter in the face and said « septante-cinq » and absolutely blanked when he didn’t understand and kept saying « septante-cinq »

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I am once again internally screaming in the Petit Palais over an out of body aesthetic experience (at the Worth exhibit).

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Extreme flashbacks to myself as a child but clear preview of what awaits my child today as on the bus, another American mom was reading a Lovevery book to her ~18 month old, and my child, from diagonally across the aisle was shouting out all the answers.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

As an exiled Chicagoan abroad, hilarious to get multiple missed phone calls from an unidentified Chicago number in between the appearance of white smoke and the announcement of Chicago Pope.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Minor effect of having the same digital accounts for most of our lives at this point, but my iTunes has gone rogue this morning and is shuffling music from my mid-2000s library that I haven’t heard in 20 years and I wonder why it’s doing it but also wow… time.

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Spoon & Tamago @spoon-tamago.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖 Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio

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Le Temps @letemps.ch · 02/05/2025

L’asperge, ce légume originaire d’Anatolie qui a conquis le monde ➡️ l.letemps.ch/PYc

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19/04/2025

An important message.

Sign reading "so tired of living in an Onion article"

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I am genuinely so baffled when I see the dumb shit people willingly use AI for, knowing the damage it does to our brains, our society, our planet - like AI to find early cancers? Yes, sounds great! But using AI because you don’t want to write your own grocery list or write a five paragraph essay?

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

No joke, no one I know thinks it’s safe to travel to the US.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

My 3yo has started loudly stating “tout le monde, stop talking!!!” when she wants quiet, and I want to try that out on the bus (and many other public spaces).

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 11/04/2025

Pride and Prejudice except every single character is played by Olivia Coleman including Mr Collins

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

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PRAMS Shuttered for Good

In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We’re not a Cocomel*n household, we’re a Nana’s original 1964 LP of Mary Poppins household

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/03/2025

”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"

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OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images

The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Something that keeps me sane as a professional editor is the memory of my favorite undergrad prof talking about the difficulty of “killing her darlings” because cutting good text is SO hard, but at least I always know the pain is shared.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I don't think Democrats should surrender on "DEI" for the same reason I don't think we should surrender on "trans sports". The actual demand in both cases is that the affected caste of people disappear from public society, and that is not something we should (or can!!) deliver upon.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Found out today that the recurring thought I’ve had over the last few weeks that I should zap the gunky bits of my Nespresso machine with steam was indeed a bad one.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Really love the other people who name their kids really old fashioned names so I get to hear people shrieking things like “LUCRÈCE!!!!” out of nowhere at the playground.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Excited for my mother, age 65, to be discovering the world of children, at the playground on a Wednesday, in an astrakhan coat and carrying a Peppa Pig toilet seat.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Really need HD versions of the early 1990s World of Peter Rabbit and Friends BBC series that has live action Beatrix Potter water coloring in the Lake District because they were perfect and I’m really sick of the pixelated YouTube videos 🥲 (The new Peter Rabbit animated series is an abomination.)

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Love my rule-loving child screaming “c’est interdit!!!” at a woman crossing the street despite a red light.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day! My husband is writing a little newspaper article on Edith Wharton and Henry James, and even though it’s a thematically relevant piece thanks to the times we live in, I am interpreting it as a Valentine to me.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Nineteen days into this now!!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 09/02/2025

The idea that the use of em dashes exposes a writer's use of AI is the sort of idea that only AI could come up with.

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

oliviasview coded personnages for old time’s sake

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O.S.G.W. @oliviasview.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My back went into crisis last week, a few days before my 34th birthday, seemed to get better on my birthday, and now is seized worse than before. A very painful but appropriate way to process the transition from early to mid-30s.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/02/2025

Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social speaking at today's USAID protest: "This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like."

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