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Amanda

@wrybutterfly.bsky.social
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Poet, photographer, designer, amateur mycologist, book club member DIY level: mage Location: PNW 🎓: SFAI

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10h
Note: the Alexander Brothers represented Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in their 2021 purchase of a Florida mansion for $24 million.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING: The FBI made a video trashing Democrats & hyping Kash Patel, then posted it during early voting Spending your tax dollars to campaign or to hype the director is illegal -- This video did BOTH We want watchdogs to find out who signed off Our @democracydefendersfund.org letter👇 -TN
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 14h
MAGAs entire schtick is psychological regression to either toddler or teen, never grown.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 15h
Gotta be the big man somewhere
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 15h
Can you believe he's the incumbent? What is up with the ignorance that gets this guy elected to office in the first place?
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 15h
Your field should start doing psych evals to enter because holy shit, it sure rewards and churns out some real doozies.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 15h
Not where I live, and we outnumber residents of those places by the millions. MAGA floats on a two-party, both sides equals half myth. It is not even close to half the population. It's nothing but tyranny of the minority, propped up by the most corrupt people on the planet.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
She falsely claimed she was an attorney by working as general counsel for a CA non-profit in 2024-2025.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Once you learn the names of the different tribal groups, it becomes much easier to learn about their distinct cultural histories. Some starting points: Salish, Athabasca, Yurok, Ute, Apache, Navajo, Hopi, Sioux, Ojibwe, Seminole, Choctaw, Osage, Mohawk, Algonquin, + more share.google/3hmEXkixHr2m...
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Anything but go to therapy
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Mouth make smile shape
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
Your reminder that ICE should be presumed lying when it claims someone "weaponized their vehicle" against them. It's never true. It never happens. It's always a lie.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
See Brian Fitzpatrick of PA.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Republican reps are actively trying to stop it.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yup, need to get around sanctions for the specialized parts to rebuild their refineries.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My kid went on a school trip. I had visions of all I would accomplish. In reality, my body opted for sleep. I slept like crazy.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This one discusses weaving and agency: View of Women’s (Art) Work share.google/LAsOOhWnsfG9...
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View of Women’s (Art) Work
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Seeing photos from the past in contrast to now is a bummer. I hope she's okay because this level of scrutiny can't be good for what she has going on. Less plastic surgery, less Trumpism, more cheeseburgers, more internal confidence & we'd likely know more of her for entirely different reasons.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Like the contour makeup, designed to create or accentuate features she is not lacking. I'm a random woman & think I could do wonders for her within 15 minutes. Her surgeon did her dirty. And so did her therapist, if you read between the lines of these choices. She's far from her Ironman era.
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CallsignBaker 2547 @bobtheangryone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's all a setup to blame Ukraine 🇺🇦 for high diesel prices in the US. It's only a one day of supply for the US that exports diesel. Russia 🇷🇺 can't provide diesel for it's own market. We aren't getting any diesel. We are getting a boatload of bullshit.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
Trump announced a diesel deal with Putin as Zelenskyy’s team met with Witkoff and Kushner in Miami. Ben explains why the deal won’t meaningfully lower prices, but could signal protection for Russian refineries as Trump pressures Ukraine to surrender territory.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Yesterday marked the 3rd annual Network State conference (in Singapore). This is the venture capital cult that plans to kill democracy. Peter Thiel protégés Curtis Yarvin and Balaji Srinivasan had a polite fireside chat about exactly how the USA will die. Yeah, The Nerd Reich is a very true story!
curtis yarvin at network state conferencebalaji srinivasan at network state conference
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sadly, she didn't always look like this, and it's an unfortunate [souls] pose. Her insecurities seem to be screaming out. Years ago, she did the Ironman triathlon and her face was more natural. She should have left it alone. She should dump Trump and her search for the fountain of youth.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He can't help that he was born to be Gregory Peck shaped. If he activates memories of Atticus Finch, oh well.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love the flowers and colors in the tiles. I love the ironwork. It's very pretty.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I have yet to see one where it looked like Collins was inevitable. And does he think the bribe news would give her a boost?
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He's telling us he is impressed by bad boys with bluster.
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Really excited to have won a Loeb award for my story on Neom and the Line. Read the story here: ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes, her name is Susan Dell.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Love that my opponent is trying to paint me as someone who wants political violence and meanwhile her party is going to execute someone on live tv (after already murdering multiple citizens in the streets and fishermen in boats)
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I keep thinking of the soldiers convicted of war crimes in his first term that he pardoned. Hegseth was deeply involved with that. time.com/7176342/pete...
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Pete Hegseth's Role in Trump’s Controversial Pardons of Men Accused of War Crimes
Pete Hegseth advocated for Trump to intervene on behalf of service members in three cases involving war crime accusations in 2019.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How many enemies does one guy need?
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They are actively supporting AI replacement of workers.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Are they revealing to us the form of justice they expect for themselves?
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
+ gun worship
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We're out here still trying to keep babies getting killed by regular products and furniture. You can't leave them alone with anything, let alone robots. Children need connection and these guys need a wake up call.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He missed the day we all learned that the robber barons were a problem, and instead aspired to be one. He hates us and he gaslights us.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rock and roll level arrogant for sure. (Sidenote: surprised and delighted by their new hotel build and its position on the Las Vegas Strip. It's a giant guitar.)
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Mad Max Guitar Guy's Desert Performance
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There's for sure a whole visual semiotics thing happening here.
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turtlyBOOrtly @turtlyburtly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this statement from WSF relies on you to 1) not notice that they are using the top earning job class and passing that off as representative; and 2) not realize that to make the math work here they would be demanding crews work ~73 hours per week, every single week they are on-duty
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The whole thing reads like fodder for therapy. I wish these freaks would start there.
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just because they can be, doesn't mean they are. And they have yet to reach the same level on numbers when it comes to the impact of real harm and violent action.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Listen, you can say "touch grass" and "go to therapy" all you want, but as a guy who's been doing a lot of both these days: I am filled with a barely contained, boiling, white-hot fury every time I remember Thomas, Alito, or Roberts
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Amanda @wrybutterfly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it also flooded with bot users? I'm going to need to start seeing the breakdown numbers on followers because it's a lot of inflated BS.
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