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@amandasmith.bsky.social

Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong.

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Screenshot of Trump on White House roof

Screenshot of Trump on White House roof

Screenshot of NYT piece, "Is There a Smart Way to Cede Power to Donald Trump?"

Screenshot of NYT piece, "Is There a Smart Way to Cede Power to Donald Trump?"

these were near each other in my timeline

05.08.2025 19:44 — 👍 71    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe After Asteroid, the world only operates based on seasons not months and they’re just trying to do an immersive thing.

05.08.2025 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@bilgeebiri.bsky.social Greenland 2???!?!?

05.08.2025 17:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I saw!

05.08.2025 16:25 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

This is insanity.
An enemy within is destroying everything of value that belongs to the people.

Trump administration takes aim at satellite that measures carbon dioxide and crops

www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

04.08.2025 23:34 — 👍 271    🔁 149    💬 18    📌 5

His body is shaped like a Minion

05.08.2025 03:13 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
04.08.2025 19:20 — 👍 131    🔁 18    💬 5    📌 1

This is absolutely true, and also this administration, unlike previous administrations, wants to destroy all the parts of NASA that actually *are* working and providing value to the American people.

04.08.2025 22:45 — 👍 260    🔁 39    💬 0    📌 2

the strategy from Dem leadership has been very clear: get out of the way, let them hang themselves, clean up the mess.

but that doesn’t work if voters see you as part of the mess. the aesthetics of fighting are nearly as important as fighting. few Dems have that.

04.08.2025 23:24 — 👍 495    🔁 65    💬 4    📌 7

Take me down to the Asteroid City
Where the palette’s pastel and the folks are quirky
Oh won’t you please take me home

10.06.2023 00:05 — 👍 27    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Don’t tell Thomas crowne that

04.08.2025 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
04.08.2025 19:20 — 👍 131    🔁 18    💬 5    📌 1

Come over I have a few

04.08.2025 18:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I very much want to but also do not trust myself to not fling myself into the river to try to hunt salmon like one of the bears

04.08.2025 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bears hate to see me comin’ (bc they know they’re gonna have to hug me)

04.08.2025 17:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I just watched a Jospeh Campbell interview on PBS (go watch the 6 part series on your PBS app!) and when Joseph Campbell said life is painful, what he meant was how it hurts that I can’t hug Grizzly bears but it also hurts if I try to hug Grizzly bears.

02.08.2025 07:02 — 👍 67    🔁 9    💬 8    📌 0

If I run for mayor ABSOLUTELY put it in the newspaper how me & my friends took all the picnic tables outside the dining hall & stacked them into a massive pyramid of picnic tables under the cover of night and didn't even get caught & tbh this may be the first admission from any of us that it was us

04.08.2025 15:32 — 👍 311    🔁 26    💬 18    📌 1

He’s going to make you find the geodes with cobalt shells :(

04.08.2025 17:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion.""

I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?"

Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?"

I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

04.08.2025 16:08 — 👍 34990    🔁 3836    💬 848    📌 474

New way to ID undercover cops at a protest just dropped

04.08.2025 17:34 — 👍 58    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0

Liz Warren to her absolute credit shows up on CNBC and is willing to call everyone a stupid piece of shit in a way that even Bernie would refrain from

04.08.2025 15:34 — 👍 5960    🔁 941    💬 123    📌 26

Please remember that Mark Zuckerberg was never any kind of super genius. He was just some schmuck kid who made an obscene amount of money by selling your personal data to advertisers.

This is who Mark Zuckerberg is, and always was.

03.08.2025 15:37 — 👍 304    🔁 133    💬 4    📌 5

Went to live with my roommate’s mom in Jersey for the rest of the semester, the next year she and her bf moved in together off campus and took the cat with them. Zach lived a long and happy life in apartments in New York and tolerated the existence of her human brothers, and passed a few years ago.

04.08.2025 03:52 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We also kept a cat in the dorms for two years until we got caught because she was seen by an RA in the window. I was a rebel in college.

04.08.2025 03:49 — 👍 32    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

I mean technically we borrowed it; we put it back at the end of the year both times.

04.08.2025 03:48 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dog catcher

04.08.2025 03:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m genuinely furious to have missed it, especially because I might have to go to NY in September for Sargent-related reasons

04.08.2025 03:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My college roommate and I also stole a couch from the common room and put it in the kitchen area of our suite two years in a row so I guess I am governor of New York now

04.08.2025 03:46 — 👍 79    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

The truth is that the hostages could have been home a long time ago. The catastrophe in Gaza could have been stopped. Instead, the horror is being purposefully, cruelly dragged out by the extremists in power, and we all just got a terrible reminder. (4/5)

03.08.2025 13:09 — 👍 80    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 3

The answer is straightforward: Prior to WW2, there were 3.3 million Jews in Poland. In the 2021 census, there were 17,156 Jews living in Poland. The people behind Mi Polin know the mezuzah traces are from before WW2 because, quite simply, once They Came For Jews, we did not return (4/)

03.08.2025 18:52 — 👍 55    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

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