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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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Latest posts by amandasmith.bsky.social on Bluesky

Yep. ABC for mine too. they just taste … like someone making thin mints from memory? And the trefoils taste funky. And they’re smaller.

16.02.2026 07:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please tell me other people have noticed

16.02.2026 06:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Like somehow the thin mints aren’t right but I cannot explain how and of course don’t have any left from last year

16.02.2026 06:19 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I can’t explain it but the Girl Scout Cookies this year taste like they came from a factory owned by a VC firm.

16.02.2026 06:18 — 👍 40    🔁 3    💬 6    📌 0
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Dying at the first time Swedish Chef sees Big Bird

25.12.2024 17:45 — 👍 4810    🔁 994    💬 62    📌 96

Unfollowing & possibly blocking a lot of folks calling transphobia anything other than a legitimate human rights issue that should concern all of us greatly. Wanting folks to defend human rights for all ppl isn’t a purity test. Human rights for all should be a non-negotiable. No one is expendable.

16.02.2026 04:42 — 👍 96    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0

Bryce Harper tldr

15.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’m sick of trying to project what he does or does not believe, if he did or did not know the skull was a Nazi symbol. But there is not a single millennial who doesn’t know exactly what Blackwater is, and his stated reason for quitting tells us his problem was … bureaucracy.

16.02.2026 00:24 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

He’s a self-professed military history buff. His story also doesn’t make sense about (only the sketchiest of tattoo shops would tattoo a blackout drunk dude). But beyond that, he signed up to work for Blackwater in Iraq in 2018. He has posted racist stuff on Reddit as recently as 2021.

16.02.2026 00:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a military history aficionado to boot.

16.02.2026 00:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As for the landline reference, it was a joke about the difficulty in accessing these minority populations, as I assume you do not only poll 7 people.

16.02.2026 00:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And I get that, but can you also see how not overcoming challenges of reporting on small sample sizes can give a skewed perception of religious authority in America, particularly in a time or rising Christian Nationalism?

16.02.2026 00:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

TLDR for why Jews don’t count as a religious body in American polls, courtesy of @askhistorians.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/conr...

15.02.2026 23:13 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

TLDR for why Jews don’t count as a religious body in American polls, courtesy of @askhistorians.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/conr...

15.02.2026 23:13 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.

Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

15.02.2026 22:50 — 👍 7000    🔁 1768    💬 16    📌 75

On the one hand I’m glad no one polled my fellow Jews because who knows what lunacy would come from the 7 who still have landlines but on the other hand it’s pretty incredible to see “religiously unaffiliated” get more acknowledgment than minority religions

15.02.2026 23:04 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1

And he only quit because he says he grew disillusioned by government waste. So like, on the one hand we’ve got a Nazi tattoo, blatant racism, and a Blackwater stint under the Trump admin but on the other hand we’ve got a white guy who says he’s our liberal savior so it’s hard to tell

15.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Their what

15.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“If that doesn’t scare The Court, no evil thing will, your honor”

15.02.2026 21:18 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I only even felt the need to address this because the guy in Maine who just got his Nazi tattoo covered, which means It’s Fine Now was perpetuating this stereotype online after allegedly doing totally normal stuff like conducting field studies on Black people back when he used to bartend.

22.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 643    🔁 127    💬 19    📌 10

I hadn’t seen anything about other Nazi tattoos, my understanding was the one on his bicep that people thought wass a nazi tattoo was actually from the Maine forest service. BUT choosing to work for Blackwater in 2018 should be a disqualifying feature on a liberal’s resume.

15.02.2026 21:16 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community

15.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 2434    🔁 623    💬 116    📌 91

He was the Emcee in Cabaret!!!

15.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 29    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Photo of a blonde jindo mix dog lying on his back with a dragon stuffie next to him but instead he’s munching on a sock covered foot

Photo of a blonde jindo mix dog lying on his back with a dragon stuffie next to him but instead he’s munching on a sock covered foot

He gets the feetz for free

15.02.2026 21:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow she’s lucky

15.02.2026 21:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A small table crowded with izakaya style dishes and food stuff over a blue-gray table cloth, on the table are:
–two sets of plates, chopsticks, a water cup, tea cup with lemon wedge inside, sake cup, tall cup with carbonated beverages, a bowl of miso soup on the right and a bowl of udon noodles on the left
–pork tonkatsu over daikon-carrot salad
–teriyaki salmon on a wood board
-spicy garlic chicken with sesame seeds and green onion garnish
–large bottle of Orion beer
–large blue bottle of Hakkaisan sake
-small teapot on a cork trivet
-green tea candle

Accoutrements of my space are in frame such as records, a trumpet, bed, and my Valentines’s hands

A small table crowded with izakaya style dishes and food stuff over a blue-gray table cloth, on the table are: –two sets of plates, chopsticks, a water cup, tea cup with lemon wedge inside, sake cup, tall cup with carbonated beverages, a bowl of miso soup on the right and a bowl of udon noodles on the left –pork tonkatsu over daikon-carrot salad –teriyaki salmon on a wood board -spicy garlic chicken with sesame seeds and green onion garnish –large bottle of Orion beer –large blue bottle of Hakkaisan sake -small teapot on a cork trivet -green tea candle Accoutrements of my space are in frame such as records, a trumpet, bed, and my Valentines’s hands

Took my Valentine on a tour around Japan last night

(matcha green tea ice cream not pictured)

15.02.2026 20:30 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

One job of a properly functioning government is to keep the horrors of American policing far away from the lived reality of median white voters. Many can only support "tough on crime/illegals" in theory

14.02.2026 23:22 — 👍 186    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 1

Gotta match the team vibes

15.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

If you take out Hillary, who was very clearly an outlier because of her last name, guess what all of the rest of that list has in common and who doesn’t get extended the same benefit of the doubt

15.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My most galaxy-brained take is that some people are pushing the “AOC will run for president in 2028” narrative so she’ll lose and be neutralized from the political conversation.

15.02.2026 19:32 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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