Amanda Pampuro

I would watch this

Still trying to figure out how to tune into the right station. Right now I’m getting a ton of sad center-Dem takes on far right click bait and Biden electability

Be careful or your car warranty might expire

Then there’s that. And sometimes it feels like pushing boulders uphill just to watch them fall down. Nothing wrong with walking away and finding meaning elsewhere.

Best age to take em to the Musuem—that is if you want to look at things.

Just a Pollyanna thought like hey, you guys don’t read enough and you guys don’t have enough readers… but yes, there’s many more bigger problems, aside from access to stories.

I’m picturing SpongeBob filling a bucket, and we both just gotta imagine it

GIF-free zone too

I have a few on that boat too.

The other half of my Bigsky feed is commentary on a Slate piece about how the dire state of the reading-deficit in America is making college impossible for today’s students. Gotta ask can short Stories save us? Or is the lit world too hard to access?

Engaging!

Now you gotta read em all or it’s like cooking food and not eating it

Beautiful!

Agreed. Maybe it gets there, maybe it doesn’t.

Big opportunity for chiropractor sponsorships

I’m not there, but if you mail me some I’ll Venmo you.

Good enough

You can. That’s exactly how art works.

Like memes or politics or food stuff? I remember one person saying they missed seeing content around a certain dog breed. I just want an easy place to browse short stories. I think it’s interesting when/where niche interests gather

That’s so lovely, I’m going to log off now.

Ok show me how you cut a sandwich

Perfect.

This sounds fun—until I imagined a sad teen stuck dragging around a giant monkey because their crush was out sick that day

What’s missing?

What made it sound promising to you?

Now I gots the FOMOs

Geeze I looked and didn’t see you anywhere!

I don’t even care what kind of animal Grendel is, this cracked me up.

Anyone got short stories to share?

Ok I did a quick AWP scan to see if hey you writers are you still active on Bluesky? The answer is yes, but you all still post and engage more on X. So I think the eXodus was maybe a more general (and much needed) mass break from social media entirely