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not exactly uplifting” would be the name of my Lana Del Ray cover band, and also describes this essay.

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"Every day I start anywhere and do what I can. Holding three true and devastating facts in the mind, refusing to forget." read more in this week's newsletter: www.amywriteswords.com/p/every-day-...

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Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

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I just don't know how to process the fact that the reconciliation bill is called The One Big Beautiful Bill. I don't know why this is the thing that is breaking me right now, but it is.

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If we want the humans of the future to be able to imagine anything else at all, we will have to write faster than they can erase. New newsletter, and just look at that adorable inchworm.

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Mainstream media needs to stop pointing out what "RFK Jr. gets right," because there are many, many trained public health officials who get the same things right without all the batshit crazy eugenics and woo.

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I despise AI but I also despise the word “curated”.

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Someone called me “active” the other day, I had to explain that I'm not really active, I'm just in a situationship with some moss that unfortunately lives pretty high up in the mountains

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This is what the web is for. If you ever ask yourself, "why did all those people in the 1990s stop watching TV and start typing things on the open web?" this is why. Utterly niche shit that could only exist in a free, collaborative space without ads. rickiheicklen.com/unparalleled...

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It’s Fuck the Patriarchy Day. Traditionally celebrated with donations to abortion funds, listening to Bikini Kill, protecting the dolls, and making offerings to Hecate.

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"The group, which seeks...damages, argues that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing "the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve" its earnings goals." do you have a moment to discuss the Good News of dialectical materialism? www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Really important piece about Harvard’s institutional attacks on Jewish identity: “It claims to document a crisis of antisemitism… But what it actually reveals is Harvard’s willingness to redefine Jewish identity…to exclude and erase Jews who dissent from Zionism.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The world as presently constituted is a factory for trauma, created by generations of sociopaths for their own benefit with no regard for the 99%. That so many of you survive and resist and demand peace and healing is a miracle of human spirit.

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This reminds me that Brookline town elections are Tuesday May 6 and every single vote really does count. Locals: Hit me up if you want to know my voting recs, or check @brooklinenews.bsky.social for complete local coverage of our elections.

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I'm so sorry for everyone I know that I'm perpetually screaming like I'm in a Edvard Munch painting

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The love that Sinners is getting reminds me that we must always make room for beauty in the midst of existential struggle. ESPECIALLY when we are in these moments of distress. Take time for thoughtfully crafted and life affirming art. It won’t save your life but it might just save your soul

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I love that there is peer reviewed research calling ChatGPT bullshit so much 😭

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We can inject hope into the world even when we ourselves feel hopeless. I wrote about this today in my newsletter: "Facts, feelings, and fascism." (content advisory: suicidal ideation) www.amywriteswords.com/p/facts-feel...

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This is what I remind people about when they talk about the impact of the closures on the kids - they were terrible for mine too! But ppl have completely memory holed the horrors of mass death during that time and that will not serve us well in the next pandemic.

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These people can and must be opposed, and they can be stopped. Get loud, get persistent, whatever way you can. Believe me when I tell you that I am tired and I am scared, but there have been wins and these people Have been forced to reverse course in multiple areas. Keep pushing. However you're able

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A grandma who works at Target. An advocate for farmworkers. A cancer researcher. A grad student who wrote an op-ed. A hairdresser. A sheet metal worker and loving father to an autistic child. At least two people who took a wrong turn on the same bridge in Detroit. A toddler.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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feels like we should focus on making sure we defend the rights of the conscious humans all around us. but no, way more fun to speculate about the rights of "AIs" than deal in reality.

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These security song covers are just amazing.

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Let’s go, Brookline! WA 29 coming up at spring town meeting

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On the other hand, I believe there is no level of depravity that we cannot make a choice to leave behind. Not the same as going back, which we can never do because time only goes forward. But we can always choose to leave depravity behind.

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the truth still matters.

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I totally felt the earthquake. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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new followers! Hello! I'm not on on here much, so I want you to know you can subscribe to my newsletter at amywriteswords.com 2 awesome things about it: 1. arrives irregularly, def not every week, only when I have something to say 2. I like when ppl pay/share/like but I don't hound you for it

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this is how it's going for me right now.

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the anti-planner by @danidonovan.com is on sale today from her website. I love this thing. I get no money whatsoever from telling you about it. Here's a link to buy, don't buy it from elsewhere, there's a counterfeit issue anti-planner.com/shop/the-ant...

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i fucking love @heatherhav.bsky.social www.ask-polly.com/p/new-year-s...

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but the thing i'm really having to shake off is the suspicion of immorality and insanity that comes along with saying no, I do not want to toil for profit anymore, i'd like to watch a slug eating a mushroom on a log in the forest instead. well, so be it. I am insane & immoral.

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