agrippina
@agrippina.bsky.social
Writing and editing (treaties, trade, and other foreign policy; novels, poetry, flash fiction). Mostly on here with domestic life.
Maybe this is obvious, but the writers who are most hostile to the editorial process are almost always the ones who need the most assistance. I wish these writers would understand I'm a party member, not a boss fight. We're on this quest together and I'm here to get you through it.
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Maybe this is obvious, but the writers who are most hostile to the editorial process are almost always the ones who need the most assistance. I wish these writers would understand I'm a party member, not a boss fight. We're on this quest together and I'm here to get you through it.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
Dinner was just roast chicken and squash, but the wine was a white tannat. Yes, really. And it's *incredible*. Who knew tannat could taste like vin jaune? One of Virginia's neatest new vineyards. #winesky
(Domaine Finot's Turk Mountain Vineyards - When I Grow Up I Would Like To Be A Jaune)
(Domaine Finot's Turk Mountain Vineyards - When I Grow Up I Would Like To Be A Jaune)
December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Dinner was just roast chicken and squash, but the wine was a white tannat. Yes, really. And it's *incredible*. Who knew tannat could taste like vin jaune? One of Virginia's neatest new vineyards. #winesky
(Domaine Finot's Turk Mountain Vineyards - When I Grow Up I Would Like To Be A Jaune)
(Domaine Finot's Turk Mountain Vineyards - When I Grow Up I Would Like To Be A Jaune)
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im the high priestess of the 202 mutherfucker if you don’t like my city i WILL get you on board with it somehow!!!
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
im the high priestess of the 202 mutherfucker if you don’t like my city i WILL get you on board with it somehow!!!
Hasselback delicata squash with yolo'd stuffing, relish, and a quality petit manseng #cookingsky #winesky
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hasselback delicata squash with yolo'd stuffing, relish, and a quality petit manseng #cookingsky #winesky
Is this the first Thanksgiving meal cooked entirely in a dehydrator?
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Is this the first Thanksgiving meal cooked entirely in a dehydrator?
Your routine remjnder that DC is beautiful. Ginkgo trees are a menace (their seed pods smell awful and their leaves stick all over everything) but for about two weeks every fall they're absolutely magnificent.
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Your routine remjnder that DC is beautiful. Ginkgo trees are a menace (their seed pods smell awful and their leaves stick all over everything) but for about two weeks every fall they're absolutely magnificent.
It might be 2025 if your contractors have to stop work and you let everybody hang out inside with the shades down and doors locked because ICE is "patrolling" your block looking for people to harass
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It might be 2025 if your contractors have to stop work and you let everybody hang out inside with the shades down and doors locked because ICE is "patrolling" your block looking for people to harass
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We need to give editors arrest powers.
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
We need to give editors arrest powers.
The paper of record paying a media nepo baby to write egregiously bad prose about an unprecedented embarrassment to journalism, complete with glamor shots of said embarrassment and uncritical acceptance of everything she says, encapsulates the moment better than any actual commentary
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The paper of record paying a media nepo baby to write egregiously bad prose about an unprecedented embarrassment to journalism, complete with glamor shots of said embarrassment and uncritical acceptance of everything she says, encapsulates the moment better than any actual commentary
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"JAMES BOND" IS NOT A CODENAME. HE ALREADY HAS A CODENAME. IT IS 007. RESIST THE URGE TO CANONISE STUFF. CANONISATION IS THE MIND KILLER. CANONISATION IS AMERICAN
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"JAMES BOND" IS NOT A CODENAME. HE ALREADY HAS A CODENAME. IT IS 007. RESIST THE URGE TO CANONISE STUFF. CANONISATION IS THE MIND KILLER. CANONISATION IS AMERICAN
If you ever think people are exaggerating the obscene amount of privilege and importance accorded to Olivia Nuzzi, consider that someone allowed her to write that she "trained [her] whole life in the battlefield of crisis"
I don’t think any of us are fully prepared for the level of self-pity and absolution that’s going to be in Olivia Nuzzi’s (hilariously titled) “American Canto”
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you ever think people are exaggerating the obscene amount of privilege and importance accorded to Olivia Nuzzi, consider that someone allowed her to write that she "trained [her] whole life in the battlefield of crisis"
Two weeks of our kitchen out of commission with renovations, so a lot of our meals look like this. Treating ourselves after a rotten week with one of my favorite producers - Domaine Marnes Blanches never misses, and this sparkling wine is a killer. #winesky
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Two weeks of our kitchen out of commission with renovations, so a lot of our meals look like this. Treating ourselves after a rotten week with one of my favorite producers - Domaine Marnes Blanches never misses, and this sparkling wine is a killer. #winesky
The mood in DC these days.
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The mood in DC these days.
No, it can't, because writer's block isn't real. Writing is labor, not channeling divine energies. Thinking, taking meaningful rest, and working through problems cannot be separated from the fundamental practice of writing.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
No, it can't, because writer's block isn't real. Writing is labor, not channeling divine energies. Thinking, taking meaningful rest, and working through problems cannot be separated from the fundamental practice of writing.
Chicken forestière with chanterelles and homemade sourdough. Hard to go wrong with shallots and cream. #cookingsky #winesky
October 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Chicken forestière with chanterelles and homemade sourdough. Hard to go wrong with shallots and cream. #cookingsky #winesky
Been stewing about this for a solid day. Inevitable result of chasing engagement blah blah blah, but setting boundaries is the most important part of any narrative endeavor. Complaining that "the stories end" means you don't understand what stories are and you're not interested in telling them.
The problem with Clair Obscur is that it told a whole story when consumers needed more content so they could engage with their favorite IP content synergistically
![What games have inspired your expansion into this space?
Adashek: Because we're cross-genre, there are a lot of games that are inspiring to say the least. [Clair Obscur:] Expedition 33 is the greatest experience I've played this year. It feels like I'm immersed in the greatest French movie of all time, right? I love it. And I look at things like Chronicles of Crime, other games that have been these smart approaches to crime games, but the problem is you get one and they're gone. They're done. There isn't enough content to fill the pipelines on these things. The stories end. As soon as you become attached, you're out of things that you can do. And so when you think about](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z4llsx425l4htoylyyx6iam3/bafkreies7ecifejejfm2plx6rlbzav2di3dwmweelcurdp4nshgdgywhki@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Been stewing about this for a solid day. Inevitable result of chasing engagement blah blah blah, but setting boundaries is the most important part of any narrative endeavor. Complaining that "the stories end" means you don't understand what stories are and you're not interested in telling them.
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I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
October 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
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can report that there was a lot of cringe at the DC No Kings rally, in a very good way
After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.
Resistance Is Cringe
But it’s also effective.
www.theatlantic.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
can report that there was a lot of cringe at the DC No Kings rally, in a very good way
This sounds like absurd hyperbole because most people can get up and live their lives more or less as normal, but tthe American government has functionally and fundamentally ceased to exist. This is not about "what might happen next"; it's happening right now.
Speaker Johnson now signaling the House will remain out of session next week, the fifth recess week in a row
October 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This sounds like absurd hyperbole because most people can get up and live their lives more or less as normal, but tthe American government has functionally and fundamentally ceased to exist. This is not about "what might happen next"; it's happening right now.
Dinner for a dreary day: chanterelle velouté soup with pickled chanterelles #cookingsky
October 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Dinner for a dreary day: chanterelle velouté soup with pickled chanterelles #cookingsky
The Cyrano comparison doesn't quite work because Cyrano was, you know, a human being capable of love and vulnerability.
(That aside, if you're willing to outsource your self-expression to fancy autocomplete, you probably shouldn't be seeking intimacy with other people?)
(That aside, if you're willing to outsource your self-expression to fancy autocomplete, you probably shouldn't be seeking intimacy with other people?)
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely to build a whole fake persona …
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Cyrano comparison doesn't quite work because Cyrano was, you know, a human being capable of love and vulnerability.
(That aside, if you're willing to outsource your self-expression to fancy autocomplete, you probably shouldn't be seeking intimacy with other people?)
(That aside, if you're willing to outsource your self-expression to fancy autocomplete, you probably shouldn't be seeking intimacy with other people?)
It's freeing to understand that writer's block isn't real. Sometimes you need to take a break or take a nap, but if you're really throwing yourself against the wall and still can't get it to work it's because you made a fundamental mistake somewhere that you need to fix.
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's freeing to understand that writer's block isn't real. Sometimes you need to take a break or take a nap, but if you're really throwing yourself against the wall and still can't get it to work it's because you made a fundamental mistake somewhere that you need to fix.
Why bother reopening the government? If the executive can fund and defund projects at will then Congress is functionally irrelevant.
White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says reut.rs/4mFOoPX
White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says
The U.S. federal government has put $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on Friday, in another jab at a Democrat-led city during the U.S. government shutdown.
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October 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Why bother reopening the government? If the executive can fund and defund projects at will then Congress is functionally irrelevant.