You can call me AL
@amylola.bsky.social
Writer. Love dogs, books and music. And my family. One of my favorite stories:
https://www.johnnyamerica.com/archives/2024/08/02/07.00.00/carolyn-no/
https://www.johnnyamerica.com/archives/2024/08/02/07.00.00/carolyn-no/
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I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
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ICE is the January 6 insurrectionists all over again. Only instead of attacking law enforcement, they are pretending to *be* law enforcement. And instead of just terrorizing at the Capitol, they are doing it EVERYWHERE.
June 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE is the January 6 insurrectionists all over again. Only instead of attacking law enforcement, they are pretending to *be* law enforcement. And instead of just terrorizing at the Capitol, they are doing it EVERYWHERE.
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Good one from Andy Borowitz.
May 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Good one from Andy Borowitz.
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They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident
April 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident
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🚨 📖 Made in L.A. Vol. 6: Hollywood Adjacent Cover Reveal! 📖 🚨
We’re thrilled to unveil the cover for Made in L.A. Vol. 6: Hollywood Adjacent—the sixth annual short fiction anthology from Made in L.A. Writers! 🎉📖
#amediting #fiction #shortstories #anthology #indiepublishing
#MadeInLAWriters
We’re thrilled to unveil the cover for Made in L.A. Vol. 6: Hollywood Adjacent—the sixth annual short fiction anthology from Made in L.A. Writers! 🎉📖
#amediting #fiction #shortstories #anthology #indiepublishing
#MadeInLAWriters
March 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
🚨 📖 Made in L.A. Vol. 6: Hollywood Adjacent Cover Reveal! 📖 🚨
We’re thrilled to unveil the cover for Made in L.A. Vol. 6: Hollywood Adjacent—the sixth annual short fiction anthology from Made in L.A. Writers! 🎉📖
#amediting #fiction #shortstories #anthology #indiepublishing
#MadeInLAWriters
We’re thrilled to unveil the cover for Made in L.A. Vol. 6: Hollywood Adjacent—the sixth annual short fiction anthology from Made in L.A. Writers! 🎉📖
#amediting #fiction #shortstories #anthology #indiepublishing
#MadeInLAWriters
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
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The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
February 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
Writers. Buy this book! So well written and explained and fun to read. #writers #writingexercises #storytelling - really liked reading about 4 act structures, nested stories and more. Lots of examples.
@henrylien
@henrylien
February 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Writers. Buy this book! So well written and explained and fun to read. #writers #writingexercises #storytelling - really liked reading about 4 act structures, nested stories and more. Lots of examples.
@henrylien
@henrylien
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Oof - this one's gonna haunt me for a long long time. Congratulations @sfreligh. A brilliant winning micro.💐🍾🌟
FIRST PLACE in the Welkin Mini 2025. "Nine One One" by
@sfreligh.bsky.social. Congratulations, Sarah. A micro that exists on the periphery of the real and the dream, all of it building in such a way that spoke to me on a deeply personal level:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
@sfreligh.bsky.social. Congratulations, Sarah. A micro that exists on the periphery of the real and the dream, all of it building in such a way that spoke to me on a deeply personal level:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
The Welkin Writing Prize | Nine One One
"Nine One One" by Sarah Freligh
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Oof - this one's gonna haunt me for a long long time. Congratulations @sfreligh. A brilliant winning micro.💐🍾🌟
One good thing. Biden freed Leonard Peltier from decades in prison. Back in the 80s I interviewed one of his comrades, John Trudell for LA Weekly. Read the Matheison (spelling) book about Wounded Knee and have been angry about Peltier ever since. So I’m having a little happy moment.
January 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One good thing. Biden freed Leonard Peltier from decades in prison. Back in the 80s I interviewed one of his comrades, John Trudell for LA Weekly. Read the Matheison (spelling) book about Wounded Knee and have been angry about Peltier ever since. So I’m having a little happy moment.
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It's wild that the Bloom study about 1:1 tutoring has been around for over 40 years, teachers have been advocating for increased staff & small class sizes the entire time, yet it's re-emerged as the TechBro mantra to answer education inequality & "democratization" with AI tutors. 😵💫
January 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It's wild that the Bloom study about 1:1 tutoring has been around for over 40 years, teachers have been advocating for increased staff & small class sizes the entire time, yet it's re-emerged as the TechBro mantra to answer education inequality & "democratization" with AI tutors. 😵💫
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Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
January 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
Read my story of a young woman and a violent criminal. It’s funny.
www.johnnyamerica.com/archives/202...
www.johnnyamerica.com/archives/202...
Carolyn, No - Johnny America
Carolyn's celebration turns chilling when a stranger crashes her quiet night. With her friends absent and a police chase unfolding, she finds herself face-to-face with danger. Will curiosity and coura...
www.johnnyamerica.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Read my story of a young woman and a violent criminal. It’s funny.
www.johnnyamerica.com/archives/202...
www.johnnyamerica.com/archives/202...
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Cathedral thinking.
Think about it.
Think about it.
I'd love to teach a class where we try to do this as a group thought experiment: what would it look like to do "cathedral thinking" in practice? What's the best possible foundation we could lay to make the unknown, unreachable-in-our-lifetime better world possible?
Still the best two sentences on climate action.
January 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Cathedral thinking.
Think about it.
Think about it.
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New Rita story to kick off 2025. brightflash1000.com/2025/01/03/t...
Tucked and Flush
By Sarah Freligh Rita started working third shift at a 24-hour laundromat the week of Mary Jane’s accident, 11 p.m.-7 a.m. and overtime if Maxine is late, which turns out to be pretty much on the r…
brightflash1000.com
January 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
New Rita story to kick off 2025. brightflash1000.com/2025/01/03/t...
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America runs on two principles: greed and racism. Everything comes around to those two things.
December 16, 2024 at 6:14 PM
America runs on two principles: greed and racism. Everything comes around to those two things.
This book is incredible. I wish I was still teaching literature. I would love my high school students to grapple with these ideas.
December 6, 2024 at 12:03 AM
This book is incredible. I wish I was still teaching literature. I would love my high school students to grapple with these ideas.
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!!! seven years have passed like water down a clogged drain & here we are again.
My favorite one is by @joycecaroloates.bsky.social. She wrote it in 2017, but damned if it hasn't stuck with me since then. The truth will do that, though.
November 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM
!!! seven years have passed like water down a clogged drain & here we are again.
There are a lot of cats here. For different cuteness-here’s a dog.
November 25, 2024 at 5:28 AM
There are a lot of cats here. For different cuteness-here’s a dog.
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BOLO #Dogs #BullTerrier #DogsOfBluesky
This dog was stolen in Utah. If you see this dog, please contact his owners, they are devastated 💔
This dog was stolen in Utah. If you see this dog, please contact his owners, they are devastated 💔
November 20, 2024 at 5:19 PM
BOLO #Dogs #BullTerrier #DogsOfBluesky
This dog was stolen in Utah. If you see this dog, please contact his owners, they are devastated 💔
This dog was stolen in Utah. If you see this dog, please contact his owners, they are devastated 💔
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I honestly don’t think Americans understand how much their day to day lives depend on federal civil servants and now is the time for professional commentators to write op-eds explaining
November 17, 2024 at 1:11 PM
I honestly don’t think Americans understand how much their day to day lives depend on federal civil servants and now is the time for professional commentators to write op-eds explaining
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Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!
#litmags #writer #writingcommunity
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
#litmags #writer #writingcommunity
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
November 17, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!
#litmags #writer #writingcommunity
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
#litmags #writer #writingcommunity
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
The confusion about events in Gaza should be studied in journalism schools. I don’t know who to believe. And clearly MSM doesn’t have a clue.
October 18, 2023 at 11:14 PM
The confusion about events in Gaza should be studied in journalism schools. I don’t know who to believe. And clearly MSM doesn’t have a clue.