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Audiobook lover 🎧
Backlist buff 📚
Chihuahua personal assistant 🐶
She/her
📍Philly + 5 years in Asia
CR 📚 🤷🏼♀️
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Today is also release day for Ravishing by Eshani Surya. She is a debut novelist who wrote a gripping but emotionally resonant novel about big tech, chronic illness, and the lengths we will go to, to escape ourselves and fit in. bookshop.org/a/112057/978...
Ravishing
Check out Ravishing - <p><b>A brilliant and compelling debut, <i>Ravishing </i>shines a light on the dark enticements of the beauty industry and how it capitalizes on our desire to be someone we are n...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Today is also release day for Ravishing by Eshani Surya. She is a debut novelist who wrote a gripping but emotionally resonant novel about big tech, chronic illness, and the lengths we will go to, to escape ourselves and fit in. bookshop.org/a/112057/978...
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A letter from the Teen Vogue team regarding the recent changes at our publication.
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A letter from the Teen Vogue team regarding the recent changes at our publication.
Finally reading Danah Boyd’s it’s complicated, and she quotes Mark Zuckerberg:
Having two identities shows a lack of integrity 🫠
Having two identities shows a lack of integrity 🫠
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Finally reading Danah Boyd’s it’s complicated, and she quotes Mark Zuckerberg:
Having two identities shows a lack of integrity 🫠
Having two identities shows a lack of integrity 🫠
I dunno y’all. That comparison seems a bit thin.
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I dunno y’all. That comparison seems a bit thin.
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We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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If you're interested in learning about why ChatGPT seems to want to date you, the way that AI might actually be our doom (spoiler: it's not the robot wars), and why you shouldn't put glue on your pizza, you might enjoy watching an information science professor do standup comedy. youtu.be/4XdJ2xiPies
Standup comedy about AI ethics has to be a new level of dystopia right?
YouTube video by Casey Fiesler
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October 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If you're interested in learning about why ChatGPT seems to want to date you, the way that AI might actually be our doom (spoiler: it's not the robot wars), and why you shouldn't put glue on your pizza, you might enjoy watching an information science professor do standup comedy. youtu.be/4XdJ2xiPies
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From one old to another
a cartoon of homer simpson is holding a newspaper that says old man yells at cloud
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson is holding a newspaper that says old man yells at cloud
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October 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
From one old to another
I really hate to sound like old marketer yells at clouds, but 100% agree with this.
Own your newsletter. Own your website.
Own your newsletter. Own your website.
I regret to report that I wrote about Anne Helen Petersen leaving Substack for Patreon, and why does not in fact make the internet better for anyone, despite what people may think. Please stop building giant platforms and embrace decentralization.
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www.leahreich.com/feeds-and-fo...
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I really hate to sound like old marketer yells at clouds, but 100% agree with this.
Own your newsletter. Own your website.
Own your newsletter. Own your website.
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This is clear political prosecution and government overreach meant to scare protestors by going after resistance leaders and political candidates.
Kat Abughazaleh must not be imprisoned for fighting against the President’s fascism.
Kat Abughazaleh must not be imprisoned for fighting against the President’s fascism.
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is clear political prosecution and government overreach meant to scare protestors by going after resistance leaders and political candidates.
Kat Abughazaleh must not be imprisoned for fighting against the President’s fascism.
Kat Abughazaleh must not be imprisoned for fighting against the President’s fascism.
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I did not expect this post to resonate with so many people, but it makes sense considering how many people have been laid off or are going through layoffs rn. Gen X and Millennials were also taught to prioritize work and our careers, only to see homes become too expensive to buy and wages stagnate.
Being laid off feels especially hard when I remember how many times I put my job first before my own health, well-being, and family. When I worked weeknights until 11pm and on weekends to hit production quotas, during PTO, and filed three stories the day before it happened. There's a lot of grief.
October 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I did not expect this post to resonate with so many people, but it makes sense considering how many people have been laid off or are going through layoffs rn. Gen X and Millennials were also taught to prioritize work and our careers, only to see homes become too expensive to buy and wages stagnate.
Vajra Chandrasekera accepts the Le Guin prize for fiction for Rakesfall.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Vajra Chandrasekera accepts the Le Guin prize for fiction for Rakesfall.
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All official now, so am finally allowed to announce this- there will be a new Tiger Singh Bhatia story dropping in 2 days on Frivolous Comma. Further details to follow, same bat-channel
October 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
All official now, so am finally allowed to announce this- there will be a new Tiger Singh Bhatia story dropping in 2 days on Frivolous Comma. Further details to follow, same bat-channel
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Excuse me while I tell my kids to stop calling their Aunt Gail by that title since she’s really my cousin and not my sister. Just in case they decide to run for mayor someday.
October 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Excuse me while I tell my kids to stop calling their Aunt Gail by that title since she’s really my cousin and not my sister. Just in case they decide to run for mayor someday.
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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Here's a link to donate to a very good group that can help out SNAP families AND also use Star Wars memes:
secure.nokidhungry.org/site/Donatio...
secure.nokidhungry.org/site/Donatio...
contingency fund. use it, fund snap, feed the people, feed the kids.
![Anakin Skywalker: THEATRICS DON'T FEED THE HUNGRY
Padme: YOU'RE GOINGN TO USE THE CONTINGENCY FUND, RIGHT?
Anakin: [Stares blankly]
Padme: You're going to use the contingency fund to protect SNAP right?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:56gzobqy3hz5zzhsxg5ugz4v/bafkreiffyzc27qs36ruh4q632hr5wvqxtsx22yliot7ws6y7ueazujppuy@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Here's a link to donate to a very good group that can help out SNAP families AND also use Star Wars memes:
secure.nokidhungry.org/site/Donatio...
secure.nokidhungry.org/site/Donatio...
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Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.
October 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.
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ONE OF THE KEY FEATURES OF THE ACA IS THAT IT DOES NOT ALLOW HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES TO BLOCK COVERAGE FROM PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS. This has a cost impact. IF you want to look at that cost impact a good way is to look at health insurance costs in a state like NY
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
ONE OF THE KEY FEATURES OF THE ACA IS THAT IT DOES NOT ALLOW HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES TO BLOCK COVERAGE FROM PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS. This has a cost impact. IF you want to look at that cost impact a good way is to look at health insurance costs in a state like NY
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Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.
Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.
Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
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@evlovesnyc.bsky.social in NYC for example does good work and are always interested in volunteers: www.evloves.nyc
EVLovesNYC - Non Profit Helping New Yorkers in Need
EVLovesNYC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing food & resources in NYC. Over 340,000 Meals provided & working with 75+ partner organizations.
www.evloves.nyc
October 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
@evlovesnyc.bsky.social in NYC for example does good work and are always interested in volunteers: www.evloves.nyc