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auntie ames
@amesie.bsky.social
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do no harm, take no shit. chaotic good, mostly. queer. unapologetically pro-abortion. invested in the village *and* not your fucking mom. she/her
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amesie.bsky.social
he can’t understand why people respond to his bit-by-dog story with empathy for the dog or the dog’s people…because they were using drugs in public

the subtext (empathy for me but none for thee! *pearl clutch*) does, indeed, make that dog a pretty good judge of character
screenshot from new yorker reading: ““Dogs are really good judges of character!” someone called out from the darkness. I had other essays to get through that night, and, though I read them with what I hoped seemed like precision, I was a thousand miles away, wondering, Is it true that I deserved to get bitten? Am I a worse person than a drug addict who allows their dog to attack people, and who’s likely stealing to support their habit? Is it because I’m not sympathetic enough, or because earlier in the day I’d considered buying a sports coat that cost five thousand dollars and didn’t even fit me, thinking it would look good tossed over a chair?”
December 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
amesie.bsky.social
I haven’t been a fan of david sedaris in a decade and, woof, what a reminder of why

the man’s latest screed? people showing empathy for not-him is somehow reductive party politics, rather than the more obvious reality that he’s pity-party-parading around like an pedantically obtuse prick
screenshot from new yorker reading: “That was when I quit talking about it. I mean, how hard should it be to get a little sympathy when an unleashed dog bites you? What if I were a baby? I wondered. Would people side with me then? What if I were ninety or blind or Nelson Mandela? Why is everyone so afraid of saying that drug addicts shouldn’t let their dogs bite people? Actually, I know why. We’re afraid we’ll be mistaken for Republicans, when, really, isn’t this something we should all be able to agree on? How did allowing dogs to bite people become a Democratic point of principle? Or is it just certain people’s dogs? If a German shepherd jumped, growling, out of one of those Tesla trucks that look like an origami project and its owner, wearing a maga hat, yelled, “Trumper, no!!!,” then would the people in my audience be aghast?”
December 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
amesie.bsky.social
*preemptive* pardons. the institutionalist norms guy just made a whole new presidential power through precedent and then gifted that shit to el duce

www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
“It was a remarkable use of Biden’s presidential power: None of those pardoned has been charged with any crime, and the move was designed to guard against possible retribution by his Republican successor.”
January 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
amesie.bsky.social
the rapid swirlie into idiocracy is flecked with karma and comedy
screenshot of OP link reading: “If the above wasn’t enough, there is also the issue with the Cybertruck glass. As of writing, several Cybertruck owners have reported that their “transparent metal” glass has spontaneously shattered after being left in the sun for too long. Other Tesla Cybertruck owners have also reported that their windshields shattered into pieces after being cleaned with a microfiber cloth or a light hit by a wedding ring.”
October 7, 2024 at 3:56 PM
amesie.bsky.social
y’ever have a day that’s all stuck and no go? that’s me today. I just blazed through this masterpiece cover to cover and now I’m going to stare into the abyss /slash/ sit in the long shadow of Great Literature Feelings
hardcover of the novel “martyr!” by kaveh akbar
August 31, 2024 at 12:53 AM