Amy
@amyweiss.bsky.social
📍Chicago
Into travel, TV, running, cities, concerts, food.
Into travel, TV, running, cities, concerts, food.
The era of asymmetry and midi length in cocktail dresses has gone on too long!
January 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The era of asymmetry and midi length in cocktail dresses has gone on too long!
Instead of wallowing in despair over Trump possibly imploding the federal government, I'm choosing to rage over the anti-IUD/birth control discourse on the bad site.
January 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Instead of wallowing in despair over Trump possibly imploding the federal government, I'm choosing to rage over the anti-IUD/birth control discourse on the bad site.
Is the creepy anti-aging biohacking billionaire who measures his (and his son's!) erections actually banging anybody?
January 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Is the creepy anti-aging biohacking billionaire who measures his (and his son's!) erections actually banging anybody?
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This will kill so many people living with HIV who depend on PEPFAR programs to stay on their HIV treatment driving further HIV drug resistance.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide
Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This will kill so many people living with HIV who depend on PEPFAR programs to stay on their HIV treatment driving further HIV drug resistance.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
Absolutely wild to me that Jimmy Carter's *grandson* giving a eulogy is nearly 50 years old. (All my grandparents were dead by the time I was 27 😐🤷♀️)
January 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Absolutely wild to me that Jimmy Carter's *grandson* giving a eulogy is nearly 50 years old. (All my grandparents were dead by the time I was 27 😐🤷♀️)
I love this bit.
HOKTUAH on a license plate? Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias spat on that thang.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/08/h...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/08/h...
HOKTUAH, GYATT, JAGWEED Rejected As Illinois License Plates In 2024
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias released some of the vanity plates that didn't make the cut in 2024.
blockclubchicago.org
January 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I love this bit.
Worth a read!
The skinny on ultra-processed foods
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... @newyorker.com by @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... @newyorker.com by @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social
Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.
www.newyorker.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Worth a read!
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I wrote an essay about our bottomless thirst for diversion and how avoiding boredom is the engine of modern life. It’s based on the research I did for my book.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own.
The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I wrote an essay about our bottomless thirst for diversion and how avoiding boredom is the engine of modern life. It’s based on the research I did for my book.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
It’s a little embarrassing how much I’ve enjoyed the MAGAworld Twitter meltdown the past couple days.
December 27, 2024 at 8:41 PM
It’s a little embarrassing how much I’ve enjoyed the MAGAworld Twitter meltdown the past couple days.
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can’t pay teens for sex and become attorney general anymore on account of woke
December 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM
can’t pay teens for sex and become attorney general anymore on account of woke
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“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.”
Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
Es alucinante cómo ha bajado la contaminación en París en 15 años. Anne Hidalgo lo ha llenado todo de carriles bici y no sólo ha reducido la contaminación en un 40%, sino que ha sido reelegida.
December 18, 2024 at 7:49 PM
“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.”
Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
This sucks. Really hope someone comes and does something with that great patio space.
Gather in Lincoln Square is closing after a 12-year run.
Gather In Lincoln Square Closes After 12-Year Run
The owners didn't say why they decided to close the restaurant in their note thanking customers over the weekend.
buff.ly
December 17, 2024 at 6:01 PM
This sucks. Really hope someone comes and does something with that great patio space.
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Somehow I am skeptical that a Senate-confirmed FBI director Kash Patel would willingly leave office if Democrats won the presidency in four years.
December 11, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Somehow I am skeptical that a Senate-confirmed FBI director Kash Patel would willingly leave office if Democrats won the presidency in four years.
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After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them
December 10, 2024 at 2:51 PM
After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them
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Genuinely very funny that Trump got the entire American right to adore a song about gay dudes cruising at the YMCA
If your family started doing this at Thanksgiving dinner, what would you do? 😳
November 29, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Genuinely very funny that Trump got the entire American right to adore a song about gay dudes cruising at the YMCA
People who can READ while on a treadmill are built different.
November 27, 2024 at 8:22 PM
People who can READ while on a treadmill are built different.
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fuckin harrowing piece. real easy to imagine ending up like this. in this country it only takes one stroke of serious bad luck if you don't have A LOT of money www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:47 PM
fuckin harrowing piece. real easy to imagine ending up like this. in this country it only takes one stroke of serious bad luck if you don't have A LOT of money www.esquire.com/news-politic...
The “video call” from Duolingo Lily is a jump scare.
November 26, 2024 at 3:57 AM
The “video call” from Duolingo Lily is a jump scare.
It should be illegal to have sunsets before 5pm, I’m so fucking serious.
November 25, 2024 at 10:48 PM
It should be illegal to have sunsets before 5pm, I’m so fucking serious.
Have never seen a politician alienate every single constituency with this speed. Fumbling on every down.
Mayor Brandon Johnson made a big show of promoting a Plow the Sidewalks program. His budget includes no funding for it, despite his campaign promise to enact the policy and earlier pledge to pilot it. Story by @jake-sheridan.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/25/m...
www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/25/m...
Sidewalk plowing plan unfunded in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget: ‘It would mean freedom’
The mayor’s team said budget challenges made funding the pilot impossible this year, frustrating advocates who say there is money to do so.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Have never seen a politician alienate every single constituency with this speed. Fumbling on every down.
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- cain murders his brother for no reason
- god gets a human teen pregnant, then he doesn't stop people from torturing His son to death
- god tries to get abraham to kill his own son
- god orders Saul to wipe out an entire city 400 years after the people who used to live there did something bad
- god gets a human teen pregnant, then he doesn't stop people from torturing His son to death
- god tries to get abraham to kill his own son
- god orders Saul to wipe out an entire city 400 years after the people who used to live there did something bad
November 22, 2024 at 7:03 PM
- cain murders his brother for no reason
- god gets a human teen pregnant, then he doesn't stop people from torturing His son to death
- god tries to get abraham to kill his own son
- god orders Saul to wipe out an entire city 400 years after the people who used to live there did something bad
- god gets a human teen pregnant, then he doesn't stop people from torturing His son to death
- god tries to get abraham to kill his own son
- god orders Saul to wipe out an entire city 400 years after the people who used to live there did something bad
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some kid friendly bible stories-
- lot's daughters get their dad drunk and take turns raping him
- a levite's concubine gets gang raped and dies, the levite cuts her body up into 12 pieces
- god's angels wouldn't stop coming down from heaven and raping beautiful human women, so He drowned everybody
- lot's daughters get their dad drunk and take turns raping him
- a levite's concubine gets gang raped and dies, the levite cuts her body up into 12 pieces
- god's angels wouldn't stop coming down from heaven and raping beautiful human women, so He drowned everybody
JUST IN: Texas has approved a controversial plan to allow the the Bible to be taught with gradeschool curriculum. The State Board of Education's Dem members + three Republicans would've been able to defeat it, had Gov. Greg Abbott not temporarily appointed a Republican to a vacant Dem seat.
State Board of Education approves Bible-infused curriculum
Critics say the curriculum overemphasizes Christianity. Texas school districts don’t have to use it but will receive $60 per student if they do.
www.texastribune.org
November 22, 2024 at 6:59 PM
some kid friendly bible stories-
- lot's daughters get their dad drunk and take turns raping him
- a levite's concubine gets gang raped and dies, the levite cuts her body up into 12 pieces
- god's angels wouldn't stop coming down from heaven and raping beautiful human women, so He drowned everybody
- lot's daughters get their dad drunk and take turns raping him
- a levite's concubine gets gang raped and dies, the levite cuts her body up into 12 pieces
- god's angels wouldn't stop coming down from heaven and raping beautiful human women, so He drowned everybody
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funny that the new metric for a social media site's success is if it produces healthy political discourse between "sides." by that measure, years of evidence suggests that twitter failed. it accelerated fracture, radicalized people into fringe politics, and became a tool for the reactionary right
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:11 PM
funny that the new metric for a social media site's success is if it produces healthy political discourse between "sides." by that measure, years of evidence suggests that twitter failed. it accelerated fracture, radicalized people into fringe politics, and became a tool for the reactionary right
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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC