Amy Sherman

positive vibes!!! wishing all the best for things to go as smoothly as possible

told the bf about netflix wanting characters to summarize the plot in the dialogue multiple times and he has now invented a character called "Netflix Guy" who pops up and explains what is happening at any given time

I spent my entire workday working on one extremely annoying thing but the good news is that meant I didn't do any scrolling

I've started to say that using ChatGPT or Claude is a bit like smoking cigarettes in that each individual use is worse for you than it is for anyone else, but the social cost is real, and should be evaluated similarly

Moira Rose holding an envelope, captioned "Who put a picture of a ghost on my desk?"

another favorite. and in the same ep as "Simply the Best"! 🥹 incredible range

August Wilson's American Century - University of Pittsburgh Press |9780822948544|Life as Art| Listed in Pioneer Press (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Most Anticipated of 2026 Playwright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten…

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😱😱😱 scream into a voicenote for the person who did this

is it too late for me to pitch a conference session titled "Editing Footnotes at the End of the World"?

Armchair radicals of the World Unite!

It's becoming more @upittpress.bsky.social official; tell your book-writing friends.

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"Abandoning progress rhythms…is not a matter of virtuous desire. Progress felt great; there was always something better ahead. … I hardly know how to think about justice without progress. The problem is that progress stopped making sense."

Here's how a radical pamphlet put the challenge: The spectre that many try not to see is a simple realisation—the world will not be "saved." . . . If we don't believe in a global revolutionary future, we must live (as we in fact always had to) in the present

from THE MUSHROOM AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

A Brown Creeper on the hunt for insects hiding the bark. These birds spiral upwards and then will dive down to start again at the bottom of another tree trunk.

We work by the month, or by the job, or by the profit; not for us to ask the why and wherefore of our work

Publishing pro tip: Some authors leave multiple people working on their books shaking their head and thinking "Why are people like this?" Don't be that author. It's easy, you KNOW how not to be that author.

a perfect day

Interviewer: You might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world. Herzog: When two persons in search of a pokémon clash at the corner of Sunset and San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder? Interviewer: They do fight, virtually. Herzog: Physically, do they fight? Interviewer: No- Herzog: Do they bite each other's hands? Do they punch each other?

Happy 30th birthday to Pokémon. Without it, the greatest Werner Herzog quote of all time would not exist.

"If you want to be influential, you should be making videos, not posting." OK. I don't want to be influential. I want to post.

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

a rock that says "The Moira's Rose's Garden 4856" surrounded by flowers

one of my favorite jokes from the show

most of the books on my to-read list are nonfiction, but most of the books I actually read are fiction. don't know how I'm gonna get out of this one

The Ruthless Benevolence of a Great Editor Ann Godoff, who died this week, cared passionately about her writers—and much less about her own ego.

"The essence of editing is ethics; it’s the act of caring for the expression of the thoughts of another as if they were your own."

this is a perfect headline

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Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam,

a bowl of mac & cheese with mushroom pieces in it

23. Mushrooms + Miso

used dried mushrooms bc they were out of fresh at the store this weekend—pretty good!

and that's the last installment in this 6-month journey! truly don't know what we're going to do now, my life is henceforth empty of purpose 🥺

What I Learned From My Annoyingly Long Correspondence With "Elena Ferrante" | Defector Earlier this month I received an email that, for a moment, made my heart skip. The email came from someone named Elena Ferrante, at “elenaferrante800@gmail.com,” and I feel no remorse leaking Elena’s ...

I wrote about my friend "Elena Ferrante" and what it was like to try to engage with a scammer
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my hand holding a copy of INEQUALITIES OF PLATFORM PUBLISHING: THE PROMISE AND PERIL OF SELF-PUBLISHING IN THE DIGITAL BOOK ERA, by Claire Parnell

VERY interested in finding out what's in store in this book—new from @umasspress.bsky.social

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