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Amanda Weaver

@amandaweavernovels.com

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Contemporary and historical romance/ political ranting and pop culture/ costumes and cute animals. Brooklyn, NY. she/her https://www.amandaweavernovels.com/

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · Nov 17

Fast & Reckless is out now! books2read.com/Fast-and-Rec...

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Fast & Reckless: A Racing Hearts Novel by Amanda Weaver

books2read.com

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 46m

Yeppppp.

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They look so stupid, marching along in their riot gear behind a blow-up wiener dog.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 3h

I'm still so mad about it.

Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 4h

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 3h

Tulsa! Let's go!

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 3h

Anyone who remembers the 1980 election has heard this story before. (fuck Reagan)

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 9h

This. And this again.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 14h

I like to remind people about lifetime limits and the refusal of insurers to sell coverage to people with preexisting conditions.

The ACA has issues. But those 2 things alone make it worth saving and fixing.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 15h

[solemnly] let’s fucking go

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15h

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 15h

When your great-grandparents have names spelled with letters that aren't in the English alphabet, those names become all kinds of shit when English-speaking agents try writing them down.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 22h

He's lobbying to get into Heaven the same way he lobbied for the Nobel Peace Prize. The result will be the same.

SMITE! Trump Seriously Worried About Going to Hell

White House confirms he’s serious. Heaven confirms he’s doomed.

www.thegodpodcast.com

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Mike @mike.perham.net · 20h

One thing I haven’t seen reported about the ICE building protest: they have 10-20 costumes on a rack that anyone is free to use. Put it on, inflate it and protest!

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 19h

But *only* six-digit numbers. My bank just sent me a seven-digit one and my brain went blank.

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · Jun 18

A queer 56-year-old loser with a voice like sex. A brown Millennial writer searching for answers. A bit of inspiration from Springsteen, Kevin Bacon, and Hozier. It's NOBODY'S BARGAIN but it might be your jam. My alter ego's latest is just $2.99.

Buy links: books2read.com/u/bxD0no

A square light blue graphic with faded pastel circles. It has the Nobody's Bargain book cover on the right with the words "Out now" above and the vendors listed below it. Amazon, Apple, B&N, and Kobo. The cover itself is of a dissolute-looking white guy with long shaggy brown hair and a dark beard. He's got one hand on his forehead and the other is obscured. He's wearing a dark blue captain's coat with an epaulet on the shoulder, but his chest is bare and you can see the hints of several tattoos. Does Ren actually look like this in the book? No. This is his younger self, the confident jackass he used to be. To the right of this image is the following excerpt text: She feels like a cultural anthropologist, coming to Jack & Joe’s almost every night for more than a week—long enough to learn that the only Jack and Joe around are Daniels and cheap coffee. Watching Ren and taking mental notes while she plays Candy Crush on her muted phone and drinks too many $3 PBRs. She’s made a study of the once-famous rock musician in the wild. But he stopped being just a research subject pretty quickly. Because of that quiet “thank you, darlin’,” and how it rumbles down her spine and into her pants like a pick-up truck full of vibrators.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

It's honestly brilliant.

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 1d

💥Viktor Orbán in trouble: a new 21 Research Center (a reliable pollster) survey shows opposition leader Péter Magyar’s TISZA party leading Orbán’s Fidesz 53–35—an 18-point gap. Even the main govt-paid pollster (Nézőpont) admits to the @nytimes.com that smear campaigns against Magyar are failing.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

“Highly organized.” That means some Chicago folks saw Portland videos online and said “That’s hilarious” and bought a $30 inflatable on Amazon.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 2d

Oh, I think I've got it.

A picture of an inflatable Stay Puft Marshmallow Man costume

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 2d

AI could never....

Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 2d

Even the special effects look good, and it was made in 2001. There were only one or two places where the CGI looked not-great, but the scenes were quick, and the CGI was tiny, so it doesn't distract. Kudos to Peter Jackson for creating a true classic.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 2d

We discovered yesterday that the daughter's bestie (fondly referred to as Other Daughter) has never seen Lord of the Rings (?!?!?). So we watched it last night, because as a parent it's my job to see they're properly exposed to culture. That movie really holds up. Still so good.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 2d

Love it!

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t care if it’s cringe, suck it up and put on the fucking frog suit

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

I have fucking had it with the edgelord leftists who quote post my shit with incitements to violence, like I'm sorry either you're the fucking feds or you're somehow even dumber than they are.

the frogs & the wine moms are doing 100x the work y'all are by dooming and posting nonsense.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 2d

NYC, what’s our emblematic protest going to be? Pizza Rats? Giant pigeons?

Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 2d

We’re a big, diverse country. Let a thousand culturally appropriate protests bloom.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

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