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Dr. Amuly (she/he)

@amuly.bsky.social

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It’s Amuly from all your favorite fanfic. PhD in Philosophy (Plato expert, yo), unionist, comic book whiz, covered bridge pervert. Mid-30s. archiveofourown.org/users/Dr_Amuly

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Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · Mar 10

🌉🌉🍃🍃COVERED BRIDGE: VERMONT MASTER THREAD🌉🌉🍃🍃

Already off to a GREAT start: when driving from eastern MA to Bennington, we passed right by a bridge in Brattleboro that is closed to traffic so wasn’t on my list. The Creamery bridge!!

Me standing in front of a covered bridge blocked off by snow

Selfie of me and the gf in front of the covered bridge

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 10h

The loathsome zeitgeist of "having *done* without having to *do*", that started in the creative arts, now burrows outwards through the corpse of human experience.

Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 12h

Philip K Dick still undefeated at correctly predicting our current dystopia

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 2d

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

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Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 8h

Airborne/vitamin C maxing and zicam are my “what woo woo/conspiracy theory do you kinda believe” lmao

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James Jean @jamesjeanart.bsky.social · 17h

Good morning! Here is the full uncropped poster that I did for @realgdt.bsky.social for Frankenstein

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 9h

I counted six links ending with “?utm_source=chatgpt.com”

americanmind.org/salvo/rfk-sh...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Oh my GOD.

At 4:10 p.m., she texted me: "By the way-everything | ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know."
I responded: "I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect."
Halligan was unpersuaded: "Yes, I do. Off record."
"I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked," I said. "But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?
To my surprise, she kept going: "It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never told me about a story."
I didn't respond. It was time to publish my story. I'II text it to her.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote about the importance of silliness and inflatable frogs

lni.media/p/the-frog-r...

The frog (r)evolution

Discover the hilarious rise of inflatable frog protests in Portland, transforming from Alex Jones' meme to a quirky, effective form of civil disobedience that's confusing authorities.

lni.media

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Fear Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 20h

Well well well

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Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 10h

Visualization of the semester so far: started this notebook on 8/15 at the beginning of the semester.

Finished it the Monday after midterms.

Same notebook, fresh, for comparison 🫩🫩

(Yes they started out the same color blue lmaoooo)

Two notebooks seen from the side. One of them—the more beaten and worn one—the pages are swollen up to about double the size of the other notebook

The notebooks seen from the top. One is a very faded sky blue. One is a solid water blue.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 12h

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

Gina Bellman
@Ginabellman

I absolutely -definitely- positively was not in Paris Yesterday. #LouvreHeist.

[A photo of Gina Bellman sitting in an ornate restaurant holding a wine glass and wearing a red beret.]

(The joke here is that one of actress Gina Bellman's most famous roles over the last ten years is as a master thief, doing thievery.)

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 15h

LOUVRE, PARIS. 2025

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12h

gonna get to use this a lot, huh

Lenny on the Simpsons changing out the zero on a “days without GOP Nazi shit” sign

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Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 12h

YUPPPPP

Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 12h

Me and the fiancée are planning on buying a new place in the next 2-5 years and we’re like, not springing for the expensive organizers for the kitchen cabinets because of that. This dude’s building a whole new wing? With three years left? Mmhmhmmm…..

Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 12h

Completely agree on every point and also: who reno’s an entire wing of a building and undertakes a multi-year long expansion for a home you’re moving out of in 3 years?

😐😐😐😐😐

Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 12h

I generally don't get wrapped up in symbols and icons but this is truly an obscenity and so aggressively anti-American it might as will be the act of an invading military.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 13h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 12h

I generally don't get wrapped up in symbols and icons but this is truly an obscenity and so aggressively anti-American it might as will be the act of an invading military.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 13h

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 12h

Also can I just say again: damn these engineering kids have been SO engaged w this ethics class. Good job, kids. I’m so impressed with them!

Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 12h

Running through some “nazi at the door” scenarios w the ethics kids to talk about deontology and of course I’m doing the roll of nazi myself… and then after class I look down and I’m dressed… like…. This…

Me in a black raincoat with black stovepipe pants and black Doc marten boots

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Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 15h

LRT: look I know it's hokum but I do believe in zicam

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 15h

Every time I get sick I google “how to get over a cold fast” and every time I read 3-4 articles going “there is no way to do this.”

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Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 15h

I'm seeing everyone was already aware of this, well: i commute 40 minutes at 7am, then am in lecture/classes for 2 hours, then I commute back 40 minutes, then I was doing offline readings and eating lunch, SO! this is the first i'm sitting down and finding out about all this, lol

Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 15h

lmao holy shit this affects my fucking ROTH website LOL??????

"We'll be back soon.
We are aware that an ongoing AWS (Amazon Web Services) [...]
actively monitoring the situation and working with AWS to restore

Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 15h

......... fuck me lmao so there's a ton that just got fucked for my 2pm class, lmao. fantastic.

Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 15h

.................. oh my gosh, Canvas is owned by........ Amazon, somehow? And amazon is having issues so canvas is down?????

the future sucks, y'all

www.fox29.com/news/canvas-...

Canvas website down for students after AWS outage

Many college and K-12 students were unable to access assignments or course materials Monday morning as the learning management platform Canvas reported widespread connectivity issues caused by an Amaz...

www.fox29.com

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Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 15h

luckily winter clothes are kinda, whatever, you're layering anyway, just layer more, who cares. but FUCk. prices, man. those fucking prices. shit is BAD out there

Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 15h

this weight gain has been over the last 5 years or so so i still have a ton of jeans/etc that are smaller sizes which i'm close to fitting back into, so like, i won't have to buy TOO much. ... except: i was living in FL back then, so I have 0 winter clothes at these smaller sizes 🙃