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Andrea Avery

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Author SONATA: A MEMOIR OF PAIN AND THE PIANO (Pegasus Books) and VISITING COMPOSER: A NOVELLA (**OUT NOW** from Miami U Press). BA (🎹) MFA, Ed.D @ ASU MD-born desert dweller. Editor. Thrifter. Cat lady. Rheumatoid arthritis since 1989. She/her.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · Jul 1

It’s my book’s birthday! And I am so glad and grateful it is in the hands of Miami
University Press. Dream publication experience …
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · Jul 1

🎶 Happy Publication Day to VISITING COMPOSER by @andreaavery.bsky.social!! 🎶

“Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight.” –Gregory Spatz

sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...

A copy of VISITING COMPOSER against a green plant background.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 1d

My “I thought there would be more quicksand” is: TV promised me I’d get to stand at a viewing window looking in at a new baby

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I defy anyone who uses the phrase “on national television” to explain what the “national” part means

Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 6d

rebrand: $Horse

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 12d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 8d

man alive that looks good

Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 9d

Half of the #TLOAS critiques: Ew, why does Taylor still sound like a dumb little girl? Doesn’t she know she’s a 35yo woman?
The other half: Ew, why does Taylor sound like a 35yo woman? Doesn’t she know she’s a dumb little girl?

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 10d

Remember when we used to go to college to get expensive degrees so that we could become “knowledge workers” 😂😳😭

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11d

"I prompted the AI to devise a lesson plan that explains why students need to become proficient in prompting AI—so they can land writing jobs in the future, where they will spend their days prompting AI."

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers

I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 13d

this ⬇️

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 14d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 16d

A thing I keep thinking about in the Coates-Klein … thing: When Coates asks, “Was silence not an option?” Klein says, basically, I have a voice so therefore every idea I have should be voiced.

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 17d

Let's get one thing straight; interactions with ChatGPT etc are not conversations. Stop calling them that.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 17d

I don’t want to hear anything else about what we should or shouldn’t be putting in our bodies (Tylenol, artificial sweeteners, sugar, or fat) until something is done about the BULLETS being put into bodies

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 18d

Their rendition of He Ain’t Heavy ….

Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 23d

Melissa McCarthy in “Miss Nelson Is Missing” is the dream come true of every Gen X woman who had a very close, mutually admiring friendship with the school librarian when she was 8 but also is no stranger to having her mouth quite literally washed out with soap

Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 25d

It’s weird to kinda agree with something Ted Cruz says but also I am deeply uncomfortable with his mobster accent

Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · Sep 16

Maybe your [teacher/nurse] abdicates essential responsibilities of their role, but did you see how they knew your name? They called you Sweetie! Did you see that there's [Lego robotics/Bingo on Tuesdays]? And hey, if you're not **thriving**, then that's because YoU NeEd To LeArN tO SeLf-AdVoCaTe!

Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · Sep 16

childless by choice, but in another timeline there was a baby named Hubbell Gardiner Avery Decker and I dressed him head to toe in creamy cable knits. #RIP #RobertRedford

Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · Sep 16

also: “relationships!” as a cover for incompetence or malpractice. you will meet a lot of people who have gone all in on “people won’t remember what you did, but they’ll remember how you made them feel.”

Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · Sep 16

Protip: Want to prepare for the world of skilled nursing facilities? work at a private school. You will be no stranger to institutions full of people of varying professional abilities and inclinations who mostly disdain those they purport to serve but believe that nice buildings make up for it

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The REAL Jesse Coffey @therealjessecoffey.bsky.social · Sep 12

(AP)—The governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina have signed orders intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions.

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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · Sep 12

It was such a delight to meet novella author @andreaavery.bsky.social this week! Thanks to everyone who came out to her reading! Andrea visited @miamiohenglish.bsky.social on Monday to share excerpts from her novella, VISITING COMPOSER, sign copies, and answer questions about craft and research. ✨🌞✨

Novella author Andrea Avery, dressed in red and brown hues, smiles from behind a wood podium.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thank you, Governor Hobbs!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 12

Governor Katie Hobbs signed an Executive Order expanding access to COVID vaccines in Arizona.

It makes it possible for people to get the COVID vaccine without needing a prior prescription and directs insurers to cover the vaccine.

Governor Katie Hobbs Takes Action to Protect Arizonans’ Health Care Freedom

Executive Order seeks to ensure Arizonans who want COVID vaccine can get one

azgovernor.gov

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Debate” means lots of things: Lincoln-Douglas, high schoolers with fetishes for specific pens and boxes of paper cuttings “spreading” at top speed and winning on technicalities, and that guy who’s actually just a relentless troll. Which kind of “excellent debater” are we talking about here

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · Sep 9

Reminder that generative AI, particularly in the arts, isn't a long-term inevitability just because billionaires want it to be.

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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited to hear @andreaavery.bsky.social read at our home base of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, TONIGHT – 9/8 - 6:30PM! Join us!

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