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Nicole Tersigni

@nicsigni.bsky.social

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Writer of Men to Avoid in Art and Life, and other books in the Art and Life series. Not a genius. nicoletersigni.com

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · Nov 20

these are my children. they are all beautiful to me. a good mother does not have a favorite child. my favorite child is friends to keep in art and life.

My books: men to avoid in art and life, friends to keep in Art and life, parenting advice to ignore in Art and life, cat people to judge in Art and life, and postcards in Art and life

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve always said so

Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 3h

fully admit I have been sleeping on this and your review has awoken me.

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 3h

big man fucks up bad guys. it’s perfect.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 4h

Also kind of telling that we’ve evolved from “men asking pick up artists for tips on getting women” to “men asking computers for tips on getting women” and continue to completely ignore asking women what they like

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 4h

Once again, the only point of using chatGPT in dating is to trick the person you’re trying to date.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 22h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 14h

joke from my book, Cat People to Judge in Art and Life 😻

Cover of my book cat people to judge in art and life

Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 14h

life, imitating art, imitating life.

Little black kitten on my lap, sleeping on my hand.

Painting of a man with a cat on his lap and my captions:
Man: I guess I’ll cancel my plans for the rest of the day.”
Cat: you’re awfully chatty for a chair.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

How do I block all the AI slop? Also so far ai so just made my life 1000000 times more annoying.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, I don’t think we’re gonna make it, folks.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 22h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 16h

how much “back and forth” was required for that incredible work of literature

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 1d

omg lemme know how it is. we love idle hands!

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2d

They're doing it in the most incompetent possible way, and I firmly believe that if we fight them we'll win. However, it really is a huge bummer that every Republican currently in power is openly trying to do Nazi Germany here

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · May 16

I thought I saw kid rock but it was just a rusty old toilet on the side of the road

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · May 16

sir, you look like the human equivalent of a cigarette butt floating in warm beer.

Headline from the daily beast: kid rock blames ugly liberal women for falling birth rate in gross Fox News rant

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 1d

lol ok bud

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 1d

I will vote for whichever politician gets a law on the books saying there can only be three (3) newses per day. this quantity of news is not good for me.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 2d

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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