Olivia
@oagennaro.bsky.social
I write things and teach young people • Literacy, Mental Health Advocate • Book/TV/Music/Theatre nerd • she/they 🏳️🌈
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Olivia
@oagennaro.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Patreon update | Olivia Anne Gennaro
Get more from Olivia Anne Gennaro on Patreon
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Update from me: There is more benefit to being a paid Patreon now! Throw me a couple bucks to write about music and books!
www.patreon.com/posts/127237...
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FYI: Extending this sale through 12/26! Get a full year of Bright Wall/Dark Room for less than $20 - or gift it to your movie loving friend this holiday season :)
Black Friday/Holiday Sale!
All first-time or returning subscribers can now purchase an annual subscription for $10 off their first year—which means just $19 for a full year of access to BW/DR and our entire 143 issue archive!
Also: you can gift it!
coupon code: HOLIDAY2025
All first-time or returning subscribers can now purchase an annual subscription for $10 off their first year—which means just $19 for a full year of access to BW/DR and our entire 143 issue archive!
Also: you can gift it!
coupon code: HOLIDAY2025
Subscribe - Bright Wall/Dark Room
Subscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 140+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
FYI: Extending this sale through 12/26! Get a full year of Bright Wall/Dark Room for less than $20 - or gift it to your movie loving friend this holiday season :)
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I have my first paid subscriber post going out tomorrow about my consideration of a pen name! Upgrade here to check it out:
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November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I have my first paid subscriber post going out tomorrow about my consideration of a pen name! Upgrade here to check it out:
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/upgrade
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Pen name conundrum | Olivia Anne Gennaro
Get more from Olivia Anne Gennaro on Patreon
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November 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is on YouTube.
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990
YouTube video by Rolo Tomasi
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is on YouTube.
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Google AI said to put turkey thermometer in thigh but the articles I read said breast. Useless.
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Google AI said to put turkey thermometer in thigh but the articles I read said breast. Useless.
I have my first paid subscriber post going out tomorrow about my consideration of a pen name! Upgrade here to check it out:
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November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I have my first paid subscriber post going out tomorrow about my consideration of a pen name! Upgrade here to check it out:
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/upgrade
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Izolde is a wonderful member of our local trans community who's going through a really rough time right now. Please help if you can!!!
i should have got this up sooner, but i was ashamed; need to try to raise money for rent again this month and i remain (mostly; might have PT work!) unemployed as we approach year end.
please help me keep myself and my partner housed.
#helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund
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please help me keep myself and my partner housed.
#helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund
ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Izolde is a wonderful member of our local trans community who's going through a really rough time right now. Please help if you can!!!
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A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
- @ethanwarren.bsky.social
(🎨 by @briannaduggan.bsky.social)
- @ethanwarren.bsky.social
(🎨 by @briannaduggan.bsky.social)
A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
Only one movie has ever managed to recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation as through transmutation.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
November 30, 2024 at 6:30 PM
A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
- @ethanwarren.bsky.social
(🎨 by @briannaduggan.bsky.social)
- @ethanwarren.bsky.social
(🎨 by @briannaduggan.bsky.social)
Starting off Thanksgiving with a stomachache is not ideal
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Starting off Thanksgiving with a stomachache is not ideal
Watched E1 of Pluribus. Like if The X-Files, The Twilight Zone, and The Leftovers had a baby
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Watched E1 of Pluribus. Like if The X-Files, The Twilight Zone, and The Leftovers had a baby
Ordered my suit for my wedding today ☺️
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ordered my suit for my wedding today ☺️
I have not seen all the Star Wars movies
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I have not seen all the Star Wars movies
I’m especially interested to see how many of these are going around…
If you’re an author who has been contacted by a seemingly AI marketing or other scam, can I talk to you?
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I’m especially interested to see how many of these are going around…
For the evening crowd
New newsletter is live: in which I review the two main articles in NY Mag's "Stupid Issue" and ask, "Are standardized tests even a good measurement?"
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
Are we stupider than before?
how much should we trust tests?
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
For the evening crowd
There is a discussion guide to a story I wrote!
Announcement!
Our first issue and discussion guide are now available #free on Teachers Pay Teachers, through our Outreach Editor’s ( @1storyteller.bsky.social ) storefront! We’ll be adding more!
Check them out, tell your teacher friends! #EduSky #TPT #TLSky #TeacherSky #Literacy
Our first issue and discussion guide are now available #free on Teachers Pay Teachers, through our Outreach Editor’s ( @1storyteller.bsky.social ) storefront! We’ll be adding more!
Check them out, tell your teacher friends! #EduSky #TPT #TLSky #TeacherSky #Literacy
Nimblewitlit | TPT
Browse Nimblewitlit resources on Teachers Pay Teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
There is a discussion guide to a story I wrote!
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In a time of slop, AI or not, it’s time to lean into niche communities and odd work by passionate weirdos with well-honed clarity of intention and craft
This is so relevant to my day-to-day thinking at @hubcitypress.bsky.social. instead of being demoralized and saying, let AI do all the publishing work and pump out more slop to boost sales, our new focus is carefully curated + clearly human created. Hence the focus on short stories, novellas, etc.
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In a time of slop, AI or not, it’s time to lean into niche communities and odd work by passionate weirdos with well-honed clarity of intention and craft
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i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
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good piece on the destruction of Indiana U, a previously great public university
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...
Anatomy of a Fall: The Case of Indiana University (Guest Post)
Indiana University on November 3, 2025 by Johannes Türk Chair of Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana Universit...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
good piece on the destruction of Indiana U, a previously great public university
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...
Our tree is going UP
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Our tree is going UP
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Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
If you’re an author who has been contacted by a seemingly AI marketing or other scam, can I talk to you?
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you’re an author who has been contacted by a seemingly AI marketing or other scam, can I talk to you?
New newsletter is live: in which I review the two main articles in NY Mag's "Stupid Issue" and ask, "Are standardized tests even a good measurement?"
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
Are we stupider than before?
how much should we trust tests?
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New newsletter is live: in which I review the two main articles in NY Mag's "Stupid Issue" and ask, "Are standardized tests even a good measurement?"
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
(Seriously stop inputting student personal information into AI to write IEPs.)
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
(Seriously stop inputting student personal information into AI to write IEPs.)
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Somewhere, a school / district privacy officer is sobbing.
November 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Somewhere, a school / district privacy officer is sobbing.
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I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists