Ashley Sterner
@offairashley.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ Transtemporal Adventuress 🏳️🌈
I used to get to say things on the radio.
I used to get to say things on the radio.
And a delightful one!
Intensely local phenomenon
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
And a delightful one!
TYHOID?
McDonald's Shrimp Salad (1985-1986): A garden salad topped hardboiled eggs and mini shrimp cocktail. This offering made national headlines when improperly stored shrimp led to a typhoid outbreak in Maryland. This salad has popped back up in some European markets in recent years
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
TYHOID?
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
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buttondown.com/charliejane/...
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Mish discovers the internet.
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Mish discovers the internet.
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Issue 73 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover was designed by our friends at Wide Angle Youth Media.
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Issue 73 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover was designed by our friends at Wide Angle Youth Media.
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pretty sure they're just fucking with us at this point
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
pretty sure they're just fucking with us at this point
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People who've been in journalism for a while should be able to recall a time when the news side of Fox News was basically sound, it was just a few primetime opinion personalities who'd left journalism behind. Let's not pretend we don't know where a reorganization like A. G. and Khan's leads.
The direction A. G. is taking NYT is that of a tabloid crusading for its pet causes. I agree those types of stories haven't passed 50%, but the trend is towards burning their legitimacy to try and influence the NYC mayoral race or sentiment on Israel/Palestine. No point in supporting that slide.
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
People who've been in journalism for a while should be able to recall a time when the news side of Fox News was basically sound, it was just a few primetime opinion personalities who'd left journalism behind. Let's not pretend we don't know where a reorganization like A. G. and Khan's leads.
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Larry Summers needs to resign or be pushed out of Harvard. This is absolutely unacceptable.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Larry Summers needs to resign or be pushed out of Harvard. This is absolutely unacceptable.
Eating an oscar mayer wiener straight from the refrigerator; call that rawdogging it.
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Eating an oscar mayer wiener straight from the refrigerator; call that rawdogging it.
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We won a thing! And it’s judged by librarians! No higher honor than that. ✨ We are celebrating with a fancy new cover and a fancy new ebook sale this weekend: a.co/d/8hEb4hv
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We won a thing! And it’s judged by librarians! No higher honor than that. ✨ We are celebrating with a fancy new cover and a fancy new ebook sale this weekend: a.co/d/8hEb4hv
I discovered this while a Subaru was parked behind me, and I saw it in my rearview mirror. It was a revelation.
Fun fact: Subaru spelled backwards is U R A BUS.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I discovered this while a Subaru was parked behind me, and I saw it in my rearview mirror. It was a revelation.
Fun fact: Subaru spelled backwards is U R A BUS.
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Fun fact: Subaru spelled backwards is U R A BUS.
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these two characters are played by the same actress, and I like to imagine that when they were casting The Ring, their immediate first thought was “someone find out what the little girl from Lilo and Stitch is up to”
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
these two characters are played by the same actress, and I like to imagine that when they were casting The Ring, their immediate first thought was “someone find out what the little girl from Lilo and Stitch is up to”
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I would rather run the gauntlet than read this because doing so would probably spike my blood pressure enough to kill me anyway
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I would rather run the gauntlet than read this because doing so would probably spike my blood pressure enough to kill me anyway
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights
Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
www.msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Foot of Leakin Street
BUY SOME GLASSES! also a boat i guess
BUY SOME GLASSES! also a boat i guess
Foot of Leakin Street
BUY SOME GLASSES! also a boat i guess
behindbmorelots.wordpress.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Foot of Leakin Street
BUY SOME GLASSES! also a boat i guess
BUY SOME GLASSES! also a boat i guess
I listened to two Christmas songs today, on purpose. "Do they know it's Christmas" and 'Last Christmas". I think I'm done for the season.
Also: I listened to the Richard Cheese versions.
Also: I listened to the Richard Cheese versions.
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I listened to two Christmas songs today, on purpose. "Do they know it's Christmas" and 'Last Christmas". I think I'm done for the season.
Also: I listened to the Richard Cheese versions.
Also: I listened to the Richard Cheese versions.
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today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
November 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
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Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism.
Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.
Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism.
Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.
Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.
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It's a good thing Nikola Tesla isn't alive to see his name being dragged through the mud by a Temu Thomas Edison. He'd be so mad that he would probably write an angry letter to the pigeon god who lived on the windowsill.
November 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It's a good thing Nikola Tesla isn't alive to see his name being dragged through the mud by a Temu Thomas Edison. He'd be so mad that he would probably write an angry letter to the pigeon god who lived on the windowsill.
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Community resources from Baltimore Beat baltimorebeat.com/community-re...
November 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Community resources from Baltimore Beat baltimorebeat.com/community-re...
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I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.
November 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.
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New page of Along The River Phoria up!
Read the latest page: tapas.io/episode/3705...
OR, start from the beginning: tapas.io/episode/2641...
And on Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/al...
Read the latest page: tapas.io/episode/3705...
OR, start from the beginning: tapas.io/episode/2641...
And on Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/al...
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
New page of Along The River Phoria up!
Read the latest page: tapas.io/episode/3705...
OR, start from the beginning: tapas.io/episode/2641...
And on Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/al...
Read the latest page: tapas.io/episode/3705...
OR, start from the beginning: tapas.io/episode/2641...
And on Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/al...