Amanda Watson

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Librarian, literature geek, knitter, opera fan, book history person. Researching commonplace books and poetry readers. Opinions here are my own. She/her/hers. 🏳️‍🌈

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Jesus H. tapdancing Christ on a raft, people, wear a face mask if you test positive for Covid or are around someone who has Covid! It's not rocket science! We've known this for years!

America: President Biden live on MSNBC shortly after testing positive for Covid. No one, including the president, is wearing a mask. Biden gets out of his limo as agents stand in lines on either side. Gives thumbs up. He walks unassisted to the plane and up the stairs video: x.com/atrupar/stat...

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Apparently Mr. Hillbilly Travesty believes childless cat ladies are ruining the country. Childless cat ladies: seize the power you’ve been assigned and ruin it for him! The rest of us will be very grateful.

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If you ever want to understand why the privacy rationale for abortion and contraception is more important and vital than ever, this is it.

JD Vance opposes the Biden Admin rule barring law enforcement from having access to your medical records about reproductive health (menstrual cycles, endometriosis, miscarriages, pregnancy, etc.) so that state laws limiting abortion and/or contraception can be enforced against you!

JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawktalkingpointsmemo.com This Spring HHS finalized new regulations under HIPAA to limit law enforcement...

I was recently asked to serve on a committee, and the invitation email asked for the name of the person who helps me with scheduling. Ahahahahahahahaha I WISH.

I'm entering an interesting phase of my career where I complete forms for things I'm doing and they ask me for my assistant's name and email and I just laugh and laugh and laugh

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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I’ve finally captured it. My meathead of a dog purposefully pops basketballs immediately and then puts them on his head and runs around like a basketball head.

Something this lunch scene in #MrsD always makes me wonder: why Millicent Bruton and her secretary Milly Brush have practically the same name. As if to underscore Milly's devotion to her employer, like she's practically Lady Bruton's Mini-Me.

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Everybody also needs to watch this reel from “liberal redneck” comedian Trae Crowder who has some personal experience with Vance www.instagram.com/reel/C9febBe...

Trae Crowder on Instagram: "JD Vance hates hillbillies #traecrowder #sorryIfilmedthislastnight #seemelive #linkwherethelinksgo"www.instagram.com 3,678 likes, 141 comments - officialtraecrowder on July 16, 2024: "JD Vance hates hillbillies #traecrowder #sorryIfilmedthislastnight #seemelive #linkwherethelinksgo".

The narrator's digression about Proportion and Conversion is so great, but hard to talk about in 250 characters or less. I particularly like the little glimpse we get into Sir William Bradshaw's "deeply buried" resentment of anyone who reads more than he does. And the way Rezia sees through him. 💐

I just realized who that guy is. He's Penelope from SNL!

Lmaoooo yeah well someone tried to kill me twice

Penelope: Man and Wife - SNLyoutu.be Penelope (Kristen Wiig) ruins a wedding reception with her compulsive lies, one-upping everyone in attendance, including the guests (Taylor Swift, Andy Sambe...

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A direct call to action:

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spent my whole life seeing, among other things, "liberal hunting license" bumper stickers. a "fun" little "joke" about killing my loved ones.

Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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Feeling joy just to spite those motherfuckers is one of my main hobbies. They want me so exhausted and distressed I can't fight them. They don't get to have that. Fuck 'em.

If dispelling doom for the sake of dispelling doom does not appeal to you, perhaps try dispelling doom out of spite, is what I’m saying.

I'm really noticing on this reading of #MrsD how many people think sports will cure Septimus of his problems, whether physical or mental. First cricket, now football. There's an insidious "fitness = health (and by implication manliness)" logic at work. 💐

It it initially took me multiple readings to decide whether the passage about the "ancient song" that "bubbled up opposite Regent's Park Tube Station" referred to an actual woman singing a song, or some kind of fountain. Eventually it becomes clear(er) that she's a street musician, but + 💐

This happened to me, too, with the same article. Twice. Flagged as "spam" (it's REALLY OBVIOUSLY not spam).

I posted a link to your article on Facebook and FACEBOOK REMOVED IT IN LESS THAN A MINUTE. Claimed it was "spam and misreading and goes against community standards."

Project 2025 Exposed . . . in People Magazinethe-looking-glass-1.ghost.io The widely-read, iconic magazine of pop and celebrity culture delivers an excellent warning about the Christian nationalism of Project 2025. Is it a breakthrough?

My Woolf moment of the day: I was walking along Broadway across the street from Lincoln Center and passed a film shoot in progress. (A forthcoming TV show, apparently.) Crew members were directing traffic while actors crossed and recrossed Broadway. Passersby stopped, watched, took pictures. + 💐

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Declaring people to be vermin, enemies of the state, or un-human is the sort of language people adopt before they pursue a genocide.

“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

Peter Walsh marveling at Clarissa’s knack for emotional labor: “that network of visiting, leaving cards, being kind to people; running about with bunches of flowers, little presents; …all that interminable traffic that women of her sort keep up; but she did it genuinely, from a natural instinct.” 💐

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Septimus’s thoughts here echo Clarissa’s earlier impression of the world “swollen with…some pressure of rapture, which split its thin skin and gushed and poured with an extraordinary alleviation over the cracks and sores.” 💐

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Project 2025's policies don't make "the family" the centerpiece of American life. They make the right-wing Evangelical movement the centerpiece of every American's private life, placing the federal government squarely in your bed, your book shelf, your closet, your phone, and your doctor's office.

I'm on sabbatical but made the mistake of opening my work email to a message* so rude I'm tempted to reply "What a strange way to speak to a colleague. I hope you're feeling all right!" *not from any of you or anyone in my own organization! Most people who email me are great. Just not this person.

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In advance of the Queer Bibliography conference later this month, we’ve made @sarahpyke.bsky.social & @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social’s PBSA article free to access through Sept 8. Read and enjoy!!

Queer Bibliography: A Rationale | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 118, No 2doi.org Abstract The advent of critical bibliography has seen critical theory put to work to reappraise the field’s foundations, methods, and practices in response, in part, to categories of oppression. Recen...

For anyone in the #MrsD crew who finds Peter Walsh's dream on the park bench bewildering, you're not alone: Merve Emre's annotations describe this passage as "the most beautiful and inscrutable narrative interruption in Mrs. Dalloway." She also says that Woolf thought of it like poetry.

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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.

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folks, watch Leverage because it’s great and because it features one of the few truly aspirational fantasies we have left: watching rich assholes get their comeuppance

I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.

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This is amazing and is a serious way to start to fight back the fascist menace we as Americans face. This is just amazing and I cannot say enough good things about this kind of thing. We need more of this in other areas let’s crowd source a pro democracy movement response before the election.

awesome! i just put together a volunteer form, would you please fill it out? forms.gle/ZHw8DDX7qBb6...

Project 2025 Meme Volunteerforms.gle Hi there! Thank you SO MUCH for your interest in helping us meme our way to killing Project 2025. Please fill out the quick survey below so we can get started. We may not call on you right away but ev...

I find myself relating a lot to the way Peter and Clarissa each have a moment of thinking “I’m only just past 50, I’m not old!”, but also each notice how much the other has aged. 💐

Salty licorice cats! 😻

THEY DISCOVERED A NEW CAT COLOR?????