amy brown
@amybrown.xyz
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writer east bay area via dayton, ohio mom x2 plus one elderly dog here's my website: amybrown.xyz
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tonight my son (almost 3) was watching a video of a forklift on youtube and he said affirmatively, “that’s what me talking about”
over 1 year ago
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for posters this is like winning a pulitzer
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ex-Lethality Jane
37 minutes ago
Ah. I see the problem now.
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i apologize for this afternoon's outburst. this is what happens when i do not have a full-time job. i need to be kept occupied for the safety of our community spaces
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the melley
about 1 hour ago
...you know i used to think the "reading comprehension on this site is piss-poor" "how dare you say we piss on the poor" tumblr post was a joke
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ex-Lethality Jane
about 3 hours ago
This was a well-written and thoughtful article so naturally the replies and quotes are filled with people accusing the author of supporting eugenics.
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the hype
about 3 hours ago
Please listen closely, as our menu options have changed. To be connected to a bot that will just annoy you and not help, press 1. To be connected to a bot that will just annoy you and not help, press 2. To be connected to a bot that will just annoy you and not help, press 3. To be connected to a bot
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4Loko's Basilisk
about 2 hours ago
this is a good website for me because I do really enjoy it when people respond to a joke with "is this some kind of fucking joke?!"
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update: i have four mangoes
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about 2 hours ago
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Stella Sacco
about 8 hours ago
What else is new
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Amy Ash
about 5 hours ago
Excellent dog, my bad for assembling wrong but it still works
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d.ly
about 6 hours ago
me after I sow:
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irresponsible. everyone knows Claude is better for child-rearing
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about 6 hours ago
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i'm trying to settle an argument. what's the most millennial engagement bait?
about 7 hours ago
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reupping this one more time because i didn't get a chance to say arb x orb
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about 8 hours ago
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bought six mangoes at costco just in time for my kids to decide they don't like mango right now but that's okay because now. i have six mangoes
about 19 hours ago
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Reo Eveleth
1 day ago
This
@amybrown.xyz
piece at
@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
is full of banger lines that made me laugh out loud but is also touching and lovely at the same time.
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...
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Pickiness tastes like trauma
How American children became the fussiest eaters in history (and why they need to check their not-dying privilege).
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-review/
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Joseph Galbo
1 day ago
Lmao. Been there, brother.
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michael lutz
1 day ago
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you can sing “shiba at the Costco” to the tune of girlfriend in a coma by the smiths. thanks
1 day ago
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if the headline of this article made you mad, you should try actually reading it before yelling at me. it’s not even paywalled. thanks
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Jesse
1 day ago
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Reo Eveleth
1 day ago
Genuinely obsessed with this new
@coyotemedia.org
page for pet obituaries.
petobits.coyotemedia.org
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The Rainbow Bay Bridge — COYOTE Media Collective
https://petobits.coyotemedia.org/?ref=coyotemedia.org
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subscribe to my email list if you'd like to receive no emails for six months and then suddenly get one with the subject line "tits out at the NICU" at 11am on a random monday:
buttondown.com/amybrown
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1 day ago
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big day for me. my essay published and the ant guy is here (the guy who sprays for ants) (not paul rudd ant man) (ant guy)
1 day ago
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller
1 day ago
A book review that not only makes you want to pick up the book, but reconsider your relationship with birth trauma, your mother, her mother, and mozzarella cheese sticks all at once. (complimentary)
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i wrote about my increasingly large son who only wants to eat a beefy five layer burrito from taco bell
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Oakland Review of Books
1 day ago
Picky-eating American children are afflicted with a form of privilege we don't talk about enough: not-dying privilege. To explain,
@amybrown.xyz
kicks off our TASTE week:
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...
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Pickiness tastes like trauma
How American children became the fussiest eaters in history (and why they need to check their not-dying privilege).
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-review/
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Loather
1 day ago
Six year old said he wants to be named Bill. Is this gender
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monday cancelled on account of i frew up
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Brandy Zadrozny
1 day ago
ok i chuckled
www.epicfurious.com
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the definitive millennial album is the jay-z/linkin park album
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2 days ago
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happy mothers day to this person
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2 days ago
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got suspended from nextdoor again and I swear to god I didn’t even do anything this time
2 days ago
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my son (4): i love you a hundred me: i love you a hundred and one my son: well i love you a trillion me: well i love you two trillion my son: NO! you can't keep doing that!!
2 days ago
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we went to meet the cats at cattown oakland :)
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April Glick Pulito
2 days ago
need it on a mom crewneck sweatshirt stat
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im like dropping hints that im a mom and it’s my day
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Hamilton Nolan
2 days ago
Opening a lucrative PR firm where for $100k I will hand my wealthy clients a note that says “stop commenting for stories like this”
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TW
3 days ago
The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job
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mindflakes
3 days ago
If you see a weird-looking dog you have to tell me immediately. If I find out any of you have been looking at weird-looking dogs without involving me I might never forgive you.
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I am no longer suspended from Nextdoor and am excited to bring you this comment from a post about Berkeley planning to build 6 townhomes on the site of an abandoned gas station
3 days ago
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we got the dog an indoor fountain to encourage him to stop submerging his head in the outdoor fountain
3 days ago
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Rob Delaney
3 days ago
Usually the onion is funny but this is a miss. This has happened to my cousin Tebney & we have no recourse
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martin
4 days ago
[local news anchor voice] cut off by a dog? it’s more common than you think
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[fox news voice] in california you look over and you’re getting cut off on the freeway by a dog driving a prius
4 days ago
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old mans
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SeaTea
4 days ago
This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.
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saw a baby blue cybertruck and involuntarily screamed
4 days ago
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sorry to christopher nolan but this is the best adaptation of the odyssey
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steven monacelli
4 days ago
Is it a bad sign if an ominously slowed down version of my leitmotif starts playing when I arrive at the grocery store
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