I don’t want to hear anything else about what we should or shouldn’t be putting in our bodies (Tylenol, artificial sweeteners, sugar, or fat) until something is done about the BULLETS being put into bodies

Melissa McCarthy in “Miss Nelson Is Missing” is the dream come true of every Gen X woman who had a very close, mutually admiring friendship with the school librarian when she was 8 but also is no stranger to having her mouth quite literally washed out with soap

It’s weird to kinda agree with something Ted Cruz says but also I am deeply uncomfortable with his mobster accent

childless by choice, but in another timeline there was a baby named Hubbell Gardiner Avery Decker and I dressed him head to toe in creamy cable knits. #RIP #RobertRedford

Protip: Want to prepare for the world of skilled nursing facilities? work at a private school. You will be no stranger to institutions full of people of varying professional abilities and inclinations who mostly disdain those they purport to serve but believe that nice buildings make up for it

(AP)—The governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina have signed orders intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions.

It was such a delight to meet novella author @andreaavery.bsky.social this week! Thanks to everyone who came out to her reading! Andrea visited @miamiohenglish.bsky.social on Monday to share excerpts from her novella, VISITING COMPOSER, sign copies, and answer questions about craft and research. ✨🌞✨

Thank you, Governor Hobbs!

Governor Katie Hobbs signed an Executive Order expanding access to COVID vaccines in Arizona. It makes it possible for people to get the COVID vaccine without needing a prior prescription and directs insurers to cover the vaccine.

“Debate” means lots of things: Lincoln-Douglas, high schoolers with fetishes for specific pens and boxes of paper cuttings “spreading” at top speed and winning on technicalities, and that guy who’s actually just a relentless troll. Which kind of “excellent debater” are we talking about here

Reminder that generative AI, particularly in the arts, isn't a long-term inevitability just because billionaires want it to be.

Excited to hear @andreaavery.bsky.social read at our home base of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, TONIGHT – 9/8 - 6:30PM! Join us!

Hi again, Gov. Hobbs! This seems like a good idea, right? @azgovernor.bsky.social

I am deeply committed to “carry-on only,” no matter the destination, purpose, or duration of a trip.

“Just get a prescription for the vaccine” is not that easy. What if you don’t have a PCP? What if your PCP is confused or refuses? What if your PCP’s staff is ignorant of new restrictions? What if what if? This is an equity issue and a public health disaster.

I agree. I heard a doctor on television say that 100 million Americans don't have a doctor. In Arizona, the covid vaccine is now by prescription. How will people without doctors get prescriptions?

I’m trying to get a Covid vaccine but my pharmacist wants a prescription and my doctor won’t write one because some committee hasn’t approved it yet. The confusion and chaos is across the board. I am in Arizona. Denial of vaccines is a form of genocide. Last time it was a million people. Wake up.

hi again, @azgovernor.bsky.social! You’ve been quiet. Are you researching ways that as a governor you can ensure residents have access to lifesaving vaccines in light of ignorant restrictions at the federal level? Here’s another one. 👇🏼

What should authors do with their $3k @nthrop!c payout: a) Invest in their craft and put it toward a new laptop (which will come factory-infested with AI) b) Take a principled—and elegant!—stand by buying a fountain pen. c) Redecorate! Add it the budget for, say, rearranging those deck chairs!

Y’all doing the seleect the T-shirt (bonus points if it’s Elvis Costello) that completes two outfits unalike in vibe/occasion but utilizing the same black leather miniskirt (you may accessorize freely) to go with these two pairs of shoes Tik Tok challenge

“Thank goodness the pharmacist is a libertarian and decided to share that while registering me for my prescription-only vaccines and muttering about being on the side of freedom” is a thing I have never said before today

Teachers are cheerleaders for students as they work through robot-designed lesson plans? Sounds like this dummy decided to go into education based on watching too much TV. “I can 🔥change lives🔥 just by sitting saucily on the BIG desk in my prim-but-fun outfit!”

Where is our on-the-record pro-vaccine governor? Arizonans need to hear from you @[email protected]. Where ARE you, Katie Hobbs?!

I finally got an Rx but had to get thru the frontline staff at my doctor’s office, who told me “We don’t have vaccines here. Just go to a pharmacy, sweetie.” Look. If you wear scrubs to work, you simply HAVE to stay abreast of healthcare news in your state. Why are people so bad at their jobs?

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

I wonder if the unqualified loser from the rich, famous family will be held to account. History suggests not.

They tried to get me to go on a funicular on the 8th grade French class trip to Quebec. I was like “Cool word, that … mais non. Pas moi.”

Some of you didn’t get accused of plagiarizing your 9th-grade US History paper on “1984,” forcing you to go word by word defining the “big words” your teacher, Mr. Nelson, assumed you didn’t know so that you could impress upon him, a dope, that you did in fact read and understand book, indeed, 1/2

The cognitive dissonance of most of the women I know trying so hard at our little jobs, for which we are overqualified, berating ourselves for inconsequential mistakes while these men—these men!—hold jobs they have no business holding, do them poorly without a care, and kill people in the process

Hope to see you in (round on the ends and high in the middle) O-hi-O

Happy Labor Day! AI is not on the side of labor. AI does not benefit the worker. AI is a tool to separate skilled workers from money.

Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period ↘️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

Hi again, @azgovernor.bsky.social. Here’s our friends in New Mexico standing up for citizens’ right to get the vaccine to protect themselves and their communities. I am sure they could share the playbook with us?!

@azgovernor.bsky.social here’s another state governor brainstorming workarounds for the vaccine availability problem. What will Arizona’s “do the right thing” be?

spelling mysteries why pollen—>pollination why tendon—>tendinitis

Hi, Gov. Hobbs! @azgovernor.bsky.social What can be done for the millions of Arizonans with chronic illnesses, disabilities, and compromised immune systems and/or those who just want to flex their right to choose how to take care of their own bodies?

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

If you are taking in the 20th anniversary Katrina media, do not be complacent and do not be reassured. The climate is worse than it was then; the dangers are closer. The dismantling of protections and regulations has increased. The scorn for data and science is acute. And MOST IMPORTANT… 1/2

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

This is great! CVS won’t give the Covid vaccine to Arizonans. Walgreens says with a prescription. I called two of my doctors’ offices this morning for an Rx only to learn that their staff don’t read the news and don’t even understand the question. One said “I thought anybody could get the vaccine.”

Somebody should tell the Sundance store they aren’t allowed to use that shade of EVERYTHING MUST GO yellow until shit costs a whole lot less than $60

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social So what can we do about this covid vaccine blackout? Asking on behalf of my immunocompromised self and several million disabled, chronically ill, and immunocompromised Arizonans.

Hey @colorado.gov you need to get on this NOW!!! The state is endangering it’s citizens by putting up even more roadblocks to getting the vaccine that the quack at HHS is doing his best to keep from being available to anyone.

It would suck if you were a kid whose parents pointed out RFK Jr. at the airporrt only to learn online later that he sized you up and found you mitochondrially lacking.

Taylor can call herself an English teacher. She turned an entire generation into absolute freaks for subtext, allusion, and deep textual analysis. Did you ever teach English and have a student ask, “Does it all have to mean something? Maybe the curtains are just blue”? Yeah. She put a stop to that.

Thank you! Pre-ordering is essentially the best way to support an author. It influences how many copies bookstores stock as well as best seller lists. If you love a writer’s work, pre-order.

"What if a story, what if a life has a beginning that’s full of promise and a middle that’s a little more complicated?" ASU English alum @andreaavery.bsky.social spoke with @samdingman.bsky.social @kjzz.org about her new book, "Visiting Composer." Listen: ow.ly/pg1550WMhg8 #ASUHumanities