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Amy McCarthy

@aemccarthy.bsky.social

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food, culture, & music journalist. formerly a reporter at eater, currently pondering a life of crime. WGA East member forever. she/her. // email: [email protected].

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 1h

my heart would've already given out

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 1h

15 innings is too many

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 3h

thanks! that's great to know, i randomly grabbed a few Campus notebooks at Daiso a few weeks ago.

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 8h

this is excellent intel. i grabbed a preppy today and really like it -- i'm also a fan of super fine pens. thank you!

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 9h

would love to hear your recs!

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 9h

gonna regret this but … tell me more 👀

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 10h

Oh god I have purchased a fountain pen, I was unaware this level of intolerably smug existed

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 10h

SEEEEEE I am not a hater, I merely observe factual circumstances

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

okay the more photos i see of taylor's much-discussed sourdough, the more pitiful it looks

it has not expanded outside of the scores, it is *awfully* light, and i'm just not convinced your girl has the skill for inclusions at this time

who will pay me for this incredibly important analysis

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

been there. it's a bummer.

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

dolly rebecca parton and don't you even think about suggesting anyone else

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

no it's normal!!!!! it's perfectly acceptable completely sane behavior

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

lol brother my dumb ass picked "homework due in 25 minutes" as a career so trust me when i say i do not need your robot to do a week's worth of work in an hour, i have ADHD for that

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

adults complaining about cussing -- the word "cursing" is so cringe i can scarcely type it -- is so embarrassing, please grow up

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

jesus christ tfw you realize you are accidentally following one of the ghouls who is actually paid well to do journalism but uses that platform only to make mealy mouthed arguments about civility instead of doing any actual writing

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

it's possible that i slightly overcommitted myself this week and that is interfering greatly with my one true desire: to take a nap

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

i keep seeing these photos of taylor swift's sourdough bread and she maybe should not show those to people

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 3d

how are you gonna be a journalist and do that shit?

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 3d

Man, if you're going to share a screenshot of the story and a screenshot of an X post of someone else sharing the story, just share the fucking link! wacobridge.org/2025/10/06/d...

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 3d

i swear to god if y'all do not stop speaking weird shit into existence with regard to my queen dolly parton i'm gonna come hit all of you

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 4d

abolish prisons except for people who send ai slop of someone's dead father to their children

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 4d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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LeeAnn Wombat @jonnyauping.bsky.social · 4d

folks read reviews of books on My Time Back mytimeback.beehiiv.com

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 4d

i don't like the assumption that every country music person must have shitty politics

sometimes a person is just annoying and unlikeable, not also a bigot

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 4d

"the main character was so unlikeable 1/5 stars" BABE WHAT

Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 4d

i have got to stop reading reviews of books on goodreads because the idea that people only want to read books about characters that are morally upstanding good people who only have happy thoughts and good things happen to them is so depressing to me

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