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Anna Roth

@annaroth.bsky.social

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General enthusiast. Used to be a food critic. Not into Nazis. SEA >> LA >> SF >> NYC >> SEA

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Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · Sep 30

Breaking the seal on here bc I can’t stop thinking about this moment from the latest Love is Blind, which maybe accidentally captured something profound and essential about the zeitgeist? Feelings are hard!

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 2d

My second favorite part is it was an 8am meeting. Fuck that guy

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 2d

!!!

A whiteboard that says “commitmet to excellence” with commitment misspelled and it’s an 8am meeting

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 2d

Someone had a theory that the rapture happened then but only she was raptured

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marina🌸 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 2d

what etsy witch do we hire to heal dolly parton

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 2d

Not well actually but they *unfucked* the Mariners which is more powerful!

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 3d

I keep thinking about all them artists who got new deal jobs just gotta believe

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 3d

Kinda think the reason is bots?

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 3d

i want my mtv

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe if Hamlet had a big ole redwood the whole thing would’ve been avoided

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! I nearly threw the latest book across the room when I read this early sentence: “The house to which Strike had driven wasn’t what he’d been expecting.” Everyone needs an editor!

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 5d

I know is there like a fund or

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 5d

All my emotions are with the Etsy witches

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 5d

I know they chose violence

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 7d

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 9d

Wait is this not AI

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 9d

Idk there is part of me that sees this all as the logical conclusion of trickle-down “greed is good”

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 9d

It’s so satisfying to think “if I were me, where would I have put this thing” and go thru the same thought process and often arrive at the thing

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 9d

“Don’t call me a fascist or I’ll throw you in jail!!” Amazing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Stephen Miller: "They say they are trying to kill the fascists & stop the fascists. It's deliberate. President Trump is saying that we as a nation are not going to tolerate it anymore & the joint terrorism task force at the FBI is going to find these terrorists & we're going to put them behind bars"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d

i was invited to a gathering tonight and initially wasn’t gonna go because every extra thing feels like so much these days but i made myself go and i’m so glad i did because it turns out community is so fucking important right now

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10d

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10d

ive been in terrible all staff meetings before but never one where management called everyone fat

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 12d

"We're losing because there are always moments when we lose" is a lesson that Ta-Nahisi Coates understands intuitively, and that Ezra Klein has never had to, and that difference speaks volumes about American history.

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 12d

of all the things about ta-nehisi coates’s philosophy i wish people would internalize the main one is: sometimes you lose

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 11d

His backbone, certainly. This isn’t a time for moral cowardice

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 11d

Well yes but they don’t realize it yet

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 11d

We’re closing in on the “not choosing a side means you’ve chosen a side” era and I equally fear and welcome it