Amanda Mull
@amandamull.bsky.social
Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
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philly and dallas just passing the brain cell back and forth at this point
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
philly and dallas just passing the brain cell back and forth at this point
This gotta be one of the dumbest football games I’ve ever seen (not sure whether complimentary or derogatory)
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This gotta be one of the dumbest football games I’ve ever seen (not sure whether complimentary or derogatory)
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After losing Penny, I think it’ll be a long while before I have another dog. But I did sign up to take shelter dogs out for field trips and did my first one today. Meet Parker, who is up for adoption with no fees at East Bay SPCA!
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
After losing Penny, I think it’ll be a long while before I have another dog. But I did sign up to take shelter dogs out for field trips and did my first one today. Meet Parker, who is up for adoption with no fees at East Bay SPCA!
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Here’s a non-Thanksgiving turkey tip: if you have a reliable local barbecue spot and they make smoked turkey and you’ve never had whatever kind of turkey sandwich they make with it, it will probably change your life
it is tired to the point of cliche to say if turkey was good, people would make it more than once a year. but it is understated that at least one American explodes every Thanksgiving in a brave attempt to make the main dish more palatable
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Here’s a non-Thanksgiving turkey tip: if you have a reliable local barbecue spot and they make smoked turkey and you’ve never had whatever kind of turkey sandwich they make with it, it will probably change your life
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i'm shopping for a new dog ramp for the couch and i am obsessed with this diva
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
i'm shopping for a new dog ramp for the couch and i am obsessed with this diva
Went back this morning because I saw a girl who wanted a Telfar bag yesterday and I was still thinking about her but someone already got her right so I found someone else who wanted a bag because who knows about wanting a bag better than me ya know
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Went back this morning because I saw a girl who wanted a Telfar bag yesterday and I was still thinking about her but someone already got her right so I found someone else who wanted a bag because who knows about wanting a bag better than me ya know
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Yo what’s up chat. It’s ya boy Sisyphus, back again with another Eternal Boulder Any% run. If you’re new here, smash that follow button like Zeus smashed my hopes and dreams.
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Yo what’s up chat. It’s ya boy Sisyphus, back again with another Eternal Boulder Any% run. If you’re new here, smash that follow button like Zeus smashed my hopes and dreams.
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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This holiday season I’m really into “donate in my name instead of giving me something” and this is a good one
Also good this year: Cash donations to food banks
Also good this year: Cash donations to food banks
I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This holiday season I’m really into “donate in my name instead of giving me something” and this is a good one
Also good this year: Cash donations to food banks
Also good this year: Cash donations to food banks
I have a magazine journalism degree (Georgia doesn’t give those anymore) but graduated in 2008 during the Great Magazine Die-off so I got a marketing job but kept writing $25 blog posts for a friend’s site and then the economy collapsed and I got laid off from the marketing job so I was like, well,
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I have a magazine journalism degree (Georgia doesn’t give those anymore) but graduated in 2008 during the Great Magazine Die-off so I got a marketing job but kept writing $25 blog posts for a friend’s site and then the economy collapsed and I got laid off from the marketing job so I was like, well,
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Manny Diaz ONIONS
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Manny Diaz ONIONS
I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
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I really love Texas A&M Home Games so much,
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I really love Texas A&M Home Games so much,
lol okay that was a good catch by Arch there!!
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
lol okay that was a good catch by Arch there!!
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This went from "Notre Dame, if you beat Syracuse by more than Miami did (28 points), you can avoid giving the committee a reason to care that Miami beat you" to "ok settle down Notre Dame" immediately
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This went from "Notre Dame, if you beat Syracuse by more than Miami did (28 points), you can avoid giving the committee a reason to care that Miami beat you" to "ok settle down Notre Dame" immediately
Georgia game over in well under 3 hours lol
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Georgia game over in well under 3 hours lol
It’s not yet halftime and Georgia’s got skill position players in there whose names I do not recognize
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s not yet halftime and Georgia’s got skill position players in there whose names I do not recognize
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I missed this last night—NC State invented the onside punt
I’m ignoring the timeline and just watching this again
ACC after dark
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I missed this last night—NC State invented the onside punt
I feel bad for Charlotte’s players, they didn’t schedule us
November 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I feel bad for Charlotte’s players, they didn’t schedule us
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The SEC running back name generator is on fire.
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The SEC running back name generator is on fire.
Georgia is up 7-0 on Charlotte in the first quarter and basically already running clock
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Georgia is up 7-0 on Charlotte in the first quarter and basically already running clock
Because Georgia kicked off at God’s Most Normal Football Time (12:45) I fully forgot the game was on for the first five minutes of game time
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Because Georgia kicked off at God’s Most Normal Football Time (12:45) I fully forgot the game was on for the first five minutes of game time
Does anyone who regularly walks in icy conditions during the winter have a rec for a boot with really, really good traction on ice but without spikes? (I am just going to wear it around the city but I have lower body joint issues from sports injuries and am very afraid of falling when it’s icy out)
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Does anyone who regularly walks in icy conditions during the winter have a rec for a boot with really, really good traction on ice but without spikes? (I am just going to wear it around the city but I have lower body joint issues from sports injuries and am very afraid of falling when it’s icy out)