Andrea Avery
@andreaavery.bsky.social
Author SONATA: A MEMOIR OF PAIN AND THE PIANO (Pegasus Books) and VISITING COMPOSER: A NOVELLA (**OUT NOW** from Miami U Press).
BA (🎹) MFA, Ed.D @ ASU
MD-born desert dweller. Editor. Thrifter. Cat lady.
Rheumatoid arthritis since 1989.
She/her.
BA (🎹) MFA, Ed.D @ ASU
MD-born desert dweller. Editor. Thrifter. Cat lady.
Rheumatoid arthritis since 1989.
She/her.
Pinned
Andrea Avery
@andreaavery.bsky.social
· Jul 1
🎶 Happy Publication Day to VISITING COMPOSER by @andreaavery.bsky.social!! 🎶
“Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight.” –Gregory Spatz
sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...
“Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight.” –Gregory Spatz
sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...
It’s my book’s birthday! And I am so glad and grateful it is in the hands of Miami
University Press. Dream publication experience …
@miamioh-press.bsky.social -press.bsky.social
University Press. Dream publication experience …
@miamioh-press.bsky.social -press.bsky.social
Somewhere someone is naming their cat GPT i just know it
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Somewhere someone is naming their cat GPT i just know it
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Get in the habit of bringing up accessibility at meetings, in stand-ups, and in demos. Bring up things you've done to address accessibility. Likewise, don't be afraid to ask, "Have we tested this on a keyboard?" or "What's the experience like on a screen reader?"
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Get in the habit of bringing up accessibility at meetings, in stand-ups, and in demos. Bring up things you've done to address accessibility. Likewise, don't be afraid to ask, "Have we tested this on a keyboard?" or "What's the experience like on a screen reader?"
Maybe don’t make an inedible toy (designated as a choking hazard and containing “compounds and polymer sprinkles”) and call it “Play-Doh scented butter” (even “butter-scented Play-Doh” would be marginally better, with a good graphic designer on the case) and put it in food-style packaging?
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Maybe don’t make an inedible toy (designated as a choking hazard and containing “compounds and polymer sprinkles”) and call it “Play-Doh scented butter” (even “butter-scented Play-Doh” would be marginally better, with a good graphic designer on the case) and put it in food-style packaging?
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
Thrifters, please stop bringing your non-thrifter husbands and boyfriends with you and letting them stand in all the wrong places while staring at their phone
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Thrifters, please stop bringing your non-thrifter husbands and boyfriends with you and letting them stand in all the wrong places while staring at their phone
If I had one of those limited edition 20-ounce Bearista cups and I filled it with 20 ounces of the instantaneously sold out Tillamook butternaise, could I sell that and retire
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If I had one of those limited edition 20-ounce Bearista cups and I filled it with 20 ounces of the instantaneously sold out Tillamook butternaise, could I sell that and retire
This is brilliant!
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is brilliant!
Hello to the writer at @Variety who tried a Kendrick Lamar/Sally Field mashup in the paragraph I just saw screenshotted on Threads, where they’re eating you for Girl Dinner but don’t worry. Gen X sees you
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Hello to the writer at @Variety who tried a Kendrick Lamar/Sally Field mashup in the paragraph I just saw screenshotted on Threads, where they’re eating you for Girl Dinner but don’t worry. Gen X sees you
Guess who’s back on her Wilkie Collins bullshit. Again.
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Guess who’s back on her Wilkie Collins bullshit. Again.
Bsky:Threads :: Teachers’ lounge:high school students
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Bsky:Threads :: Teachers’ lounge:high school students
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you're gonna be in a wheelchair a helluva a lot sooner than you'll be in a luxury yacht. talk about accessibility *NOW*
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
you're gonna be in a wheelchair a helluva a lot sooner than you'll be in a luxury yacht. talk about accessibility *NOW*
do you think SOME Manatees spell it Manaty #Kimberlee #Kimberly
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
do you think SOME Manatees spell it Manaty #Kimberlee #Kimberly
I know “poked the bear” is established idiom but when you say “Trump poked the bear last night” it sounds really dirty and nonconsensual and between that and RKF I just feel really worried about bears
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I know “poked the bear” is established idiom but when you say “Trump poked the bear last night” it sounds really dirty and nonconsensual and between that and RKF I just feel really worried about bears
The newspaper: Ah, ah, ah, not so fast, Mamdani could never be president because of the Constitution
Also the newspaper: Here’s why the whole “no third terms” thing in the Constitution is really a wide-open question
Also the newspaper: Here’s why the whole “no third terms” thing in the Constitution is really a wide-open question
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The newspaper: Ah, ah, ah, not so fast, Mamdani could never be president because of the Constitution
Also the newspaper: Here’s why the whole “no third terms” thing in the Constitution is really a wide-open question
Also the newspaper: Here’s why the whole “no third terms” thing in the Constitution is really a wide-open question
CNN reaction to Mamdani’s speech was wild. Tone-policing is all they got! He was loud! The way he used the microphone hurt their baby ears! He didn’t unite and include and invite everyone in! And it wasn’t just the conservative panelists. Duh, he’s the exterminator and you all are the cockroaches!
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
CNN reaction to Mamdani’s speech was wild. Tone-policing is all they got! He was loud! The way he used the microphone hurt their baby ears! He didn’t unite and include and invite everyone in! And it wasn’t just the conservative panelists. Duh, he’s the exterminator and you all are the cockroaches!
Does the original Knicks logo look like a sticker you’d get at the Boys and Girls Club but throw away rather than put it on your water bottle too?
The White House just posted this they are not mad they swear they are so not mad
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Does the original Knicks logo look like a sticker you’d get at the Boys and Girls Club but throw away rather than put it on your water bottle too?
I will say this. The neckwear in All’s Fair is kinda great. But did the neckwear write it?
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I will say this. The neckwear in All’s Fair is kinda great. But did the neckwear write it?
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The LA Fires earlier this year were devastating for so many people and communities. For disabled people who were displaced, now it's a nightmare of trying to find accessible housing while also competing with everyone else for ANY housing, ANYWHERE.
People With Disabilities Struggle to Secure Accessible Housing After Disasters Like the L.A. Fires
Devastating wildfires in Southern California disrupted thousands of lives, including those of vulnerable people who continue to search for a place to call home.
capitalandmain.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The LA Fires earlier this year were devastating for so many people and communities. For disabled people who were displaced, now it's a nightmare of trying to find accessible housing while also competing with everyone else for ANY housing, ANYWHERE.
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”
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أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
More Billie, less -ionaire please
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
More Billie, less -ionaire please
99 problems and, well, they’re all mosquitoes
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
99 problems and, well, they’re all mosquitoes
He’s going to do the flag next. Mark my words.
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
He’s going to do the flag next. Mark my words.