Samuel Ashworth
@samuelashworth.bsky.social
Author of THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY. NYT-bestselling ghostwriter and screenwriter. Guy at Barrelhouse, professor of Creative Writing at GWU. Swamp Dad. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-death-and-life-of-august-sweeney-samuel-ashworth/216
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Has this discourse cured anybody else's imposter syndrome?
I'm not that smart but I have never had medieval peasant brain. No, the fucking computer isn't a person!
I'm not that smart but I have never had medieval peasant brain. No, the fucking computer isn't a person!
That smells great
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Has this discourse cured anybody else's imposter syndrome?
I'm not that smart but I have never had medieval peasant brain. No, the fucking computer isn't a person!
I'm not that smart but I have never had medieval peasant brain. No, the fucking computer isn't a person!
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
Rian Johnson understood that if you’re given infinity dollars to make the 8th movie in a trilogy you have a moral and artistic obligation to use it as a platform for beauty and comedy and truth was so dangerous to the oligarchs at disney that they made a whole other movie just to memory-hole it
I will offer my vote to whichever candidate has the courage to admit that The Last Jedi is #1 and it’s not close
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Rian Johnson understood that if you’re given infinity dollars to make the 8th movie in a trilogy you have a moral and artistic obligation to use it as a platform for beauty and comedy and truth was so dangerous to the oligarchs at disney that they made a whole other movie just to memory-hole it
I will offer my vote to whichever candidate has the courage to admit that The Last Jedi is #1 and it’s not close
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I will offer my vote to whichever candidate has the courage to admit that The Last Jedi is #1 and it’s not close
As someone who hates both the Michelin guide AND the city of Boston, the Tire God taking a million-dollar bribe to include the city and then giving exactly one restaurant a star is absolutely the funniest possible outcome
Boston’s First-Ever Michelin Guide Was Just Released—And Only One Restaurant In The City Earned A Star
It’s a new era for Boston’s food industry. Michelin Guide’s been recommending restaurants globally for over a century, and they’ve . The Michelin Guide for Boston was announced at a Northeast Cities c...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As someone who hates both the Michelin guide AND the city of Boston, the Tire God taking a million-dollar bribe to include the city and then giving exactly one restaurant a star is absolutely the funniest possible outcome
Karen knows! It's Good As Hell™!
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Karen knows! It's Good As Hell™!
The fact that THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY didn’t have the marketing budget to dent the year-end lists should not diminish the fact that it actually is one of the best books of the year and if you buy it and disagree I’ll personally refund your money
The Death and Life of August Sweeney
Check out The Death and Life of August Sweeney - Legendary chef August Sweeney has served his final meal, dying in the middle of service in the very restaurant he built to secure his legacy. When Dr. ...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The fact that THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY didn’t have the marketing budget to dent the year-end lists should not diminish the fact that it actually is one of the best books of the year and if you buy it and disagree I’ll personally refund your money
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Reposting my 2018 piece about year end lists for anyone who needs it (me!). www.damemagazine.com/2018/12/19/i...
It’s Time to Reconsider the Best-Of List - Dame Magazine
The piles of books and galleys that clutter my apartment are overwhelming. This is not a humble brag—more of a cry for help. I’m a culture writer and critic who is deeply entrenched in the book world....
www.damemagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Reposting my 2018 piece about year end lists for anyone who needs it (me!). www.damemagazine.com/2018/12/19/i...
Maybe the real DOGE was the friends of mine who got fired along the way
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Maybe the real DOGE was the friends of mine who got fired along the way
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I want a girl who gets up early (Gets up early!)
I want a girl who stays up late (Stays up late!)
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity (Uninterrupted)
Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
I WANT A GIRL WITH A SHORT SKIRT AND A LOOOOOOOOOOONG
A LONG
JACKET
(na na na na na na)
I want a girl who stays up late (Stays up late!)
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity (Uninterrupted)
Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
I WANT A GIRL WITH A SHORT SKIRT AND A LOOOOOOOOOOONG
A LONG
JACKET
(na na na na na na)
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I want a girl who gets up early (Gets up early!)
I want a girl who stays up late (Stays up late!)
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity (Uninterrupted)
Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
I WANT A GIRL WITH A SHORT SKIRT AND A LOOOOOOOOOOONG
A LONG
JACKET
(na na na na na na)
I want a girl who stays up late (Stays up late!)
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity (Uninterrupted)
Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
I WANT A GIRL WITH A SHORT SKIRT AND A LOOOOOOOOOOONG
A LONG
JACKET
(na na na na na na)
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A whole lot of you follow this account. She’s lying to you and does not care.
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A whole lot of you follow this account. She’s lying to you and does not care.
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
The flood of author-targeting scams in 2025 is getting kind of biblical
PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The flood of author-targeting scams in 2025 is getting kind of biblical
Ea-Nasir, you son of a bitch
“MTA blames serial copper thief for hundreds of NYC subway delays” gothamist.com/news/mta-bla...
MTA blames serial copper thief for hundreds of NYC subway delays
The MTA said the vandal singlehandedly delayed 755 subway trains over the course of three days in October.
gothamist.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Ea-Nasir, you son of a bitch
I'm not sure there's anyone alive writing sharper work about art and the internet than @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
How Normal Is A Celebrity Allowed To Be? | Defector
Elyse Myers is famous for being normal—32-year-old brunette, married with two kids, lives in Nebraska kind of normal. Her press often refers to her as “The Internet’s Best Friend.” In her four years i...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I'm not sure there's anyone alive writing sharper work about art and the internet than @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
I routinely leave the most out-there stuff on the board in hopes that the person who teaches after me experiences exactly this feeling
I really want to know what’s going on in the class that meets here before mine
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I routinely leave the most out-there stuff on the board in hopes that the person who teaches after me experiences exactly this feeling
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anyway. go read a short story or a chunk of a novel today. enjoy a piece of art. maybe even buy a drawing or painting! reach out and tell an artist how much something they made meant to you.
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
anyway. go read a short story or a chunk of a novel today. enjoy a piece of art. maybe even buy a drawing or painting! reach out and tell an artist how much something they made meant to you.
Scrivener forever
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Scrivener forever
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This is worth watching both for getting to see Bill Maher’s joke bomb again but maybe more so to see Sam Seder rant for 8 minutes about Bill Maher saying he gave up going on the road doing stand up because he considered himself too funny to be doing it
Bill Maher's Zohran Joke Bombs BIG TIME
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is worth watching both for getting to see Bill Maher’s joke bomb again but maybe more so to see Sam Seder rant for 8 minutes about Bill Maher saying he gave up going on the road doing stand up because he considered himself too funny to be doing it
How dare @defector.com's Business Guy be a better writer than a lot of working journalists
i hope people read this report. jasper's view of the industry is sharp, clear-eyed, fair, and reasonable in its hopes and skepticisms: defector.com/defector-ann...
Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. ...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
How dare @defector.com's Business Guy be a better writer than a lot of working journalists
LIT FOLKS: Tomorrow I'm teaching a "rules for readings" class. Aside from the obvious ones (eye contact, use less time than allowed, don't use your phones, don't talk into your fucking sternum), what are your favorites?
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
LIT FOLKS: Tomorrow I'm teaching a "rules for readings" class. Aside from the obvious ones (eye contact, use less time than allowed, don't use your phones, don't talk into your fucking sternum), what are your favorites?
Also copying a specific style for 450 words isn't writing, it's forgery
Typing the words "MFA-trained experts" instantly marks you as a fucking idiot
Put writing high quality literary text on the list of things that AIs used to not be able to do but now can do
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Also copying a specific style for 450 words isn't writing, it's forgery
Typing the words "MFA-trained experts" instantly marks you as a fucking idiot
Put writing high quality literary text on the list of things that AIs used to not be able to do but now can do
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Typing the words "MFA-trained experts" instantly marks you as a fucking idiot
Then chase it with this
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Then chase it with this
Start your morning with this instead of the other stuff
The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Start your morning with this instead of the other stuff