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Amanda Silberling

@amanda.omg.lol

16K followers 920 following 2.2K posts

+ senior culture writer, @techcrunch.com + podcasting about the internet on @wowiftrue.bsky.social (@multitude.productions) + she/her ✡️ + talking too much about pottery and the phillies + my opinions ≠ my employer’s

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 27d

i have been hard at work making vases for my friend’s wedding 🫡

Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 7h

i would like to tell phillies bluesky that a friend of mine who currently lives in LA but is a lifelong philly sports fan was at the game tonight. he said the dodgers fans were "chill."

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Absolutely Hammered @ahpod.bsky.social · 7h

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 18h

yeah i met my boyfriend moderating a weird facebook meme group in 2017 which is cool and normal

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 1d

i want to keep writing about the relationship between grief/death/what we leave on the internet + AI so if you're a grief counselor, IP lawyer, mental health professional who knows stuff about the internet, AI researcher who knows stuff about implications of deepfakes... hmu [email protected]

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 1d

people are being really gross about making deepfakes of dead celebrities and sora 2 is making it way worse techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/y...

You can't libel the dead. But that doesn't mean you should deepfake them. | TechCrunch

"Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad," the late Robin Williams' daughter Zelda wrote on Instagram.

techcrunch.com

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 1d

this picture was taken a week and a half ago and it feels like a lifetime ago. the dumpster in the background was an omen. (pc: @dickhead-dept.bsky.social)

me at a phillies game smiling and holding an icecream helmet

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 1d

when twitter strayed from mDAUs, we strayed from god

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 1d

"ICE paid $825,000 earlier this year to a company that manufactures vehicles equipped with various technologies for law enforcement, including fake cellphone towers known as 'cell-site simulators,' which can be used to spy on nearby phones."
techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/i...

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones | TechCrunch

The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.

techcrunch.com

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bryne @howtobepunk.bsky.social · 1d

The guy calling out Phillies fans:

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

October 7, 2023, was genuinely a traumatic day for Jews around the world, who are a small and tightly-knit community with many of us having close ties in Israel. Now my grief for that day is always going to be tinged by the knowledge it was used to launch a genocide. My grief feels impure and wrong.

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 1d

(...get it... the fucking news.... idk)

Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 1d

can't believe bari weiss is planning to revitalize the CBS newsroom with thoughtful reporting on sex

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 1d

i woke up feeling like someone died because of the bunt

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willfisco.bsky.social @willfisco.bsky.social · 2d

Best possible scenario for the Phillies right now is for the Phanatic to run me over with his ATV

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2d

genuinely down for rhis

Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2d

it is bryson stott’s BIRTHDAY and you took the bat OUT OF HIS HANDS

Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2d

cosmic punishment for me, person who thinks mlb doesn’t bunt enough

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2d

the bunt?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2d

i have always been a rob thomson truther but truly like i think if any random guy off the street managed that game the phillies would’ve won

Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2d

i am beside myself

Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2d

the best phillies player tonight was blake trenien

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regan @regan.lol · 2d

Hey Bryce, I've got a great way to for you to pander to Philly fans: hit balls

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2d

bottom of the fourth, @oaksy.bsky.social has already asked me for a screwdriver to tighten the knobs on my kitchen cabinets, we are all doing fine don’t worry

Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2d

me neither but a win is a win 😅

Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 2d

as long as the phillies win.....