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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 6h

Thinking about buying her a tin of grether’s pastilles as a gift

Mentally rehearsing a conversation about warm-down techniques

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 6h

The woman playing the lead in this musical said to me today, “I heard you played this part before, any tips for getting through it?” (Beast of a role that sings a ton + never leaves the stage)

& I told her “drink water and pray” but now my inner vocal health freak is activating like a sleeper agent

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 9h

HELEN!! On MAIN?!?

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 9h

I hate meta but I can NEVER get rid of my Facebook

A Facebook comment thread. The top comment is from Helen, a blonde, rosie-cheeked and unassuming-looking older woman, which reads: “Girth is definitely way better than length ANY day.” A response reads, “HELEN! Your grandkids might be on here!”

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 1d

Me slam dunking between “this is going great” “this whole thing is terrible” “wow I can’t believe I have almost 150 pages I’m making such good progress” “this is awful it’s all shit I can’t use any of this”

The “it’s so over/we’re so back” graph meme

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t written jack squat in days and I FINALLY made some good progress tonight. Switching to pen and paper is miraculous when you’ve been staring at the blank computer screen for ages

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 1d

My friend got a new partner no one has ever met or seen or knows anything about

A text thread:
Person 1: I have more questions than answers.
Person 2: Yeah same, girl. I also can’t find [PARTNER’S NAME] on any social media.
Person 1: Does he… does he… go to another school?
Person 2: Like, metaphorically or literally?
Person 1: I mean is he… [FRIEND]’s girlfriend from Canada? Is his name George Glass? Are we picking up what I’m putting down? Is [PARTNER’S NAME] a real person lol

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 1d

Is that a… Donald Trump Christmas punisher logo

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 1d

Same!! I always stop and watch the clip five times when it comes up

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Longhand writing stuff out is patently not a good memorization tool, but when I need to work silently, it’s *something*

But I hate wasting the paper? So I’ll just write it over and over itself until it looks like something you’d find in a horror movie ✨😌 it’s very normal

A page of lined notebook paper, covered in frenzied black ink scribbles that were once apparently letters, but there are so many layers that they’re completely indistinguishable.

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 2d

We’re rehearsing in a church basement and these little church ladies were chatting next to me and meanwhile this vulva pillow and I were sharing intense eye contact

I sent it to my friend and she said she didn’t see it. So maybe I’m just some weird pervert but whoa mama

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 2d

The timing didn’t work out the way the director expected at rehearsal last week so a good portion of our cast sat around for like an hour, it happens. It gave me SO much time to stare at this Rorschach blot of a pillow and have it stare back at me

Like— are we— we’re seeing the same thing right

An embroidered pillow. The design in the center is almost oval-shaped, and loosely resembles exterior female genitalia

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been a big fan of making what I’ve been calling Not-Charcuterie Plates on days when I’m at home and can placidly graze my way through breakfast/brunch/lunch

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 3d

Opening the fridge post-workout to refill my water bottle and seeing all my little snacks

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 3d

I think the two biggest impediments I have to losing weight are

1) I’m always jonesing for buffalo chicken dip

2) as soon as I’m done exercising, every single time, I think to myself, “wow I sure am hungry now”

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 3d

“Public means I share this space with other people” vs “public means this is my space”

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 3d

That’s the same reason I don’t have it. I struggle too bad to stop scrolling as it is

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 3d

I get stuck writing because I start feeling like there’s One Right Answer for where to go next

I asked a question Reddit because I was lost in the sauce and someone basically said “do whatever you want you’re the writer” and I genuinely was like

Oh. Oh yeah that’s right

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 4d

Did you do both at once? I did that last year and felt Totally Fine Not Bad At All ™ until like midnight when I got chills so bad my teeth were chattering 🤣 Godspeed!

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 4d

Every time I saw people call Elon’s stiff arm salute “trolling” I lost a full year off my life

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 4d

If what you mean is “this normal person is being an asshole,” or “this CEO is being a destructive asshole,” or “this politician is being a fascist asshole,” you should just say that instead of “this person/CEO/politician is trolling us”

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 4d

I would love for the word “trolling” to never be used again

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