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Natalie Weiner

@natalieweiner.bsky.social

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Dallas-based freelance writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com natalie.l.weiner at gmail

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 7h

just got a facebook memory from...19 years ago and i think it's time to hang it up for the day

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 8h

baby is kicking away, showing considerably more verve than the ms

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 8h

not having fun

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 8h

tempted to turn it off for vibes but idk

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 9h

all we know is stress

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 9h

need those tums now

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 9h

ok yikes

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 9h

galaxy brain did not backfire THIS time

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 9h

i'm no baseball expert but

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 9h

why pinch hit a guy who already...got a hit

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 10h

finite time to read posts? ok cool guy

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 10h

couldn't be me

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10h

This x100

So many of you do work that I deeply respect and/or seem extremely cool on a personal level, and yet I have finite time to read posts!

A constant struggle!

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

The "follow" dichotomy I always struggle with is "I want to see every single thing you post" vs. "I want you to know that I like and respect you." My Following feed is so overstuffed as it is, but I hate the idea that people I don't follow back might think that I don't appreciate them!

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 10h

also even if you don't care about any of that other stuff, it was in robocop!

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 14h

bookshop dot org is still offering FREE SHIPPING so here are some music books I think you should order!! let's start with @nikostratis.com' THE DAD ROCK THAT MADE ME A WOMAN. what i love the most about Niko's writing is how she is always expanding outward. bookshop.org/a/22613/9781...

The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

Check out The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman - A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. When Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously critic...

bookshop.org

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12h

proceeds of the $20 smoothie go to charity (specifically corgan's cte foundation (?)) so i suppose i should not mock too much but

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12h

inbox:

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS & EREWHON TEAM UP FOR

A NEW SMOOTHIE: “OG GOTH”

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 17h

In February, @404media.co did a piece on the overwhelming amount of AI Slop in public library vendor Hoopla Digital. They promised to clean up their platform, but just this morning I went looking and easily found a self-publishing house pushing shoddy health content by a fake author.

Stephanie Hinderock stock photo nonfiction writer

search for a bad self publisher with many health related books

stock photo with many women with different names

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12h

look traffic is traffic!! and it's not to say they can't be thoughtful, just that it's a replacement for a lot of other things

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12h

i think relitigating canons is good but ultimately all these things are arbitrary which everyone knows and pretends they don't

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12h

def a big part of it - half practical for the internet, half people loving to Embrace Debate etc lol

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12h

it remains a funny comp to sports like "analytics" guys vs. vibes based analysis guys. the need to attach numbers/competition to things that do not inherently need or use them to render the abstract concrete etc

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPEO...

Trans-Am

YouTube video by Croy and the Boys - Topic

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12h

everything you've ever listened to but RANKED

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12h

churnin out lists, getting a little traffic here and there as a treat, basically the music writer's 2025 mandate

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