“don’t piss me off” — me to myself appx 48 times per day
Amy McCarthy
@aemccarthy.bsky.social
founder-owner, @weareravenous.com. freelance food, culture, & music journalist. texan by way of louisiana. currently pondering a life of crime. WGA East member forever. she/her. // email: amyemccarthy@gmail.com.
Did they pass a law that every flight has to be delayed in the most comically stupid possible way or something
BAD. I am seeing shit that I haven’t seen since I was hanging out with a bunch of other mentally ill teens on xanga twenty years ago. if you’re struggling with it all, me too and I see you
sincerely, because it's kinda in the news this week: it's a bad bad bad bad internet for body dysmorphia
a real "fuck you and i'll see you tomorrow" kind of trade deadline am i right
i am traveling tomorrow and was warned about how hot it's going to be. it is currently six degrees cooler in that locale than my current.
interestingly I’ve never used any of the bombs I’ve put in on thanks to the warmongering federal government
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
I am not a parent but I truly cannot imagine acquiescing to this creepy shit so my kid can play fucking tee ball
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
I wrote about Ravenous preparing to commission freelance (yayy!!!) and realizing that means having to plan for AI scams (boooooo) www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance...
AI Is Fucking Over Freelancers
Watching what AI is doing to the process of commissioning freelance work is making us depressed and angry.
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love to decipher which of the 43 streaming services we're all legally required to have the baseball game will be on
corey seager is back in the lineup tonight and nobody can hurt my feelings
i don't even care if the guy who came up with it is evil, "googly eyed kremlin bitch" is an all timer
I got woken up by a leaf blower this morning and i have never felt more motivated to run for political office just so I can make it legal to kill anyone using a leaf blower at 7:30 am
you know i imagine if everyone had a house they could afford to live in, they would go to the bathroom in the privacy of that home and also do their drugs there, just a thought
challenging www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
I would really like to stop the thing where women on instagram flop around and insult their fat and/or aging body parts to sell me a stupid bra or leggings or something
being this much of a dipshit really should disqualify one from speaking in public but here we are
Fuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.
i am obviously so proud of @weareravenous.com but it is incredibly cool to be part of worker-owned food media as a whole, undeniably where the most interesting food journalism is happening
“Being reliant on subscribers for the majority of the money we make, it's like a real promise...You give us money, we give you good writing. It's very straightforward.” Read Ravenous' @jayasaxena.com in @sf.gazetteer.co about the new wave of independent food media. sf.gazetteer.co/welcome-to-t...
nobody warns you that if you eat tomatoes after 10 pm after the age of 35 those tomatoes will murder you in your sleep
Two of my great-grandparents died from eating home canning. Don’t mess with that.
I wrote about how the looming specter of cyclosporiasis is ruining the summer vibes, subscribe to @weareravenous.com to read the whole thing!!!
all the people who claim that taco bell "instantly" gives them diarrhea are weak of spirit imo
joining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell
I told my border collie it was already 93 degrees outside and he told me to go fuck myself it’s time to partyyyyyyyy
my favorite little weed shop in Dallas is closing because Dan Patrick is an absolute loser 👎 www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...
Go Easy, Bishop Arts’ Beloved Cannabis Shop, Is Closing
Go Easy will close its Bishop Arts storefront on July 31 after years of navigating Texas' increasingly uncertain hemp regulations, ending a unique community space for cannabis newcomers and longtime c...
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i randomly watched this last year and it's absolutely one of the funniest, most insane films i have ever seen
On Andrew Bergman's THE FRESHMAN, released on this day in 1990:
my favorite thing about all these useless AI tools on every website is how they work about one percent of the time
feeling this twice as hard now that we know the feds actually still have no fucking clue where all this cyclosporiasis is coming from
I wrote about how the looming specter of cyclosporiasis is ruining the summer vibes, subscribe to @weareravenous.com to read the whole thing!!!
I wrote about how the looming specter of cyclosporiasis is ruining the summer vibes, subscribe to @weareravenous.com to read the whole thing!!!
guys I think I’m officially eileen fisher pants years old
and also because greedy corporate farm owners won't provide adequate sanitation and bathroom facilities for the workers who pick and sort produce
Let’s be really clear about this lettuce situation: it’s not just the destruction of public health tracking, it’s also years and years of ending regulations that would have prevented conditions causing outbreaks in the first place, combined with climate change that makes them more likely to happen.