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Dr. Amuly (she/he)

@amuly.bsky.social

It’s Amuly from all your favorite fanfic. PhD in Philosophy (Platonic mathematics), unionist, comic book whiz, covered bridge pervert. Late-30s. archiveofourown.org/users/Dr_Amuly

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Dr. Amuly (she/he)@amuly.bsky.social · 21h ago

I was wondering about this and went to check my several copies of the story, the oldest of which dates back to a school book from merely 2001. All those have the 2026 date 😅

In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine! In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk. "Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. "Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." 245August 2020: THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS* IN THe living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-fock, seven ơ'clock, time to get up, sime to get up, seven o'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine! In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk. *Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. "Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's mar-riage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked, memory tapes glided under electric eyes. Eighi-one, tick-tock, eighi-one o'clock, off so school, off to work, run, run, eight-one! But no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heels. It was raining outside. The weather box on the front door sang quietly: "Rain, rain, go away; rubbers, raincoats for today ..." " And the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing. Outside, the garage chimed
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)@bowiesongs.bsky.social · yesterday

in re Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which, in the original Martian Chronicles, occurs on today's date), I didn't realize the very first published version of the story, in Collier's magazine, was set in April 1985. (the current edition of Martian Chronicles now sets it in 2057).

the complete text of Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" in Collier's, 6 May 1950
Dr. Amuly (she/he)@amuly.bsky.social · 22h ago

Can’t get the cover off the mini split, ran out of painters tape, no food in the house And then I whanged my pinkie toe so badly that it’s blowing up like a mini hotdog in a microwave I’m… just gonna… stop trying for a bit…

Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social · yesterday

My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

motherjones.com

Dr. Amuly (she/he)@amuly.bsky.social · yesterday

So far today I have: patched, caulked, sanded, washed, taped, and painted 1/2 the wall for the closet. 1/2 to go. …. I swear to goodness it’s gonna look better than rn I know it looks underwhelming right now just hang on HANG ON-

A closet with crummy wire shelves and like a bunch of braces just standing there and it’s white with a blue tape line across the horizontal center of the wallsSame closet angle but most the shelving is gone and the bottom half of the wall is off white now. It is incredibly underwhelming
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · yesterday

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

U.S. Department of Ed... 19h • S • Follow ARMERS 60% OF GEN Z AMERICANS PLAN TO PURSUE SKILLED TRADES WORK THIS YEAR
C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tomorrow is the last day to file for a special election replacing McConnell in Kentucky, so I expect sometime after Five o' clock tomorrow night he might suddenly pass away due to complications from a fall he suffered some weeks back.

Dr. Amuly (she/he)@amuly.bsky.social · 3d ago

The reason all the organized crime settled around the coastal cities and didn’t move inland to, say, New Hampshire is: have you ever tried to dig a hole in the granite state?? Fucking hell

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 4d ago

The inevitable result of "RELIGIOUS LIBERTY" vaccine exemptions: punishments against religions that support vaccines.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.