fine I don’t care who knows it, I think sabrina carpenter really went off with the bars “i like my boys playing hard to get and i like my men all incompetent”
amy brown
@amybrown.xyz
writer / parent x2 / sf bay via dayton, ohio "the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing” - KATSEYE amybrown.xyz ✨
not to brag but my mom read this and said "you could be a newspaper columnist if they still had those"
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 6h ago"The guy I’d just told to fuck off on Nextdoor lived on my block, and was chatting with my—no, OUR—neighbors..." @amybrown.xyz on becoming the most reviled Nextdoor user in El Cerrito:
Me buying a house and not having to do coin laundry anymore: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me having to replace the washing machine when it breaks: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
excited to announce that i will be selling Amy Brown to a holding company
a sentence that immediately went triple platinum in my brain:
leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 4h agothe arc of discourse is long but it bends towards burrito
Just moved here like 3 weeks ago what the hell have I gotten myself into 💀
amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 6h agoit's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This
What a page turner, or whatever the millennial humans would call this. This essay was impeccable in its honesty and vulnerability. I'm sure it was a challenge to remove the dopamine inducing snark, but this essay stands as a unique snark-light view into...well a window of our online/offline worlds.
amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 6h agoit's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This
menopause is autism and autism is immigrants and immigrants are god and god is empty just like me
Video Game Watcher@ashstoneman.bsky.social · yesterdayToday my primary care doctor told me that menopause is autism and all immigrants have autism, so I guess I have to go without the medication I went there for for a little while
We're finally achieving our business plan thanks to Amy: being the absolute opposite of whatever nextdoor is.
it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This
How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
oaklandreviewofbooks.org
"The guy I’d just told to fuck off on Nextdoor lived on my block, and was chatting with my—no, OUR—neighbors..." @amybrown.xyz on becoming the most reviled Nextdoor user in El Cerrito:
How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
oaklandreviewofbooks.org
actually the madden brothers are just staying true to their ethos of never getting real jobs by becoming private equity vultures but y'all aren't ready for that conversation
bart@bartsmith.bsky.social · 11h ago"The Madden brothers aka Good Charlotte fired almost everyone from REVOLVER Magazine, BrooklynVegan, and Alternative Press"
please think of the ohioans in your life today. it's really hard for us to have to hand it to michigan about something
e-bike dad at my daycare has evolved into MEGA E-BIKE DAD and now carts three children to daycare with it 🫡
i'm too beautiful for two-factor authentication. a simple password should suffice. sort of the opposite of how i feel about getting carded at a bar
thinking about buying a new notebook. does anyone know which notebook will fix whatever is wrong with me this time
guy who learns to get around the bay area on public transit using the rancid songs about taking the bus
Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats
"More than 15,000 people in El Cerrito have a Nextdoor account, which is approximately 60 percent of the town’s population" <-- not the only jump scare in this piece.
amy brown@amybrown.xyz · yesterdaymy essay about becoming the nextdoor villain of el cerrito drops tomorrow at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
my essay about becoming the nextdoor villain of el cerrito drops tomorrow at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
finally bringing bluesky to parity with the a star is born press tour
Bluesky@bsky.app · yesterdayUpdate: group chats can now host up to 100 members.
I must inform you that Rebecca Black’s “Friday” just went platinum, according to the RIAA. www.riaa.com/gold-platinu...
reading between the lines here, it's incredibly funny that this guy filed a police report on himself, presumably because he thought the cops wouldnt look into it
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
this reminds me of a teacher colleague I used to work with who, on September 1st, changed the date on the board to "August 32nd" and just kept going until the kids noticed several months later
Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 2d agoso there's been this big Clear Channel digital countdown to the world cup billboard in Oakland for the last six months, except the world cup is over, and they haven't found someone new to buy the billboard space, so right now it just says: "-51 days till all eyes are on the Bay Area!"