Ann Marie Awad

@anntastic.bsky.social

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Audio journalist, podcast person, editorial director at @indiejournalists.bsky.social. One of the people behind @coloradioclub.bsky.social. I used to host a podcast about legal weed. Just a little guy.

Screenshot of Ken Klippenstein posting a link to his Substack and says “Graham Platner’s durability shows the era of smoothgroin politicians is coming to an end”
screenshot from Denver7 of Colorado governor Jared Polis joining a zoom call from his car with duck tape over his mouth one week after the state Democratic Party censured him for pardoning election denier Tina Peters
screenshot of my email from paypal that says: "Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement Administrator has sent you $5.48 USD."
Howard Dean pointing to someone in the crowd and screaming into a mic like he’s Henry Rollins
A half-eaten stuffed grape leaf in my greasy little hand
a pile of uncooked stuffed grape leaves stacked like Lincoln logs on a dinner plate
My mise en place for stuffing grape leaves: a kitchen chair that holds a stainless steel pot to the left of a round kitchen table that holds a big orange mixing bowl of filling to the left, and a colander full of wet grape leaves to the right, in front of cutting board and a pair of scissors.
a pile of damp, fresh grape leaves in my hand
A whiteboard with a big chart written on it titled “THE FREAK AXIS” the x axis ranges from “REAL” to “FAKE” and the y axis ranges from “OVERT” to “COVERT” There are several musical artists written in points all over this chart and I’m not going to list them all sorry the handwriting is so small. Take my word for it, it’s great. The kids are alright.
a subway stop ad for AstraZeneca with an anatomical illustration of breasts and text over it that reads: “pioneers in breast, visit us at our booth.” reader what does it mean
A screen grab of my notifications showing one from GoPuff that reads “Your personal shopping genius, co-developed with SpaceXAI. Shop with voice, and explore personalized moments. Try Go now.”
adult Lisa Simpson driving a car
Screencap from “Planet of the Bass” where the two people are singing into the camera
Shazam search result showing “the sound of silence” by Disturbed (CYRIL remix)
A screenshot from a Zoom chat in which I am saying "I dream of screams"
Ben KWELLER and his band playing at Red Rocks in Colorado
Ann’s-eye-view of The New Pornographers performing at the Gothic Theater in Denver tonight.
The back of a Subaru crosstrek filled with plastic bins and totes, the bins are full of free mulch, there’s also a bucket of free compost
Little baby Ethan Embry in Empire Records grinning at the camera. The caption reads “But we mustn’t dwell. No, not today. We can’t! Not on FREE MULCH DAY.” this is not what he actually says in the movie
a befuddled bob hoskins from the 80’s mario movie
Stylized illustration of a woman all bundled up in a coat and scarf and blanket sitting in a camping chair drinking coffee. Above her it says “I’m like if a girl was a very old man”
George W Bush standing in front of the aircraft carrier with the “Mission Accomplished” banner on it giving a big stupid thumbs up
Gretchen Whitmer standing in the Oval Office last year between two staffers. She’s holding up some folders with both arms to cover her face. Behind her on the mantelpiece is a garish display of shitty gold tchotchkes.
the cover of Kash Patel’s shitty children’s book “the plot against the king” which depicts Trump as a king and Patel as some kind of crazy-eyed wizard
the cannabis amnesty box at the O’Hare airport, it looks like a big green mailbox with the seal of the city of Chicago on the side
A cover of “Men’s Cooking” magazine with the cover story: “The Pesto Challenge,” with font over a sexual mortar and pestle of pesto, subheads read “sex & food in the mood” and “hunting for abalone”
screencap of the Descript icon which has been changed from blue to red
screencap of my apple music searchbar with the words "psychedelics furts" typed in
title card for Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars showing keen himself in his battered football helmet being chased by green martians and a wolf guy in a space suit
CPAC stage from 2022 with banner that reads “We Are All Domestic Terrorists”
a picture of me taken via the Mario kart arcade game in which i am making silently screaming and there’s a little Mario mustache and hat over my face
A picture of Josh Mattison in front of a projector screen that says “DOOMSDAY DAYDREAMS”
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screenshot from a New York Times story about how much bari Weiss sucks at her job: Privately, Ms. Weiss has been deeply frustrated by the negative reaction to her decisions, and has blamed some subordinates for not stanching the criticism, three people familiar with internal discussions said. Ms. Weiss's wife, Nellie Bowles, a former reporter at The Times, openly mocked the objections of the "60 Minutes" staff who had clashed with her spouse in a column published by The Free Press, which Ms. Weiss continues to oversee. "My lovely wife asked some 60 Minutes producers to report out a story a little more, literally Hey guys make a couple more phone calls and then we'll run the piece in a week or two," Ms. Bowles wrote. "No! the media collectively shrieked. We shan't!" (CBS News declined to make Ms. Weiss available for an interview. Referring to Ms. Bowles's column, Ms. Weiss said in a statement that The Free Press was "completely editorially independent," and added, "Also: My wife is the funniest writer in America.") i have highlighted the last line because jesus fuckin christ
shot from the Sopranos showing Tony sitting in his therapists office. His therapist’s back is to the camera, mostly out of frame.
screencap from Battlestar Galactica showing a defeated-looking Starbuck. The subtitle reads “all of this has happened before and all this will happen again”
Scarsdale was a rare bright spot. In most parts of the country, people like Dohrenwend won the day. Local groups like his received significant support from national organizations with anodyne titles like the Nationall Council for American Education, founded by a far-right activist named Allen Zoll. During the 1930s Zoll had founded an anti-Semitic, pro-fascist group called American Patriots. It was considered so extreme that the military refused his application for civilian intelligence training during World War II. Zoll's new group established itself as an arbiter for patriotic education and as a watchdog against subversives. He pumped out a steady stream of pamphlets with titles like "How Red Are the Schools?" "Pro-gressive Education Increases Delinquency, "They Want Your Child," and "Red-ucators at Harvard." He created a blacklist of sorts, keeping track of ousted teachers and circulating them to his subscribers around the coun-try, to prevent educators from relocating to a new state and reentering the profession. And he developed a running list of subversive books, insisting that school and public libraries get rid of them immediately. Hundreds followed his orders; one library, in Oklahoma, even burned its suspicious texts, out of expediency or stridency or both.
A bowl of chocolatey dark brown chicken and sausage gumbo on top of a mound of white rice topped with a generous spray of fresh parsley
screenshot from my weather app showing a high of 60 for the next two days and then a sudden drop on Saturday-Sunday with a 78-66% chance of snow
screenshot of a 2013 tweet from birdsrightsactivist: “I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?”
Lawson put it another way: “My job was not to cure racism.” Not long after Floyd was killed, the company she was working at tasked her with finding recommendations on how to better support Black employees. “We came up with the real ideas—better pay and promotions. I brought it to the head of HR and they said, ‘None of this seems like it’s going to give us a headline. I need something that’ll help get us a headline.’” That’s when she realized what was actually going on. “The corporate function of DEI is not to actually make things better—it is to pacify.”
"Sorry, but AI will bring no bonanzas to news. The deals done so far — payments from big AI companies to various media moguls — are not at all about licensing of content. These have been lobbying expenses, to buy companies’ silence when it comes to PR, legislation, and litigation. In the future, AI companies may make some payments for particular content, but rather than blanket licensing, I predict these will be predicated on a per-use basis. Keep in mind that AI companies aren’t particularly profitable so far. Until they figure out their own business models — whether advertising (and we know what media’s own attention economy did to ruin the web) or commerce (agents advertising to agents), or subscriptions (a problematic model as long as AI remains commodified) — there won’t be much revenue to share."
A push notification from Co-star that reads: you’re the funniest person you know
THE LOCAL NHB: The other thing you said that struck me, and is kind of tragic, is that the easiest way to tell that someone's legit and that the pitch is good is their body of work. If they've written for you, and you know them, that is a safe way to do things. Part of what we want to do at The Local, part of what I'm always trying to do, is develop new writers. I know that's what you folks try to do as well. That's literally in our mandate. If I'm trying to assign seven stories, I want two of them to be to new and emerging writers who maybe haven't done this before, but that you trust that you can work with them, train them up. I don't know how that trust can happen now. I don't know how young freelancers get their foot in the door in this new world. We're not going to give up on it and just work with people we know, but it's definitely something we have to figure out.
Pope Leo in front of a crowd looking like he’s crooning into a microphone
“Shit for brains,” in yellow font on a blue background in the style of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign signs
Peggy from season 1 of Mad Men, it's important that you know that it's from season 1
Douthat: So for both of you, what is toxic femininity? If there are distinctive masculine vices — I think we can concede that there are. There's a lot of talk about toxic masculinity. It's a regular subject of discussion. What are the feminine vices in that story? Andrews: Gossiping. Inability to deal with conflict directly and kind of suppressing conflict. An aversion to directness, which, naturally, in a workplace, is a big problem because you need to be able to give direct feedback to people, including negative feedback.
Screenshot from The Wrap story: It was unclear whether Weiss' other journalistic operation, the anti-woke news and opinion site the Free Press, was affected by the layoffs. Paramount acquired the site earlier this month for roughly $150 million, and Weiss remains its top editor.
Screenshot of an instagram reel from @okaycoolgigi where she’s standing in front of the peephole on her apartment door. It’s one of those really old fashioned metal boxes that has a shudder that opens and closes and a little analog doorbell inside. She has removed layers of caked on paint and refinished it, making it shiny and pretty
Marge Simpson being shown something on a phone, Marge is cringing
Screenshot of Hobonichi checkout showing a $39 planner with $44 shipping fees and $5.85 duties, meaning the whole purchase is almost $100
Linda Yaccarino& • May 14, 2023 @lindayacc • Follow Thank you @elonmusk! I've long been inspired by your vision to create a brighter future. I'm excited to help bring this vision to Twitter and transform this business together! Elon Musk & @elonmusk I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter! @ Linda Yacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology. Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app. Linda Yaccarino v @lindayacc • Follow I see I have some new followers * • .... prolific as @elonmusk (yet!), but I'm just as committed to the future of this platform. I'm not as Your feedback is VITAL to that future. I'm here for all of it. Let's keep the conversation going and build Twitter 2.0 together! 5:21 AM • May 14, 2023 18.8K Reply T, Share
IMDB trivia screenshot that reads: Reneé Rapp auditioned for the role of Glinda. 109 of 164 found this interesting • • •
a laminated sign in Madrid that says “pet friendly beinvenidogs”
Home video footage from the movie Coneheads. Prymatt and Belfast smile and wave to the camera.
A picture of a public airport bathroom where the walls and stalls are printed with a beach scene
Screenshot of an instagram reel in which a white blonde woman is eating tuna and crackers in an airplane seat. In text over the video, it says: “they ate fast food at Gate 14 but have the audacity to judge your protein on the plane. Eat. The. Tuna. Pack the protein. Ignore the looks. Prioritize health - even mid-flight.”
Screenshot of a message: I need $150 to raise the price of the tent. Please help me so l can raise that as soon as possible. We are in the street. 1:18 PM
A picture of a very tall sunflower against a blue early morning sky. There are at least 13 flowers growing off of this single plant.