Amy St. John

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I’m a web developer, Tap Dancing Christmas Tree, Trekkie, mother, and thespian. She/her.
NameAmy St. John
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The best apology is changed behaviour.
Sometimes I wonder if working from home for so long has turned me into a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird. Then I remember that I have always been a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird.
any engineering problem that isn’t solvable by “hiring a bunch of autistic trans women” isn’t worth solving anyway
Truncation is not a content stra

Any Democratic candidate who does not put this headline into an ad is politically negligent

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/30/gop-health-care-pay-iran-war

#USPol

The villainous class.

#billionaires #inequality

The intake form
at the doctor’s office
included the question
“are you feeling
down, depressed, or hopeless?”
which seemed to me
like a rather rude way of asking
“are you paying attention
to the state of the world?”

Abandon the em-dash in your human writing?

The irony—and it’s a big irony—is that real writers use em-dash frequently, and for reasons. As a written signifier of verbal speech pauses, it means something different than what commas and semicolons mean. It connects while separating.

That’s why so many writers use em-dash when it is the best mark for the job. And chatbots use it because they were schooled on millions of writers.

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It says a lot about how incompetent ICE is that it still looks incompetent when placed next to the TSA, an outfit famous for its incompetence