# sound like (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover sound like. Page: Feed: --- ## [She almost ruled him out over a text.](https://marnibattista.substack.com/p/she-almost-ruled-him-out-over-a-text) _2026-08-18 · Marni Battista · Unscripted: Screw the Should Life_ What a ghosted three weeks taught her about the difference between a red flag and her own nervous system. ## [I'm writing this from a couch in LA, while she naps.](https://marnibattista.substack.com/p/im-writing-this-from-a-couch-in-la) _2026-08-16 · Marni Battista · Unscripted: Screw the Should Life_ Not a trip I planned. The lessons I needed anyway. ## [I Rewrote One Text Four Times Before I Sent It](https://marnibattista.substack.com/p/i-rewrote-one-text-four-times-before) _2026-08-11 · Marni Battista · Unscripted: Screw the Should Life_ Trying to sound like I didn’t care nearly as much as I did. He never knew. But I did. ## [Why Not](https://marnibattista.substack.com/p/why-not) _2026-08-09 · Marni Battista · Unscripted: Screw the Should Life_ A trail I've avoided for years had a name I needed to actually look at. ## [What Twelve Hundred Messages Taught Her About Herself](https://marnibattista.substack.com/p/what-twelve-hundred-messages-taught) _2026-08-06 · Marni Battista · Unscripted: Screw the Should Life_ She'd ruled out nearly all of them by message three. That wasn't pickiness. It was her nervous system running the show. ## ["I'll Deal With It When Things Calm Down"](https://marnibattista.substack.com/p/ill-deal-with-it-when-things-calm) _2026-08-04 · Marni Battista · Unscripted: Screw the Should Life_ A woman who'd done every kind of personal development work there is, except the one thing that actually would have changed her life. ## [My Word for the Year Got Its First Real Test](https://marnibattista.substack.com/p/my-word-for-the-year-got-its-first) _2026-08-02 · Marni Battista · Unscripted: Screw the Should Life_ "Elegant enough" sounded good in January. Here's what it actually looked like the first week back from almost a month in Europe. ## [The Word They're Coaching You to Delete](https://marnibattista.substack.com/p/the-word-theyre-coaching-you-to-delete) _2026-07-28 · Marni Battista · Unscripted: Screw the Should Life_ A woman told me her coach said this word makes men uncomfortable. She wasn't lying about the advice. She was lying to herself about following it. ## [I've Told Women to "Trust the Process" for Seventeen Years. This Week I Actually Had To.](https://marnibattista.substack.com/p/ive-told-women-to-trust-the-process) _2026-07-26 · Marni Battista · Unscripted: Screw the Should Life_ What writing a novel taught me about the gap between coaching someone through the unknown and actually standing in it yourself. ## [I Turned Off My Away Message For 15 Years. Here's What Broke When I Finally Turned It On.](https://marnibattista.substack.com/p/i-turned-off-my-away-message-for) _2026-07-21 · Marni Battista · Unscripted: Screw the Should Life_ Turns out you can be loved and unavailable at the same time. I ran the experiment to prove it. ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NyWWs05nJToy) _2026-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [Is the US a Republic or Democracy… or Just One Really Long Family Argument?](https://dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2026/07/usrepublicdemocracyfamily-argument.html) _2026-07-20 · ROBERT B. · DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!_ As I get closer to senility in my 60's, I've found myself thinking about something that never really interested me back in high school civics class...Politics. More specifically...Why do Democrats and Republicans seem to dislike each other so much? Growing up, there were always disagreements between the parties. Republicans blamed Democrats. Democrats blamed Republicans. Elections came and went.… ## [I'm not good at goodbyes](https://hannahaubry.online/im-not-good-at-goodbyes) _2026-07-07 · Hannah Aubry_ ## [Florida Wants a Little CIA — Hold the Oversight”: How HB 945 / SB 1712 Would Build a State Counterintelligence Force](https://dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2026/03/florida-wants-little-cia-hold-oversight.html) _2026-03-26 · ROBERT B. · DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!_ Serious reporting with a smirk — because when a Bill being put in front of the Florida Legislature proposes putting together a task force to analyze Florida citizens “ patterns of life ,” the punchline may be a bit overdue. Florida lawmakers have proposed creating a permanent, statewide counterintelligence machine inside Florida Department of Law Enforcement — pushed in the House by Danny Alvarez… ## [A Conservative’s Honest Questions About the War We Didn’t Vote For...](https://dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2026/03/honestquestions.html) _2026-03-25 · ROBERT B. · DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!_ By a Trump Supporter Who Believes Loyalty and Honesty Are Not Opposites... Let me tell you who I am before I tell you what I think — because in today’s political climate, context is everything. I voted for Donald Trump . Twice. And I would do it again. I watched crime rates fall in my community after his immigration policies took hold. I watched my retirement account grow under his economic… ## [Hands Off the Kill-Switch: Pentagon Ultimatum Puts Anthropic Between a DPA and a Hard Place](https://dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2026/02/handsoffkillswitch.html) _2026-02-26 · ROBERT B. · DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!_ In what reads like an uncomfortable merger of national security drama and bureaucratic brinkmanship, a Fox News scoop — traced to correspondent Jennifer Griffin of Fox News — says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic’s co-founder Dario Amodei an ultimatum at a high-stakes Pentagon meeting: remove company guardrails on autonomous lethal functions and mass domestic surveillance , or face… ## [The Consolidation of the Marketplace and Newsroom: How Consolidation Quietly Squeezes Prices, Wages — and the Truth](https://dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2026/02/theconsolidationmarket.html) _2026-02-25 · ROBERT B. · DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!_ Imagine a town fair where three vendors control every stall, share the same cash register, and politely agree not to undercut one another while telling you it’s “market efficiency.” Now imagine the town newspaper is owned by the same folks who run the stalls. That’s not a dystopian parable — it’s the modern anatomy of consolidation in business and media, with real consequences for prices,… ## [The Great Tariff Unwind: How a Courtroom Coup and Refund Rodeo Might Make Markets Do the Two-Step](https://dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2026/02/tariffunwind.html) _2026-02-25 · ROBERT B. · DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!_ It's like the economy and the law are line dancing on a dance floor and the DJ keeps changing the music... Last week, the nation’s top bench pulled the rug out from under a major chunk of U.S. tariff policy — and the economy is politely, then not-so-politely, adjusting its dance moves. The ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States invalidated wide-ranging tariffs imposed under emergency… ## [Till Death Do Us Part: DHS Warns Poisoning of Domestic Partners Is On The Rise...](https://dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2026/02/till-death-do-us-part.html) _2026-02-04 · ROBERT B. · DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!_ (Very disturbing when the Department of Homeland Security issues a memorandum like this) The Department of Homeland Security quietly handed law enforcement a memo that sounds like it was written by a paranoid sitcom writer with a chemistry degree: domestic partners are — allegedly — increasingly turning to chemical and biological toxins as their weapon of choice. In plain English: beware the… ## [Unplug the Violence: Why We Protest in Public but Fund the Problem in Private...](https://dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2026/01/unplugtheviolence.html) _2026-01-30 · ROBERT B. · DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!_ When protests boil over, the world watches the moment the first push becomes a shove — and sometimes a life is lost. Marches, rallies, and street confrontations have always been a powerful way to demand change. But they can also become flash-points for injuries, arrests, and unintended escalation. There’s a different lever available: Personal Sanctions — targeted, financial pressure on the… ## [We are a movement](https://hannahaubry.online/we-are-a-movement) _2026-01-28 · Hannah Aubry_ ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/G5IlqvfX9xYd) _2026-01-28 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [Old Reactors, New Tricks: How Decommissioned Warship Nuke Cores Could Become AI’s New Power Breakfast!](https://dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2026/01/oldreactorsnewtricks.html) _2026-01-24 · ROBERT B. · DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!_ If you thought AI data centers got their mojo from lots of coffee and venture-capital-funded smugness, think again: soon they might run on the retired stern glow of a decommissioned aircraft carrier. Texas startup HGP Intelligent Energy has asked the U.S. Department of Energy for a loan guarantee to repurpose two retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors and power an AI data center project at Oak Ridge —… ## [Taxed to the Max: How Your House Might Soon Be Free — As Long As You’re Ready to Pay in Sales Tax and Therapy](https://dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2026/01/taxedtothemax.html) _2026-01-22 · ROBERT B. · DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!_ If you thought 2025 was the year property taxes quietly stewed on the back burner, surprise: next year looks like a full-service tax buffet! Lawmakers across the country have been wrestling with homeowners’ fury at ballooning property bills, and 2026 promises more drama — from carefully targeted exemptions to full-throated proposals to eliminate property taxes altogether. Manish Bhatt of the Tax… ## [I’m joining Mastodon](https://hannahaubry.online/im-joining-mastodon) _2025-11-18 · Hannah Aubry_ ## [Here's what I said](https://hannahaubry.online/heres-what-i-said) _2025-06-18 · Hannah Aubry_ ## [Living and being as human](https://hannahaubry.online/living-and-being-as-human) _2025-04-18 · Hannah Aubry_ ## [On community governance for Mastodon](https://hannahaubry.online/on-community-governance-for-mastodon) _2025-01-13 · Hannah Aubry_ ## [At the crossroads there is a sign](https://hannahaubry.online/at-the-crossroads-there-is-a-sign) _2024-10-16 · Hannah Aubry_