Amy Booth

🗨️ "Nunca lo había pensado antes, pero, mirando para atrás, creo que en algún nivel siempre lo supe. Sueños que uno tiene, todo empieza a tener sentido". #50AñosDelGolpe #Abuelas #Identidad 👉buenosairesherald.com/human-rights/5…

This was the last story I edited at the Buenos Aires Herald. An absolute privilege. Memoria, verdad y justicia ✊

FWIW I edit a Canadian business/culture/tech newsletter with 5 million subscribers, and we pay $2+/word for 600- to 3000-word pieces. We've published David Sedaris, Karen Russell, Nico Walker, etc., but I also work with a lot of upcoming writers. hmu

Ahh yes my favourite vegetable, the knobbergine

A disinformation analyst just told the BBC that we're getting a "slopification of war information" and I'll be damned if that isn't the most 2026 sentence I've heard

My friend who's moving is temporarily bringing her worm composter over and I have genuinely not been this excited since childhood friends offered to bring over the marble run

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn. The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’ Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

@Kafermann Ahh, ok. That's interesting on both counts! What do you think Bayer gets wrong? And, I didn't know that about weasels and stoats in NZ - are they as strict about importing diseases there as in Australia? My parents nearly got fined for travelling there in hiking boots!

@AmyBwrites Heavens, no! I was ranting about Bayer's La Patagonia Rebelde, which was in your adjoining post. My bad X-) Having said that, beavers and rabbits have wreaked havoc on Tierra del Fuego’s local ecosystem comparable to what stoats, ferrets and weasels did to NZ’s native species.

Camino a Laguna Esmeralda, Ushuaia. ¿Alguien sabe si esto es efectivamente un dique de castores? Es increíble (aunque no le hace bien al paisaje!)

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

@soydelsala 😂😂😂

Hace años que Gojira viene carreando a Mastodon. Es como cuando tenés un primo medio lelo que lo llevas a todos lados para que no se quede solo.

@Kafermann A highly biased account of the construction of a beaver dam?

@AmyBwrites That is a highly biased account of what happened, so take it with a pinch of salt. Failing to account for o tempora, o mores often leads historians into the trap of presentism, which is the uncritical application of modern-day moral, social, or political standards to past events.

@samkellyproof @mjofiguerero Yes, the Washington post had a really interesting piece a few weeks back about how "problem beavers" in the States are being relocated to help prevent wildfire with their damming abilities, but as @mjofiguerero said, in Tierra del Fuego they're a real problem!

@mjofiguerero @AmyBwrites Ah, yes now you mention it I think I’ve read (and, clearly, forgotten) something about that happening! Such a shame they can’t be rounded up and used in rewilding projects elsewhere.

@CSDevAr Si, es ahí! Cuesta creer que una cosa así sea natural, es tremendo. Y por si volves, no es para nada una caminata difícil, son solo 200m de desnivel y lo hicimos en unas 4 horas con un montón de paradas para fotos, galletitas, subirnos a rocas interesantes etc

@AmyBwrites Ahi le pregunté a un amigo que vive en Rio Grande y fue ahi varias veces, y sí, me confirma que es un dique de castores. Yo estuve por Ushuaia hace muchos años pero no fui alli y el me dice que son como dos horas caminando en subida? Asi que seguro no fui 😅

“El Congreso no lo va a dejar.” El Congreso: Qué Therian sos según tu signo.

I'm stuck in Ushuaia because of today's general strike and it's a great day to remember the history of the labour movement in Patagonia. This is from In Patagonia by Chatwin, but he's summarising Bayer's La Patagonia Rebelde

@ASPertierra @PippengerHarlo But the most important thing: I hope your loved ones are ok, it must be excruciating to bear witness to

@ASPertierra @PippengerHarlo My favourite is when they say things like "Goldsmiths University Anti-imperialist Society" in their profiles

No shit dude

@f_j_j_ Uuuuh, dónde se consigue?

@AmyBwrites OTOH it's the best canastita

I used to think palmito with salsa golf was this super popular pizza in Argentina. It was years before my colleagues told nobody orders it and everyone thinks it's weird. But it's on menus everywhere anyway. It's Argentina's equivalent of the fried tomato in the Full English

@mdeambrosio Es que es rico, a mí me gusta!

@AmyBwrites A mí me gusta, eh, pero es cierto que es difícil conseguir otro para pedirla.