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Anya Johanna DeNiro

@adeniro.bsky.social
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Trans woman, writer, mom in St. Paul, Minnesota. Author of OKPsyche (novel) and From the Yew (poetry chapbook).

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1h
Guilty Remnant-ass shit
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Justin Theroux The Leftovers
ALT: Justin Theroux The Leftovers
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 4h
Just constantly feeling like I’m tossing things into the void, over and over again
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HALLOWEEN State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 6h
a single sentence on the Nazi app 7 hours after the story broke is all she can do
An Amy Klobuchar tweet quoting a WaPo article about Ilhan Omar. The tweet says “the timing of this raid and reports that a White House official was involved raise serious questions that should concern all Americans, regardless of political party.”
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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 8h
I just realized this review I wrote of @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social's WHAT WE ARE SEEKING came out on @strangehorizons.bsky.social while I was in internet exile editing Sybil Lamb's CRIME CUBE ANYWAY HERE I AM REVIEWING VERY GOOD SF // TLDR U SHD READ THIS EXCELLENT BOOK
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What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed
Maybe this is exactly what I had been hoping for.
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 8h
Need to get back to ‘manly fiction’
Robert Silverberg’s introduction to the work of James Tiptree Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) assuming she was a man
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 8h
www.patreon.com/posts/138425... (For patron subscribers I’m pretty sure)
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University of Blood Part 2: Blood-Letting | Anya Johanna DeNiro
Part 2: Blood-Letting Two single page “blood collages” by John Bingley Garland, ca. 1850–1860 Introduction For trans women, the idea of cour
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 8h
www.patreon.com/posts/121577...
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University of Blood: a poetry workshop (session 1) | Anya Johanna DeNiro
Introduction Blood is everywhere. Blood is a near-infinite resource. The blood can leak or shoot out of anywhere, at any moment. The blood
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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 8h
Guys, we are well past the point where we need to preface tweets about Ilhan Omar with "If she really did something, show us the evidence." We all know she did not do something and there is no evidence.
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 8h
I’ve been listening to The Veldt and uhhh I don’t know how i missed them the first time around they are so good. Soul and shoegaze youtu.be/zYS-wEoosOI?...
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The Veldt - The Everlasting Gobstopper
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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
if you want to support a nanticoke who makes little magazines this indigenous peoples day, here are the little magazines i make www.ANMLY.org — intl art & lit that's never boring www.beestungmag.com — non-binary, two-spirit, & genderqueer writing www.ALOCASIA.org — a journal of queer planty writing
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 11h
Jokeabin, am I right ?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 12h
I've been thinking a lot lately about this 1943 watercolor—Untitled (Police Beating)—by Norman Lewis. What's striking is not only depiction of violence, a subject for many Black artists, but also the onlooker who responds gleefully: recognition there will always be those who exult in state violence
Watercolor of the scene of a police officer beating a prone Black figure with a truncheon, with two white onlookers present, one of them appearing almost gleeful at the sight
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When Toni Morrison said “If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it” I think what she was really getting at was “computer, make video game character have my face”
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
blackbird-archive.vcu.edu/v8n2/poetry/...
LARRY LEVIS

Linnets

One morning with a 12 gauge my brother shot what he said was a linnet. He did this at close range where it sang on a flowering almond branch. Anyone could have done the same and shrugged it off, but my brother joked about it for days, describing how nothing remained of it, how he watched for feathers and counted only two gold ones which he slipped behind his ear. He grew uneasy and careless; nothing remained. He wore loud ties and two-tone shoes. He sold shoes, he sold soap. Nothing remained. He drove on the roads with a little hole in the air behind him.

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But in the high court of linnets he does not get off so easily. He is judged and sentenced to pull me on a rough cart through town. He is further punished since each feather of the dead bird falls around me, not him, and each falls as a separate linnet, and each feather lost from one of these becomes a linnet. While he is condemned to feel nothing ever settle on his shoulders, which are hunched over and still, linnets gather around me. In their singing, they cleanse my ears of all language but that of linnets. My gaze takes on the terrible gaze of song birds. And I find that I too am condemned, and must stitch together, out of glue, loose feathers, droppings, weeds and garbage I find along the street, the original linnet, or, if I fail, be condemned to be pulled in a cart by my brother forever. We are tired of each other, tired of being brothers like this. The backside of his head, close cropped, is what I notice when I look up from work. To fashion the eyes, the gaze, the tongue and trance of a linnet is impossible. The eyelids are impossibly delicate and thin. I am dragged through the striped zoo of the town. One day I throw down the first stillborn linnet, then another, then more. Then one of them begins singing.
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
LLMs and the whole tropification/'comps over everything else' style reviewing are both forms of commodification and imo cut from the same cloth; it's not going to be popular but I think it's worth having that conversation of why and how the ecosystem of the latter reinforces the logic of the former
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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I don't think it does the field good, in the long term, to elide line-level issues in reviews; & we fail to elevate talent if our analysis doesn't go deeper than the pitch.
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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Personal hobbyhorse, but thinking about AI in publishing is really making me want criticism to go harder on discussing the actual style & substance of books. If we just talk about plot & vibes, we're leaving the door totally open, & missing out on the good stuff besides. "It's just words on a page."
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s ya girl
Middle aged woman with sunglasses sitting outside
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m just gutted
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
9 people shot to death include 2 children in my hometown and it's barely a blip in the news. we live in such a sick country
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Stalin McStalinface came in third…
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is so fucking saddening
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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Democrats will never learn.
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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 08/10/2026
WOW it's getting hard to hear with all this BUZZ 🙉 🧭 SHUT UP, I LOVE YOU, I'LL CALL YOU TOMORROW by Sloane Murphy is on the @americanbookseller.bsky.social official Indie Next list for November! Want to see what all the talk is about yourself? Why not preorder your copy today? shorturl.at/O2wdM
A graphic featuring a blurb for SHUT UP I LOVE YOU as part of the Indie Next list. The Blurb reads “Sloane Murphy doesn't just write about the Chicago trans party scene, she drops you
right in the middle of it. Reading this book feels like a glorious, hazy lost weekend where plot is gleaned from snippets of overheard conversations and characters crystalize as you stumble, a little buzzed, from story to story.” —Shualee Cook, Women & Children First, Chicago, IL
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Sheila Williams @sheilawilliams.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is Irene posting on behalf of Sheila. Our mom and dad have both had significant health challenges this year and our mom, Sheila had a brain aneurysm in December. We are raising money to continue their access to care. www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...
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Donate to Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care, organized by Irene Bruce
Hi - This is Irene and Juliet, the daughters of Sheila and David. As many of… Irene Bruce needs your support for Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How do some people travel so much? even a basic trip now is so expensive
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sounds like something a wasp would say!
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is like something from The AD&D monster manual
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🩸 imogen 🏳️‍⚧️ @spooky.imi.boo · 03/02/2024
one thing hannah baer talks about in trans girl suicide museum is how when you’re the only trans person at an event and all of a sudden it becomes Very Important™ to share pronouns, and it’s obviously because they clocked you as a tranny
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I also don't see anything stopping say Texas from emptying their Death Row and just start shooting people for spectacle.
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
one of the things that makes me upset about this public execution is that his base is going to eat it up and this will be the first of many, and this fascist bloodlust will spill out its poison into the country for a long long time
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026
This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this poem is push-pinned into my psyche
The Atrophy of Private LIfe
BY JENNIFER MOXLEY

In the heavy fashion magazines strewn here and there around the house the photos of objects and people mouth the word “money,” but you, assuming no one wants you anymore, mishear the message as “meaning.” Arousal follows. The lives of the rich are so fabulous! The destruction of the poetical lies heavily on their hands, as on their swollen notion that we are always watching. There is nothing behind the mask. Nothing suffocating under its pressure, no human essence trying to get out.
     Awareness, always awareness. Don’t you see how these elaborate masks are turning you into a zombie? The private life is not for the eye but for the endless interior. It is trying to push all this crap aside and find the missing line. Nobody, least of all the future, cares about the outcome of this quest.
      It is easy to lose, through meddling or neglect, an entire aspect of existence. And sometimes, to cultivate a single new thought, you need not only silence but an entirely new life.
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A lot of people on here seem to think that the goal of life is to find the morally correct people to be violent sadists to.
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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
democrats who don't want to take actual progressive positions find transphobia convenient because it's something that they believe to be very low-risk. there aren't that many of us. and it makes you look, to the ignorant, as if you're taking a stand on something real.
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'bah Gawd, that's Anne Carson's music!!!'
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
well my fiction workshop didn’t have enough people enrolled to go forward 👍
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 07/10/2026
Strib biting super-fucking-hard on linking everything, even an isolated alleged mass attack plan, to ”Somali gangs.” Played like a violin.
The terrorism charges come amid renewed concerns over gang violence in the Twin Cities between rival factions in the Somali community. Two recent shootings involving Somali teens as victims or suspects have left some in law enforcement calling for a regional task force to address gang activity while cautioning that the violence is stemming from a small number of people in the community.
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I agree with all of this except for the last sentence. People become terrorists for stupid reasons too from all backgrounds, or for terrible political reasons. across the spectrum from Japanese Red Army to Timothy McVeigh
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With that said I can’t fathom a post-modernist-ish sf novel like Stand on Zanzibar being nominated for a Hugo today, let alone winning it.
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi | New Directions
The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi’s writing—at once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specific—casts an...
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s still there. It’s just much more disparate and probably a bit more centered in small presses. But great speculative fiction is published all the time in non genre presses and gets ignored. My go-to example is always Frankenstein in Baghdad
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Concerning
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026
this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4
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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey
hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Last chance !!!
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'The March 1979 release [of the China Syndrome] was met with backlash from the nuclear power industry which called it "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry".Twelve days later, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.'
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On Cinema at the Cinema @oncinema.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A celebration of Old Hollywood
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also includes Preorders for free shipping including this anthology with a new story by me bookshop.org/p/books/vast...
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Vaster than Empires: Speculative Fiction of the Eternal and the Ephemeral
Futures imagined by writers at the outer limits of science and storytelling—from the depths of time to the limits of life.Vaster than Empires is a global anthology of original science fiction stories ...
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