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@amandalehr.bsky.social
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Skeleton with some meat on it. The Audacity, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Electric Lit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Novelizers, a box to be opened in the event of my death. IG: amandamlehr

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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
you need to find a new crew
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
she is locked in she is 99% sure that she is “lads”
Dark still onscreen of men below deck — “Gangway for the captain, lads.” A tuxedo cat stands in front of the lower right quad of the screen, looking rapt.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
writing “HOLD FAST” on my knuckles in sharpie
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i am about to get so much worse
Screen title card for Master & Commander:

April — 1805
Napoleon is Master of Europe
Only the British Fleet Stands Before Him
Oceans Are Now Battlefields
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
no can do, Boss. I can’t “look over these spreadsheets.” For Aphrodite and Excel have broken me with longing, whispering sweet nothings like “spread” and “sheets”
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IT’S STEAL A LITTLE TIME FROM THE BOSS TO READ ANNE CARSON DAY
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
guys, my friends’ gender-affirming baby just called me “dada” 💕
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i’m going to need biologists to keep pulling new animal species from a top hat at this rate for the foreseeable future thanks in advance www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
washingtonpost.com
Scientists identify new species of penguin, first in more than a century
Researchers were able to show that over hundreds of thousands of years, the gentoo penguin has diverged into four distinct evolutionary lineages.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
as Elizabeth Bishop writes, “the art of losing isn’t hard to master.” but they never stop taking. and it’s not something we should have to accommodate and metabolize.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
so, if something worse does occur, all of these accrued losses and closed doors can be thrown back in our faces when they say “see? you knew the experiential tax you have paid to avoid this.* why couldn’t you just accept one more little loss before you lost everything?” (*a convenient fiction)
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
and if we bow out early to avoid escalation to more severe harassment or assault, it’s framed as us exercising prudence: making the correct choice and “voluntarily” paying the tax of living as a woman in the world.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 24/09/2026
The times are wild
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Annual happy birthday to my goth dads 🖤
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Josie Hypatia etc 🐰 @josiehypatia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Market it as a Barbenheimer-style double bill called "You Can See The Devils"
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
brad lander with the threatening parentheticals i love it king who're we doing labor law to next
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Heinrich Kramer:
Tweet: “me and my friends would’ve killed [sloppily edited: “witches”] with hammers I can tell you that much
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
like being mauled to death by Big Bird
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
given it’s set in 1982, i kept waiting for the scene in THE END OF OAK STREET when the characters look at the dinosaurs and say “wtf, why do they all have feathers?”
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Biggest problem with modern Looney Tunes, even COYOTE VS ACME (which I like) is that Bugs Bunny has been sanded down into a mascot. You watch him in the 40s or 50s and he's a freaky lil dress-up pervert who is down for anything. Assigned diva at birth. Nowadays, he's just a regular guy. Not my Bugs.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it’s an epidemic
Tiny tuxedo cat (3 apples tall?) with golden eyes stands atop a window unit air conditioner. Her expression is imploring. The very tip of her short tail is flicking.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
my family still cannot let a mention of Burundi go by without exclaiming “they know hats!”
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
thrilled to report one throughline between TRAIN TO BUSAN and COLONY is “guy who played a sport in high school and is about to do the sickest shit you’ve ever seen”
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
(wish i knew where Virgil came down on the “50 hawks” debate)
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
by turns bleak, thoughtful, humane, and devastatingly funny — even if IT ENDS features no turns.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
new “do you think a depressed person could make this?” just dropped
OP’s hand holding open a page of Jacqueline Harpman’s ORLANDA. The following sentence is underlined: “Would somebody with a rudimentary mind study Proust so closely?”
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Attack the Block Mandy A Dark Song Near Dark The Devils An American Werewolf in London
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly AND Tim Curry?? too damn much. it feels like we’re on the brink of learning that the Muppets’ tour bus went into a ravine and exploded on impact
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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NOT DOLLY
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"These are special gynecological instruments...for mutant Muppets."
Big Bird and Jeremy Irons, I think this is from the 1988 Put Down the Duckie TV special
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
hello muddah hello faddah here i am at camp miasma
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
THE DEVILS reshaped who I am as a person. It remains holy to me.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
king shit
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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
fascinated by how the cynicism of South Korean police dramas creates some of the meanest “cruel optimism” scenarios since FUNNY GAMES, but there’s no villain-god with a magic remote — it’s pure institutional failure
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
if you can stomach it, THE CHASER (2008) is a masterpiece. your nerves will be shredded. you’ll laugh out loud. and the final act kicks you in the stomach.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
i’m sure there was a better way for Past Me to remind Present Me that i’m getting labs done next week than scrawling “8 AM: BLOOD” in my calendar in all caps
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i swear — every news outlet made the headline cut off at “Mitch McConnell di—“ on purpose
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Today's gender is Karen Allen dressing up in Pacino's leather bar togs in Cruising (1980).
Karen Allen in mirrored shades and motorcycle cap
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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…
• panters cannot pant hım; looks like someone else (38b)
• insensitive to music (38b)
• despises death and the dead (38b)
. is affected only by relics that are older than he is (38b)
• can create evil thoughts in others, banish good ones, and destroy will (38b)
• cannot be photographed; photographs come out black or like a skeleton corpse (4, 38b)
• can tell if bodies are dead or alive (4)
• sees man semingly dead and says "no" (4)
• has to be brought or carried over threshold. Dracula visits an asylum where he stumbles on the threshold (4, 16)
• named "Count Wampyr" (1)
• can determine and prove if people are sane (24)
green taper with blue flame in Count's house (43va)
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Make Chris Fleming a romantic lead, you cowards.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
they only sell monocles?
Blue awning for “ODYSSEY OPTICAL.” No one is in the picture.
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
CVS added a Signs and Symbols of National Decline aisle
Monopoly expansion pack box: “Go to Jail: Turns out, crimes does pay.” (“Makes the game faster!”)Box of multicolored rubber chickens dressed like the Statue of Liberty. Their mouths are open in silent screams (and creepily reminiscent of blow-up dolls). The box says “Squeeze Me Statue of Liberty Chicken — Squeeze Me to Hear Me Scream!”
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
circe:
“Legit question for rural Aeaeans — How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard after drinking all my goddamned wine?
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
just a brick pizza oven of a dude — and i was unready to find out he was also Butt Plug Guy from EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I would have been face-down in the middle of traffic.
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