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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

submitting a "chaos" ballot to the nyt thing bc i don't watch enough movies to do an informed one

BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

there are many places i don't expect to encounter kristin lavransdatter but the letters page in a 1939 issue of astounding science fiction is surely chief among them. and yet.

There are so many new magazines to compete with you in your own field now that one must forever resign himself to pulp paper. These new magazines split up the field so. Quality of stories must also suffer, but as yet your magazine shows no such decline. Probably because of the
better rates you offer.

Mr. Asimov thinks women of no account in history. Points out that men are the famed leaders. But history is a record of wars and
sad oppression. Women are not famous for such things as this. Let men have all credit as rulers in history. But wait-wasn't there a certain
maid of Orleans? Women are great in other things, too. I am reading what I believe to be the best novel in my experience: "Kristin Lavransdatter," by Sigrid Undset. Don't give man

too much credit for the better things of our world. There are women Dostoievskys and Einsteins, but I hope never a woman Napoleon or
Hitler！

I failed to understand why Kummer's world of women should not have scientifie progress! Always understood that repression of sex led to a distortion. They should have been fanatical scientists and workers—James Michael Rogers II, 2006 Court Street, Muskogee. Okla.

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

tariffs kinda the opposite of this

May 2014 tweet from Tom Morello (@tmorello): When I was a kid I thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem on a daily basis than it really is.

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

a reading list for people who don't want to wait for the book :) (the absolute must read is julie phillips's tiptree bio) www.notebook.bdmcclay.com/p/some-profe...

I’m interested in this subject but I don’t really want to wait around for your book. Feed me.
Some non-fiction books you might like (Bookshop links are affiliate links). I have read some of most of these but have only read all of a couple:
Octavia Butler (Gerry Canavan)
Joanna Russ (Gwyneth Jones)
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (Justine Larbalestier)
In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction (Sarah LeFanu)
The Secret Feminist Cabal (Helen Merrick)
James Tiptree, Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (Julie Phillips)
Letters to Tiptree (ed. Alexandra Pierce)
Galactic Suburbia (Lisa Yaszek)
Julie Phillips is also working on a Le Guin biography that I’m quite excited for.
There are a lot of women writer–centric SFF anthologies to get a sense of the spread of stories out there and I’m not sure if there is any particular one I’d recommend. The Library of America had a two volume set but it seems to be out of print. Maybe this three-volume Rediscovery set is the best buy. Alternately, if you’re more interested in this period in SFF writing, the Damon Knight Orbit anthologies might be worth a look.
And I will again recommend Bobby Derie’s website for C. L. Moore stuff—I wrote to him asking for help tracking something down and he mentioned he’s thinking about writing some more about her this summer. So keep an eye out! :)

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

i hope it involves "silently pocketing $49,000"

personal finance 8:00 A.M.
What It’s Like to Plan a $50,000 Party for a 5-Year-Old
Portrait of Charlotte Cowles By Charlotte Cowles, the Cut’s financial-advice columnist.

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

GIFT GUIDE are you the parent of a small child who hates life itself? well…

Uzumaki Coloring Book

SPIRALS… THIS TOWN IS CONTAMINATED WITH SPIRALS…
Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is haunted not by a person or being but a pattern: Uzumaki, the spiral—the hypnotic secret shape of the world.
The bizarre masterpiece of horror manga, Uzumaki by Junji Ito, has been transformed into coloring book format. Color in each detail of the spirals and you may fall into a whirlpool of terror, never to escape!

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

i keep laughing at this but it has to be said there's no "but" here… patrick bateman is a swiftie… it gives me no pleasure to report this but you know it's true www.reddit.com/r/swiftiecir...

American psycho but Patrick Bateman is a swiftie: You like Taylor Swift? Her early work was a little too country for my taste. But when 1989 came out in 2014, I think she really came into her own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. She's been compared to Selena Gomez, but I think Taylor has a far more sarcastic, self-deprecating sense of humor. In 2017, Taylor released this; Reputation, her most accomplished album. I think her undisputed masterpiece is "Delicate". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the insecurities and uncertainty of starting a new love. It's also a personal statement about the singer herself.

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

me spreading out the heating pad for boswell

Sir Walter Raleigh spreading his cloak before Queen Elizabeth

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

he's got that james dean daydream look in his eye

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

when you start connections with the purple row >>>>

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

clare may be banned from twitter but she's still a poster

Clare Coffey:
why do the people of melancholia not simply attack the rogue planet with hammers

Barbara McClay:
i think this is the plot of armageddon

Clare Coffey:
that's why you want to be in america not france when things get real

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

happy leap day to meeeeeeeeee

Tweet from Faber Books: "The opening lines from Intermezzo, the new novel from Sally Rooney. Coming September 2024."

Quotation: "Didn't seem fair on the young lad. That suit at the funeral. With the braces on his teeth, the supreme discomfort of the adolescent."

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

my spotify on repeat is like hey girl hey… just checkin in… u ok

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

that's it… i'm calling it… she reads the substack…

taylor swift at a piano that says the tortured poets department, file name: the bolter

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

"the bolter" on this leaked tracklist gave me a brief panic attack because that would almost definitely be about Idina Sackville… but then the real tracklist went up and it's all true EXCEPT "the bolter" which is making me feel even more personally trolled

Fortnight (with Post Malone)
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Down Bad
So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida (with Florence & the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him, No Really I Can
Loml
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
The Alchemy
Clara Bow
The Bolter

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

i'm trying out storygraph this year for logging books because it gives you fun little stats but the stats are also basically indecipherable to me

Read: 15 books, 5,712 pages

pie chart showing "moods": mysterious, dark, tense, reflective, challenging, informative, lighthearted, funny

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

bought some sweatpants that were too big knowing they’d shrink in the wash… now i am Cozy

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

I’m trying to read Ulysses and he is trying to stop me

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

oblique strategies tryin to kill me

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

why does the title of myrna loy's memoir go so hard

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

picture of teeny tiny barbara stanwyck

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

mfw all ur friends know you love taylor and got nothing to do so your phone starts lighting up

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

today’s look is more june cleaver though i feel like i need to get about six inches chopped off this dress for it to really work on me

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

i know there's not a chance in hell taylor will meet her but nevertheless i hope it happens

Gypsy Rose Blanchard reveals she bought every @TaylorSwift13
album with her commissary money

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

all of these things have always been cringe

It's now "embarrassing" to read Kafka, Camus, Dostoevsky, or even to eat pomegranates; these activities must now be avoided at all costs or done in secret

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

me trying to get somebody still on twitter to tweet my taylor 101 playlist at JCO so she can develop informed negative opinions www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

when she took your hard won chicken bone

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

jeanine basinger hive assemble

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BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

why is somebody tryin to hack into my dog’s instagram account

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