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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Three fairytale heroines meet at a sleep studies institute. Will they solve their somnial problems and find their happily-ever-afters? ONCE UPON A DREAM is part of PEAR SLICES, opening July 17 at the Pear! #newplay #fairytale #fairytalespoof www.thepear.org/whats-playing

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I haven't dressed up to go to the movies since the Star Wars prequels. But tonight I'm dressing up as #Ragatha from #TheAmazingDigitalCircus and I'll probably embarrass my kids and husband but they'll have to forgive me 😆 🎪

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I released the last of my latest batch of butterflies today and it LITERALLY FLEW DIRECTLY INTO A SPIDERWEB. I helped it out and now it is safely in my lemon tree. Doesn’t bode well for the future though. 😆 #butterflies #caterpillars #insects

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"Do birds have saliva?" Or, the odd things I find myself typing into Google while writing. #amwriting #writingcommunity #amwritingYA #amwritingfantasy

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Thank you @staniforthmick.bsky.social for your review of my short story!! Glad you enjoyed it. ^_^

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

T-minus 12 minutes!! Who's watching the launch? #artemis

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make clear you're part of The Resistance to this regime’s brutality at home, pathetic ineptness, perpetual lying & their illegal war in Iran. ✊https://app.sosha.ai/s/39HA7UDd

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Join me at the next No Kings Day

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Summer in March? A gorgeous day on campus!

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

What if a pill could stop us from physically aging? If you are in the NYC area, check out a reading of my play AGELESS at UP Theater Company Jan 18! Tickets are FREE and can be reserved at the link below. #newplay #nyctheatre #nyctheatrecommunity #scifiplay

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DEAD OF WINTER Readings - 'AGELESS'

UP Theater's longest-running play development series returns with four new plays on four cold Sundays.

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Dear book marketing scammers, thank you for your glowing praise for my book that totally doesn't sound like you just pasted the synopsis into ChatGPT, but I will have to decline. :P #writerproblems #writingcommunity #indieauthor

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I had originally planned to finish a whole draft of this novel by the end of the year. That isn't going to happen, but reaching 50K words (especially since I started with almost nothing) feels like an achievement. #WIP #amwriting #writingcommuity

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Just had to kill off a character who didn't deserve it because of Plot and I'm feeling like a jerk. #writerproblems #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Me: I'm going to have my characters take a quick side-quest into this underground ice maze. *20,000 words later* Guess I'm renaming this novel THE ICE MAZE. #writerproblems #writingcommunity #firstdraft #amwriting

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Hit 41K words on my #WIP. Aiming for 50K by the end of the year. #Writingcommunity, what are you hoping to finish by New Year's Eve? #Amwriting #amwritingfantasy #amwritingYA

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I had the chance to read an ARC of @clairejoyance.bsky.social's new novel, To Reap What is Sown (Threads of Destiny #4). If you're looking for an inclusive fantasy with a complex female lead (and plant magic!), check it out! You can find the whole series at www.barnesandnoble.com/s/claire%20e...

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Never thought I'd be Googling "zebra mating habits" for a play, but here we are. #writerproblems #playwriting #writingcommunity

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

"[Pilgrimage] makes you leave the theater thinking about the women in your life — whom you’d trust with your darkest secrets, whom you could ask to join you on the journey of a lifetime or for care in your neediest hour." Thank you @lilyjaniak.bsky.social for your review in the Chronicle! #newplay

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Review: ‘Pilgrimage’ portrays Muslim women with the complexity they deserve

Golden Thread Productions and Z Space are billing the script as the first world premiere co-written by an Afghan American woman in the United States.

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Thrilled to announce that PILGRIMAGE, a play I cowrote with Humaira Ghilzai, will have its world premiere at Z Space in San Francisco!!! Previews begin Oct. 24. For info and tix: goldenthread.org/productions/... #newplay #bayareatheatre #theatre #afghanwomen #muslimwomen #pilgrimageplay

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

As a sci-fi writer and general space nut I find this really exciting. Sure, they won't be landing, just flying around it, but still -- THE MOON. 🌓 And the fact that this crew includes the first Black person and first woman to visit the Moon makes it even more exciting! #moon #artemismission

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The Twin Stars ebook is on sale today! If you like #portalfantasy, #YAfantasy, #YAscifi and #mentalhealthrep, check it out: www.amazon.com/Twin-Stars-C... #OCD #mentalhealthmatters

Cover of The Twin Stars, featuring a space background and a review quote: "A well-crafted, thought-provoking, action-packed space adventure and coming-of-age story."

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Part of having #OCD is dealing with a lifelong weight of mostly irrational guilt. I think that's why so many of my characters deal with guilt of some kind or another. It's also probably why guilt is the major theme of my #WIP. We write for a lot of reasons. Wrestling with our demons is a major one.

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hello. I am a pregnant woman in a film. My water breaks and the baby is coming NOW. It's born five minutes later.

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I felt like something was missing from my #WIP. I think I may have figured out what it is. I've made a change that both raises the stakes and increases tension. Because things weren't hard enough for my protagonist, ya know? *Chases MC up a tree & pelts her with rocks.* #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

23,000 words into my WIP and hoping to hit 25,000 by the end of the week. Not always sure WHAT I'm writing, but words are coming out. So...win? How are you doing, #writingcommunity?

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a cartoon of snoopy holding a piece of paper

ALT: a cartoon of snoopy holding a piece of paper

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes. The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere. The site is a textbook concentration camp.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Proud of my Congressman Ro Khanna for introducing the Iran War Powers Resolution. The Founders intended for CONGRESS to have the power to declare war, not the President--and for good reason. Please call your reps and ask them to support this resolution. #nowar #nowariniran

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Cindi @cdeby.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Read this entire feed and then make your phone calls , then get to a protest tomorrow. If not now, WHEN?

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Auria yearns to go to Earth. When she allies with an unscrupulous politician who vows to help get her there, the consequences of her actions could shatter her world. Lotta teen angst but there IS a happy ending and JOY is what I want for these characters! #joypit #YA #COA #SF #DIS #mentalhealth

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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Every year, I do 30 days of gay ahead of/during Pride, which used to be 30 individual TikTok posts, but I’ve started amassing them all in one big graphic to save myself the time/energy. (Scroll for more recs🧵)

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This is quite straightforwardly fascism.

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Bridgette Dutta Portman @bdportman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

As an instructor who has seen this sort of thing in student papers, I'm not at all surprised.

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June White 🫀 @cuntmoney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We stand together or we all fall. - NO AI audiobooks - NO AI covers - NO AI book trailers - NO AI character drawings - NO AI marketing copy - NO AI “research” - NO AI editors - NO AI translation - NO AI at all

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

TOMORROW is MAY DAY (5/1/25): The latest in our ongoing PROTESTS! FIGHT to protect the country from the chaos of one dangerously unstable man. IT. IS. WORKING. Sane Americans easily outnumber the cult & live in Dementia Don's head rent-free. Bad press is his Kryptonite. BE THERE!! www.FiftyFifty.com

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