Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Look, he's got us dead to rights, it must be said. 030
Reposted by Bill Eldridge🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇻🇪 Chappell's Femininomenology of Spirit @ofvick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"The prisoner's dilemma will never iterate, and they will never be able to choose defection. I am very smart and also morally good" 0223
Reposted by Bill Eldridgeneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026this too is managerial politics btw. "i can browbeat anyone into doing anything but if you quit i'm going to whine and cry and tell you that you're being so unfair to me" - middle management ass political party. pathetic stuff 19816
Reposted by Bill Eldridgeneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026everyone has a line over which they won't vote straight ticket D or R. if you keep stepping over the line for some people while giving them big sloppy wino winks, eventually they might stop playing along - that's on you, that's coalition management. clean it up or quit whining 2768
Reposted by Bill Eldridgeneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026you have to have trust if you want a coalition to take some Ls for you. dems have undermined trust w trans people by maintaining a basically limitless permission structure to play footsie with eliminationist transphobia even in very blue states. going "but it's just a few people" doesn't change that 19520
Reposted by Bill Eldridgeneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026also obviously this is just wrong. clinton signed DOMA, DADT was implemented in the wake of AIDS both forcing the conversation about gay people and literally decimating gay men, the argument straightforwardly wasn't about youth segregation and the other side weren't yet full bore fascists 1492
Reposted by Bill Eldridgeneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026it helps to read replies sometimes. easier to understand what someone's actually arguing if you realize they think MLK was wrong about white moderates because LBJ signed the civil rights act 27610
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Hey friends! I had a pair of unexpected large expenses this month with a minor car accident and an unexpected pet fee from my landlord. Now, I can afford both of these expenses, but it's gonna be tight. I'm trying to raise the $550 to patch the hole in my month's budget. My venmo is @Bill-Eldridge. 022
Reposted by Bill Eldridge𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The old world is dying and the new one struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. Roll for initiative. 21732188
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Hey friends! Money is a bit tight right now. Nothing earth shattering, just a little less liquid than is comfortable because I had some big ticket expenses in July. If anyone has any cash to spare and is interested in helping out with grocery and gas money, venmo is @Bill-Eldridge 000
Reposted by Bill EldridgeAutumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use." 263941828
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 02/07/2026"Blessed are those who do not beep their car horns in anger, or at all, preferably, for they shall know peace." Well, what do you know, @poetinbabylon.bsky.social , you were right- apparently I *am* one of the Elect! 030
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Not *100%*, but, like, definitely north of 85. Maybe even north of 90 depending on how cynical you want to be when drawing the line between any given conservative movement and its fascist fringe. 020
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Church nerd that I am, I admit I've been watching this more closely than the World Cup, lol 010
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Why, Diane, don't you know you're not actually supposed to *read* those books, just put them on the shelf and sneer about it? /s Similarities to those who quote another certain Book when it pleases them but ignore the bits Someone said about loving neighbors and even enemies are purely intentional. 160
Reposted by Bill EldridgeDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 16/06/2026In honor of #Bloomsday, available for free download: the 12,000 word #novella telling how the Fair Folk of Dublin were hunted by a deadly threat from the modern world... and how they sought the help of #Ireland 's the first superhero. Available free at #Ebooks Direct: "Herself." dduane.link/Herselfdduane.linkHerselfIn this tale of a Dublin where the Fair Folk go about their lives like everybody else (or try to), a mortal ally with the Seeing gift discovers that the Good People are being targeted by a deadly thr... 25835
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Are you sure? Because I bet that, if we were given a share of the beatific vision to watch, we would laugh and laugh and laaaaaugh... 030
Reposted by Bill EldridgeDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 13/06/2026That's the one we use in the #YoungWizards universe. :) 646959
Reposted by Bill EldridgeNon Serviam Media Collective @nonserviammedia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026“Revolutionary internationalism is the answer to reactionary nationalism. Solidarity between social movements is the answer to wars between States.” #subMedia The Time of Monsterssub.mediaThe Time of MonstersThe neoliberal world order as we know it is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. But celebrations of its downfall are muted by the bleak reality of the world that is rising to take i... 0278
Reposted by Bill EldridgeSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 07/06/2026“As the annual Pride parade weaved its way through Durham… the rainbow flags were almost matched in number by trade union banners, as miners, postal workers, and train drivers swelled the parade’s ranks in solidarity, making it the biggest in Durham Pride’s history.” Solidarity is our strength. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️theguardian.com‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the minersSolidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money 4949701166
Reposted by Bill EldridgePrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/06/2026A literacy crisis means people are struggling to UNDERSTAND what they are reading, not that people can't necessarily read. 282919808
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The sheer number of times I have had to patiently explain to people who should know better that '"Everyone does the things they do for a reason" does not mean they are GOOD reasons, but the reasons absolutely do exist' is...troubling probably isn't the right word, but definitely exasperating. 030
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Hey, you guys know that author whose fiction I keep plugging on my theology podcast, @anarchodoxpod.bsky.social ? No, not Pterry. The other one. Yeah, her. She's got a sale on of her books for Pride. Go buy some. 020
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Mammon is ever and always Moloch as well; to very lightly paraphrase Someone who would know much better than I, one cannot serve both Wealth and Life. 010
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 31/05/2026You know, we used to have rules against necromancy... 050
Reposted by Bill EldridgeOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 24/05/2026Minor PS: if my last article about an author’s political stances led to a direct refutation by that author’s daughter, I would simply fade away from the mortification, but I guess some people lack the organ of shame. 41312107
Reposted by Bill EldridgeOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 24/05/2026In sum, skip the Atlantic on this one and read Monstrous Regiment, a great standalone Pratchett and a perfect book for right now, because it takes on propaganda, war, gender, and how religious zealots starve nations and ruin everything. Quote me on that, why don’t you. 61733345
Reposted by Bill EldridgeOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 24/05/2026Pratchett’s politics evolved over the series, because he wrote them over the course of most of his life, and his own thoughts evolved. This does not make his politics “hard to pin down” unless what you’re trying to do is avoid describing the conclusions he reached about, say, trans rights, HELEN. 61408174
Reposted by Bill EldridgeOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 24/05/2026From the start Vimes celebrates justice rather than mere order: his ancestor was a famous regicide and that possibility is always lurking. He fights against other police on the regular, and in Night Watch he straight up joins the revolutionaries in the People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road. 291634
Reposted by Bill EldridgeOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 24/05/2026Sure, he started as a silly joke about an activist who became a zombie by refusing to die out of optimist zeal — but by the time we reach Night Watch, where we see that death, it is intensely moving and heroic. Related: to say Vimes is an example of lionizing the police is, in a word, LMAO 3112846
Reposted by Bill EldridgeOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 24/05/2026Sometimes as an NYT books columnist you find yourself quoted in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis, who believes two odd things: 1. That nobody is reading Pratchett anymore (instead of all the time, as they should), and 2. That Pratchett’s politics are hard to pin down, and Reg Shoe is not a fucking hero. 71683307
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 24/05/2026-bows- I defer, naturally, to your far superior experience of both Terry and screenwriting; and my invocation of Providential plans was naturally merely speculation, as I am fortunate enough not to currently be saddled with the role of a prophet and am therefore not privy to any such information. 110
Reposted by Bill EldridgeBadJohnBrown @badjohnbrown.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Agree and this bsky.app/profile/adam... 012711
Reposted by Bill EldridgeDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 24/05/2026Status report, "May the 24th Warmup": Absolutely super weather today. Think I'll go put up the umbrella over the paddock table, pour a glass of something cold, settle down outside for a bit, and reread NIGHT WATCH. (While pausing to enjoy a hardboiled egg or so...) #GNUTerryPratchett 920418
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 24/05/2026On the other hand, consider that Providence tends to take the broader view of such things; no doubt you're right, he'd have been a fantastical screenwriter and would have been in very high demand - and might, therefore, have written fewer of his amazing books. 130
Reposted by Bill EldridgeDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 23/05/2026Yep. It's the droid situation all over again... :/ 49315
Reposted by Bill EldridgeKye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If you've ever thought to yourself, "I wish there were a theorist of ecological communism who also made great wallpaper," then I have an article just for you. doi.org/10.1177/1474... 1229679
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 19/05/2026As a professional scholar and possessor of expertise in religious and esoteric matters, I *do not* recommend making a poppet of these people out of an old dishcloth and your own wellspring of righteous fury and setting said poppet on fire. I *merely* note that it is, in fact, an option... 050
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 19/05/2026There's an interesting line by Reverend Mord in @tkingfisher.com's The Hidden Almanac, wherein the good Rev, faced with a gardening problem that can only be solved via DEET or black magic, says he is loathe to recommend black magic, *but,* at least it doesn't melt plastic. I say all that to say: 130
Bill Eldridge @bill-eld.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone 000
Reposted by Bill EldridgeDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 10/05/2026@peter.petermorwood.com glanced at this image once, smiled, and merely said, walking away to get some tea: "That's no castle. Like its owner, it's indefensible." 925252
Reposted by Bill EldridgeWRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 07/05/2026Me right after posting this: god damn it, this is just sexy murder poet vs basically pleasant bureaucrat, isn’t it? 6844
Reposted by Bill EldridgeWRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 07/05/2026Calvin’s dad voice: The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories. Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists. Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism. Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists. 1536390
