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Chris Dennis

@chrisdennis.bsky.social
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Author of Here Is What You Do. NEA Fellow, public health, harm reduction, rural gay dad. Writing in: Best American Essays, Paris Review, Granta, Playgirl, Guernica, McSweeney's.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 29/12/2025
ChatGPT therapist mode
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
song of the summer www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6...
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BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I see why he bankrupted casinos.
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It’s almost overdose awareness month and we bought a button maker at work. And we’re planning to distribute a 1000 Narcan kits.
Button that says “Please Don’t Die” over a drawing of a Narcan applicator.
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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Book news from me. Been a long haul to here. xo
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2025
the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
What *is* their worst fear about the left? That the left also cares about the lives of Palestinians?
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.
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He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him
Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/06/2025
Boebert was a central participant in January 6. she should have been booted out of Congress on January 21 2021
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/06/2025
Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.
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Mr. theMoon @sheepthemoon.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is so class-war coded. As if gay Harvard grads and plumbers are somehow at odds with each other. How does this “divide the electorate” shit still work. They would love us to believe that workers are enemies to one another. It’s always giving: don’t look behind the corporate overlord curtain.
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
daddy’s home.
Bruce Springsteen walking toward the camera in a white tank top and high waisted army green pant with black belt and sweat shirt tied loosely around his shoulders — giving daddy, giving sex, giving authority, giving humanity.
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
when you let gay children play their music in the living room.
Brother Bear from The Berenstain Bears, floating above the room with his third eye open, surrounded by an orb of rainbow light while his family looks on in horror.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 12/05/2025
finally, someone is standing up to the homeless
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Conservatives are already calling him the woke pope.
Kamala Harris on her cell phone saying, “We did it Joe.”
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
What if she walked out of the conclave.
Rihanna dressed as sexy pope at 2018 MET GALA
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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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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Steve Bannon on NPR, saying he’s worried that people won’t have an appetite for the incoming constitutional crises … is something that we agree on. Where does his monstrous hunger for terror come from.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Hegseth on his phone more than a New York City cop
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
might have to start writing fantasy fiction so that this can be my new author photo.
Me seated like a f*ggot on a medieval looking throne with an iridescent dragon who is posed in a cunty way behind me on the back of the throne.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
If someone said “Saeed, it’s important to be respectful” and I interpreted that message as an indictment… well, you’d be right to be concerned about me and for me.
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Felt like the vibes were off in this first episode of the new Last of Us until fucking Catherine O'Hara shows up being so serious. God, she can act. I immediately sat up straight. 🍽️ that’s the emoji for: we’re eating.
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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
god is dead
Screenshot of AI chat bots on Instagram called “sloppy mustard man” and “sock” featuring Ai generated images of… a sloppy mustard man and a sock
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025
gavin newsom you could be a hero
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RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan will remain in prison
California’s governor has rejected releasing Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan from prison more than a half-century after the slaying shook the world in 1968.
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If I send you this it means I accidentally killed my dad.
Walton Goggins in yellow underwear absolutely packed full of banana.
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It must have been the delight of his life calling all them grandbabies to the dinner table.
Robert Newgent Obituary

Robert is survived by his wife 46 years, Dee Dee Newgent and beloved grandchildren Verity, Temperance, Alacrity, Jubilance, Chivalry, and Integrity Ayres.
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Just woke up thinking about how “In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon” is a first sentence that goes so hard.
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Final Girl @electricspacegirl.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This poem is my everything. Thank you, @theferocity.bsky.social for sharing poetry on the Vibe Check podcast.
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Meditations in an Emergency | Poetry Database | Split This Rock
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
He would be pushing 90 years old before he left office. These people are in a death grip. Not to bring Joe into this, but what is the opposite of ageism, where we crave leaders who are out of touch with reality so that we can participate in the delusion that the future isn’t coming for all of us.
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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I don’t believe in much these days, but I believe in peaches.
Peach orchard in bloom
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I’m addicted to this movie. I need to watch it every year to feel alive.
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two men are standing next to each other in a room and one of them is pointing at the other 's forehead .
Alt: The I drink your milkshake scene from There Will Be Blood
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Do you ever just think about how fucking gorgeous Ts Madison is. Like, what is going on.
Ts Madison looking so damn flawless. Skin perfect, lips so red, hair so soft.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
glad everyone is getting their jokes off but George Santos being sentenced to prison sends a chill through the gay Latino liar community and I can't help but notice many have not checked in on me
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
oopsie. but also is this maybe just a little homophobic?
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EX-US Rep. George Santos sentenced to over 7 years in prison for fraud and identity theft
1 of 21 | Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos has been sentenced to over seven years in prison. He sobbed o Read More
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We used to joke in grad school that there should be a reality show about an MFA program but mostly we assumed it would be in-fighting and messy hookups because imagine how thrilling it’ll be to just watch people write. Susan and Eric at their desks all day? Lee on her laptop at the coffee shop?
Could You Be America's
Next Great Author?
Kwame Alexander Hosts
New Show to Find Out (Exclusive)
The reality competition series will follow six amateur writers as they compete for a book deal with a cash advance
By Raven Brunner
Published on April 16, 2025 09:00AM EDT
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/04/2025
uh, people definitely know what oligarchy means? the hell?
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is what I want to see.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.
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Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A coworker came into my office and caught me taking this picture. My career is over.
Photo of four pastel plastic rabbits all in a row on my desk.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
you should be able to get minor surgeries done at the claire’s piercing stand
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