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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social
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Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
HEY PORTLAND Jefferson High School is doing my play about RPGs and online harassment and misogynist violence in geek spaces, and I'm wildly excited to see it again onstage for the first time since Ida B. Wells High School premiered it in 2018 Hope you all can make it! I'm proud of this one
A hand-drawn theatre poster which says 

The Jefferson Democratic Dramatics Presents: 
Red Sky at Morning 
By Claire Willett

The illustration is of a desktop computer covered in miscellaneous nerdy stickers - a pair of crossed battle axes, a lesbian flag, a skull, lots of yellow stars, etc - with an image onscreen that looks like a chat room where messages are being exchanged, a couple text boxes and then an image where you can see a triangular red flag. 

Below the image is a content warning for "some strong language and mature themes" as well as the show information:

Performance Dates:
Friday Oct 23, 7 pm
Saturday Oct 24, 2 pm and 7 pm
Friday Oct 30, 7 pm
Saturday Oct 31, 2 pm

Ticket $:
Adult $10
Student $6

Location:
Jefferson Auditorium
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1h
I'm convinced this is why it got randomly mentioned on multiple TV shows not even on a WB-owned network the billionaires all got together at the weekly meeting
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2h
bit of a long shot, but I have two clients wrapping up their contracts who I just found out aren't renewing, and a possible third in December. anyone out there - ideally in A) Portland or B) the arts, but I've kind of done everything tbh - looking for a grantwriter with 20+ years experience?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2h
"her three categories of product are books, television, and holiday decorations" listen we know it's true but you didn't have to say it
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Books and Reading Materials

Digital Entertainment Subscriptions

Seasonal and Holiday Decorations
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Sean Padilla (He/They) Will Write a Good Song About Anything @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 5h
I have never heard or read a man explain why he doesn’t read books in a way that makes him sound *smarter*
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6h
white evangelical Republicans whose experience of Catholicism is limited to people like JD Vance assumed that their allies on abortion would be their allies on everything and miscalculated so badly here. even the most conservative US bishops cannot function without their immigrant parishioners!
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16h
they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 18h
bro are you okay? the shot just lingered on your face for a few seconds while you were looking at your loved ones. no bro there was like, a mournful string orchestration of your leitmotif playing. bro?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19h
my main D&D crew is rolling up new characters for a 3-6 month campaign that may start with one of those Waterdeep heists. I've been playing a goliath paladin for seven years and I was like, hmmm, what's the MOST OPPOSITE thing from that I can think of and I came up with insult comic bard
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22h
Banished to one of the cursed islands from Voyage of the Dawn Treader after petitioning Prince Caspian to fund The Real Housewives of Cair Paravel
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Brilliant video from Kansas Governor Laura Kelly talking about her "constituent" Zach Lahn, the Republican running for governor of IOWA who actually lives in Kansas. One of the most brutal political owns I've ever seen. Kudos to all involved.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h
“Hello Bone Colleagues”
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I did this when my kid was selling Girl Scout cookies and people fucking HATED it lol
URGENT UPDATE: Elka's
cookie sales are heating up and she has just 24 hours to finish strong!
This sale could decide what kind of Girl Scout trinket the entire troop earns, so Elka needs YOU on her team! Please, will you personally buy cookies from Elka today? 

-Team Elka
Text STOP to quit
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h
I’m crying this is so funny
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh this looks INCREDIBLE
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
everyone at The Chicks show has t shirts that say Maryanne and Wanda 2028
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bri is the best and deserves the world, please help if you can
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is the thing I keep saying about the four D.C.s. 1. Cynical: the shorthand for dirty politics, see also “Beltway” 2. Hopeful/Poignant: Sorkin’s D.C., sometimes Capra’s 3. Postcard: The source of much of the nation’s iconography (memorials, White House, Mall) 4. City where people live/work
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
oh boy this sucks
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
me: [saves one high protein recipe] my algorithm until the end of time: why would you eat ONE brownie when you can eat 47 POUNDS of my UNHOLY CAKE SIMULACRUM for the same calories and 128x the PROTEIN. Start with NINE TUBS of GREEK YOGURT.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I just saw the wsj piece and I cannot possibly take another piece on the trend of adults cutting parents off
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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Whenever I visit, always struck by the disjunction between "Washington" the synecdoche for US empire and "Washington" the beautiful city for the people, just packed with public good and beauty, a promise to be something better. It's good to be upset about the latter's destruction.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Someone told me that we're in the "anything's possible" era of electoral politics right now. If someone wants to shoot their shot, they should. 👀
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
back in the pre-marriage equality era I once heard a close friend from church earnestly say to someone “I just can’t understand why gay people want to DESTROY my marriage by redefining the meaning of it” I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it
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[Spooky Name Placeholder] @mxlabradorite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This rules.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
humiliate the oligarchs. they're all losers. remind them constantly
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 06/10/2026
“We started the breakfast program, and within two weeks it was a national program because people said, ‘Hey, we can do that here. This is how they did it. We can do it here.’ The party set examples that people could follow in every aspect. We were on the forefront of fighting racism on all levels.”
therealnews.com
The Black Panthers at 60: A through line of resistance from the South to California
“We started the breakfast program in California, and within two weeks it was a national program because people said, 'Hey, we can do that here. This is how they did it. We can do it here.' The party s...
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 06/10/2026
I am 100% serious. Fascistic art demands adoration, demands to be loved, demands to be respected. It does not seek to express so much as to impress. It is art that aims to take and take and take, never to give.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 06/10/2026
As the Evils of the Failed Artist is on everybody’s minds, I just wanna stress that failed artists are fail at it because they want to be adored instead of just being weird little freaks who cannot help making the shit they feel uncontrollably compelled to make
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Them @them.us · 06/10/2026
The country’s first ever national pageant for “toms,” a culturally specific Thai term for masc-of-center lesbians, transmascs, and trans men, just crowned its first winner.
them.us
Tom Thailand, A Queer Masc-of-Center Pageant, Crowns First-Ever Winner
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
nothing is more LinkedIn-pilled than assessing the ROI of fun
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's crazy that TERFs are so cooked in their own rank juices they don't even talk about actual violence against women, even when it's front page news. It's all the imaginary specter of the Trans Infiltrator.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
everyone do this, Tal has read every book and he’s never recommended a flop I have probably read 70 books this year on his endorsement
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
oh no no even better this is “Sister Act III” and Katy Perry is the villain
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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spooky rachel @introspectre.online · 06/10/2026
this is one of the best headlines i have ever seen www.washingtonpost.com/gender-ident...
washingtonpost.com
‘Katy Perry, please stop,’ begged a nun. Then she collapsed and died.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
thread for Portlanders following the “Nazi brunch at clarklewis” story
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
very willing to let him test this to see if he's right
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
REALLY REALLY hoping some journalists who are not from The Oregonian get all the way into it on this "clarklewis restaurant hosts Nazi meet & greet" story because it is very, very fucked
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
would VERY much like a local journalist to get ahold of the Clark Lewis employee who quit due to the scuffle yesterday and get their take on what happened, especially wrt the level of awareness management had prior
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
every single thing about all our lives would improve about a thousand percent if RFK was replaced overnight by one Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, complete with his futuristic medical technology can you IMAGINE him reviewing the reports of what his predecessor did
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I fucking love high school drama kids not a cishet to be found for love nor money the male romantic lead is being played by a shaven-haired butch with a PUNCH NAZIS patch on their leather vest and a guillotine earring they asked if I’ve looked up my plays on AO3 I would die for these Youths
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I get to sit in on rehearsal for this today and I’m very excited (apparently they got permission from The Decemberists to use their music for like a movement piece where all the kids play their D&D characters????) all my pop culture references are so 2018 though, I gotta let them change some shit
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
an inclusive company that makes sure the victorian child ghost in your attic isn’t overlooked this holiday season
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I remember being a little salty before I had read Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI that he had invited the Anthropic guy to be there. It made me nervous he had gotten snowed and would pull his punches. It feels so good to learn that actually Anthropic was livid and almost pulled out of the event
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