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Diana Helmuth

@definitelynotlost.bsky.social
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Award winning author: “How to Suffer Outside” and “The Witching Year.” Words @SlackjawHumor @Pajiba @LongReads @OutdoorLife. Producer @Da7eandNeil. New here. Louder on TikTok.

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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026
The lawsuit says the prominent conservative podcaster falsely claimed the protesters were assaulting ICE officers during demonstrations at an ICE facility in Illinois last year. n.pr/4jAMXo6
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Pro-Trump Influencer Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation by ICE protesters
The lawsuit says the prominent conservative podcaster falsely claimed the protesters were assaulting ICE officers during demonstrations at an ICE facility in Illinois last year.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The female rage rising right now is so uncomplicatedly delicious. It’s so rare the internet gives us something this pure and bright. Let’s destroy everything.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Serious question: have we tried telling boys to not rape people with the same specificity and fervor with which we tell girls to watch their drinks. Have we (parents, teachers, society) actually tried that.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“consent is sexy.” Whatever tell me about a time you called another man out for harming a woman and I’ll let you put it anywhere.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bring her flowers 🚫 Bring her a rapist’s head on a spike ✅
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
+1 if you also are confused because you thought she was immortal
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Literacy created the conditions for inner concentration, extended focus, and logical deduction. It allowed for a new kind of rational, linear, and analytical thought." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I thought I had writer's block. But really it's marketing block; feeling that I don't know what sells anymore in an AI-slop-clogged-30-second-attention-span economy, and the tension between caring about what the market wants (to make money) and not caring at all (to be authentic). Did Woolf care?
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sometimes I think I don't do a good enough job of getting to the point. Then I read some Virginia Woolf (Room of One's Own), and my god. She seriously just rambles. Heaving pages of it. It's lovely rambling, of course. But it is rambling. She would get eye-rolled out of most editor inboxes today
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"There it is: the emerging premium on authentic human labor." open.substack.com/pub/roncharl...
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Will Human-Raised Children Become a Luxury Product?
AI is a seductive substitute for the relationships that teach us empathy, curiosity, and resilience.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The thing about you being on Bluesky is that if you personally posted better every single problem in the world from war to poverty would be solved
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Have regular American people figured out they have more in common with regular Iranan people than either group has with its own government?
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Hey people who are proud of Israel and support Jewish self determination, but are still really worried about what the Israeli gov is doing at the moment — could you please speak up? We need you right now.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Oh thank god more affordable housing
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The reason booktok girlies share 🌶️fantasies of being dominated is not because “women are naturally submissive” It’s because the men in their lives can’t take the trash out and/or think punching the TV is proof they should be in charge Male leadership is a fantasy because it is rare in reality.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Consumption will never make you as happy as creation.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 04/01/2026
Democrats in the Bay Area rushed to condemn President Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the capture of the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, on Saturday as illegal and reckless. Read more → www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/t... 📸: Manuel Orbegozo and Yalonda M. James
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Call me naive but please do not throw up your hands and lament about your powerlessness if you haven’t even taken *three minutes* to call your reps and ask them to at least *pretend* to care about stopping this. Yes something bigger would be better but like, it is ok to just DO THAT. #venezuela
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Ppl who haven't had to work a real job in 30+ years kept telling us it would replace our work - our primary source of income and dignity - and then were surprised when we balked. AI was forced on us with zero emotional and sociological awareness. They biffed the landing.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I'd love to give you a copy! Also I have a lot of random gear if you want to borrow anything
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
if you're a woman yearning for a soft, submissive life and are constantly grooming your man to be a dominant provider for your needs...bestie I have some news for you...
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Radical self-awareness: putting all my social media apps into a folder called “anxiety.” Radical self-acceptance: knowing I’m gonna it open it anyway
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Has anyone mapped the loss of tactile objects in our homes (dialing a keypad, snapping open a disc case, turning a car key) with the rise of fidget spinners
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Christmas playlists are like “oh boy jingle bells!” “Holly jolly frolic!” “roll in the snow!” *four minute heavy metal battle between mortal and Beelzebub, where man arises into the light, sword bloody, will tested but unbroken* “figgy pudding!”
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Please tell yours senators to oppose “Lee Amendment" 3972. It strips national park funding and sets up a framework for their sale. Lee tried this a while back and it *failed* bc of public outcry. A vote is expected this week. Use 5calls.org or democracy.io to easily find and contact your reps.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It’s actually not that hard to be grateful for family and turkey and stuffing and also connect with the indigenous groups on your land.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My dear @laurenparker.bsky.social tried to find her soul mate on an app so you don’t have to. wildhunt.org/2025/11/look...
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Looking for My Soulmate in All the Wrong Applications - Living, Paganism, Perspectives, Witchcraft
Witchcraft & Pagan News - Hint asks if I’m into men or women, but does not offer "both" or "neither." You are getting your AI generated slop on the gender binary, thank you very much. | Living, Pagani...
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I don't know who needs to hear this but "America" has never been white, it isn't supposed to be white, and a lot of us don't actually want it to be white. signed, a white.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Yesterday a witch told me that the Samhain portal is actually open until Wednesday so if you still feel weird that’s why. Also the government.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
lithub.com/dancing-with...
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Dancing with the Goddess and Drawing Down the Moon: A Reading List for Modern Witches
When I encounter the question “are you a Witch?” my first response is always, “who is asking, and why?” Perhaps there never has been a more loaded noun in the English langua…
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Very excited to see the first Samhain issue from Inglenook Lit. If you are craving to read - or write - surreal, witchy, divine, gutting, dreamy, magical stories, please check them out. Sasha Bailyn is tending a wonderful hearth here for witch and witch-adjacent writers. They are taking submissions.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
What’s the German word for having enough energy for a spin class but not enough energy to put your laundry away
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
As a tencious user of the em dash—yes www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Having empathy for someone who said “empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage” is the ultimate test of my empathy
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I wrote an article on hopepunk but solarpunk is mostly these same principles applied specifically to the climate/eco part of the polycrisis. If you're interested in more about the craft of writing these stories, it's a good overview: dreamforgemagazine.com/story/rewrit...
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Rewriting the Future - Dreamforge Magazine
I was writing hopepunk before there was a word for it. That’s not some hipster boast —I’m much more feminist nerd than cool kid— but my […]
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I can’t believe this is happening. But then again I had a copy editor tell me they were using Google AI for fact checking. *Fact checking* Glad you are making noise about this, it’s a depressing trend.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
OK but this does sound like my version of Utopia 😂
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Had a serious talk with a pal about how solarpunk may never take off as a genre because it's just too...*nice.* "What tension can exist in utopia?" Curious for people's thoughts on plots for a Solarpunk setting (Beyond "we had paradise and now we have to get it back?")
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
<3 <3 Sylvie. Thank you for beta reading
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In which I process the question: how can we talk about Israel in well-intentioned discourse if we can’t even agree what Zionism is, what anti-Zionism is, and which of those is anti-Semitic, or not? definitelynotlost.medium.com/can-someone-...
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Can Someone Please Tell Me How to Talk About Palestine?
I am writing an essay about the dangers of staying silent for fear of being misunderstood, and I am terrified to publish it, for fear of…
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Also, if you are using generative AI to: - write your SEO blog posts - write your product's marketing content - write your novel - write your emails ...we can tell.
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STARLOG Da7e Gonzales @da7e.com · 08/06/2025
Cute! (search A Storm of Spoilers wherever fine podcasts are found)
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This isn't totally true. Bereft of other options, undocumented immigrants often use the ER for simple needs, and Medicare pays the ER for the care. If immigrants had access to better healthcare options, Medicare wouldn't be paying $300 for baby Tylenol in the ER. That's the actual problem.
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I want to say this is just another reason women should not change their names via marriage, bc your identity should never be erased in exchange for love But I am also one of those ppl 😭 at weddings, bc I am a sap for love? So thanks, SAVE Act, for ruining love www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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What the SAVE Act Means for Women
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My cat doesn’t even know who Trump is
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
happy “come the f*ck on” day to those who involuntarily celebrate
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Seriously. I am exhausted with poll after poll now showing the Dems lost support over Gaza. But journalists are still tearing their hair out over how Dems are losing steam. It is not complicated. People reject the binary "support a genocide or get fascism (that also supports genocide)"
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Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
fuckin THANK YOU
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STARLOG Da7e Gonzales @da7e.com · 04/03/2025
There are some Indivisible Protests today? Here's some things that have worked for me when I decide to protest: - Don't bring your phone (the police can set up towers to log you were there and hunt you down later) - Wear a mask and a hat! Make facial recognition hard - Don't talk to the police.
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