Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦DSP💙#🟦✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 3hNo mention of HAMAS' tunnels 272
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 4hIncredibly hard and graphic watch, but absolutely necessary to see what the animals of Hamas did on October 7th. No v/o narration, just videos from Nova festival attendees and body cams of Hamas pigs literally hunting people down and murdering them in cold blood. Assholes called it "resistance." 13711
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11hLove this 👇 164110273256
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 5hif Tucker Carlson made Ted Cruz look like an idiot, and Jacob Rees-Mogg made Tucker Carlson look like an idiot, and Barry Ferns made Jacob Rees-Mogg look like an idiot, it logically follows that if Barry Ferns was to talk to Ted Cruz for more than five seconds, Ted Cruz would explode messily 3141
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦💫Nale⁷💫 saw bts! @yenale-na.bsky.social · 18hAll these badass bitches and then there's Yoongi going 😊 35520
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 6hGive me romance and don't condescend to me. And keep your lit fic which continually thinks its reinventing the wheel. Stop pretending people being depressed and breaking up (or 'discovering reality') is more innovative than people navigating human relationships and love. Just stop. 1646
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 6hGive me queer romance which pushes back against heteronormative standards for relationships. Give me trans romance which with its whole chest celebrates trans people. Give me romance, guys. Give me a genre which allows you to enjoy what you're reading. Which promises hope. Which is fun to read. 1488
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 6hGive me a romance which is engaging with a couple of years of discussion about love is, what intimacy looks like, how to balance a relationship, how to survive a relationship with the opposite sex in a world with highly gendered power dynamics... 2374
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 6hI am sick to death of reading sad men having bad sex in literary fiction pretending its deep. Or sad women. I am an equal opportunity hater. Give me a romance which explores kink dynamics. Which explores what asexual intimacy looks like. Which includes neurodivergence, queerness, disability 1578
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hRomance CAN do almost any fucking thing. Having a romance plot does not mean a book isn't full of other details, other enquiries. There is no other genre that cares so much and so deeply about human relationships in all their forms. 2546
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hRomances are ABOUT so many things because we have all different settings, time periods and situations. A romance can be a reflection on monarchical rule, it can part of a reassessment of the NHS's role in British life, it can be a historical reflection on Britain's colonial past. 1392
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hI get pretty fucking sick of people assuming romance readers are stupid to be honest. As someone who works on the history of romance, who teaches romance, there is always so much going on. Reflections of and on contemporary society, questions about love and relationships, about gender... 1618
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hPeople can see a bad use of the trope from a mile away. One that doesn't engage with the way the same trope has been repeated, parodied, ironised. That doesn't realise you're engaging with an existing conversation. That doesn't care about what is behind or underneath the trope. 1362
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hbecause it allows a private space for a relationship to unfold, it allows the author to explore the dynamics of physical proximity and emotional distance, it allows a close look at sleeping habits and asks the question of what compatible looks like, how sharing a bed affects a relationship 1411
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7h'Only one bed' is a great way of exploring a range of relationship issues and dynamics. People like it because of the forced proximity or intimacy it produces, because of the acknowledged fun of the trope, of the narrative gymnastics that can occur to make it happen... 1371
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hAcknowledge that people are interested not in reading the same thing over and over again, but in exploring one thing from an almost infinity of approaches an angles. Of exploring different facets of the thing itself. Of making a familiar thing new, of using to explore different ideas or realities. 2696
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 6hThis! Great explanation of why Romance matters & why tropes aren't a sign of bad writing. Reviews which identify tropes in fiction as proof that they're badly written only prove that they're bad criticism. All fiction has tropes in it! No matter the genre! Otherwise it'd be unreadable! 2266
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 6h✨weaponized incompetence✨ Level: 100 2444
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 7hIgnoring advice to secure and monitor your sandboxes during testing then blaming it on your AI being so smart that it’s a threat to humanity is nasty work 927372
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩👧👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 7h"Empire of Grift” by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu 429393
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hWhen audiences are interested in seeing the same trope ('only one bed!' 'woman running away from castle'), don't treat them like they are children asking for the same candy every time. 1431
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hAnd each trope, can we be rethought, refigured, played out in a thousand different ways, which questions, challenges, reinforces ideas previously explored. You can have more complex conversations precisely because you're entering a pre-existing discussion. 1505
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hEngaging with an existing trope or plot pattern, isn't about simplicity or robot formulas. It's rather about an acknowledgement of the history of your field, a constant intertextual conversation with (or against) the meanings that have built up around certain tropes. 1578
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hIn other words, these are existing forms that you engage with and use, but this is not an act of plagiarism or repetition. Instead, through iteration (repetition) and variation, these 'strong forms' 'accumulate connotations' across the genre. They become richer, more complex. 3567
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hThe note that genre fiction (in their case the Gothic) uses 'strong forms' (familiar patterns and tropes) which 'easily lend themselves to codification in terms of conventions or 'rules' of composition. They are constraints authors take upon themselves.' 1384
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hI find the concept of 'formulaicity' (articulated by Manuel Aguirre and Beatriz Sanchez-Santos a really useful way to stop thinking about shared elements between books as something to hold in disdain. So let me share the idea and how it changed my way of approaching tropes and 'strong forms' 1388
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hOates' idea of romance is that of a repeatable formula, with repetition and similarity equating with a lack of value or interest. The implicit belief is that value is only found in originality (and the implicit belief that other forms of fiction - literary and genre perhaps - are truly 'original') 2547
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hI read romance, I teach romance, I value romance. And I am always slightly confounded at the difference between what people think it is and what it actually is. The idea that a whole subset of novels dedicated to intimate human relations are indifferent are going to be simple and worthless? Weird. 1707
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7hHaving seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it. 417645
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 12hA2: I didn't stop being a woman or feminist on October 7th. I'm still mourning the loss of feminist communities that have gone antisemitic. And: I still don't want to be friends with those within the Jewish community who think I'm stupid for having been a feminist in the first place. #ParshaChat 062
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 12hA2: And from another direction: I *miss* all the friends and communities that I have lost. I was not stupid for valuing them. The ways that they betrayed that is on them, not me. And... I feel like... some people are *celebrating* that loss, and I don't like that. #ParshaChat 141
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 12hA2: One of the hardest things to take has been the obvious *pleasure* some people are taking in antisemitism, and how flippant they are about it. It's a game for them and they're having fun. #ParshaChat 083
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12hOssoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president… 233132294677
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Jonah @jonah333.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How come no one demands #Jordan return its land to #Palestinians? Jordan #illegally #occupied the #ancestral #homeland of the #Jews: #Judea & #Samaria How come no one calls #Jordanians #colonizers? Weird how it’s only “stolen #Palestinian land” when it’s in #Jewish hands and not #Muslim ones. 42412
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 13hPODCAST | Criminal pseudo-medical experiments in Auschwitz German doctors conducted experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Listen about the medical crimes in Auschwitz: www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-le… 722171
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Great insights from @hahussain on the patriarchal interference of Western Leftists in ME Arab Muslim development. Defending Barghouti is a prime example. The Left needs to stop superimposing its own narrative onto the Arab and Muslim search for its own progress. x.com/hahussain/st... 0115
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 16hWomen had experienced harassment for generations. In 1975, a group of women at… CORNELL decided to name it. Lin Farley put a name to it: “sexual harassment.” #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance 9280157
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 14h🚨 "...TikTok's algorithm amplified low-quality, conspiracy-framed videos containing misinformation on a very sensitive health topic & allowed for misinformation videos to spread far wider than evidence-based videos..." Tylenol #misinformation surged post Trump BS medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10...medicalxpress.comTikTok misinformation content on acetaminophen and autism surged after a presidential announcementMisinformation linking acetaminophen use during pregnancy to autism in children rose on TikTok after an announcement from the Food and Drug Administration, according to research presented during the A... 12517
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦StandWithUs @standwithus.bsky.social · 13hLebanese journalist Mohammad Barakat says peace, not more war, is the only path to protect southern Lebanon and its Shiite communities. He argues that Lebanon’s real battle is against religious leaders who, in his words, have pushed the country toward destruction. VIA: MEMRI 184
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 13hOld and busted: Che Guevara tees The New Hotness: "Fr_e P_lest_ne" tees 0164
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 13hI'm getting "Kony 2012" flashbacks. 4255
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 16hThis is what toxic masculinity creates: "The most common reason male college students give for failing to intervene in situations involving sexual violence is a fear of being laughed at or ridiculed – in particular, a desire not to appear weak to other men." Worse to be teased by another guy, 54811
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 16hConversations about these things need to take place before college. Before HS, actually. And I have to wonder if more would be had in schools if the fallacy of abstinence-only education wasn't pushed in so many school districts. 1347
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 16h"Undergraduate men in one study reported their beliefs about common rape myths, such as “If a girl doesn’t physically fight back, you can’t really say it was rape,” and “If a girl goes to a room alone with a guy at a party, it is her own fault if she is raped.” theconversation.com/dozens-of-me...theconversation.comDozens of men failed to stop an alleged gang rape at Cornell – here’s the misperception that keeps bystanders from intervening and how to short-circuit itPeople may accept bad behavior – even sexual assault – when they overestimate how acceptable their peers think it is. But there are ways to undermine this thinking and make intervention more likely. 57938
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Grumpy Auntie 🩷🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🩵 🟦💙 @1technodiva.bsky.social · 13hSam Alito lied under oath to get confirmed. He lied to legislate his personal religious beliefs from the bench. He lied to destroy the separation of church & state, forcing his personal extreme authoritarian beliefs on us. All in defiance of his own oath to uphold the Constitution. #CrimeMaxxing 01610
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 16hthan to do the right thing? That's not a low bar. It's NO bar. And those who believe with their whole chest that they did nothing wrong? #ReadThePiece but raise boys to be the ones who speak out if they witness or hear things and not the ones engaging in and ignoring. 0407
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 18h 162116072790
Reposted by Pippin the Poodle’s parent 🟦Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 19hTHREAD 🔥🔥🔥 0127
