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The Optimistic Nihilist (She/her)

@erystotle.bsky.social
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Just trying to make some magic in this dumpster fire world. 💙 in a red state. Sometimes I write @ lynnwerre.substack.com Support my caffeine addiction @ buymeacoffee.com/lynnw

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
she’s got a point
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The GOP's education agenda is a Trojan horse for ideological indoctrination. They're using schools as a battleground to shape young minds and suppress critical thinking. #DontDefundPublicSchools
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/05/2025
To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!
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AnnieForTruth @anniefortruth1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/04/2025
GOOD TROUBLE SUCCESS! On today's podcast, we asked you to flood the anti-christianbiasreporting@va.gov mailbox. I've just learned they received over 54,000 reports which had to be manually reviewed and ZERO were real. WELL DONE! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Pope-Pourri (feat. Andi McNew)
Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · 04/23/2025 · 56m
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Art of the Deal
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Registries for pregnant women and children with autism, but no registry for guns?
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 22/04/2025
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The Optimistic Nihilist (She/her) @erystotle.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This feels… like they’re missing the mark…
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Every state needs to do this ASAP
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The Optimistic Nihilist (She/her) @erystotle.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
How do we parent young adults when we can’t promise everything will be okay? We become hope doulas. In this essay, I reflect on parenting in the face of an uncertain future. On Being a Hope Doula open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr... #hopedoula #youngadults #motherhood #crisis
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On Being a Hope Doula
Mothering Adult Children Through an Uncertain Future
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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The Optimistic Nihilist (She/her) @erystotle.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I’ve long struggled with dinner time, and regular motivation tips are no match for my executive dysfunction. I’ve stopped trying to strong arm dinner time motivation and started summoning whimsy instead. Read about it in today's substack. open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr...
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Dispatches From the Hearth:
Conjuring Dinner Time Motivation with Whimsy
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The Optimistic Nihilist (She/her) @erystotle.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Ironically, I spent about ten minutes trying to come up with the perfect title for my essay on overcoming perfection open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr... #recoveringperfectionist #perfectionism #BloodofFlowers
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The Art of Imperfection
How a Book About a Persian Rug Maker Changed My Perspective on Making Mistakes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/04/2025
my offer to america: we bring woke back
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025
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The Optimistic Nihilist (She/her) @erystotle.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
How do you cope when your life is falling apart and gratitude journaling doesn't work? Today I write about the power and evidence behind the Fuck This List. open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr...
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Beauty From the Ashes
The Healing Power of Saying "Fuck This"
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker
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a pink bunny wearing sunglasses is holding a drum with the words `` still going '' written on it .
Alt: a pink bunny wearing sunglasses is holding a drum with the words `` still going '' written on it .
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
As someone who has written a little about performance and legislative politics, I am begging people to stop using "performative" pejoratively. Politics *is* performance. All human interaction is performance.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
DOGE claims to have found billions of dollars in fraud yet not one criminal charge has been filed against anyone, just mass firings of federal employees. Which means they’ve been wasting millions of dollars finding absolutely nothing on purpose. The fraud is DOGE.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/03/2025
Give me it. ❤️
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/03/2025
Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
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Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
WASHINGTON—Lambasting the current program as wasteful, bloated, and entirely unnecessary, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for steep cuts Monday to the number of steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous...
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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Danielle Moodie
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It's really fascinating what happens when you remove diversity—white male incompetency is placed on full display and with no one to blame for their actions —so they just lie.
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our moral imperative
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The Optimistic Nihilist (She/her) @erystotle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I've lived on two continents, and in many different states but never felt fully at home in any of them. Today's essay is a reflection about not-quite-belonging. I hope you'll give it a read. open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr...
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The Roots of Belonging
Discovering Home as a Biracial, Third-Culture Kid
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Tangerine Twit Troll @tangerinetwittroll.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Headline: Vance argues in Greenland that its people would be safer under U.S. leadership Would that be because the only threat to Greenland and its people is the US?
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations twp.ai/1VcntO
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The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinationsby Patricia CallahanProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Fixed
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I’ve gotta stop saying that! 😳
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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🍁Capt.John E. Rock @johnerock.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Dear Democratic Members of Congress, Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it. Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it! Signed, Americans
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I wish I lived in a caring, thoughtful country where politics wasn't about winning an election next year, but helping our citizens this year.
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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process. That means the United States is simply unsafe
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Everyone keeps saying "what can we do" and a big shout out to the team of Some More News who just released a massive collection of things from how to organize tenant unions to destroy Tesla from the inside. If you need a pick me up in a dark time this is fantastic www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed-r...
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Resistance 2.0: How To Survive The Next Four Years - SOME MORE NEWS
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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Sen. Tammy Duckworth calls on Pete Hegseth to resign: "Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could've gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately."
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Undocumented workers are bad, so let’s have teenagers replace them working overnight so they can fall asleep in school, because who needs education when they can work for sweatshop wages?
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The Optimistic Nihilist (She/her) @erystotle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I didn't think it would get worse...
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The Optimistic Nihilist (She/her) @erystotle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I learned a lot writing this post. Check it out if you're curious about mutual aid and how it supports community building. #community #mutualaidprimer #mutualaid open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr...
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Community Building in a Dumpster Fire World
A Mutual Aid Primer
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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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