Reposted by Helena Fitzgeraldlaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In addition to the names of the Cornell 7 we should also make famous the administrators and law enforcement officers who originally thought an apology letter would be sufficient. 124758
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldSoraya Chemaly @sorayachemaly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Cornell, LSU, the Burnerverse, Clavicular…just one week. Men are putting their impunity and cruelty on display so brazenly. Humiliating/punishing women has always gone on, but now rape is networked, scalable, monetized. Our systems aren’t failing, tho, they’re doing what they are designed to do.sorayachemaly.substack.com33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and PainFrom the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men 16022
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 23hevery administrator involved in this decision should never work in this or any related field ever again (is the extreme-moderate position) 25512
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 23hthey DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1453761425
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026you: roko's basilisk me, nodding: a big cool snake who is mad at you 4626
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have seen the new Mike Leigh film and I believe we can do it, we can get Kate O'Flynn half of an EGOT in one year 4404
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026nothing just thinking about how thrilled Griffin Dunne in After Hours would be to turn his whole life over to AI agents and then tell everyone about it 2221
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldJason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid 123195733
Reposted by Helena Fitzgeraldrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time! 102071407
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026just saw the restoration of The Devils and it's time to officially amend my theory, there are *four* stories: 1) a man goes on a journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) big dick richie's dick is too big 4) what do those nuns get up to in there? 1315
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby. 372467291
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/09/2026successfully said "aura" in a conversation with a young person 0130
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The sky in NYC right now. It was nice knowing all of you. 2981548
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026some serious "are you fucking kidding me" skies in NYC right now 49710
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026me looking between the weather report for the weekend and my tickets to see The Devils at Lincoln Center tomorrow night 0121
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026this thread is giving me flashbacks to the time I was on an IcelandExpress flight that had to make an emergency landing in Goose Bay, eventually got us to Rekyjavik, then finally had us fly back to NYC on a former Iron Maiden tour plane bc I guess it was the only working plane they could find? 7835
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldBradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Moby Dick whips for millions of reasons, not least of which that Melville knew how to name a goddamn chapter 2333
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2026need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive” 131494205
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm not gonna lie, it's deeply blackpilling that this is exactly, in pristine detail, what people said would happen and aside from a couple high-profile cases immediately post-Dobbs it's just become complete background noise 025981
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026like, you're really gonna look me in the face and tell me that Larry Kramer wasn't a New Yorker? David Wojnarowicz? Fran Leibowitz? Spike Lee? Leonard Bernstein? Are you seriously going to try to tell me that Robert Moses, may he burn forever in the depths of hell, wasn't a New Yorker? 2694
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldCandice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital. 171595657
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026it's wild how fun Reacher is to watch considering it's a show populated entirely by people I'd describe as "high volume Threads user" 41017
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I reviewed TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, a movie that struck so close to my heart I found it hard to put my feelings about it into words. Weird, personal, intimate, sleazy, and beautiful. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab... 2177099
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026and while I'm on the subject of books that deserved to be a massive sensation, I still think @mattielubchansky.com's Simplicity is the great book of the regrettably ongoing moment we're living through and besides that it's beautiful and funny and somehow genuinely hopefulbookshop.orgSimplicity: A NovelNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of horror sensation Boys Weekend, a vibrant new graphic novel about a timid academic sent out from the walled dystopian security territory of New York C... 37814
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026another reading highlight the year so far for me was @ambersparks.bsky.social's Happy People Don't Live Here, a brilliant and unsettling and spooky and human and enormously moving ghost story which, imo, deserves to be a massive sensationbookshop.orgHappy People Don't Live HereJust past the edge of summer, Alice and her daughter, Fern, arrive at the Pine Lake Apartments--a former sanatorium occupied by an ensemble of peculiar neighbors and a smattering of ghosts. Among the ... 5222
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I really can't say enough about how much The Red Sacrament absolutely rips, I basically haven't shut up about it since I finished it a couple months ago 4237
Reposted by Helena Fitzgeraldlottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a poem called 'midvinterblot by carl larsson, 1915' 36028
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm at the Sleater-Kinney/Liz Phair show in Prospect Park and I swear every single person I ever met or even knew about when I was young & going to shows is here, and all of us are old now, and there is no way to make this sound sincere but I really do mean it: my god we all look so much better now 1286138
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 19/09/2026correction: NOT over, round two of Taskmaster for Trams is live right now! 160
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 19/09/2026this is now over but we're watching the whole thing from the beginning and I don't want to be hyperbolic but I do believe in good in the world again 4264
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"the most annoying people in the SF Bay Area kink scene are front and center in the mainstream news and the global economy" is really like some kind of curse put on me, specifically 3551
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s true, he might be the only pope ever with a real sense of the divine because he’s the only one who’s definitely seen a sizzling plate of fajitas enter the dining room of a gringofied Mexican restaurant 1869157
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio. 16637111036
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/09/2026anyway I saw Paula Cole at Webster Hall tonight and it was so transcendently great that I wasn't even mad she covered Imagine (okay I was a little bit mad that she covered Imagine) 3200
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/09/2026putting my hand on the Sephora at 3rd & St Marks and whispering "I know what you really are" 2171
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026yes yes vive la france yes the part in wind that shakes the barley where they quote james connolly yes of course "I've got poetry in me" but unfortunately the one that gets me way worse than any of that & that I genuinely can't talk about without crying is Marla Hooch's dad in A League of Their Own 0211
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is. 7270821520
Reposted by Helena Fitzgeraldvijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comMahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University over years of alleged anti-Palestinian discriminationLawsuit accuses university of ‘deliberate indifference’ and failure to respond to ‘persistent and coordinated harassment’ 05815
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran's next 'impromptu' appearance in an Irish pub should be nice for him 1677393
Reposted by Helena Fitzgeraldsirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026buddy you just described an alt-weekly 91188182
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I love an excuse to post straightforwardly the best craft essay there is, @jesszimmerman.com on Steven Hotdogmagazine.catapult.coWho Is Steven Hotdog? Or, Untangling the “Braided Essay” 112617
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldBex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What Macklemore actually said: 16935407
Reposted by Helena Fitzgeraldmike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are 3438081138
Reposted by Helena Fitzgeraldrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026macklemore and dave matthews will be our pete seeger and woody guthrie won’t they. 70 years from now they'll be remembered as principled songwriters whose music is ideologically admired but rarely listened to. it won’t be any of the earnest folk revival types it’ll be macklemore and dave matthews 591740121
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026we watched I Love Boosters and 9 to 5 on two consecutive nights this weekend and it turns out that's a surprisingly perfect double feature, I can't believe there are two different movies that ask "what if you got really high and fed Das Kapital into the outfit computer from Clueless" 756794
Reposted by Helena FitzgeraldMikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn, 6276872019
