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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

ROY ORBISON: *age 20, after performing for Sam Philips* what do you think, sir? SAM PHILIPS: son, when I hear your voice I think - is that a ghost? am I dead? is this hell? we're gonna make you a star

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 15h

the children yearn for the hippodrome

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In 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.

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Soraya Chemaly @sorayachemaly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cornell, 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.

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33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and Pain

From 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

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

and that would still barely be a good start

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if you don't think a significant part of the AI push is about institutions being able to claim that no individuals on their end can be held responsible for the decision when something like this happens, I don't know what to tell you

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

every administrator involved in this decision should never work in this or any related field ever again (is the extreme-moderate position)

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

look I do know what it actually is okay

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you: roko's basilisk me, nodding: a big cool snake who is mad at you

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

last year I had to stop @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social from watching that for the first time ON A PLANE (I also love Naked and also never want to watch it again) anyway I hugely recommend basically all his movies but in particular Hard Truths and Mr Turner and Another Year

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also the movie is beautiful and absolutely devastating, we have never for one moment deserved Mike Leigh

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I 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

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

anyway I had a nice evening out with friends tonight in one of nyc's vibrant downtown neighborhoods!

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the people selling you this nightmare bullshit assume that's who you are because they assume that's what being a person is and it's up to you whether you want to provide evidence to them that they're right

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

nothing 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

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

think 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!

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just 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?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As 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.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

successfully said "aura" in a conversation with a young person

the "guy in the corner at the party meme" it says
"they don't know I mean it in the Walter Benjamin way"
"So do we"

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The sky in NYC right now. It was nice knowing all of you.

Orange? Purple? and LOW and HEAVY. Pretty, but also a portal of hell.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

some serious "are you fucking kidding me" skies in NYC right now

a blue-purple-gold sunset over some uptown manhattan buildings

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

me looking between the weather report for the weekend and my tickets to see The Devils at Lincoln Center tomorrow night

theoden and the other two guys in LOTR standing in the pouring rain before helm's deep

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this whole experience was still significantly less harrowing than what @sarahjeong.bsky.social is currently going through

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this 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?

Iron Maiden tour plane w a lil demon on the back fin and IRON MAIDEN: The Final Frontier World Tour on the body. obviously not my photo but this was the plane

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Moby Dick whips for millions of reasons, not least of which that Melville knew how to name a goddamn chapter

Chapter name: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Over Him

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2026

need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive”

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'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

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

yeah, like, I feel a little bad for taking the opportunity to dunk, because I suspect there's a lot I might agree with in what the poster was actually getting at given a more nuanced conversation. but as a yes/no? come on man

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I moved to a building with an elevator for the first time in my life a couple years ago and you know what's fucking great is the elevator

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine telling someone who just cleaned a whole house with only a broom about the vacuum cleaner

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

and yes btw I was born here but oh my god who gives a shit

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the entire writers room, shitface drunk like Don Draper with the whiteboard: what should we make a person from Boston say a bunch of times

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a New Yorker is a person who lives in New York and is incredibly annoying about it

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

like, 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?

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

we're in S3 and I feel certain that Boston Lady posts upwards of 50 times a day on there

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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026

NOW: 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.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a show comprised entirely of characters who post a lot about Mamdani despite not living in NYC

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it'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"

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have literally meant to text you for *months* to tell you how much it absolutely floored me, I read it in one sitting bc I cared about everybody too much to walk away from them

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I 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...

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

and 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 hopeful

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Simplicity: A Novel

NATIONAL 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...

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

another 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 sensation

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Happy People Don't Live Here

Just 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 ...

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I 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

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