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Hesse Phillips

@hessephillips.com
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🏳️‍🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. 💯 Human-made art or it isn't art. Debut novel LIGHTBORNE (LA TRAICIÓN DE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE) Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social. More at hessephillips.com

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 17h
I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 5h
This thread is *everything* to me right now, thank you
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 10h
The saddest, emptiest, most miserable wretches ever to crawl the face of the earth are now trying to convince us that music is a "problem" that must be "solved."
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 10h
Ojalá la trayectoria esta cambiando, ojalá por Dios. Estoy harta de vivir sin esperanza de nada más que quienes me disparen tengan buena puntería.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 29/09/2026
I promise I'll stop subposting after this, but uh, dudes*: can you, like, NOT use the Cornell story to promote your book featuring "strong female characters?" In fact could you not use that story to promote your goddamn book at all please? *"Dudes" in the strongly gendered sense.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 29/09/2026
Hey I don't know who needs to hear this but not all books are meant to make you feel warm and safe and secure in your convictions, some books are meant to scare you and then make you angry and leave you unsettled, and THAT IS AN OKAY THING FOR A BOOK TO DO.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 29/09/2026
IT never resonated with me because even as a child I would not have followed a clown into the sewer. This guy, on the other hand....
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 27/09/2026
I'm relatively tolerant of grammatical/ spelling errors, but when people confuse "breath" and "breathe" it makes my eye twitch
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 27/09/2026
Una selección de mis señales favoritas de este tarde en Madrid:
El reverso de una señal de cartón con algunas pegatinas, una con la cara de Ayuso con ojos dibujados como si fuera bizco Una bandera enorme en el suelo en la Puerta del Sol pintada como un señal de calle en azulejos. Dice, si tocáis lo publico, tomaremos las callesUna señal en una valla en la Puerta del Sol, con un dibujo de Carapolla. Dice, Almeida dimisión Una bandera grande colgada en la Puerta del Sol, pintada con un cuadro famoso de Goya al fondo y el texto, Universidad publica
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 25/09/2026
Nor'easter says Free Palestine
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 25/09/2026
This story is harrowing, still infuriating, and completely relevant to my next book, so of course I have to share it. History is likely strewn with the bodies of women murdered by men for whom their pregnancies were "inconvenient."
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 25/09/2026
Goodbye forever to everything enjoyable, interesting, or even remotely boundary-pushing in US media I guess. Hayes Code II but this time make it permanent.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 25/09/2026
I did not read that stupid fucking article bc unlike apparently a lot of people I took one look at the headline and was like
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Tom Hardy in Mad Max: That's Bait
Alt: Tom Hardy in Mad Max shakes his head, points at something off camera and says uh-uh, that's bait.
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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't think this is a specific threat to a person or group of people Aaron From Trust and Safety I just think you don't like trans women
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 24/09/2026
Absolutely SAVAGE
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 24/09/2026
What's truly amazing about this clip (and this suit) is that upon first glance I genuinely thought it was a scene from a film circa 1940s or 50s, for no reason other than the fact that suits do not move like this anymore.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 24/09/2026
Seriously, this is like saying, "Twenty minutes after losing his leg in a random shark attack, Al Gore still thinks someone ought to get him a tourniquet." "After a full 24 hours of experiencing appendicitis symptoms, Al Gore still thinks maybe we should operate."
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 23/09/2026
I really hate this guy. More people should hate this guy. He is one of the most hateable people to come out of California in decades, and that's saying something. Gavin Newsom looks like if Judge Reinhold played the evil CEO of a company that does admin for for-profit prisons
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 23/09/2026
This entire conversation was so good, it was straight-up bangers all the way through. I'm already finding ways to apply some of Yael's advice as I barrel on with novel 2.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 23/09/2026
You better believe I went and got my stupid little "I Voted" sticker, customized it and downloaded it and everything. I was a girl scout, I want my goddamn badge.
An "I Voted" Sticker for the 2026 Midterm US elections which specifies that I voted from Spain. BTW, Dirty Sanchez says "hola, cabrones."
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 23/09/2026
Hey I've got some notes on your post, first up: are you on all the drugs rn, or were you on all the drugs for every single day of 8th grade English?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 22/09/2026
FRUIT MURDER KITTEH
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 22/09/2026
Cuanto más Sanchez hace cosas así, más me veo obligado, contra mi voluntad, a que me caiga bien
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 22/09/2026
At a certain point you really gotta wonder whether centrist Dems' reluctance to do literally anything that would please the base is because the base wants them to set a precedent that politicians who commit crimes shall be held accountable, and they uh don't wanna, for *reasons*
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 22/09/2026
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 21/09/2026
You cannot reform this. This is "burn it down and salt the earth" stuff.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 20/09/2026
THANK GOD the time of darkness, cold, decay, and death is finally NIGH
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Dancing Skeletons Halloween Fun
Alt: Dancing Skeletons from a very old black-and-white cartoon
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 20/09/2026
How about "ICE should be [REDACTED] by their [REDACTEDS] while an angry mob [REDACTS] them with [REDACTEDS]" for a campaign message, Jimmy? Ever thought about courting *those* voters, Jimmy?
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 20/09/2026
Going on a search for these poems right the fuck now
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 20/09/2026
I was caught by the local press using my protest sign as a sunshade at the rally for Ceuta Migrants yesterday. (Photo by Davide Barbieri)
Photo of a person in a green tank top seen from the side, at a protest in the Plaza del Sol, Madrid. Their face is mostly obscured by a protest sign reading ¡Muros racistas, al norte-sur, No! They have a tattoo of a cardinal (the bird, not the church official) which identifies the person as little old me.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
It frustrates me so deeply that cis people simply cannot concieve of transphobia as something serious.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 20/09/2026
¡¡Vamos Asturias!!
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El Salto Madrid @elsaltomadrid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
El movimiento antirrascista de Madrid, en Sol, contra la instrumentalizagión y la represión hacia las personas migrantes en Ceuta.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 18/09/2026
Not with a bang but a whimper, but like a lot of whimpers until you've got enough whimpers going all at once that it kinda sounds like a bang
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 18/09/2026
Deeply disappointed in all of you. This photo of David Lynch and John Waters in front of a Bob's Big Boy statue failed to delight a single solitary person. I'm taking it very personally. This is my Holy Trinity. How dare you?
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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · 18/09/2026
✊ El movimiento antirracista eleva su voz ante la instrumentalización y represión de las personas migrantes.  Este sábado 19S, a las 12H, la Articulación Antirracista de Madrid convoca una concentración en la Puerta del Sol “para denunciar la violencia racista y colonial”. elsal.to/49619
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Everything old is new again.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 18/09/2026
I just learned about the existence of this photo and am very pleased to share it with you all
John Waters and David Lynch shaking hands in front of a Big Boy statue
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Think of the combined CENTURIES of expertise lost here, the creativity, the knowledge, the depth and breadth of cultural learning and understanding, the generations of minds enriched and enlightened, the sheer weight of history that led to the establishment of these programmes. Purged. Destroyed.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 18/09/2026
Any bets as to how long before the massive green orb has its own bluesky account?
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 18/09/2026
Last night I had the EXTREME displeasure of informing a family member about this and watching the last glimmer of hope for humanity die in his eyes
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 18/09/2026
The dogs are with the sitters and I honestly don't know what to do with myself, there's no need to take a walk, no bowls to fill, no one bringing me a ball and jumping on my arm until I throw it - but somehow, despite the total lack of interruptions, I'm having the least productive day ever.
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 18/09/2026
My wife and I after watching anything that involves serial killers:
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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 18/09/2026
I've seen the archeology and space slop too. My rule these days is, if it looks like old news, don't click. Especially if it's about the goddamn Antikythera mechanism.
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