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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So, Backrooms is funhouse mirror, evil Piranesi? Even the main character’s name feels like a direct nod to Susanna Clarke.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“But you shouldn’t need to yell or be a pushover if your child is making a scene. Simply kneel down to eye level and tell your one-year-old in a calm, firm voice: “Stop crying.” Boom. Problem solved.” Oof.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

So I was thinking: every romantic comedy is, explicitly or just in vibes, a Christmas movie. Like, The Holiday? Obviously. When Harry Met Sally? Yup. Clueless? Weirdly, I’m going to go with yes.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Stoppard was a genius and one of my personal literary heroes. His writing was incredible - funny, thoughtful, and moving. He melded philosophy, science, and human emotion in a way that is rare, neither talking down to his audience nor being convoluted. His death is a loss to theatre and literature.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Are people placing bets? I’ll put 20 bucks on Bad Art Friend to take the whole thing.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Meanwhile, we will continue to accept Texas transplants who are sick of living there with graciousness because that’s what NYC does.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Is the desecration of the White House the worst thing this administration is doing? Not by a long shot. But it *is* a very visible and visceral symbol the lawlessness and entitlement with which it is operating.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

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Premillennial Decompensationalist @smollusk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

whole lot of people who probably think they can spot right-wing racism when it's couched in dog whistles suddenly pretending they can't hear a normal-ass whistle

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Ahhhhhh!!!! This is so fucking COOL! The ocean is magnificent and terrifying! I used to cower from and yet be compelled by that diorama in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life at AMNH as a kid, and that kid is freaking out right now.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This is horrifying (it was horrifying when they were thought to be smuggling drugs, and yet somehow what actually seems to have happened is even worse)

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I’m so tired of and sad about living in a country where children are murdered at school and, collectively, we refuse to do anything about it. This isn’t rocket science – countries with strict gun laws don’t have this happening all the time – but we seem to have decided it’s an acceptable price.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Saw a trio of twenty-something friends taking a selfie. One of them looked at the picture and said: “Oh, wow! We are all SO photogenic!” This is the energy and self-confidence I wish I had when I was younger.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

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to Jews, on the Gaza famine

an open letter: we have been commanded

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

If you’re in line to make a stay in line joke, this is a New York City election and it’s “stay ON line”

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I have not been the biggest fan of Hochul, but I have to hand it to her here. And Lander is the real deal. Didn’t realize he has been doing this for weeks now. Good for him.

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 17/06/2025

A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...

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Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court

The arrest came in his latest visit to the courthouse to speak with migrants there.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/06/2025

"I was never a Sauron fan. Did I facilitate Sauron's rise to power by donating most of Isengard’s resources to his reconquest campaign and persuading my legions of Uruk-hai followers to support him? Sure, but that doesn’t mean I agreed with him on everything."

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I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron

“Last year, two mercurial billionaires formed a partnership and vowed to drive the country in a new direction. Donald Trump had the political power...

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“MAHA is, above all things, the apotheosis of a puritanical American tendency to blame the ill for their illness, the poor for their poverty.” This is excellent writing on some terrible policy.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Wow. That was an astonishing piece of political oration.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker is doing what I feel like we’ve all been desperately needing for the past three months - someone to say, on the senate floor, in no uncertain terms, that this is an absolutely dangerous moment and are in a crisis, because we are. More of this.

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 27/02/2025

This! If you can switch from Whole Foods to a different grocery store and buy your books from bookshop.org instead of Amazon, that’s still a big step even if you feel tied to Amazon for other items. If everyone divested 30% that’s more than if a few people divest 100%.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is precisely why journalists should not be casting Trump and RFK as crusaders against Big Pharma. What they object to is regulation and consumer protection, i.e. they want to make it easier for corporations to poison and lie to us.

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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

NYC— the deadline to register as a Democrat is this Friday. It’s a frustratingly stupid system but the long and short is you CANNOT VOTE IN THE MAYORAL PRIMARY UNLESS YOU ARE A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT BY THIS FRIDAY 2/14. Please update your registration— you can do it on the DMV website. Vote him out!

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Curtis T. @cwt302.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

don't say it don't say it don't say it don't say it So... a murder investigation?

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Just a reminder that it’s as important to thank your representatives for doing something you approve of as asking them to do it in the first place. If you wanted them to do an all night session and to be a pain-in-the-ass for the republicans? Let them know to keep it up!

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/01/2025

RFK saying that “Blacks” have better immune systems and shouldn’t get the same vaccines as white people should be disqualifying. But we live in really dumb times.

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Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

So the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world clumsily fired a bunch of senior air traffic staff, caused the worst domestic air disaster since 9/11, and then tried to blame black people

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Why do we keep putting the most broken people in this country in office instead of in therapy?

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is so fucked. Do these fascists understand that even if they only care about the rich and powerful, that cancer doesn’t care about how much money someone has and that the research done by the NCI helps them too? Are they just a death cult?

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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones"
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

May David Lynch’s memory be a surreal and dream-like blessing.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A troll just found my account and tried to be snarky on one of my posts. My knee-jerk reaction was to be snarky back but instead I did the Bluesky “ignore and block” thing and, honestly? 10/10 recommend!

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I think Alison is the perfect GBBO host. The right blend of silly and kind. I hope she stays on for many seasons.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A guy at my local coffee shop is on his tablet posting cringe anti-Democrat memes on Truth Social in full view of everyone, and I feel like it would be less embarrassing for him were he sitting here watching hardcore pornography.

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Jessica Hertz @jessicaiswriting.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Trying to find a new online home now that I’ve finally accepted Twitter is truly done for good. Nice to meet you.

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