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Jordana Williams

@jordiwill.bsky.social
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Used to direct plays, now mainly audio. Specialize in grounding fantastical events in a living, breathing emotional reality. She/her. gideon-media.com

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Hobbes @flawedfacade.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Delightful!
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“Finally! A Christmas Carol that is willing to engage with Christmas Past!”
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
And one last lovely performance from Audrey Hepburn.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 14/05/2026
Reminder: "doom and gloom was single most effective strategy for driving social media shares. It was also worst for motivating real-world action...People exposed to catastrophic framing were less likely to change their behaviour than those who read nothing at all. " www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Climate interventions increase beliefs, policy support, and willingness to share information but not higher effort action.
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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Finished something I've been working on for a few months now, an essay about S1 of Give Me Away, @macrogers.bsky.social & @jordiwill.bsky.social's sci-fi audio drama about aliens and families and arsehole politicians and, above all, the tension between boundaries and empathy. Contains mild spoilers.
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We Have No Mouths And We Must Scream: Give Me Away (Season 1)
A little while back, I read a Bluesky post from Mac Rogers - creator and main writer of Gideon Media's  Give Me Away - in which he noted th...
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Wow! What an absolutely amazing read. I loved your thoughtful analysis. Thank you!!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The top half of the image shows Ellis, the slimy business jerk from DIE HARD, with the text, "DON'T BE ELLIS." The bottom half shows Dr. Ellis, the skilled, compassionate, and formidable ER resident from THE PITT, with the text "BE ELLIS."
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"abortion bans have influenced how doctors and hospitals respond to pregnancy complications. Facing risks of prison time and professional ruin, doctors have delayed key interventions until they can document that a fetus’ heart is no longer beating or that a case meets a narrow legal exception"
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone sent me this.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 11/03/2026
Pete Hegseth gutted Pentagon oversight, calling the rules of war "stupid." He slashed the Middle East casualty team from 10 experts to one. Then came the Minab strike: 170 girls and 14 teachers dead. The Pentagon’s "inability to confirm" its role is the outcome Hegseth engineered.
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Brutal Reality of Pentagon Pete’s Massive Cuts Is Exposed
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s brutal staff cuts at the Pentagon have impacted the departments that would have investigated the fatal strike on a girls’ school in Iran. President Donald Trump, wh...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 11/02/2026
Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks. Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/01/2026
Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
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Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/01/2026
Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country. That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I had 3 ideas for Season 3. 1. Scary cult menaces Red Camp. 2. The hybrid people get food-service jobs, which gets them involved in labor issues. 3. A Presidential election. I panicked. That’s way too much story! Unless… it’s all one story? The GIVE ME AWAY Season 3 two-part finale is live now.
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Sushifox @sushifox.abnormal.zip · 03/12/2025
Some wrapped highlights including @malevolent.ca deservedly on top, the day I listened to give me away for 8 hours straight, and 156 genres?? Also Remnants by @hangingsloth.bsky.social is only not higher because it has fewer episodes and TMA by @rustyquill.com is the one I've listened to the longest
Top five podcasts: 
1. Malevolent
2. Give Me Away
3. The Magnus Archives
4. How i Died
5. Remnants: An Audio DramaText reads: Biggest podcast listening day, Jan 19, 2025
The day you let "Give Me Away" fill every silence from dawn to dusk
From the first notes of "episode 0106: this is my home" in the morning to the late night twists of "ep 0206: in these bodies, in this life", you spent the entire day in the world of give me away. 518 minutes, 20 episodes, 1 podcast-your most podcast-immersed day of the year, eclipsing even your annual top show.Text reads: taste like yours can't be defined. But let's try anyway.
You listened to 156 genres.
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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Wow, an absolutely gripping, enthralling episode from @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away 0316: Your Time Is Up - The tension I was feeling!!!💜 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
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Give Me Away 0316: Your Time Is Up
Podcast Episode · Give Me Away · S3 E16 · 37m
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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
What a deep, awkward conversation, that proved to be very interesting listening! Do check out @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away 0315 Spotlight: The Chain of Command 💜 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
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Give Me Away 0315 Spotlight: The Chain Of Command
Podcast Episode · Give Me Away · S3 E15 · 15m
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I am so goddam proud of this episode of GIVE ME AWAY, I really think we crushed it on a bunch of levels. But fair warning: it may give you flashbacks to some… less-than-pleasant days in recent memory.
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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Results, a shared experience and decisions. How will they be handled and what changes will be forthcoming? Don’t miss out on this enthralling episode from @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away 0314: Into The New 💜 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
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Give Me Away 0314: Into The New
Podcast Episode · Give Me Away · S3 E14 · 41m
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Not watching this is my favorite thing I've done today!
A picture of two women and the text "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
And can conservative feminism fix it?" A discussion with Ross Douthat.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
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Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The time is now but for the differing parties it has a different meaning. Time for some awesome listening from @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away 0312: You Have Four Months 💜 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
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Give Me Away 0312: You Have Four Months
Podcast Episode · Give Me Away · S3 E12 · 36m
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 07/10/2025
It says "POLICIA" on the goddamn shield.
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
GIVE ME AWAY Season 3 Episode 8, "You Have Ten Months" (written by me), is live now wherever you get your podcasts. Our hybrid heroes face their deadliest challenge yet: working a regular job. I'm being glib, but that is part of it. The point is it rips, and you should listen to it.
Quote from Season 3 Episode 8 of Give Me Away:
"Where was this taken?"
"We don't know, which is kind of a problem, 'cause... doesn't that look like a box full of guns?"
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Reminds me a bit of this, one of my all-time favorites: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-jv...
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Key & Peele - Strike Force Eagle 3: The Reckoning - Uncensored
YouTube video by Key & Peele
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Hey @macrogers.bsky.social should we fly @gideonsean.bsky.social or @natcassidy.bsky.social out and have them argue with themself for 20 minutes?
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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Will being forewarned mean being forearmed? What an intense, gripping episode from @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away 0308: You Have Ten Months - This is such a compelling show, that doesn’t disappoint 💜 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
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Give Me Away Episode 0308: You Have Ten Months
Podcast Episode · Give Me Away · S3 E8 · 38m
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.
Of the two boys with smallpox, the one who had been vaccinated has very few pox while the other is horribly disfigured.
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
And you are BRILLIANT in the role. The world is lucky that you use your charisma and persuasive powers for good, Briggon!
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
With all the suffering on this show, we thought our loyalty listeners deserved something a little more romantic and steamy for a change. Our GIVE ME AWAY Spotlight mini-episode "Best Practices" is live now wherever you get your podcasts.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🚨Trump drops all pretense and openly admits the mass raids in Chicago are about ICE raids and deportations (not crime), and essentially declares that he’s going to war with the city.
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Lauren Shippen @laurenshippen.com · 04/09/2025
there are many things I love about the newest season of a show I’ve loved since ep 1 but this little side adventure for Talia + Noa/Jade has to be one of my favorite scenes I’ve ever recorded. a refreshing breath in a season that absolutely grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go (complimentary)
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Isn’t she such a marvelous stinker??
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Lauren Shippen @laurenshippen.com · 12/08/2025
one of my absolute favorite audio dramas is back! Give Me Away premiered their third season and yes, okay, I'm biased because I'm in it, but to be clear, I was all in even before I got the amazing opportunity to act in this awesome, inventive world. and you are NOT prepared for the twists coming up
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Here's the one I use for scheduling sessions. The production team has another one with sliders that looks a bit more like yours.
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Emma Sherr-Ziarko @thegreatdilemma.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I love this show! If you haven’t listened to Give Me Away yet, you’re in for a treat. And now’s a great time to start listening because Season 3 just dropped!
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Merely 🦇 Matt 🔜 Aesthetica @merelymatt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Would I free a Ghosthouse prisoner? Would you? Could I handle the responsibility? Could I be responsible for leaving them there? Give Me Away's premise really exercises my brain, my self-awareness, and my empathy. There's not much more I can ask of a piece of fiction.
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Merely 🦇 Matt 🔜 Aesthetica @merelymatt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Big sci-fi concepts and questions that make you think, explored by characters who make you facepalm, tear your hair out, bite your nails and occasionally punch the air. Jump in now if you haven't so far. Side note: Red Camp could fix Arthur Lester.
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I love our show so much! It would mean the world to me if you'd listen. Thrilling sci-fi intrigue, nuanced characters, stellar acting, top-notch production and music... all free and delivered direct to your ears via the podcatcher of your choice.
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Oh, got it!
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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I wasn't sure if the later films might wind up higher on the list (which hasn't been released yet, right?)
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex
and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled
precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate
scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say
otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so
long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might
justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law
that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial
review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons
transgender children and their families to political whims.
In sadness, I dissent.
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Sotomayor: "What the Court once recognized as an imperative check against discrimination, it today abandons...it does irrevocable damage to the Equal Protection Clause and invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight."
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
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