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Lilly Dancyger

@lillydancyger.bsky.social
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author of First Love and Negative Space

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 46m
This is what they all sound like when they are blown away by Claude etc
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Homer Simpson's Water Contraption Fail
Alt: Homer Simpson's Water Contraption Fail
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 1h
It truly was the blurst of times
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
when you have to be on the work zoom in a minute and a half
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The most generous possible reading of the other 50 boys in the group chat staying silent is that they feared social ostracization for speaking up. The only solution to that is to make the social consequences of silence harsher than those of taking a stand.
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dispatch from newborn trenches: baby just spit up *into* my bra
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
huh you’d think he’d have mentioned this during the phone interview he did that day with a local news station, when he said he watched the towers fall from trump tower and then bragged like a fucking psycho that another building of his was now the tallest building in the manhattan skyline
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Orange kitty Benne posing like an odalisqueGrande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I was moved to hear from a trans former student this week about how much it helped her figure out her gender expression to read Jan Morris in my class back in 2018. I always introduce Morris as a trans pioneer, and that was who she needed to find. A reminder that a syllabus can change lives.
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A fun thing about being married to the least online person I know is once in a while he’ll come home and ask me something like “what’s ’the manosphere’?” and then I get to watch his facial expressions cycle through fathomless depths of incredulity and disturbance as I explain
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“Some aches and pains are normal with aging” when I was 26 years old with such extreme pain in my hip I could barely walk (turned out to be torn cartilage 🙃)
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Shoutout to whoever decided to play the Charles Manson doc in this maternal fetal medicine waiting room… who doesn’t want to think about Sharon Tate while waiting for a third-trimester ultrasound??
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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"use it or lose it" applies to your brain as well, lads
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
So many things about the new Project Runway format are atrocious, but I really love the way Law Roach says the word “disaster”
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is all because of lettuce from Salinas?? Adam Trask would be so disappointed...
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish
Mamdani going “Eyyy”Mamdani going “nu?”
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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
can't stop thinking about this Chicago Defender headline from 80 years ago
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Election results:
Everyone gets a Puppy: 49.9%
Diarrhea Forever: 50.1%
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lumpenpoledancer @daturabombs333.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Mitch McConnell in the "red room" popularized by Twin Peaks
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I think it's time, after years of memes about the joy of cancelled plans, to come out as someone who really hates when plans are cancelled last minute... down with flakiness, time for a new era of dependability
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I mean to be fair, name a senator who *isn't* brain-dead
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It’s a beautiful evening, the National Mall is open and people are having a wonderful time.
The mayor from the movie Jaws
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/05/2026
the fuck it will
A white man in a business suit pointing a handgun at an open laptop
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
There’s a reason JFREJ prioritized electing Brad Lander & Eli Northrup this cycle. Both races were a fight for the future of the Jewish community: btwn an out-of-touch establishment and a Jewish Left w/ real vision grounded in human rights & dignity for all. We won, decisively.
Screenshot of a tweet on X.com from Arielle Angel. She writes: “For a long time left NYC Jews have been derided as a vocal unrepresentative minority. I think the election of candidates like Lander & Northrup in Jewish districts proves what we've been saying: the Jewish establishment is out of touch & unrepresentative, not the other way around.”
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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
They've given us so much, dayenu, but they also gave us the gif we'd need for today
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Zohran Mamdani Ms Rachel
ALT: Zohran Mamdani Ms Rachel
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
GET his ass joyce … get his ASS
Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates
...
parallel with the Knicks' extraordinary penchant for magically rallying, coming-up-from-behind to triumph at virtually the last minute was the weirdly fascinating drama of "Wemby" on the court distinctive not only by his height but the thinness of his body which appeared, beside his teammates, almost pre-pubescent, lacking maturity. no matter where you looked, there was always "Wemby" charging about anticipating an opening to shove, push someone with a solid adult body with a baby-faced look of insouciance: "Who? Me? I'm just a kid."
The New York Times @@nytimes • 4h
From @TheAthletic: Victor Wembanyama's first
NBA finals experience was tough and emotional.
He left the court without shaking Knicks players' hands after the Spurs lost. "It's painful. But I'm not running away from that,"... nyti.ms/4xAgpiP
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If the Knicks win tomorrow, Jose Alvarado will be crowned King of New York on Sunday during the Puerto Rican Day Parade
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.
Threads post from "real_mstar_author"

hot take: we should be writing books with accessibility in mind.

shorter chucked paragraphs and more approachable prose should be industry standard
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 11/06/2026
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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My mayor, Muslim My bagel, Jewish My hope, alive Knicks in five
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 09/06/2026
LOL if you thought the Trump boos were loud on TV, wait until you hear them from inside MSG. Video courtesy of Evan Roberts from WFAN on X.
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Ok I will admit I found Wemby’s whole “contemplative alien” vibe a little charming but after that straight shove to Brunson’s head he’s on my shit list for real
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I feel like "taking an afternoon nap so I can stay up to watch the Knicks in the finals" is a pregnancy experience to remember
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
tonight we find out whether it's possible to boo someone so intensely their brain liquefies
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The true three genders
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is how you say “Knicks in four” in interpretive dance
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wow basketball is so fun when the Knicks are crushing it
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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy
ABOUT AI: 
Anyone who uses AI to write something they submit to us is a loser, and we want nothing to do with them.
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 28/05/2026
Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Feeling very “greatest city in the world” today as I nod to every guy I pass on the street decked out in multiple pieces of Knicks gear
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
There's nothing "radical" about AOC. She's the norm among liberals in much of the world. She's only "radical" in the sense that she's a woman who doesn't pull her punches and a politician who doesn't kow-tow to corporations. Her political stances are quite mainstream among the American citizenry.
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I just happened to plan my Montauk writing retreat so the day I head home is the day the entire LIRR shuts down due a strike lol... oops
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 15/05/2026
Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...
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Engaging with arts and culture can slow biological aging as much as exercise, study suggests | CNN
When it comes to slowing down our biological aging, engaging with arts and culture is as beneficial as physical activity, a new study suggests.
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
One week left until Everything but the Book! If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by all the things you’re supposed to learn and do and prepare before querying agents or submitting to small presses, this class is for you. www.lillydancyger.com/everything-b...
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Everything but the Book
Thursdays, May 21-June 4, 3-5pm EDT; $220 Online via Zoom A three-week pre-querying bootcamp to prepare everything you need to land a book deal
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