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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

dreamed i tweeted this last night

[amazon page]

Genuine Baby Owl Owlet Bird Gift for Grandfather Niece Boss Friend Home or Office Raptor Infant

*/***** TOO MUCH HOOTING!
Hoots when I am trying to sleep! Wakes up my dogs!

*****/***** perfect amount of hooting
wanted owl that hoots incessantly for nephew. was not disappointed. perfect bar mitzvah gift or...

**/**** Owl
Owl

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

hitting people who are weird about minneapolis with one of these

a business in northeast called "mill city laser." it's like a really woke hair removal place

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am the only one brave enough to say it: the new Graywolf Press logo is giving Car Seat Headrest

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(frat house vizier) an excellent strategy sire. why, with two full bottles of 151 in the jungle juice, we will all surely be swimming in tri-delt pussy tonight. although (whispering) i daresay one among our number failed to contribute to the beer fund…

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

least fav thing about the ocarina of time remake is definitely femme sheik. no! sheik is a beautiful representation of what it feels like to fall for a really stupid butch

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 10/09/2026

When the client realizes you put together the deck at 3 am this morning having not done any work

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

me, rolling my eyes, as I explain to the 6th grade teacher why my WordArt-obsessed classmate Brayden shouldn't be trusted to make the PowerPoint for the group project:

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BREAKING: Angel Down is a really good novel

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

*Mom voice* This is very important. Can you put down what you're doing and pay attention? Thanks! Preorders for my novel Beth March Returns from the Dead are 25% OFF at Barnes & Noble for TWO DAYS! Premium members get an extra 10% off! Use code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beth-march...

A still from Greta Gerwig's Little Women. Meg, Amy, and Jo have been crossed out leaving ONLY BETH, who is CIRCLED, as she SHOULD BE.

Text over Meg: Preorder Beth March Returns from the Dead by Emily St. James
Text over Amy: 25 percent off! Barnes & Noble! Two days only! Sept. 9 - Sept. 11
Text over Jo: Code: PREORDER25
Text above Beth: WE LOVE BETH. THE ONLY GOOD ONE.

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

two ibuprofens and a cup of coffee and i'm ready to fight god

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

whenever a new accent quiz goes around it's always fun to confirm yet again that i talk like a michigander despite not having lived there since i was four years of age

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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

even now, she's still teaching us

screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

these are the five words every woman longs to hear

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Mr. Beast should write autofiction

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Avery is one of the best, most innovative designers the medium has ever seen, and Quiet Year will work for you even if you have never played a TTRPG before.

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

this is EXCEPTIONALLY good — please read it!!

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am sadly going to have to miss Racket's fifth birthday party tonight, but you should go!!!

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This made me want to watch Rocky Horror, a thing I have yet to ever do.

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm proud of this one! As a little sneak preview, have this @markosler.bsky.social classic anecdote!!

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

you know, herbivorous butcher could easily make bank if they just sold very good veg versions of fair classics. a really good veggie corn dog, say! but noooooo it's always the fucking Orb of Demise

a hideous looking fried ball of sadness from a place that by rights ought to make normal and good-tasting food

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

do you think he's going to try to change the one in space too en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario...

en.wikipedia.org

Ontario Lacus - Wikipedia

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

1996 Parade magazine photoshoot of the cast of Star Trek: Voyager being either real sexy or super dorky with mid-90s tech. There is no inbetween.

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I regret to inform you that this too is Infinite Jest (literally though; this is the separatists' strategy after IJ's Trump analogue takes office!)

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the best thing about the Minnesota State Fair is that it's in the geographic middle of the metropolitan area that accounts for 60% of the state's population. it may be cornpone nonsense, but by God I can bike to it in 25 minutes

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/08/2026

my problem with "teenage sex & death at camp miasma" is it's probably really cathartic and fulfilling for someone who is just starting to figure their whole deal out but there's not a lot in it for those of us who started murdering teenagers at a remote summer camp more than a decade ago

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"dolly parton is in large part responsible for buffy existing" feels so fake that when i saw a post about it on here i assumed it was made up. but no! here is a source! she produced it and sent the cast christmas gifts every year!

ew.com

Sarah Michelle Gellar says Dolly Parton’s support for ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ was ‘everything to me’

Sarah Michelle Gellar shared her appreciation for the late Dolly Parton, who served as an uncredited producer on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 22/08/2026

[drunk as hell trying to remember joanna newsom's name] natalie harp

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't really ever want to use an LLM, but I think I would be able to appreciate what a neat technological achievement they are a whole lot more if someone invented one that doesn't talk like a demon in the woods that wants to eat your skin

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It was an immense privilege to get to edit this. It's free for everyone, so please give it a read!!

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Big news! My second novel, Beth March Returns from the Dead, has a gobsmackingly great cover by Zevvy Smith-Danford! I am so proud of this book and also of getting a weird Nathaniel Hawthorne joke into the pages of People magazine. people.com/emily-st-jam...

people.com

In ‘Beth March Returns From the Dead’ by Emily St. James, Two Exes Confront Their Complex Past — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Emily St. James’ new novel ‘Beth March Returns From the Dead.’ The book reimagines ‘Little Women’ through a trans lens, centering on two exes who reconnect o...

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

stiff competition but I think my favorite Infinite Jest Name® may still be Ann Kittenplan

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

i am seeing Edina catching random "hive of evil republicans" strays and look I am not about to be like hashtag NotAllCakeEaters but it may be time to update your priors seeing as the whole damn town went +35% for Harris in 2024

nice blue map of Edina, MN, home of lots and lots of annoying snobs and country club types

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Meg Wegenke @megparsec.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Take me down to Recursion City, where the grass is green and the girls take me down to Recursion City,

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

anyway maybe the wrong time but one thing i did to procrastinate on writing last week is watch a bunch of davinci resolve tutorials to make it look like mulholland drive aired on the disney channel in 2007

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

i'm sure you have been waiting with bated breath to hear about my PERSONAL AI POLICY, so here you go!

Lily: When ChatGPT came out, I had a kind of immediate "uh oh!" feeling about it that, I think, has been thoroughly vindicated! That feeling mostly came from seeing just how immediately the undergrads my friends and I were teaching started to cheat using it, to be honest. The work they churned out using it was flat, samey, and cloying — in those early days, LLMs were very fond of ending short stories with a pat moral. As a result of that feeling — and of the research on cognitive debt from AI use that's come out since then — I decided pretty quickly that, since I was a writer by training and profession and using an LLM would, most likely, subtly and irrevocably change my writing style, I just wouldn't use one for anything.

And I haven't! It's been pretty easy, to be honest; I got along just fine before 2022 and have just kept doing what I did back then. I am very good at using a normal search engine (I use DuckDuckGo on the no-AI mode), and I don't know why else I would want to use an LLM. I have been informed by my tech-inclined friends that LLMs can be good for coding help, but I have no interest in learning how to do anything in that regard beyond the basic HTML and CSS I use to make intentionally janky-looking websites. I do sometimes worry that my love of a proper em-dash (option-shift-hyphen on a Mac keyboard!) might make people think I've been using Claude or whatever, but I hope my overuse of adverbs and frequent misplaced commas make it clear that a human is typing these words.

As far as my policy for other people using AI: I don't intentionally read, watch, play, or listen to anything that used AI in any part of the creative process. (I'm sure some things slip through the cracks, of course.) This is, fundamentally, a selfish position rather than an ethical one: I like art because it lets me connect with other humans, and I find art that's made in part or whole by algorithm kind of sad. I'm under no delusions about AI going away any time soon (you can run…

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