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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Life has been so crazy that I’m just knitting pumpkin tubes. Not even the pumpkins. Just the tubes. #knitsky #overwhelm

Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The new Tomi Adeyemi book, The Siren, is kind of like Bunny by Mona Awad but with freshman sorority rush instead of MFA cliques, and instead of being kind of mystified and amazed by the twist you get mystified and mad. #booksky #netgalley

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When the LinkedIn emails come through and the subject header is “I want to connect,” it’s just so inadvertently plaintive and heartbreaking.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm tired of hearing that I have the wrong "mindset." It's such a fundamental critique. Like, I'm already doing everything backwards, using the wrong products, executing in the wrong order, ignoring important rules. Now my actual thinking itself is flawed? Walk away from me, kid. #midlife #menopause

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Do you regulate your mood by knitting a few rows, here and there, throughout the day? It's amazing what wrapping yarn around a stick repeatedly can do for me, and how quickly it helps. #touchyarn #knitsky

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Beckett before bike race; Beckett after bike race. #dogsky

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Because my elderberry bush is fully going out of its mind this year, I expanded my repertoire into painting with them. #watercolor #art

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You know, it's like we can't even thank someone for their attention to a matter anymore.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I enjoy when I'm looking at someone's BlueSky profile and the app offers me "Others You May Like" and it's people with the same name. Hey, if you enjoyed this person named Larry, you may also enjoy these other Larries. Helpful. Fresh. Relevant. #bluesky

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yes that is a chip clip holding up my hair. And your point? #booksky

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Why does time have to move forward so quickly?

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I hear kind of a weird beautiful chord coming up out of the garbage disposal. Sounds like the beginning of “Stay” by Shakespears Sister. Am I going to GenX heaven?

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My dog is at the vet for a weird recurring back leg injury. I think his hip is haunted. #mydog #bostonterrier

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My ice-maker sounds like Dumbledore tryna get out of chugging the Drink of Despair.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

My dog is asleep but feels obligated to pay attention when he overhears dog words on my phone call. #mydog #bostonterrier #dogsky

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Everyone loves a sonnet, but “dishwasher safe” is a pretty great poem. There’s a dactyl in there somewhere, baby. #poetry

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

My dog has a torn paw pad and was not allowed to go to the dog park. He is sad, but he will probably survive. #BostonTerrier #MyDog

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Are there any depictions of writers, on television or film, who are doing totally fine on their books, and their deadlines are fine and their agents are pleased and everything at work is fine? #thebeastinme

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Last night I took my socks off before bed. This morning there are three socks in that pile. Is this the most banal Christmas miracle on record?

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Driving to Wisconsin from Virginia. Minivans with antlers count so far: 0.5 Yuletide gaiety abounds.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

How did I not know about this book?

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Seven #newmusic songs to try instead of Guns N' Roses: "Above the Neck" by @sofiaisella.bsky.social "So What" by #JaneRemover "Thootie" by #IceSpice "People Like You" by #MichalLeah "Merry Go Round" by #CarolAdes "Cup of Loneliness" by #MerceLemon "Death Wish" by #BabyNova

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Guns N' Roses put out a new song last week and here's everything you need to know about it:

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In *A Long Game* by Elizabeth McCracken, pubbed today, this really caught: She compares the practice of writing to lifting weights, remind us that doing a lot of reps with light weights won't help you improve. You have to lift heavy things, ripping your muscles apart in the process, to get stronger.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Listening to "silver and gold" by Ella Woolsey and "Stacy" by Fiona Fiasco. Hypnotic and yet not muddy. Good writing music. #newmusicfriday

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Hey @sanders.senate.gov is giving out free water at the #NoKings protest in Williamsburg VA! Thanks Bernie!

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

A beautiful, energetic, peaceful protest in Williamsburg, VA. #NoKings

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Is the score for Highest 2 Lowest actually incidental music from the score of the musical Oklahoma? #highest2lowest #appletv #spikelee

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Sorry I forgot Bluesky existed. Again.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

So far in #edinburgh I've eaten amazing crisp beetroot tostadas, terrible soggy pizza, fantastic pancakes, and a life-giving ham-and-cheese panini.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

First day of flyering for #GooderThanGold at #edfringe and I stood near Bedlam Theatre and talked to women over 30. It was fun. My pitch: "This show is for women who take care of everyone else in their lives. What's that like?" Many responded: "Oh, so it's the story of my life then?"

Round fliers that look like a gold coin.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Late to the frenzy here, but I read this in like three urgent hours. Speculative fiction about motherhood and death: do go on, @helencphillips.bsky.social. Also, Viv is the most enchanting and still realistic just-turning-four-year-olds on the page. #booksky

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

My feed has perceived that I'm going to Scotland in a couple of weeks. I'm seeing a lot of "Move to Scotland!" suggestions. #edfringe

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

No I will not be covering my entire body in deodorant.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The fact that I was conflating #yellowjackets and #yellowstone put me off both of them unnecessarily. I was like, why is Kevin Costner all over a show about missing teenage girls? Duh, it’s two shows, both of which I now love. Sometimes when I am not paying attention, I make ridiculous judgments.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Just over here using a nighttime facial towelette in the daytime like a goddamn lunatic.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I really thought we’d be over calling everything a “journey” by now. And I’m disappointed in you specifically.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Less than 3 weeks until Edinburgh! (Aug 12-17, Bedlam Theatre, @ 8pm) “Blackly funny and brutally vivid, “Gooder than Gold” is a sharply observed memoir-come-to-life voiced by a master storyteller.” — Joshilyn Jackson, NYT bestselling author #edfringe #Fringe2025 #bedlamfringe #GooderThanGold

“Blackly funny and brutally vivid, “Gooder than Gold” is a sharply observed memoir-come-to-life voiced by a master storyteller.”

— Joshilyn Jackson, NYT bestselling author of *gods in Alabama* and *Never Have I Ever*

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When you start a new season of a show, you get the option to “Skip Recap.” But I’d like the option for “Extra Recap” since I forgot every single thing that happened.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I read Hunchback. Ichikawa exercises a stunning amount of literary restraint. Right now I’m listening to Little Dorrit, in audio. The juxtaposition of the two novels is remarkable. Sometimes I feel I could just spend the rest of my life rereading Dickens. This was a reminder - that would be stupid.

The novel Hunchback being read by a woman in a pool.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

An exciting update on our #EdFringe show: We’re going to do a preview show at a Norfolk theater on Monday! Rehearsing like mad, inviting a small group, polishing our transitions. #DareToDiscover me in front of aaallll my notes:

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I watched the movie Opus. I didn’t care much about the plot or need there to be one. I need to let movie makers know that if you put Ayo Edebiri as a normal person and John Malkovich as an unhinged lunatic into a weird landscape of any variety, I am yours for 2 hours.

Movie poster for Opus showing Ayo Edebiri looking worried.

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Hey did you know that I’m a big old giant nerd? Here’s me behind the DM screen tryna kill off a monk, a paladin, a barbarian, and a rogue. #dnd #ttrpg

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Lydia Netzer @lydianetzer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Me after the show. A pretty smug lil bitch I guess.

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