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@mhd.bsky.social
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public health scientist, spec fic/horror writer, poet, and aspiring hobbit (she/they) mirandadiaz.com

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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very happy to have my poem "Observational" in the Maya's Micros feature of The Closed Eye Open. I wrote it at the start of quarantine in 2020, inspired by the strange slowness of empty days in my apartment. Give it a read here: theclosedeyeopen.com/mayas-micros...
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Moving from the suburbs to a city with public transportation has been wonderful for a lot of reasons, but one of my favorites is the increase in opportunities for Staring Out The Window And Daydreaming.
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
So proud and excited to share my flash fiction "The Last Florida Panther" is out today in the South Florida Poetry Journal! Give it a read here:
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Computers can do incredible things, but they are tools that help us investigate, organize, and document. They do not substitute for our own imagination or critical judgement when assessing [osteological remains].”
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Some relevant lines from my osteology textbook published in 2005, warning of over-reliance on what they called the “computer revolution”:
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I’m so thrilled to share that my strange little flash fiction about strange little girlhood is out today in Club Plum! Read “Eleanor Underwater” here: clubplumliteraryjournal.com/miranda-diaz/
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Miranda Diaz
Eleanor Underwater You can see so much from the bottom of the pool. That’s why Eleanor likes it there in the pressing blueness of the eye-burning, chlorinated water, six, nine, twelve feet of dista…
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I just read this story in Flash Frog and went looking for you to say it was absolutely fantastic! As soon as I finished I read it over again. Just wonderful.
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I believe Tim Curry was only there for the LA show and this one, and that Lesley Ann Warren will be on her own for the rest. Hopefully those go better for her :(
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I was hoping I’d find other people talking about this it was so wildly uncomfortable- I felt the same way and don’t understand how the producer (the guy “moderating” the q&a so poorly) went forward with this, it felt so exploitative and a bad time all around :(
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Idrees 🌘 @idreesinc.com · 03/06/2026
Please do not fall into the trap of thinking that a side project should be "useful". The only purpose of a side project is to be enjoyed. Perhaps you enjoy making it, or maybe you enjoy using it once it's finished, but always remember that the joy itself is the goal.
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I was lucky enough to be at this panel (just barely, standing room only) and it was amazing!! Super thoughtful and inspiring from all three authors, but I didn’t expect Chuck Tingle’s philosophy to make me so emotional. Love is in fact real
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I just read this story by @znnys.bsky.social and it was absolutely fantastic. So immersive and it the setting felt so vivd in such a short work.
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This was wildly unsettling (positive)- congratulations!
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Scenes from a very lovely birthday weekend of baking, crafting, and reading by the Bay.
A series of materials from a block printing project: a carved stamp, sketch, and finished print of two chairs with diamond-patterned backs.A person with short black hair, dark sunglasses, and a black shirt sits outside at a wooden table. An e-reader in front of them shows the cover of A Farewell to Arms.
日A homemade loaf of cinnamon swirl bread
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I cannot promise my readers that everything I ever write will be amazing, but I CAN promise them that everything I ever write will be something I have actually written and not, for example, a soulless pile of robot puke.
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
introducing my guinea pig to Literature #aot
A brown and white guinea pig sitting on a white bed and looking at the Attack on Titan manga, open to the pages where Historia punches Levi
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I've been saving the first money I earned from writing to spend on something entirely unnecessary and joyful, and yesterday I used it to see Return of the King performed by the SF Symphony. It was absolutely wonderful and I feel like my 12 y/o self would've been very proud (maybe a little jealous).
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I coincidentally just read Lonesome Dove for the first time followed by Our Share of Night! Loved them both though they couldn't be more different. Pachinko is on my to-read list as well!
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I've read all of Enriquez's short stories (also wonderful) and the extension of her already immersive, haunting prose into the world and inhabitants of the novel worked so well. I read it in just three sittings and feel left with an itchy, generative inspiration.
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Just finished reading Our Share of Night by Marina Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell)- absolutely astonishing, breathtaking, incredible work. I don't usually post on here but I feel like shouting into the void about it because it was the kind of book that leaves you thrumming under the skin afterward.
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
the tufted titmouse >>>
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
11/10 recommend, my bird is an adorable writing buddy
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
excited to share my shiny new website! -> mirandadiaz.com <-
mirandadiaz.com
Miranda Hope Diaz Hassan
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
also featuring this fun progress pic:
Incomplete cross stitch pattern in a hoop, showing The Very Hungry Caterpillar above the text “he rich”.
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
completed my first cross stitch project! wonderful pattern from thimbleey on etsy #crossstitch #stitchsky
Three objects on a brown wooden table: a white mug of tea, an organizer box full of thread and other stitching materials, and an embroidery hoop with a completed cross stitch project of The Very Hungry Caterpillar over the text “eat the rich”.
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hey it’s me, I’m the wife!
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Idrees 🌘 @idreesinc.com · 21/08/2023
Excited to officially release Mutable, a browser extension that allows you to mute terms across multiple different social media sites at once! You can hide, blur, or replace unwanted content with cute pics of kittens, puppies, and hedgehogs! Get it now at idreesinc.com/mutable-link
Mutable - Take control of your social media, mute unwanted content across the web
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
cool moths encountered recently
a small dark orange moth on the hem of a light green shirtA pale gray moth with large eyes seen from the sideA brightly colored moth with white, brown, and orange patterns on its wings against a black backgroundA dark moth with circular shapes at the base of its wings and long thin antennae
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miranda 🐌 @mhd.bsky.social · 28/06/2023
accidentally ate the last strawberry in my Big Salad without realizing so I didn’t appreciate it enough, don’t text
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