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Margaret H. Willison

@mrsfridaynext.bsky.social
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I used to be a "social media bon vivant" but there ain't a lot of "bon" to be had as in social media vive these days. Bluesky, prove me wrong!

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I’m on the Metro-North and there are two people with long-haired dachshunds in bags 10 feet away from each other and the two dogs are clearly aware of each others presence but the owners are not
A blonde dachshund head sticking out of a bag on a train . The dog is very alert A brunette dachshund on a train staring back out of a houndstooth purse. The dog is giving a sideeye at the other dog
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Worst Bestsellers @worstbestsellers.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🚐 Get in losers, we're cyberbullying Lindy West's husband with @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social . www.frowl.org/worstbestsel...
Adult Braces by Lindy West
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
3yo, looking out bus window: “I don’t like that mouse.” Me, seeing he means a Scabby the Rat: “WELL, we wouldn’t have to see that mouse if the people who own that building were using union labor. You see, on May 1, 1886—“
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Sometimes, I read the posts that go viral on Threads for their “funny replies” just for the novelty of being very depressed by something entirely inconsequential.
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Someday, someone is going to invent dog food that makes dog’s poop naturally bioluminescent and they are going to make a billion dollars. Yes, I did compose this tweet while using my phone’s flashlight to find my dog’s poop in a pile of dead leaves.
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
My boyfriend just referred to Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me as “Gee Thanks, Just Told You” and I simply needed to record this fact somewhere.
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Worst Bestsellers @worstbestsellers.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Hey girl, are you made of plastic? Because this dangerous crow boy is obsessed with you. @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social joined us to discuss the epic world of The Company of Vengeful Crows by Lana Pecherczyk. www.frowl.org/worstbestsel...
The Company of Vengeful Crows by Lana Pecherczyk
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I’ve finally started Heated Rivalry and I’m torn about which aspect is amusing me more— the way every sex scene is shot like a 90s sitcom trying to hide its female lead’s pregnant belly only what they need to hide is cock, or the fact that the soundtrack was clearly subject to CanCon rules.
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Quality of Rumi braids is going to be the no. 1 class signifier this Halloween.
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Extra Hot Great @extrahotgreat.com · 26/10/2025
Earlier: it's #EHG 585 with @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social! #DowneyWroteThat, #Task, #TheGoodWife, #TheGoodFight, #LoveIsBlind, a #MadMen Canon pitch, and more -- like our lead topic, #BostonBlue! extrahotgreat.com/eh...
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Watching Love Is Blind: Denver and, like, 80% of the participants have Lyft driver energy. It’s incredibly disconcerting.
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The most people have EVER liked Wuthering Heights, the novel by Emily Brontë, was when it gave them a reason to hate the trailer for “Wuthering Heights”, the movie by Emerald Fennell.
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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Good morning, Bluesky. I highly recommend taking the time, once a month or so, to send someone a fan letter. Not to me (although that’s fine, too). Just reach out to a stranger* and say: “I love your work.” I did it this week & it felt great, sharing my admiration & awe. *OK to tell a friend, too.
A pink-orange sunrise over a harbor, the Domino Sugar plant visible in the background.
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Something else on which I need to publicly comment, as a self-titled Swiftologist: I love the caption and absolutely despise the ring.
A screen capture of Taylor Swift’s engagement post showing a close-up of the ring, with the caption “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It’s been a long time since I said anything here but I’m catching up on The Gilded Age and I swear to god that people earnestly calling this show good is going to be my villain origin story.
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I have to admit, the troll in me is rooting for Andre 3000 to take home Album of the Year for his jazz flute album.
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
to whom it may concern, mine and @andrewwrites.bsky.social and @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social's little podcast is briefly coming back from the dead to watch prime target
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
first thought, best thought: Post Malone’s career may be the best evidence that we’re living inside a simulation, because I genuinely like him and cannot help it, but you can’t tell me this isn’t EXACTLY what AI would generate if you asked it to make “really unexpected pop superstar” —
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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
JESUS CHRIST
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Why are all of Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes dresses actively hostile to her golden globes?
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 27/12/2024
I cannot express how lucky you’d be to get to work on your memoir with Nicole!
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Once of the many things Trump’s re-election has ruined for me is telling babies and dogs “our long national nightmare is over” any time a they are being overdramatic about not immediately getting their way.
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I just realized I could describe myself as “your favorite yapper’s favorite yapper” and suddenly, opening Bluesky was essential.
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Jasmine Guillory @thebestjasmine.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Sneak peek of FLIRTING LESSONS, my next book, in People today! people.com/jasmine-guil...
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Jasmine Guillory Charms in Her First Sapphic Romance, 'Flirting Lessons' — Read an Excerpt Here! (Exclusive)
Bestselling romance author Jasmine Guillory will publish her first sapphic romance, 'Flirting Lessons,' in spring 2025 — read an exclusive excerpt here!
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Saw a pizza cut into 16 slices at a roller rink this afternoon and was like “Damn, new Proustian memory just dropped.”
A pepperoni pizza cut into 16 slices on a royal blue cafeteria-style table; a Proustian memory.
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
but the other reason this is so exciting is that I got to argue it with one of my oldest and dearest friends @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social, the only person in the world I could imagine making Elmo v Bluey a fair fight
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
and look, one reason this was so exciting is that when they asked me to do this, Smash Boom Best was already 10yo’s favorite podcast. When she heard I had been asked to be on it, she lost her MIND
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
this episode, this CLASH of the TITANS, is out today, and nothing in my entire career has been more thrilling for my family which is why I shamelessly exploit them throughout this podcast episode www.smashboom.org/episode/2024...
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Bluey vs. Elmo
Today's debate is a showdown between two lovable characters. One is a playful pup from down under, and one is a giggling, ticklish monster. It’s Bluey vs. Elmo! Writer Kathryn VanArendonk will fight f...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/11/2024
Researching and reporting my story about how truly horrible Facebook has become genuinely rattled me, and changed how I looked at the internet permanently. It's important to understand how messed up they are. www.wheresyoured.at/killingfaceb...
Yet Zuckerberg could not perpetuate these disgusting acts without the help of people like Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz, who saw to it that Meta shut down CrowdTangle, a public insights tool from Meta that allowed researchers to easily analyze what was happening on Facebook. Horwitz reports in Broken Code that Facebook — led by Alex Schultz — killed CrowdTangle because reporter Kevin Roose kept posting a list of Facebook’s most-engaged-with content, and that Facebook was dominated with right wing lunacy and misinformation like “Plandemic,” a COVID conspiracy film that Joel Kaplan, head of Meta’s public policy team, initially blocked the health team from removing until Roose reported that it was Facebook’s number one post.

Just to be abundantly clear, the Head of Public Policy at Facebook deliberately allowed the spread of COVID conspiracies, and would have continued to do so if a reporter hadn’t used a Facebook tool to show how popular they were, which resulted in Facebook choosing to kill the tool that allowed the reporter to find out.
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
YES! We need to keep the cry in Christmas!!!
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
A small dog napping while wrapped in a large and exuberantly patterned blanket.
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Free yourself and your families from the tyranny of motion smoothing.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.
A narrow walkway in Tokyo. The sides of the street are lined with shops and what look to be residences.
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Emma Fraser @frazbelina.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
In September, I took a trip to Scotland to explore the many locations of Outlander. For The Daily Beast Obsessed, I wrote about this special experience and chatted to some of the people behind the Starz series www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/out...
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‘Outlander’: All the Spectacular Secrets From Scotland Set
We stood where Claire and Jamie stood, soaked in the Scottish fog, and learned all the behind-the-scenes stories on-set where “Outlander” is filmed overseas. Here’s our report.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 27/11/2024
The New York Times came out with their own version of this article today, so read mine instead
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
If you’re going to befriend a reporter, make sure it’s one like @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social who’ll make you sound like a legend any time she describes you in print:
I screenshot of an article reading “The person who told me ‘Wicked’ was born on Hubbard Street is Margaret H.
Willison, a social media maven, cultural critic, book lover, and Globe contributor who has known ‘Wicked’ author Gregory
Maguire since she was a child; he was a friend of her family. Willison is really from here - whereas I'm from Maryland - so usually I take her Boston proclamations as truths.”
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I don’t always have good news to share first thing in the morning BUT… IT’S BOOKS WE LOVE DAY!!!!! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
apps.npr.org
Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
when you stop reading "believe women" as "women never lie" and see it as "one of the foundational myths of patriarchy is that women can never be trusted" it makes a lot more sense.
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victoria edel @victoriaedel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
being alive (derogatory)
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A question for the masses: if I don’t really cook, would I be miserable/probably fail at roasting a turkey? What I mean by “don’t really cook” — I am confident in my ability to cook pasta but have, on at least two occasions, managed to fuck up a boxed cake mix.
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Bringing a special Twitter tradition to Bluesky: sending @rainbowrowell.bsky.social pictures of our Thanksgiving plates— from my gay Friendsgiving:
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory:
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Margaret H. Willison @mrsfridaynext.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 17/11/2024
Congrats to Chad Michael Murray on entering his Christine Baranski era
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
he would like one chip please
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