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Paul Fischer

@pfischer.bsky.social
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New York Times-bestselling author of THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD. Also: A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION and THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES. — He/him.

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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 10h
There’s posh kids speaking up for kids of the banlieue. There’s small-town kids backing up city kids. The protest, the strike, the barricade, the revolution — they are the best of what French culture has ever offered. Shame on those who will scoff at kids exercising their right to use them.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 10h
The French government ignored students’ concerns, escalated violence during protests, and then lied and doubled down on what they claim is the necessity and justification of maiming *children*. It’s a “centrist” government, but as the French say: fascism is the last refuge of the bourgeoisie
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 10h
In awe of the courage shown by French high schoolers. The system ha stolen their futures. They protested. Riot cops beat them. One kid lost a hand to a grenade. Another his teeth to a tear gas canister shot point blank range. The kids are not backing down. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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'The French government's condescension toward high school students shows a refusal to take them seriously as citizens'
Before attempting to open dialogue, the French government handled the current high school student protests as if they were urban riots, sociologist Vincent Tiberj observes in an interview.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The world does not consent (but Sam Altman does not believe consent is required). But the world would consent to many bad things happening to Sam Altman and OpenAI.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh we're deep into Harlan Ellison territory now.
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Sean Swift @primetimeswift.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Man whose leaks of private documents prompted the investigation into City has been advised not to return home, contact family members or visit crowded places". That club needs to be nuked from space, the ground salted, and gallows left standing to warn others. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Criminal or saviour? Rui Pinto abandoned by Portuguese authorities after Manchester City leaks
Pinto, whose leaks of private documents prompted the investigation into City, has been advised not to return home, contact family members or visit crowded places
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great great great. Totally acceptable at someone’s workplace.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A technical on A’ja is absolute f—cking bullshit.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
God, I hope the Aces turn this around and send the Typhoid Marys home.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The officiating in this Fever - Aces game is atrocious. (Evergreen WNBA statement, tbf.)
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A woman posted a reel on ig saying she’d attended @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and there was a gang rape every year on campus and the school did nothing.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
insane story. dr. oz is every bit as deranged as you think he is.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My wonderful, brilliant agent Jenny and a colleague of hers are offering 1-on-1 feedback sessions for writers from unagented, unpublished, underrepresented backgrounds based in the UK. More info and apply here: www.londonwriterscentre.org.uk/our-opportun...
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1-2-1 feedback for fiction writers from Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency | London Writers Centre Opportunities
A call for submissions for feedback from the Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency. London Writers Centre is delighted to be partnering with the Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency for our latest 1-2-...
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I also get an office for the first time in my life, which is very impressive, I think, for someone at the tender age of forty.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This fall, I get to be the Writer in Residence at MacEwan University in Edmonton, following a long line of great writers. It sometimes is hard to remember whether you're being useful to your community, sitting alone at a keyboard at home, so I can't wait for this. www.macewan.ca/campus-life/...
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Announcing MacEwan’s 34th writer in residence
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That thing looks so cool
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I love Gabby Williams. What a player. #FIBAWWC
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Is Frances Tiafoe always this annoying
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The new American oligarchs have completed the multigenerational project of reversing all the gains of the 20th century labor movement finance.yahoo.com/news/super-r...
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Super rich’s wealth concentration surpasses Gilded Age levels
America's richest of the rich just passed the Rockefeller-Carnegie cohort in wealth concentration, according to Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“And then we told them the wealth would
"trickle down" Famous meme of Reagan and cabinet belly laughing
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
They’re punishing working *women*
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
u ok hun?
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My not-actually-a-conspiracy-theory theory is that the WNBA is the most high-profile instance of a women’s sports league being successful, badass, diverse, broadly and openly pro-queer, and inspiring to little girls, with a fan base driven by women of colour, and conservative patriarchy HATES it
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In case you still hadn’t realised that this made-up controversy isn’t about protecting women in sport — it’s actually, literally, about destroying and undermining a women’s sport:
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A nine-point lead for the far-right in the German national polls. It’s totally normal now to see full-blown Nazis, as I did today, in the centre of Berlin. Each time I talk to a nonwhite immigrant, whether friend or stranger, I ask them “what is your plan B?” I don’t care how “crazy” I sound.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community. "We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...
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Dolly Parton’s Cautious Politics Resulted in Widespread Affection
Bipartisan tributes demonstrated the success of the singer’s long-running effort to stay out of party politics in a sharply divided country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2026
These posts from America First Policy Institute show that Enes Kanter Freedom not only colluded with the Trump grift on his WNBA stunt but is also on the take from MAGA. He's literally the paid protester Republicans scream about. (h/t @timmiller.bsky.social for pointing this out on his shows)
America First Policy Institute
@A1Policy
🚨 Crowds ERUPT as 
@EnesFreedom
 arrives at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago for tonight’s WNBA game
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Have fun, at least most of the time. Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it has to be miserable, and anyway misery makes writing both harder and worse.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The first film I ever made had its UK premiere here. It's a London institution. It is heartbreaking for it to be under threat of closure so the West End can have one more trendy, overpriced, faceless hotel. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ah fuck, not Dolly.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Absolute garbage from the Athletic. Cloud was at her workplace being harassed by a giant cunt who has publicly said that if trans people have rights, then he gets to be in women’s locker rooms. How do you frame this any other way?
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Someone’s looking to make blood money from this hatred and they’re using narcissistic mediocrities (Cunningham, Kanter, everyone on Fox News) as mascots. Fans in every arena overwhelmingly support trans rights.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Daughter and I went to two Tempo games this wkend. On Friday, a woman with a Protect the Dolls sign on the jumbotron. Yesterday, a woman with a trans flag T-shirt. Both were loudly and unanimously cheered and applauded by the crowd. This whole thing is a manufactured crisis by self-interested pricks
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Jess @jesscamnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
WNBA players are literally being harassed during games and nothing is being done about it. Madness
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What a fucking loser. Ban him from every arena forever, period.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Just vile. From Trump and Miller down to ICE and this judge.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you love football, it’s essential to put pressure on federations to get rid of Infantino and his bottomless greed and corruption. Takes two seconds to sign below.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Congratulations Julie! I just picked this up from my local and it looks fantastic.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE is doing this to people. Jose Mejia Hernandez can't be the only one.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 17/08/2026
Has anyone explained to the league or teams that XX-XY Athletics is a hate group? If they wouldn’t allow swastikas or Proud Boys to promote their views at a game, they shouldn’t allow this group’s messaging either.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
p.s. On the eugenicist who led the hunt.....
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Now why is it not opt-in?” said Minton. “That’s what everybody here is spamming in chat. I get it. ‘Let me opt in versus making me opt out.’ There’s an honest answer, and I think most of you can probably appreciate this: If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in. That’s honestly the answer.”

This was followed by a torrent of all-caps chat responses that included “THEN DON’T ROLL IT OUT,” “SO WHY EVEN DO IT,” and “IF NO ONE WOULD OPT IN THAT MEANS NO ONE WANTS IT.”
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I remind myself I can’t write a good one that quickly and I can’t write all the ones I want to before I die, I’d rather write a few good ones than a lot of not-good ones, and the discomfort of having one I’m not proud of out in the world lasts longer and feels worse than the discomfort of being slow
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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I mean, that’s the best possible outcome, right
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach." are you KIDDING ME
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