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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On the one hand, there are things about Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered that stick in my craw, particularly Buffy thanking Xander for nobly not SAing her. On the other hand, 16yo laughed so hard his chest hurt and I was genuinely worried he'd choke, so I guess I like this episode again.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Your annual reminder that the mom from The Santa Clause has every right to be terrified of Scott losing his grip on reality. She went through a very traumatic game of Mazes and Monsters in college.

Wendy Crewson as the mom from The Santa Clause and as Glasia the fighter

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Absolutely delighted to report that the last book of the Empire of the Vampire trilogy stuck the landing.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I just took my 12yo daughter to Hot Topic for the first time. 1) I am a proud whimsigoth mama right now. 2) RIP my wallet.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Benjamin König.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I did a school visit yesterday, and a student asked how old you had to be in order to be an author. I told her that you could be any age. "Can you be an author if you're 100?" "Yes, you can be an author if you're 100!" "Can you be an author if you're 67?" And I walked right into it.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I have a character from Salem thinking about the forests back home and wanted to include some specific trees, so I did a quick Google. This is the dumbest timeline.

AI Overview: The most common native trees in Salem, Massachusetts, would likely include the Oak and Maple species, given their prominence in the surrounding region's forests. Based on the specific location of Salem, which is in Maryland, other common native trees are also found in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, such as White Oak (Maryland's state tree), Red Maple, American Holly, Black Cherry, and Flowering Dogwood.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

PSA for any Dresden Files readers whose library only has the version of Ghost Story that isn't narrated by James Marsters: Chirp has the proper one on sale for $6. www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/g...

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Ghost Story

An explosive tale from a #1 New York Times bestselling author dubbed “the dean of contemporary urban fantasy” (Booklist): Wizard detective Harry Dresden has just been murdered. But not even death can ...

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I was already kind of iffy on this book. Then they started praying the Luminous Mysteries of the rosary. It's set in 1765.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

It is so dangerous for me to go to Spirit Halloween with the kids. "Mom, we should get this!" "...we should, shouldn't we?"

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I need a Green Bone Saga RPG, and I need it NOW.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

If you have a sudden need to read a fantasy novel about a Black girl kicking all the butt, I'm about 2/3 through A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney and it 100% fits the bill. (I picked it up for Alice in Wonderland, but it feels more "10% Alice, 45% Buffy, 45% Sailor Moon." Which is JUST FINE.)

Cover of A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Me yelling to someone about art just now: I don't care if they think it's cringe. I do not care. I have limited time on this earth and I made this. Go take your nonchalant selves elsewhere, you're liable to melt in my presence.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Finally watching Wicked with the kids. 🎵What is this feeling so sudden and new I felt the moment I laid eyes on you?🎵 12yo: Love. 🎵My pulse is rushing My head is reeling My face is flushing What is this feeling?🎵 12yo: Love. 🎵Fervent as a flame Does it have a name?🎵 12yo: JUST KISS ALREADY!

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Oh, this is cool! I love how Utena adjacent the third one is. Given how complex Utena is on gender, that feels perfect.

"I've seen a lot of folks looking for ideas to cover their Deathly Hallows tattoos so I put some ideas down. Feel free to use!" Five different designs ensue.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Well. Crap. This is appalling. Takeaways: 1) If you're a podcaster and you accept ad revenue, find out if your host does this. 2) If you're a listener and a podcast you like has uncharacteristically awful ads, contact the host; they might not even know. Suddenly very glad not to have ads.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Me: okay, the kids are all at school, time to do some podcast stuff Coraline: I'M NOT AT SCHOOL MOM MOM, LET ME RUB MY FACE ALL OVER THE POP FILTER MOM, I'M GOING TO WALK ON CRINKLY PAPER RIGHT NEXT TO YOU, IS THAT OKAY? MOM, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH MY CLAWS NEED SHARPENING

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I had a dream that we had the votes to get him out of office. The process hadn't started yet, but we had the votes. Then my alarm went off. Sigh.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I walked into the food pantry and had the sudden urge to announce my presence with "I'm here, I'm queer, I'm a volunteer" and now that urge will never leave me

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My 12yo: I like animals better than people. That means that when I grow up, I'm either going to solve climate change or become a supervillain. Y'know, she knows herself.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Daughter is getting a haircut & telling stylist about her Warrior Cats fanfic. Stylist has never heard of Warrior Cats & now knows about how daughter's OC mated with Tigerstar in the Dark Forest & their kits have superpowers because they were conceived in hell. Anyway she's getting a very big tip.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

So, just to be clear, the federal government is pardoning an ACTUAL felon who was here illegally in order to pursue their vendetta against an innocent man who was here legally, just so they don't have to admit they made a mistake. Despicable. wapo.st/40i4Ttt

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Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.

Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We have tickets to see Les Miz on with our older kids Saturday and are watching the PBS concert version to familiarize them with it. 14yo: "I simultaneously lost my mind laughing at the Thenardiers and hope they burn in hell forever."

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Android users: is it just me, or has autocorrect gotten WAY more aggressive about rewriting real words to be what it thinks you mean? I just had to change "cast majority" bc I guess not enough people say "vast" for Android to think I mean it. (Also I had to change "cast" to "vast" in THIS VERY POST)

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Please take a break from doomscrolling to admire this glorious potato butt

It's a potato shaped like a butt. Not much else to say.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Oh dang, I'm excited. Whalefall made me cry.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

My parents got the kids stuffed animals as souvenirs from their trip to the Great Plains, and the oldest got a stuffed bison. He has named it M. Bison. Carry on.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 10/05/2025

Found in the wilds of Northwest Arkansas: @rachelkolar.bsky.social 's classic Mother Ghost.

Mother Ghost by Rachel Kolar and Roland Garrigue, showing a witch on a giant bat and children pointing, ghosts hanging in spooky trees

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Got to Magician's Nephew in my Narnia reread. I was about to say Uncle Andrew is the most nasty, loathsome character in the entire series, then I remembered that Shift exists.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I wouldn't have stayed Catholic for as long as I did without Pope Francis there to witness that it wasn't all terrible. Eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Watching Mockingjay with the older kids. Katniss is singing Hanging Tree. Plutarch: It was originally "necklace of rope." I changed it to "necklace of hope." 12yo: Wait, Plutarch writes for Kidz Bop?

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Went to #handsoff with my 12yo. It was a DC suburb (Greenbelt) but still had a solid 200 people or more. It was her first protest and she loved it. Posting some of my favorite signs without faces in case of reprisals. 1/

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Sunrise on the Reaping was really good, but I don't think I'm ever going to be able to bring myself to reread it.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

My part of Maryland has a huge Salvadoran population. There's a good chance that Kilmar Abrego Garcia went to my in-laws' church. That his autistic son went to the same special needs preschool as my autistic daughter. No one is safe.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

When your podcast isn't going to edit itself but Sunrise on the Reaping isn't going to read itself either

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Today in "my daughter is a nascent supervillain": we went to the IMAX Princess Mononoke (transcendent experience). I thought her favorite character would be San, because both of them are feral and love animals. Nope. Eboshi. "Because she's a girlboss, and she tanks a bite from a god."

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The climax of Prince Caspian, in which the Lord Jesus Christ returns in glory along with all that is good and holy from pagan myth in order to save children from the tyranny of school, is possibly the most C.S. Lewis thing that C.S. Lewis ever wrote.

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My commencement speaker was David Foster Wallace with This Is Water. No way is anyone going to get a cooler commencement speaker than-- Oh. Yeah, okay.

Image from WBAL 11 News of Kermit the Frog and the statue of Jim Henson and Kermit from U Maryland's campus. Caption: The University of Maryland College Park announced this year's Commencement Speaker as Kermit the Frog! President Darryll Pines announced the decision in a letter saying, "This incredible speaker honors the long history between the University of Maryland and Muppets creator Jim Henson, who graduated from UMD in 1960."

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com

A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064)
Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108)
Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371)
Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007)
JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP
601 California Street, Suite 1000
San Francisco, California 94108
Telephone: (415) 500-6800
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com
czirpoli@saverilawfirm.com
cyoung@saverilawfirm.com
kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com
Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953)
1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Telephone: (323) 968-2632
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: mb@buttericklaw.com
Counsel for Individual and Representative
Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class"

A screenshot from a legal complaint that states, "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
Richard Kadrey, an individual;
Sarah Silverman, an individual;
Christopher Golden, an individual;
Individual and Representative Plaintiffs,
v.
Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware
corporation;
Case No.
Complaint
Class Action
Demand for Jury Trial
Defendant."

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/03/2025

the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart

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Rachel Kolar @rachelkolar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Rereading Narnia for Lent. When he finds out the White Witch has Mr Tumnus and that no one has ever entered her house uninvited and left alive, Peter's suggestion is "Couldn't we dress up and pretend to be peddlers or something?" Peter has big PC energy and I'm here for it.

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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Every American needs to read this. This is our country. This is who we are and this is what we are doing. Next time I see or hear anyone say anything about “well, but we need to keep criminals off the streets…” I’ll be showing them this and asking them what a criminal is.

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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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