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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote a thing! You (yes, you!) should read it! "The Illuminated World" is a dreamy, mythic flash fiction piece about being an essential worker during a very gentle apocalypse. othersidespec.com/pieces/the-i...

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The Illuminated World - OTHERSIDE

I. Each day in the Hall of Lights may be divided into four hours. The days are identical, or seem so. Hour one. Before daybreak, the limner emerges from her alcove. She dips her brass candlelighter in...

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Nice thing today: it's the time of year when third-tier, don't-buy-the-produce grocery stores sell the best collard greens you've ever eaten

Small stoneware bowl with a dubious concoction of collards, Japanese sweet potato, onion, and poached egg, pictured with a copy of Susanna Clarke's The Wood in Midwinter

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Daisy Pitkin @daisy-pitkin.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Starbucks workers are on strike at OVER 300 stores today. 5,000 baristas have walked out. I’ll post updates here throughout the day!

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 22/12/2024

🚨Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/sbwo...

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Good thing today: I just made a resolution to start out my reading year by working through my tbr bookcase in chronological order. We'll see how long that keeps me entertained.

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Nice thing today: I sent my first ever voice memo. (It was about 18th-century deeds. I'm cool and do cool things)

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Nice thing today: I got a Switch (first gaming console of my adult life) and am so charmed to hear whippoorwill calls in Breath of the Wild. It brings back cozy-in-retrospect memories of having one on the roof keeping me awake all night.

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Being fresh out of hot takes, I'm quiet on social media these days. I thought I'd try sharing whatever nice things come my way. Today: curried beets. Roast & peel 'em, saute with red onion & a LOT of curry powder, add honey & apple cider vinegar. If you find beets too sweet, you might like these!

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ways in which my cat resembles Morgoth, the immortal villain of the Silmarillion: -continuously makes an unholy racket -believes all living creatures are his playthings -drawn to shiny objects -inexplicably charismatic -forever getting second chances that he does not deserve

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17/11/2024

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Since the ethics of remaining on X is front of mind right now, it seems like a good time to mention that Joe Rogan would not have the reach he has without the absolute luxury jet of a platform that Spotify provides him. Other apps have music & podcasts. Look into it. variety.com/2024/digital...

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Joe Rogan’s Spotify Deal Renewal Worth Up to $250 Million, Podcast Will No Longer Be Exclusive to the Platform

Spotify inked a new partnership with Joe Rogan, under which "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast will now be available on other audio platforms.

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Cody Daigle-Orians @dadstoyevsky.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

It’s National Coming Out Day. Regardless of how you choose to share (or not) the identities you occupy, when it comes to queer identity, every choice requires bravery. Public or private. Everyone or no one. How you inhabit and share your queer self is an act of bravery and defiance.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 17/09/2024

We can still do this. We're not too late.

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Of my continuing speed watch of the Alien franchise, all I can say is, gosh, leave it to Whedon to author a script that's somehow markedly more sexist than the one where Ripley is trapped on an entire prison planet of rapists

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Ed Belongia MD @belongia.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

FDA is set to approve the 2024-25 #COVID #vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna next week. They generate a stronger immune response to widely circulating FLiRT variants. 👉Get the new vax as soon as you can if you have upcoming high risk exposures (and wear a mask in crowded places). wapo.st/3YPLzUs

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New covid vaccines for summer variants slated for approval late next week

The arrival of updated Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for the KP.2 variant comes well into a summer wave when Americans have struggled to find an existing shot.

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

So I just watched Alien 3 for the first time. It was... liberatory? The next time I'm tempted to orient my creative identity around the idea of Great Art (or Artists), I will try to remember how much I infinitely preferred Alien 3 (the "worst" Alien) to Aliens (acclaimed, or so Reddit tells me)

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Listening to @youaregood.bsky.social and would like to posit that Alex Steed is the Fred Rogers of podcasts

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

The history of Hanukah involves Jews waging war in the Land of Israel. There will be a lot of people with a lot of takes. This can’t be the year that I elide the hard stuff about the Maccabees’ war, or any war, with metaphors, you know? This can’t be the year it gets sidestepped.

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Looking Truth in the Eye

A fun Hanukah story

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 07/12/2023

i don't know why this is so hard for people. biweekly means you are attracted to your own week and also other weeks

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Ok, listened to 6 musical soundtracks in two days and am now ready for a rigorous discussion about the greatest musical of all time and why it's Reefer Madness: The Musical

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Road-tripping with musicals, Day 2 Listening to Cabaret in 2006: Wow, true, I did forget all my troubles Listening to Cabaret in 2023: I just spent the last hour meditating on the rising tide of fascism across the globe

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Me: In order to stay alert during this long drive, I will listen to high energy, emotionally cathartic works of musical theater *turns on Labyrinth soundtrack*

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Writers, if you ever feel like you're stuck in a creative rut, may I recommend rewriting a single-timeline manuscript as dual-timeline! The only thing I can compare it to is assembling a collage, except with three-act structure

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Rackletang 🧌🦇🕷️ @rackletang.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I don't care what you do next year. But tomorrow you probably have a say in what your local community looks like. Most won't say they're fascist but they will dog whistle. "Parents rights" is one, appeals to tradition or law and order, they're getting more sophisticated but most will have a tell.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/10/2023

I wrote something more personal about the Israeli war in Gaza. Just Israel in general, really. theracket.news/p/out-of-zio...

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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 24/09/2023

Yesterday was bisexual visibility day. Now that it is over, we are once again free to move in the periphery of time and space, unseen by mortal eyes who know not of our plans

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K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com · 20/10/2023

Writing the Other is facing a big challenge: lack of sufficient scholarship funds for the last of this year's classes. Due to Patreon shenanigans & social media chaos, the fund is almost tapped out. Will you help us cover the remainder needed for this year by donating and/or boosting the signal?

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Spooky Season Scholarship Drive - Writing the Other

Will you help us raise enough for our scholarship fund to cover these last few students in financial need?

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Rebecca Schneider @rebeccacider.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

This morning, all I want is to write something that comes close to the feeling I get when I listen to Patti Smith's cover of "Changing of the Guards"

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M.S. Dean @myrcenedean.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I read “I’ll Be Your Mirror” by @rebeccacider.bsky.social last night and I’m still thinking about it. I loved how expansive it is, how much emotion is just below the surface. strangehorizons.com/fiction/ill-...

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I'll Be Your Mirror

If Dr. Brinsen investigated this, it might come out that the first ever human-like artificial intelligence was sabotaging our colony’s premier medical researcher. I would be seized and my algorithm�...

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