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Riley Silverman

@rileysilverman.bsky.social
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Writer: Doctor Who, Star Wars, D&D Beyond, Nerdist. Troubled Waters Podcast. VO actor. TTRPG player. Chaotic Femme. Repped by KT Literary

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 17h
“I don’t want to go”
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 17h
It drives me crazy. They do the same thing with this and the ozone layer. Act like it was nothing because it was mitigated through action. With COVID too. It was awful, and in many ways was addressed poorly, but the safeguarding that did happen dramatically saved lives. They call it overreach.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I kept getting one over and over again about a story that was: -Work for hire -Written to be audio only -one of several in an anthology -IP -Something I definitively do not own I don’t know what they expected me to do with it if I agreed to let them “optimize it on Amazon” or whatever.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah, same. I didn’t actually buy from them before that either cause they’re kind of expensive for what they are. I do highly recommend TomboyX’s gender affirming tucking bottoms though for any non/pre-op transfems.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Note that these emails are from 2020. They know.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just like Unique Vintage, it needs to be stated that MeUndies absolutely knows the issues with HP, has collaborated with them before, and has apologized before due to backlash. They know and they’re doing this again anyway.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026
I think the polls are absolute bullshit because I have no idea what anyone in this country will do in the next 12 hours much less in November. But I also am gonna run at these midterms screaming with 100% conviction that we can win. Not that we will. But we can! But there's a trick to that.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Awful. So sorry
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just carmelized some pineapple chunks for my al pastor so it’s a real carmelizing Saturday
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sometimes I go to friends’ birthday parties and drink green beers that were definitely supposed to be blue but idk I just like sours.
Riley with pink hair, a blue-green beer, and a momento mori dress
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes but this would be Sabatasso’s from Costco Riley
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well. If you’ve got some extry I sure would like a taste!
A package of creamy corn pudding on the shelf at Trader Joe’s
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Saying “Skydance” is the new name for Paramount and WB is like saying the pizza I had for lunch today is now called Riley because I’m who devoured it.
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Your Scary Ad Here @cooluser354.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"As an adult I was too stupid to read instructions to make tacos... and thats why trans people shouldn't have access to healthcare."
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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 01/10/2026
If you're on LA and looking for something to do tonight, @rileysilverman.bsky.social and friends are doing an improvised Dungeons & Dragons show at the Elysian Theater! Get tickets at the link below.
calendar.elysiantheater.com
Reroll — Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM — The Elysian Theater
Fantasy Adventures. Real Life F**k Ups. Join Patrick Daly, Josh Breslow, Riley Silverman, and Brittany Tompkins as they take a story of failure from the…
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And i think about that woman a lot, i don’t know her name and never saw her again but I wonder how that same night feels to her looking back or if she even remembers it. And I hope that guy isn’t in her life anymore and that his pillow is always hot and his beers are flat.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s also one of the more gender affirming memories I recall having in the era between me coming out and when I started hormones 5 years later. Because it was so clear to me that the way I felt about the experience was completely different than how most cis men who I’d talk to did.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was around the time when I started hearing the term “rape culture” a lot more and if I didn’t fully understand what it meant, I definitely did after that experience and the way other men behaved about it during and after.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But I’ve never forgotten that thing her so-called friend said. How someone came to him concerned for her safety and his response was that I should just fuck her anyway so I wouldn’t cockblock him.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And it felt like it made other women in the audience uncomfortable. I viewed as an “After Hours” or odyssey type story but I think since I still appeared male it came across more as virtue signaling maybe. Anyway it felt gross to keep telling it and it was a long story so I stopped.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Long story, and I used to tell it onstage but I stopped because literally every time I did, dudes in the audience would call me a f** for not sleeping with her. Guys I knew in comedy called me crazy for spending that much time with her and not fucking her.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I also couldn’t take her home because her keys were apparently at the shitty friend from earlier’s place. So I had to help her find a friend’s place she could crash at all while she started saying some pretty vile things to me. Eventually I got her somewhere safe and I never saw her again.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I remember going into a CVS with her to get candy and Gatorade, and she started pointing at men’s fitness magazines and going “huh?” which I think was her trying to say I was gay (which I was but not that way). But I knew I couldn’t just leave her alone on some random street in her state.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The bar cut her off and I was going to try to get her home but had to walk her to my car. Which mostly meant me babysitting a very drunk woman across Westwood for a few hours. She, by the way, was also getting surly and mad at me when she realized I wasn’t going to sleep with her.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I still remember the look on his face, as he turned to me while he was trying to get with another girl, and said “oh, I thought you two were, you know, hanging out?” That line has stuck in my brain for almost 15 years and it still pisses me off. So I took it upon myself to take care of her.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It was clear she wanted me to go home with her. But it also became very clear that she was already drunk and getting more drunk. So I found one of the guys she’d come to the show with and I said “hey I think you should take your girl here home, she’s had too much to drink.”
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When I was still presenting as male (mostly), I was doing a standup show near the UCLA campus. A woman in the audience one night was flirting with me when I was onstage and afterwards we went downstairs to talk and have another drink.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can understand that. But I also don’t think it’s worth the mental energy to be pre-mad at a season of TV that hasn’t aired yet.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Since initially season 4 was going to be the end and they got the 5th season knowing it was the end, I’m hopeful that they are consciously going into it as a landing the plane/setting up TOS season.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I know I’m like the millionth person to talk about this. But casting Daisy Ridley’s actual husband in the Love Hypothesis movie is such a brilliant meta joke.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They announced that casting almost a year ago.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t know if we will, but I really hope S5 of SNW features an appearance by Yeoman Rand.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was already crying from the scene and then the dedication card on top of it just wrecked me.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So good.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think this season of Ted Lasso is the best since the first. It has definitely won me back after being skeptical about if a 4th season was a good idea or necesssary. It’s had a lot of good jokes and some heartbreaking moments, and I just am really loving it.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cough…John Roberts did this…cough
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 27/09/2026
penny-anna on tumblr: "Hi I have a question about Pacific Rim. Given that the sparring is just A way to test for drift compatibility and any activity that requires people to collaborate and anticipate each others moves works, including stuff like multi player video games
• Can you test for drift compatibility via improv comedy"

penny-anna on tumblr replies:
[A television still of comedians Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie sitting side-by-side on the set of Whose Line Is It Anyway?.]
"They are piloting a Jaeger together in my imagination"

penny-anna on tumblr replies: 
"#hate this. im in the shatterdome trying to coordinate my jaegers in the field fighting for the fate of humanity #and these two chuckleheads over here won't stop doing bits on the open channel #they keep defeating kaiju with slapstick routines and its INFURIATING

yeah the worst part is it's actually working for them"

kyraneko on tumblr replies: "And their Jaeger is called Nihilistic Singularity (because it's a point that doesn't matter.)"
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s an especially wild belief considering gamergate existed and when the Snyder cut got announced/released
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People are still getting job interviews?
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Witch Point
Alt: a femm presenting person does the Witch Point
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I mean I remember when it was letters if that’s the game
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pretty similar backstory for me too
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was thinking today about early internet when there was a joke regarding the email forwards you’d get from an aunt or grandma. And now I think about how many friends I keep in contact with almost exclusively through memes. It’s basically an email forward but with Aragorn breaking his toe.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The only Ray tracing I need is keeping Ray Stantz attached to the lowering cable when we’re digging into the streets and finding the river of slime.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ironically, that's apparently more dangerous than the escalator.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TW for the Odyssey then
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
[desire to know less increases]
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hive Mind! I'm writing a round for International Waters and I'm looking for funny examples of things you're irrationally (or rationally but make it fun) afraid of. Leaning more towards things like "calling to make an appointment" vs. you know, the world as it is.
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