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Shaenon K. Garrity

@shaenon.bsky.social
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Cartoonist and skiffy writer. 2022 Inkpot winner. Narbonic, Skin Horse, Willowweep Manor, Steam. Repped by Brent Taylor. www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1h
I strongly believe we are due for a renaissance of analog letter-writing and maybe you should try and catch that wave, gang Manufacture that excuse to start a cute washi tape/eraser collection Overcome your fear of "messing up" your "good paper" by actually using it BE FREE
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1h
Guy who never launches himself out of the box at the big cat like a tiny torpedo
Your standard kitten in a box, up to no good
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 3h
#WIPSnips
The doorbell threw off sparks as it buzzed. It was an old bell, an early Moxon. The door opened, revealing a hulking man with ginger freckles.

Id beamed. “Can Ambrose come out to play?”

“Sure. I think he and his boyfriend are upstairs, figuring out the Ikea furniture. I’ve never seen two people so confused by Allen wrenches.”

“They’re not boyfriends,” said Carcosa. “Wait, did they become boyfriends at some point when I wasn’t paying attention?”

“I’m not sure they’re even boys who are friends,” said Id. “But if you want to know how it could happen, read my morally dubious friendfic.”

The house was papered in fuzzy yellow wallpaper and smelled like takeout curry. An acoustic guitar leaned against an elderly sofa. Terrifying handmade puppets clustered atop an overstuffed bookshelf. There were a lot of houseplants.

“I bet Ambrose hates this place so much he loves it,” whispered Id. She raised her voice. “You look familiar. Do you know a girl named Ashy who likes poems and giving people coffee?”
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 7h
Restroom wall graffiti: a cat says, "no one is free until we're ALL free." Below, someone else has written, "Oh... Except Freedom McGee over there...he's free as heck." A third person has drawn a stick figure saying, "Frick yeah!"
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 16h
I will forgive the New York Times for everything if their official obituary for this guy simply reads, "Failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize, unlike Obama."
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 16h
Twenty years later he's still screaming because he heard Obama got a candy once
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 16h
Of course he feels justified in lashing out, because he's a dimwitted narcissistic sociopath. And Kelly agrees because he's the same way. But their reasons aren't real outside their tiny, ugly minds. It sure would be nice if the press asked follow-up questions to these mad-king declarations, huh?
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 16h
Also he's lying. In context, he's saying he should've done "bad things" to Democratic leaders during his first term because he got impeached. But it's not the fault of Clinton, Obama, etc. that he was impeached, it's his own dumb crooked fault. And they didn't do anything wrong!
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 16h
It's also wild that we, as a species, decided one of these people should be the most powerful leader on the planet Which one we picked...may surprise you
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 16h
A brown woman from South Africa who's dedicated her life to prosecuting war crimes and rape seems engineered in a lab to enrage the Trump administration (feat. Elon Musk)
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 16h
The world still waits with bated breath for FIFA to announce its 2026 peace prize winner.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 17h
That's the thing, isn't it? There's no point in doing anything nice for these adult babies. They'll just grab it, break it, and start screaming for another shiny.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 17h
I listened to the acceptance call with Anne Carson, this year's literature winner. She plans to celebrate by taking a walk in the woods and deciding how to "get rid of" the prize money, probably by giving it to Doctors Without Borders. It's wild how these are members of the same species.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 18h
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Cameras, including TV cameras, rose to attention as speakers lined up at the counter. “This is it,” said Carcosa. “On my signal, Bart.”

An oldish but not extremely old woman got up and blew bubbles. The room erupted into cheers.

Id gasped. “It’s the bubble lady! She came back for the last day! Hi, bubble lady! I’ll see you in the future! Also in the past but you already saw me then!”

The bubble lady waved back. “I look forward and backward to it,” she called.

A younger woman, maybe a student, took the mic. She launched into an operatic aria.

“Handel,” said Bart, nodding. “Always a pleasure to have a little culture in a Western town.”

“We shouldn’t dawdle,” said Carcosa. “Last time we came here, this place got raided.”

The painted looked around his easel. “You were here for anarchist trivia night, too? Or was it the day the bookstore across the street got firebombed?”

“Nah, it was back in Beat times,” said Id. “The fuzz were chasing a jive tip.”
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Millions of Americans literally bet their life that RFK Jr, a complete crackpot, knew science better than the CDC and Jonas Salk and just about every living doctor
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
moosic
Girl dancing + strumming the guitar
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can tell which previous reactionary nerd nonsense these guys have been involved in by the fake legal stuff they think they know
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🧵RILE FOLKS UP TO MAKE GOOD TROUBLE MUSK opens in NY & LA tonight, elsewhere 10/16 •organize a group; preorder tix for opening wked •have voting resources+info re: Musk's elex spending on your phone; share at intermission & after •if you go before 10/17, direct ppl to No Kings Vote Early protests
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MUSK | Only In Select Theaters October 9, Nationwide October 16
An incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the world’s most heralded “inventor-entrepreneur” who has enormous influence on the world in which we all live.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2024
Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Congratulations to the yaoi community on the occasion of Heracles/Geryon slash fiction winning the Nobel Prize. Let this be an inspiration to us all.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#WIPSnips
Carcosa took it and examined it. “This is one hundred dollars.”

“That’s right.”

“You offered me fifty.”

“What you’re going to do is, you take this money to Rocky’s Desert Paradise. You buy one hundred dollars’ worth of plants we can make into an antediluvian jungle ruled by dread and terrible thunder lizards.”

“You mean dinosaurs?”

“The term has become overused and clinical. The fear has drained from it, slurped up by the syringe of Science. When you choose plants, you don’t choose plants for Augustynolophus morrisi or Aletopelta coombsi. Choose plants for dread and terrible thunder lizards.”

Carcosa considered this. “I think I understand.”

“Return with the jungle, and the studio pays you fifty dollars.”

Carcosa started to pocket the money, then had a thought. “Aren’t you afraid I’ll just take the hundred dollars now and never come back?”

“Why? Are you going to do that?”
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dag, I played so much Commander Keen.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ponchos
Two girls in ponchos, because
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's the only move MAGA has, they offer literally nothing else, and I'm on Year 12 of waiting for it to stop working on American voters. Hell, maybe this will be the year.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The lower pants get in our cursed time, the farther back I have to go to hike em up
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"If a female reporter can say Alito still acts grouchy after trampling on women's rights, I ought to be able to call female justices dumb bitches" oh shut up Mr. Whiny, you and Alito need to smile more
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm all about casual I'm touring Coconino Caverns I'm sleeping at the Wigwam Motel I just worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos and I need a loooong break (this is a very specific look today)
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a lovely and brilliant soul.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ah, but I think it's a mistake not to take into account the value of the culinary education I give myself by cooking at home. Tuition at the Culinary Institute of America is $23,000, which I am effectively earning, minus $5 worth of ingredients, each time I cook chili. Check and MATE.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Knit fabrics are excellent for my needs, also I have unimpressive boobs
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My new fashion goal is: Oldcore Lowkey dressing like the men of the Greatest Generation The look I want to serve here is Guy Getting Kicks on Route 66
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's in the novel, Stephen King stole it first Still tied with Matheson as Grand Champion of Ripping Stuff Off Hill House
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's okay, we'll punch him in an ironic way so no one can get upset
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Writing sesh
Girl writing furiously while witnesses look on
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The same characters but with Hammer pants that are out of their budget
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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“Well, which was it?” The poncho shopper set down her ponchos. “When the waveform collapsed, was it a good bear or a bad bear?”

“It was—” Id stopped. “Is this going to affect whether you buy a poncho?”

“Maybe.”

“In that case, I dunno. Am I setting up another superposition here? Are there gonna be branching timelines from this jean pile?”

“If there’s one thing we’ve learned so far,” said Carcosa, “it’s that causality is extremely difficult to control.”

“Like fleas,” said Bart.

“We don’t have fleas,” snapped the denim guy. “Are you gonna buy something or are you gonna reject Newtonian physics?”

“Both, please,” said Carcosa. “We did some comparison shopping, and your sidewalk prices beat both the Goodwill and the Costless.”
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They can't afford new pants for every time journey and at this point they're also low on hats
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dressed for the Nineties
Two girls and an old dude gussied up in flannel
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Welcome to the neighborhood!
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was invited to participate because of my success in getting Lanchester's 1983 memoir republished – with a new introduction by @marawilson.bsky.social, no less! It had languished out of print for decades. www.chicagoreviewpress.com/elsa-lanches...
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Elsa Lanchester, Herself | Chicago Review Press
Being known as "The Bride of Frankenstein" is an unusual form of fame, but for Elsa Lanchester the unusual came naturally.
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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
help i’m addicted to making videos of my sculptures singing my favorite songs
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
By Herbert Block, 1949. This could run today.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This dame was running me amok
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
True story: Ambrose Bierce was the 10th of 13 children who all had names beginning with A. They were running out by the time they got to him.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like Lady Elaine, he lives in a model train world allthatsinteresting.com/rod-stewart-...
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Rock Star Rod Stewart Unveils Model Train City He'd Been Quietly Building For 23 Years
Stewart received his first toy train as a boy. When he asked for a toy station too, his father gave him a guitar instead.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
everyone at The Chicks show has t shirts that say Maryanne and Wanda 2028
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Data: Paul, Nigella. I am honored to have made it to Biscuit Week, but I suggest you dismiss me after the technical challenge. Nigella: Why, Data? Data: According to Noel, my showstopper bakes lack "soul." Paul: Was that racist? We haven't had a robot. Data: He got a little too real, Paul.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Id looked at Carcosa. “Should I fight them?”

The cops’ hands went to their holsters.

“I…no. No, that won’t save the park. The way to fight this is to work on the plan. Come, Id.”

“What about Ambrose?”

Carcosa nudged Ambrose. He tilted to the side, then tilted back. “I think you broke him.”

“We could put him in rice.”

“That never works.”

“Move it,” said a cop.

Carcosa and Id left the park with heavy hearts, a burlap sack, and a notebook full of amateur pornography. Ambrose remained seated on the bench, staring into space, mustache quivering, until the cops picked him up by the armpits and carried him out to the sidewalk.
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