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Ferrett Steinmetz

@theferrett.bsky.social
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Writer of FLEX/SOL MAJESTIC/my new book series, DRAGON KINGS OF OKLAHOMA. Quietly (re)connecting with friends, nothing more. Please don't make this weird.

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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Unfortunately, I disagree extremely hard on this one. The whole point is that Jon is a bad candidate to bear the ring initially, but once he rejects the cycle of inflicted pain, he becomes someone worthy. Partially as someone who struggles with depression, I thought he was a perfect superhero.
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I never thought I'd see those as "The Good Old Days," but HERE WE ARE
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
old enough to remember the days when Wizards would not acknowledge the secondary market now seeing "toploader" references on a collector card is a litttttttle weird
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.
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Heartache Kits @hsticka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just heard @npr.org say "no one knows how to fairly divvy up the bill" regarding the increase in utility costs due to data centers. Easy. Data centers pay. The infrastructure, increase, their own bills. If I walk into a store and fuck up everything in there, I have to pay for it. Why don't they?
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love the trend where people post old photos showing they were an unlikely match for their spouse in high school but unfortunately I cannot participate because my husband and I look like we would have formed an Evanescence cover band if we’d met in 2009
Teenage girl with long blonde hair holding an electric guitar Teenage boy with long blond hair glaring at the camera on the side of a mountain
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And that’s not sustainable & it legitimately terrifies me to the point I’ve had conversations with right wing former friends that were so devoid of basic facts of reality that I still stay up at night sometimes thinking about how far gone they are
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nah. Just means our tastes aren't the median.
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Win my upcoming epic low fantasy book The Cathedral of Portals in a GoodReads giveaway (if you're American and have an account!). The early reviews say "The Cathedral of Portals left me feeling dizzy, deeply touched and trying to put feelings into words"! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
The Cathedral of Portals - the new book from Ferrett Steinmetz
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Welp, I've listened to the new Big Hit Song What Has Been On The Charts For A Record Amount Of Time And I forgot that I listened to it until someone else mentioned it today, so that should tell you how much I enjoyed it And that's okay that I don't connect with it!
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@ThoughtSlime

People who become right wing because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If someone is new to a kink or poly scene and you're an experienced hand, have you considered just BEING A FRIEND? You don't have to sex them up right away; you can be a decent person who supports them without taking advantage of their naivete.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The best we can hope for here is that conservative voters treat Ramaswamy the same way they treated Hillary and Kamala; they won't be *actively* racist, they'll just find nitpicky reasons to not like Ramaswamy that are *deniably* racist
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Karida CraftyEnby @preciouskarida.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Heads up if you’re a cat’s person and feed them Purina One Plus Urinary Tract Health food. I managed to get 3 different bags across 2 stores that had mold in them. It has to be a bad lot and hasn’t been recalled yet.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very gingerly dipping a toe into the stagnant pond of The Discourse I think it’s obviously fine to not hear popular songs but my reaction to learning “a song I don’t know has broken loads of popularity records“ is “oh I should hear it, maybe I’ll like it”, why would it not be that?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every time-EVERY time-I'm told that a Democratic candidate is the safe pick, they've gone down in flames (except for one), starting all the way back with Mondale, through Dukakis, Gore, Hillary Clinton, and Kamala. Democrats think that what is "electable" chilly are policy wonks AND THEY ARE WRONG
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!
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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this
special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can sing along with pretty much any song on this word-for-word.
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ironically, it's Gangs of New York. (Scorcese got the feel of NYC right, but bolting a pretty bog-standard romance/revenge plot onto it felt like a disservice of the uniqueness of NYC to me.) For a photo essay, How The Other Half Lives.
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'd say Battlebots, but that can't be a surprise, really. So I guess it'd be 19th century New York. I've read a lot of books on the history of the city - but more importantly, the feel of it. It's an amazing and foreign place, and Gangs of New York did it an injustice.
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy to report that CONTROL: Resonant is as good as I had hoped. The first boss is one of the most impressive boss visuals I've ever seen, and yes, I've played most of the Souls games. WOOOOOOO
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"We will take a stand for precisely 36 hours. That'll learn him."
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A side note to the "Why bother to have your players roll a skill check at all if failure means you'll roll again" If the entire campaign collapses if a perception check fails to see the clue that gets them to the next plot hook, DON'T HAVE THE PERCEPTION CHECK BE FAILABLE. (Or have redundancies)
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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It's remarkable how many times i've seen a Professional Take Haver on the internet go insane as a result of online criticism that starts off unreasonable but becomes increasingly more reasonable as it makes them lose their mind
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You gotta just not care. I think so many people allow a small and vocal audience to shape what they say and do bc being intellectually honest and consistent in your beliefs is costly. But at the end of the day why have a platform if you won't stick to your guns
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Girl this tweet is literally about you
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OrcGirlBoss 🐇🏹 @orc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gas high
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think retirement age is one of the starkest differences between people with physically demanding jobs and those without. The former absolutely do not want to work longer where as the latter find it one of the least objectionable social security fixes.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy #BatmanDay, big guy.
A panel from JUSTICE LEAGUE: DREAM GIRLS by Jadzia Axelrod, Nicole Maines, Nicola Scott, Annette Kwok, J. Bone, Marissa Louise, Brandt&Stein, Vincent Cecil, Stephen Sadowski, Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund, Joe Quinones, Dearbhla Kelly, Trish Mulvihill, Hi-Fi, Jan Bazaldua, Rosi Kampe, Adriano Lucas, Triona Farrell, Jodie Troutman and Frank Cvetkovic, in which Batman turns to face Galaxy in the hallway of the Justice League Watchtower.

Batman: THERE WAS NO JUST CAUSE FOR YOU TO HAVE BEEN SINGLED OUT. IF SOMEONE IS MADE UNCOMFORTABLE BY YOUR PRESENCE ALONE, THEN IT'S THEM WHO NEEDS TO LEAVE, NOT YOU.
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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
only the democratic party could come into a midterm against a historically unpopular president and his wounded party, currently waging an unpopular war that threatens the entire global economy amidst multiple internal crises, and go "we should compromise our integrity to look more similar to them"
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
CONSULTANT: "We've found that the phrase 'I voted with Republicans' is the set of words most likely to sour young progressives on a potential candidate. But is there anything we could add to make it worse?" MARCY KAPTUR: "Wait, I got it"
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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 18/09/2026
I promise you, from the transgender sector, women bringing their own penises do not have it any better
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I have to accompany my wife to her doctor's appointment so she has a penis" An inelegant statement, perhaps, but alas, almost every woman needs a penis handy in the doctor's office if they want to be taken seriously
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am leery of pushing the "It's been too years" angle too hard because if we ever get a Democratic President with any power again, I guarantee you we will still be repairing the damage Trump caused 602 days in.
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What drink? Me want know!
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There is at least a kernel of truth in this statement, and the fact that Democrats are shitting their britches because someone said it tells you all you need to know about why Democrats will never shift the Overton Window. (Meanwhile, Republicans are telling you how Haitians are eating the dogs)
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The one time I know that Apple TV pushed back on a show, Vince Gilligan admitted it was a valid critique and made it a major portion of the finale Which impressed me even MORE about Apple because I would have bet that there was ZERO interference. But productive interference?
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"I tell my daughter, 'For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that {anti-gay stuff}, say it's because your dad was a fool. Don't defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I'm not now." Kind of how I'm trying to live my life these days. Not that I was anti-gay but I WAS a fool
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Look at all these monsters! I'm gonna level up so many times!"
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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you. I do this only because I really can't hit the little heart to confirm it, as this is gonna be painful for EVERYONE, not just the instigators
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