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ocean horror | they | english in california | represented by Kate McKean

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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 20h
I have whatever kind of autism it is where you study human interaction as though it is a scientific process, and then you just Do that as confidently as you can, and most of the time it will dazzle people sufficiently that they do not probe much deeper
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 20h
I realise this is unbearable of me, and I am sorry, but: goddamn, I interview well. just met my newest scientist and his lab manager for the first time and if I say so myself I knocked it clean out of the park
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 21h
meanwhile Isaac and I refer to canned drinks exclusively as "sippos". "cold sippos" if they are chilled. pants are "pampt", which is my fault. actually I fear most of our little absurdities are my fault
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 21h
my parents used to call the layby/emergency pullover area of a motorway a "layabout" because of a malapropism my dad used one time, is the one I remember
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 23h
for solo play she has a squeaky mouse toy that looks unnervingly realistic without glasses on, and a jingly mouse toy in trans flag colours (his name is Trans Rights Mouse)
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 23h
currently she is obsessed with a very long ribbon toy, to the point of spurning any other toys we try to use with her! she likes to hide under the bed and swat at it (bed game), and to chase it when it leaves her field of vision (walking game)
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 23h
Roxy knows that TV Stand Drawer Opening means Frolic Time, extremely reliably
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
On this Indigenous People's Day, join me in helping the Sogorea Te Land Trust buy back colonized land and return it to the stewardship of America's native peoples. sogoreate-landtrust.org
sogoreate-landtrust.org
Homepage - The Sogorea Te Land Trust
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
the fraughtness of the subjects' relationships was cool, the way they wove together was cool, but the petri dish that allowed them to grow in such strange shapes went largely unexamined. anyway this has been movies with waverly
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
followed this up with the Lance Oppenheim documentary SOME KIND OF HEAVEN, which takes a very different angle on its weird subject, following four residents closely as their lives get weird and difficult. it was beautifully made but I took less from it than from THE BUBBLE.
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I read something, tragically I forget where, that compared SF to Paris — beautiful but occupied cities (current and former)
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
one of the things i really value about our building is that it used to be senior living, so we have a lot of retirees, and they are all so passionate about HOA stuff and neighbourhood stuff and improving where they are. the villages makes me so sad to think about, genuinely.
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
for your money, for your political insulation and cluelessness, for your ostensible need for more land and water and space to fuel endless development (and the displacement of your neighbours, and the demolition of the very place you wanted to live in)
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i watched the Valerie Blankenbyl documentary THE BUBBLE (about the Villages retirement community in Florida) last night and now i am thinking about the horror of working hard all your life, feeling entitled to respite in retirement, and then being extracted from relentlessly by predatory capitalists
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RIGHT, it’s absurd
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
my cat is under the bed, though to be fair this is her time of day for an under the bed nap session
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
yeah, I'm sitting in san francisco right now and hearing the blue angels doing whatever the fuck they're doing, loudly enough to shake the pictures on our walls. just deranged
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
courtesy pictures for sad children
panel 1: announcer at a podium says "welcome everyone to our thirtieth annual air show"
panel 2: a crowd of people clap
panel 3: announcer says "oh, here's the first j-"
panel 4: jet goes WOOSH
panel 5: announcer says "if you were a kurdish villager, this is what it might sound like to die"
panel 6: two jets go RAAAAR
panel 7: announcer says "or survive, waking every night to the sternum-shaking screams of these nightmare engines"
panel 8: announcer says "and here come our vintage planes"
panel 9: vintage planes go WHIRRRRR
panel 10: announcer says "this is what it sounded like to die in the forties"
panel 11: a crowd of people clap
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
even Isaac, a known boat/plane enthusiast, conscientiously objects to the fleet week boat tours and air shows, due to their nature and purpose
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
you can fuck a sailor any time! you don’t have to invite the whole fucking military apparatus into town for a family fun recruitment exercise about it
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
god call me a hater but I fucking loathe fleet week. the plane I just heard roaring overhead is the last sound someone heard before they died horribly and I am furious at being asked to get excited for it, sorry
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ability to throw ass competently is a genuinely underrated life skill, and i say this as someone who lacks it utterly
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
wiggly!!
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this animal disports herself by flopping joyously onto my shoes the instant i get home from work
roxy, a grey dilute tortie, lies with her eyes closed on a man's lap. he's wearing a grey hoodieroxy lies on a white person's legs, paw and head resting on their bare ankle.roxy lies on a white person's thighs, long and flat, her paw on their belly and her eyes closed in rapture as she is pet
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/10/2026
I REALLY like this @anildash.com piece on 'unalive' and algospeak in general, particularly the exploration of the implications for a generation of people growing up steeped in it.
anildash.com
We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i would write a poem about roxy except that roxy herself is a poem
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
every time i come back home after an outing, roxy bounds up to the door and starts rubbing her little body against my legs, and call me old-fashioned but i think this is the most beautiful thing that has ever happened on this earth
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i lowkey want more abortive castro gay coups now
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
(a service i gather some people pay to experience rather than avoid)
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
true story, i paid money so i wouldn't have to see anime teens telling me to "gently caress"
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Isaac Fellman @isaac-fellman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Still so proud to be on this incredible shortlist. The winner will be announced on Ursula's birthday in just a couple of weeks!
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i swear i am trying to talk less politics online but unfortunately i believe overpoweringly that americans don't understand their own immigration policies, and as someone on the sharp end of several, i'm afraid i cannot shut up
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i knew a lawsuit of this kind was coming the minute i read that godawful new policy and i am happy to see it get its start
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you might be a genius
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(that is an endorsement. though make sure your emotional state has its arms and legs safely within the carriage before you read)
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
fucking hell, esther
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i vaguely recaptured this joy when i lost my mind in 2017 and learned how to make a twine game from zero
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i took a HTML coding class when i was like 10 years old and made a very janky free website explaining how to make a slipper. this stuff used to be fun, i promise
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
normal and cool how my cortisol spiked the instant i realised the supreme court was doing its thing again!
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this one is a sort of found/collage/whatever poem put together from my friend's tumblr where she collects the posts people make on phone number lookup sites whoiscallingme.tumblr.com
who is calling me?
for Margaret

this entity keeps calling me and hanging up
no use // I guess it is important, so I need to know

I want to know // bad news from the past // understand
weird things // can’t hide in the dark forever

computer calling sounds almost real // maybe a friend
no message, no name // nothing to be worried about

late night // incoherent // they call all the time
would not speak, just breathing // no one on the other side

I miss you and I love you // sorry // I don’t know why
lost contact // want to connect // I was your friend

I spoke to a human being // they sang me a song
wish you could do something // search for me // pick me up

make it stop if you can // it is not free // I don’t need it
fuck this // you broke my heart – you promised

I gave you too many chances // picked up, dead air
just listens – as if they record your voice
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(it is about the cat I cohabited with for a week in a LA airbnb, whose name I never learned, but who was my friend)
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
unfortunately i think this is one of my favourite things i've ever written
same

in your silence I held the cat, claws
insistent, tail twitching, scrambling up up
onto my deadweight chest, murmuring

a consolation purr. nose chasing the pattern
of my hand, orange fur clinging to my skin

which I guess is my kind of stupid, really,
that know-nothing devotion, eviscerating

sincerity. I am extremely good at being
in love, very normal, as far as the cat
is concerned this is all completely fine.
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i wrote a whole collection of poetry, back in 2019, about too-hot days and falling unwisely in love and feeling insane in the digital panopticon. and then i just put it in my back pocket and didn't think about it again? like, sure, it needs some editing, but more pertinently why am i like this
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i have no interest in a book that tries to act as a perfect mirror. at least warp the glass a little bit, christ
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this is a really good read on the theme of representation, and i am not just saying that because the author recommends my husband's book.
But queer lives do not exist to be pat object lessons for straight cis people, and the older I get the less patience I have for representations that seek merely to validate and explain our own identities back to us. Fantasy literature and its attendant fan cultures and institutions often implicitly presume that a queer reader is someone coming to an understanding of their desires and self-determination for the first time, who looks to the text to affirm that process. They seem to have a harder time imagining readers like me and most other queer people I know: people coming to the text in the middle of life, with established relationships to queer cultures and communities outside of genre fandom.
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I believe my revolutionary literary theory, "books are play pretend," remains the gold standard in literary analysis.
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
literally just go and scream your woes at the ocean like a normal person, this isn't difficult
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
increasingly i think the appeal of a groundhog-day-style time loop story for me is the idea that it's possible to get out of the loop. can you imagine?
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
hey do you ever feel like you are stuck on a kind of cultural wheel of samsara whereby the same conversations keep happening on an endless loop, the same ideas ebbing and flowing in our shared consciousness without any hope of resolution or progress
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