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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I started a Substack because @wetherbeephd.bsky.social doesn't deserve to bear the burden of being the only outlet for my random thoughts about pop culture and current events. The first post combines two of my interests: submarine movies and trying to figure out how Pete Hegseth got the way he is.

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Crimson Tide and Hegseth's Warrior Fantasy

Crimson Tide tells us that it doesn’t matter if you want to commit a war crime, so long as you’re doing it because you think its the best thing to do.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last night I dreamed that I was on @gamechanger.dropout.tv and @samreich.bsky.social made me fly a plane while naked and it really freaked me out so to get back at him I decided to cause an HR problem by giving him a full body hug when I got back on the ground (he was also naked for some reason).

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not that I wish more Batman movies on the world (and I say this as a Kevin Conroy diehard), but I wish John Carpenter had made a Batman movie. Better yet, I wish he had made a Red Hood movie.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think we need a name for the specific psychological experience of reading a click-bait headline, laughing because it's funny, then remembering it's not the Onion.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm Stephanie Weaver and I support this message.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Last night we watched Hellraiser for the first time and my brain came up with a whole Socratic dialogue (complete with "Can it not be said..." and "Certainly, Socrates" format) titled Hellraiser is a Piece of Feminist Commentary Actually.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

In one hour (2pm ET), you can listen to me and @kristakurlinkus.bsky.social talk about inflation, hantavirus, and maybe even my theories about what Pete Hegseth was watching as a teenager --> m.twitch.tv/kristakurlin...

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Twitch

Twitch is the world

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

You know it's spring when the college guys next door stop wearing shirts.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The world is not great, but @darrenkorb.bsky.social 's Hades II soundtrack is absolute fire.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This. Kirk wasn't interested in debate. He was interested in being right any way possible. Even in his final moments he was giving glib answers that he couldn't be held accountable for with his critic turning into the bad guy.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Need a little joy in your day? Turn on a video of a DJ. Listen to music from another time and place. Watch that person dance as they share what they love. youtu.be/h8htSF9X5sE?...

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Soviet & Socialistic Grooves from 60s-70s / New Year Special by BASIC – L’atelier de Musique Ep006

YouTube video by L'atelier de Musique

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

RFK Jr. is speaking to a specific slice of parents (mostly) who believe their autistic child is not like the autistic people who, for example, post on this app. Those parents are committed to a diagnosis of "profound" autism. They are wrong. Please read this from me and @juststimming.bsky.social

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Dividing Up the Autism Spectrum Will Not End the Way You Think

The Lancet’s proposal to create a new label of “profound autism” serves only to distract us from the work of ensuring that all autistic people have everything they need to thrive.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Book 6/50 of Weaver's 2025 Reading Challenge was Benjamin Labatut's "When We Cease to Understand the World." Thanks, @jlavsm.bsky.social; it took me a while to get around to reading it, but it will stay with me a long time.

The cover of When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut shows a black circle eclipsed by a semi-translucent yellow circle with fuzzy edges. Where the yellow has covered the black circle, a texture like the surface of the moon shows.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Just a little note from the grants world: Even though federal grants are "unfrozen," orgs who have received federal grants can't get anything done because their federal points of contact aren't answering their emails and probably have been fired.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Sometimes I wonder part of the "harm" drag performers supposedly do to minors to show them that even as grown ups they can dress up extravagantly and adopt larger-than-life personas and put on performances that bring joy and not always be the caricatures of adulthood we learned from The Office.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Book 5/50 of Weaver's 2025 Reading Challenge was Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi. I picked this one up from a professor's free book pile in grad school and hauled it through 2 states just because the cover was interesting. This book inspired this whole challenge, and now I can let it go to a new home.

The cover of Mr. Fox shows an illustration of the front half of a fox disappearing into a yellow midi skirt with matching tights and shoes below. By the fox, a disembodied hand in a white glove holds the handle of a closed umbrella. It is as if someone had cut an illustration of a woman in half. Below this, the end half of a fox disappears into the top half of a man in a suit, who is missing his head.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Book 4/50 of Weaver's 2025 Reading Challenge was Gail Carriger's Soulless. It promised vampires, werewolves, and parasols, and it certainly delivered. (Also, if you're wondering why I'm posting these updates while the whole US government is falling apart, the answer is Spiteful Joy.)

Cover of Gail Carriger's Soulless shows a white woman in a dark magenta dress of approximately Victorian design. She is holding a black parasol with a steam punk style. The tag line says, "A novel ox vampires, werewolves, and parasols."

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

For people who really love that wet wool smell?

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I'm glad we're talking about all the great stuff USAID does/did, like malaria research, but Trumpists never claimed to care about malaria. They do, however, talk a lot about Hamas, and you know who did a lot to counter the spread of violent extremism? USAID. So maybe that should be the story...

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My university library is assembling a list of resources for disappeared US government #data. Check it out: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue

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Subject Guides: Government Information Data Rescue: Home

Links to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Book 3/50 of the 2025 Weaver Reading Challenge was The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. Somehow I didn't realize this was an academic book until the author started getting snarky about Carl Jung in a way only academics can.

Book cover of The Chemical Choir. A drawing of a hermaphroditic figure with wings and a crown stands on two pieces of stone while a dragon with a head at each end passes below.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you're wondering how the freeze on federal grants will affect your community, you can do an advanced search on www.usaspending.gov to see what services in your county/city receive federal funds. Spoiler alert: you'll probably see a lot of health care, housing, and transportation services.

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USAspending.gov

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It is -11 degrees F outside and I have parked my floor desk next to my space heater.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I know it's irrational and unfair, but I totally judge people based on whether or not they use Oxford commas.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I love working from home -- having so much control over my environment is ideal for my neurodiv brain -- but it can make the line between work and home weird. Like, taking time to tidy your office at work is clearly fair game for on-the-clock time, but I always feel a little guilty for it at home.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Book 2/50 for the 2025 Weaver Reading Challenge is Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron, which I found when I was looking for urban fantasy novels set in Detroit. I especially liked the historical context that allows mages and computer-controlled cars to exist in the same world.

The book cover of Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron. A young white man in casual clothes leans against a wall with a neon-lit cityscape behind him.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Finished Book 1/50 for The 2025 Weaver Reading Challenge: Per Wahlöö's The Assignment. It was a reminder that moderation in the face of fascism can far too easily become complicity in fascism. Here was my favorite passage.

A photo of a book page with the following text: Manuel Ortega was no longer thinking about the assignment. He was thinking about himself. He thought about himself and his marriage and his family. Everything was perfect. His wife was perfect, apart from that little bit of corpulence. From the very beginning their marriage had been successful and had never really ceased to be. Sexually, it was technically perfect even now. The children were so perfect it almost scared him. Sometimes he wondered whether the years in this perfectionist little country, with its bad climate, had not transformed them into an ideal family, into museum pieces. He could see them standing in a glass case, with labels. Father of family, 42, born in Aztacan, Latin type. Boy, 7, born in London, utterly satisfactory model. Girl, 5, born in Paris. Woman, 35, mother of two children, well preserved. Perfect relationship between equal partners. Please note their tenderness and absolute openness toward each other.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Using "Freebird" as the goal song at a hockey game doesn't make any sense because you are literally trying to trap a thing in a net.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My goal for 2025 is to read 50 books I already have in my home. Maybe I can clean out some that I've been hauling around just because I haven't read them yet.

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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Watching Lions v Vikings. Darnold reminds me of evil Cary Elwes in the live action Jungle Book movie.

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