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Worddancer21

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Writer, editor, cool aunt for hire. She/her. Here for nonsense, fandom and otherwise. Rumor has it I might be Kelinswriter on AO3. It ain’t easy running a universe. #SANVERS 🏳️‍🌈

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 08/10/2026
To be human is to know that there are people out there whose brilliant hues I cannot yet fathom, who would make my life better by being in it and broaden my horizons in ways I can't myself envision.
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 11h
I think so too
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 11h
Cowards, the lot of them
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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 16h
The Tyranny of Structurelessness is how highly manipulative people thrive. Good read
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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Be kind. Make things with your hands. Something. Anything. Make a fucking sandwich. Read a book. Listen to a record from start to finish. Literally anything at all that puts us closer to tipping the scale back toward humanity. It sounds trite, but what else is there?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16h
“It’s really fundamentally about whether or not people with disabilities can live, work, go to school, make all the decisions about how you spend your day and you spend your life with..." 19thnews.org/2026/10/disa...
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The federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promise
Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson won a victory that gave people with disabilities the freedom to choose where they live. That legacy is now under threat.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h
Speaking of the humanities, this just out. I taught at Stanford 2017-19, and my students told me there was an atmosphere there of "why would you major in anything but computer science?" There are many good answers to that; see above.
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Stanford sees decline in humanities majors
Nationwide humanities majors have decreased since 1991, according to a new report.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
Arthur C. Clarke said long ago, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 19h
🚨 Writer / journalism folks, please share: Slate is hiring a staff writer jobs.lever.co/slate/61b849...
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Slate - Staff Writer
Slate is hiring a staff writer whose work will move across the magazine, with a home in the life section. We’re looking for a driven, creative reporter who finds unique ways to approach tricky questio...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE
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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'd like to report a murder
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If Jon Ossoff wins his senate seat by a large margin, we'll see a very different presidential race in 2028.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Feel bad for the janitor who has to mop the floor after this debate is over.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No one's hit a Mike Collins this hard since the Irish Civil War
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/10/2026
Oh this man is OVER IT over it, I hope a Dem consultant is having a stroke somewhere
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They want to make a snuff film. So much for the party of “family values.”
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s… a lot
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Fell Hound @fellhound.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Happy Lesbian Day to all the sad gals, happy gals, and deeply yearning gals ♥️
Eri and Aderyn from ProjectVioletsNico and Avery from SIROC chinese gays with fan kissing
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩 Top speed: about 25,000 mph
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1. This has been incredibly obvious and incredibly disheartening to anybody who watches even *close* to as much TV as I do. 2. I sense the regression for directing might be ever worse. 3. That fact that, without a TCA press tour, TV executives have basically NO visible accountability is... bad.
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeahhhhh. 🤬
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And now they are married and living their happily ever after, the end.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“.. It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 08/10/2026
I really want journalists to get trained in interviewing by forensic psychologists who understand how to interrogate sociopaths.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's not so much that we need to be afraid of AI itself, it's that we are afraid of what most *men* want to do with it -- to us.
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Portrait in lilac. Glastonbury Tor after sunset.
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes i think she could hear us all cringing
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
we used to be a proper country
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Everything old is new again #iykyk
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All of us literally losing our shit during that ep
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When you offer a bare bones, factual description of what Guilfoyle has been up to, it sounds absolutely insane. But here we are: America's government under the Trumps. People of Greece, if you are listening, we are sorry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
Here is what happened: the former girlfriend of the President’s son asked an aspiring Republican politician for $100,000 to settle her credit card bill right before her Senate confirmation for an Ambassadorship, which she seems to have been awarded as a break-up present from the Trump family. (The son has since married, with the celebrations partially financed by a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin). She had previously received $300,000 from the donor for what seem to be largely unfulfilled promises of political favors.

As Ambassador to Greece, she has been pushing other countries to do business with an oil-and-gas lobbyist who has been attending her official meetings, and suggesting that the US could bring down the Greek government any time they wanted.
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cutie either way
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tonight’s Halloween Moviefest 2026 entry: “The Craft” —- now in 4k! (Love this new menu art)
The craft 4k blu ray menu
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Vault Comics @thevaultcomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📺 THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED. Carl + Princess Donut + a motorcycle. What could go wrong? Well, goblins, meth llamas, and a sadistic AI, for starters... 🐱🏍️ DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, VOL. 2 is ON SALE NOW everywhere books are sold.
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.
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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com · 07/10/2026
I like when authors talk about authors.
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Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat
I’m not really interested in wrestling with what defines a classic. It’s the kind of question that fills up think pieces and podcasts with bouts of teeth gnashing and hand-wringing and endless rumi…
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For The New York Times, I wrote about how Rod Serling create The Twilight Zone in part because it was the only way in the 1950 and 60s for him to comment on the subjects he cared about most, and how that's a good blueprint for contemporary media to deal with our surreal current moment:
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Opinion | ‘The Twilight Zone’ Created a Blueprint for Surviving Our Surreal Moment (Gift Article)
With “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality.
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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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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tonight’s Halloween Moviefest 2026 entry: “The Skeleton Twins” (Because an indie movie about fucked up siblings starring SNL alums doing surprisingly powerful dramatic turns can be a Halloween movie too)
The Skeleton Twins Bill Hader Kristen Wiig
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s so good. I actually need to watch it again. It’s been a long long time
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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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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 07/10/2026
I think the thing that makes me the most mad about the last few years is that we're watching the ruling class voluntarily take the american entertainment industry and throw it into a garbage can.
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Gale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m... We both served as members of the AMPAS Nicholl Screenwriting Committee - I benefitted greatly from her insights into screenwriting . My deepest condolences to her Laurette and her entire family.
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Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102
A luminous beauty with dramatic depth, she brought a layered intensity to harrowing roles and seduced Cary Grant in the romantic thriller “North by Northwest.”
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't know how people find these random old posts, but sometimes they find a winner. Yesterday someone liked this 2+ year old image and it let me see it again. Look at baby Colin Robinson.
Tiny baby white goat in a field of blue and red wildflowers
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Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To this day, one of the most batshit badass choices a group of writers have ever made. I think about it all the time when I’m wondering how far to push things in my own writing.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
20 years ago today, #BattlestarGalactica aired Occupation & Precipice, Emmy-nominated episodes that kicked off its S3 New Caprica arc. I've posted a long 2006 #BSG interview with Ron Moore in honor of that anniversary. Some mo' New Caprica intel embedded within 👀🚀 www.moryan.com/battlestar-g...
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Battlestar Galactica Rewind: Ron Moore Talks 'Occupation,' 'Precipice' and the politically charged New Caprica arc
A 2006 interview with Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ron Moore, who talks about the drama's acclaimed New Caprica arc and much more.
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