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Ro
@bookblerd.bsky.social
Writer | Book Reviewer | Podcaster |🍅 Tomatometer-Approved Critic | "The Most Lethal Definition of a Libra"| She/Her |
Member: OAFFC | SDFCS| AAFCA | OFTA | HCA |
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I feel like I might need to say on here: I'm only polite the first time you come over here to make assumptions, blindly proselytizing, and/or being tone deaf af in my mentions.
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Listening to some Insanity Check with @insanityreport.bsky.social & @bookblerd.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Latest Insanity Check with @bookblerd.bsky.social. We need to bring back consequences. Real consequences. Especially for these Tech Bros that are lying about everything and making everything worse
Bring Back Consequences – Insanity Check
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November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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“So these people have their babies, or this one guy overseas who basically was, like, a baby batter broker.” - I know @bookblerd.bsky.social doesn’t like/joke often but you gotta be kidding. #InsanityCheck

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Insanity Check: They Think You're Stupid
Podcast Episode · MTR Network Main Feed · 10/27/2025 · 1h 57m
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October 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Don't expect me to be sad about who want to see me dead or in chains being cut free from the mortal coil.

*cue aliahshefield's "Dance in the Street When You Die"*
September 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Happy holidays but keep it in the group, chat, y'all. Love youuuu
September 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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September 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Wait. That Etsy witch bout to be booked and busy!
a man in a basketball jersey is looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a basketball jersey is looking at the camera .
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September 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Latest Insanity Check with @bookblerd.bsky.social: ICE is violating our rights more than everyone realizes, RFK Jr is the most dangerous cabinet member and Kriss comes out as pro-ageist
Insanity Check: The Pro-Ageism Agenda
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September 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Also, for @bookblerd.bsky.social, @insanityreport.bsky.social, and everyone else, a site dedicated to review and call out of those long ToS that you know you don't read:

tosdr.org/en
Terms of Service; Didn't Read
'I have read and agree to the Terms' is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.
tosdr.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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The entertainment team is a fraction of the staff at IGN, and they laid off 2 of us with the insistence that they'd be "covering the vertical less." In fact, in every layoff they've said "we'll just pare back our coverage." Every single time it's been a lie.

Solidarity forever with my friends.
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.

Not this time. Not anymore.
August 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
@insanityreport.bsky.social's feed today reminds me how many of y'all watched Jordan Peele's "Us" and missed EVERY point
August 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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“it’s like Upton Sinclair never wrote a book.” - @bookblerd.bsky.social | I read that in jr or high school. LOVED IT!!!!!

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Insanity Check: The Broken Social Contract
Podcast Episode · MTR Network Main Feed · 08/05/2025 · 2h 28m
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August 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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If you don’t wanna be shunned by everyone you rely on to maintain your status in a given space, it’s kind of on you to not be a fuckin weirdo to strangers. Try, at least?

You’re not entitled to anyone’s time or attention; watching dudes act like they are and spin out when shut down is wild as hell.
August 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Right before being laid off, I went viral from a question I asked Vanessa Kirby at the Fantastic Four junket.

On a day where we’re once again asked to justify our careers as critics and journalists, it feels pertinent.

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TFW the entertainment journalist you just got done praising gets laid off immediately after going viral. #layoffs #laidoff #fyp #entertainment #criticism
TikTok video by Amelia Emberwing
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August 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Listening to “What Does That Have to Do with Me?” on the Insanity Check with @insanityreport.bsky.social and @bookblerd.bsky.social | The MTR Network

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Insanity Check: What Does That Have to Do With Me?
Podcast Episode · MTR Network Main Feed · 07/07/2025 · 2h 23m
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July 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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This. Please stop telling me that you are “not surprised.”

Public interest journalism isn’t about shock value.

It’s about informing people and holding power to account.

I don’t care if you’re not surprised by the information I report on.
I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.
July 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:
Read Like a Criminal
Big Gay Read 2025 Keynote Speech
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July 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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We're so freaking close! I know we can make it!
The first all Black women fantasy graphic novel is so close to being funded! With have 3 days to hit our goals! Check out Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black Women by @burningphoenixpr.bsky.social #SDCC #IndieComics #graphicnovel #kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...
Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W
A comic anthology featuring ten fantasy stories from Black women creators.
www.kickstarter.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I'm not supposed to be vertical (or outside), but I'm not missing my #FantasticFour screening.

NowSeated:
July 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
can't beat starting the day off by being a menace to the pharmacy tech who arbitrarily decided my insurance doesn't cover my Rx anymore.
May 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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This is just a #humblebrag reminder that 1000xRESIST recently took home a Peabody Award—and we’re still buzzing about it 🐝

A powerful, genre-bending story that’s earned its place alongside the best in media 🏆

Haven’t played it yet? Now’s the time!

💠 bit.ly/1KXRSteam
May 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I can't think of a better way for Jessica Jones to re-enter the MCU chat than via Daredevil: Born Again's second season.
May 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Well fuck me, we're getting Jessica Jones back. The world is healing.
May 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Oh I think Idaho was very attractive.
Court d’Alene perhaps? idahocapitalsun.com/2022/08/11/h...
Or Sand Point? The favored retirement town for white cops
(We learned about it b/c of Mark Fuhrman of O.J. fame).
idahocapitalsun.com/2022/08/11/h...
N. Idaho? Spokane? www.spokesman.com/stories/2024...
May 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM