Camille Bacon-Smith
@camille2000.bsky.social
I write about the arts in Philadelphia for BroadStreetReview.com. Also write contemporary fantasy under my own name and epic fantasy as Curt Benjamin. Phillies Forever. Photo is a close-up of flowers growing at the side of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Ohhhh my *god*
A friend is over, TMI they’re having an IBS flare-up.
Velveteen starts HOWLING & HUSKYTALKING full of INDIGNATION.
I said: “You need to go out?”
No reaction.
“You had dinner!”
Nothing.
“…are you mad about the farts?”
She BELLOWS & started chasing my friend out of the room
A friend is over, TMI they’re having an IBS flare-up.
Velveteen starts HOWLING & HUSKYTALKING full of INDIGNATION.
I said: “You need to go out?”
No reaction.
“You had dinner!”
Nothing.
“…are you mad about the farts?”
She BELLOWS & started chasing my friend out of the room
a husky dog with a collar is sitting on a couch looking at the camera .
ALT: a husky dog with a collar is sitting on a couch looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Ohhhh my *god*
A friend is over, TMI they’re having an IBS flare-up.
Velveteen starts HOWLING & HUSKYTALKING full of INDIGNATION.
I said: “You need to go out?”
No reaction.
“You had dinner!”
Nothing.
“…are you mad about the farts?”
She BELLOWS & started chasing my friend out of the room
A friend is over, TMI they’re having an IBS flare-up.
Velveteen starts HOWLING & HUSKYTALKING full of INDIGNATION.
I said: “You need to go out?”
No reaction.
“You had dinner!”
Nothing.
“…are you mad about the farts?”
She BELLOWS & started chasing my friend out of the room
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
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Yeah, how long before "Operation Achilles and His Very Good Friend Patroclus"?
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Yeah, how long before "Operation Achilles and His Very Good Friend Patroclus"?
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I'm glad that I'm not the only one recognizing some parallels between modern tech and science and medicine in the early 20th century. A little less move fast and break things and a little more IRBs.
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I'm glad that I'm not the only one recognizing some parallels between modern tech and science and medicine in the early 20th century. A little less move fast and break things and a little more IRBs.
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Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend
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Seems fitting that Aaron Judge’s MVP video is narrated by physicist Brian Greene
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Seems fitting that Aaron Judge’s MVP video is narrated by physicist Brian Greene
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
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Do I think the Pope looks cool here? I do.
Do I think it would be cooler if he stood up for our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings and smacked around the American Bishops who voted to deny trans care in Catholic hospitals today? Yeah. I do. WAY fucking cooler.
Do I think it would be cooler if he stood up for our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings and smacked around the American Bishops who voted to deny trans care in Catholic hospitals today? Yeah. I do. WAY fucking cooler.
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Do I think the Pope looks cool here? I do.
Do I think it would be cooler if he stood up for our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings and smacked around the American Bishops who voted to deny trans care in Catholic hospitals today? Yeah. I do. WAY fucking cooler.
Do I think it would be cooler if he stood up for our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings and smacked around the American Bishops who voted to deny trans care in Catholic hospitals today? Yeah. I do. WAY fucking cooler.
I have been telling people Larry Summers is a sleazeball since he was working in the Clinton White House. Maybe now they'll listen?
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I have been telling people Larry Summers is a sleazeball since he was working in the Clinton White House. Maybe now they'll listen?
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Heads up, writer friends. For the second time I received a cute email from an 11 year old asking if I'd read their short story and give feedback. Story Not an attachment but a link. Be safe. Delete. Do not respond. Emails virtually identical but for boy/girl name.
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Heads up, writer friends. For the second time I received a cute email from an 11 year old asking if I'd read their short story and give feedback. Story Not an attachment but a link. Be safe. Delete. Do not respond. Emails virtually identical but for boy/girl name.
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I’m at the annual paleontology conference. Here’s how people today have described their work:
“I basically study swamp monsters”
“I’m a dinosaur orthodontist”
“Dead bird bird watcher”
#2025SVP
“I basically study swamp monsters”
“I’m a dinosaur orthodontist”
“Dead bird bird watcher”
#2025SVP
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’m at the annual paleontology conference. Here’s how people today have described their work:
“I basically study swamp monsters”
“I’m a dinosaur orthodontist”
“Dead bird bird watcher”
#2025SVP
“I basically study swamp monsters”
“I’m a dinosaur orthodontist”
“Dead bird bird watcher”
#2025SVP
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ooof this feels like most every university rn
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
ooof this feels like most every university rn
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Hey #Dodgers fans, did you have an interaction with the LAPD in Echo Park the night of the World Series victory? The Echo Park Neighborhood Council is compiling stories about what happened so we can address the issue. You can stay anonymous. DM me.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Hey #Dodgers fans, did you have an interaction with the LAPD in Echo Park the night of the World Series victory? The Echo Park Neighborhood Council is compiling stories about what happened so we can address the issue. You can stay anonymous. DM me.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
Last month, two of my favorite ballet dancers, from two different companies, doing completely different things at the time, had fractures to the same bone in the foot. It was the first injury for both of them. A strange, and unfortunate coincidence.
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Last month, two of my favorite ballet dancers, from two different companies, doing completely different things at the time, had fractures to the same bone in the foot. It was the first injury for both of them. A strange, and unfortunate coincidence.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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from LM Kate Johnson
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
from LM Kate Johnson
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Fifty years ago right now, the Edmund Fitzgerald had left Superior, Wisconsin, gone through the ship canal, and was on the open lake. By 5PM, it had joined the Arthur M. Anderson, coming from Two Harbors.
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Fifty years ago right now, the Edmund Fitzgerald had left Superior, Wisconsin, gone through the ship canal, and was on the open lake. By 5PM, it had joined the Arthur M. Anderson, coming from Two Harbors.
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I like this piece a lot about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving the structure of DNA. It really respects her as a full scientist - what she saw, what she didn’t appreciate, what could have been if she’d had true peers to support her, or had not died so young.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I like this piece a lot about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving the structure of DNA. It really respects her as a full scientist - what she saw, what she didn’t appreciate, what could have been if she’d had true peers to support her, or had not died so young.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I spend a lot of time in theaters, and I don't like to turn my phone all the way off because I forget to turn it on again. So I flip the quiet button, put it on airplane mode, and turn off MY ALARMS! Yes! Alarms you have set do go off in quiet mode.
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I spend a lot of time in theaters, and I don't like to turn my phone all the way off because I forget to turn it on again. So I flip the quiet button, put it on airplane mode, and turn off MY ALARMS! Yes! Alarms you have set do go off in quiet mode.
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An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
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i am so ready for the eight-part docuseries about all of this
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
i am so ready for the eight-part docuseries about all of this