Carly J Dubois 🦋
@carlyjdubois.com
Staff editor at The Athletic. Pacific Northwest. Our love for the baby goat on Pluribus will save us. She/her. Be kind.
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· Jan 13
The New York Times and The Athletic robbed me of my voice and my hope, and helped steal my life: A trans woman's nightmare | CarlyJDubois.com
This is the story of my three-year hell as a trans woman working for a NYT-owned company. I might be fired, but I can't stay silent anymore.
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The story of my 3-year nightmare as a trans woman at a New York Times-owned company (CW: suicide, suicidal ideation, anti-trans hate):
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She wrote in the essay, "During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe. My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me."
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, has died
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, has died following a battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
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December 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
She wrote in the essay, "During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe. My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me."
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gardening youtube is such a delight, for me, right now. i have no idea who is famous or in a beef with who or who sold their soul to whatever brand. as long as the person doesn't seem MAHA'd out or trad-y, i am locked in. even better if without fanfare they let their cat wander through.
How To Sow Sweet William Seeds / Dianthus Barbatus
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December 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
gardening youtube is such a delight, for me, right now. i have no idea who is famous or in a beef with who or who sold their soul to whatever brand. as long as the person doesn't seem MAHA'd out or trad-y, i am locked in. even better if without fanfare they let their cat wander through.
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“This year all 17 of my perfect children beat the shit out of your ugly kids.” - my year-end newsletter scrawled on a napkin in Sharpie and thrown at a stranger from a highway overpass.
December 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“This year all 17 of my perfect children beat the shit out of your ugly kids.” - my year-end newsletter scrawled on a napkin in Sharpie and thrown at a stranger from a highway overpass.
The longer I live, the less interested I am in "worst" rankings. Christmas songs included. This comes from the same part of me that will raise the middle finger to anyone who writes "failed writer" with a straight face.
Someone tried, created a thing with a good-faith effort. It makes me so happy.
Someone tried, created a thing with a good-faith effort. It makes me so happy.
I'd rather hear who you think is an underrated actor or singer or writer or whatever than hear who you think is overrated. Knock yourself out, of course, but the latter does nothing for me.
The former could open up worlds for me and for others.
The former could open up worlds for me and for others.
December 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The longer I live, the less interested I am in "worst" rankings. Christmas songs included. This comes from the same part of me that will raise the middle finger to anyone who writes "failed writer" with a straight face.
Someone tried, created a thing with a good-faith effort. It makes me so happy.
Someone tried, created a thing with a good-faith effort. It makes me so happy.
Horrific nightmare this morning. It’s going to take a day or two to recover.
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Horrific nightmare this morning. It’s going to take a day or two to recover.
Please don’t read anything into this, but how much is a simple will (old car, personal items, no money per se) if you want it to be honored? Is a lawyer a must? I don’t want an AI will or false promises.
Washington state, if it matters.
Washington state, if it matters.
December 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Please don’t read anything into this, but how much is a simple will (old car, personal items, no money per se) if you want it to be honored? Is a lawyer a must? I don’t want an AI will or false promises.
Washington state, if it matters.
Washington state, if it matters.
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Tell me about debuts releasing next year. I want to use my B&N gift card to preorder 2026 releases from new authors.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Tell me about debuts releasing next year. I want to use my B&N gift card to preorder 2026 releases from new authors.
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More like Bulcrap am I right
December 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
More like Bulcrap am I right
I don’t know who needs to see this, but
a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field
Alt: a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field toward a football, which Lucy yanks away at the last time second before he can kick it, sending him flying into the air.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I don’t know who needs to see this, but
A few seconds of Robert Culp Is Guilty music for you, from a classic Columbo case.
December 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A few seconds of Robert Culp Is Guilty music for you, from a classic Columbo case.
I dreamed you were a 50-foot wolf who scared everyone off Main Street, grabbed a lipstick from a display and walked down the sidewalk, applying it and checking your look in the reflection of storefront windows as you walked and waited for a lunch special to catch your eye.
December 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I dreamed you were a 50-foot wolf who scared everyone off Main Street, grabbed a lipstick from a display and walked down the sidewalk, applying it and checking your look in the reflection of storefront windows as you walked and waited for a lunch special to catch your eye.
Watch closely who gets to have a superficial character makeover and empty/calories rehabilitation in the news media and who isn’t even allowed to have the bottoms of boots removed from their necks.
December 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Watch closely who gets to have a superficial character makeover and empty/calories rehabilitation in the news media and who isn’t even allowed to have the bottoms of boots removed from their necks.
Happy sixth anniversary to the first photo of myself I posted as Carly. After a lifetime of hiding, I was finally free.
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Five years ago, I greeted a new year with a new look | CarlyJDubois.com
I wanted to begin 2025 with a pleasant memory. I don't know how many of those I'll have after the 19th of this month.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Happy sixth anniversary to the first photo of myself I posted as Carly. After a lifetime of hiding, I was finally free.
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It’s 2:43 a.m. and I hear fireworks outside.
December 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It’s 2:43 a.m. and I hear fireworks outside.
Important fact about me: If you break me and destroy my will to live, I am not going to make it easy for you to pretend you didn’t.
December 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Important fact about me: If you break me and destroy my will to live, I am not going to make it easy for you to pretend you didn’t.
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Lol I’m at a restaurant watching MNF and some dude mansplaining TO ME who John Madden was.
December 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Lol I’m at a restaurant watching MNF and some dude mansplaining TO ME who John Madden was.
In case you haven’t noticed
a man with his arms outstretched says " i am awake " in front of a mountain
Alt: A 50ish man with his arms outstretched says "i am awake" in front of a mountain. He is Walter White in the first episode of Breaking Bad.
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December 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
In case you haven’t noticed
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Having your basic needs met has a massive impact on health.
When you aren’t sure if you will have a roof over your head, food to eat or safe help with activities of daily living … you will get sicker.
If I were to write an article about this would it be helpful?
Or too triggering?
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When you aren’t sure if you will have a roof over your head, food to eat or safe help with activities of daily living … you will get sicker.
If I were to write an article about this would it be helpful?
Or too triggering?
3/3
December 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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There is at least one person whose job requires them to monitor my Bluesky account. Can you imagine being them? They get paid to read what I post. Poor you, you do it for free.
December 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
There is at least one person whose job requires them to monitor my Bluesky account. Can you imagine being them? They get paid to read what I post. Poor you, you do it for free.
We used to have things called commas. We’d write:
A man faces charges after, police say, he did a thing …
and
Your hero, sadly, passed away …
instead of
A man faces charges after police say he did a thing …
and
Your hero sadly passed away …
We were so silly. Commas. lol
A man faces charges after, police say, he did a thing …
and
Your hero, sadly, passed away …
instead of
A man faces charges after police say he did a thing …
and
Your hero sadly passed away …
We were so silly. Commas. lol
December 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
We used to have things called commas. We’d write:
A man faces charges after, police say, he did a thing …
and
Your hero, sadly, passed away …
instead of
A man faces charges after police say he did a thing …
and
Your hero sadly passed away …
We were so silly. Commas. lol
A man faces charges after, police say, he did a thing …
and
Your hero, sadly, passed away …
instead of
A man faces charges after police say he did a thing …
and
Your hero sadly passed away …
We were so silly. Commas. lol
"Underage girl" = girl.
"Underage girl" = minor.
"Underage girl" = child.
Do better, news media.
"Underage girl" = minor.
"Underage girl" = child.
Do better, news media.
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"Underage girl" = girl.
"Underage girl" = minor.
"Underage girl" = child.
Do better, news media.
"Underage girl" = minor.
"Underage girl" = child.
Do better, news media.
When the leaf blowers and chainsaws rev up outside your window precisely when you begin your virtual appointment to discuss the ongoing wave of anxiety attacks.
a woman in a tank top with comedy central on the bottom right
Alt: A woman on "Broad City" repeats the question by saying, "How 'am' I?" with the second word in air quotes, which she is doing for emphasis (and relatable human feeling).
media.tenor.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
When the leaf blowers and chainsaws rev up outside your window precisely when you begin your virtual appointment to discuss the ongoing wave of anxiety attacks.
What show has the best indistinct chatter?
December 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
What show has the best indistinct chatter?
Way down on the end on the right, where people leave their tributes, is the mat in front of the door in front of the tiny studio apartment where I've mostly hidden from danger since March 2020.
December 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Way down on the end on the right, where people leave their tributes, is the mat in front of the door in front of the tiny studio apartment where I've mostly hidden from danger since March 2020.