Ellen Rhudy
@ellenrhudy.bsky.social
Fiction writer with work in Story, Florida Review, Cream City Review. Instructional designer by day. Philadelphia!
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I did a zone 2 run and wow, that was possibly the most bored I’ve been in my life. Does it get less boring? Will it actually make me more efficient? I don’t know if I can handle doing this again.
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I did a zone 2 run and wow, that was possibly the most bored I’ve been in my life. Does it get less boring? Will it actually make me more efficient? I don’t know if I can handle doing this again.
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I wrote this about THE GOOD PLACE finale, but I now realize it also sums up my revulsion about the basic anti-humanity of AI avatars of the dead:
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I wrote this about THE GOOD PLACE finale, but I now realize it also sums up my revulsion about the basic anti-humanity of AI avatars of the dead:
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Read your contracts, friends.
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Read your contracts, friends.
This might be weird to admit but every time I buy a $10 falafel over rice from the halal cart I have to revisit this review and my happy memories of the $5 falafel over rice (just SIX years ago! What a great economy) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cav...
Reviews of New Food: CAVA Grain Bowl
The day CAVA arrived in Philadelphia the line for bowls of vaguely Mediterranean food stretched over a block. Its arrival was written up in the loc...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This might be weird to admit but every time I buy a $10 falafel over rice from the halal cart I have to revisit this review and my happy memories of the $5 falafel over rice (just SIX years ago! What a great economy) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cav...
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This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
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I will add: People who expected this teacher to be bummed do not know (good) teachers very well. A civics teacher? With a student who wants to run for office? That’s probably bliss.
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I will add: People who expected this teacher to be bummed do not know (good) teachers very well. A civics teacher? With a student who wants to run for office? That’s probably bliss.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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“We’re losing billions of dollars a year, but at least we’re telling teens to kill themselves”
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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November 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“We’re losing billions of dollars a year, but at least we’re telling teens to kill themselves”
Honestly if I were Aaron and my glass mixing bowl broke while I was making cake batter and I learned they weren't going to give me extra time to remake it, I'd just say "OK you are all getting cake with glass in it." #GBBO
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Honestly if I were Aaron and my glass mixing bowl broke while I was making cake batter and I learned they weren't going to give me extra time to remake it, I'd just say "OK you are all getting cake with glass in it." #GBBO
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Wealth tax and a return to the 90% income tax tier for the highest earners, like we had from 1944 to 1963.
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Wealth tax and a return to the 90% income tax tier for the highest earners, like we had from 1944 to 1963.
Don’t open the NYT this morning unless you want the results of Bake Off ruined right on the main screen. Arghghhghghghg!
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Don’t open the NYT this morning unless you want the results of Bake Off ruined right on the main screen. Arghghhghghghg!
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
All booked for AWP and currently 100% of my excitement is about visiting Baltimore’s aquarium. If it’s not on your AWP to-do list, add it! This aquarium is so good!!! aqua.org
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Explore award-winning exhibits and meet all the animals at the National Aquarium, located on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
All booked for AWP and currently 100% of my excitement is about visiting Baltimore’s aquarium. If it’s not on your AWP to-do list, add it! This aquarium is so good!!! aqua.org
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They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?
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Maybe one thing NYers can learn from Philly is how to pick and choose which outsiders' opinions of their city to ignore, which ones to mercilessly mock, and which to monetize via t-shirts
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Maybe one thing NYers can learn from Philly is how to pick and choose which outsiders' opinions of their city to ignore, which ones to mercilessly mock, and which to monetize via t-shirts
thank god
BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
thank god
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Looking for a writing class in January? It's the perfect time to set a resolution and follow it with a flash royale!
Detail and sign up here:
Detail and sign up here:
Flash Royale January Edition
If you’ve ever played video games, you may have heard the term Battle Royale. It refers to a type of game that features a large number of players who play with the goal of being the last player standi...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Looking for a writing class in January? It's the perfect time to set a resolution and follow it with a flash royale!
Detail and sign up here:
Detail and sign up here:
Chloe’s classes are the best!!
Also I'm trying to figure out what classes to run next year! If you're interested in taking one and want to help me decide, fill out this beautiful form
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I'm planning out the writing classes I'll run next year. Below are some options I'm considering, please select classes you may be interested in to help me figure out what to run. Include your email if...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Chloe’s classes are the best!!
Just realized there’s an even better way to do Halloween than the million pounds of candy stored in my basement
I always thought if I ever owned a house I’d make us “the book house” each Halloween.
Getting all the chapter books, MG reads, and YA (we had a lot of teens last year, and yes, teenagers are kids don’t be jerks to them on Halloween) sorted for tomorrow!
250 giveaway books! But also candy.
Getting all the chapter books, MG reads, and YA (we had a lot of teens last year, and yes, teenagers are kids don’t be jerks to them on Halloween) sorted for tomorrow!
250 giveaway books! But also candy.
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Just realized there’s an even better way to do Halloween than the million pounds of candy stored in my basement
A mere 2.5 years after I applied for a job with the City of Philadelphia, they sent me a rejection. Almost as bad as ASF!
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A mere 2.5 years after I applied for a job with the City of Philadelphia, they sent me a rejection. Almost as bad as ASF!
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Wrote a bit about the history of deaf people in film for @pbs.org American Masters in honor of the new documentary about @marleematlin.bsky.social "Not Alone Anymore". Brava to Marlee and director Shoshannah Stern on a beautiful film. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
How the portrayal of Deaf people in film has evolved over time | American Masters | PBS
March 30th, 1987—21-year-old Marlee Matlin, bespectacled and in a puff-sleeved purple gown, cautiously took the stage and changed the course of film
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October 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Wrote a bit about the history of deaf people in film for @pbs.org American Masters in honor of the new documentary about @marleematlin.bsky.social "Not Alone Anymore". Brava to Marlee and director Shoshannah Stern on a beautiful film. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
Update: she did it. SKY DADDY is so good. Giving me hope that the publishing industry is occasionally functional and can publish books that are actually good and funny and pushing boundaries!
I finally started SKY DADDY by Kate Folk and this book is so wild, so much fun, I can’t imagine how Folk is going to land this plane (couldn’t help myself) and can’t wait to find out bookshop.org/p/books/sky-...
Sky Daddy: A Novel
A Novel
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October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Update: she did it. SKY DADDY is so good. Giving me hope that the publishing industry is occasionally functional and can publish books that are actually good and funny and pushing boundaries!
Really need for people to stop bringing their dogs inside food establishments. (Just fled my neighborhood coffee shop after one woman brought in her dog and his incredible bark, immediately followed by a horse-sized dog that nosed me while I was trying to read.)
October 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Really need for people to stop bringing their dogs inside food establishments. (Just fled my neighborhood coffee shop after one woman brought in her dog and his incredible bark, immediately followed by a horse-sized dog that nosed me while I was trying to read.)
I finally started SKY DADDY by Kate Folk and this book is so wild, so much fun, I can’t imagine how Folk is going to land this plane (couldn’t help myself) and can’t wait to find out bookshop.org/p/books/sky-...
Sky Daddy: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I finally started SKY DADDY by Kate Folk and this book is so wild, so much fun, I can’t imagine how Folk is going to land this plane (couldn’t help myself) and can’t wait to find out bookshop.org/p/books/sky-...
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the best thing about SLM honestly is that our queue is so diverse in every way i can imagine, aesthetically and in terms of the experiences the writers bring. that is the legacy of a decade of diversity in our readers and editors, of paying contributors, and of having thoughtful communication.
Celebrating the work of our trans and queer contributors today and every day! Check out a few pieces from our archive we hope stay with you beyond the blog. buff.ly/554vznz
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
the best thing about SLM honestly is that our queue is so diverse in every way i can imagine, aesthetically and in terms of the experiences the writers bring. that is the legacy of a decade of diversity in our readers and editors, of paying contributors, and of having thoughtful communication.