Helena Fitzgerald
@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
feelings, now more than ever!
wrote some stuff in some places
wrote some stuff in some places
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we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
today is the day Joyce Carol Oates truly became the inventor of big jeans
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
today is the day Joyce Carol Oates truly became the inventor of big jeans
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Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
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broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now
it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now
2020s: Tár, Drive My Car, Lovers Rock, and honestly Past Lives because that ending was so good it made me think the whole movie was 20x better than it actually was
in the last ten years: Pain and Glory
in the last ten years: Pain and Glory
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
2020s: Tár, Drive My Car, Lovers Rock, and honestly Past Lives because that ending was so good it made me think the whole movie was 20x better than it actually was
in the last ten years: Pain and Glory
in the last ten years: Pain and Glory
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The unionization of digital media was and is so important, and we gotta start reminding the bosses that it’s the floor
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The unionization of digital media was and is so important, and we gotta start reminding the bosses that it’s the floor
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
oh no, is the lesson here that if we want the rewards of living through history we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of living through history, oh no
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
oh no, is the lesson here that if we want the rewards of living through history we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of living through history, oh no
I’m in London right now and, awake at 3am, at once overjoyed at the results and crushed not to be in NYC celebrating with everybody, I was like “ok where can I go to celebrate and who can I celebrate with”
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I’m in London right now and, awake at 3am, at once overjoyed at the results and crushed not to be in NYC celebrating with everybody, I was like “ok where can I go to celebrate and who can I celebrate with”
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fuck the beresford
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
fuck the beresford
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“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
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just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
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"Many of them, he said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents.
“Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"
“Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"
With all the excitement about the election I don’t want this story to get lost. This morning 8 car wash workers in Boston were kidnapped by federal agents in the largest workplace raid in the area in recent memory.
The details are horrifying.
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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...
The details are horrifying.
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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...
Immigration agents raid Allston car wash and detain several workers - The Boston Globe
Many of them held legal status but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents, according to their manager.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"Many of them, he said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents.
“Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"
“Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"
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Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater
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Hey Dersh
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Hey Dersh
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I'm afraid that Woke 2 will be quite operational when your candidates arrive.
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I'm afraid that Woke 2 will be quite operational when your candidates arrive.
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MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS
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What we live in now is a demented cult exalting the right of a tiny handful of people to immiserate the rest of humanity for no real reason. It will end. It will end so totally that one day it will be nothing but a footnote in history books.
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
What we live in now is a demented cult exalting the right of a tiny handful of people to immiserate the rest of humanity for no real reason. It will end. It will end so totally that one day it will be nothing but a footnote in history books.
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Today’s Mood in NYC.
June 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Today’s Mood in NYC.
all my life I’ll cherish the memory of Thomas yelling “what if your mayor was hot?!?!” at UWSers on a freezing cold sunday morning
Eight months ago, @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social and I stood on street corners in the UWS on a cold Sunday and asked people if they thought they deserved a better (hotter) Mayor.
Turns out they did.
Turns out they did.
Letter of Recommendation:
Collecting petition signatures for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
Collecting petition signatures for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
all my life I’ll cherish the memory of Thomas yelling “what if your mayor was hot?!?!” at UWSers on a freezing cold sunday morning
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Eight months ago, @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social and I stood on street corners in the UWS on a cold Sunday and asked people if they thought they deserved a better (hotter) Mayor.
Turns out they did.
Turns out they did.
Letter of Recommendation:
Collecting petition signatures for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
Collecting petition signatures for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Eight months ago, @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social and I stood on street corners in the UWS on a cold Sunday and asked people if they thought they deserved a better (hotter) Mayor.
Turns out they did.
Turns out they did.
this is very funny, but to be earnest for a moment: the same guys setting $10M on fire here are the ones who can’t stand the idea of buses being free, of rent being affordable, of anything at all being easier for all the people for whom $10M would be an unimaginably transformative amount of money
according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
this is very funny, but to be earnest for a moment: the same guys setting $10M on fire here are the ones who can’t stand the idea of buses being free, of rent being affordable, of anything at all being easier for all the people for whom $10M would be an unimaginably transformative amount of money
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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Capitalism is now illegal
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Capitalism is now illegal