Julia
@julesanew.bsky.social
Scientist, teacher, writer, Dodgers fan, parent, music lover. 🏳️⚧️♀.
Mostly bookposting, baseball posting, a smattering of science and politics.
Mostly bookposting, baseball posting, a smattering of science and politics.
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Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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In 1882, a mysterious book appeared in London shops, advising that certain humans were actually dragons that had forgotten their heritage.
Here is that book, reprinted for the first time. Help me make this special edition a reality!
Click "Notify me on launch"!
#WeeknightWriters
Here is that book, reprinted for the first time. Help me make this special edition a reality!
Click "Notify me on launch"!
#WeeknightWriters
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
In 1882, a mysterious book appeared in London shops, advising that certain humans were actually dragons that had forgotten their heritage.
Here is that book, reprinted for the first time. Help me make this special edition a reality!
Click "Notify me on launch"!
#WeeknightWriters
Here is that book, reprinted for the first time. Help me make this special edition a reality!
Click "Notify me on launch"!
#WeeknightWriters
Writing again. Feeling the story bumping around in my brain, demanding to be heard. The community on Discord, having people join sprints and offer support. #weeknightwriters #firstdraftfall
Q3: Let’s cheer things up a bit! What’s your favourite part of #FirstDraftFall so far? #WeeknightWriters
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Writing again. Feeling the story bumping around in my brain, demanding to be heard. The community on Discord, having people join sprints and offer support. #weeknightwriters #firstdraftfall
I'm not sure I've advanced the story as much as I'd like. But what @aiko-aslanian.bsky.social said on Discord earlier today about a "complete draft" has stuck with me and I'm going to try loosening up my definition of progress, see if that helps move things along. #weeknightwriters #firstdraftfall
Q1: How are you feeling about your #FirstDraftFall progress so far? Excited? Disheartened? #WeeknightWriters
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I'm not sure I've advanced the story as much as I'd like. But what @aiko-aslanian.bsky.social said on Discord earlier today about a "complete draft" has stuck with me and I'm going to try loosening up my definition of progress, see if that helps move things along. #weeknightwriters #firstdraftfall
Hi #weeknightwriters! I'm Julia and my WIP is a weirdo magic anti-fascist revolution story. But I'll go with that for now. I've had a successful week. If I can write this many words in a week that's been awful on so many fronts, I should be able to write anywhere any time. #firstdraftfall
Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your #FirstDraftFall project is going!
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Hi #weeknightwriters! I'm Julia and my WIP is a weirdo magic anti-fascist revolution story. But I'll go with that for now. I've had a successful week. If I can write this many words in a week that's been awful on so many fronts, I should be able to write anywhere any time. #firstdraftfall
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"oh, look at me, i'm an ADULT, i have a MEETING"
What's the most devastating burn you've ever heard from a child?
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"oh, look at me, i'm an ADULT, i have a MEETING"
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@nytimes.com May this question haunt you until your miltimillionaire owners join Cistercian monestaries to get the benefit of a vow of silence.
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
@nytimes.com May this question haunt you until your miltimillionaire owners join Cistercian monestaries to get the benefit of a vow of silence.
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listen, we've all had a lot of fun today learning that we truly are ruled by a pedophiliac cabal that permeates every level of big business and government, but also let's not take our eye off the fact that the senate Dems completely betrayed their base and must be primaried until they're all gone
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
listen, we've all had a lot of fun today learning that we truly are ruled by a pedophiliac cabal that permeates every level of big business and government, but also let's not take our eye off the fact that the senate Dems completely betrayed their base and must be primaried until they're all gone
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It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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It's so bizarre that the breaking news today is yet more proof that Trump did exactly what everyone already knows he did
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It's so bizarre that the breaking news today is yet more proof that Trump did exactly what everyone already knows he did
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all of the calls for "moderating on trans issues" are just an excuse to launder the author's own bigotry into the political sphere
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
all of the calls for "moderating on trans issues" are just an excuse to launder the author's own bigotry into the political sphere
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
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I will never forget the Toronto Blue Jays relief pitchers sharpie-ing Vesia’s number on their caps during games 6 and 7 of the World Series for as long as I live.
Just a simple act of love and solidarity and sportsmanship so desperately needed in these awful times. Class organization.
Just a simple act of love and solidarity and sportsmanship so desperately needed in these awful times. Class organization.
Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia and his wife Kayla announced that their newborn daughter, Sterling Sol, died on October 26th.
Please continue to keep this family in your thoughts. 💔
Please continue to keep this family in your thoughts. 💔
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I will never forget the Toronto Blue Jays relief pitchers sharpie-ing Vesia’s number on their caps during games 6 and 7 of the World Series for as long as I live.
Just a simple act of love and solidarity and sportsmanship so desperately needed in these awful times. Class organization.
Just a simple act of love and solidarity and sportsmanship so desperately needed in these awful times. Class organization.
The Discord community has been so great this month, between sprints and chat and encouragement. And these chats are always so empowering. Thanks for making it all happen!
#weeknightwriters #firstdraftfall
#weeknightwriters #firstdraftfall
Q5: What can we in the #WeeknightWriters community do to make the next week of #FirstDraftFall easier for you?
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The Discord community has been so great this month, between sprints and chat and encouragement. And these chats are always so empowering. Thanks for making it all happen!
#weeknightwriters #firstdraftfall
#weeknightwriters #firstdraftfall
The joy of writing again. But also an unexpected character cropping up who’s going to fit a role I hadn’t cast yet. And I feel like I nailed his voice well from the start. #weeknightwriters
Q3: Let’s cheer things up a bit! What’s your favourite part of #FirstDraftFall so far? #WeeknightWriters
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The joy of writing again. But also an unexpected character cropping up who’s going to fit a role I hadn’t cast yet. And I feel like I nailed his voice well from the start. #weeknightwriters
Descriptions! I’m bad at them, but they’re so necessary in this WIP to contrast between societies. Clothing definitely, room decor, all that. I can’t even get a picture in my head and I’m usually good at visualization. #weeknightwriters
Q2: Are you struggling with anything specific in your #FirstDraftFall project? Tell us about it and we’ll see how we can help! #WeeknightWriters
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Descriptions! I’m bad at them, but they’re so necessary in this WIP to contrast between societies. Clothing definitely, room decor, all that. I can’t even get a picture in my head and I’m usually good at visualization. #weeknightwriters
#weeknightwriters #firstdraftfall I'm really excited. I wasn't sure how things were going to go, since I'd been on the shelf for so long, but I've gotten off to just the start I was hoping for and well ahead of pace for my goal for the month.
Q1: How are you feeling about your #FirstDraftFall progress so far? Excited? Disheartened? #WeeknightWriters
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
#weeknightwriters #firstdraftfall I'm really excited. I wasn't sure how things were going to go, since I'd been on the shelf for so long, but I've gotten off to just the start I was hoping for and well ahead of pace for my goal for the month.
I guess I should introduce my project too. This is a fantasy-bordering-on-science fantasy heist-resistance-uprising-against-fascist oppressors novel with a middle-aged heroine who gets her life back... the life she needed instead of the life she thought she wanted. #weeknightwriters
Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your #FirstDraftFall project is going!
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I guess I should introduce my project too. This is a fantasy-bordering-on-science fantasy heist-resistance-uprising-against-fascist oppressors novel with a middle-aged heroine who gets her life back... the life she needed instead of the life she thought she wanted. #weeknightwriters
#weeknightwriters Hi there, I'm Julia. I've had the best writing week I've had in two months. Actually, writing anything at all would've been the best writing week I've had in two months. But I've managed over 5500 words this week, which is a great week by any of my standards!
#WeeknightWriters Hi, I'm Andy. My #FirstDraftFall project is "Escape From Crab Island", a prequel story in my Kestrel and Scar series of pirate adventures.
So far, I managed about 800 words. It's been a week.
So far, I managed about 800 words. It's been a week.
Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your #FirstDraftFall project is going!
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#weeknightwriters Hi there, I'm Julia. I've had the best writing week I've had in two months. Actually, writing anything at all would've been the best writing week I've had in two months. But I've managed over 5500 words this week, which is a great week by any of my standards!
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November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The thing mainstream conservatism is trying to conserve is unassailable cultural, economic, and political supremacy for white landowning christian men. Its inevitable conclusions are subjugation, oppression, corruption, slavery, and genocide.
November 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The thing mainstream conservatism is trying to conserve is unassailable cultural, economic, and political supremacy for white landowning christian men. Its inevitable conclusions are subjugation, oppression, corruption, slavery, and genocide.
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Chuck Schumer should follow in Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Chuck Schumer should follow in Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps
🎶 There's change coming once and for all. You're getting too old, too weak to keep holdin' on. 🎶
Throw every last one of the cowards in the street. Let's GO.
Throw every last one of the cowards in the street. Let's GO.
May this keep every establishment democrat up for a week. ESPECIALLY Schumer and Jeffries.
Your jobs are next, babes.
Your jobs are next, babes.
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
🎶 There's change coming once and for all. You're getting too old, too weak to keep holdin' on. 🎶
Throw every last one of the cowards in the street. Let's GO.
Throw every last one of the cowards in the street. Let's GO.
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I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone
Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit