Juliette Wade
@juliettewade.bsky.social
Novelist, linguist, anthropologist, Ph.D.
Fascinated by social systems.
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The Broken Trust series: 1. Mazes of Power (DAW 2020)
juliettewade.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JulietteWade
CA in AUS, Naarm
she/her
NO AI
Fascinated by social systems.
Rep'd by K. O'Higgins
The Broken Trust series: 1. Mazes of Power (DAW 2020)
juliettewade.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JulietteWade
CA in AUS, Naarm
she/her
NO AI
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Juliette Wade
@juliettewade.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Things I like to post:
#SFF
books, stories, art
human rights/politics
Discourse Analysis
LGBT+ support, trans and acespec rep
Cute animals esp otters, corvids, possums, cats
Science!
IRL language and culture geekery
worldbuilding, especially linguistic and cultural
my novels/stories and WIPs
#SFF
books, stories, art
human rights/politics
Discourse Analysis
LGBT+ support, trans and acespec rep
Cute animals esp otters, corvids, possums, cats
Science!
IRL language and culture geekery
worldbuilding, especially linguistic and cultural
my novels/stories and WIPs
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Jasmine Crockett: "If people decide that they want to continue to support person who may be a pedophile themselves or a person who obviously is covering on pedophiles, that's on them. But they should at least know the devil they decided to pick."
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Jasmine Crockett: "If people decide that they want to continue to support person who may be a pedophile themselves or a person who obviously is covering on pedophiles, that's on them. But they should at least know the devil they decided to pick."
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening
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Jimmy Kimmel delivering a 22-minute eulogy of Cleto Escobedo III, his best friend of 45+ yrs, & leader of his show's band..
Two things hit me:
1. He wears his emotions on his sleeve, showing it's ok for men to cry
2. He names the docs/nurses that cared for Cleto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...
Two things hit me:
1. He wears his emotions on his sleeve, showing it's ok for men to cry
2. He names the docs/nurses that cared for Cleto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...
Jimmy Kimmel Remembers His Best Friend and Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Jimmy Kimmel delivering a 22-minute eulogy of Cleto Escobedo III, his best friend of 45+ yrs, & leader of his show's band..
Two things hit me:
1. He wears his emotions on his sleeve, showing it's ok for men to cry
2. He names the docs/nurses that cared for Cleto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...
Two things hit me:
1. He wears his emotions on his sleeve, showing it's ok for men to cry
2. He names the docs/nurses that cared for Cleto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...
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I like reading French newspapers in French because I frequently have to look up & learn new niche words.
Just learned this one today: “pratiques anticoncurrentielles.”
(Anti-competitive practices. )
Just learned this one today: “pratiques anticoncurrentielles.”
(Anti-competitive practices. )
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I like reading French newspapers in French because I frequently have to look up & learn new niche words.
Just learned this one today: “pratiques anticoncurrentielles.”
(Anti-competitive practices. )
Just learned this one today: “pratiques anticoncurrentielles.”
(Anti-competitive practices. )
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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This is a useful thread about the policies behind a three day suspension of a well known poster.
There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!
"bluesky will suspend you for anything vaguely resembling a death threat" is maybe the single most consistent moderation policy they have I don't know why anyone is surprised by this one
yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics
yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This is a useful thread about the policies behind a three day suspension of a well known poster.
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Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
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I’d propose letting people know that “reading” doesn’t just mean “fiction” and “novels”.
That’d help.
That’d help.
77% of people who don’t call themselves readers read every week.
Britain doesn’t have a shortage of readers. We have a shortage of people who feel like readers.
It’s time to #RedefineReading.
👉 Explore the new State of the Nation report here: bit.ly/46ItklZ
Britain doesn’t have a shortage of readers. We have a shortage of people who feel like readers.
It’s time to #RedefineReading.
👉 Explore the new State of the Nation report here: bit.ly/46ItklZ
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I’d propose letting people know that “reading” doesn’t just mean “fiction” and “novels”.
That’d help.
That’d help.
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6. Until we have communal confidence that permanently suspended people actually received detailed and ideally actionable reports on what happened (appeal processes should exist), it's going to keep feeling bad.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
6. Until we have communal confidence that permanently suspended people actually received detailed and ideally actionable reports on what happened (appeal processes should exist), it's going to keep feeling bad.
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5. Nothing I've said, here or elsewhere, is a demand that Bluesky post through every controversial mod decision.
I think there's a commonsense analogy to health info here—you can call a hospital and find out whether someone's been admitted, but not why. But we know that *they* know why.
I think there's a commonsense analogy to health info here—you can call a hospital and find out whether someone's been admitted, but not why. But we know that *they* know why.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
5. Nothing I've said, here or elsewhere, is a demand that Bluesky post through every controversial mod decision.
I think there's a commonsense analogy to health info here—you can call a hospital and find out whether someone's been admitted, but not why. But we know that *they* know why.
I think there's a commonsense analogy to health info here—you can call a hospital and find out whether someone's been admitted, but not why. But we know that *they* know why.
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4. In the absence of confidence that every suspended person has been told happened, rumors and worst-case assumptions fill the vacuum. No one knows what behavior will get them banned. And this is all happening against the background of a high-stakes authoritarian slide. People are scared.
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
4. In the absence of confidence that every suspended person has been told happened, rumors and worst-case assumptions fill the vacuum. No one knows what behavior will get them banned. And this is all happening against the background of a high-stakes authoritarian slide. People are scared.
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3. If we're confident that every person who gets suspended *does* receive a clear explanation, then it's up to that person to disclose or not disclose the info, and communities can make judgments accordingly. But right now, we don't have that confidence.
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
3. If we're confident that every person who gets suspended *does* receive a clear explanation, then it's up to that person to disclose or not disclose the info, and communities can make judgments accordingly. But right now, we don't have that confidence.
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2. I think people who get suspended have the right to clear and specific information about what rules they broke and with which posts. Obvious bots maybe don't need this? But real humans do.
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
2. I think people who get suspended have the right to clear and specific information about what rules they broke and with which posts. Obvious bots maybe don't need this? But real humans do.
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note that the US Catholic bishops just elected an absolute firebreather of a conservative to be their new head, so it's important to understand that immigration is very specifically NOT an area where the MAGA adult convert caucus (Vance, Kirk, etc.) and old-school Catholic conservatives align AT ALL
Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:
wapo.st/448fDw6
wapo.st/448fDw6
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
note that the US Catholic bishops just elected an absolute firebreather of a conservative to be their new head, so it's important to understand that immigration is very specifically NOT an area where the MAGA adult convert caucus (Vance, Kirk, etc.) and old-school Catholic conservatives align AT ALL
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Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:
wapo.st/448fDw6
wapo.st/448fDw6
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:
wapo.st/448fDw6
wapo.st/448fDw6
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"It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 members of the United States Senate over $1,000,000 a piece and we are robbing people of their food assistance and healthcare to pay for it. How is this even on the floor!?"
Rep. AOC
Rep. AOC
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 members of the United States Senate over $1,000,000 a piece and we are robbing people of their food assistance and healthcare to pay for it. How is this even on the floor!?"
Rep. AOC
Rep. AOC
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November 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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BREAKING: Grijalva has signed the Epstein Files discharge petition. It doesn't appear that Mace or Boebert have removed their names.
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
BREAKING: Grijalva has signed the Epstein Files discharge petition. It doesn't appear that Mace or Boebert have removed their names.
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i think the media should report on the extremist ties of the VP
“The infighting [over welcoming open Nazis into the GOP tent] is stupid,” writes Vice President Vance, which makes sense only if he thinks any Republicans objecting to said Nazi-welcoming should shut up.
doing a Straussian reading of this post, especially point 3, and it's fairly obvious that Vance is aligned with the Tucker Carlson-wing of the GOP and thinks further right groups should be part of the tent, but won't outright break with Trump's I/P policy while he's still VP
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
i think the media should report on the extremist ties of the VP
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No.
There are specific situations where that can be a risk, we know those situations and they can be addressed when the victim is still young/ish, or hasn't acted on it. I don't want to get into the specifics because it's best dealt with by pros and some of the details can be 'titillating' in ways
There are specific situations where that can be a risk, we know those situations and they can be addressed when the victim is still young/ish, or hasn't acted on it. I don't want to get into the specifics because it's best dealt with by pros and some of the details can be 'titillating' in ways
Are child victims of predation more likely to become predators themselves?
If so, could breaking the cycle (using maximum kill or no-parole penalties) reduce the prevalence of a crime you say is unavoidable?
If so, could breaking the cycle (using maximum kill or no-parole penalties) reduce the prevalence of a crime you say is unavoidable?
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
No.
There are specific situations where that can be a risk, we know those situations and they can be addressed when the victim is still young/ish, or hasn't acted on it. I don't want to get into the specifics because it's best dealt with by pros and some of the details can be 'titillating' in ways
There are specific situations where that can be a risk, we know those situations and they can be addressed when the victim is still young/ish, or hasn't acted on it. I don't want to get into the specifics because it's best dealt with by pros and some of the details can be 'titillating' in ways
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Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner