Lilly Dancyger
@lillydancyger.bsky.social
author of First Love and Negative Space
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My essay collection First Love came out one year ago today! Female friendship! Obsession and codependency and love that might be friend love or might be romantic! Found family! Helping each other through loss, raising each other's babies! bookshop.org/a/1925/97805...
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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New campaign ad for Dems just dropped.
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
New campaign ad for Dems just dropped.
Everything he says sounds more and more like the kind of shit you hear someone screaming on the subway while everyone studiously avoids eye contact with them
Look, if someone tells you "There's actually only one way (to solve poverty) and that's with the Optimus robot..." They are a crazy person and you should get away from them.
This passage puts Musk's arrogance and moral blinders on full display. At DOGE, Musk destroyed USAID and weakened other part of the compensatory state that have been shown to effectively address poverty. Yet here he babbling about robots and "wild sci-fi scenarios" as the "only way" to do so.
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Everything he says sounds more and more like the kind of shit you hear someone screaming on the subway while everyone studiously avoids eye contact with them
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“I asked ChatGPT—“ yeah well I asked you to stop doing that and now we can’t be friends anymore
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“I asked ChatGPT—“ yeah well I asked you to stop doing that and now we can’t be friends anymore
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I'm reading The Lord of the Flies rn and it's pretty upsetting that these children are doing a better, more level-headed job of governing than the actual adult leaders of this country
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm reading The Lord of the Flies rn and it's pretty upsetting that these children are doing a better, more level-headed job of governing than the actual adult leaders of this country
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Anyone need an awp panelist?? Add me so I can go.
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: natalielima09@gmail.com
✏️💗
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: natalielima09@gmail.com
✏️💗
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Anyone need an awp panelist?? Add me so I can go.
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: natalielima09@gmail.com
✏️💗
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: natalielima09@gmail.com
✏️💗
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
lol I might pick up a copy of the Post for the first time... ever? to frame this cover
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
lol I might pick up a copy of the Post for the first time... ever? to frame this cover
a good election day omen if there ever was one!!
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
a good election day omen if there ever was one!!
And may the injustices he entrenched even further into our system of government die with him!
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
And may the injustices he entrenched even further into our system of government die with him!
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one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly
Just thinking about what my childhood would have been like without food stamps, and once again feeling sad and overwhelmed and so so angry about the state of things and how it doesn't have to be this way.
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Just thinking about what my childhood would have been like without food stamps, and once again feeling sad and overwhelmed and so so angry about the state of things and how it doesn't have to be this way.
We can’t underestimate how widely hated Cuomo is—across party lines
Not sure how many Trump/Mamdani voters there will be but I know someone who’s both a Musk fanboy and a Mamdani fan (he’s Indian).
October 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
We can’t underestimate how widely hated Cuomo is—across party lines
It's not complicated, it's just that the people trying to make this into a scandal don't have anyone who loves them, so they don't understand terms of endearment
A cousin is anyone near your age in your family or some kid who is around a lot and an aunt is an older lady who gives a shit about you.
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It's not complicated, it's just that the people trying to make this into a scandal don't have anyone who loves them, so they don't understand terms of endearment
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If children who are not related to you do not call you “Aunt” or “Uncle” then you have no charisma and no light in your eyes.
I used to love how my daughter's little friend Neha, down the street, would call me "Uncle Jeff" when the girls were little.
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If children who are not related to you do not call you “Aunt” or “Uncle” then you have no charisma and no light in your eyes.
Hey wow whaddaya know, good things still happen!
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
October 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hey wow whaddaya know, good things still happen!
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Ignorant antisemites: “Why didn’t Jews fight back against Hitler”.
Jews:
Jews:
Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.
Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab
Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.
www.gavi.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Ignorant antisemites: “Why didn’t Jews fight back against Hitler”.
Jews:
Jews:
How could anyone ever want to use AI when humans can come up with, and execute, stuff like this
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How could anyone ever want to use AI when humans can come up with, and execute, stuff like this
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There’s a reason so many artists keeping saying they’d rather than die than use generative AI: it’s not hyperbole, it would be the death of creativity, and for most artists, that’s too unbearable to live with
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
There’s a reason so many artists keeping saying they’d rather than die than use generative AI: it’s not hyperbole, it would be the death of creativity, and for most artists, that’s too unbearable to live with
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The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.
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“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits