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...
Pluribus is what happens when you have a concept rather than a story
January 5, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Pluribus is what happens when you have a concept rather than a story
What does it say about me that I don’t feel particularly nostalgic about the MetroCard because I still think of it as the newfangled replacement for the token?
January 2, 2026 at 12:53 AM
What does it say about me that I don’t feel particularly nostalgic about the MetroCard because I still think of it as the newfangled replacement for the token?
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BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins
January 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins
2026 is already better than 2025
January 1, 2026 at 5:14 AM
2026 is already better than 2025
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Headed into 2026 like
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Headed into 2026 like
slipping on my selkie pelt, just to seal something
hauling a sailor under the ship, just to keel something
Playing the glocken, just to spiel something
December 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
slipping on my selkie pelt, just to seal something
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Juiceless Bitch Update
December 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Juiceless Bitch Update
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Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
But the “pro lifers” are fine with this, yes?
CW: SA, infanticide
According to this Epstein file Trump regularly paid to sexually assault a 13 year old on a yacht and watched as they disposed of the 13 year olds new born child off the side of the boat in lake Michigan.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
According to this Epstein file Trump regularly paid to sexually assault a 13 year old on a yacht and watched as they disposed of the 13 year olds new born child off the side of the boat in lake Michigan.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
December 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
But the “pro lifers” are fine with this, yes?
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"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up
December 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up
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Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
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I remain quite angry at the people, many of them fellow Jews, who spent so much energy worrying about leftwing campus antisemitism when it was so clearly used as a distraction from the growing acceptance of mask-off Nazism within the Republican party. So many people allowed themselves to get played.
We need to read this. People need to understand. Antisemitism IS actually an urgent threat, but the crisis point isn't campus protests.
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I remain quite angry at the people, many of them fellow Jews, who spent so much energy worrying about leftwing campus antisemitism when it was so clearly used as a distraction from the growing acceptance of mask-off Nazism within the Republican party. So many people allowed themselves to get played.
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John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
I didn’t see this until just now, but just finished watching The Princess Bride
we should all watch a rob reiner movie tomorrow, this entire site, just pick one and put it on at like 8pm est
December 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I didn’t see this until just now, but just finished watching The Princess Bride
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i'm only half joking when i say posting stuff like this *could* work
mr president, they're saying you're not brave enough to stick a fork in this electrical socket. they're saying Obama stuck a fork in every socket in the White House. men- big, strong men with tears in their eyes - are saying to me "Trump can't do it, he can't stick a fork in this electrical socket"
December 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
i'm only half joking when i say posting stuff like this *could* work
maybe it will happen today
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
maybe it will happen today
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The best argument really
Y'all, remember that we can impeach and remove him, and we wouldn't have to listen to this.
Trump as he rambles on and on about snakes: “Look how quiet everybody is”
December 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The best argument really
As the saying from that era goes, “never forget”
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
As the saying from that era goes, “never forget”
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It needs to be treated as importantly as "no animals were harmed during the making of this film"
Because yeah, for a time? Animals got harmed and people accepted it as a part of the process. And it was wrong.
So is this, and it needs to stop.
Because yeah, for a time? Animals got harmed and people accepted it as a part of the process. And it was wrong.
So is this, and it needs to stop.
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It needs to be treated as importantly as "no animals were harmed during the making of this film"
Because yeah, for a time? Animals got harmed and people accepted it as a part of the process. And it was wrong.
So is this, and it needs to stop.
Because yeah, for a time? Animals got harmed and people accepted it as a part of the process. And it was wrong.
So is this, and it needs to stop.
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i am sad my fellowship years are ending but happy that means a new CNF writer here in this cold place. know a nonfiction writer who has at least one book and likes snow? hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
Careers
The Visiting Writer Chair will consult closely with, and work under the direction of, the Director and Assistant Director of Creative Writing on Edelstein-Keller annual programming. The programming is facilitated by staff support and agreed upon by the Creative Writing Program faculty.
hr.myu.umn.edu
December 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
i am sad my fellowship years are ending but happy that means a new CNF writer here in this cold place. know a nonfiction writer who has at least one book and likes snow? hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
I finally watched One Battle After Another and loved a lot of things about it, but especially the way it articulates the creepy grossness of all things Christmas
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I finally watched One Battle After Another and loved a lot of things about it, but especially the way it articulates the creepy grossness of all things Christmas
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Looking for one or two big publications open to horror/speculative book review pitches. Hope to work with some cool folks in 2026.
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Looking for one or two big publications open to horror/speculative book review pitches. Hope to work with some cool folks in 2026.
what kind of medal do they give out for going to the gym when it's sleeting out, instead of eating pizza and napping all day?
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
what kind of medal do they give out for going to the gym when it's sleeting out, instead of eating pizza and napping all day?