Lily
@lilywrites.bsky.social
Managing Editor at @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social. Words in @racketmn.com, @reactorsff.bsky.social, others. Ex-MFA person. She/her. All views my own!
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Lily
@lilywrites.bsky.social
· Nov 6
trying very hard to think about non-election things rn. like for instance how in the buffy episode where faith steals her body she has the exact cadence, intonation, and editing rhythm of jenny nicholson making fun of a star wars character she doesn't like
Hey fyi just saw some hashtag resistance person posting a reaction meme on here that included a graphic photo of Renee Good's murder scene. If you are not that person, just a warning that that is out there! If you ARE that person, jesus CHRIST what is wrong with you
January 18, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Hey fyi just saw some hashtag resistance person posting a reaction meme on here that included a graphic photo of Renee Good's murder scene. If you are not that person, just a warning that that is out there! If you ARE that person, jesus CHRIST what is wrong with you
just saw an ICE car getting trailed onto the highway by six (6) very loud compact cars. I support the troops (Minneapolis' VW Golf-owning antifascists)
January 18, 2026 at 9:40 PM
just saw an ICE car getting trailed onto the highway by six (6) very loud compact cars. I support the troops (Minneapolis' VW Golf-owning antifascists)
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Look for the helpers
Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.
www.artnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Look for the helpers
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Because these international grocers need your support now more than ever, especially during these times, here’s a guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities that I wrote for @racketmn.com: racketmn.com/guide-intern...
A Guide to the International Grocers of the Twin Cities - Racket
The Twin Cities is home to over 40 international grocers, and they deserve your dollars, too.
racketmn.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Because these international grocers need your support now more than ever, especially during these times, here’s a guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities that I wrote for @racketmn.com: racketmn.com/guide-intern...
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any "via media" that is compromise for the sake of peace rather than comprehension for the sake of truth, any via media that makes peace with oppression rather than fearlessly contending against evil, such a "via media" should burn in the fires of gehenna
January 18, 2026 at 1:22 PM
any "via media" that is compromise for the sake of peace rather than comprehension for the sake of truth, any via media that makes peace with oppression rather than fearlessly contending against evil, such a "via media" should burn in the fires of gehenna
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I’ve been thinking more about this. I think a failure to recognize that to truly follow Christ means willingness to die for others is the failure that underlies every other petty common uncharity and ordinary, defensible selfishness
can u imagine being not only a baptized christian but an ordained priest and then, when NPR asks you about the Bishop of New Hampshire's comments last week, what you find to say is "I didn't sign up to be a martyr"??
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I’ve been thinking more about this. I think a failure to recognize that to truly follow Christ means willingness to die for others is the failure that underlies every other petty common uncharity and ordinary, defensible selfishness
watched Stalker (1979) w my wife today and she had the great idea of leading a freshman orientation hiking trip where you just go rogue and turn it into a Stalker (1979) scenario. "Hi!! Welcome to Dartmouth :) I'm Katie, she/her. Today we'll be approaching the Room. This cannot be done directly, as
January 17, 2026 at 10:51 PM
watched Stalker (1979) w my wife today and she had the great idea of leading a freshman orientation hiking trip where you just go rogue and turn it into a Stalker (1979) scenario. "Hi!! Welcome to Dartmouth :) I'm Katie, she/her. Today we'll be approaching the Room. This cannot be done directly, as
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Love this @lilywrites.bsky.social piece on the slippery nature of Pluribus's central idea, and how it bucks a dispiriting trend of SFF stories with too-easy, one-to-one metaphors for trauma, or social ills, or etc.
episodes.ghost.io/pluribus-rev...
episodes.ghost.io/pluribus-rev...
January 16, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Love this @lilywrites.bsky.social piece on the slippery nature of Pluribus's central idea, and how it bucks a dispiriting trend of SFF stories with too-easy, one-to-one metaphors for trauma, or social ills, or etc.
episodes.ghost.io/pluribus-rev...
episodes.ghost.io/pluribus-rev...
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Dear neighbor,
It’s become common practice for ICE to stage its operations at the Target parking lot on East Lake Street. While immigration officials tear families apart, Target corporation is silent and makes its workers and customers feel unsafe. 1/
It’s become common practice for ICE to stage its operations at the Target parking lot on East Lake Street. While immigration officials tear families apart, Target corporation is silent and makes its workers and customers feel unsafe. 1/
January 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Dear neighbor,
It’s become common practice for ICE to stage its operations at the Target parking lot on East Lake Street. While immigration officials tear families apart, Target corporation is silent and makes its workers and customers feel unsafe. 1/
It’s become common practice for ICE to stage its operations at the Target parking lot on East Lake Street. While immigration officials tear families apart, Target corporation is silent and makes its workers and customers feel unsafe. 1/
New from me in Episodes! Thoughts on Pluribus, metaphor, and how speculative fiction can teach you to think for yourself in a turbulent time. episodes.ghost.io/pluribus-rev...
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
New from me in Episodes! Thoughts on Pluribus, metaphor, and how speculative fiction can teach you to think for yourself in a turbulent time. episodes.ghost.io/pluribus-rev...
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In this week's Friday newsletter: Lily Osler (@lilywrites.bsky.social) on Pluribus, allegory, and elastic metaphor
Pluribus isn't an allegory for anything. It's smarter than that
Pluribus' superpower, and its best feature in a media landscape full of too-obvious themes, is its use of elastic metaphor.
episodes.ghost.io
January 16, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In this week's Friday newsletter: Lily Osler (@lilywrites.bsky.social) on Pluribus, allegory, and elastic metaphor
this is the modern day equivalent of unplugging your phone to watch the State of the Union. X is offline today so we can give our whole selves to Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil
X has stopped working
X has stopped working
www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
this is the modern day equivalent of unplugging your phone to watch the State of the Union. X is offline today so we can give our whole selves to Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil
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ok look I know he's being racist and sexist here but would it be lovely to imagine he's a DS9 obsessive who's mad they retconned the Jem'Hadar being canonically unable to reproduce
Stephen Miller is upset about Star Trek, one of the most socially progressive franchises in TV history
January 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
ok look I know he's being racist and sexist here but would it be lovely to imagine he's a DS9 obsessive who's mad they retconned the Jem'Hadar being canonically unable to reproduce
feels like there's discourse brewing so I will say that yes I do feel more loyalty or patriotism or w/e to Minnesota and Minneapolis than I do to the US generally
January 15, 2026 at 11:43 PM
feels like there's discourse brewing so I will say that yes I do feel more loyalty or patriotism or w/e to Minnesota and Minneapolis than I do to the US generally
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Well they didn’t call it project 2026, did they
I guess the project 2025 handbook didn't have a guide in it for what to do when everything in project 2025 turns out to be supremely unpopular?
January 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Well they didn’t call it project 2026, did they
Went on another ICE patrol this morning. No sight of the fucks in Whittier, but saw multiple other people (in cars and on foot) doing the same thing I was doing. What is happening to Minneapolis is monstrous but we are fighting back. L'Étoile du fuckin' Nord, bitches
January 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Went on another ICE patrol this morning. No sight of the fucks in Whittier, but saw multiple other people (in cars and on foot) doing the same thing I was doing. What is happening to Minneapolis is monstrous but we are fighting back. L'Étoile du fuckin' Nord, bitches
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Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.
January 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.
I don't see why I am supposed to give a shit about what people who don't live in my city think of it lol
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I don't see why I am supposed to give a shit about what people who don't live in my city think of it lol
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Vance: I'm crying right now because you stupids won't let me have your green island. I could literally just - don't you know I'm smarter than you? I'm your better - don't leave, don't get the army
Trump: McDonald's needs to sell milk again. Nobody likes the Grimace. They get the milk from him
Trump: McDonald's needs to sell milk again. Nobody likes the Grimace. They get the milk from him
January 15, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Vance: I'm crying right now because you stupids won't let me have your green island. I could literally just - don't you know I'm smarter than you? I'm your better - don't leave, don't get the army
Trump: McDonald's needs to sell milk again. Nobody likes the Grimace. They get the milk from him
Trump: McDonald's needs to sell milk again. Nobody likes the Grimace. They get the milk from him
I heard honking and yelling outside my building a few minutes ago. Rushed downstairs with whistle and phone, but they were gone by the time I got down there — pretty sure it was community defenders tailing ICE as they got on the highway. They can't go ANYWHERE without being followed. We will win.
Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.
January 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I heard honking and yelling outside my building a few minutes ago. Rushed downstairs with whistle and phone, but they were gone by the time I got down there — pretty sure it was community defenders tailing ICE as they got on the highway. They can't go ANYWHERE without being followed. We will win.
Just saw someone on the Minnesota subreddit say "they'll break us when we're dead," and boy, when you've got Minnesotans talking like that, I dunno about your long-term invasion plan's possibility of success
January 14, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Just saw someone on the Minnesota subreddit say "they'll break us when we're dead," and boy, when you've got Minnesotans talking like that, I dunno about your long-term invasion plan's possibility of success
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Weighing in on discourse that 99.9999% of you are unaware of, and you should not seek out if you're not (seriously):
Even the most niche corners of art are made healthier by earnest, honest critique. To attack a critic for offering such is to imperil the integrity of the art you most care about.
Even the most niche corners of art are made healthier by earnest, honest critique. To attack a critic for offering such is to imperil the integrity of the art you most care about.
January 14, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Weighing in on discourse that 99.9999% of you are unaware of, and you should not seek out if you're not (seriously):
Even the most niche corners of art are made healthier by earnest, honest critique. To attack a critic for offering such is to imperil the integrity of the art you most care about.
Even the most niche corners of art are made healthier by earnest, honest critique. To attack a critic for offering such is to imperil the integrity of the art you most care about.
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In today's free Wednesday newsletter: @emilystjams.bsky.social on narrative control, right wing flailing, and a vibe shift that wasn't.
The vibes aren't shifting
Why the right-wing effort to change the narrative is already flailing.
episodes.ghost.io
January 14, 2026 at 7:29 PM
In today's free Wednesday newsletter: @emilystjams.bsky.social on narrative control, right wing flailing, and a vibe shift that wasn't.
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Poland does not want to sell its territory. But for an art student turned chancellor, the land of pierogis may be irresistible.
A remarkably large portion of American elites, even among the supposedly progressive and moderate ones, actually seems to not-so-secretly entertain fantasies of Imperial Grandeur.
January 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Poland does not want to sell its territory. But for an art student turned chancellor, the land of pierogis may be irresistible.