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Marsha Adams
@marshaadams.bsky.social
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Autistic author.
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She developed a system to #measure the surreality of individual dreams using only a thermometer and a talking penguin. The scale went from "Fish, please?" to "And we have erased the electric planet to its former quarry," but in centigrade.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Fiction woven from a true lie and art (10)

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November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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School had taught her the most basic logic principle, the #law of excluded middle: what is, is, and what is not, is not. Most days, she felt illegal.

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November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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In the #language of dust, silence is a scream.

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November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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She thought of herself as a social scientist: improving her economics by using psychology to persuade rich men to overlook her history in favour of her #geography.

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November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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tick, tock
time's running out

in the near future
every ignoramus
will be #famous
for long enough
to shame us

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November 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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She was drawn to an older man because she thought his life experience might broaden her #education. To be fair, she did learn a lot about discipline and just how small an outfit could be while still qualifying as school uniform.

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November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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After forty years with him, she had finally achieved #domestic bliss. It all hinged on a simple compromise: she would sit at whichever end of the sofa she wanted, and he would sit on the mantelpiece.

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November 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
marshaadams.bsky.social
as a #creature teacher
my class would need to feature
sufficient depth for my students to reach a
full understanding of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
while seeing to it that in the process I do not myself become a creature

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November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I have decided to make writing my #business, in the same way Donald Trump made casinos, steaks, vodka, and tertiary education his business.

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November 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
marshaadams.bsky.social
"Do you celebrate #halloween?"
"Is that like Kanamara Matsuri in Shinto?"
"What?"
"To be honest, I've never found one good enough to regard as sacred, but if I ever do, I'll certainly be celebrating."

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October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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#Ray always seemed like such a sunny guy, right up until his death.

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October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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#argent: (noun) a sophisticated pirate. Etymology: coined in 1684 as a nom-de-pillage by the buccaneer Extended Jonathan Silver, Esquire.

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October 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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today I will #experiment
with joie de vivre and merriment
testing the null hypothesis
that hope ain't where my pathos is

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October 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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shadows #creep up the wall
no one throws a lifebelt
for the sinking sun
darkness comes

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October 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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"I discovered I have a #Heliacal cat! She's already ascending to the Rarified Layer!"
"Do you mean Jellicle, and Heavyside Layer?"
"No, I mean the dog built a rocket. He's just launched her into space, heading for the sun."

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October 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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She sips hot chocolate in the dark, sitting at their cold kitchen table. It's a sleep disorder, the doctor said, he has night #terror. Him! He never woke up with hands on his throat.

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October 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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#Martian parents still frighten their young into behaving with tales of the common cold. "If you don't eat your red weed," they might say, "I'll send you to Earth without a hankie!"

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October 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
marshaadams.bsky.social
time out of mind
seventeen
signs #unseen
assent assigned
declined, maligned
sub routine

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October 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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how I cope
caffeine for #energy
dopamine to direct the caffeine
codeine to make the dopamine possible
nicotine to reward the dopamine and keep it flowing
basically, I'm a heroine
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October 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Her grandmother used Brooke Bond tea leaves, steeped in a Brown Betty teapot, strained into a china cup perched on a delicate #saucer.
Her mother uses teabags, dropped and drowned in a mug.
She drinks instant coffee, the caffeine powering her anemoia.

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October 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Fun fact: there are more #atoms in a glass of water than in the whole Pacific ocean.
Most people instinctively don't believe this, because they think the Pacific is real rather than a mono-molecular hologram built by ancient aliens to lure human sailors to their doom.

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October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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He'd #hover at the bar like a hawk suspended in a cornflower sky, and with the same unwavering focus: prey. But she knew how blind even hawks could be: he'd never spot the bait was poisoned, not if she looked mousy enough.

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October 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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There remain many unanswered questions about AI. For example, can an #android get a hemorrhoid if it's training to parse a daily log?

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October 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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People were drawn to her #unearthly beauty, usually by her tentacles. "Am I pretty?" she would ask as she dangled them in front of her eldritch maw; she took their screams as affirmation.

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October 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM