Mattilda B Sycamore
@mbsycamore.bsky.social
New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!β‘π·Also: TOUCHING THE ART, THE FREEZER DOOR, BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE + working on ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK ++ https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
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Mattilda B Sycamore
@mbsycamore.bsky.social
Β· Nov 12
This Club Kid Knows How to Survive. The Better Question Is: How to Live?
www.nytimes.com
Honey, I'm sobbing, yes, literally SOBBING after reading this review of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix in the New York Times Book Review, which engages with the book on so many deep levels, yes, I'm reading it over and over, what a gift, this means everything to me!!!πππππ
Abolish it all!π₯
Abolishing ICE without also dismantling DHS would be like excising the symptom while leaving the malignancy in place.
February 12, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Abolish it all!π₯
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Don't miss today's conversationβrecorded live at @powells.bsky.social, in downtown Portland, Oregonβwith poet Canisia Lubrin about The World After Rain
milkweed.org/between-the-...
@silver-press.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social
@uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social
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@silver-press.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social
@uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social
Milkweed Live : Canisia Lubrin : The World After Rain | Milkweed Editions
Canisia Lubrin returns to Between the Covers for a live conversation in downtown Portland, at Powellβs Bookstore, about her latest poetry collection The World After Rain. A private book, that Canisia ...
milkweed.org
February 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Don't miss today's conversationβrecorded live at @powells.bsky.social, in downtown Portland, Oregonβwith poet Canisia Lubrin about The World After Rain
milkweed.org/between-the-...
@silver-press.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social
@uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social
milkweed.org/between-the-...
@silver-press.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social
@uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social
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a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Gallup says it will stop doing presidential approval polls (after 88 years of doing it) because of "an evolution in how Gallup focuses it's public research". This is eliminating a time series that goes back to FDR.
thehill.com/homenews/med...
thehill.com/homenews/med...
thehill.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:18 PM
a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
I'm so excited that you found a gold fossilized mastodon tooth, and I didn't even realize they had gold teeth back then π¦·ππ
February 11, 2026 at 6:25 AM
I'm so excited that you found a gold fossilized mastodon tooth, and I didn't even realize they had gold teeth back then π¦·ππ
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate β overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate β overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
Help, the headlights on this car are about to give me a migraine from a hundred feet away, I want to yell turn those lights off but I don't think that would get me anywhere. When I finally get past the car I look back, and of course it's a Tesla.
February 11, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Help, the headlights on this car are about to give me a migraine from a hundred feet away, I want to yell turn those lights off but I don't think that would get me anywhere. When I finally get past the car I look back, and of course it's a Tesla.
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The risks of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens can be severe, but the media continues to stigmatize Olympians taking precautions as "worried" and "extreme". We know #LongCOVID can affect anyone, even elite athletes.
In the @thesicktimes.org today π·π¦
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...
In the @thesicktimes.org today π·π¦
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...
Winter Olympic athletes are rightfully taking COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times
Despite a lack of COVID-19 precautions implemented by the 2026 Winter Olympics organizers in Italy, some athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by mask...
thesicktimes.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:13 PM
The risks of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens can be severe, but the media continues to stigmatize Olympians taking precautions as "worried" and "extreme". We know #LongCOVID can affect anyone, even elite athletes.
In the @thesicktimes.org today π·π¦
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...
In the @thesicktimes.org today π·π¦
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...
Walked by this Merchant's House so many times, always wondering if it's worth going inside, but knowing that it was a stop on the Underground Railroad, w/the hidden passageway still intact, is definitely something stunning. (Also fascinating that the museum just realized exactly what this is.π₯)
βHistorians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-centuryβ
Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan
The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.
ny1.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Walked by this Merchant's House so many times, always wondering if it's worth going inside, but knowing that it was a stop on the Underground Railroad, w/the hidden passageway still intact, is definitely something stunning. (Also fascinating that the museum just realized exactly what this is.π₯)
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"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israelβs systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
βFour of my children just evaporated,β Badran said, holding back tears. βI looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?β
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 AM
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israelβs systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
A lovely review of TERRY DACTYL in @artreview.bsky.socialπΊ"This is a book about community and intimacy, the importance of both for survival, the avoidable injustices that recur throughout history and the necessity of remaining hopeful, even as the weight of the world pushes down on your shoulders"πΊ
Review: Terry Dactyl by Mattilda Bernstein
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamoreβs fourth novel tests the limits of queer joy against unvarnished realism
artreview.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:06 AM
A lovely review of TERRY DACTYL in @artreview.bsky.socialπΊ"This is a book about community and intimacy, the importance of both for survival, the avoidable injustices that recur throughout history and the necessity of remaining hopeful, even as the weight of the world pushes down on your shoulders"πΊ
"It's as if there is some awful truth out there in the trees, it's hiding in the branches, look at them..."πβοΈβοΈβοΈ
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
"It's as if there is some awful truth out there in the trees, it's hiding in the branches, look at them..."πβοΈβοΈβοΈ
"Your grants dot gov account is about to expire" HONEY, THERE ARE NO MORE GRANTS UNDER THIS GOV SO PLEASE STOP SENDING ME THIS NONSENSE
February 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM
"Your grants dot gov account is about to expire" HONEY, THERE ARE NO MORE GRANTS UNDER THIS GOV SO PLEASE STOP SENDING ME THIS NONSENSE
We miss you!!ππ
February 10, 2026 at 9:45 PM
We miss you!!ππ
Love to hear about this impulse purchase, and, you are in great company, because Terry Dactyl is also very high at the beginning of the book ππππ
ooh very excited to check out this book that just got delivered but i almost forgot i ordered after @j3s.bsky.social recommended it to me when i was in chicago last week and i bought it on the spot because i was very high and knew i would forget otherwise
February 10, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Love to hear about this impulse purchase, and, you are in great company, because Terry Dactyl is also very high at the beginning of the book ππππ
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zinesters, man, i just love βem
Babe, wake up. New leader of antifa just dropped.
(Thank you fellow trivia team for sharing your art.)
(Thank you fellow trivia team for sharing your art.)
February 10, 2026 at 3:50 AM
zinesters, man, i just love βem
Ha, can't figure it out, good sign that I should get back to writingπ«
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Ha, can't figure it out, good sign that I should get back to writingπ«
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π§Ώ warding off ICE in our neighborhood
February 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
π§Ώ warding off ICE in our neighborhood
Brave of you to step in!!βΈοΈπΆπΆπΆ
February 10, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Brave of you to step in!!βΈοΈπΆπΆπΆ
What is the bluesky nebula map??π
February 10, 2026 at 3:36 AM
What is the bluesky nebula map??π
Ready for this formula!π«
February 10, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Ready for this formula!π«
There's the inside and the outside, the experienced and the imagined, but also the rupture between and beyond, can this be more than a frame, an opening, a way to challenge everything that breaks us, when hope is only something you yearn for, except in those moments, but what about those moments.
February 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
There's the inside and the outside, the experienced and the imagined, but also the rupture between and beyond, can this be more than a frame, an opening, a way to challenge everything that breaks us, when hope is only something you yearn for, except in those moments, but what about those moments.
At least there's this magnificent sage bush perched on the side of a ravine, Seattle, yes, this is the best sage I've ever used in my cooking.πΏ
February 9, 2026 at 9:58 PM
At least there's this magnificent sage bush perched on the side of a ravine, Seattle, yes, this is the best sage I've ever used in my cooking.πΏ
Here I just mean the everyday experience of breathing, the connection between toxicity and breaking down.
February 9, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Here I just mean the everyday experience of breathing, the connection between toxicity and breaking down.
The connection between sinus and sadness, I wish I could break the link. Anything to escape the shutting off. I wish the world wasn't so toxic. An insistence on toxicity, a refusal to change.
February 9, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The connection between sinus and sadness, I wish I could break the link. Anything to escape the shutting off. I wish the world wasn't so toxic. An insistence on toxicity, a refusal to change.