Helen Savore (she/her)
@paperninja.bsky.social
A recovering engineer unfolding legends in story, table, and paper.
Chronically ill writer when I can, playing Pathfinder and folding too many cranes otherwise.
Figuring it out.
https://helensavore.com/
Chronically ill writer when I can, playing Pathfinder and folding too many cranes otherwise.
Figuring it out.
https://helensavore.com/
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imagine being this beloved online and throwing it all away to do a crypto ad. absolutely pathetic lol
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 AM
imagine being this beloved online and throwing it all away to do a crypto ad. absolutely pathetic lol
All this talk of man coverage in football. I'm telling you, the first team with women is gonna score big time.
a man in a knight 's helmet is covering his face with his hand and saying i am no man .
Alt: a woman in a knight 's helmet is covering his face with his hand and saying i am no man .
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February 8, 2026 at 11:51 PM
All this talk of man coverage in football. I'm telling you, the first team with women is gonna score big time.
Who wants to bet it was actually 66 degrees at the Super Bowl, but they just bumped it up a degree for the meme?
February 8, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Who wants to bet it was actually 66 degrees at the Super Bowl, but they just bumped it up a degree for the meme?
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
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it is not just “what people enjoy watching”, though. it has been shown again and again that specific algorithms favor specifically right wing speech, and pushing these into people’s timelines and onto their youtube front page against their wishes.
Also it’s a lot easier to blame “the algorithm” than “what people enjoy watching”, because the former suggests there an easy or quick fix and the latter…doesn’t. bsky.app/profile/jim....
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says London Centric's investigation shows the need for greater regulation of the algorithms on sites such as TikTok to stop "bad faith actors spreading hate for clicks".
"Accounts are talking London down because the algorithms reward them for doing so," he says.
"Accounts are talking London down because the algorithms reward them for doing so," he says.
February 8, 2026 at 11:43 AM
it is not just “what people enjoy watching”, though. it has been shown again and again that specific algorithms favor specifically right wing speech, and pushing these into people’s timelines and onto their youtube front page against their wishes.
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6 days before launch of our queer romance antho!
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Get Ready for The Hectic Love Lives of the Mythical
From MH Cali - Get Ready for The Hectic Love Lives of the Mythical
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February 7, 2026 at 6:24 PM
6 days before launch of our queer romance antho!
Don’t miss our early bird 🎁 & gorgeous art by @illaurastrates.bsky.social @fellhound.bsky.social @jaws-stone.bsky.social @galacticjonah.bsky.social @lengog.bsky.social @matthtaylor.com @notanotheralex.bsky.social
✨ www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Don’t miss our early bird 🎁 & gorgeous art by @illaurastrates.bsky.social @fellhound.bsky.social @jaws-stone.bsky.social @galacticjonah.bsky.social @lengog.bsky.social @matthtaylor.com @notanotheralex.bsky.social
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Orc lineart commission
February 6, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Orc lineart commission
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The Italian audience's ability to rapidly switch from cheering for the American team's entrance to booing JD Vance is honestly pretty impressive. Turned on a dime, and again the moment Vance was off screen
February 6, 2026 at 9:14 PM
The Italian audience's ability to rapidly switch from cheering for the American team's entrance to booing JD Vance is honestly pretty impressive. Turned on a dime, and again the moment Vance was off screen
The World Factbook has been made not public to us.
... everyone who relies on the World Factbook should start submitting FOIA requests immediately.
... everyone who relies on the World Factbook should start submitting FOIA requests immediately.
The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
February 6, 2026 at 2:22 PM
The World Factbook has been made not public to us.
... everyone who relies on the World Factbook should start submitting FOIA requests immediately.
... everyone who relies on the World Factbook should start submitting FOIA requests immediately.
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As a liberal woman from the south, I learned early on that right wing insistence on “civility” is basically “know your place”. The civility is meant to flow one way.
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
As a liberal woman from the south, I learned early on that right wing insistence on “civility” is basically “know your place”. The civility is meant to flow one way.
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That makes good sense. It’s easier to evaluate whether the ideas contained in text are worthwhile. With video, we have to sift through too much extraneous information. Propaganda is helped along mightily but real discourse is not
February 5, 2026 at 8:09 PM
That makes good sense. It’s easier to evaluate whether the ideas contained in text are worthwhile. With video, we have to sift through too much extraneous information. Propaganda is helped along mightily but real discourse is not
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The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!
February 5, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
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Feel this in the tech industry which has similar overlap in the files.
Even men who aren’t total misogynists just do not credit and promote women the way they do each other.
And the women who enable that inequitable behavior are numerous as well.
Even men who aren’t total misogynists just do not credit and promote women the way they do each other.
And the women who enable that inequitable behavior are numerous as well.
February 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Feel this in the tech industry which has similar overlap in the files.
Even men who aren’t total misogynists just do not credit and promote women the way they do each other.
And the women who enable that inequitable behavior are numerous as well.
Even men who aren’t total misogynists just do not credit and promote women the way they do each other.
And the women who enable that inequitable behavior are numerous as well.
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this. think about all the men who have impeded our careers based on their dicks and/or egos.
February 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
this. think about all the men who have impeded our careers based on their dicks and/or egos.
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this is the part that rips me up - in all of our spaces, at work, hobbies, you name it...
There are shadows of all the people who got chased out by harassment, who never got to find their place to thrive. It's hard to see because it's what could have been. But those shadows are *everywhere*.
There are shadows of all the people who got chased out by harassment, who never got to find their place to thrive. It's hard to see because it's what could have been. But those shadows are *everywhere*.
This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 9:07 PM
this is the part that rips me up - in all of our spaces, at work, hobbies, you name it...
There are shadows of all the people who got chased out by harassment, who never got to find their place to thrive. It's hard to see because it's what could have been. But those shadows are *everywhere*.
There are shadows of all the people who got chased out by harassment, who never got to find their place to thrive. It's hard to see because it's what could have been. But those shadows are *everywhere*.
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It is. I recently left gamedev after 20 years and it's the same story. Men who directly drive brilliant women and other marginalized folks into quitting given endless grace and opportunities. While folks who speak up about said men are labeled as difficult and driven out.
February 5, 2026 at 9:12 PM
It is. I recently left gamedev after 20 years and it's the same story. Men who directly drive brilliant women and other marginalized folks into quitting given endless grace and opportunities. While folks who speak up about said men are labeled as difficult and driven out.
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This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
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It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
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"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
February 5, 2026 at 9:02 PM
"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
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Trump’s claims about non-citizen voting are bullshit.
They are simply a pretext to undermine public confidence in the legitimacy of election outcomes, unless they align with Trump’s personal, self-serving desires.
His claims are also provably false, w/ hard data. 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...
They are simply a pretext to undermine public confidence in the legitimacy of election outcomes, unless they align with Trump’s personal, self-serving desires.
His claims are also provably false, w/ hard data. 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...
Opinion | What’s Really Driving These Bogus Claims of Voter Fraud
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Trump’s claims about non-citizen voting are bullshit.
They are simply a pretext to undermine public confidence in the legitimacy of election outcomes, unless they align with Trump’s personal, self-serving desires.
His claims are also provably false, w/ hard data. 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...
They are simply a pretext to undermine public confidence in the legitimacy of election outcomes, unless they align with Trump’s personal, self-serving desires.
His claims are also provably false, w/ hard data. 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...
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The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
February 4, 2026 at 9:58 PM
The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
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did you guys know that penguin random house really is owned by a penguin. now don’t go getting too excited, as the penguin is famously an asshole
February 4, 2026 at 12:43 PM
did you guys know that penguin random house really is owned by a penguin. now don’t go getting too excited, as the penguin is famously an asshole
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Still looking for a Trans+ artist to design and create a physical textile patch. Hit me with your best recs.
February 4, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Still looking for a Trans+ artist to design and create a physical textile patch. Hit me with your best recs.
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Adobe appears to have reversed course on this. Animate is safe, at least for the immediate future.
www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...
www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...
February 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Adobe appears to have reversed course on this. Animate is safe, at least for the immediate future.
www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...
www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...