Phoebe Wagner
@pheebz.bsky.social
She/they. Writer, editor, assistant professor. Repped by: Hannah Bowman.
Wrapping up Let This Radicalize You with my book group tonight. This book has been a wonderful guide, and I have some of the final lines taped over my desk:
"How will you practice and cultivate hope today?"
"You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."
"How will you practice and cultivate hope today?"
"You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Wrapping up Let This Radicalize You with my book group tonight. This book has been a wonderful guide, and I have some of the final lines taped over my desk:
"How will you practice and cultivate hope today?"
"You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."
"How will you practice and cultivate hope today?"
"You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."
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I've rambled about this before at the old place, but not here, so why not, let's get into what my process has eventually become over my career.
Novel writers! Those of you who plan out whole books, with detailed chapter outlines that you then stick to, etc… how do you do it? What does that look like? How long are the outlines and what do you include?
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I've rambled about this before at the old place, but not here, so why not, let's get into what my process has eventually become over my career.
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A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
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One of my favourite things we’ve ever written.
Thanks again, Uncanny for inviting us to write it and helping make it really shine.
Thanks again, Uncanny for inviting us to write it and helping make it really shine.
New essay! "Precarious Employment in Precarious Futures" by Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne! buff.ly/G7E5VM4
October 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
One of my favourite things we’ve ever written.
Thanks again, Uncanny for inviting us to write it and helping make it really shine.
Thanks again, Uncanny for inviting us to write it and helping make it really shine.
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The "spreading OUR" work around is the important part btw.
We are not disposable characters.
We are not artifacts of the past.
We are not research subjects.
We are however highly impoverished, and more likely to die by violence than to live past 65.
so pony up while we're alive.
We are not disposable characters.
We are not artifacts of the past.
We are not research subjects.
We are however highly impoverished, and more likely to die by violence than to live past 65.
so pony up while we're alive.
Pro-Tip.
Stop talking about Native Americans, and start talking to us, then spreading our work around.
Stop talking about Native Americans, and start talking to us, then spreading our work around.
October 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The "spreading OUR" work around is the important part btw.
We are not disposable characters.
We are not artifacts of the past.
We are not research subjects.
We are however highly impoverished, and more likely to die by violence than to live past 65.
so pony up while we're alive.
We are not disposable characters.
We are not artifacts of the past.
We are not research subjects.
We are however highly impoverished, and more likely to die by violence than to live past 65.
so pony up while we're alive.
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get their assess George 💪
Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
get their assess George 💪
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Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC!
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October 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC!
The window will close after 500 submissions are received.
More information:
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If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.
The window will close after 500 submissions are received.
More information:
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If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.
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Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
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The far right has long fantasized about killing non-white people using images of zombie hordes. Now it’s official government policy.
For those unfamiliar with the Halo games, the Flood is a parasitic alien lifeform so bad that superweapons known as Halos were built as a last resort to kill all sentient life in the galaxy in an effort to stop them. And the official DHS page is memeing about it while referring to immigrants. Vile.
October 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The far right has long fantasized about killing non-white people using images of zombie hordes. Now it’s official government policy.
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Publishing is a flat circle
St Jerome writing in the 5th century, ahead of his time in hating on overly ornate special editions of books, where “parchments are dyed purple, gold is melted into lettering, manuscripts are decked with jewels, while Christ lies at the door naked and dying…”
October 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Publishing is a flat circle
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We are producing a detailed podcast series about this whole time period in Italy. This was part of a wider movement called self-reduction, whereby workers and local working class people would choose their own prices for many goods and services, and enforce them with strength in numbers.
Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"
October 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
We are producing a detailed podcast series about this whole time period in Italy. This was part of a wider movement called self-reduction, whereby workers and local working class people would choose their own prices for many goods and services, and enforce them with strength in numbers.
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finally some good news
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
finally some good news
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The only thing less useful than a political action you think is useless is complaining on the internet about that action.
For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.
For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.
October 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The only thing less useful than a political action you think is useless is complaining on the internet about that action.
For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.
For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.
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THE TERRAIN HAS CHANGED. Liberal recuperation is not in effect the same way. We are in a situation where things have potentially different meanings + effects. Yes major parade style protests are part of what got us here (and Im not personally interested) but so did posting about how much they suck.
October 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
THE TERRAIN HAS CHANGED. Liberal recuperation is not in effect the same way. We are in a situation where things have potentially different meanings + effects. Yes major parade style protests are part of what got us here (and Im not personally interested) but so did posting about how much they suck.
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Still fired up about yesterday's #NoKings protest in #williamsport? Keep the conversation going! Some folks are gathering at the new Sweetspire Coffee & Bakery on Tuesday, October 21, at 6:30pm for "Common Grounds."
www.williamsport50501.org/common-groun...
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Common Grounds
Common Grounds is a chance to come together with neighbors to talk about current events and what we can do.
www.williamsport50501.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Still fired up about yesterday's #NoKings protest in #williamsport? Keep the conversation going! Some folks are gathering at the new Sweetspire Coffee & Bakery on Tuesday, October 21, at 6:30pm for "Common Grounds."
www.williamsport50501.org/common-groun...
www.williamsport50501.org/common-groun...
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The the powerful film #NoOtherLand documenting the brutality of occupation and settler terrorism, will be available to rent and own on major platforms starting this Monday, October 20.
October 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The the powerful film #NoOtherLand documenting the brutality of occupation and settler terrorism, will be available to rent and own on major platforms starting this Monday, October 20.
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The decline of third spaces and hangouts, such as malls, video rental places, arcades & skate parks has been a direct result of the rise of convenience and has also been objectively bad for society as a whole. Its not that everyone HAS to socialize, but having no option to without bars is a failing.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The decline of third spaces and hangouts, such as malls, video rental places, arcades & skate parks has been a direct result of the rise of convenience and has also been objectively bad for society as a whole. Its not that everyone HAS to socialize, but having no option to without bars is a failing.
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Thinking about that sequence in Andor where everyone in town begins ringing bells and banging on things to create an incredibly hostile inescapable environment for the invading forces, a technique inspired by the real life history of people in Ireland doing something similar with trash cans.
ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago
October 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thinking about that sequence in Andor where everyone in town begins ringing bells and banging on things to create an incredibly hostile inescapable environment for the invading forces, a technique inspired by the real life history of people in Ireland doing something similar with trash cans.
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Translunar Travelers Lounge is open to speculative fiction stories 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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October 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Translunar Travelers Lounge is open to speculative fiction stories 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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Watch this. This is what this criminal administration wants to do to all of us.
Find the groups in your community that are standing up against ICE and join them.
Find the groups in your community that are standing up against ICE and join them.
October 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Watch this. This is what this criminal administration wants to do to all of us.
Find the groups in your community that are standing up against ICE and join them.
Find the groups in your community that are standing up against ICE and join them.
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You all: We won!!
Note that this fight was much bigger than whether one comedian gets pulled off the air. (Kimmel is fine, but as far as I'm concerned it's not even about him.)
Fundamentally, this was about whether the Trump FCC/administration could ignore the First Amendment.
Note that this fight was much bigger than whether one comedian gets pulled off the air. (Kimmel is fine, but as far as I'm concerned it's not even about him.)
Fundamentally, this was about whether the Trump FCC/administration could ignore the First Amendment.
September 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
You all: We won!!
Note that this fight was much bigger than whether one comedian gets pulled off the air. (Kimmel is fine, but as far as I'm concerned it's not even about him.)
Fundamentally, this was about whether the Trump FCC/administration could ignore the First Amendment.
Note that this fight was much bigger than whether one comedian gets pulled off the air. (Kimmel is fine, but as far as I'm concerned it's not even about him.)
Fundamentally, this was about whether the Trump FCC/administration could ignore the First Amendment.
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Last week yall did a lot of doomering on this website, lets make a plan together to not let the fascists dictate the tenor of our feelings or the content of our discussions by simply saying something scary. This week lets don't afraid and set an example of courage for ourselves and our communities
September 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Last week yall did a lot of doomering on this website, lets make a plan together to not let the fascists dictate the tenor of our feelings or the content of our discussions by simply saying something scary. This week lets don't afraid and set an example of courage for ourselves and our communities
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“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY
September 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY
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For the latest No Failure, Only Practice, I wrote about using what Robert McKee calls "cue words" to structure better dialogue. I use examples from Denis Johnson and Ursula K. Le Guin to show how cues keep dialogue efficient, understandable, and energetic. I've had good luck with the tactic lately!
#55: Using Cue Words to Structure Dialogue
Denis Johnson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert McKee
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September 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
For the latest No Failure, Only Practice, I wrote about using what Robert McKee calls "cue words" to structure better dialogue. I use examples from Denis Johnson and Ursula K. Le Guin to show how cues keep dialogue efficient, understandable, and energetic. I've had good luck with the tactic lately!
Woooo!!!! From the trenches of poetry workshop in college to now working to make Williamsport a better place, I'm so stoked for Jonah!
Action Together NEPA is proud to endorse Jonah Milliken for Williamsport City Council!
#pavotes #2025elections #localelectionsmatter #nepavotes #williamsport
#pavotes #2025elections #localelectionsmatter #nepavotes #williamsport
September 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Woooo!!!! From the trenches of poetry workshop in college to now working to make Williamsport a better place, I'm so stoked for Jonah!