Stephanie King
@stephstephking.bsky.social
Former Philadelphian living in Montréal
Supports public schools
Wrote some short stories & then some even shorter ones
https://stephanieking.net
Supports public schools
Wrote some short stories & then some even shorter ones
https://stephanieking.net
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Can somebody who is a Book Nerd but also a Film Nerd tell me if I will like the new Wuthering Heights movie or if I will just be mad
February 13, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Can somebody who is a Book Nerd but also a Film Nerd tell me if I will like the new Wuthering Heights movie or if I will just be mad
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"I already don't care that I'm on a platform with Nazis, so it's fine that I'm also taking money for gambling ads"
"I, a journalist, will accept money in exchange for sponsoring my work and it's not an ethical issue at all because I will simply choose not be influenced by it" like he's the first guy ever to think of that
February 13, 2026 at 11:38 AM
"I already don't care that I'm on a platform with Nazis, so it's fine that I'm also taking money for gambling ads"
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I need to know everything about job #6 right now
February 13, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I need to know everything about job #6 right now
What would your figure skating routine be?
Me: "Zombie" by the Cranberries but it switches to the techno version halfway through the long program
Me: "Zombie" by the Cranberries but it switches to the techno version halfway through the long program
in the fantasy where I am an elite figure skater, I do my short program to "Renegade" by Styx
February 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
What would your figure skating routine be?
Me: "Zombie" by the Cranberries but it switches to the techno version halfway through the long program
Me: "Zombie" by the Cranberries but it switches to the techno version halfway through the long program
I always ride up in the jump seat when I take this train, so I can see the tunnel and the river out the front window, and today I was accompanied by the cutest 3yo in the world named Luca, who excitedly yelled "HEY NOTHER TRAIN" every time we passed one going the other way 🥹
I am on a TRAIN under a MOUNTAIN
PUBLIC TRANSIT RULES
PUBLIC TRANSIT RULES
February 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
I always ride up in the jump seat when I take this train, so I can see the tunnel and the river out the front window, and today I was accompanied by the cutest 3yo in the world named Luca, who excitedly yelled "HEY NOTHER TRAIN" every time we passed one going the other way 🥹
Working at our Fancy Campus today and once again treated myself to the $28 chicken sandwich and someone is retiring so there's a party and now I'm drinking champagne with my overpriced (but greatest) chicken sammy
February 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Working at our Fancy Campus today and once again treated myself to the $28 chicken sandwich and someone is retiring so there's a party and now I'm drinking champagne with my overpriced (but greatest) chicken sammy
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this is infuriating and both these pieces are worth your attention. The dark side of sports ambition. NBC should be ashamed for dropping Papadakis as a commentator because she spoke out. Conflict of interest? "Neutrality" always benefits the oppressor, NBC
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
February 12, 2026 at 1:42 PM
this is infuriating and both these pieces are worth your attention. The dark side of sports ambition. NBC should be ashamed for dropping Papadakis as a commentator because she spoke out. Conflict of interest? "Neutrality" always benefits the oppressor, NBC
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Another semi-regular reminder: if you are sharing your work on Substack, I will not click on it. I will not share it. And I will side-eye you for being cool with hanging out at the nazi bar
Your writing is great and your thoughts are valuable and whatever you’re reporting is insightful and will illuminate my thoughts, but I won’t read it because you posted it on the transphobic Nazi blog network
I just wish it wasn’t a Substack link
February 12, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Another semi-regular reminder: if you are sharing your work on Substack, I will not click on it. I will not share it. And I will side-eye you for being cool with hanging out at the nazi bar
Your semi-regular reminder that Josh Shapiro is a big ol' bootlicker!
What does collaboration with ICE look like in PA? ICE can access state data without a warrant. Troopers cannot ask about immigration status, but can and do tell ICE if they otherwise discover someone is undocumented. And prisons honor some ICE detainers.
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/02...
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/02...
How PA agencies under Shapiro’s control cooperate with ICE
Gov. Josh Shapiro has not hidden that PA works with ICE, nor has he promised new limits on existing cooperation.
www.spotlightpa.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Your semi-regular reminder that Josh Shapiro is a big ol' bootlicker!
Was chilling out listening to my Most Played for January, which is mostly ambient or epic movie trailer writing backgound music, but then bc of *waves hands at everything* suddenly "Dicks Hate the Police" came on
February 12, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Was chilling out listening to my Most Played for January, which is mostly ambient or epic movie trailer writing backgound music, but then bc of *waves hands at everything* suddenly "Dicks Hate the Police" came on
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I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at galluppanel@gallupmail.com to let them know what you think of this.
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at galluppanel@gallupmail.com to let them know what you think of this.
Is there a universal symbol for "no speakerphone" (and does it ever work)
Asking for my future parole officer if the person taking a call right outside my office doesn't go away soon
Asking for my future parole officer if the person taking a call right outside my office doesn't go away soon
February 11, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Is there a universal symbol for "no speakerphone" (and does it ever work)
Asking for my future parole officer if the person taking a call right outside my office doesn't go away soon
Asking for my future parole officer if the person taking a call right outside my office doesn't go away soon
Saw a car honk at a pedestrian and I stopped, getting ready to throw down on behalf of the pedestrian, but the driver was just pointing that their phone had fallen out of their pocket and it was rescued from the snow🙂
February 11, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Saw a car honk at a pedestrian and I stopped, getting ready to throw down on behalf of the pedestrian, but the driver was just pointing that their phone had fallen out of their pocket and it was rescued from the snow🙂
Me: As part of my mission to reduce stress, I'm just going to give up on the idea of getting to work on time. The morning rush is too stressful
STM: Joke's on you! We will have a train waiting for you at the station and then across the platform to transfer!
Me: wtf
STM: Joke's on you! We will have a train waiting for you at the station and then across the platform to transfer!
Me: wtf
February 11, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Me: As part of my mission to reduce stress, I'm just going to give up on the idea of getting to work on time. The morning rush is too stressful
STM: Joke's on you! We will have a train waiting for you at the station and then across the platform to transfer!
Me: wtf
STM: Joke's on you! We will have a train waiting for you at the station and then across the platform to transfer!
Me: wtf
I understand intellectually why the snowplows come at 4:30 am but UGH
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
I understand intellectually why the snowplows come at 4:30 am but UGH
I'm giving the "AI training" at work today and I, uh, think they are gonna be surprised by my take considering I'm the "educational technologist"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I'm giving the "AI training" at work today and I, uh, think they are gonna be surprised by my take considering I'm the "educational technologist"
This morning my kid knocked on the bathroom door while I was blow drying my hair to ask "if snakes kill their prey with venom, why don't they use that prey as bait to catch an even larger meal?"
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 1:26 PM
This morning my kid knocked on the bathroom door while I was blow drying my hair to ask "if snakes kill their prey with venom, why don't they use that prey as bait to catch an even larger meal?"
This is the part where I mention that my 12yo son, upon seeing the Vince Lombardi Trophy, said "wait you can't even drink out of it?"
Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."
February 10, 2026 at 12:14 AM
This is the part where I mention that my 12yo son, upon seeing the Vince Lombardi Trophy, said "wait you can't even drink out of it?"
Someone pleeeeeeease kill LinkedIn 🙏
All things must pass... except perhaps Reddit.
(by @chartrdaily)
(by @chartrdaily)
February 9, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Someone pleeeeeeease kill LinkedIn 🙏
I had a meeting with my daughter's teacher & discovered that she thought we were FROM HERE & had just "worked in U.S. for a few years"
On one hand, I'm super impressed with my daughter's québécois accent and OTOH it's like "you couldn't have tried to get an ounce of sympathy by letting them know?"
On one hand, I'm super impressed with my daughter's québécois accent and OTOH it's like "you couldn't have tried to get an ounce of sympathy by letting them know?"
February 9, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I had a meeting with my daughter's teacher & discovered that she thought we were FROM HERE & had just "worked in U.S. for a few years"
On one hand, I'm super impressed with my daughter's québécois accent and OTOH it's like "you couldn't have tried to get an ounce of sympathy by letting them know?"
On one hand, I'm super impressed with my daughter's québécois accent and OTOH it's like "you couldn't have tried to get an ounce of sympathy by letting them know?"
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"I can't understand Bad Bunny's lyrics"
yeah well Rage Against The Machine's lyrics are in english and apparently you can't understand those either
yeah well Rage Against The Machine's lyrics are in english and apparently you can't understand those either
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 PM
"I can't understand Bad Bunny's lyrics"
yeah well Rage Against The Machine's lyrics are in english and apparently you can't understand those either
yeah well Rage Against The Machine's lyrics are in english and apparently you can't understand those either
I am a Whitey McWhitester born and raised in the cornfields of Upstate New York and EVEN I GOT THE POLITICAL SUBTEXT
Has journalism fired EVERYONE with the tiniest smidge of cultural literacy????
OPEN THE SCHOOLS
Has journalism fired EVERYONE with the tiniest smidge of cultural literacy????
OPEN THE SCHOOLS
Bad Bunny's style has always defied expectations. So, amid intense speculation that he would use his Super Bowl outfit to subvert masculine stereotypes, stage a protest or publicly lambast ICE (again), it was perhaps no surprise that he did precisely none of those things. https://cnn.it/4kv3OY6
February 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
I am a Whitey McWhitester born and raised in the cornfields of Upstate New York and EVEN I GOT THE POLITICAL SUBTEXT
Has journalism fired EVERYONE with the tiniest smidge of cultural literacy????
OPEN THE SCHOOLS
Has journalism fired EVERYONE with the tiniest smidge of cultural literacy????
OPEN THE SCHOOLS
I'm against sports gambling but shoutout to whoever bet on "5 field goals" and is walking in to quit their jobs this morning
February 9, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I'm against sports gambling but shoutout to whoever bet on "5 field goals" and is walking in to quit their jobs this morning
Just go for the field goal. So what if it's 70 yards. Let him cook
February 9, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Just go for the field goal. So what if it's 70 yards. Let him cook