thingswithwings
@thingswithwings.bsky.social
Writer, vidder, teacher. she/they.
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
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Mary Shelley when she sees that Lord Byron quote.
r.i.p. is written on a grave in a cemetery
Alt: Gif of an animation: a decaying hand rising from the soil. A tombstone that says RIP is in the background.
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Mary Shelley when she sees that Lord Byron quote.
everyone talking about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has put me in mind of the other great Canadian song about a shipwreck, Stan Rogers' The Mary Ellen Carter (this one's a fictitious shipwreck). If you've never heard it before, treat yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJQk...
The Mary Ellen Carter
YouTube video by Stan Rogers - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
everyone talking about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has put me in mind of the other great Canadian song about a shipwreck, Stan Rogers' The Mary Ellen Carter (this one's a fictitious shipwreck). If you've never heard it before, treat yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJQk...
I'm developing from this an entire new theory of sports based on whether the ball/puck/etc. is good or bad. Football, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, rugby: ball good. Baseball, tennis, volleyball, handball, cricket: ball bad. In basketball the ball is desirable yet also toxic so don't touch it for long
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I'm developing from this an entire new theory of sports based on whether the ball/puck/etc. is good or bad. Football, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, rugby: ball good. Baseball, tennis, volleyball, handball, cricket: ball bad. In basketball the ball is desirable yet also toxic so don't touch it for long
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Good morning and happy Sunday 🐴 🥰
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Good morning and happy Sunday 🐴 🥰
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
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Frankenstein (2025)
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Frankenstein (2025)
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I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!
otherwiseaward.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
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Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
statements.cornell.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
this op-ed from Brad Lander is fire but also I laughed out loud at the "I have friends everywhere" reference. what a nerd. I hope Tony Gilroy is proud that his art has become part of a national lexicon of resistance and community
Today @bradlander.bsky.social wrote an op-ed on Zohran Mamdani’s historic win — and the work ahead.
“When Donald Trump sends troops here, it won’t be Trump vs. Mamdani. It’ll be Trump vs. New York City.”
“When Donald Trump sends troops here, it won’t be Trump vs. Mamdani. It’ll be Trump vs. New York City.”
Brad Lander on Mamdani's Win: "It’s not only on Zohran. It’s on all of us."
In an op-ed for In These Times, Lander writes that in response to looming threats from Donald Trump, "We’ve got to rise to the challenge together—as New Yorkers."
inthesetimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
this op-ed from Brad Lander is fire but also I laughed out loud at the "I have friends everywhere" reference. what a nerd. I hope Tony Gilroy is proud that his art has become part of a national lexicon of resistance and community
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making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us
just saw del Toro's Frankenstein and it was AMAZING. absolutely my favourite del Toro film. Understood the fucking assignment. The casting, the frame narrative, costumes, set design, choosing when to be faithful to the book and when to bring in some Universal Classic Monsters vibes . . . mwah
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
just saw del Toro's Frankenstein and it was AMAZING. absolutely my favourite del Toro film. Understood the fucking assignment. The casting, the frame narrative, costumes, set design, choosing when to be faithful to the book and when to bring in some Universal Classic Monsters vibes . . . mwah
can't wait to watch the Game Changer clown orgy episode
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
can't wait to watch the Game Changer clown orgy episode
this is what's truly inspiring about the Mamdani campaign. They're organizers; they understand that you build power by energizing and motivating people to DO THINGS. The election was an opportunity to build power, not to access it, and it's only one step on the path. I'm so fucking jazzed about this
After Zohran's historic victory in New York City, we’re gearing up for an ambitious new phase of worker organizing across all five boroughs.
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build the labor movement in New York and beyond. You can help. 🔗👇
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build the labor movement in New York and beyond. You can help. 🔗👇
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
this is what's truly inspiring about the Mamdani campaign. They're organizers; they understand that you build power by energizing and motivating people to DO THINGS. The election was an opportunity to build power, not to access it, and it's only one step on the path. I'm so fucking jazzed about this
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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"It's part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking... If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"It's part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking... If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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This post was written by the account owner's partner @ratsprite.bsky.social
Our beloved Nevvie passed away suddenly on the 16th of October.
Details of how to get in contact are available on a post on her blog: neverwhere.tumblr.com/post/7987771...
Our beloved Nevvie passed away suddenly on the 16th of October.
Details of how to get in contact are available on a post on her blog: neverwhere.tumblr.com/post/7987771...
October 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This post was written by the account owner's partner @ratsprite.bsky.social
Our beloved Nevvie passed away suddenly on the 16th of October.
Details of how to get in contact are available on a post on her blog: neverwhere.tumblr.com/post/7987771...
Our beloved Nevvie passed away suddenly on the 16th of October.
Details of how to get in contact are available on a post on her blog: neverwhere.tumblr.com/post/7987771...
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The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.