Blair Hanley Frank
@belril.bsky.social
Product marketer, avid home cook, powerlifter. Occasionally awesome.
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She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
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GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
We got electric Nebraska before GTA 6: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Bruce Springsteen to Release 'Electric Nebraska' -- and More -- in Surprise Box Set
The box set — timed to the 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' movie — combines E Street Band versions of most of 'Nebraska,' a live performance, and outtakes
www.rollingstone.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We got electric Nebraska before GTA 6: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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I will never forgive Slack for popularizing _ as the character for italicizing in Markdown, rather than the spec-defined *
June 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I will never forgive Slack for popularizing _ as the character for italicizing in Markdown, rather than the spec-defined *
This is genuinely a fascinating story and also the source of a valuable maxim:
Do not attribute to aliens that which can be attributed to Cold War secrecy and a continuing desire to protect military careers.
Do not attribute to aliens that which can be attributed to Cold War secrecy and a continuing desire to protect military careers.
The truth is out there: a significant chunk of the UFO anecdotes are directly attributable to the US government lying to its employees & the public for decades
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology
U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs
www.wsj.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is genuinely a fascinating story and also the source of a valuable maxim:
Do not attribute to aliens that which can be attributed to Cold War secrecy and a continuing desire to protect military careers.
Do not attribute to aliens that which can be attributed to Cold War secrecy and a continuing desire to protect military careers.
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@lschmeiser.bsky.social Random flag of media that is likely up your alley: "Wear Whatever the F___ You Want," hosted by Stacy London and Clinton Kelly of "What Not to Wear" fame. It's all about dream makeovers for folks with unique style preferences.
Downside: it's on Amazon Prime.
Downside: it's on Amazon Prime.
May 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
@lschmeiser.bsky.social Random flag of media that is likely up your alley: "Wear Whatever the F___ You Want," hosted by Stacy London and Clinton Kelly of "What Not to Wear" fame. It's all about dream makeovers for folks with unique style preferences.
Downside: it's on Amazon Prime.
Downside: it's on Amazon Prime.
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One of the great things about living near the Mission is having @missionlocal.org as our newsroom. They're doing great reporting, like this just-released timeline of the City's challenges with street vendors on Mission: missionlocal.org/2025/03/san-...
Can San Francisco allow street vending without enabling thieves?
San Francisco has pursued a multitude of tactics to discourage illegal fencing on Mission St. Here’s a timeline of the last two years.
missionlocal.org
March 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
One of the great things about living near the Mission is having @missionlocal.org as our newsroom. They're doing great reporting, like this just-released timeline of the City's challenges with street vendors on Mission: missionlocal.org/2025/03/san-...
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Data lies all the time and anyone who has ever made a graph knows this.
Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."
February 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Data lies all the time and anyone who has ever made a graph knows this.
Easily one of the best recent columns about the Musk of this all.
February 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Easily one of the best recent columns about the Musk of this all.
I realize this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of ~everything that's happening~, but I just discovered today that you can't track changes in Google Slides and I am losing my mind.
January 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I realize this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of ~everything that's happening~, but I just discovered today that you can't track changes in Google Slides and I am losing my mind.
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And, in case you’ve forgotten from the first go-round, two other points never to forget:
1. Trump and his aides often lie.
2. Trump and his appointees often screw things up.
1. Trump and his aides often lie.
2. Trump and his appointees often screw things up.
A reminder
January 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
And, in case you’ve forgotten from the first go-round, two other points never to forget:
1. Trump and his aides often lie.
2. Trump and his appointees often screw things up.
1. Trump and his aides often lie.
2. Trump and his appointees often screw things up.
Come for @caseynewton.bsky.social's clear-eyed analysis of the Meta fact-checking announcement, stay for the most adorable hard launch I've seen on the internet: www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
Meta surrenders to the right on speech
“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer
www.platformer.news
January 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Come for @caseynewton.bsky.social's clear-eyed analysis of the Meta fact-checking announcement, stay for the most adorable hard launch I've seen on the internet: www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
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this was just really excellent defector.com/the-hawk-tua...
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...
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December 13, 2024 at 7:16 PM
this was just really excellent defector.com/the-hawk-tua...
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There was an incredible take from Twitter a few years ago, something to the effect of "projecting motivation onto a high-variance individual leaves everybody surprised at the end."
December 9, 2024 at 6:53 PM
There was an incredible take from Twitter a few years ago, something to the effect of "projecting motivation onto a high-variance individual leaves everybody surprised at the end."
Hard agree with Mike here. The core difficulty is that while remote *work* is more efficient, remote *management* is vastly different (and in many ways harder). So long as managers retain the power to decide how their employees get to work, it's all too easy to get stuck in this world.
Why 2025 will be a bad year for remote work elgan.com/why-2025-wil...
December 3, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Hard agree with Mike here. The core difficulty is that while remote *work* is more efficient, remote *management* is vastly different (and in many ways harder). So long as managers retain the power to decide how their employees get to work, it's all too easy to get stuck in this world.
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It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...
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November 26, 2024 at 5:02 PM
It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
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In the spirit of togetherness, if you live outside the US please share your country's most dangerous cooking method.
Text this to your cousin who is planning to fry their Turkey this year - www.youtube.com/shorts/4IbIV...
Cook the #turkey not your home 2024
YouTube video by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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November 25, 2024 at 2:10 PM
In the spirit of togetherness, if you live outside the US please share your country's most dangerous cooking method.
Remember that so much of what made Twitter came from the community.
“Tweet” was coined by The Iconfactory.
Retweets were created because we needed them. Same with quoting.
Social networks are people, not products.
“Tweet” was coined by The Iconfactory.
Retweets were created because we needed them. Same with quoting.
Social networks are people, not products.
yeah the thing is like, we built Twitter into something the right wing wanted in the first place lol. the right doesn’t really generate culture, just reacts to it. I think we should starve them of our creative efforts, make something new
I don't think this is like THE end for the platform but it's certainly the beginning of the end for it in terms of relevancy. FB is still around and kicking, many people are still on it, but it is pretty universally regarded as a flop now, it's not somewhere where people generally want to be
November 14, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Remember that so much of what made Twitter came from the community.
“Tweet” was coined by The Iconfactory.
Retweets were created because we needed them. Same with quoting.
Social networks are people, not products.
“Tweet” was coined by The Iconfactory.
Retweets were created because we needed them. Same with quoting.
Social networks are people, not products.