Dana (Not Scully)
@dananotscully.bsky.social
Nerd, activist, researcher, writer, troublemaker. Heart of a lion, attitude of a bodega cat.
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My profile pic, for ref, is of me in my Starfleet uni working early voting, because I am a huge nerd. I wear science blue to rep my totally not imaginary political science track, my ship is the USS Votey McVotespace, and we fly around the universe administering elections. And we have great stickers.
It's wild that there's a whole ass industry of podcasters making their names on the history of the pseudoscience of recovered memory, while I'm almost 40, and still cannot explain to anyone in my life how much it permanently fucked me up.
Some things cannot be undone, but they can be monetized.
Some things cannot be undone, but they can be monetized.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
It's wild that there's a whole ass industry of podcasters making their names on the history of the pseudoscience of recovered memory, while I'm almost 40, and still cannot explain to anyone in my life how much it permanently fucked me up.
Some things cannot be undone, but they can be monetized.
Some things cannot be undone, but they can be monetized.
If you're going to cancel Hulu but keep shopping on Amazon, then I'd encourage you to think about whether this is really about a principled stance, or about making yourself feel better.
September 20, 2025 at 6:11 AM
If you're going to cancel Hulu but keep shopping on Amazon, then I'd encourage you to think about whether this is really about a principled stance, or about making yourself feel better.
Let's definitely blame it on a "crazy person."
September 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Let's definitely blame it on a "crazy person."
Trying to pick the worst of the three branches of government right now is like trying to pick the worst mid-August smell in New York City.
June 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Trying to pick the worst of the three branches of government right now is like trying to pick the worst mid-August smell in New York City.
I've been working early voting and went to a delish ramen place on my lunch break 2x this week. The only music they've played either time is Taylor Swift. As a devoted Strict Scrutiny listener I feel ethically obligated to let @leahlitman.bsky.social know she needs to go to Teppen Ramen on E. 55th.
June 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I've been working early voting and went to a delish ramen place on my lunch break 2x this week. The only music they've played either time is Taylor Swift. As a devoted Strict Scrutiny listener I feel ethically obligated to let @leahlitman.bsky.social know she needs to go to Teppen Ramen on E. 55th.
I'm not saying copaganda and the Dick Wolf universe are the reason that we're on a speedy decline into fascism but it sure doesn't hurt to butter the slope with glowing, heroic portrayals of the folks snatching people off the streets to extraordinarily render to CECOT.
June 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I'm not saying copaganda and the Dick Wolf universe are the reason that we're on a speedy decline into fascism but it sure doesn't hurt to butter the slope with glowing, heroic portrayals of the folks snatching people off the streets to extraordinarily render to CECOT.
The closed captioning on the @telemundo47.com and @nbcnewyork.com Mayoral debate is abysmal. Closed captioning of political debates is a matter of democracy and equity. Do better.
June 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The closed captioning on the @telemundo47.com and @nbcnewyork.com Mayoral debate is abysmal. Closed captioning of political debates is a matter of democracy and equity. Do better.
Just saw that Strange New Worlds is coming to Tribeca FF. There's a 5pm screening and panel. I will almost certainly be working early voting until 5:30. So I am prob going to work early voting for 10.5 hours and then haul ass downtown and show up sweaty and very late in my USS Votey McVotespace uni.
May 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Just saw that Strange New Worlds is coming to Tribeca FF. There's a 5pm screening and panel. I will almost certainly be working early voting until 5:30. So I am prob going to work early voting for 10.5 hours and then haul ass downtown and show up sweaty and very late in my USS Votey McVotespace uni.
Saw Good Night and Good Luck on BWay tonight. I've seen a LOT of shows and never needed an assistive audio device before. I did tonight. It helped some, but the McCarthy footage and Hollenbeck "broadcasts" were mostly unintelligible. Cannot imagine an audience full of Boomers fared much better.
March 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Saw Good Night and Good Luck on BWay tonight. I've seen a LOT of shows and never needed an assistive audio device before. I did tonight. It helped some, but the McCarthy footage and Hollenbeck "broadcasts" were mostly unintelligible. Cannot imagine an audience full of Boomers fared much better.
Fun fact about me: I have three fewer bones and four fewer teeth than the average adult. Allegedly it's for medical reasons, but I say it's because I needed extra room to be awesome.
March 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Fun fact about me: I have three fewer bones and four fewer teeth than the average adult. Allegedly it's for medical reasons, but I say it's because I needed extra room to be awesome.
I try not to wish physical harm on anyone, as it violates my commitment to nonviolence, but I'd like for every D.O.G.E. Bro, including their two fascist leaders, to experience a hysteroscopy every time they mention DEI.
That's not violence. It's a "basically painless" and "routine" procedure. 😊
That's not violence. It's a "basically painless" and "routine" procedure. 😊
February 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I try not to wish physical harm on anyone, as it violates my commitment to nonviolence, but I'd like for every D.O.G.E. Bro, including their two fascist leaders, to experience a hysteroscopy every time they mention DEI.
That's not violence. It's a "basically painless" and "routine" procedure. 😊
That's not violence. It's a "basically painless" and "routine" procedure. 😊
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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
robert f. kennedy jr. submits his application to harvard university. his application is, in its entirety, a single page with his name "Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
he is accepted immediately.
he is accepted immediately.
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute
Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.
www.rollingstone.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
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This motherfucker here.
January 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This motherfucker here.
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Are you prepared to confront the ways in which your errors and blind spots have contributed to weakening the fight to build a healthy democracy? Activists? Lawyers? Never Trumper Republicans? Tech supporter? This is the work we need to do first. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
January 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Are you prepared to confront the ways in which your errors and blind spots have contributed to weakening the fight to build a healthy democracy? Activists? Lawyers? Never Trumper Republicans? Tech supporter? This is the work we need to do first. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
If you want to actually work against the cruelty of this administration and make your community a better, kinder, more equitable place, find your local mutual aid groups and get involved.
Mutual aid is basically all that good shit that Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Reading Rainbow taught us.
Mutual aid is basically all that good shit that Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Reading Rainbow taught us.
January 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you want to actually work against the cruelty of this administration and make your community a better, kinder, more equitable place, find your local mutual aid groups and get involved.
Mutual aid is basically all that good shit that Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Reading Rainbow taught us.
Mutual aid is basically all that good shit that Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Reading Rainbow taught us.
I'm with critics who are hating on the Globes for being Emmys Lite and want them to go back to the messy days of yore, but their pieces lack context.
Said context being the time the cast of NewsRadio got blacklisted from the Globes for stealing everyone's champagne and getting shitfaced.
Said context being the time the cast of NewsRadio got blacklisted from the Globes for stealing everyone's champagne and getting shitfaced.
January 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I'm with critics who are hating on the Globes for being Emmys Lite and want them to go back to the messy days of yore, but their pieces lack context.
Said context being the time the cast of NewsRadio got blacklisted from the Globes for stealing everyone's champagne and getting shitfaced.
Said context being the time the cast of NewsRadio got blacklisted from the Globes for stealing everyone's champagne and getting shitfaced.
Two food rescue runs today was my NYE gift of self. Reporting an illegally parked cybertruck with Jersey vanity plates to 311 was my NYE gift TO myself.
January 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Two food rescue runs today was my NYE gift of self. Reporting an illegally parked cybertruck with Jersey vanity plates to 311 was my NYE gift TO myself.
Motion to make this even funnier by rebooting The Good Wife with Julianna Margulies so they can cover the lawsuit in which Anthtony Edwards and Sherry Stringfield play the opposing sides. Eriq La Salle directs. Clooney has a cameo but is paid scale. variety.com/2024/tv/news...
Warner Bros. Fires Back at Crichton Estate Over Claim ‘The Pitt’ Is an ‘ER’ Reboot: It’s a ‘Completely Different Show’
Warner Bros. lawyers argued that Max's 'The Pitt,' starring Noah Wyle, is a completely different show from 'ER' and not a reboot.
variety.com
December 29, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Motion to make this even funnier by rebooting The Good Wife with Julianna Margulies so they can cover the lawsuit in which Anthtony Edwards and Sherry Stringfield play the opposing sides. Eriq La Salle directs. Clooney has a cameo but is paid scale. variety.com/2024/tv/news...
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NEW: We interviewed women behind bars who exposed the widespread sexual abuse of US prison officers, but who have struggled to get relief. They are pleading with Biden for clemency.
“After everything I’ve been through, I deserve to be protected. Give me a chance … Let me see my granddaughters”
“After everything I’ve been through, I deserve to be protected. Give me a chance … Let me see my granddaughters”
Survivors of prison sexual abuse scandal ask Biden for clemency: ‘Give us a chance’
Incarcerated women seek relief after exposing harassment, retaliation and assault by staff
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:12 PM
NEW: We interviewed women behind bars who exposed the widespread sexual abuse of US prison officers, but who have struggled to get relief. They are pleading with Biden for clemency.
“After everything I’ve been through, I deserve to be protected. Give me a chance … Let me see my granddaughters”
“After everything I’ve been through, I deserve to be protected. Give me a chance … Let me see my granddaughters”
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“Once it was proposed to me that it was all right to be like I am, I finally quit apologizing for it.” - Carrie Fisher
December 14, 2024 at 5:51 PM
“Once it was proposed to me that it was all right to be like I am, I finally quit apologizing for it.” - Carrie Fisher
I had another one of my recurring nightmares that they rebooted "Friends" only in this one I was part of a focus group and I made a network executive flee the room crying because I was so scathing.
Some things should never be rebooted. Do you hear me, NBC? Leave the things I love alone.
Some things should never be rebooted. Do you hear me, NBC? Leave the things I love alone.
December 9, 2024 at 10:26 PM
I had another one of my recurring nightmares that they rebooted "Friends" only in this one I was part of a focus group and I made a network executive flee the room crying because I was so scathing.
Some things should never be rebooted. Do you hear me, NBC? Leave the things I love alone.
Some things should never be rebooted. Do you hear me, NBC? Leave the things I love alone.
Why does Abbott Elementary understand my childhood trauma better than any mental health pro I've ever come across?
December 7, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Why does Abbott Elementary understand my childhood trauma better than any mental health pro I've ever come across?
I have had a rough week so I have suited up in my warmest layers, put on my wrist brace, and about to go stabby knife shoe gliding. Or as some call it, skating. But those people are boring.
December 5, 2024 at 11:20 PM
I have had a rough week so I have suited up in my warmest layers, put on my wrist brace, and about to go stabby knife shoe gliding. Or as some call it, skating. But those people are boring.
I've been rewatching Star Trek Lower Decks and have to think how much better media, in general, would be if only every franchise had the courage to relentlessly poke fun at itself, love its fans, and do weird shit not for ratings but for the sheer hell of it.
December 4, 2024 at 1:34 AM
I've been rewatching Star Trek Lower Decks and have to think how much better media, in general, would be if only every franchise had the courage to relentlessly poke fun at itself, love its fans, and do weird shit not for ratings but for the sheer hell of it.