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Daniel Sylvan Paige
@danielpaige.com
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writer person sometimes a melding

fiction, tv, different things | Granta Workshop alum | stuff in Wigleaf ⬇️
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Daniel Sylvan Paige @danielpaige.com · 19d
Thrilled for this!
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emiliusdraws.bsky.social
#3157 A helpful tutorial
A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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parisreview.bsky.social
“When I work more than an hour on one project, I get irritated.” —Donald Hall buff.ly/gU0kg0S
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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ryantpozzi.bsky.social
Whatever You Think, You're Wrong: A Guide to the Comments Section
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
danielpaige.com
this is really something,

“Loitering: sitting around without a purpose. You were without a purpose. Eight hours ago you had one. Will you ever find a new one?”
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Terrific story by @srirachachang.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social's new issue! 🫶💕

splitlipthemag.com/fiction/1125...
How to Make Non-Korean Kimchi — Split Lip Magazine
Think about your mother-in-law’s kimchi. Violently crimson and glossy, redder and thicker than blood, thinly sweet and floral fragrant, garlic and spice that burst through with every crunch.
splitlipthemag.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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tacobellquarterly.org
Hey you, keep going! You have to do this for the rest of your life anyway!
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I just got my hair cut by a woman who has us all beat. She owns the shop but she also works two hours a week bussing at a fancy hotel restaurant so she can get employee deals at fancy hotels.

And two days a week she slings bags for Delta so she can fly wherever she wants for free.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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havehashad.com
second window's funds raised: a whopping $2,709.32, for a total of $3,628.88. you people rule! I've got lots of reading to do, I'll randomly select the merch winners when I'm done!
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 4d
Happy HAD Friday! 2 submission windows today for those who make some kind of donation to a cause! Link will work from 10-11am and 7-8pm Eastern. Where are you donating? havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34166...
Submission call to benefit... causes. You pick the cause. We don't need your money, but lots of other people do. Make a donation to a cause that really needs it. Reply to our post with links to give others ideas. Include a screenshot/picture of your donation (from today, of any amount) with your submission. I'm gonna open two windows today (Friday, November 14th): from 10-11am Eastern, and 7-8pm Eastern; no limit, no scramble, no lost sleep (hopefully!) If you don't have spare cash at the moment, HAD still appreciates you. Screenshot an impassioned letter about something you care about to your city counselor, school board, governor or whatever. Writing-wise: no theme, no restrictions. Short is nice, we like publishing short. Also, we'll select at random one submitter to win a merch article of their choosing, (including the sold-out HADt!) <3 crowjonah
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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havehashad.com
our acceptances form Tom Snarsky's #smallpoemsunday call officially wrapped up yesterday, but we've got another small poem for y'all today, courtesy of Bobby Vanecko!

https://www.havehashad.com/bqnhv
November 14, 2025 Happy Gilmore Soundtrack Bobby Vanecko walking down the street over the ear studio headphones on no music playing through them singing carry on my wayward son at top volume
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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wgawest.bsky.social
Theorist Media creatives announce joint union drive with Motion Pictures Editors Guild and Writers Guild of America West. #TheoristsUnite @mpeg700.bsky.social @iatse.bsky.social @teamtheorist.bsky.social
Los Angeles, Calif., Nov 13, 2025 — After building overwhelming support, creative workers at Theorist Media are calling on owner Lunar X to recognize their unions. The organizing effort includes workers performing a wide range of work — from editing and writing to sound design to thumbnail creation and digital production. Workers first reached out to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), while the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) joined the campaign to coordinate organizing efforts for writers. The Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, is leading the effort for the IATSE-represented classifications. This signals a major step forward for workers across the fast-growing digital media sector. “For more than 20 years, we’ve watched terrific creators and their content shape YouTube into one of the most powerful platforms on Earth,” said Nicole Cepeda, who works in graphics at Theorist. “Now it’s time for Theorist and other production companies to take it to the next level. “By unionizing, our goal is to help raise professional standards and bring them in line with the broader entertainment industry. The work we do is real, and it deserves real protection.” "My aunt was the first female president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, where she fought for collective bargaining rights for educators. She was a force to be reckoned with, and I'm proud to be continuing her legacy by helping bring the labor movement to YouTube,” said Daniel Zemke, Writer at Theorist. “We're fighting for fair wages, better working conditions, and a voice on a platform that is sorely lacking in worker rights.” Despite being petitioned by a supermajority of its relevant workers, Theorist Media — now owned by Lunar X — has declined to voluntarily recognize the unions and is pushing for an NLRB representation election. “All workers have a right to union representation,” said WGAW President Michele Mulroney. “The creatives behind Theorist programming are bringing audiences, advertisers, and profits for Theorist — it’s time for the good union jobs to follow.” Theorist workers remain undeterred and will continue to demand that Theorist Media and Lunar X do the right thing and voluntarily recognize the unions and quickly negotiate fair contracts for their workers. “With all its successful enthusiast sites, Theorist has proven that a huge audience exists for professionally produced content on YouTube,” said Alan Heim, ACE, president of Motion Picture Editors Guild. “Now it’s time for management to prove that they will do the right thing by the hard-working craftspeople who make all that great content possible.”
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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shade5.bsky.social
Tbh I don't think I was ever emotionally equipped to handle the Hall & Oates break up.
October 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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rvbdrm.com
My feed right now
A man holding up a weathered, gold-edged picture frame. Inside the frame, there is an image of a silhouetted treeline beneath a vibrant red and green aurora in the night sky.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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rajivmote.bsky.social
OMG, @maureenthorson.bsky.social delivers line after incredible line. "What's religion but everyone knowing the words?" will tumble around in my brain for quite a while.
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 7d
today's small prose poem from Maureen Thorson is a marvel, but that first sentence — "It’s nearly Christmas." — just about gave me a panic attack.

https://www.havehashad.com/fm8m7
November 11, 2025 Song Maureen Thorson It’s nearly Christmas. The bar’s half empty, which also means half full. Even the strangers know each other, the way people do when the righteous are in bed. An older man in a beret sits up front, with an amp and a guitar, and it’s too cold and late for irony. Suddenly, Hotel California. Everyone takes it up, a doxology in two dozen voices. What’s religion but everyone knowing the words? Afterwards, the bartender in cat-eye glasses laughs, says, “You guys bring out the worst in me, which is awesome.” The night fogs like breath on a mirror when we disperse.
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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anjalikdayal.bsky.social
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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mave.bsky.social
[watching the most unrelentingly bleak movie] i hope they have bloopers during the credits
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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mherskovitz.bsky.social
1) An entire generation of young people is being destroyed right now. They can't find jobs, they can't afford to have children, they will never be able to afford a house, their minds are being fried by social media. If we as a culture cannot rise up against the forces making--
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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ditchpony.bsky.social
you’re laughing. sandwich throwers are getting away with murder* and you’re laughing.

*sandwich throwing
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
danielpaige.com
use it wisely and often,
susiedent.com Susie Dent @susiedent.com · 11d
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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daynabateman.bsky.social
Children are the largest recipients of SNAP benefits. Also: Seniors, the disabled and the folks who care for them. Because that's what civilized countries do: Support their citizens when they need support and ensure they can live with dignity
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
Who receives SNAP? children 39% over 60 20% disabled adults under 60 9% full time caregivers 7%
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
danielpaige.com
Celebrity Traitors finale almost fixed me
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
danielpaige.com
maybe it’s ocd, maybe it’s the zeigarnik effect
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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metalligretch.bsky.social
Eating out of the earthquake kit again.
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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howardm.bsky.social
Entertainment, good works, political statement, trolling, all in one. Well done.
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
danielpaige.com
“It's so dark that there aren't any shapes dancing on the backs of my eyelids”
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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sudhab.bsky.social
It is my pleasure to share that @andrewporter01.bsky.social will be the Guest Selecting Editor for the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2026! Andrew Porter's latest book, The Imagined Life, has received many accolades and has been called, "One of the best books of the year," by Esquire.
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM