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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)
@deecherrywriter.bsky.social
NOLA. SFFH/crime/journalist. BASFF & Locus notable stories ‘23.

Contributor to Antigravity Magazine

Stories in: Buzzfeed News, Politico, Apex Mag, Fiyah, +more.

ORDER MY DEBUT CRIME NOVEL, “The Pike Boys”, NOW books2read.com/thepikeboys
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You can "honor" Kirk's memory by doing the thing he'd hate and donating to an organization that wants to help low-income trans adults receive gender affirming care:

www.transincomeproject.org/donate

(also read my interview with TIPs executive director in the original post)
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Lovely surprise to have some poems in @bruisermag.com today!
The lemon was only the size of an eyeball when it detached from my body.

Three fresh poems from @ezhang77.bsky.social

www.bruisermag.com/Zhang_Poems2
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Godspeed, bruh🖤
Gonna be scaling back my social media usage as well. Social media is a tool that is useful in quite a few ways, but it’s also an outrage machine.

To paraphrase something @mauricenow.bsky.social once said: social media can devour your creativity.

I wanna start using them creative muscles agains.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Pete Hegseth is finally getting investigated
Pete Hegseth is finally getting investigated
GOP-led committees are looking into a report alleging Hegseth gave an order to "kill everybody" aboard a boat.
www.motherjones.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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All the cool kids subscribe to my newsletter, but if you missed it in your inbox this morning, you can find it here. Give it a read. You can subscribe for the coming year. It’s free!
open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...
My 2025 Recap is Here!
Everything that's happened this year that you may have missed...
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Darlings, please remember your alt text! Turn on the setting so you can't post images without it. (It's how I got into the habit.)

It takes an extra 20 seconds to be inclusive. Do the thing.
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Time for a spray bottle of discouragement(water).
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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To all the people across the internet who said it wasn’t possible to stop my dog from waking me up at 4 AM every morning I’d just like to let you know me and him have reached a compromise and he now wakes me up 3:30 every morning.
If you have an emotionally needy dog, please never let them sleep in your bed. Not once.

I let my dog curl up at the end of my bed one time several months ago now every morning at 4 AM I awake to a teacup poodle scratching at the side of the bed to be let up.

Every. Single. Morning. For months!
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I haven’t seen a President this obsessed with ballroom since LBJ ordered pants from Joe Haggar
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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A Louisiana prison held a father-daughter dance for its inmates to have a chance to reunite with their daughters.

This is the type of shit our tax dollars should be going to😭

apnews.com/article/loui...
A dance at a Louisiana prison gives fathers and daughters a rare moment to reunite
The Louisiana State Penitentiary held its first ever ‘Father Daughter Dance’ this month. Prisoners reunited with their daughters, some who hadn't seen each other in months or years.
apnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Listen, peek-a-boo before object permanence must be WILD.
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I blame that daylight saving shit, fucking with our animals’ meal times and whatnot
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
To all the people across the internet who said it wasn’t possible to stop my dog from waking me up at 4 AM every morning I’d just like to let you know me and him have reached a compromise and he now wakes me up 3:30 every morning.
If you have an emotionally needy dog, please never let them sleep in your bed. Not once.

I let my dog curl up at the end of my bed one time several months ago now every morning at 4 AM I awake to a teacup poodle scratching at the side of the bed to be let up.

Every. Single. Morning. For months!
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Only other time he has a reaction like this is when I first hit his ass with that peek-a-boo.
My toddler just tried Canes toast for the first time and had a reaction like he gazed upon the face of God.
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My toddler just tried Canes toast for the first time and had a reaction like he gazed upon the face of God.
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Been on solo parenting duty the past few days and this has been the general vibe.

Whole lot of watching Ms. Rachel while Teddy lounges on me.
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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SUBS WINDOW OPENS TOMORROW! For January, give us noir about dreams. Maybe it’s petty dreams about gangland glory. Let’s kick off 2026 by taking a look at “what dreams may come,” and what happens next when all your dreams come true . . . or don’t. Subs open from Dec 1-4: bit.ly/4fQLeGx
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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IF YOU ARE TRYING TO MAKE A COMIC...

Please talk about it on this thread! I would love to hear what stage you are at, what is working well, and what has proven more difficult than you thought.

Share a bit of art, if you can!

Sing your own praises, if you like!
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Funniest part of an NFL football game is when the defense gets a turnover and very briefly the football team turns into the theatre club and they do their little performance they rehearsed that week.
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Oprah Winfrey has much to apologize for, I fear
We belong dead
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Someone give me money so I can do a book tour for my second book
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Lovely. You captured it.
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I LOVED flying my kids around like airplanes!
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I’m convinced I have the world’s happiest baby. He just is always giggling and smiling. Even when he falls, he’ll let out a big guffaw and say “uh oh” and get up, and start running all over again
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I literally cry through all of these. When we treat human beings like human beings and not some sum of crimes and mistakes, we give them and ourselves a chance at a better society. Every person has an innate value. Every person is worthy of love.
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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There was a documentary last year called Daughters that was about this, pretty sure it's still on Netflix. Had me bawling by the end.
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM