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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@femiyahtzee.bsky.social
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metacognition zealot & public library evangelist, writing about law, ethics, media, and SFF. I was a guest on Women at Warp once.

“Terrifyingly brilliant. Brilliantly terrifying.” — opposing counsel

“Very special.” — my mom

https://www.laseneschale.com/
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Said a hip-hop, the hippie to the hippie
The hip, hip-a-hop and you don't stop rockin'
To the bang, bang the boogie, say up jump the boogie
To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat
A Shepard Fairey-style red, beige, and blue poster of a frog wearing a bandana around its neck. The caption on the top of the poster reads, “Ribbit. Resist. Repeat.” The lower caption reads, “No hope without hop.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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::taps screenshot::
Post from @olifemiotaiwo.bsky.social I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes Reply from @olifemiotaiwo.bsky.social hope this helps
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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I’m Called The Library To Ask Questions Years Old and am *delighted* by this video from the LA Public Library. Yes, you can ask the library for answers to burning questions. And, yes, if you want, they will even show you how to find the answers yourself!

— Hiraeth for the Card Catalogue
November 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Early voting fit. As @davekronig.bsky.social says, masking is hot. Join the hot girlies and wear a mask while you show up for your community. XOXO
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Anecdotal experience is not sufficient to prove a point, especially when you’re proving a negative.

Out of curiosity, how are these folks faring? Because I lost my career in my prime due to post-COVID disability. Wearing a mask in public is preferable to that “nothing bad”
Will Stancil @whstan... 04 Nov 22 seems like one issue is that neurological impairments can cause psychological symptoms, and there's quite a lot of evidence of neurological effects from COVID, but of course if you're a jerk inclined to dismiss it as "hysterics being hysterical" it's perfect for that too Will Stancil @whstancil anyway I personally know enough people with pretty severe debilitating long-lasting COVID effects to feel pretty certain that this is a serious thing - although the effects are extremely varied, some cardiovascular and others neurological and others both 2:48 PM 04 Nov 22
October 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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::taps sign::
February 13, 2025 skeet from Hypatia L.A. Seneschale, @femiyahtzee.bsky.social: Once you understand the philosophy of superiority inherent in their movement, everything else will make sense. To poorly paraphrase Wilhoit’s “law”: Conservatism has but one proposition—in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind and out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
October 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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I don’t dream of labor, but think I’ve found my dream job?
September 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Fuck you, LAX. No one scavenges because it’s fun.

Gotta love how there’s money for stickers but not money to feed and house people.
September 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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And here I was holding out for a hero. We really did get the hero we deserve but not the one we need right now.
Screenshot of Bluesky post by Tom Mars: WAPO buried the lede in this developing story: Sandwich-throwing assault on federal officer was carried out with a Salami Subway Sandwich. Details of condiments still unknown. Screenshot of Washington Post lede: Man who threw sandwich at law enforcement was DOJ employee, Bondi says After the incident, Dargin crossed the street to examine the sandwich, which, he said, appeared to have salami. This story is developing and will be updated.
August 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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lol. rofl, even
Screenshot of a text message between two correspondents 1: Kyle just asked me if you're "one of those autistics" because you "don't seem to get social cues". I'm guessing y'all had a run-in this morning where he said something meant to be derogatory and you didn't take it that way? Again? 2: Imao something like that. Bless him, he tries so hard. I'm sure he'll manage it someday, he's just gotta keep on giving it his best. Did you tell him I am actually autistic tho 1: Nope. I told him that was a really weird thing to ask me and walked away
July 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I wish white people, especially white women, would understand that people disagreeing with you isn’t victimization. Also, when experts have ethical qualms about your practices/beliefs it’s an opportunity to reflect, not get defensive. The sooner y’all realize that, the better off everyone will be
Screenshot of a skeet from Tanya Roth @drtanyaroth.bsky.social, which reads: I'm a historian and a K-12 educator and I use Al. My Bluesky is full of people I respect, all regularly posting about how they dislike Al and the people who use it. Many are in higher ed and/or the larger history field. So - we're just alienating K-12 teachers and others who are using Al tools now?
July 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Explaining to my twenty-something kid brother that he should invest in some decent orthotics and an at-home Pilates routine now before his body turns into a jalopy at thirty and a Flintstones car at forty.
A meme photo. A young woman with blond hair, wearing a pink crop tank and white shorts, has her right arm around a dude who is in a white tee. Her left arm is flung out, gesticulating wildly, while she shouts into the guy’s ear. He looks disinterested.
July 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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You don’t say.
Screenshot from the article, which reads, “When the marketing maestro got down to business, she realized it was going to require a complete overhaul. Ultimately, she spent 20 hours redoing the copy from scratch - and with her $100-per-hour rate, that meant her client was shelling out $2,000 for copy that likely would have ended up being far cheaper had a human just written it in the first place.”
July 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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There’s one openly MAGA neighbor on my street. This morning, when I ran into him walking his dog, he asked if I’d finally be taking “that flag” down.

I can’t wait to see his face after I install the second flag pole.
A meme aping the scene in Lord of the Rings when Pippin asks about breakfast. Floppy-haired Pippin and Merry are standing side-by-side with looks of consternation on their faces. Aragorn has replied that they have already had breakfast. Pippin shoots back, “We’ve had one, yes. But what about second breakfast?” The meme font reads, “We’ve had Pride Month, yes. But what about Wrath Month?”
July 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Right-wing visions of a leftist paradise are always so much more creative and, frankly, *interesting* than what leftists pitch.
Screenshot from the show ‘Police Squad.’ The screenshot shows the episode title with the text “tonight’s episode: the writer’s barely-disguised fetish”
June 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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BREAKING: Carter J. Burke of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation endorses Andrew Cuomo for Mayor. When asked to comment, Carter said, “This is a multi-million dollar installation, okay? The WFP slate can’t make these kinds of decisions, they’re just grunts.”
Fictional sleazebag and mass murderer, Carter J. Burke, Weyland-Yutani representative, in “Aliens” Real-life sleazebag and mass murderer, Andrew Cuomo
June 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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He also said “she wears belt bags on her waist like they did in the olden times” and, after determining he meant fanny-packs, well, here’s today’s sweat my ass off outfit. It’s not my fault the patriarchy still doesn’t want us to have pockets.

(Matching face mask because pollen is the enemy.)
Hypatia is taking a selfie in a truly dirty mirror. She hasn’t gotten around to cleaning it yet because chronic illness is hard. Anyway, she’s outfitted head to toe in hot pink: socks, sports bra, high waisted bike shorts, fanny pack, and KN95 face mask. She’s got mauve sneakers on. Her phone is also pink. It’s a whole thing. Her dark brown curly hair is pulled back into a ponytail and she is wearing glasses. She’s also sweating her ass off because the current temperature is Why Are You Outside degrees with a UV index of Your Spaceship Is On A Collision Course With The Sun.
June 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Virginia, you have an election today! Please protect your poll workers, your neighbors, and yourselves by wearing a mask—ideally a KF94, KN95, or N95.

Here’s my fit, some matchy-matchy #indoorflAIRquality because I like to make my masks part of my look. I can’t wait to add my “I voted” sticker!
Please excuse how gross this mirror is! Hypatia is holding a pink phone, which she is using to take a photo of herself in said gross mirror, which is in an alcove across from a white door. She is attired in sea glass colored slacks, a lime green suede belt, a white t-shirt, and white pumps. Her brown curly hair is blown into waves and pulled back into a ponytail. On her face, she is wearing prescriptive Clubmasters and a wellbefore KN95 in a marble pattern of sea glass, lime green, purple, and pale blue. While the mask has earloops, she has secured the loops in a headband style above and below her ponytail for a better fit using ear savers.
June 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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If it was unthinkable to celebrate July 4th with a military parade, it should be doubly unthinkable to mark the president’s birthday in such a fashion. We don’t have kings in America—that’s kind of our whole thing. Equality may have been a false promise, but ‘sic semper tyrannis’ was not.
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”– Erma Bombeck.
June 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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When I was a kid, the proud child of immigrants who fled a despot to chase the American dream, before I learned the American history that had been suppressed, I loved this quotation about the Fourth of July.

I hope the people this quotation might still have been true for in 2024 are awake now.
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”– Erma Bombeck.
June 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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UNCLE!

I give up on DIY dating. I give up. I am ready for the matchmakers and the aunties. I accept your wisdom and ministrations.
Text message from my date yesterday: I could get over the curly hair and the ass but you act like your smarter than me. Like you even tried to correct me when I said that stuff like heart tents aren’t tested because they aren’t but you think because you’ve got a law degree that automatically makes you smarter than me and that’s just not the case your a woman I’m a man there’s no comparison My response: You’re a sports guy, right? Let’s review the tape: (1) You insisted that the bioresorbable heart stents are called “heart tents.” (2) You argued that they are not FDA approved or tested. (3) I asked how you knew that and you said a YouTuber was talking about it. (4) I (gently) asked if you had seen the the FDA news release announcing FDA approval. You said you had not, so I showed it to you, whereupon you got in my face and went on a tirade about “uppity bitches.” (5) I thanked you for the coffee, told you the date was over, and indicated you should not contact me again. Then I left. My response continues: So naturally, you have taken it upon yourself to *contact me*, which, I suppose, makes sense if you’re you. Because there’s no way you otherwise understood “lose my number” as “text this woman a diatribe about how I’m the victim here.” You want to set the record straight? Let’s set it straighter than a line in Euclidean geometry: The curls and ass ARE very big (as they should be, amen), but they’ll never be as big as your ego. I’m not smarter than you because I’m a lawyer. I’m smarter than you because I am humble enough to accept what I don’t know and I do my damnedest to learn new things from reliable sources. Usually I’d say ‘fuck prescriptivism,’ but I think I’ll make an exception just this once since you’re the one who wants to have an intellectual dick-measuring contest: you are = you’re, not your. My response continues: You are, indeed, a man, and what a representative specimen you are. Thanks for being so “normal”(since you’re smarter than me, I’m sure you’ll get that’s yet another math joke). Humanity is truly a marvel—we have the cognitive ability to choose to be *anything*, yet you choose to be . . . you. Intelligent design, my fat ass. Good luck out there. He responds: You’re ass is disgusting you fat ugly bitch I respond: “Your” :) He replies in all caps: Yore a dumb fucking cunt I respond: I’ve got drinks tonight with Nathan Poe and William of Ockham and boy, howdy, are they going to have a field day when I show them this chat. Toodles!
June 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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We’re supposed to believe that the center-left/left are the genital-obsessed weirdos and not the group with a prurient current in their sewer system of a movement, which has given us “daddy’s back in charge,” “spanking” the opposition, “Big Balls,” and a worldview sounding in sex-based domination?
6/5/25 tweet by Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarinoUS Trump and Elon aren't attacking one another in a way that won't be fixed. People forget how men with testicles spar. You're watching two people with balls the size of the moon debate an issue. This is what masculinity look like.
June 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Fuck it, I’m kink-shaming.
6/5/25 tweet from Jack Poso @JackPosobiec Some of y'all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows This is direct communication (phallocentric) vs indirect communication (gynocentric) I understand you aren't used to it
June 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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your fave star trek character, wrong answers only
May 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM