Helen McCarthy
@glider.bsky.social
Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer.
All images and poems mine unless credited elsewise. AI is only acceptable if it's consensual.
All images and poems mine unless credited elsewise. AI is only acceptable if it's consensual.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
This instrument from the early cinema is disappearing. But not on Joe's watch
Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, outlives him even as interest in the instrument has waned for a long time, wi...
www.latimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Billionaires are more publicly involved in politics than ever—and Americans aren’t loving it.
Americans Want Billionaires Out Of Politics—And Think They’re A Threat To Democracy, Poll Shows
Billionaires are more publicly involved in politics than ever—and Americans aren’t loving it.
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Billionaires are more publicly involved in politics than ever—and Americans aren’t loving it.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Deaf Crocodile are taking preorders for Treasures of Soviet Animation Vol. 3, The Short Films of Yuri Norstein for a December 2025/January 2026 release. Includes a feature length doc on the making of an unreleased adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat which Norstein has worked on for 45 years.
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Deaf Crocodile are taking preorders for Treasures of Soviet Animation Vol. 3, The Short Films of Yuri Norstein for a December 2025/January 2026 release. Includes a feature length doc on the making of an unreleased adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat which Norstein has worked on for 45 years.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing our booksellers' picks for Books of the Year. This week, David's list is headed by Tim Blanning's biography of Augustus the Strong, 'possibly the worst monarch in European history'
Find out more here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/collections/...
Find out more here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/collections/...
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing our booksellers' picks for Books of the Year. This week, David's list is headed by Tim Blanning's biography of Augustus the Strong, 'possibly the worst monarch in European history'
Find out more here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/collections/...
Find out more here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/collections/...
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Brexit was an op. It's all coming out now.
Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit
'Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake' says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing over electoral safety and national security
bylinetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Brexit was an op. It's all coming out now.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Washington Supreme Court Justice Mungia has an extraordinary opinion condemning "the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric" of SCOTUS opinions about Native people.
"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...
"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...
![Returning to Cherokee Nation, Justice William Johnson’s separate opinion was
less tempered in how he considered the various Native American tribes:
I cannot but think that there are strong reasons for doubting the
applicability of the epithet state, to a people so low in the grade of
organized society as our Indian tribes most generally are.
Cherokee Nation, 30 U.S. at 21. Native Americans were not to be treated as “equals to
equals” but, instead, the United States was the conqueror and Native Americans the
conquered. Id. at 23.
In discussing Native Americans, Justice Johnson employed another racist trope
used by judges both before and after him: Native Americans were uncivilized savages.
[W]e have extended to them the means and inducement to become
agricultural and civilized. . . . Independently of the general influence of
humanity, these people were restless, warlike, and signally cruel.
. . . .
But I think it very clear that the constitution neither speaks of them as states
or foreign states, but as just what they were, Indian tribes . . . which the law
of nations would regard as nothing more than wandering hordes, held
together only by ties of blood and habit, and having neither laws or
government, beyond what is required in a savage state.
Id. at 23, 27-28.
This same characterization was used by Justice Stanley Matthews in Ex parte KanGi-Shun-Ca (otherwise known as Crow Dog), 109 U.S. 556, 3 S. Ct. 396, 27 L. Ed. 1030
(1883). Justice Matthews described Native Americans as leading a savage life.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreih4usl4xndm4j7udmsbopzsbha4zznbk6ahlemijsxfj77lchvjpy@jpeg)
October 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Washington Supreme Court Justice Mungia has an extraordinary opinion condemning "the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric" of SCOTUS opinions about Native people.
"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...
"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...
This is utterly ghoulish. How long before "your" avatar offers you the choice of paying for it or having your grandma spout corporate and political ads to your kids disguised as selfless parental advice?
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
Disney Channel Star’s AI App That Creates Avatars Of Dead Relatives Sparks Backlash
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is utterly ghoulish. How long before "your" avatar offers you the choice of paying for it or having your grandma spout corporate and political ads to your kids disguised as selfless parental advice?
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
She speaks truth.
February 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
She speaks truth.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Calum's Unworthy
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
Disney Channel Star’s AI App That Creates Avatars Of Dead Relatives Sparks Backlash
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Calum's Unworthy
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
The people who have heard Trump bragging about walking through a dressing room of teenage girls, seen pics of him partying with Epstein, who know he was convicted of sexual assault, and been accused by DOZENS of women, are the same people urging us not to rush to any judgment.
Just fuck off.
Just fuck off.
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The people who have heard Trump bragging about walking through a dressing room of teenage girls, seen pics of him partying with Epstein, who know he was convicted of sexual assault, and been accused by DOZENS of women, are the same people urging us not to rush to any judgment.
Just fuck off.
Just fuck off.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
The hypocrisy is the point but you almost have to be in awe of the amoral shamelessness of arguing that 15 year olds reading Toni Morrison is child abuse but raping then is all a part of the game.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The hypocrisy is the point but you almost have to be in awe of the amoral shamelessness of arguing that 15 year olds reading Toni Morrison is child abuse but raping then is all a part of the game.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
This petition calls on management of Tesco to withdraw disciplinary action aimed at the Tesco Newcastle, County Down worker for declining to handle Israeli products amidst Israel's apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people
c.org/VpHk7v57DV
c.org/VpHk7v57DV
Firma la petición
Urge TESCO to stop funding Genocide
c.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This petition calls on management of Tesco to withdraw disciplinary action aimed at the Tesco Newcastle, County Down worker for declining to handle Israeli products amidst Israel's apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people
c.org/VpHk7v57DV
c.org/VpHk7v57DV
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
I cannot believe this rapist turned out to be a pedophile.
November 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I cannot believe this rapist turned out to be a pedophile.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Old Flat Top is getting his ass shaved every day🙏
November 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Old Flat Top is getting his ass shaved every day🙏
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Alice Wong was a fierce advocate for disability rights and a courageous and compassionate human being. The impact of her work and the memory of her live on. May her spirit rest in peace.
She was known online as @sfdirewolf.bsky.social.
She was known online as @sfdirewolf.bsky.social.
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Alice Wong was a fierce advocate for disability rights and a courageous and compassionate human being. The impact of her work and the memory of her live on. May her spirit rest in peace.
She was known online as @sfdirewolf.bsky.social.
She was known online as @sfdirewolf.bsky.social.
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
"Connect with a higher power." A.I. is the higher power
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"Connect with a higher power." A.I. is the higher power