Helen Mackness
@helenmackness.bsky.social
eurasian tea drinking book dragon // obstinate, headstrong girl // half agony, half hope // sacrificing sleep for rugby, cricket, hockey, and romance novels
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Book Club last night, leading to the ultimate in treats today: grazing on leftover party food all day.
January 24, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Book Club last night, leading to the ultimate in treats today: grazing on leftover party food all day.
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.
January 21, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.
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Thrilled to see @jenreadsromance.bsky.social talking all the sense in the Guardian today!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why can’t women enjoy Heated Rivalry without being treated with contempt? | Zoe Williams
The TV hit has cracked open a rich seam of misogyny: romance is written off as a weird thing that women like, and the audience is dismissed as ‘wine moms’, writes Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Thrilled to see @jenreadsromance.bsky.social talking all the sense in the Guardian today!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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the EU could collapse the American entertainment industry by simply withholding the Skarsgards until Trump is deposed
January 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
the EU could collapse the American entertainment industry by simply withholding the Skarsgards until Trump is deposed
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What makes me so livid as a Midwesterner who had Hmong neighbors and friends my whole life is OUR GOVERNMENT BROUGHT THEM HERE. we destroyed their home, we had them fight for us in our war, and then they had nowhere safe to remain when we left. So we brought them here. And now we're deporting them.
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
What makes me so livid as a Midwesterner who had Hmong neighbors and friends my whole life is OUR GOVERNMENT BROUGHT THEM HERE. we destroyed their home, we had them fight for us in our war, and then they had nowhere safe to remain when we left. So we brought them here. And now we're deporting them.
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No mothafucka next question
January 18, 2026 at 1:44 AM
No mothafucka next question
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THE HUMAN BRAIN: so we’re going to need between seven and nine hours of sleep every night in order to function
HUMANS: okay
THE HUMAN BRAIN: and I’m gonna do everything in my power to make sure we never, ever get it.
HUMANS: okay
THE HUMAN BRAIN: and I’m gonna do everything in my power to make sure we never, ever get it.
January 16, 2026 at 8:27 AM
THE HUMAN BRAIN: so we’re going to need between seven and nine hours of sleep every night in order to function
HUMANS: okay
THE HUMAN BRAIN: and I’m gonna do everything in my power to make sure we never, ever get it.
HUMANS: okay
THE HUMAN BRAIN: and I’m gonna do everything in my power to make sure we never, ever get it.
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“Our sovereignty is inherent. Our treaties are binding. Our citizenship is not negotiable.”
The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.
Oglala Sioux Tribe accuses federal authorities of treaty violation after four members detained by ICE
“Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are United States citizens. We are the first Americans.”
www.wjtv.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
“Our sovereignty is inherent. Our treaties are binding. Our citizenship is not negotiable.”
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ICE agents are just evil both as individuals and collectively. This shit is just fun for them they love hurting people
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
January 16, 2026 at 2:19 AM
ICE agents are just evil both as individuals and collectively. This shit is just fun for them they love hurting people
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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This is more felony murder appropriate than most so-called felony murders.
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:11 PM
This is more felony murder appropriate than most so-called felony murders.
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Rowling: [answers phone] hello?
Julia Donaldson: hi is there a Ms. NottheUK'sbestsellingauthorbyvolume there
Donaldson: first name Ima
Rowling: hold on, i'll check
Julia Donaldson: hi is there a Ms. NottheUK'sbestsellingauthorbyvolume there
Donaldson: first name Ima
Rowling: hold on, i'll check
January 14, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Rowling: [answers phone] hello?
Julia Donaldson: hi is there a Ms. NottheUK'sbestsellingauthorbyvolume there
Donaldson: first name Ima
Rowling: hold on, i'll check
Julia Donaldson: hi is there a Ms. NottheUK'sbestsellingauthorbyvolume there
Donaldson: first name Ima
Rowling: hold on, i'll check
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Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
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One of the shitty things about the racist and anti-lgbtq extremist direction of this administration (and all those like them) is people and corporations quit celebrating, or even supporting, marginalized people to avoid 'trouble.'
Fuck trouble. Fuck bigots.
Raise your voice.
Fuck trouble. Fuck bigots.
Raise your voice.
January 14, 2026 at 12:05 PM
One of the shitty things about the racist and anti-lgbtq extremist direction of this administration (and all those like them) is people and corporations quit celebrating, or even supporting, marginalized people to avoid 'trouble.'
Fuck trouble. Fuck bigots.
Raise your voice.
Fuck trouble. Fuck bigots.
Raise your voice.
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boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider
January 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider
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Basically Jack Reacher has sex with The Law Enforcement Officer Du Livre as a break for the author exhausted by choreographing constant violence. Whereas a Regency duke has a full bare-knuckle boxing scene as a break for the author who really cannot think of one more synonym for penis.
January 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Basically Jack Reacher has sex with The Law Enforcement Officer Du Livre as a break for the author exhausted by choreographing constant violence. Whereas a Regency duke has a full bare-knuckle boxing scene as a break for the author who really cannot think of one more synonym for penis.
Currently, the Water of Leith.
Growing up, 大埔河 then 火炭渠, then the Ouse then the Tay.
Growing up, 大埔河 then 火炭渠, then the Ouse then the Tay.
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 14, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Currently, the Water of Leith.
Growing up, 大埔河 then 火炭渠, then the Ouse then the Tay.
Growing up, 大埔河 then 火炭渠, then the Ouse then the Tay.
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This is the kind of shit people would do as a parody of Ukip in the old days, now utterly real
January 13, 2026 at 8:47 AM
This is the kind of shit people would do as a parody of Ukip in the old days, now utterly real
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Jesus FUCKING CHRIST
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
January 13, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Jesus FUCKING CHRIST
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final word: bsky.app/profile/madw...
Ilya was correct. The New Yorker IS boring.🙃
January 11, 2026 at 1:29 AM
final word: bsky.app/profile/madw...
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Bizarre that a show can quite literally be adapted from a genre romance novel and THE NEW YORKER will still treat genre novels like they don't exist. Wild.
SURE, yes, those are the correct literary antecedents.
January 11, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Bizarre that a show can quite literally be adapted from a genre romance novel and THE NEW YORKER will still treat genre novels like they don't exist. Wild.
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He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 9, 2026 at 11:25 PM
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
January 8, 2026 at 5:35 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.