Helen Zaltzman
@helenzaltzman.bsky.social
Podcaster from The Allusionist, Answer Me This and Veronica Mars Investigations. Pronouns she/they (TBH I think 'they' should be the default and we opt in to gendered pronouns/gender). linktr.ee/helenzaltzman
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Today is the 18th birthday of #AnswerMeThis! Our child is an adult, and to celebrate, @ollymann.bsky.social and I have some HUGE NEWS answermethispodcast.com/bigbirthdaynews
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What would you do if you woke up with magical powers? I’m joined by @allusionistshow.bsky.social Host @helenzaltzman.bsky.social, as we discuss the 1989 film “Teen Witch.” #TeenWitch #Magic #Witch #Halloween #Witches 🔮✨
youtu.be/X3-9a2V18RI
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November 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What would you do if you woke up with magical powers? I’m joined by @allusionistshow.bsky.social Host @helenzaltzman.bsky.social, as we discuss the 1989 film “Teen Witch.” #TeenWitch #Magic #Witch #Halloween #Witches 🔮✨
youtu.be/X3-9a2V18RI
youtu.be/X3-9a2V18RI
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Had a lot of fun talking about the differences between US and UK Christmas music with @helenzaltzman.bsky.social!
Listen to me and Helen Zaltzman swap Christmas songs on the second episode of No Skip Christmas: A Christmas Music Playlist Podcast. Helen hosts the Allusionist and Answer Me This. What song from my list made Helen ask, “Why have you done this?”
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November 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Had a lot of fun talking about the differences between US and UK Christmas music with @helenzaltzman.bsky.social!
correlation or causation?
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
correlation or causation?
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So excited to have my work featured on @allusionistshow.bsky.social by @helenzaltzman.bsky.social !! www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/...
Check it out!
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Check it out!
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Allusionist 217. Feminist coffee houses — The Allusionist
In their heyday of the 1970s and 1980s, there were more than 200 - possibly more than 400 - feminist restaurants and coffee shops in the USA and Canada. These places were aiming to change ways of work...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
So excited to have my work featured on @allusionistshow.bsky.social by @helenzaltzman.bsky.social !! www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/...
Check it out!
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social @concordiapress.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social
Check it out!
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social @concordiapress.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social
oh what a night, when politics made us so happy for once
Happy tenth anniversary of Pig-gate theallusionist.org/gate
September 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
oh what a night, when politics made us so happy for once
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either the country is beset by hundreds and hundreds of terrorists massing in every major city -- little old lady terrorists, famous film writer terrorists, university student terrorists, disabled terrorists -- or the law is a sick fucking joke
Almost 900 people arrested at Palestine Action protest, Met police say
Almost 900 people arrested at Palestine Action protest, Met police say
Demonstration in central London on Saturday led to 857 arrests under Terrorism Act
A total of 890 arrests were made at a demonstration against the banning of Palestine Action as a terrorist group in central London on Saturday.
Police arrested 857 people under the Terrorism Act for showing support for a proscribed group, while 33 people were arrested for other offences, including 17 for assaults on police officers, the Metropolitan police said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
either the country is beset by hundreds and hundreds of terrorists massing in every major city -- little old lady terrorists, famous film writer terrorists, university student terrorists, disabled terrorists -- or the law is a sick fucking joke
I’m performing at Nerd Nite in Vancouver on Wednesday! I have read three different versions of Dracula in the past month and you should come along to learn why the hell I would do something like that www.eventbrite.com/e/nerd-nite-...
Nerd Nite v58: Sea Otters, Coast Salish Art, and the Three Draculas
Nerdy Science Lecture series continues!
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September 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I’m performing at Nerd Nite in Vancouver on Wednesday! I have read three different versions of Dracula in the past month and you should come along to learn why the hell I would do something like that www.eventbrite.com/e/nerd-nite-...
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But also, I know I've hit my cap of independent media support that I can personally offer to the venues I value.
Independent media that isn't taking a deep dive in the right wing cesspool is expensive to produce, maintain, and continue.
It's exhausting to play wack a mole like this.
Independent media that isn't taking a deep dive in the right wing cesspool is expensive to produce, maintain, and continue.
It's exhausting to play wack a mole like this.
September 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
But also, I know I've hit my cap of independent media support that I can personally offer to the venues I value.
Independent media that isn't taking a deep dive in the right wing cesspool is expensive to produce, maintain, and continue.
It's exhausting to play wack a mole like this.
Independent media that isn't taking a deep dive in the right wing cesspool is expensive to produce, maintain, and continue.
It's exhausting to play wack a mole like this.
Shutting the fuck up is free, Ro Khanna www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-congre...
Dem Congressman Ro Khanna Defends UK Anti-Trans Activist Arrested For Calling For Violence Against Trans People
Graham Linehan was arrested after calling for violence against transgender people using the bathroom.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Shutting the fuck up is free, Ro Khanna www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-congre...
Alternative options (I suggest a combo): 1. steer people to be less fucking racist; 2. throw all this effort and more into stemming the main causes of migration: wars and climate catastrophe.
But, as always, alas
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
But, as always, alas
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
August 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Alternative options (I suggest a combo): 1. steer people to be less fucking racist; 2. throw all this effort and more into stemming the main causes of migration: wars and climate catastrophe.
But, as always, alas
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
But, as always, alas
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
August 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
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This is all over Twitter as agitprop to eradicate trans people. If they should actual raw numbers, it would show the thousands of mass shootings committed by white men. But they purposefully distorted statistics in a purposefully skewed scale guaranteed to push trans people to the top.
August 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
This is all over Twitter as agitprop to eradicate trans people. If they should actual raw numbers, it would show the thousands of mass shootings committed by white men. But they purposefully distorted statistics in a purposefully skewed scale guaranteed to push trans people to the top.
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This is the dumbest propaganda fake statistic I've ever seen. It presents in a rate of per million population when there's only 2.8 million trans people in the entire country. A single trans mass shooter would show up in this and that's exactly what it shows.
August 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This is the dumbest propaganda fake statistic I've ever seen. It presents in a rate of per million population when there's only 2.8 million trans people in the entire country. A single trans mass shooter would show up in this and that's exactly what it shows.
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They were LITERALLY protesting against JK Rowling's best mate and partner in Lumos etc Baroness Nicholson.
Literally. Truth doesn't matter any more. Today they're protesting against HER.
Literally. Truth doesn't matter any more. Today they're protesting against HER.
August 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
They were LITERALLY protesting against JK Rowling's best mate and partner in Lumos etc Baroness Nicholson.
Literally. Truth doesn't matter any more. Today they're protesting against HER.
Literally. Truth doesn't matter any more. Today they're protesting against HER.
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Cultural recommendation for UK folk: Artworks art docs on BBC Sounds. Enjoying one about recorders by Susan Calman (expires tomorrow). Also beautiful Souvenirs by @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social, and a doc about Leigh Bowery by Nick Grimshaw www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - Artworks - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Artworks on BBC Sounds.
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August 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Cultural recommendation for UK folk: Artworks art docs on BBC Sounds. Enjoying one about recorders by Susan Calman (expires tomorrow). Also beautiful Souvenirs by @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social, and a doc about Leigh Bowery by Nick Grimshaw www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
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They know exactly what they're doing here with this headline. They're making it seem like a trans person did this despite the fact that the trans person in this story is the victim.
July 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
They know exactly what they're doing here with this headline. They're making it seem like a trans person did this despite the fact that the trans person in this story is the victim.
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If you were solely going by the headline, you'd be under the wrong impression that this was a trans nurse that did this.
In fact, the trans person at the center of this is a doctor who was harassed by this nurse who constantly spouted racist, transphobic stuff to her colleagues.
Way to go BBC.
In fact, the trans person at the center of this is a doctor who was harassed by this nurse who constantly spouted racist, transphobic stuff to her colleagues.
Way to go BBC.
July 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you were solely going by the headline, you'd be under the wrong impression that this was a trans nurse that did this.
In fact, the trans person at the center of this is a doctor who was harassed by this nurse who constantly spouted racist, transphobic stuff to her colleagues.
Way to go BBC.
In fact, the trans person at the center of this is a doctor who was harassed by this nurse who constantly spouted racist, transphobic stuff to her colleagues.
Way to go BBC.
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Listen here - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Souvenirs
The story of a friendship torn apart by type - as in, the bits of metal that print words.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Listen here - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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“One-off documentaries are at the heart of Radio 4 and this one was gorgeous…”
Great to see @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social pick up @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social’s documentary Souvenirs in this weekend’s @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/audi...
Great to see @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social pick up @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social’s documentary Souvenirs in this weekend’s @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/audi...
What should we make of the HS2 fiasco? | The Observer
Radio 4 airs an unmissable investigation of the high-speed rail network debacle – although ‘debacle’ seems too strong a word for the contained emotions i...
observer.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“One-off documentaries are at the heart of Radio 4 and this one was gorgeous…”
Great to see @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social pick up @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social’s documentary Souvenirs in this weekend’s @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/audi...
Great to see @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social pick up @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social’s documentary Souvenirs in this weekend’s @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/audi...
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being a fucked-up tranny faggot dyke is way more fun than whatever the hell cishet people do i don't even know like is it some kind of boredom kink or
July 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
being a fucked-up tranny faggot dyke is way more fun than whatever the hell cishet people do i don't even know like is it some kind of boredom kink or
nope, fuck you www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israel trying to deflect blame for widespread starvation in Gaza
Official and ministers either deny that Palestinians are being affected by hunger or say it is not Israel’s fault
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
nope, fuck you www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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this, in the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is the first time I saw dinosaurs represented as brightly coloured and with feathers/hair. And also...humping??
July 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
this, in the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is the first time I saw dinosaurs represented as brightly coloured and with feathers/hair. And also...humping??
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There's a new episode in your podfeed! Next in #FourLetterWord season is 'dino', which means 'terrible'. Hannah McGregor of Material Girls podcast joins to talk about Jurassic Park, and humans' relationship with language for dinosaurs. Hear/read via theallusionist.org/dino and the usual podplaces
Allusionist 213. Four Letter Words: Dino — The Allusionist
The latest four letter word of Four Letter Word season is dino . 'Dinosaur' is derived from Greek 'terrible lizard', and they could have called it 'whopping great lizard' or 'sublime lizard' or 'hey ...
theallusionist.org
July 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There's a new episode in your podfeed! Next in #FourLetterWord season is 'dino', which means 'terrible'. Hannah McGregor of Material Girls podcast joins to talk about Jurassic Park, and humans' relationship with language for dinosaurs. Hear/read via theallusionist.org/dino and the usual podplaces