Jessica Bird
@jessicabird.bsky.social
Writer, avid baker, your spark bird friend. GrubStreet Novel Incubator Y10. Current obsessions: Dark Night epiphanies, rosemary shortbread, that one table in the library that is mine
Spies, conspiracies, and haunting flashes of beauty within a darkly compelling world - get to know Hesse Phillips’ debut historical novel, LIGHTBORNE! I interviewed Hesse about their enthralling reimagining of the last dangerous days of playwright Christopher Marlowe at Dead Darlings.
Spies, Love on the Margins, and “The History of Lost Things” in Hesse Phillips’ debut novel, Lightborne
In their enthralling debut historical novel Lightborne, Hesse Phillips brings to life the last, dangerous days of famed Elizabethan playwright and poet, the outspoken and provocative Christopher Marlo...
www.deaddarlings.com
October 17, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Spies, conspiracies, and haunting flashes of beauty within a darkly compelling world - get to know Hesse Phillips’ debut historical novel, LIGHTBORNE! I interviewed Hesse about their enthralling reimagining of the last dangerous days of playwright Christopher Marlowe at Dead Darlings.
The worst deli number but not too bad for these digs.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #887,164!
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #887,164!
September 19, 2024 at 12:46 AM
The worst deli number but not too bad for these digs.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #887,164!
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #887,164!
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someone posted this earlier and it's AMAZING
Live cam of a watering hole at a reserve in Nambia. I've watched zebras, wart hogs, oryx and other critters
It's really active right now
www.youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQ...
Live cam of a watering hole at a reserve in Nambia. I've watched zebras, wart hogs, oryx and other critters
It's really active right now
www.youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQ...
Namibia: Live stream in the Namib Desert
YouTube video by NamibiaCam
www.youtube.com
August 18, 2024 at 9:56 AM
someone posted this earlier and it's AMAZING
Live cam of a watering hole at a reserve in Nambia. I've watched zebras, wart hogs, oryx and other critters
It's really active right now
www.youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQ...
Live cam of a watering hole at a reserve in Nambia. I've watched zebras, wart hogs, oryx and other critters
It's really active right now
www.youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQ...
I ordered new ice packs, and the site started showing clips from someone who used bandages to help a wounded chicken. I’m glad that chicken has someone looking out for her!
August 18, 2024 at 1:37 PM
I ordered new ice packs, and the site started showing clips from someone who used bandages to help a wounded chicken. I’m glad that chicken has someone looking out for her!
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A bad thing about car reviews is they're written by people who love cars and know a lot about them.
I need car reviews by people who hate cars and know nothing about them.
I need car reviews by people who hate cars and know nothing about them.
June 22, 2024 at 1:17 AM
A bad thing about car reviews is they're written by people who love cars and know a lot about them.
I need car reviews by people who hate cars and know nothing about them.
I need car reviews by people who hate cars and know nothing about them.
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Every academic article has a corresponding author whose email address is listed on the first page. If an article is paywalled, just send a short, polite email requesting a PDF from the author. 95% of the time you’ll receive it within a day. People like knowing their work is being read!
ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.
June 18, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Every academic article has a corresponding author whose email address is listed on the first page. If an article is paywalled, just send a short, polite email requesting a PDF from the author. 95% of the time you’ll receive it within a day. People like knowing their work is being read!
Thinking of my fave Annie Dillard advice on Day 3 of a personal writing challenge. I’m giving myself ten weeks to take on scenes and chapters that need major overhauling or writing from the ground up. So it’s time to take big swings 🔨
June 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Thinking of my fave Annie Dillard advice on Day 3 of a personal writing challenge. I’m giving myself ten weeks to take on scenes and chapters that need major overhauling or writing from the ground up. So it’s time to take big swings 🔨
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So sorry political candidates texting me links, all my money has gone at last to every gofundme and mutual aid for what the government will not pay for.
June 18, 2024 at 6:47 PM
So sorry political candidates texting me links, all my money has gone at last to every gofundme and mutual aid for what the government will not pay for.
Writing a scene, and recalled my main character’s formerly fall in his eyes length hair is cropped close at this point, which must impact how people respond to him, and oh god, now my character hair has an *arc*
May 22, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Writing a scene, and recalled my main character’s formerly fall in his eyes length hair is cropped close at this point, which must impact how people respond to him, and oh god, now my character hair has an *arc*
Literally no one reads my skeets and I may just make this a blog of my many Mondegreens from here on out, because if not for my amusement, then whomst???
May 18, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Literally no one reads my skeets and I may just make this a blog of my many Mondegreens from here on out, because if not for my amusement, then whomst???
This just in - I’ve been singing “you’re a champagne supernova” instead of “human supernova” for YEARS, and frankly I think my way is better 🥂 🌟
May 18, 2024 at 2:18 PM
This just in - I’ve been singing “you’re a champagne supernova” instead of “human supernova” for YEARS, and frankly I think my way is better 🥂 🌟
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Maybe you’ve gotten this as a note before from an editor: “I want more of you in here.” It’s a frustrating note to give or to get just on its own. So I made a short guide to writing interiority into your personal essays and memoirs. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
I Want More Of You In Here: A Guide to Interiority In the Personal Essay and Memoir
What To Do When They Ask For More Of You
open.substack.com
May 15, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Maybe you’ve gotten this as a note before from an editor: “I want more of you in here.” It’s a frustrating note to give or to get just on its own. So I made a short guide to writing interiority into your personal essays and memoirs. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
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Meanwhile, earlier today at a different Ivy, the Brown encampment agreed to disperse in exchange for the University’s commitment to meet with protester reps about divestment next month and vote on divestment in the fall.
Brown’s announcement in this thread
Brown’s announcement in this thread
Breaking news from Brown U: the university president has announced a deal with the Palestine solidarity encampment
The university corporation will take a meeting with the student coalition re: "divestment from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territory"
In return, the encampment will disperse
The university corporation will take a meeting with the student coalition re: "divestment from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territory"
In return, the encampment will disperse
May 1, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Meanwhile, earlier today at a different Ivy, the Brown encampment agreed to disperse in exchange for the University’s commitment to meet with protester reps about divestment next month and vote on divestment in the fall.
Brown’s announcement in this thread
Brown’s announcement in this thread
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WKCR reporting NYPD threatened to arrest Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb for attempting to make room for his students to report on the police activity.
May 1, 2024 at 2:31 AM
WKCR reporting NYPD threatened to arrest Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb for attempting to make room for his students to report on the police activity.
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All, please listen to/support the student journalists of WCKR, and all eyes on what's happening at Columbia right now.
They're reporting live, as it looks like police are about to raid the campus: www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/schedule
They're reporting live, as it looks like police are about to raid the campus: www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/schedule
Schedule | WKCR 89.9FM NY
www.cc-seas.columbia.edu
May 1, 2024 at 12:52 AM
All, please listen to/support the student journalists of WCKR, and all eyes on what's happening at Columbia right now.
They're reporting live, as it looks like police are about to raid the campus: www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/schedule
They're reporting live, as it looks like police are about to raid the campus: www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/schedule
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I have gotten a few questions about how to donate to student journalism outlets without supporting Columbia itself. The Columbia Spectator is an independent nonprofit with zero financial ties to the university, if you want to kick them some money.
General Donation — Spectator Publishing Company
www.specpublishing.com
May 1, 2024 at 3:07 AM
I have gotten a few questions about how to donate to student journalism outlets without supporting Columbia itself. The Columbia Spectator is an independent nonprofit with zero financial ties to the university, if you want to kick them some money.
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Good morning, I'm in my happy place: revisions! And building out a list of agents to pitch.
Before I go to my usual search, are there any Black sensitivity readers for fiction: suspense On Here for hire? #writingcommunity
Before I go to my usual search, are there any Black sensitivity readers for fiction: suspense On Here for hire? #writingcommunity
May 1, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Good morning, I'm in my happy place: revisions! And building out a list of agents to pitch.
Before I go to my usual search, are there any Black sensitivity readers for fiction: suspense On Here for hire? #writingcommunity
Before I go to my usual search, are there any Black sensitivity readers for fiction: suspense On Here for hire? #writingcommunity
The AI on The Circle strategizing - and also me just trying to get through my day: “I’ll leverage anecdotes and make references only a lifelong human would know”
April 29, 2024 at 7:50 PM
The AI on The Circle strategizing - and also me just trying to get through my day: “I’ll leverage anecdotes and make references only a lifelong human would know”
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Tfw someone asks “How are you?” and there’s that horrible beat of silence where you’re both like “Wait, was that a real question, or…? Cause if it was, the abyss in me and the abyss in you are about to make eye contact for an uncomfortably long time and I’m not sure we’re ready.”
April 23, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Tfw someone asks “How are you?” and there’s that horrible beat of silence where you’re both like “Wait, was that a real question, or…? Cause if it was, the abyss in me and the abyss in you are about to make eye contact for an uncomfortably long time and I’m not sure we’re ready.”
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it’s ok, I’m That Friend too
April 23, 2024 at 5:57 PM
it’s ok, I’m That Friend too
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Daughter tells me she heard today that if you wear a band T-shirt (especially as a young woman) and a man says to you “name five of their songs”, the correct response is “name five women who trust you”, so I pass this on in case any of you need it
February 20, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Daughter tells me she heard today that if you wear a band T-shirt (especially as a young woman) and a man says to you “name five of their songs”, the correct response is “name five women who trust you”, so I pass this on in case any of you need it
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Happy Transgender Day of Visibility and Happy Easter
March 31, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Happy Transgender Day of Visibility and Happy Easter
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“A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” Wallace Stevens
“A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” Wallace Stevens
March 31, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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“A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” Wallace Stevens
“A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” Wallace Stevens
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Brilliant read. "The money produced by art has not disappeared. ... The reality is that the people with the most money have devised, at every turn, new and more bulletproof ways for them to make and keep more money, and for the people who make things to make less."
an actually good Sydney Sweeney-themed think piece is “The Money Is in All the Wrong Places” by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
defector.com/the-money-is...
defector.com/the-money-is...
The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defector
You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...
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March 7, 2024 at 4:12 AM
Brilliant read. "The money produced by art has not disappeared. ... The reality is that the people with the most money have devised, at every turn, new and more bulletproof ways for them to make and keep more money, and for the people who make things to make less."