Kelly Lynn Thomas
@kellylynnthomas.bsky.social
Writer of strange fictions. Managing editor at University of Pittsburgh Press. Queer. Nonbinary. (They/She)
Pierre's voice was a constant presence on the radio through my formative years. After I moved to Pittsburgh, I'd tune in when I visited home, and Pierre was always there waiting for me like an old friend. His shows taught me so much about music and music history. Going home will never be the same. 💔
Pierre Robert, the voice of Philadelphia rock radio for decades, has died at age 70. More:
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Pierre Robert, Philadelphia's Voice of Rock Radio, Dead at 70
Pierre Robert, the voice of Philadelphia rock radio for decades, has died at age 70.
www.rollingstone.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Pierre's voice was a constant presence on the radio through my formative years. After I moved to Pittsburgh, I'd tune in when I visited home, and Pierre was always there waiting for me like an old friend. His shows taught me so much about music and music history. Going home will never be the same. 💔
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ANMLY is now open for new work!
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
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Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
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October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ANMLY is now open for new work!
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
It's kind of insulting that Slack thinks I need some dumb LLM to summarize 4 unread messages of approximately 1-2 sentences each.
And clearly it thinks that, since it keeps giving me a pop-up to upgrade so I can use said dumb LLM.
And clearly it thinks that, since it keeps giving me a pop-up to upgrade so I can use said dumb LLM.
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It's kind of insulting that Slack thinks I need some dumb LLM to summarize 4 unread messages of approximately 1-2 sentences each.
And clearly it thinks that, since it keeps giving me a pop-up to upgrade so I can use said dumb LLM.
And clearly it thinks that, since it keeps giving me a pop-up to upgrade so I can use said dumb LLM.
One hundred and seventy. That number will only increase.
@propublica.org found more than 170 U.S. citizens who have been held against their will by immigration agents. They’ve been kicked, dragged and detained for days.
Full story by immigration reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by me here: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Full story by immigration reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by me here: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
One hundred and seventy. That number will only increase.
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“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’”
I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵
I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵
October 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’”
I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵
I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵
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Rescue the future. Confront the past. THE LAST ORDER is in stores everywhere today!
October 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Rescue the future. Confront the past. THE LAST ORDER is in stores everywhere today!
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I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does
www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...
www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...
News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America
Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.
www.404media.co
October 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does
www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...
www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...
Every Jimmy Eat World album is fantastic. Placebo? Loud Like Love is gorgeous and Never Let Me Go is a masterpiece. Also lately have been obsessed with Garbage's newest album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (and No Gods No Masters is a perfect album for the current moment). I could go on.
My hottest music take: that band or artist you say you love has made significantly better music than their debut, you were just 15 when you heard it, and you should try actually listening to something they made yesterday instead.
October 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Every Jimmy Eat World album is fantastic. Placebo? Loud Like Love is gorgeous and Never Let Me Go is a masterpiece. Also lately have been obsessed with Garbage's newest album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (and No Gods No Masters is a perfect album for the current moment). I could go on.
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Impersonation alert! Writers, if you get an email from someone recommending you contact literary agent Annie Bomke at either anniebomkeliterary@gmail.com or submissions@anniebomke.com, it's a SCAM. Both emails addys are fake. Annie's real domain is abliterary.com writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/t...
The Impersonation List - Writer Beware
The most pernicious scams focused on English-speaking writers these days come from overseas: publishing/marketing/fake literary agency scams from the Philippines, and ghostwriting/editing/marketing sc...
writerbeware.blog
October 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Impersonation alert! Writers, if you get an email from someone recommending you contact literary agent Annie Bomke at either anniebomkeliterary@gmail.com or submissions@anniebomke.com, it's a SCAM. Both emails addys are fake. Annie's real domain is abliterary.com writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/t...
Perpetually relevant
October 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Perpetually relevant
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@emilylhauser.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen, I have yet another zine out! It was commissioned to be distributed during the No Kings 2 protests. It’s called “We Marched! Now What?” and is filled with stuff people can do. drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...
October 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
@emilylhauser.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen, I have yet another zine out! It was commissioned to be distributed during the No Kings 2 protests. It’s called “We Marched! Now What?” and is filled with stuff people can do. drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...
1 week before my BPhil (undergad version of a phd) thesis was due, I banged out 13k new words, revised all 38k words (twice), created my defense presentation, met my future spouse, and spent a lot time flirting with him. Only 30 students out of thousands graduated with a BPhil that year. Fuck AI.
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
1 week before my BPhil (undergad version of a phd) thesis was due, I banged out 13k new words, revised all 38k words (twice), created my defense presentation, met my future spouse, and spent a lot time flirting with him. Only 30 students out of thousands graduated with a BPhil that year. Fuck AI.
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Walked through the airport and saw my face in Time, on the cover of USA Today, and my book on the shelves. So surreal. I’m counting every blessing and grateful for all who stand for truth and intellectual freedom. They tried to silence me. Wrong one. Cheers to the haters! 🥂
#Invictus
#Invictus
October 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Walked through the airport and saw my face in Time, on the cover of USA Today, and my book on the shelves. So surreal. I’m counting every blessing and grateful for all who stand for truth and intellectual freedom. They tried to silence me. Wrong one. Cheers to the haters! 🥂
#Invictus
#Invictus
I've actually been thinking a lot about utopia (because of Le Guin, of course), specifically in the context of dystopia—both because of the dystopia we seem to be living in and because of how popular dystopian fiction has always been compared to utopian fiction.
Did you know it is Banned Books Week? We're featuring our new book "Fear the Future" by Matthew Benjamin Cole, which discusses frequently banned books like 1984, Brave New World, and Handmaid's Tale and how dystopian stories have influenced political thought. Read it at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I've actually been thinking a lot about utopia (because of Le Guin, of course), specifically in the context of dystopia—both because of the dystopia we seem to be living in and because of how popular dystopian fiction has always been compared to utopian fiction.
Governor Shapiro needs to get on this. Just because PA hasn't been targeted for this yet doesn't mean we won't be. "Bad things" happen in Philadelphia, after all.
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Governor Shapiro needs to get on this. Just because PA hasn't been targeted for this yet doesn't mean we won't be. "Bad things" happen in Philadelphia, after all.
"How do you do it? / You get through it then you put yourself through it again"*
FOREVER by Charly Bliss is the '90s vibes pop(ish) album I need at the end of my 30s.
*This lyric is talking about love but it applies pretty well to life in general.
charlybliss.bandcamp.com/track/how-do...
FOREVER by Charly Bliss is the '90s vibes pop(ish) album I need at the end of my 30s.
*This lyric is talking about love but it applies pretty well to life in general.
charlybliss.bandcamp.com/track/how-do...
How Do You Do It, by Charly Bliss
from the album FOREVER
charlybliss.bandcamp.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"How do you do it? / You get through it then you put yourself through it again"*
FOREVER by Charly Bliss is the '90s vibes pop(ish) album I need at the end of my 30s.
*This lyric is talking about love but it applies pretty well to life in general.
charlybliss.bandcamp.com/track/how-do...
FOREVER by Charly Bliss is the '90s vibes pop(ish) album I need at the end of my 30s.
*This lyric is talking about love but it applies pretty well to life in general.
charlybliss.bandcamp.com/track/how-do...
I am in danger of turning into a person who listens to specific albums with specific audio setups based on minor sound differences.
Is . . . Is this my mid-life crisis?
Is . . . Is this my mid-life crisis?
October 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I am in danger of turning into a person who listens to specific albums with specific audio setups based on minor sound differences.
Is . . . Is this my mid-life crisis?
Is . . . Is this my mid-life crisis?
TIL I am a single gay male. Guess I have a lot of self-reflection to do.
October 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
TIL I am a single gay male. Guess I have a lot of self-reflection to do.
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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@librarianjones.com is a hero and a well-deserved Time100 “The World’s Most Influential Rising Stars”!
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
October 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
@librarianjones.com is a hero and a well-deserved Time100 “The World’s Most Influential Rising Stars”!
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
And here is a helpful list of Banned and challenged books by living marginalized authors!
So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?
Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!
A thread!
Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!
A thread!
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
And here is a helpful list of Banned and challenged books by living marginalized authors!
Started reading THAT LIBRARIAN by Amanda Jones (@librarianjones.com) yesterday in honor of Banned Book Week.
Librarians and library workers have been on the front lines of the modern fight for intellectual freedom for decades. Follow them, read them, listen to what they have to say.
Librarians and library workers have been on the front lines of the modern fight for intellectual freedom for decades. Follow them, read them, listen to what they have to say.
October 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Started reading THAT LIBRARIAN by Amanda Jones (@librarianjones.com) yesterday in honor of Banned Book Week.
Librarians and library workers have been on the front lines of the modern fight for intellectual freedom for decades. Follow them, read them, listen to what they have to say.
Librarians and library workers have been on the front lines of the modern fight for intellectual freedom for decades. Follow them, read them, listen to what they have to say.
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As someone who grew up in a strict Evangelical household, I have some big cultural gaps, but I've been working on filling them in.
I've still never seen more than 5 minutes of Friends or Seinfeld. I guess it's also culturally weird for me to have never seen Elf.
I've still never seen more than 5 minutes of Friends or Seinfeld. I guess it's also culturally weird for me to have never seen Elf.
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As someone who grew up in a strict Evangelical household, I have some big cultural gaps, but I've been working on filling them in.
I've still never seen more than 5 minutes of Friends or Seinfeld. I guess it's also culturally weird for me to have never seen Elf.
I've still never seen more than 5 minutes of Friends or Seinfeld. I guess it's also culturally weird for me to have never seen Elf.
It's like she's talking about AI here, but this essay is from 1982.
From Le Guin, "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be," 1982.
From Le Guin, "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be," 1982.
October 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It's like she's talking about AI here, but this essay is from 1982.
From Le Guin, "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be," 1982.
From Le Guin, "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be," 1982.