Leah Petersen
@leahpetersen.bsky.social
Science fiction and fantasy author: FIGHTING GRAVITY trilogy. Bipolar. She/they.
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Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation
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Unique among inmates, Ghislaine Maxwell gets room service in her cell, after-hours access to recreation, a private visitor suite with refreshments and even a service-dog puppy to play with.
Is this a federal prison sentence or a comped stay at a Trump Hotel?
Is this a federal prison sentence or a comped stay at a Trump Hotel?
Ghislaine Maxwell Has Custom Meals and Pet A Puppy Behind Bars: Lawmakers
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee say a whistleblower revealed that Maxwell has received special treatment in prison.
people.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Unique among inmates, Ghislaine Maxwell gets room service in her cell, after-hours access to recreation, a private visitor suite with refreshments and even a service-dog puppy to play with.
Is this a federal prison sentence or a comped stay at a Trump Hotel?
Is this a federal prison sentence or a comped stay at a Trump Hotel?
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epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
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/4 In short, play to your strengths! Maybe you are the person in your friend group who could always mysteriously talk to adults and get their trust. On the other hand, maybe you are the person chosen as an emissary to talk to stoned drifters. Different skills, different folks.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
/4 In short, play to your strengths! Maybe you are the person in your friend group who could always mysteriously talk to adults and get their trust. On the other hand, maybe you are the person chosen as an emissary to talk to stoned drifters. Different skills, different folks.
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Trump just now: “Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat's problem, not the Republican's problem! …Don’t waste your time with Trump. “
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Trump just now: “Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat's problem, not the Republican's problem! …Don’t waste your time with Trump. “
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BREAKING: Trump asked Texas to redraw its map to entrench his power
Now his DOJ is trying to overturn California’s voter-approved map
This isn’t law
It’s a president at 37% approval trying to rig 2026 before voters can speak
Read 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Now his DOJ is trying to overturn California’s voter-approved map
This isn’t law
It’s a president at 37% approval trying to rig 2026 before voters can speak
Read 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Justice Department Joins Suit Challenging New California Congressional Districts
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
BREAKING: Trump asked Texas to redraw its map to entrench his power
Now his DOJ is trying to overturn California’s voter-approved map
This isn’t law
It’s a president at 37% approval trying to rig 2026 before voters can speak
Read 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Now his DOJ is trying to overturn California’s voter-approved map
This isn’t law
It’s a president at 37% approval trying to rig 2026 before voters can speak
Read 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
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There was some strange system where they all got their food and shelter and education and medical for free, no matter what job they did.
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There was some strange system where they all got their food and shelter and education and medical for free, no matter what job they did.
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I attended SFF cons as a teenager.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
To the two well-respected local SF/F community leaders who each told a teenage child of a friend of mine, "I can't wait for you to turn 18, I'll be waiting for you," I know your names you fucking shitty-ass pedo bastards, and I *remember*.
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I attended SFF cons as a teenager.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
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Editorial note for anyone writing about Epstein, there is no such thing as an "underage woman."
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Editorial note for anyone writing about Epstein, there is no such thing as an "underage woman."
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
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i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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you could not script a more perfect "who are white Republican women in a nutshell?" moment than Megyn Kelly - quite famously herself a victim of an older and more powerful man's sexual misconduct - doing the "TECHNICALLY he wasn't a 'pedophile' per se" routine with a perfectly straight face
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
you could not script a more perfect "who are white Republican women in a nutshell?" moment than Megyn Kelly - quite famously herself a victim of an older and more powerful man's sexual misconduct - doing the "TECHNICALLY he wasn't a 'pedophile' per se" routine with a perfectly straight face
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In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
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When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
if you cant go in to the office 3 days a week then you really can't complain when cities are hollowed out. cities are places where ppl work and network. getting rid of that makes cities useless
And it's usually something like "but that's not what the literal DNC does!" as if I don't know, as someone who has worked on Dem campaigns, sometimes in conjunction with the DNC what they do. So I'm going to be very specific here: this is the DNC being shitty: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
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Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
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The NYT got pictures of Donald Trump with underaged girls and buried them
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The NYT got pictures of Donald Trump with underaged girls and buried them
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The president of the united states is a pedophile rapist who was best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein and spent hours with an underage victim at Epstein's home. Now he's currently huddled in the situation room directing a cover up about it like it's a seal team 6 operation. Do I have that right?
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The president of the united states is a pedophile rapist who was best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein and spent hours with an underage victim at Epstein's home. Now he's currently huddled in the situation room directing a cover up about it like it's a seal team 6 operation. Do I have that right?
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The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
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Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
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So that's gonna be awkward when all the evidence is out in front us just like it has been for a long time that Trump's a pedophile & nothing happens to him & he's still the president.
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So that's gonna be awkward when all the evidence is out in front us just like it has been for a long time that Trump's a pedophile & nothing happens to him & he's still the president.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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'The late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Donald Trump knew about the girls he was trafficking, according to new emails from Epstein’s estate released by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday morning.'
via Hailey Fuchs
via Hailey Fuchs
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
'The late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Donald Trump knew about the girls he was trafficking, according to new emails from Epstein’s estate released by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday morning.'
via Hailey Fuchs
via Hailey Fuchs