Rosalind Weir
@ros-weir.bsky.social
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“I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.” —Bram Stoker
Eldritch Dreams and Heathenish Writing
“I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.” —Bram Stoker
Eldritch Dreams and Heathenish Writing
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I do wonder what it costs financially to have an army occupying Los Angeles and why I keep being told the government doesn't have enough money to pay for public schools to buy supplies for their teachers
June 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I do wonder what it costs financially to have an army occupying Los Angeles and why I keep being told the government doesn't have enough money to pay for public schools to buy supplies for their teachers
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Let’s give ‘em hell LA
June 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Let’s give ‘em hell LA
You ever just find yourself thinking about Kit Marlowe?
May 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
You ever just find yourself thinking about Kit Marlowe?
The only way I can describe being an American in my lifetime is that the country has been shaken loose from its foundations, and we’re slowly sinking into a pit. And while I’m trying to gently tiptoe around, other people are jumping as hard as they can to make us fall in faster.
February 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The only way I can describe being an American in my lifetime is that the country has been shaken loose from its foundations, and we’re slowly sinking into a pit. And while I’m trying to gently tiptoe around, other people are jumping as hard as they can to make us fall in faster.
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do people not realize that the NIH cuts are meant to force universities to make cuts to programs that do not get NIH grants? the consultants will descend, and they will recommend what they always recommend: kill the humanities.
February 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
do people not realize that the NIH cuts are meant to force universities to make cuts to programs that do not get NIH grants? the consultants will descend, and they will recommend what they always recommend: kill the humanities.
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Good time for a reminder:
February 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Good time for a reminder:
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I don’t have anything smart to say about this except it’s very scary to watch federal funding for science get switched off AND it’s very weird institutionally given how for years the line to humanities “why can’t you pay for yourselves like the grant-funded disciplines”
February 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I don’t have anything smart to say about this except it’s very scary to watch federal funding for science get switched off AND it’s very weird institutionally given how for years the line to humanities “why can’t you pay for yourselves like the grant-funded disciplines”
The world feels like it’s ending and I’m just a sad goth girl who has an unhealthy obsession with Mary Shelley… time to read the Last Man and get even more depressed about apocalyptic plagues and climate change
February 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The world feels like it’s ending and I’m just a sad goth girl who has an unhealthy obsession with Mary Shelley… time to read the Last Man and get even more depressed about apocalyptic plagues and climate change
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Another great day to:
Buy books
Call your reps
Support small businesses
And fight the patriarchy!
Even small acts of resistance are resistance! ❤️
Buy books
Call your reps
Support small businesses
And fight the patriarchy!
Even small acts of resistance are resistance! ❤️
February 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Another great day to:
Buy books
Call your reps
Support small businesses
And fight the patriarchy!
Even small acts of resistance are resistance! ❤️
Buy books
Call your reps
Support small businesses
And fight the patriarchy!
Even small acts of resistance are resistance! ❤️
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Both USAID and the Dept of Education together account for less than 2% of the federal budget. Starting to think this has nothing to do with saving money. If it was you'd look at the corruption and waste in the Defense Dept budget but it’s probably too much to expect someone to defund themselves.
February 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Both USAID and the Dept of Education together account for less than 2% of the federal budget. Starting to think this has nothing to do with saving money. If it was you'd look at the corruption and waste in the Defense Dept budget but it’s probably too much to expect someone to defund themselves.
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Seeing many academics question the value of teaching U.S. constitutional law at a time like this
My view: a pragmatic, clear-eyed understanding of constitutional governance is needed now more than ever
My view: a pragmatic, clear-eyed understanding of constitutional governance is needed now more than ever
February 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Seeing many academics question the value of teaching U.S. constitutional law at a time like this
My view: a pragmatic, clear-eyed understanding of constitutional governance is needed now more than ever
My view: a pragmatic, clear-eyed understanding of constitutional governance is needed now more than ever
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To be honest, I'm surprised every scientific agency and university and so on is getting on its knees for this administration rather than actually resisting fascism in some meaningful way
February 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
To be honest, I'm surprised every scientific agency and university and so on is getting on its knees for this administration rather than actually resisting fascism in some meaningful way
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A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.
February 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.
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Thank you for reading, I’m so proud of you! 💛
We are in a literacy crisis, we have to do everything possible to encourage reading and love of books 📚
Reading is not easy, it is a challenge we are worthy & capable of conquering. When we find that one story… oh! The wonder, the magic, the joy ✨
We are in a literacy crisis, we have to do everything possible to encourage reading and love of books 📚
Reading is not easy, it is a challenge we are worthy & capable of conquering. When we find that one story… oh! The wonder, the magic, the joy ✨
February 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thank you for reading, I’m so proud of you! 💛
We are in a literacy crisis, we have to do everything possible to encourage reading and love of books 📚
Reading is not easy, it is a challenge we are worthy & capable of conquering. When we find that one story… oh! The wonder, the magic, the joy ✨
We are in a literacy crisis, we have to do everything possible to encourage reading and love of books 📚
Reading is not easy, it is a challenge we are worthy & capable of conquering. When we find that one story… oh! The wonder, the magic, the joy ✨
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If making America great again requires you to pay more for everything, lose your retirement savings, work more for less pay, be unable to afford health insurance, become an indentured servant to the oligarchs, maybe you were better off with the no so great version.
February 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If making America great again requires you to pay more for everything, lose your retirement savings, work more for less pay, be unable to afford health insurance, become an indentured servant to the oligarchs, maybe you were better off with the no so great version.
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Talking to cis friends about this and their responses being 'I'm just gonna keep my head down for the next four years' scares me so much... Like, I'm glad you have that luxury. I might not soon.
February 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Talking to cis friends about this and their responses being 'I'm just gonna keep my head down for the next four years' scares me so much... Like, I'm glad you have that luxury. I might not soon.
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Can these representatives please actually stop Elon fucking Musk who NOBODY FUCKING VOTED FOR from doing illegal shit in our government I feel like I’m losing my god damned mind.
February 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Can these representatives please actually stop Elon fucking Musk who NOBODY FUCKING VOTED FOR from doing illegal shit in our government I feel like I’m losing my god damned mind.
That idiot became president when I was eleven years old.
He’s been dismantling my rights for half my life. For half my life, I was told I could be whatever I wanted. Then the people in charge looked me in the eyes and said it was all a lie.
I hate everyone who let this happen to us.
He’s been dismantling my rights for half my life. For half my life, I was told I could be whatever I wanted. Then the people in charge looked me in the eyes and said it was all a lie.
I hate everyone who let this happen to us.
January 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
That idiot became president when I was eleven years old.
He’s been dismantling my rights for half my life. For half my life, I was told I could be whatever I wanted. Then the people in charge looked me in the eyes and said it was all a lie.
I hate everyone who let this happen to us.
He’s been dismantling my rights for half my life. For half my life, I was told I could be whatever I wanted. Then the people in charge looked me in the eyes and said it was all a lie.
I hate everyone who let this happen to us.
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Dude fuck TikTok. Just openly joining twitter becoming a propaganda machine what is even happening.
January 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Dude fuck TikTok. Just openly joining twitter becoming a propaganda machine what is even happening.
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"why did tech billionaires become fascists" basically it happened because they realised that they could collect all the money that ever existed and ppl would still laugh at them like they did in HS so they went full misanthrope, it's literally just little boys angry nobody likes them
January 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"why did tech billionaires become fascists" basically it happened because they realised that they could collect all the money that ever existed and ppl would still laugh at them like they did in HS so they went full misanthrope, it's literally just little boys angry nobody likes them
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I don't know how to break it to the people who are apparently just learning it from Eggers' NOSFERATU for the first time, but one of the massive engines thrumming beneath the surface of pretty much all gothic horror is "women being extremely horny."
December 31, 2024 at 3:16 PM
I don't know how to break it to the people who are apparently just learning it from Eggers' NOSFERATU for the first time, but one of the massive engines thrumming beneath the surface of pretty much all gothic horror is "women being extremely horny."
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As a librarian, the constant use of library & archives in horror and fantasy works gives me infinite joy but also makes me a little sad because I’ve never stumbled across a cursed tome or found a criminal confession while digitizing a tape 😔
December 8, 2024 at 8:18 PM
As a librarian, the constant use of library & archives in horror and fantasy works gives me infinite joy but also makes me a little sad because I’ve never stumbled across a cursed tome or found a criminal confession while digitizing a tape 😔
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When elitist pundits claim "No one saw it coming", all that shows is who they consider to be no one.
Never let them tell you who you are or what you're worth.
From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):
Never let them tell you who you are or what you're worth.
From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):
November 24, 2024 at 10:37 PM
When elitist pundits claim "No one saw it coming", all that shows is who they consider to be no one.
Never let them tell you who you are or what you're worth.
From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):
Never let them tell you who you are or what you're worth.
From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):
I’ve been coming across a lot of people saying that the arts have no purpose.
Art has saved my life a thousand times over. The book I wrote saved my life. It gave my existence meaning when nothing else mattered.
Art is not impractical.
Art isn’t useless.
Art is life. It is rebellion. It is hope.
Art has saved my life a thousand times over. The book I wrote saved my life. It gave my existence meaning when nothing else mattered.
Art is not impractical.
Art isn’t useless.
Art is life. It is rebellion. It is hope.
November 23, 2024 at 11:01 PM
I’ve been coming across a lot of people saying that the arts have no purpose.
Art has saved my life a thousand times over. The book I wrote saved my life. It gave my existence meaning when nothing else mattered.
Art is not impractical.
Art isn’t useless.
Art is life. It is rebellion. It is hope.
Art has saved my life a thousand times over. The book I wrote saved my life. It gave my existence meaning when nothing else mattered.
Art is not impractical.
Art isn’t useless.
Art is life. It is rebellion. It is hope.
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HBO waiting until they saw the culture had shifted to more overt transphobia to overtly stand behind JK Rowling AND doing it on Trans Day of Remembrance showcases how cruel and cowardly they are.
November 21, 2024 at 6:59 AM
HBO waiting until they saw the culture had shifted to more overt transphobia to overtly stand behind JK Rowling AND doing it on Trans Day of Remembrance showcases how cruel and cowardly they are.