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Vanessa Wyeth
@vwyeth.bsky.social
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NYC mom with opinions: UN peacebuilding, parenthood, sportsball, politics, educational equity, feminism. Probably thinking about S̶w̶e̶e̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶T̶o̶d̶d̶ Sunset Blvd (jk it’s always Sweeney Todd). Personal views. She/her.
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Facebook post from December 2, 2022 - quoting the original 2015 post TOMORROW THE BLACK STARS WILL HAVE THEIR REVENGE!!
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Facebook post from June 15, 2018 I got into Twitter during the Arab Spring, and started following a lot of Egyptian activists, all of whom lost their mind when Egypt qualified for the first time in 28 years. So I’d probably be cheering for Egypt anyway. But I still can’t forgive Uruguay for the handball against Ghana in 2010 so they are forever my World Cup villains.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I’m so serious about this and I have receipts
Facebook post from May 29, 2015: I had a dream I met someone from Uruguay and got into an argument about Suarez's handball against Ghana in 2010 and it made me realize how much I miss the World Cup.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I just realized what a scene it would be if the 6-7 joke were around when Sweeney Todd was running.
Lyrics from “A Little Priest” Todd (becoming aware, chuckling): Ah! Mrs Lovett: Good, you got it (Warming to it) Take for instance Mrs. Mooney and her pie shop Business never better using only pussycats and toast And a pussy's good for maybe six or seven at the most And I'm sure they can't compare as far as taste —
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The fact that he made this graphic himself in support of his proposal to create “feral cat colonies” to combat rats.
Photo of 9-10 cats with red Guardian Angel berets photoshopped onto their heads. Caption “Meet the Sliwa Feline Army (he made this graphic himself)”
November 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A list of names from the SNES game Fighting Baseball; the baseball player names are all fictional and rather nonsensical, and include such classics as "Bobson Dugnutt", "Rey McSriff" and "Willie Dustice"
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Honestly never feel prouder to be a New Yorker than on Halloween. This is still a city full of freaks and artists and the creativity + execution is unparalleled. Ran into Mother Earth in the elevator of my building who told me “I threw this together in 30m!”
Woman dressed in a blue top and green fringed skirt with ivy vines wrapped around her, a cape and headpiece of green/yellow/blue feathers, and green glitter face makeup
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I have thought about this tweet by @hayesbrown.bsky.social daily for the last 8 years.
Screenshot of a 2017 tweet from Hayes Brown “This is going to be the dumbest dystopia.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Honestly shocked this wasn’t an opinion piece l.
“Critics say the growth of these programs, which aim to teach about historical events from the perspective of marginalized and oppressed groups, has turned colleges into feckless workshops for leftist political orthodoxy.”
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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My personal submission for how we can fix Chess: cut out Lea Michele and get to the *real* love story.
Edited version of the poster for Chess on Broadway - Lea Michele has been cut out of the picture and instead Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher are nose to nose gazing into each other’s eyes
October 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Cause of death: Nicholas Christopher’s “Anthem” and Aaron Tveit’s “Pity the Child”
Hand holding a playbill of Chess (the musical) on Broadway.
October 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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I actually can’t believe Chess is back on Broadway and I actually saw it. Feels like a fever dream. It needs some tightening up but overall a huge success. I loved it and can’t wait for the rest of the theatre world to wake up to the supernova talent of Nicholas Christopher!
Photo of a hand holding up a playbill for Chess on Broadway in front of a scrim with design of stylized US & USSR flags.
October 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Who did Air France get to write this copy, Bart Simpson?
Air France marketing email featuring a stock image of île de Gorée, with copy: “Travel through West Africa West Africa is a land of contrast and colors, with many hidden treasures”
October 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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When you’ve turned your husband into a Ragtime fan.
Screenshot of text messages: I’m leaving shortly You know, Emma Goldman’s famous speech at Union Square was actually 1893
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I don’t want to say I’m better than you, but….

(Check your alt text score at cred.blue/alt-text)
Screenshot of results on https://cred.blue/alt-text showing a score of 100% in using alt text in posts
September 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Settings > Content and Media
Screenshot of Content & Media page from BlueSky settings that shows “autoplay videos and GIFs” has been toggled off
September 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Calling all Vietnamese friends: is there something like this, but for pho?
Photo of a jar of « Better than Bouillon » roasted chicken base
September 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Facebook is terrible but this group is amazing to watch in action.
Screenshot from a Facebook group called “Poisons Help; Emergency Identification for Mushrooms and Plants”
August 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Time to dust off my old meme
Photo of the giant ship Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal in March 2021, next to a relatively tiny excavator trying to dig it out. Text over the ship says “structural problem” and text over the digger says “making different personal choices.”
August 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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This was particularly amusing
Screenshot of a Wikipedia entry: Sometimes older people unable to bring themselves to swear with church words or their derivatives would make up ostensibly innocuous phrases, such as cinq six boîtes de tomates vartes (literally, "five or six boxes of green tomatoes", varte being slang for verte, "green"). This phrase when pronounced quickly by a native speaker sounds like saint-siboire de tabarnak ("holy ciborium of the tabernacle"). Another example of a benign word that is church sounding is coltord, which was simply an anglicism for "coal-tar", but pronounced just so, sounds like a merged câlice and tort ("harm").
August 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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I, a non-economist, read this article with one question in mind: “but what is tariff revenue as a % of overall revenue collected by the US government?” The fact that I had to go *look up this information* bc it was missing seems like journalistic malpractice. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
Screenshot from monthly statement issued by the Treasury Dept showing USG revenue and outlays for June 2025. Of total receipts of $526B, customs duties are $27B, excise taxes $8B. The largest are individual income taxes ($236B), social insurance & retirement ($183B), and corporate income taxes ($68B). Source: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/static-data/published-reports/mts/MonthlyTreasuryStatement_202506.pdf
August 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Finally got my hands on this script after seeing the play 2x. Kimberly Belflower, the woman you are.
Photo of the book of the play “John Proctor is the Villain” by Kimberly Belflower. Cover art is the poster from the Broadway play, with five girls screaming.
August 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time
Tumblr poll from “lesbianalism” Do you think you could take a werewolf? Yes: 70.6% No: 29.4% In a fight? Yes: 8.1% No: 91.9% Final results from 35,878 votes
August 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Written in a font that slightly resembles Steven Sondheim’s block handwriting: “FIRST FONT ATTEMPT NOT GREAT, NOT TERRIBLE SECOND FONT ATTEMPT NOT GREAT, MORE TERRIBLE?” There is some variation in letters between the two fonts
July 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM