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Courtney Milan

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She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm. This biography should not be taken as a complete description. courtneymilan.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10h

Hey, Sydette needs help. She is one of the people who makes the world brighter and better simply by existing. If you have the capacity, please consider dropping her what you can.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10h

Finished using the miter saw outdoors seconds before the rain started. I procrastinated EXACTLY the right amount!

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 15h

The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

It's in the definition. (For anyone who wants to quibble, the section that follow include savings clauses for nicotine patches for smoking cessation)

(gm) Tobacco product means: (1) Any product containing tobacco or nicotine or that is made or derived from tobacco that may be used to introduce tobacco or nicotine into the human body, including but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco,
dissolvable tobacco products, and nicotine-enhanced products; (2) Any electronic device that may be used to deliver nicotine to the person inhaling from the device, including any solution, compound, or other substance containing nicotine to be used with
the device; and

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

I think the real losers here are going to be vape shops.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

I meant "I have an instant no reaction to this text, so I'm more inclined to vote yes" but obviously I can't manage simple binaries right now

bsky.app/profile/mada...

Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 14h

I think you mean "I'd vote yes almost instantly", or am I misreading you?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

I meant YES sorry, I meant no to them

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

anyway did you guess that this referendum is about

Denver, Colorado, Referendum 310, Ban Sale of
Flavored Tobacco Products Referendum (2025)

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

Any time someone is like "but muh revenue!" I get really instantly skittish.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

I don't vote in Denver but the person who had my number before me did, so I get alllll of their texts.

If I did vote in Denver, a text like this would make me want to vote no almost instantly without even knowing what the referendum is about.

Denver ballots are in the mail! A NO vote on Referendum 310 will save small businesses and keep critical revenue in Denver. 'Learn
more about what's at stake here:
https://www.citizenpowerdenver.org/
Reply STOP to Quit

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

This whole series is amazing, but this one hits particularly hard in this moment.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

me yesterday: just keep checking every time you can, let's goooo

me today: oh nooo

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

goddammit you run ONE ERRAND and miss the @white2tea.bsky.social skull teapot drop AGAIN

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I think we should confiscate all his wealth for this weird shit ALONE

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Screenshot text from The Guardian:
He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.

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D is tired, but there is coffee @grrlintersect.bsky.social · 1d

$45 means I get to be warm and clean and not sick about it if anyone is able to help with that

D is tired, but there is coffee @grrlintersect.bsky.social · 1d

I need to buy a new sweater before it gets cold and also some of the unscented detergent that doesn’t give me migraines and $45 would be enough for both if anyone is able to help
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I will check out my Costco

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I am putting this on the Courtney Can Have a Little Lox as a Treat But She Needs to Get her Book to her Editor First list.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

oooohhhhhhhhhhhh that looks AMAZING

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

yeah

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I have lived on the east coast for approximately 1.3 years of my life and 0.3 years of that I had no money and the other 1 year I had no time.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

It SOUNDS good

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I am specifically referring to whitefish salad. What IS that. I want it.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I love the responses to this thread because there are a number of things mentioned that I am definitely not NYC enough to have eaten, but now I want to eat them next time I am in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

this is what the AI bros sound like

sri (but spooky) @sri.plur.ca · 1d

yeah I built an AI that hangs out on your porch and drinks a six pack for you so you can write regexes at work

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I don't hate onions; they hate me!!!!

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