Ellen Rhudy
@ellenrhudy.bsky.social
Fiction writer with work in Story, Florida Review, Cream City Review. Instructional designer by day. Philadelphia!
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“‘Everything will be alright,’ Lena told the egg baby. She considered what other reassurances a mother might offer her child, and gave these all to the egg though not one of them felt true.”
A wonderfully weird and unsettlingly pertinent story, @ellenrhudy.bsky.social!
A wonderfully weird and unsettlingly pertinent story, @ellenrhudy.bsky.social!
New piece out in @southeastreview.bsky.social, all about egg babies! First fiction pub in…three years? www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...
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The Egg Baby Lena was late, and unconcerned by this fact until she reached the conference room, laptop and phones stacked precariously in her arms, and saw that every other woman in the office had man...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“‘Everything will be alright,’ Lena told the egg baby. She considered what other reassurances a mother might offer her child, and gave these all to the egg though not one of them felt true.”
A wonderfully weird and unsettlingly pertinent story, @ellenrhudy.bsky.social!
A wonderfully weird and unsettlingly pertinent story, @ellenrhudy.bsky.social!
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Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
Hooray! Thank you to the folks at Southeast Review for the nom
Southeast Review is pleased to share our Pushcart nominee choices for 2025.
#pushcart #pushcartprize #nominations #literaryawards
#pushcart #pushcartprize #nominations #literaryawards
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Hooray! Thank you to the folks at Southeast Review for the nom
New piece out in @southeastreview.bsky.social, all about egg babies! First fiction pub in…three years? www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...
43.2 Ellen Rhudy
The Egg Baby Lena was late, and unconcerned by this fact until she reached the conference room, laptop and phones stacked precariously in her arms, and saw that every other woman in the office had man...
www.southeastreview.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New piece out in @southeastreview.bsky.social, all about egg babies! First fiction pub in…three years? www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...
Having recently realized almost all my photos from my Peace Corps service are lost--digital files on some vanished laptop--I'm all here for a return to building & saving our memories in the physical world
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Diaries are uniquely suited to preserving our individual lives and imaginations,” Lily Koppel writes in a guest essay. “There’s no way this form of thinking could ever truly be replaced by A.I.”
“Diaries are uniquely suited to preserving our individual lives and imaginations,” Lily Koppel writes in a guest essay. “There’s no way this form of thinking could ever truly be replaced by A.I.”
Opinion | How Diaries Can Help Beat Back Artificial Intelligence
In a world taken over by the digital, hard-copy, handwritten diaries are a way to fight back.
nyti.ms
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Having recently realized almost all my photos from my Peace Corps service are lost--digital files on some vanished laptop--I'm all here for a return to building & saving our memories in the physical world
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And don't forget cost thousands of hardworking people their jobs!
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
And don't forget cost thousands of hardworking people their jobs!
Philly folks, my writing group will be reading at THE Kelly Writers House (UPenn—3805 Locust Walk) on December 1st at 6:30PM. Come by! Register here: forms.gle/Ucui5WwCSek2...
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Philly folks, my writing group will be reading at THE Kelly Writers House (UPenn—3805 Locust Walk) on December 1st at 6:30PM. Come by! Register here: forms.gle/Ucui5WwCSek2...
Yet another reason to jump ship for FreeTaxUSA, if you haven’t already! www.freetaxusa.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Yet another reason to jump ship for FreeTaxUSA, if you haven’t already! www.freetaxusa.com
I did a zone 2 run and wow, that was possibly the most bored I’ve been in my life. Does it get less boring? Will it actually make me more efficient? I don’t know if I can handle doing this again.
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I did a zone 2 run and wow, that was possibly the most bored I’ve been in my life. Does it get less boring? Will it actually make me more efficient? I don’t know if I can handle doing this again.
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I wrote this about THE GOOD PLACE finale, but I now realize it also sums up my revulsion about the basic anti-humanity of AI avatars of the dead:
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I wrote this about THE GOOD PLACE finale, but I now realize it also sums up my revulsion about the basic anti-humanity of AI avatars of the dead:
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Read your contracts, friends.
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Read your contracts, friends.
This might be weird to admit but every time I buy a $10 falafel over rice from the halal cart I have to revisit this review and my happy memories of the $5 falafel over rice (just SIX years ago! What a great economy) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cav...
Reviews of New Food: CAVA Grain Bowl
The day CAVA arrived in Philadelphia the line for bowls of vaguely Mediterranean food stretched over a block. Its arrival was written up in the loc...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This might be weird to admit but every time I buy a $10 falafel over rice from the halal cart I have to revisit this review and my happy memories of the $5 falafel over rice (just SIX years ago! What a great economy) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cav...
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This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
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I will add: People who expected this teacher to be bummed do not know (good) teachers very well. A civics teacher? With a student who wants to run for office? That’s probably bliss.
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I will add: People who expected this teacher to be bummed do not know (good) teachers very well. A civics teacher? With a student who wants to run for office? That’s probably bliss.
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Honestly if I were Aaron and my glass mixing bowl broke while I was making cake batter and I learned they weren't going to give me extra time to remake it, I'd just say "OK you are all getting cake with glass in it." #GBBO
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Honestly if I were Aaron and my glass mixing bowl broke while I was making cake batter and I learned they weren't going to give me extra time to remake it, I'd just say "OK you are all getting cake with glass in it." #GBBO
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Wealth tax and a return to the 90% income tax tier for the highest earners, like we had from 1944 to 1963.
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Wealth tax and a return to the 90% income tax tier for the highest earners, like we had from 1944 to 1963.
Don’t open the NYT this morning unless you want the results of Bake Off ruined right on the main screen. Arghghhghghghg!
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Don’t open the NYT this morning unless you want the results of Bake Off ruined right on the main screen. Arghghhghghghg!
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
All booked for AWP and currently 100% of my excitement is about visiting Baltimore’s aquarium. If it’s not on your AWP to-do list, add it! This aquarium is so good!!! aqua.org
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Explore award-winning exhibits and meet all the animals at the National Aquarium, located on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
All booked for AWP and currently 100% of my excitement is about visiting Baltimore’s aquarium. If it’s not on your AWP to-do list, add it! This aquarium is so good!!! aqua.org
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They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?
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Maybe one thing NYers can learn from Philly is how to pick and choose which outsiders' opinions of their city to ignore, which ones to mercilessly mock, and which to monetize via t-shirts
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Maybe one thing NYers can learn from Philly is how to pick and choose which outsiders' opinions of their city to ignore, which ones to mercilessly mock, and which to monetize via t-shirts
thank god
BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
nbcnews.to
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
thank god
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Looking for a writing class in January? It's the perfect time to set a resolution and follow it with a flash royale!
Detail and sign up here:
Detail and sign up here:
Flash Royale January Edition
If you’ve ever played video games, you may have heard the term Battle Royale. It refers to a type of game that features a large number of players who play with the goal of being the last player standi...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Looking for a writing class in January? It's the perfect time to set a resolution and follow it with a flash royale!
Detail and sign up here:
Detail and sign up here: