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Lilly Dancyger

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · May 7

My essay collection First Love came out one year ago today! Female friendship! Obsession and codependency and love that might be friend love or might be romantic! Found family! Helping each other through loss, raising each other's babies! bookshop.org/a/1925/97805...

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 2h

lol right, exactly same

Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 2h

NY prop 1 authorizes Olympic ski trails in the Adirondack forest. My first thought was "fuck you, no," but after looking into it I learned that bc of the land swap involved (adding more protected land) the main Adirondack preservation group is in favor. So, do with that what you will!

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 2h

fyi for New Yorkers who haven't gotten around to looking into the ballot proposals yet, 2-6 feel pretty self-explanatory (make it easier to build affordable housing? yes!) but 1 gave me pause...

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 19h

This is what I’m saying!!

Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 22h

I agree, it’s plenty hinged I think

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve heard this argument plenty and understand it to an extent, but also its logical conclusion is that all books are equally good and important… which is just false

Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 22h

Yes

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 23h

lol I have my own theory about how YA is at fault for the crumbling of society too— but it's more about self-infantilization/people seeing things as black and white and being incapable of dealing with nuance etc. etc.

Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 23h

I know lol I almost stopped myself but I'm bored in the Dallas airport with a flight delay so fuck it

Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 23h

YA shouldn’t exist as a separate category—it infantilizes teenagers who can/should just read regular books for adults. And don’t get me started on adults reading YA…

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 23h

Agree with both of these so hard

Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 4d

oh they extra double didn't give it to him lol

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 5d

The girlfriend of the founder of antifa

Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you I needed that

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Gayer Than Thou 🏳️‍🌈 @gayerthanthou.bsky.social · 6d

Dolly Parton, twenty feet tall, eyes glowing, blasting big cities with purity and love and catchy, well-crafted country tunes.

Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 6d

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 7d

Have been correct every time so far!

Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 7d

Me at the beginning of every new sequence on Task: “I know this is gonna go badly, I just don’t know how”

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 8d

Heads up there’s an ICE checkpoint in Harlem right now apparently

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 9d

More Dems taking this position please—they might actually win

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 11d

Tired: knowing which line in every song is sung by which Beatle

Wired: knowing which line in every song is sung by which Spice Girl

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 13d

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 13d

Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions!

@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!

OPEN CALL: CREATIVE NONFICTION BOOKS

Reading period October 1 - December 1
Submit at splitlippress.submittable.com
125 page minimum

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 13d

man, I know valorizing politicians is a fool's game but I really do like her a lot

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13d

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."

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