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Rebecca Henely-Weiss

@rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social

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Indie author? Media critic? Jewish person? Something? Opinions mine, not employers'. (She/her)

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · Mar 23

Me in 2023: OK! New site new me! I’m under my real name! Gonna clean up my act and just promote my writing. No politics! No cringe! Super professional!

[10/7, the collapse of Vella and the 2024 Election later]

Me in 2025: I regret to inform you that I am back on my bullshit.

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 9h

Misha Collins was queerbating from the very beginning. He can't stop doing it. It's just always been in his nature.

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 14h

Supports my hypothesis that if you take any pervy fandom out there and squint hard enough you’ll see Bill Clinton flitting amongst the trees

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I am too tired to find it right now but when the scandal broke former White House intern Dmitri Krushnic wrote an op-ed for I think the Chicago Tribune, it was a major paper, in defense of Monica Lewinsky that said, essentially, "look, we all wanted to fuck Bill Clinton." And then later Mr. Krushnic became an actor, adopted the stage name Misha Collins, and was cast in the CW's Supernatural.
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#is this real#probably not @snowsfalling.
I'm hurt that you think I would make this up. I take Bill Clinton's inhuman rizz very seriously.
Lewinsky wasn't the only infatuated
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SHORTLY before Monica Lewinsky began her White House internship in 1995, I completed a four-month-long internship...
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Shoutout to the people in the notes who provided the link.

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 10h

I remember a comedian once saying, "At least when we legalize weed stoners will have to talk about something else" and experience has not proven that to be true.

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 10h

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 12h

[JOHN ADAMS HBO miniseries theme song intensifies]

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 13h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 12h

Every once in a while I think about this video and the guy in it with the “Where the HELL is Detroit?” shirt.

Two Triple Cheese Side Order of Fries - Commander Cody

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 13h

Yes I dooooo …

Historic photo of Amin al-Husseini. He looks like Ryan Gosling.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 13h

I hate to be the person who posts pictures of Amin al-Husseini, but …

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 13h

I showed “Gravity” to my brother and his girlfriend and they just thought it sounded like Christian metal.

Other impressions were “later era butt rock” and “this metal band has been working a long time and wants a pop hit”

Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 2d

I watched the new HAZBIN HOTEL song and I liked it pretty well, although I’m not that fond of the title/hook. One thing I do find really sonically interesting is how the heavenly Exterminators are represented by hard rock music that’s usually defined by religious people as evil.

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 21h

Lute from HAZBIN HOTEL is a lot like Fantine from LES MISERABLES in that she has a banger song for a guy who doesn’t deserve it.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 21h

I’m not the world’s smartest person but I feel like I would have to try hard to say anything this dumb.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 23h

40 years ago today.

The opening panel of Watchmen, with an entry from Rorschach's journal dated October 12, 1985. "Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face."

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Faeymouse @faeymouse.bsky.social · 1d

I hope Abel enjoyed getting to watch Lute launch herself like a dodgeball around that room for two minutes straight bc I sure did

#hazbinhotel #abel #lute

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

Here’s the thing about Zohran: he’s not some dumbass edgelord poster. His leftism seems to stem from genuine horror at the thought of *anyone* having their human rights violated.

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 1d

Overheard at the QuickCheck this morning: “If women are sluts, then men are slut-makers, and if there weren’t slut makers there wouldn’t be no sluts.”

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 1d

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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Britt @mferret.bsky.social · 1d

The prompt for Day 11 of #inktober2025 from the #Hellaversetober2025 list is Inside! This is my first time drawing Via as a teenager. I love her, she's such a cutie. #HelluvaBossFanart #Octavia #myart

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Stephen King’s KAYLEIGH @ronchronchronch.bsky.social · 1d

Need something short and spooky to read this October? My sapphic dark fantasy story, SISTERS OF THE WHISPERING INFERNO, is available as a pay-what-you-want PDF on Ko-Fi!

Sisters of the Whispering Inferno - Kayleigh Hearn's Ko-fi Shop

A psychic nun. A captive princess. A love story about spontaneous human combustion. When Verity joined the convent of the Sisters of the Whispering I...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 2d

I have to stop calling INVINCIBLE my side piece show because I think it's the closest thing my husband and I have to appointment television.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 2d

The producers took this post to heart and this is why INVINCIBLE is coming back in March.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · Mar 14

Me, Exhausted and Overcaffinated: “If you think about it, INVINCIBLE is a Purim story.”

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 2d

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Autumn @helluvanautumn.myatproto.social · 2d

I really need a legit friendship or sisterhood to develop between these two in the actual show. 🙏

Crop from the Helluva Boss pride poster showing Loona and Via laughing together, with Loona's arms on Via's shoulders. (Loona is in bi pride colors and Via is in ace pride colors.)

Crop from the Cinemex Mexican Helluva Boss theater premier poster, showing Loona and Via taking a selfie together. Loona is making a goofy face and has an arm around Via's shoulders, while Via is laughing/smiling.

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Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 2d

A throughline in every federal worker I've talked to this year is how they feel like a total mark for their service and work over the years up to this point, and the ones that don't are retiring soon

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity to the feds out there, shit's rough

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

Would I could find a fine frog!

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss @rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social · 2d

[while twerking] 🎶 Reptar, Reptar, gotta find that Reptar … 🎶

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

#WarRavagedPortland

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