@ariadneshaffer.bsky.social
Montana born, Seattle raised, Californian. Screenwriter/Producer/Train enthusiastic/Climate obsessed.
Screenwriter for The Never List - available on most platforms
Screenwriter for The Never List - available on most platforms
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LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
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Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts.
Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
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Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
buff.ly/8PdXnTT
Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts.
Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
buff.ly/8PdXnTT
Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
buff.ly/8PdXnTT
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Leftism doesn't mean "I get other people's labor for free because I'm poor" and Capitalism isn't a synonym for "selling things." At this rate, online leftists are going to polarize themselves into fighting wars for Anthropic and OpenAI bc they've "nationalized art."
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Leftism doesn't mean "I get other people's labor for free because I'm poor" and Capitalism isn't a synonym for "selling things." At this rate, online leftists are going to polarize themselves into fighting wars for Anthropic and OpenAI bc they've "nationalized art."
Holy mackerel! AI data centers are even worse than we already knew. Nightmares right up and down the line.
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Holy mackerel! AI data centers are even worse than we already knew. Nightmares right up and down the line.
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If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All.
Dream big.
Dream big.
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All.
Dream big.
Dream big.
This is a great read. There is no way to know where this is all going, but the one thing we can be sure of is that Thiel and his creepy peers are not on our side.
NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market.
Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
This is a great read. There is no way to know where this is all going, but the one thing we can be sure of is that Thiel and his creepy peers are not on our side.
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bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
Saw this on the freeway today. I think they might want to reconsider this font on the back of their trucks.
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Saw this on the freeway today. I think they might want to reconsider this font on the back of their trucks.
As horrible as the US has become on renewables thanks to Trump's policies, it is heartening to see that the renewable revolution charges ahead in the rest of the world. Pakistan, for example, went from no solar, to 30% of is energy from solar in just six years!
www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...
The surprising countries pulling off stunningly fast clean energy transitions | CNN
Fossil fuel production is still increasing and the United States is in climate denial mode. But, globally, the use of renewable energy is on the rise — and several countries are shifting to solar fast...
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
As horrible as the US has become on renewables thanks to Trump's policies, it is heartening to see that the renewable revolution charges ahead in the rest of the world. Pakistan, for example, went from no solar, to 30% of is energy from solar in just six years!
www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...
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This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
Seriously. The Blue Jays had a great series. Respect from a Dodgers fan.
Ditto, every word.
I'm sure no one wants to hear it from me but condolences to the Jays fans, an absolutely incredible season, a juggernaut of a team that deserved to win
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Seriously. The Blue Jays had a great series. Respect from a Dodgers fan.
This is crazy. The Douglas is all tech bros. Their worst crime in my experience is being unremittingly irritating.
Los Angeles, CA -
LAPD has commanded The Douglas, the nearest bar to Dodger Stadium to turn off the televisions. They are now calling unlawful assembly, though as far as I can tell the only signs of anything are people on the sidewalk. It is the 9th inning.
LAPD has commanded The Douglas, the nearest bar to Dodger Stadium to turn off the televisions. They are now calling unlawful assembly, though as far as I can tell the only signs of anything are people on the sidewalk. It is the 9th inning.
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
This is crazy. The Douglas is all tech bros. Their worst crime in my experience is being unremittingly irritating.
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As someone who doesn't watch sports but does love human suffering, I'm having a great night
November 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
As someone who doesn't watch sports but does love human suffering, I'm having a great night
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Lead is the gift that keeps on giving and here's Gen-X giving lead right back to people.
As a generation ages, it generally makes up more of the population than the pool of murder victims. That hasn't yet been the case for Gen X. www.pbump.net/o/the-rise-o...
The rise of the middle-aged murder victim
Analyst Jeff Asher, one of the best sources for up-to-date data about crime in the U.S., shared numbers on Tuesday that struck me as interesting: the age of victims of murder has been trending upward ...
www.pbump.net
October 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Lead is the gift that keeps on giving and here's Gen-X giving lead right back to people.
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There is a serious uprising in farm country over tariffs and bailing out Argentina and then also buying their beef and cuts to SNAP and USAID too
Kansas farm leaders are pushing Congress to get back to work and solve problems facing the agriculture industry, pointing out that a closed government doesn’t mean U.S. lawmakers can’t be in session.
via @kansasreflector.com
via @kansasreflector.com
‘We don’t shut down’: Kansas ag leaders tell Congress to get back to work
TOPEKA — Kansas farm leaders are pushing Congress to get back to work and solve problems facing the agriculture industry, pointing out that a closed government doesn’t mean U.S. lawmakers can’t be in…
www.newsfromthestates.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
There is a serious uprising in farm country over tariffs and bailing out Argentina and then also buying their beef and cuts to SNAP and USAID too
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Really like seeing other people's water capture systems. Recently we re-routed our AC drain into a capture barrel. It produces between 30 and 50 gallons each week during the summer which goes directly into the vegetable garden.
Emptying the rain barrels out for the season. Disconnected them from the downspouts a couple of weeks ago, only got the dehumidifier water. 200 gallon system.
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Really like seeing other people's water capture systems. Recently we re-routed our AC drain into a capture barrel. It produces between 30 and 50 gallons each week during the summer which goes directly into the vegetable garden.
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Indigenous nations plan customs-free trade corridor across Canada-US border #Canada #USA
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Indigenous nations plan customs-free trade corridor across Canada-US border - Prince Albert Daily Herald
Sonal GuptaLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterCanada's National Observer Just west of Fort Qu’Appelle in Saskatchewan, the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation is working across the US border to revive cen...
paherald.sk.ca
October 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Indigenous nations plan customs-free trade corridor across Canada-US border #Canada #USA
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The Dems are trying to save our healthcare. Even Trump knows it. It’s why he won’t even negotiate.
October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Dems are trying to save our healthcare. Even Trump knows it. It’s why he won’t even negotiate.
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Really hope local cops take this hint she realize who's who in this battle for the soul of America
October 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Really hope local cops take this hint she realize who's who in this battle for the soul of America
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Farm workers are hard at work setting up irrigation pipes for the carrot harvest in Kern County CA. This is difficult skilled work as too much or too little water means we won't end up with carrots on our tables. #WeFeedYou
October 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Farm workers are hard at work setting up irrigation pipes for the carrot harvest in Kern County CA. This is difficult skilled work as too much or too little water means we won't end up with carrots on our tables. #WeFeedYou
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Every blue-state legislature could do this literally right now.
This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.
There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.
There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.
October 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Every blue-state legislature could do this literally right now.
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They are itching to make a scene on Saturday. They'll antagonize. There'll be agitators. Don't take the bait. Show up, be funny, be loud, be nice, maybe dress like your future in-laws are watching. It shouldn't matter but it does.
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
They are itching to make a scene on Saturday. They'll antagonize. There'll be agitators. Don't take the bait. Show up, be funny, be loud, be nice, maybe dress like your future in-laws are watching. It shouldn't matter but it does.
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The building may have been selected for the raid bc bankers and realtors wanted it empty. A Brazil (movie)-like collaboration btwn bureaucrats, capitalists, and fascists that I don't think we're ready to deal with.
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The building may have been selected for the raid bc bankers and realtors wanted it empty. A Brazil (movie)-like collaboration btwn bureaucrats, capitalists, and fascists that I don't think we're ready to deal with.
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
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The only poll-test I would support would have a single question:
Who was President between January 1st, 2020 and January 20th, 2021?
Who was President between January 1st, 2020 and January 20th, 2021?
“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time
October 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The only poll-test I would support would have a single question:
Who was President between January 1st, 2020 and January 20th, 2021?
Who was President between January 1st, 2020 and January 20th, 2021?