Helena Greer
@blumagaincurios.bsky.social
Writer, librarian, sex educator, chaos bisexual
Carrigan's Christmasland series
Tucson forever
Reparations + land back + abolish ICE +
Free Palestine
TERFS fuck off
She/her
Carrigan's Christmasland series
Tucson forever
Reparations + land back + abolish ICE +
Free Palestine
TERFS fuck off
She/her
Pinned
Helena Greer
@blumagaincurios.bsky.social
· Nov 29
"The books in this series have been absolute orgies of comfort reading, brimming with sparkling banter and the kind of heart-rending angst you can drown in." -- @oliviawaite.com on Carrigan's Christmasland
I played spell slot roulette today and lost to now I must take to my bed like Mrs. Bennet.
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I played spell slot roulette today and lost to now I must take to my bed like Mrs. Bennet.
This rideshare smells like cigarettes + the driver is blasting terrible music, but I'm constitutionally incapable of dropping people's star ratings in the gig economy unless they are actively unsafe.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This rideshare smells like cigarettes + the driver is blasting terrible music, but I'm constitutionally incapable of dropping people's star ratings in the gig economy unless they are actively unsafe.
I just remembered that every year, they had to tell the story about visiting my dad in Tucson for Thanksgiving (they were from Detroit) and him bringing tortillas and salsa to the table to make turkey burritos. As a kid who didn't Understand the Midwest, I didn't get it. Why WOULDN'T you do that?
I miss them very much, but I do not miss the rutabaga.
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I just remembered that every year, they had to tell the story about visiting my dad in Tucson for Thanksgiving (they were from Detroit) and him bringing tortillas and salsa to the table to make turkey burritos. As a kid who didn't Understand the Midwest, I didn't get it. Why WOULDN'T you do that?
I'm so tickled by this menu created at Hive Book Arts in Evanston for their book club. It's so thoughtful and fitting for Levi and Hannah. And the napkin holders are BLUE Christmas ornaments 😭
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I'm so tickled by this menu created at Hive Book Arts in Evanston for their book club. It's so thoughtful and fitting for Levi and Hannah. And the napkin holders are BLUE Christmas ornaments 😭
In case anyone wants an extremely 70s Midwestern Grandma stuffing recipe, I give you, Carolyn's:
I present, my husband's grandmother's stuffing recipe, beloved by all the brothers, which I have, for reasons unknown (I guess because I married the eldest??) become the keeper of.
The "dry bread cubes" should be seasoned stuffing mix. The apples are not, IMHO, optional.
The "dry bread cubes" should be seasoned stuffing mix. The apples are not, IMHO, optional.
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In case anyone wants an extremely 70s Midwestern Grandma stuffing recipe, I give you, Carolyn's:
Not a single person has replied to my totally hinged DM about writing a romance anthology with one story for every song on August and Everything After. Why will no one collaborate with me on this timely project for which the world is obviously clamoring?
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Not a single person has replied to my totally hinged DM about writing a romance anthology with one story for every song on August and Everything After. Why will no one collaborate with me on this timely project for which the world is obviously clamoring?
Buy my books they love Hallmark while making fun of it, they're queer+ socialist + they take place right now (well, not my problematic middle child, but we don't talk about Levi) and if you put them together on a shelf they make the bi pride flag!
www.helenagreer.com
www.helenagreer.com
Helena Greer
www.helenagreer.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Buy my books they love Hallmark while making fun of it, they're queer+ socialist + they take place right now (well, not my problematic middle child, but we don't talk about Levi) and if you put them together on a shelf they make the bi pride flag!
www.helenagreer.com
www.helenagreer.com
This is just a reminder that I wrote a trilogy that ends with the icy blond lawyer fiancee, who got dumped for the hot small town tree farmer in the first book, road tripping to the ex's wedding with a fake girlfriend (and there's only one bed).
You can buy all three!
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
You can buy all three!
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is just a reminder that I wrote a trilogy that ends with the icy blond lawyer fiancee, who got dumped for the hot small town tree farmer in the first book, road tripping to the ex's wedding with a fake girlfriend (and there's only one bed).
You can buy all three!
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
You can buy all three!
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
Just a reminder that this cat needs to live in someone else's house! She's probably fine with boy cats or dogs, she just doesn't like other girl cats. I'll drive her as far as OK or AR! Or like for sure anywhere in the Texas triangle!
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just a reminder that this cat needs to live in someone else's house! She's probably fine with boy cats or dogs, she just doesn't like other girl cats. I'll drive her as far as OK or AR! Or like for sure anywhere in the Texas triangle!
Pez is one of my favorite humans, and I currently have None Monies so instead I am sharing and encouraging anyone who is less broke to chip in!
You know how you have that friend who just cannot catch a break right now and you really wish you could do just about anything for them? Yeah, that's currently one of my best friends. So once again sharing, because this week has been shit: gofund.me/50a9b0fa1
Donate to Putting the Brakes on the Breakdown, organized by Linda T
Pez. Potato. PezNo. PezYes. To know Pez is to know joy and laughter and occasionally needi… Linda T needs your support for Putting the Brakes on the Breakdown
gofund.me
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Pez is one of my favorite humans, and I currently have None Monies so instead I am sharing and encouraging anyone who is less broke to chip in!
Someone tell me why my worst cat has learned to open closed doors. This seems fine.
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Someone tell me why my worst cat has learned to open closed doors. This seems fine.
And I would do anything for love, yes I would do anything for love. I would do anything for love, but I won't do that.
In spite of ourselves
We'll end up a sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize
We're gonna spite our noses
Right off of our faces
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
We'll end up a sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize
We're gonna spite our noses
Right off of our faces
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
And I would do anything for love, yes I would do anything for love. I would do anything for love, but I won't do that.
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
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I'm bagging more whistles up into bags of 250! I have about 1500 right now, and I've got one or two printers just on 24/7 whistle duty now.
If you're part of an org bagging whistles, I will send them to you for free! 💕
If you're part of an org bagging whistles, I will send them to you for free! 💕
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I'm bagging more whistles up into bags of 250! I have about 1500 right now, and I've got one or two printers just on 24/7 whistle duty now.
If you're part of an org bagging whistles, I will send them to you for free! 💕
If you're part of an org bagging whistles, I will send them to you for free! 💕
A podcast I love is talking about the Lily Allen album and are saying, "can you think of another album that's just about eviscerating one person?" And I'm like NATALIE MAINES IS RIGHT THERE but thankfully there's no way to contact the hosts because Internet strangers don't need to know they're wrong
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A podcast I love is talking about the Lily Allen album and are saying, "can you think of another album that's just about eviscerating one person?" And I'm like NATALIE MAINES IS RIGHT THERE but thankfully there's no way to contact the hosts because Internet strangers don't need to know they're wrong
This is obviously extremely anecdotal and in no way data-driven, but my observation of teaching HS and parenting a 10-year old is, my recent grads love AI, my students use it but don't trust it, and my kid thinks it's cringe trash.
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is obviously extremely anecdotal and in no way data-driven, but my observation of teaching HS and parenting a 10-year old is, my recent grads love AI, my students use it but don't trust it, and my kid thinks it's cringe trash.
Reposted by Helena Greer
This is actually antisemitism, by the way.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is actually antisemitism, by the way.
Drinking my coffee and suppressing the urge to reply guy people recommending racist books to strangers.
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Drinking my coffee and suppressing the urge to reply guy people recommending racist books to strangers.
What makes a finale so bad you still talk about it years later (HIMYM), and what makes a finale so bad it single handedly erases the memory of the show from the public consciousness (GoT, Ted Lasso)?
(Brought to you by, I tried to go to sleep and remembered Roy Kent)
(Brought to you by, I tried to go to sleep and remembered Roy Kent)
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
What makes a finale so bad you still talk about it years later (HIMYM), and what makes a finale so bad it single handedly erases the memory of the show from the public consciousness (GoT, Ted Lasso)?
(Brought to you by, I tried to go to sleep and remembered Roy Kent)
(Brought to you by, I tried to go to sleep and remembered Roy Kent)
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I have long said people don't be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts as much as they should be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts
“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.”
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I have long said people don't be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts as much as they should be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts
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If you're Albertan, speak up directly to support trans kids. I urge you to CC the opposition because they're the ones listening and taking notes about what the majority of Albertans want, not the UCP.
Alberta, stand up for trans kids:
Marlaina "Danielle" Smith: [email protected]
Qassim "Mickey" Amery:
[email protected]
[email protected]
CC the NDP.
Naheed Nenshi: [email protected]
Irfan Sabir, shadow justice minister: [email protected]
#ableg
Marlaina "Danielle" Smith: [email protected]
Qassim "Mickey" Amery:
[email protected]
[email protected]
CC the NDP.
Naheed Nenshi: [email protected]
Irfan Sabir, shadow justice minister: [email protected]
#ableg
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
If you're Albertan, speak up directly to support trans kids. I urge you to CC the opposition because they're the ones listening and taking notes about what the majority of Albertans want, not the UCP.
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RIP Sister JoAnn Persch, immigrant advocate who, alongside Sister Pat Murphy, prayed the Rosary in English & Spanish every Friday outside Broadview ICE, no matter what **since 2007** She was still attempting to minister to people inside Broadview Nov. 1. Legend 💚 blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/s...
Sister JoAnn Persch, Trailblazing Immigrant Rights Activist, Dies At 91
Sister JoAnn Persch spent decades with the Sisters of Mercy, fighting for immigrant and refugee rights in Chicago and across the country. She prayed the rosary outside the Broadview ICE facility every...
blockclubchicago.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
RIP Sister JoAnn Persch, immigrant advocate who, alongside Sister Pat Murphy, prayed the Rosary in English & Spanish every Friday outside Broadview ICE, no matter what **since 2007** She was still attempting to minister to people inside Broadview Nov. 1. Legend 💚 blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/s...
Yesterday a coworker asked me if we were going home for break and I managed not to cry so I win.
I'll be in the swamp, dreaming of creosote and saguaros, as per usual.
I'll be in the swamp, dreaming of creosote and saguaros, as per usual.
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Yesterday a coworker asked me if we were going home for break and I managed not to cry so I win.
I'll be in the swamp, dreaming of creosote and saguaros, as per usual.
I'll be in the swamp, dreaming of creosote and saguaros, as per usual.
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this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service