helen armstrong
@helenarmstrong.bsky.social
writer. queer. she/her. mfa from brown. tin house ‘22 scholar. words: black warrior review, after the pause, jellyfish review, x-r-a-y, etc. https://www.helen-armstrong.com/
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Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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If someone wishes you "happy holidays," it doesn't mean they hate Christmas. They're simply acknowledging that there are *many* sacred observances that take place this month, including the anniversary of Muntadhar al-Zaidi throwing a shoe at George W Bush on this date in 2008.
December 14, 2024 at 9:50 AM
If someone wishes you "happy holidays," it doesn't mean they hate Christmas. They're simply acknowledging that there are *many* sacred observances that take place this month, including the anniversary of Muntadhar al-Zaidi throwing a shoe at George W Bush on this date in 2008.
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A final heated rivalry point for the evening is you’re telling me that Kip works multiple jobs, spends time with his friends at the bar, is applying to an ART degree, and has like sixteen visible fucking rock hard abs???? complains about going to work early but spends 8 hrs at the gym per day
December 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A final heated rivalry point for the evening is you’re telling me that Kip works multiple jobs, spends time with his friends at the bar, is applying to an ART degree, and has like sixteen visible fucking rock hard abs???? complains about going to work early but spends 8 hrs at the gym per day
Heated Rivalry eps 1 and 2 are a fanfiction plot, obviously, but the characters are fun. Episode 3 was the plot of a worse fanfiction with tired characters and I’m like okay can we go back to my sad Russian boy now?
December 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Heated Rivalry eps 1 and 2 are a fanfiction plot, obviously, but the characters are fun. Episode 3 was the plot of a worse fanfiction with tired characters and I’m like okay can we go back to my sad Russian boy now?
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there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose
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I can't read this string of questions without imagining them all being asked by Jonathan Frakes in a smashcut
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I can't read this string of questions without imagining them all being asked by Jonathan Frakes in a smashcut
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I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm at the combination
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.
Idk, just spitballing here.
Idk, just spitballing here.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.
Idk, just spitballing here.
Idk, just spitballing here.
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still true 📚
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
still true 📚
writing a book about people richer than you is googling "can a resort have multiple restaurants" and feeling humbled by the results
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
writing a book about people richer than you is googling "can a resort have multiple restaurants" and feeling humbled by the results
typed and deleted a very hot star trek take because i'm not ready for that kind of energy tonight
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
typed and deleted a very hot star trek take because i'm not ready for that kind of energy tonight
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hegseth vows to do more murders
Hegseth: "We've only just begun striking narco boats and putting narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean"
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
hegseth vows to do more murders
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Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
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MARTIN LUTHER IN 1517:
thing: [occurs]
me: this is in some ways about catholicism, which I don't condone, of course,
me: this is in some ways about catholicism, which I don't condone, of course,
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
MARTIN LUTHER IN 1517:
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"the ballroom isn't being paid for by taxpayers, it's being paid for by corporations and billionaires!!"
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"the ballroom isn't being paid for by taxpayers, it's being paid for by corporations and billionaires!!"
it’s crazy that they put pon farr in the show. I would’ve thought the fandom invented it and made it popular so it was fanon but no, they like. They put that in the show.
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
it’s crazy that they put pon farr in the show. I would’ve thought the fandom invented it and made it popular so it was fanon but no, they like. They put that in the show.
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
Listening to a playlist I made and just absolutely jamming out like wow all of these songs slap
October 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Listening to a playlist I made and just absolutely jamming out like wow all of these songs slap
I read Conversations with Friends in one straight go on the airplane and I emerged changed but I’m not yet sure in what way
October 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I read Conversations with Friends in one straight go on the airplane and I emerged changed but I’m not yet sure in what way
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The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater
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That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.