Karen Healey
@kehealey.bsky.social
Author, teacher, nerd.
I write the Olympus Inc. series - Greek myth meets The Devil Wears Prada. Penelope Pops the Question (https://BookHip.com/PQSRZXZ) is free!
I write the Olympus Inc. series - Greek myth meets The Devil Wears Prada. Penelope Pops the Question (https://BookHip.com/PQSRZXZ) is free!
I am watching (and loving) Elementary, but am I really supposed to assume the greatest detective in the world missed Natalie Dormer's "American" accent?
December 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I am watching (and loving) Elementary, but am I really supposed to assume the greatest detective in the world missed Natalie Dormer's "American" accent?
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At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
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I agree with this entire thread. I am deeply disappointed by @sfwa.org 's decision, especially considering how many of its members (including me) had our work stolen for the creation of that generative AI. There is NO way anyone should be eligible for a Nebula without doing ALL the writing themself.
I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I agree with this entire thread. I am deeply disappointed by @sfwa.org 's decision, especially considering how many of its members (including me) had our work stolen for the creation of that generative AI. There is NO way anyone should be eligible for a Nebula without doing ALL the writing themself.
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The threat was real. It always was. Nobody was being hysterical or catastrophizing. "Trans rights activists" were right all along, plain and simple.
December 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The threat was real. It always was. Nobody was being hysterical or catastrophizing. "Trans rights activists" were right all along, plain and simple.
Behold a ratio
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December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
Getting it out in the group chat, mostly.
how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day
December 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Getting it out in the group chat, mostly.
Every now and then I remember Valencia goes from kissing other girls for attention to proposing to the (female) love of her life and filming it by drone, thereby getting both love and attention, and I think that's beautiful. #crazyexgirlfriend
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Every now and then I remember Valencia goes from kissing other girls for attention to proposing to the (female) love of her life and filming it by drone, thereby getting both love and attention, and I think that's beautiful. #crazyexgirlfriend
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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it’s enraging! People are really suffering due to material conditions and social forces and other complicated but real things meanwhile here comes mr substack with a book to sell about how the real problem is gender ideologists
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
it’s enraging! People are really suffering due to material conditions and social forces and other complicated but real things meanwhile here comes mr substack with a book to sell about how the real problem is gender ideologists
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When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
nah dawg this is petty as shit
these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering
wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering
wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
This.
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
So a side effect of writing contemporary romance is that now I view every workplace I visit as a potential setting.
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
So a side effect of writing contemporary romance is that now I view every workplace I visit as a potential setting.
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"you see, I spent sixteen years in the United States and thought their labour conditions were something to emulate" fuck off you twat #nzpol
You first m8
I'm back on 5 January, I expect to be able to tune into a post-cabinet presser at 4pm that afternoon www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
I'm back on 5 January, I expect to be able to tune into a post-cabinet presser at 4pm that afternoon www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Are NZ summers too long? The PM says we’ve got to keep moving
The summer shutdown is coming but should the Kiwi summer holiday still stay sacrosanct?
www.stuff.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"you see, I spent sixteen years in the United States and thought their labour conditions were something to emulate" fuck off you twat #nzpol
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
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*youth pastor voice*
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
*youth pastor voice*
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
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"We won't let transgender children in Aotearoa be subjected to harm just to 'win a war on woke'. We're taking this to court because we know what's right, and we believe the law is on our side." @jennifilm.nz
Puberty blocker regulation 'based on politics', legal injunction filed
PATHA is asking for an urgent judicial review on the grounds that the incoming regulation is "illegal and unethical".
www.rnz.co.nz
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"We won't let transgender children in Aotearoa be subjected to harm just to 'win a war on woke'. We're taking this to court because we know what's right, and we believe the law is on our side." @jennifilm.nz
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AI generated content of any kind undermines the credibility of whatever is being communicated
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
AI generated content of any kind undermines the credibility of whatever is being communicated
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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Another impossible beauty standard
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Another impossible beauty standard
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A manuscript isn't ready to be shown to a potential publisher until you've done a thorough edit, double-checked your facts, abandoned your family, shunned all friendships, and offered a suitable blood sacrifice to the demon librarians that curate the Library of Forgotten Authors
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A manuscript isn't ready to be shown to a potential publisher until you've done a thorough edit, double-checked your facts, abandoned your family, shunned all friendships, and offered a suitable blood sacrifice to the demon librarians that curate the Library of Forgotten Authors
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PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news
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An excellent read.
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
The slow demolition of our democracy | E-Tangata
“We have a government willing to reshape constitutional understandings without genuine consultation, careful process, or respect for long-standing norms.” — Mark Feary.
e-tangata.co.nz
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
An excellent read.
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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Bullshit alert: some NZ politicians (dishonestly) claiming that the puberty blocker ban is about "saving" kids from "unnecessary" medical interventions and "letting them make up their own minds"
No, that's *what puberty blockers* do. It gives those kids time to work out their own identity.
No, that's *what puberty blockers* do. It gives those kids time to work out their own identity.
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Bullshit alert: some NZ politicians (dishonestly) claiming that the puberty blocker ban is about "saving" kids from "unnecessary" medical interventions and "letting them make up their own minds"
No, that's *what puberty blockers* do. It gives those kids time to work out their own identity.
No, that's *what puberty blockers* do. It gives those kids time to work out their own identity.
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So many doctors, medical experts, paediatric organisations, human rights organisations, and medical organisations coming out against the government’s ban on puberty blockers.
It’s a tsunami of support for the trans community, and boy are the anti-trans bigots mad about it.
It’s a tsunami of support for the trans community, and boy are the anti-trans bigots mad about it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
So many doctors, medical experts, paediatric organisations, human rights organisations, and medical organisations coming out against the government’s ban on puberty blockers.
It’s a tsunami of support for the trans community, and boy are the anti-trans bigots mad about it.
It’s a tsunami of support for the trans community, and boy are the anti-trans bigots mad about it.