Lilly Dancyger
@lillydancyger.bsky.social
author of First Love and Negative Space
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My essay collection First Love came out one year ago today! Female friendship! Obsession and codependency and love that might be friend love or might be romantic! Found family! Helping each other through loss, raising each other's babies! bookshop.org/a/1925/97805...
Alternate universe where the Spice Girls stayed together through the breakup like Fleetwood Mac, and Scary and Ginger just wrote increasingly scathing songs about each other for the group to record
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Alternate universe where the Spice Girls stayed together through the breakup like Fleetwood Mac, and Scary and Ginger just wrote increasingly scathing songs about each other for the group to record
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Any one of those 150 unlawful actions is impeachable. To NOT demand impeachment in the same breath as you talk about his unlawful actions normalizes them.
If you are a constituent of Rep. Houlahan @houlahan.house.gov, please call her office today and urge her to file Articles of Impeachment today.
If you are a constituent of Rep. Houlahan @houlahan.house.gov, please call her office today and urge her to file Articles of Impeachment today.
Houlahan points out that courts have found Trump has taken at least 150 unlawful actions since re-taking office, "so yes, those kinds of things are going on. Just because you are the president doesn't mean everything that comes out of your mouth is lawful."
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Any one of those 150 unlawful actions is impeachable. To NOT demand impeachment in the same breath as you talk about his unlawful actions normalizes them.
If you are a constituent of Rep. Houlahan @houlahan.house.gov, please call her office today and urge her to file Articles of Impeachment today.
If you are a constituent of Rep. Houlahan @houlahan.house.gov, please call her office today and urge her to file Articles of Impeachment today.
How many times do we have to prove that giving money to poor people improves their lives
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
How many times do we have to prove that giving money to poor people improves their lives
Getting dressed when it’s gonna be near freezing always makes me think of Felicity’s elaborate American Girl undergarments… remember the pockets that went on separately under her dresses? So many layers, so many steps
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Getting dressed when it’s gonna be near freezing always makes me think of Felicity’s elaborate American Girl undergarments… remember the pockets that went on separately under her dresses? So many layers, so many steps
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?? It’s rats leaving a burning building, looking for the next pile of trash to snuggle under.
Y’all love trying to force a redemption arc on the most heinous of people and that’s part of why we’re in this moment in time in the first place
Y’all love trying to force a redemption arc on the most heinous of people and that’s part of why we’re in this moment in time in the first place
I'd be really curious if someone better versed in feminist theory wrote about what's happening on the right. Because between Greene, Mace, and Bobert, we've got this bloc forming of women who seem tired of serving a patriarchy of sex criminals. And their rhetoric is starting to lean that direction.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."
November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
?? It’s rats leaving a burning building, looking for the next pile of trash to snuggle under.
Y’all love trying to force a redemption arc on the most heinous of people and that’s part of why we’re in this moment in time in the first place
Y’all love trying to force a redemption arc on the most heinous of people and that’s part of why we’re in this moment in time in the first place
If you're working on an essay collection and feeling stuck or overwhelmed or just wishing for some guidance and camaraderie, consider applying for my six-month Essay Collection Incubator, which starts in January! (Applications due by December 4) www.lillydancyger.com/essay-collec...
Essay Collection Incubator
Generate, revise, and prepare your essay-collection manuscript for submission—with guest authors and industry professionals, craft lectures and exercises, and multiple rounds of feedback.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If you're working on an essay collection and feeling stuck or overwhelmed or just wishing for some guidance and camaraderie, consider applying for my six-month Essay Collection Incubator, which starts in January! (Applications due by December 4) www.lillydancyger.com/essay-collec...
So close, but teenagers are actually children! Hope that helps
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So close, but teenagers are actually children! Hope that helps
Preparing to revise my "book-burning is always bad" stance
I think we're about to get an absolute glut of stuff like this
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Preparing to revise my "book-burning is always bad" stance
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I just kind of think all these people should, after a fair trial in which they are zealously represented before a jury of their peers, be eaten
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I just kind of think all these people should, after a fair trial in which they are zealously represented before a jury of their peers, be eaten
Anything we can do to make his day a little worse is worthwhile
People are like “more Epstein dirt won’t change anything so it doesn’t matter” and I think those people are missing the very obvious fact that Trump really hates when people talk about this or when it’s in the news, like it drives him nuts, it makes him unhappy, and that’s good in itself
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Anything we can do to make his day a little worse is worthwhile
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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New campaign ad for Dems just dropped.
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
New campaign ad for Dems just dropped.
Everything he says sounds more and more like the kind of shit you hear someone screaming on the subway while everyone studiously avoids eye contact with them
Look, if someone tells you "There's actually only one way (to solve poverty) and that's with the Optimus robot..." They are a crazy person and you should get away from them.
This passage puts Musk's arrogance and moral blinders on full display. At DOGE, Musk destroyed USAID and weakened other part of the compensatory state that have been shown to effectively address poverty. Yet here he babbling about robots and "wild sci-fi scenarios" as the "only way" to do so.
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Everything he says sounds more and more like the kind of shit you hear someone screaming on the subway while everyone studiously avoids eye contact with them
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“I asked ChatGPT—“ yeah well I asked you to stop doing that and now we can’t be friends anymore
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“I asked ChatGPT—“ yeah well I asked you to stop doing that and now we can’t be friends anymore
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I'm reading The Lord of the Flies rn and it's pretty upsetting that these children are doing a better, more level-headed job of governing than the actual adult leaders of this country
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm reading The Lord of the Flies rn and it's pretty upsetting that these children are doing a better, more level-headed job of governing than the actual adult leaders of this country
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Anyone need an awp panelist?? Add me so I can go.
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: [email protected]
✏️💗
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: [email protected]
✏️💗
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Anyone need an awp panelist?? Add me so I can go.
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: [email protected]
✏️💗
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: [email protected]
✏️💗
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
lol I might pick up a copy of the Post for the first time... ever? to frame this cover
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
lol I might pick up a copy of the Post for the first time... ever? to frame this cover
a good election day omen if there ever was one!!
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
a good election day omen if there ever was one!!
And may the injustices he entrenched even further into our system of government die with him!
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
And may the injustices he entrenched even further into our system of government die with him!
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one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly