Maddie Gaw
@maddieturg.bsky.social
Writer, Subject Matter Expert on Animorphs, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Riverdale.
Read me at https://maddiegaw.substack.com/
Read me at https://maddiegaw.substack.com/
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I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.
A thread.
A thread.
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 AM
I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.
A thread.
A thread.
I feel like there are two kinds of people in this world. Those who are deeply moved by R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts", and those who are not. I am, of course, the former.
February 13, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I feel like there are two kinds of people in this world. Those who are deeply moved by R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts", and those who are not. I am, of course, the former.
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can’t post this one again until 2032
February 13, 2026 at 8:44 PM
can’t post this one again until 2032
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breaking: we've stolen the future from our children to finance our 7th houses, yet they still go on eating and drinking
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:29 AM
breaking: we've stolen the future from our children to finance our 7th houses, yet they still go on eating and drinking
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In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
February 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
This has absolutely derailed my morning.
Learning a lot about the husband of America's Most Produced Playwright™️
So that's the stuff I've found so far on how Nathan may or may not have tried (successfully or not, I do not know) to get Jeffrey - who is, I must remind everyone, thanked in Nathan's book The Viral Storm - to fund his research by exploring mind controlling women using chemicals produced by STDs
February 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
This has absolutely derailed my morning.
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Listen to the story that shaped a generation. Decades after starring in Stand By Me, the film adaptation of THE BODY, Wil Wheaton lends his voice to an all new recording of the audiobook. Pre-order your copy and start listening March 24, 2026.
February 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Listen to the story that shaped a generation. Decades after starring in Stand By Me, the film adaptation of THE BODY, Wil Wheaton lends his voice to an all new recording of the audiobook. Pre-order your copy and start listening March 24, 2026.
My mental health is great, I’m a 34 year old woman crying listening to Sombr 🫠
February 2, 2026 at 10:25 PM
My mental health is great, I’m a 34 year old woman crying listening to Sombr 🫠
Cannot find a good screenshot right now for comparison but today I am dressed like Cordelia Chase when she goes to view her apartment with Doyle and I’m all emotional about it lol
February 2, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Cannot find a good screenshot right now for comparison but today I am dressed like Cordelia Chase when she goes to view her apartment with Doyle and I’m all emotional about it lol
I watched Eddington on a plane and it gave me a headache.
February 2, 2026 at 7:26 AM
I watched Eddington on a plane and it gave me a headache.
If I hadn’t already been radicalized against the rich, this would be my Becoming the Joker moment.
It is absolutely the least important part in any of this but the fact that the richest and most powerful people in the world can't compose a basic email utterly terrifies and infuriates me.
February 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM
If I hadn’t already been radicalized against the rich, this would be my Becoming the Joker moment.
*bursting through the wall like the Kool Aid Man*
“Infinite Jest” is a masterpiece and a pleasure to read, Hermione Hoby writes. “Perhaps the greatest disjunction between the book’s reputation and its contents lies in the notion that it’s a pretentious slog no one could honestly enjoy.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xQHtnb
January 30, 2026 at 5:33 AM
*bursting through the wall like the Kool Aid Man*
Achievement unlocked: hearing The Wonder Years in a Philly coffee shop
January 27, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Achievement unlocked: hearing The Wonder Years in a Philly coffee shop
Good thread
Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.
There's another way to look at this. ICE is doing everything the military manual tells you not to do to civilian populations because it creates insurgencies where none existed before.
January 26, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Good thread
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We keep telling people he only cares about himself and advancing himself. He and any democrat who pushes him or supports them is an oppressor, plain and simple, no different from what we have now. He may honestly be one of the biggest, most obvious two bit phonies Ive seen
I put myself through the entire interview. Trust me when I tell you that Gavin "dank memes" Newsom agrees with him on EVERYTHING. I literally says "I agree with you" on EVERYTHING. Ben "extremely unpopular even with MAGA" Shapiro gets very combative with him and Gavin capitulates EVERY time.
Ben Shapiro: "Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza"
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
January 18, 2026 at 1:29 PM
We keep telling people he only cares about himself and advancing himself. He and any democrat who pushes him or supports them is an oppressor, plain and simple, no different from what we have now. He may honestly be one of the biggest, most obvious two bit phonies Ive seen
I don’t normally try to be corny like this, but it recently occurred to me that the summer I consider to be the worst one in my life (Summer 2012) did also introduce me to Wet Hot American Summer, which is one of my top ten favorite movies. In spite of everything, art will find its way to you.
January 16, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I don’t normally try to be corny like this, but it recently occurred to me that the summer I consider to be the worst one in my life (Summer 2012) did also introduce me to Wet Hot American Summer, which is one of my top ten favorite movies. In spite of everything, art will find its way to you.
Everything feels so hard right now
January 16, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Everything feels so hard right now
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
Just crying listening to Green Day, nbd
January 9, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Just crying listening to Green Day, nbd
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Me, waking up this morning, to 2026:
January 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Me, waking up this morning, to 2026:
Finally my long national nightmare of Stranger Things is over
January 1, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Finally my long national nightmare of Stranger Things is over
It brings me no pleasure to participate in Stranger Things discourse. But here are my stray thoughts.
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It brings me no pleasure to participate in Stranger Things discourse. But here are my stray thoughts.