Anika Dane
@pixiedane.bsky.social
She/her. Bohemian Revolutionary. Social Justice Magical Girl. Member of an Elite Squad. Klingon Warrior Princess. Blood of the Dragon. There is a try. 🦋 linktr.ee/pixiedane
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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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Important update. SNAP is FULLY FUNDED in Connecticut as of today. The state has given assurance that it will backstop payment should the Trump administration persist in its callous effort to starve American families for political leverage.
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Important update. SNAP is FULLY FUNDED in Connecticut as of today. The state has given assurance that it will backstop payment should the Trump administration persist in its callous effort to starve American families for political leverage.
I have too many WIPs but I keep coming up with more ideas.
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I have too many WIPs but I keep coming up with more ideas.
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The shift in Connecticut tonight is seismic. Possibly unprecedented. Loads of towns flipped from Republican to Democratic control.
A partial list:
Ansonia
Bethany
Branford
Bristol
Brooklyn
East Granby
Ellington
Enfield
Farmington
Milford
New Britain
New Fairfield
Norwich
Plymouth
Rocky Hill
A partial list:
Ansonia
Bethany
Branford
Bristol
Brooklyn
East Granby
Ellington
Enfield
Farmington
Milford
New Britain
New Fairfield
Norwich
Plymouth
Rocky Hill
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The shift in Connecticut tonight is seismic. Possibly unprecedented. Loads of towns flipped from Republican to Democratic control.
A partial list:
Ansonia
Bethany
Branford
Bristol
Brooklyn
East Granby
Ellington
Enfield
Farmington
Milford
New Britain
New Fairfield
Norwich
Plymouth
Rocky Hill
A partial list:
Ansonia
Bethany
Branford
Bristol
Brooklyn
East Granby
Ellington
Enfield
Farmington
Milford
New Britain
New Fairfield
Norwich
Plymouth
Rocky Hill
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The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
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this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die
Dick Cheney dying to steal attention from Election Day is more proof our timeline is being written by a trickster god.
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Dick Cheney dying to steal attention from Election Day is more proof our timeline is being written by a trickster god.
I woke up and briefly thought it was tomorrow morning, reminding me why I hate November.
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I woke up and briefly thought it was tomorrow morning, reminding me why I hate November.
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I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
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And Threepio is so neurotic because he understands his position
Meanwhile R2 is just “hey farm boy, how about you take off that restraining bolt AHAHAHA NO GODS NO MASTERS”
Meanwhile R2 is just “hey farm boy, how about you take off that restraining bolt AHAHAHA NO GODS NO MASTERS”
If your business plan is "we will make human-equivalent beings" and "we will buy and sell what we make," then you've just put billions of dollars into reinventing chattel slavery.
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
And Threepio is so neurotic because he understands his position
Meanwhile R2 is just “hey farm boy, how about you take off that restraining bolt AHAHAHA NO GODS NO MASTERS”
Meanwhile R2 is just “hey farm boy, how about you take off that restraining bolt AHAHAHA NO GODS NO MASTERS”
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“what radicalized you” idk paying attention
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“what radicalized you” idk paying attention
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If you're in NYC, I've got a fantastic author event tonight at P&T Knitwear! F*cked Up Fairy Tales, in conversation with the wonderful Beth Hicks! Doors at 6:30, a costume contest, book reading and signing, woo!
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If you're in NYC, I've got a fantastic author event tonight at P&T Knitwear! F*cked Up Fairy Tales, in conversation with the wonderful Beth Hicks! Doors at 6:30, a costume contest, book reading and signing, woo!
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#nutmegsky FYI all of this is organized through an existing mutual aid network in Hartford—no scams!
If you’ve been feeling disconnected or overwhelmed by the world, I have something simple & grounding for you to do right now.
Send some rent money to 3 immigrant families in Hartford facing street homelessness. Rent is due and there are *no* family shelter beds available in CT.
Send some rent money to 3 immigrant families in Hartford facing street homelessness. Rent is due and there are *no* family shelter beds available in CT.
October 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
#nutmegsky FYI all of this is organized through an existing mutual aid network in Hartford—no scams!
I love that people are still finding The Pitt! It’s delightful to experience its greatness through new eyes.
Wow The Pitt had a trans character who wasn’t treated badly, just got to be a character who just happened to be trans and a small scene of doctors being professionals and updating gender on a file. Wild to see a show that just… shows professional doctors treating a trans person as a human.
October 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I love that people are still finding The Pitt! It’s delightful to experience its greatness through new eyes.
Saturday's the weekend thanks to collective action—when we work together, we win! And we can use stories to get there. Explore more at the link in the quoted post⬇️
October 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Saturday's the weekend thanks to collective action—when we work together, we win! And we can use stories to get there. Explore more at the link in the quoted post⬇️
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America has the highest health care costs, by far. And the poorest life expectancy among developed nations, by far. We are victims of the deadly for-profit healthcare and insurance industries who don't care if you suffer and die prematurely, as long as it's profitable for them.
October 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
America has the highest health care costs, by far. And the poorest life expectancy among developed nations, by far. We are victims of the deadly for-profit healthcare and insurance industries who don't care if you suffer and die prematurely, as long as it's profitable for them.
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ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
The second post in my series on using fandom in activism is up! An exploration of story as messaging with Dickens, Marvel comics, A Bug's Life, and Andor.
manicpixiedust.substack.com/p/using-fand...
manicpixiedust.substack.com/p/using-fand...
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The second post in my series on using fandom in activism is up! An exploration of story as messaging with Dickens, Marvel comics, A Bug's Life, and Andor.
manicpixiedust.substack.com/p/using-fand...
manicpixiedust.substack.com/p/using-fand...
Midway through this week’s Slow Horses I thought, I miss River’s grandpa, and almost immediately he popped up with intel for the audience and I love that for me.
#chaospowers
#chaospowers
October 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Midway through this week’s Slow Horses I thought, I miss River’s grandpa, and almost immediately he popped up with intel for the audience and I love that for me.
#chaospowers
#chaospowers
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This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.
I’m going to be crying about this for a decade.
I know in my heart Ben Solo was going to meet his grandfather in the underworld, and Anakin would guide him out.
MAKE IT NOW!!!!
#TheHuntforBenSolo #starwars #bensolo #kyloren #anakinskywalker
MAKE IT NOW!!!!
#TheHuntforBenSolo #starwars #bensolo #kyloren #anakinskywalker
October 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I’m going to be crying about this for a decade.
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