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Baillie Puckett

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writer and professional lurker and chronic complainer MFA in Creative Writing (Writing for Children/YA) - Hamline University https://linktr.ee/BailliePuckett

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Baillie Puckett @bailliepuckett.bsky.social · Oct 1

I started doing art Sundays with my cheap art supplies to mentally prepare myself for my writing week.

Most are probably just going to be musicians because I like watching concert footage 😂❤️

Hayley Williams turned away from the viewer with her middle finger raised over her head. She wears a blue, backless dress and stands in front of a blue circle with the word "Paramore" written on it. The background is painted red.

A torso-up painting of Halsey wearing a blue shirt and holding a microphone. In front is a full body painting of Halsey wearing a slip while playing the guitar. The page reads, "I think I should try to kill my ego".

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 11h

Just a reminder the word remigrate is open Nazi language and should be seen as a threat of violence.

When the neo Nazis use this term their is another two words they use after it which are :or die

It’s important to understand the context that the word Remigrate is a threat to leave or be murdered.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Shayna Moon (scary) @themoonis.gay · 12h

good fucking luck getting any LLM to be as horny as one (1) asexual writer

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Baillie Puckett @bailliepuckett.bsky.social · 1d

I have allegedly ordered a book to be signed in my absence ✨ Hope the event is wonderful!!!

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 2d

A 13-year old child stolen from his parents by the police without a word.

A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.

So many people on the wrong side of history.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Baillie Puckett @bailliepuckett.bsky.social · 3d

Also I love First Wives Club as much as the next person but God, the variety article about her career did not cut corners reminding us that she was a Woody Allen defender

Baillie Puckett @bailliepuckett.bsky.social · 3d

Instead of telling us that she'd passed like a normal person my brother just texted the group chat "Dianne Keaton" with zero context

Baillie Puckett @bailliepuckett.bsky.social · 3d

Instead of telling us that she'd passed like a normal person my brother just texted the group chat "Dianne Keaton" with zero context

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve lived in Hermosa in Chicago nearly my entire life. It’s an 80+% Latino community. There are no words for what we’re experiencing right now. I can’t stress this enough—

My home, my people are being psychologically terrorized
People are going missing
People are terrified

Don’t forget about us.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Melissa Manlove @mmanlove.bsky.social · 6d

Psst! I am opening up to unagented children's book submissions *just for the month of October*! This is an exciting experiment. The email to send submissions to is [email protected]. You can find out about what I'm looking for at www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/me...

Melissa Manlove – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

www.manuscriptwishlist.com

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 5d

Still true

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 5d

Oh this is even worse than was shared this morning.

Shoving libraries under AI. Good work, folks shoving AI into libraries. Now they're just one in the same.

In an era we need to really be clear on the necessity and purpose of these democratic institutions, this is five hundred backward steps.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 5d

do you ever just want to slam your own head into a brick wall over and over

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Baillie Puckett @bailliepuckett.bsky.social · 6d

I listened to SO MUCH "stick to the status quo" writing this, ahahaha

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 6d

OH THANK GOD.

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 6d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 9d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 6d

This is really blatant pro-Nazi rhetoric, but also the House Un-American Activities Committee following WWII considered it suspicious for people to have been anti-fascist before Pearl Harbor. So like…not new

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6d

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

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Baillie Puckett @bailliepuckett.bsky.social · 6d

MY FAIR BRADY x THE LOVE CURSE OF MELODY MCINTYRE

Emma auditions for Romeo and Juliet to win back her actor ex-bf because a showmance is better than a broken heart.

But onstage, Em is more concerned with her female costar than her ex. Is this stage fright--or love?

#DVPit #YA #CON #LGBT

Baillie Puckett @bailliepuckett.bsky.social · 6d

Oh this sounds super fun!! 😍

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Baillie Puckett @bailliepuckett.bsky.social · 6d

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL x LEGALLY BLONDE

Stage-tech Emma auditions for the school play hoping to win back her actor ex-boyfriend only to have confusing feels for her female costar instead.

🎭 Novel-in-Script
💖 First Girl Crush
💜 Theater Kid Melodrama

#DVPit #YA #CON #LGBT

Baillie Puckett @bailliepuckett.bsky.social · 6d

I'm going to post old pitches and nobody's going to judge me, okay?? Okay. Cool.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 7d

Big Dumper hits a 2 run shot into the bullpen that bounces to a guy wearing a "Dump 61 Here" shirt

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