Bellamy Dryden
@bellamydryden.bsky.social
Sci-Fi & Environmental writer.
Here for the wonder & delight.
Here for the wonder & delight.
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Finally getting some traction over at the other place for this 2020 tweet.
I just want to write a crap Christmas song that's a massive hit and then spend the rest of my life trying to write a better one.
a cartoon of reindeer pulling santa 's sleigh with a starry sky in the background
Alt: cartoon of reindeer pulling santa 's super sleigh with a starry sky in the background
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I just want to write a crap Christmas song that's a massive hit and then spend the rest of my life trying to write a better one.
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There is always something to be done, and that something makes a difference.
That is what optimism is: choosing to believe that you can continue to make a difference, and doing so, as much as you can.
That is what optimism is: choosing to believe that you can continue to make a difference, and doing so, as much as you can.
December 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
There is always something to be done, and that something makes a difference.
That is what optimism is: choosing to believe that you can continue to make a difference, and doing so, as much as you can.
That is what optimism is: choosing to believe that you can continue to make a difference, and doing so, as much as you can.
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
Maybe parody was more subtle back then?
December 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Maybe parody was more subtle back then?
December 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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The Society's auction of #Tolkien books, film statues and other books, art and collectibles finishes today at 8pm UK-time (9pm Europe, 3pm Eastern, 12 noon Pacific). Please take a look and support the Society - there are bargains to be had! charityauction.bid/tolkiensociety #booksky
December 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The Society's auction of #Tolkien books, film statues and other books, art and collectibles finishes today at 8pm UK-time (9pm Europe, 3pm Eastern, 12 noon Pacific). Please take a look and support the Society - there are bargains to be had! charityauction.bid/tolkiensociety #booksky
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Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, begins today – and there are lots of ways to join in the fun!
Here’s our pick of the best children’s books about Hanukkah 🕎
https://bit.ly/4oUnmpc
Here’s our pick of the best children’s books about Hanukkah 🕎
https://bit.ly/4oUnmpc
December 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, begins today – and there are lots of ways to join in the fun!
Here’s our pick of the best children’s books about Hanukkah 🕎
https://bit.ly/4oUnmpc
Here’s our pick of the best children’s books about Hanukkah 🕎
https://bit.ly/4oUnmpc
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#BlackSky 🌱 🍽
Check out free PDF from Black vegan experts on how to transition to a plant-based diet. And it has tips for surviving holidays.
From Tracye McQuirter, MPH, 30-yr vegan, public health nutritionist, author of Ageless Vegan, By Any Greens Necessary
#BlackSky
byanygreensnecessary.com/starterguide
From Tracye McQuirter, MPH, 30-yr vegan, public health nutritionist, author of Ageless Vegan, By Any Greens Necessary
#BlackSky
byanygreensnecessary.com/starterguide
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#BlackSky 🌱 🍽
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 331:
Not everyone will love you. Live with it. All writers do. All you can do is your best, most honest work, and send it out into the world in the hope that it connects with someone. What they see in it after that is often more about them than it is about you...
Not everyone will love you. Live with it. All writers do. All you can do is your best, most honest work, and send it out into the world in the hope that it connects with someone. What they see in it after that is often more about them than it is about you...
December 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 331:
Not everyone will love you. Live with it. All writers do. All you can do is your best, most honest work, and send it out into the world in the hope that it connects with someone. What they see in it after that is often more about them than it is about you...
Not everyone will love you. Live with it. All writers do. All you can do is your best, most honest work, and send it out into the world in the hope that it connects with someone. What they see in it after that is often more about them than it is about you...
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Alternative to plastic
Strong plastic made from waste biomass degrades into sugar
Made from inexpensive materials, this plastic withstands high temperatures and blocks food-damaging gases just like conventional plastics used for food drink packaging
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/07/stro...
Strong plastic made from waste biomass degrades into sugar
Made from inexpensive materials, this plastic withstands high temperatures and blocks food-damaging gases just like conventional plastics used for food drink packaging
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/07/stro...
Strong plastic made from waste biomass degrades into sugar
Made from inexpensive materials, this plastic withstands high temperatures and blocks food-damaging gases just like conventional plastics used for food and drink packaging.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Alternative to plastic
Strong plastic made from waste biomass degrades into sugar
Made from inexpensive materials, this plastic withstands high temperatures and blocks food-damaging gases just like conventional plastics used for food drink packaging
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/07/stro...
Strong plastic made from waste biomass degrades into sugar
Made from inexpensive materials, this plastic withstands high temperatures and blocks food-damaging gases just like conventional plastics used for food drink packaging
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/07/stro...
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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U.S. pals:
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.
There are better charities out there. Much better.
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.
There are better charities out there. Much better.
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
U.S. pals:
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.
There are better charities out there. Much better.
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.
There are better charities out there. Much better.
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🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
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We are not just going to sit around and put up with this. We are going to omit his entire second presidency and undo it all. As soon as we're able to get all this corruption out of the government and start over. It's bullshit. We have so much technology, so many resources. We can do better.
December 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
We are not just going to sit around and put up with this. We are going to omit his entire second presidency and undo it all. As soon as we're able to get all this corruption out of the government and start over. It's bullshit. We have so much technology, so many resources. We can do better.
Map this onto Reagan-era attacks on teaching music and the arts in schools.
A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
www.nature.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Map this onto Reagan-era attacks on teaching music and the arts in schools.
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Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
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If we can't even get rid of this president, who is clearly criminally insane, how in the world will we deal with the next one?
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If we can't even get rid of this president, who is clearly criminally insane, how in the world will we deal with the next one?
It's okay to change your mind, you know.
December 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It's okay to change your mind, you know.
I 💚 Somali-Americans, the Somali people and Somalia.
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I 💚 Somali-Americans, the Somali people and Somalia.
Abhorrent.
Trump: "We have to be unified. China is unified because they have one vote -- that's President Xi. He says 'do it' and that's the end of that. We have a different system."
December 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Abhorrent.
December 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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For the record this is 100% correct and it’s already starting.
December 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
For the record this is 100% correct and it’s already starting.
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I hate to put myself on blast (we hates it...), but I'm having major surgery on Dec 23 & will be out of work with no paid leave. Support with rent, groceries, or recovery costs would mean so much!
#mutualaid #medicalaid #recoveryaid #gofundme #surgery
www.gofundme.com/f/y8y9e-supp...
#mutualaid #medicalaid #recoveryaid #gofundme #surgery
www.gofundme.com/f/y8y9e-supp...
Donate to Support Jay's Surgery Recovery, organized by Jay Robertsen
I am having major surgery on December 23rd to remove two large tumors from my right ovary… Jay Robertsen needs your support for Support Jay's Surgery Recovery
www.gofundme.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I hate to put myself on blast (we hates it...), but I'm having major surgery on Dec 23 & will be out of work with no paid leave. Support with rent, groceries, or recovery costs would mean so much!
#mutualaid #medicalaid #recoveryaid #gofundme #surgery
www.gofundme.com/f/y8y9e-supp...
#mutualaid #medicalaid #recoveryaid #gofundme #surgery
www.gofundme.com/f/y8y9e-supp...