Flannery Dean
@flannerydean.bsky.social
Freelance writer, editor with clips @ The Star, Guardian, Slate, The Narwhal, Bright Wall/ Dark Room, Macleans, Globe. www.flannerydean.com
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Flannery Dean
@flannerydean.bsky.social
· Jul 26
Not gonna read one more piece. Waiting for Manosphere in IMAX
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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a fun thanksgiving ice breaker is to go around the table and rate everyone by hotness. it’s fine if no one else wants to play
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
a fun thanksgiving ice breaker is to go around the table and rate everyone by hotness. it’s fine if no one else wants to play
Do I think apple pie is lesser pie? Yes, I do. Will I eat all of it and often direct from the pan? Also, yes.
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Do I think apple pie is lesser pie? Yes, I do. Will I eat all of it and often direct from the pan? Also, yes.
This is a very interesting piece that tackles the narrative shifts that always mark adaptation. Really enjoyed Roxana Hadidi’s endorsement of the changes too.
Most people know where I stand on Train Dreams but that doesn't stop me from thinking this is a great, well-written, informative piece on what many consider its shortcomings. chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
Review: Train Dreams - Chicago Reader
Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams is a compelling and beautiful film, but it struggles as an adaptation to live up to its source material.
chicagoreader.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is a very interesting piece that tackles the narrative shifts that always mark adaptation. Really enjoyed Roxana Hadidi’s endorsement of the changes too.
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Most people know where I stand on Train Dreams but that doesn't stop me from thinking this is a great, well-written, informative piece on what many consider its shortcomings. chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
Review: Train Dreams - Chicago Reader
Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams is a compelling and beautiful film, but it struggles as an adaptation to live up to its source material.
chicagoreader.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Most people know where I stand on Train Dreams but that doesn't stop me from thinking this is a great, well-written, informative piece on what many consider its shortcomings. chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
Kid has been too sick to cope with clingy cat who is obsessed with him but fever is finally gone and cat could not be happier
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Kid has been too sick to cope with clingy cat who is obsessed with him but fever is finally gone and cat could not be happier
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We need to do everything we can to encourage posts like this on bluesky. Terrible food opinions from big name sportswriters are genuinely the lifeblood of any social media app
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We need to do everything we can to encourage posts like this on bluesky. Terrible food opinions from big name sportswriters are genuinely the lifeblood of any social media app
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I'm working in a food court and the greatest xmas song of all time, Darlene Love's Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is booming in all it's Phil Spector, wall of sound splendor and I'm struck that they say there's no disagreements on BlueSky & that this is a bubble.
I denounce John Lorinc!
I denounce John Lorinc!
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm working in a food court and the greatest xmas song of all time, Darlene Love's Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is booming in all it's Phil Spector, wall of sound splendor and I'm struck that they say there's no disagreements on BlueSky & that this is a bubble.
I denounce John Lorinc!
I denounce John Lorinc!
Was feeling pretty cynical then I saw a pikachu with a Santa hat on and suddenly everything felt possible again
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Was feeling pretty cynical then I saw a pikachu with a Santa hat on and suddenly everything felt possible again
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can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
Probably the worst of them all is the Ring doorbell.
It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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For 43 years, my wife and I have cared for our daughter
by Tom Sherwood
#GiftLink 🎁
#Caregivers #Caregiving
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a0344d6...
by Tom Sherwood
#GiftLink 🎁
#Caregivers #Caregiving
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a0344d6...
For 43 years, my wife and I have cared for our daughter
Support for Canada’s caregivers is the next public-policy frontier
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For 43 years, my wife and I have cared for our daughter
by Tom Sherwood
#GiftLink 🎁
#Caregivers #Caregiving
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a0344d6...
by Tom Sherwood
#GiftLink 🎁
#Caregivers #Caregiving
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a0344d6...
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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This is another thing I had to cut from my piece - the minimum wage is best understood as an anti-poverty measure *for single or childless couples at the start of their working lives*. But it's not a lever that helps most people struggling to make ends meet. Only cash transfers do that.
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is another thing I had to cut from my piece - the minimum wage is best understood as an anti-poverty measure *for single or childless couples at the start of their working lives*. But it's not a lever that helps most people struggling to make ends meet. Only cash transfers do that.
Bad days when there’s such fear about repercussions of saying something true
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Bad days when there’s such fear about repercussions of saying something true
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this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
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5) Global divide: There is an emerging schism between countries clinging to a colonial and extractive past and those moving to the future. It extends beyond the fossil fuel vs clean energy divide to whether adaptation relies on top-down initiatives vs. local and Indigenous efforts and knowledge.
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
5) Global divide: There is an emerging schism between countries clinging to a colonial and extractive past and those moving to the future. It extends beyond the fossil fuel vs clean energy divide to whether adaptation relies on top-down initiatives vs. local and Indigenous efforts and knowledge.
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Thread👇
UN climate summits are a strange hybrid of diplomatic negotiations and a sprawling climate change bazaar. You can learn a lot about the state of climate action from watching the negotiations and from the many concurrent panels and side events. Here are five themes that emerged frequently at #COP30:
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...
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The BBC censoring criticism of Trump from one of their Reith Lectures is seriously worrying.
The Liberal Democrats have written to the BBC Director General Tim Davie urging him to stand firm against Trump’s bullying and broadcast the lecture in full.
The Liberal Democrats have written to the BBC Director General Tim Davie urging him to stand firm against Trump’s bullying and broadcast the lecture in full.
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The BBC censoring criticism of Trump from one of their Reith Lectures is seriously worrying.
The Liberal Democrats have written to the BBC Director General Tim Davie urging him to stand firm against Trump’s bullying and broadcast the lecture in full.
The Liberal Democrats have written to the BBC Director General Tim Davie urging him to stand firm against Trump’s bullying and broadcast the lecture in full.
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Another good reason to avoid being on X is that Isaac Chotiner could start asking you questions there at any time
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Another good reason to avoid being on X is that Isaac Chotiner could start asking you questions there at any time
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The notion of RFK Jr. and sex appeal is risible, nauseating, and deeply upsetting. It disgusts me too!
But some prominent women seem to love him with an unmatched ferocity. How can this be? I look into what ails them:
But some prominent women seem to love him with an unmatched ferocity. How can this be? I look into what ails them:
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The notion of RFK Jr. and sex appeal is risible, nauseating, and deeply upsetting. It disgusts me too!
But some prominent women seem to love him with an unmatched ferocity. How can this be? I look into what ails them:
But some prominent women seem to love him with an unmatched ferocity. How can this be? I look into what ails them:
This line is a gem of Only Connect: “As I tried to grasp the contours of Kennedy’s appeal, I couldn’t help but think of some of the men whose loser behavior littered Jeffrey Epstein’s latest email release”
The notion of RFK Jr. and sex appeal is risible, nauseating, and deeply upsetting. It disgusts me too!
But some prominent women seem to love him with an unmatched ferocity. How can this be? I look into what ails them:
But some prominent women seem to love him with an unmatched ferocity. How can this be? I look into what ails them:
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This line is a gem of Only Connect: “As I tried to grasp the contours of Kennedy’s appeal, I couldn’t help but think of some of the men whose loser behavior littered Jeffrey Epstein’s latest email release”
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This is basic, basic accountability information. And in the case of information about the training the officers who work with schools get, it could help improve public perception of the program.
I have no idea why the VPD fights so hard to prevent the release of this info.
I have no idea why the VPD fights so hard to prevent the release of this info.
It took reporter @kehyslop.bsky.social 21 months of FOI requests and pursuing a formal review of the VPD's denial for info to get the police to release the names of officers who currently staff Vancouver schools. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Vancouver Police Finally Reveal Names of School Liaison Officers | The Tyee
After telling The Tyee publishing this information would harm police, names and school assignments are out.
thetyee.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is basic, basic accountability information. And in the case of information about the training the officers who work with schools get, it could help improve public perception of the program.
I have no idea why the VPD fights so hard to prevent the release of this info.
I have no idea why the VPD fights so hard to prevent the release of this info.