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Taffeta V.
@taffetav.bsky.social
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First of all, I am a DELIGHT. Writer. Late night DJ on KOPN. Voice actor. Redhead. Bon vivant. Midwest AF. Probably shorter than you think. Beginner bass player. she/her
My site: taffetav.com
My radio show: mixcloud.com/TaffetaV/
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Taffeta V. @taffetav.bsky.social · Nov 28
All about me, in 60 seconds 💋
taffetav.bsky.social
A seriously great model positive masculinity right here
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
Choosing to listen to Funhouse really loud because I am deeply sad and I believe Iggy Pop has healing properties
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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mrwildstyle.bsky.social
Indianapolis Public Schools as we know it will be no more

IPS is run by a Black woman and an elected board of 7 Black woman

Do you think the Mind Trust and the Mayor's ppl would have voted to DISMANTLE IPS last night

if there were 8 White men running it?
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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jooliaghoulia.bsky.social
If you gravy levels haven't returned to normal yet, please consult your physician
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
"December’s language is imprecise grief"
~ Nelly Sachs
December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
But mostly, please give my warmest regards to your weird uncles, the single ones with the good record collections
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
Backing up my shit onto a little local external hard drive as the dark lordt intended. GTFO with your cloud bullshit, you Lando Calrissian sonsabitches
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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neilpollyticks.bsky.social
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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jordanshiveley.bsky.social
what cursed focus group is telling studios that the public wants more Kevin James vehicles
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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taffetav.bsky.social
Reminder on World AIDS Day—

I am 55, and I remember the grim death sentence of AIDS in the 80s/90s, I lost SO MANY people. Funerals almost every week. People I loved were considered disposable.
taffetav.bsky.social Taffeta V. @taffetav.bsky.social · Feb 13
A little reminder: when AIDS was new, and considered “the gay plague” economists Richard Posner & Tomas Philipson gave cost saving advice to the Reagan administration - let them die, because it will be cheaper and save on Medicaid and Social Security payouts.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day… …a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals. 5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
"still punk AF", I mutter to myself as I look for good deals on knee high compression socks
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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jakevig.bsky.social
advent calendar of the tears of my enemies
dly.bsky.social d.ly @dly.bsky.social · Oct 7
advent calendar of pills i've found on the ground
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
this is genius and I love it
soozuk.bsky.social Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 3d
Kate Bush sings Away in a Manger. Happy December 1st!
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
Reminder on World AIDS Day—

I am 55, and I remember the grim death sentence of AIDS in the 80s/90s, I lost SO MANY people. Funerals almost every week. People I loved were considered disposable.
taffetav.bsky.social Taffeta V. @taffetav.bsky.social · Feb 13
A little reminder: when AIDS was new, and considered “the gay plague” economists Richard Posner & Tomas Philipson gave cost saving advice to the Reagan administration - let them die, because it will be cheaper and save on Medicaid and Social Security payouts.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
It's UFO night on Late!

UFO poetry, stories about Art Bell, a Whitley Strieber reading + more, plus MC 900Ft Jesus, Blondie, Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald, Parliament, this insane Nina Hagen experimental thing, & more.

Free/Ad-free/No Ai
Please listen and share!

www.mixcloud.com/KOPN/late-wi...
Late with Taffeta V. - UFOs
This one's all about UFOs - music from Babes In Toyland, Ella Fitzgerald, the Rezillos, Frank Black, Nina Hagen and more; I'll read H.G. Wells and Whitley Strieber, plus poems and theories...keep your...
www.mixcloud.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
My boss
Closeup of redhead lady in giant glasses, holding a small and very scruffy brown dog
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
Snowy Sunday reading Vonnegut and thinking about Harrison Bergeron and having coffee with my dog. Well, she's not actually having coffee but you get it.
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
Made a nice dinner- seared a duck breast, cooked wee potatoes in the duck fat, plus a salad with spinach, feta, walnuts, berries, and a fig balsamic vinaigrette. Spoiling myself because it’s a solo Saturday night in the snow
White plate with seared duck breast for, wee potatoes cooked in duck fat, and a spinach salad with berries and nuts
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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taliajane.bsky.social
The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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matthewphillion.bsky.social
Between "dress better when you fly" and seeing several articles about "why don't Americans dress better when they" in major publications, it feels like there's a creeping move toward classism disguised as fashion or taste happening and it feels very intentional.
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
I’ll say it. I want a sword.
jooliaghoulia.bsky.social Joolia Ghoulia @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · 5d
We won't tell you, but every woman wants a sword for Christmas 2025
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
taffetav.bsky.social
This is my radio show—it’s like if 120 Minutes was also storytime for weird adults, with a new theme every week. It’s free/ad-free/no Ai, and I make it entirely myself. Deep cuts, great authors, plus my own true tales
Bedtime stories & lullabies for people who never sleep

It’s Late. (Link below)
Black and white close up of a woman with hair partially obscuring her face, and blue text that says Late with Taffeta V. There is a logo for the station, KOPN 89.5/KOPN.org and the tag line “locally grown radio since 1973”
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM