Erin Maher
@theerinmaher.bsky.social
TV writer (SWAMP THING! SHINING VALE!) Friend to books, horses, and old movies. I am pro-Oxford comma.
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Erin Maher
@theerinmaher.bsky.social
· Mar 23
Reminder, if you care, I am blocking AI users. There are plenty of things you can use as a banner or avatar that aren’t using people’s stolen work or helping destroy the environment.
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so true bestie
Status update on House Republicans and a health care plan, after this morning’s conference meeting:
“The consensus is we need to come up with something,” Rep. Ralph Norman says.
“The consensus is we need to come up with something,” Rep. Ralph Norman says.
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
so true bestie
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when I wrote this panel last week, I didn't *literally* expect him to say that questioning his health is tantamount to treason, but I didn't *not* expect it
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
when I wrote this panel last week, I didn't *literally* expect him to say that questioning his health is tantamount to treason, but I didn't *not* expect it
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"there's only 7 story lines in the world and 3 of them are about jelly "
Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle
JFC wish people would stop saying THE HUNGER GAMES ripped off BATTLE ROYALE. (Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian, parroting Quentin Tarantino, being the latest offender.) Might as well say it ripped off THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME; DEATH RACE 2000; ROLLERBALL; THE RUNNING MAN; THE 10th VICTIM tbc
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"there's only 7 story lines in the world and 3 of them are about jelly "
Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle
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I have another #buyastrangerabook offer.
After the very sad news about Sophie Kinsella earlier,
@clairedares.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of one of her books.
I've put a selection together, but if there's one you'd like, get in touch.
UK only
After the very sad news about Sophie Kinsella earlier,
@clairedares.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of one of her books.
I've put a selection together, but if there's one you'd like, get in touch.
UK only
December 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I have another #buyastrangerabook offer.
After the very sad news about Sophie Kinsella earlier,
@clairedares.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of one of her books.
I've put a selection together, but if there's one you'd like, get in touch.
UK only
After the very sad news about Sophie Kinsella earlier,
@clairedares.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of one of her books.
I've put a selection together, but if there's one you'd like, get in touch.
UK only
Really sad news.
Confessions of a Shopaholic novelist Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55
Confessions of a Shopaholic novelist Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55
The ‘queen of romantic comedy’ has died 18 months after announcing her brain cancer diagnosis
Madeleine Wickham, known for writing the bestselling novel Confessions of a Shopaholic under her pen name Sophie Kinsella, has died aged 55.
Wickham, dubbed “the queen of romantic comedy” by novelist Jojo Moyes, wrote more than 30 books for adults, children and teenagers, which have sold more than 45m copies. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Really sad news.
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📌OK, I have heard enough from the grotesque Marjorie Taylor Greene to last four lifetimes.
She's allegedly being burned by a horrific fire SHE helped start.
-The End
She's allegedly being burned by a horrific fire SHE helped start.
-The End
December 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
📌OK, I have heard enough from the grotesque Marjorie Taylor Greene to last four lifetimes.
She's allegedly being burned by a horrific fire SHE helped start.
-The End
She's allegedly being burned by a horrific fire SHE helped start.
-The End
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Really thrilled to learn that due to a huge outpouring of public support, Argonaut Books in the Edinburgh area will not have to compete with a Waterstones planned for around the corner. Kudos to Waterstones for listening and everyone on insta for being vocal. One of my very favorite UK bookstores.
December 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Really thrilled to learn that due to a huge outpouring of public support, Argonaut Books in the Edinburgh area will not have to compete with a Waterstones planned for around the corner. Kudos to Waterstones for listening and everyone on insta for being vocal. One of my very favorite UK bookstores.
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Perhaps there should be an FBOL reboot called ASSIGNED READING where someone picks up a book they haven't read in 20+ years and realizes they were just a snot-nosed jerk when they read it for the first time
BRIDGE TO TEREBITHIA is a different book when you're 38
BRIDGE TO TEREBITHIA is a different book when you're 38
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Perhaps there should be an FBOL reboot called ASSIGNED READING where someone picks up a book they haven't read in 20+ years and realizes they were just a snot-nosed jerk when they read it for the first time
BRIDGE TO TEREBITHIA is a different book when you're 38
BRIDGE TO TEREBITHIA is a different book when you're 38
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I love listening to radio plays from the 40's-50's, but they often feel goofy/outdated because characters need to narrate what's happening with actual lines like "Oh no! You've killed me!" Characters talking to themselves constantly about the crimes they are committing kind of kills believability.
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I love listening to radio plays from the 40's-50's, but they often feel goofy/outdated because characters need to narrate what's happening with actual lines like "Oh no! You've killed me!" Characters talking to themselves constantly about the crimes they are committing kind of kills believability.
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This is a) awful for obvious reasons but also b) might end up in a lot of these archives being taken down because of the ethics around subjects' data being used in this way.
Subjects are meant to explicitly consent to all the ways their data will be used, which is obviously not the case here.
Subjects are meant to explicitly consent to all the ways their data will be used, which is obviously not the case here.
Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is a) awful for obvious reasons but also b) might end up in a lot of these archives being taken down because of the ethics around subjects' data being used in this way.
Subjects are meant to explicitly consent to all the ways their data will be used, which is obviously not the case here.
Subjects are meant to explicitly consent to all the ways their data will be used, which is obviously not the case here.
Just saw somebody disagreeing with the points made in a linked article that he then said he didn’t read and didn’t plan to read, so I guess it’s Tuesday on the Internet
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Just saw somebody disagreeing with the points made in a linked article that he then said he didn’t read and didn’t plan to read, so I guess it’s Tuesday on the Internet
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Instacart prices vary by 20% or more depending on the customer, despite buying the same item from the same store at the same time.
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Instacart prices vary by 20% or more depending on the customer, despite buying the same item from the same store at the same time.
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
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Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
White House Scraps Cash Payments for Delayed or Canceled Flights
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
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this perfectly captures this entire administration’s “the emperor has no clothes” energy
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
this perfectly captures this entire administration’s “the emperor has no clothes” energy
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
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"Contemporary depictions of Mary tend to be gentle in their holiness, but Christians centuries ago envisioned her as a powerful agent who fought for their salvation."
Queen of Heaven, Empress of Hell
In late medieval texts, the Virgin Mary was a skilled debater--and a dab hand with a club.
contingentmagazine.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"Contemporary depictions of Mary tend to be gentle in their holiness, but Christians centuries ago envisioned her as a powerful agent who fought for their salvation."
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LEAVE Twitter already, folks. Get the fuck off there.
The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
LEAVE Twitter already, folks. Get the fuck off there.
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I'm re-watching Magnum P.I. and I can't believe how vastly superior the 1980s ideal of masculinity is, vs today's whining, lying misogynist edgelord ideal that we see in culture all the way up to the Presidency.
The 50's stereotypical man had at least some other things to offer. Typically noble or stoic. Perhaps serving the greater good. Instead it's now a bunch of energy drink selfish neurotics who spend too much time at the gym and have no developed personality at all but being online.
December 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I'm re-watching Magnum P.I. and I can't believe how vastly superior the 1980s ideal of masculinity is, vs today's whining, lying misogynist edgelord ideal that we see in culture all the way up to the Presidency.
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"The first season is pretty much all screaming. I don’t know if they were trying to be avant-garde or what. But it’s super annoying; you just sit there in despair, waiting for the episode to end."
You Can Skip the First Few Seasons of Your Child’s Life, Because It Doesn’t Really Get Good Until Season 6
Have I told you about the show we’ve been bingeing? You have got to watch Your Child’s Life. We are obsessed. It doesn’t get good until like Season...
buff.ly
December 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"The first season is pretty much all screaming. I don’t know if they were trying to be avant-garde or what. But it’s super annoying; you just sit there in despair, waiting for the episode to end."
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Health misinformation kills and its only getting worse.
"Court records show the couple told investigators they relied on online videos and posts that warned against vaccines, infant medical treatments and even common medicines such as Tylenol."
"Court records show the couple told investigators they relied on online videos and posts that warned against vaccines, infant medical treatments and even common medicines such as Tylenol."
Phoenix police found a 5-month old boy dead after his mother called 911. Prosecutors blame parents for the death and for illnesses of other children.
Child dies, siblings hospitalized after 'alkaline diet,' parents charged
Phoenix police found a 5-month old boy dead after his mother called 911. Prosecutors blame parents for the death and for illnesses of other children.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Health misinformation kills and its only getting worse.
"Court records show the couple told investigators they relied on online videos and posts that warned against vaccines, infant medical treatments and even common medicines such as Tylenol."
"Court records show the couple told investigators they relied on online videos and posts that warned against vaccines, infant medical treatments and even common medicines such as Tylenol."
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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A 5-month-old baby died, & 3 surviving children, ages 2, 4, & 5, had to be hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, & significant developmental delays bc their parents put them on “alkaline diets.”
Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.
Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
A 5-month-old baby died, & 3 surviving children, ages 2, 4, & 5, had to be hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, & significant developmental delays bc their parents put them on “alkaline diets.”
Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.
Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.
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Why do I see videos of these men failing to do a pull up like once a week
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Why do I see videos of these men failing to do a pull up like once a week
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I lost my job, there are no toys on the shelves, and the only hospital within 100 miles of my house just closed. But at least I know that now there won't be any non-binary characters on Paw Patrol.
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I lost my job, there are no toys on the shelves, and the only hospital within 100 miles of my house just closed. But at least I know that now there won't be any non-binary characters on Paw Patrol.
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Do ppl know they can get shingles in their eye that can blind them? In their mouth or throat so they can’t eat? On and in their genitals or rectum? Do you want horrific pain for a couple weeks paired with possible permanent complications?
No?
Get the fucking vax
No?
Get the fucking vax
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Do ppl know they can get shingles in their eye that can blind them? In their mouth or throat so they can’t eat? On and in their genitals or rectum? Do you want horrific pain for a couple weeks paired with possible permanent complications?
No?
Get the fucking vax
No?
Get the fucking vax