Ferrett Steinmetz
@theferrett.bsky.social
Writer of FLEX/SOL MAJESTIC/my new book series, DRAGON KINGS OF OKLAHOMA. Quietly (re)connecting with friends, nothing more. Please don't make this weird.
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Ferrett Steinmetz
@theferrett.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Dragon Kings Of Oklahoma
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For new arrivals: My series The Dragon Kings of Oklahoma, a.k.a "Tiger King but with baby dragons" just dropped. If you liked my old stuff, you'll probably like this.
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oh no
watched one video and now i am tumbling down a rabbithole of @walkoffthefame.bsky.social songs
the one time i agree with YouTube's "shove the same thing down your throat over and over" algorithm
watched one video and now i am tumbling down a rabbithole of @walkoffthefame.bsky.social songs
the one time i agree with YouTube's "shove the same thing down your throat over and over" algorithm
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
oh no
watched one video and now i am tumbling down a rabbithole of @walkoffthefame.bsky.social songs
the one time i agree with YouTube's "shove the same thing down your throat over and over" algorithm
watched one video and now i am tumbling down a rabbithole of @walkoffthefame.bsky.social songs
the one time i agree with YouTube's "shove the same thing down your throat over and over" algorithm
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I became a patient at the local dental hygienist school and my training cleaning triggered a need for a root canal. As the instructor was filling in my canal'd tooth, I enlightened him to the fun of collagen disorders and learned that Ehlers Danlos is not taught in their curriculum. 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I became a patient at the local dental hygienist school and my training cleaning triggered a need for a root canal. As the instructor was filling in my canal'd tooth, I enlightened him to the fun of collagen disorders and learned that Ehlers Danlos is not taught in their curriculum. 1/2
When your dealer thinks he's funny
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
When your dealer thinks he's funny
Four of my partners are EDS patients. No, I don't know why I'm drawn to them.
But oh my dear doctors, let me tell you that yes, if someone tells you they have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, you drop everything and triple-check literally everything you know against this unique human standing before you.
But oh my dear doctors, let me tell you that yes, if someone tells you they have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, you drop everything and triple-check literally everything you know against this unique human standing before you.
Dear Medical Providers:
EDS patients are built different. Not only was my tooth being pounded into its socket according to the new dentist, it drifted into a cross-bite position to try to escape.
It should correct with the new crown and the fixes, but...ELEVEN MONTHS. Be so for real now...
EDS patients are built different. Not only was my tooth being pounded into its socket according to the new dentist, it drifted into a cross-bite position to try to escape.
It should correct with the new crown and the fixes, but...ELEVEN MONTHS. Be so for real now...
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Four of my partners are EDS patients. No, I don't know why I'm drawn to them.
But oh my dear doctors, let me tell you that yes, if someone tells you they have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, you drop everything and triple-check literally everything you know against this unique human standing before you.
But oh my dear doctors, let me tell you that yes, if someone tells you they have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, you drop everything and triple-check literally everything you know against this unique human standing before you.
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The U.S. has spent billions and billions and decades destabilizing the world for its own benefit; it’s only fair a decently paying part time job in Bangladesh is “American Political Shitposter.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The U.S. has spent billions and billions and decades destabilizing the world for its own benefit; it’s only fair a decently paying part time job in Bangladesh is “American Political Shitposter.”
The true tragedy of America's obsession with capitalism is that engagement (which makes money) is seen as "where the vast majority of Americans actually are" whereas people who quietly want their politicians to work for them are basically invisible.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The true tragedy of America's obsession with capitalism is that engagement (which makes money) is seen as "where the vast majority of Americans actually are" whereas people who quietly want their politicians to work for them are basically invisible.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
I didn't see any trans people in my high school. But my high school was a pressure-cooker of conformity for cis straight white people, one that crushed me beneath its weight for being neuroatypical.
I didn't see trans folk. But a lot of people didn't notice my existence, either. And we were there.
I didn't see trans folk. But a lot of people didn't notice my existence, either. And we were there.
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I didn't see any trans people in my high school. But my high school was a pressure-cooker of conformity for cis straight white people, one that crushed me beneath its weight for being neuroatypical.
I didn't see trans folk. But a lot of people didn't notice my existence, either. And we were there.
I didn't see trans folk. But a lot of people didn't notice my existence, either. And we were there.
The thing nobody mentions about John Lennon is that he honestly had a pretty mediocre singing voice.
Good thing the tunes were spectacular.
Good thing the tunes were spectacular.
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The thing nobody mentions about John Lennon is that he honestly had a pretty mediocre singing voice.
Good thing the tunes were spectacular.
Good thing the tunes were spectacular.
Most of the folks I knew who needed a degree in writing were actually looking for some outside authority (i.e., a college) to give them permission to be An Artist. And getting the diploma didn't do that.
If you're an artist, go art. The only permission that counts is yours.
If you're an artist, go art. The only permission that counts is yours.
Morning, bitches!
In 15 years of hiring for creative roles for video games, I never once gave a shit about the applicants degree or schooling — and no one hiring with me did, either.
Being in debt for the rest of your life for a degree in computer games or fine arts is a terrible investment.
In 15 years of hiring for creative roles for video games, I never once gave a shit about the applicants degree or schooling — and no one hiring with me did, either.
Being in debt for the rest of your life for a degree in computer games or fine arts is a terrible investment.
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Most of the folks I knew who needed a degree in writing were actually looking for some outside authority (i.e., a college) to give them permission to be An Artist. And getting the diploma didn't do that.
If you're an artist, go art. The only permission that counts is yours.
If you're an artist, go art. The only permission that counts is yours.
I honestly can't tell if this is parody or not, the fact of which fills me with a bottomless dread.
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I honestly can't tell if this is parody or not, the fact of which fills me with a bottomless dread.
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
My top 3 can't-miss movie clichés:
1) The music swells as the hero finally loses all those nagging doubts and becomes the person they were truly meant to be
2) The happily-married couple has difficulties but never once doubt their love/commitment to each other
3)Horror movie leads do smart things
1) The music swells as the hero finally loses all those nagging doubts and becomes the person they were truly meant to be
2) The happily-married couple has difficulties but never once doubt their love/commitment to each other
3)Horror movie leads do smart things
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My top 3 can't-miss movie clichés:
1) The music swells as the hero finally loses all those nagging doubts and becomes the person they were truly meant to be
2) The happily-married couple has difficulties but never once doubt their love/commitment to each other
3)Horror movie leads do smart things
1) The music swells as the hero finally loses all those nagging doubts and becomes the person they were truly meant to be
2) The happily-married couple has difficulties but never once doubt their love/commitment to each other
3)Horror movie leads do smart things
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It’s just wild that every month, we have a new group/person/company coming out like, “woke is dead. Here’s a straight pride shirt” and then two months later they reappear and say “we lost all our money. Here’s some woke”
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It’s just wild that every month, we have a new group/person/company coming out like, “woke is dead. Here’s a straight pride shirt” and then two months later they reappear and say “we lost all our money. Here’s some woke”
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I have no idea why there's been such a drastic spike in people stealing books in a series that has sold *checks* one boxset and zero individual books all month long but lolsob that could stop any day now, that'd be great.
And everyone is so surprised that I did not continue it. 🙃
And everyone is so surprised that I did not continue it. 🙃
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I have no idea why there's been such a drastic spike in people stealing books in a series that has sold *checks* one boxset and zero individual books all month long but lolsob that could stop any day now, that'd be great.
And everyone is so surprised that I did not continue it. 🙃
And everyone is so surprised that I did not continue it. 🙃
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It always takes me a split-second to figure out if the "MTG" people are moaning about in my feed is Magic the Gathering or Marjorie Taylor Greene.
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It always takes me a split-second to figure out if the "MTG" people are moaning about in my feed is Magic the Gathering or Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I wish there was a way for famous people to leave reasonable, dissenting comments on posts without sending flocks of haters over to harass the person they're interacting with
Like, they could just disagree as a person in the moment, wouldn't that be nice?
Like, they could just disagree as a person in the moment, wouldn't that be nice?
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I wish there was a way for famous people to leave reasonable, dissenting comments on posts without sending flocks of haters over to harass the person they're interacting with
Like, they could just disagree as a person in the moment, wouldn't that be nice?
Like, they could just disagree as a person in the moment, wouldn't that be nice?
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
And billionaires will ensure that this common knowledge - "taxing really rich people will make things better and not destroy people" - is hotly-debated and ultimately made to feel like some crazy radical opinion.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
And billionaires will ensure that this common knowledge - "taxing really rich people will make things better and not destroy people" - is hotly-debated and ultimately made to feel like some crazy radical opinion.
Curious to see whether the Republicans' long-running "Let's move the goalpost towards scumland" technique will be successful when it comes to pedophilia
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Curious to see whether the Republicans' long-running "Let's move the goalpost towards scumland" technique will be successful when it comes to pedophilia
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Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
I'd never seen this shot before, and my God, it's a real-life zombie assault
What America looks like to the rest of the world (no joke).
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'd never seen this shot before, and my God, it's a real-life zombie assault