Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Worddancer21

@worddancer21.bsky.social

620 followers 190 following 2.1K posts

Writer, editor, cool aunt for hire. She/her. Here for nonsense, fandom and otherwise. Rumor has it I might be Kelinswriter on AO3. It ain’t easy running a universe. #SANVERS 🏳️‍🌈

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hello please enjoy some #Sanvers nonsense from my @bigbangsanvers.bsky.social with spoilery art by @dimplesslayer.bsky.social

archiveofourown.org/works/597596...

Among - Chapter 1 - Kelinswriter - Supergirl (TV 2015) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

5 14

Reposted by Worddancer21

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

390 3.5K 9.2K

Reposted by Worddancer21

Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 7h

Who was President that day, Pumpkin?????

220 950 4.2K

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 8h

Quote of the weekend:

“You’re the vanity credit”
- @lzrdthevampireslyr.bsky.social

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 9h

“We have an activation”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Reposted by Worddancer21

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

280 5.4K 18K

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 16h

The class action on this is going to be insane

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 1d

Software that can’t understand the word “no” created by dudes who can’t understand the word “no”.

Got it.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

www.newscientist.com

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 1d

Another day, another Way Home fangirl

a woman with curly hair is sitting on a porch in front of a blue building .

ALT: a woman with curly hair is sitting on a porch in front of a blue building .

media.tenor.com

Reposted by Worddancer21

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

13 1.9K 6.9K

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 1d

I know, it’s crazy

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 2d

Liz and I are cracking up in a PF Chang’s reading this rn

1 1

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 2d

Hey been super busy but will catch up after this weekend. Looking forward to it!

1 1

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 2d

Six years.

Miss you, mama.

3 9

Reposted by Worddancer21

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

120 1.8K 5.8K

Reposted by Worddancer21

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 3d

I swear, in about twenty years, wealthy countries are going to be competing for immigrants, and wondering why they didn't bring in a whole lot of people twenty years earlier so their grew-up-here kids would be ready to join the workforce.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 3d

The massive downsides of low immigration. Soon this could ve everyone's problem.

Japan has an ‘enshortification’ problem - on.ft.com/46Z0yhg via @FT

Japan has an ‘enshortification’ problem

An ageing workforce is affecting all sorts of professions

on.ft.com

4 19 140

Reposted by Worddancer21

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 4d

Try to imagine if federal agents under a Democratic administration had fired pepper balls at conservative clergy protesting--- let's just say --- abortion.

They've litigated and won Supreme Court cases over much less.

bsky.app/profile/jack...

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

3 290 920

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 2d

Yw. I have stories there.

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 3d

I looked it up and he’s been with it since they did the workshop.

But not so fun in that he has to deal with LM, who has hands down the worst rep of any performer in the Bway community

1 1

Reposted by Worddancer21

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 3d

Our farmers want trade, not aid.

This is a band-aid solution to a problem Trump caused single handedly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Trump to Unveil Farmer Aid as China Shuns U.S. Crops

www.nytimes.com

66 220 1.2K

Reposted by Worddancer21

SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 4d

"The Church cannot be silent."

"Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States..."

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

elpasomatters.org

38 480 1.9K

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 3d

Danny wants a Tony

Also good luck reworking that mess

Wh*donesque @whedonesque.bsky.social · 3d

Danny Strong Turned Down Writing the Buffy Reboot to Rewrite Chess on Broadway reactormag.com/danny-strong...

Danny Strong Turned Down Writing the Buffy Reboot to Rewrite Chess on Broadway - Reactor

Yes, Chess. The musical. Chess.

reactormag.com

1 1

Worddancer21 @worddancer21.bsky.social · 3d

This is what I do as well. There is no machine like the human machine high on scenery and endorphins

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 4d

When I struggled with something writing-wise I take a walk. And 100% of the time I end up figuring out the solution. I would never, ever, ever, ask a machine to do that for me. Wtf.

ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 4d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

1 5

Reposted by Worddancer21

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 4d

questions which are stupid because they're asking for magic shortcuts. They want to know how to do a thing without work.

Which is why also creatives are often treated like what we do isn't work

NOT REALLY.

When skull sweat is labor and laborous.

Anyway when all else fails, sleep on it.

1 6 32

Reposted by Worddancer21

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 4d

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

340 3.6K 23K

Reposted by Worddancer21

Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 5d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

720 1.9K