Amanda W. Timpson
@atimpson.bsky.social
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Queer public historian. Writer. Sass factory. Creator of Yesterqueers 🏳️‍🌈. Find me everywhere here: https://linktr.ee/atimpson Rep’d by Iris Blasi at Arc Literary.
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Emma Stebbins, the artist behind NYC's iconic 'Angel of the Waters' sculpture, described herself as “a soft-shelled crab, forced by circumstances into hard-shelled positions.”

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atimpson.bsky.social
I saw this headline earlier and scrolled past it because I THOUGHT IT WAS THE ONION.
atimpson.bsky.social
I haven’t started Season 2 yet but I *loved* Season 1!
atimpson.bsky.social
Saw Thunderbolts last night and it has replaced Winter Soldier as my #1 Marvel movie. I can’t wait to talk about it when every thought I have won’t be a major spoiler.
a woman says " you have the wrong people " in front of a thunderbolts logo
Alt: a woman says " you have the wrong people " in front of a thunderbolts logo
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atimpson.bsky.social
I was today years old when I learned that “restaurateur” does not have an “n” in it. 🤦🏻‍♀️
atimpson.bsky.social
So, this is bad.
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BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.

Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.

I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
atimpson.bsky.social
Me: Ok, time to have a nice relaxing Sunday evening so I start the week well rested.

The Kings: Best we can do is overtime playoff hockey.
a man wearing a black shirt that says " i 'm very anxious about it "
Alt: a man wearing a black shirt that says " i 'm very anxious about it "
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atimpson.bsky.social
Ok but just IMAGINE the shenanigans a poltergeist could get into at a breakfast bar.
atimpson.bsky.social
I just spent an hour at the DMV and it was absolutely PACKED, but everyone was being patient and polite. The two dudes who met in the line behind me compared notes about the best AA meetings because one guy was new to town and didn’t like the one he tried.

These are the moments that give me hope.
atimpson.bsky.social
In person: The LA Kings winning the 2014 Stanley Cup in Game 5, after playing all 7 games in each of the previous 3 rounds. The team was so exhausted and banged up that they were playing by sheer force of will.

TV: Freddie Freeman's walk off grand slam in Game 1 of the World Series last year.
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What is the all-time greatest sports moment you saw live (either in person or on TV)?
atimpson.bsky.social
Yes to this whole thread.
fangirljeanne.bsky.social
I cannot stress enough that how we talk and think about depictions of AI both irl and in fiction is a part of this.

Robots, droids, AI are almost always placeholders for laborers. The work they do isn’t valued and neither are they.

That both reflects and impacts how we think about labor irl.
jonathancohn.bsky.social
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.

www.ft.com/content/8459...
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i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.
bmceuen.bsky.social
It would appear CNN was also at the eugenics conference? Why are all these mainstream news orgs at a 200-person event where all the speakers are eugenicists and racists? www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/u...
atimpson.bsky.social
One of my friends just described the current shitshow as “Kafka meets Noises Off” and it might be the most accurate description I’ve heard to date.
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For Day 11 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're celebrating a poet whose 2023 book "Falling Back in Love With Being Human" is required reading for queer people right now: KAI CHENG THOM ( @razorfemme.bsky.social ).

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30 Days of Queer Poets: KAI CHENG THOM | Yesterqueers
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atimpson.bsky.social
Charles Koch and Leonard Leo just filed one!

You know when the surviving Koch brother has turned on the monster he created that things have really gone off the rails.
atimpson.bsky.social
Nick Fuentes has been saying this for a few years now. I did a whole video about it.

youtu.be/k3L8SP-fekA
jamellebouie.net
we are maybe two weeks from jesse watters declaring that it’s gay for men to have sex with women
atimpson.bsky.social
It’s too early in the season for me to be this stressed out 🤣
atimpson.bsky.social
Can someone help me understand why this Dodgers / Phillies game hasn’t been called yet? It looks like it’s pouring and pitchers are fighting to get traction on the mound.
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i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
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It's Day 5 of 30 Days of Queer Poets and today we're celebrating bisexual and bilingual poet, memoirist, translator, and immigration advocate MARCELO HERNANDEZ CASTILLO.

Performance clip is from @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social

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30 Days of Queer Poets: MARCELO HERNANDEZ CASTILLO | Yesterqueers
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For Day 3 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're celebrating indigenous poet, screenwriter, and podcaster Tommy Pico.

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30 Days of Queer Poets: TOMMY PICO | Yesterqueers
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