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Grace Pritchard Burson

@gaudynight78.bsky.social

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Twitter's official Dorothy L. Sayers stan account, 2018-24, now on Bluesky. New Englander in Quebec. Eph '00/YDS '04. Mom, priest (the sweary kind), writer (ask me about my musical!), doula. Yes, my grandma shot a Nazi. She/her. INTJ/5w4.

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 5h

He's the useful figurehead for the much scarier people in the background who don't have rapidly progressing frontotemporal dementia.

Reposted by Grace Pritchard Burson

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h

"...I see some of the elevator speech trickling into the political mainstream, where many of us have fought for it to live for years. Here it goes: paid leave is not just powerful policy; it's good politics."

-- @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social

Paid leave, politics, and the new guard.

(My elevator speech).

dawnhuckelbridge.substack.com

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone is required to select at least six new pronouns, three of them invented on the spot.

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 7h

It's subtle, but if you say NEWhaven rather than New HAVen, it's clear that you're from somewhere else.

My then-BIL lived with us in the Grad Ghetto for an entire summer and we failed to break him of that habit no matter how much Modern pizza he ate.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 7h

Trahnna

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 7h

King Josiah to the priests

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 7h

Hey y’all ever hear about this really old book

A pamphlet sized copy of the constitution of the United States

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 7h

That makes no sense. Either he's demented or he isn't.

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 7h

He's temporarily moving to Europe with his family due to doxxing by Turning Point USA.

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 8h

When I lived practically next door in 2008, this was literally unthinkable.

Lis is writing you a lovely postcard 💌💙 @ghostalservice.bsky.social · 1d

last coal plant in new england has stopped!

www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

New England’s last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners

Granite Shore Power, the company that owns the coal plant in Bow, New Hampshire, said they ceased commercial operations Sept. 12, about a year and a half after they announced they would retire their f...

www.wbur.org

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 8h

Holy fuck what

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 8h

And MLIA!

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 10h

Yikes!!!

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 10h

I am the Chaplain of Antifa

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 10h

Billerica!!

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 12h

Yep, flipping the bird at a cabinet member definitely justifies the use of extreme force.

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 12h

And even if everything she says is true, the "agitators" can still be acting justly and morally and ICE can still be a bunch of fascist fucks.

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 12h

(The oldest two are currently in cégep, the Québec equivalent of junior college/vocational school, which costs less than $200 a semester.)

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 12h

Right, I mean this is clearly a family that has made an active choice to be Large, but they're not being bankrupted by childcare and education costs like a similar family in the US would be.

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 13h

And fire

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 13h

Boston will just throw them in the harbour

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 13h

And the "undo" button!

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 13h

No, because watching a movie and feeding prompts into an endlessly iterative autocomplete machine that's been programmed to be obsequious, are completely different things!!

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 13h

Places have personalities. Would love to see @nkjemisin.bsky.social give us a short story about this in the vein of the utterly brilliant THE CITY WE BECAME ...

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 13h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 13h

October 6, 2025, in Montreal: 29⁰C, breaking the prior record set in 2005 (following 30⁰C on October 5, an all-time record for the month of October).

October 10, 2025, in Montreal: frost warning.

But yeah, climate change definitely isn't real. 🙄

#UnstableJetStream #ExtremeWeather #GlobalWeirding

Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 13h

Cool!!