Lyssann
@lyssann.bsky.social
Random thoughts from my brain. Expect romance novels, soccer, board games, and the 614 (I contain multitudes).
I need a book with Ocean’s 8 vibes. Like sort of a mystery but also maybe a heist? Definitely written by a woman.
December 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I need a book with Ocean’s 8 vibes. Like sort of a mystery but also maybe a heist? Definitely written by a woman.
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We aren't boycotting the arts; we are refusing to entertain fascists and white nationalists. Cry harder about it while you listen to Kid Rock and try so hard to pretend it isn't basic, boring, uninspired tripe.
December 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We aren't boycotting the arts; we are refusing to entertain fascists and white nationalists. Cry harder about it while you listen to Kid Rock and try so hard to pretend it isn't basic, boring, uninspired tripe.
It’s 65 degrees outside at 10 pm on Dec 28. The weather just feels wrong outside
December 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It’s 65 degrees outside at 10 pm on Dec 28. The weather just feels wrong outside
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Beginning to see why Chinese emperors were entombed with a bunch of the random stuff that they owned.
December 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Beginning to see why Chinese emperors were entombed with a bunch of the random stuff that they owned.
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wealthy business owners and investors saw what happened during covid when people had enough extra money and flexibility to assert their power or quit their shitty jobs. sever the tie between insurance and employment and that only compounds.
Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
December 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
wealthy business owners and investors saw what happened during covid when people had enough extra money and flexibility to assert their power or quit their shitty jobs. sever the tie between insurance and employment and that only compounds.
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The soapbox I will always get on is that the problems with our education system will never be satisfyingly resolved until we fix the problems with our capitalist system.
It's hard to get kids to prioritize learning over grade chasing when the consequence for not having all A's is future survival.
It's hard to get kids to prioritize learning over grade chasing when the consequence for not having all A's is future survival.
December 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The soapbox I will always get on is that the problems with our education system will never be satisfyingly resolved until we fix the problems with our capitalist system.
It's hard to get kids to prioritize learning over grade chasing when the consequence for not having all A's is future survival.
It's hard to get kids to prioritize learning over grade chasing when the consequence for not having all A's is future survival.
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T-minus 5 days to my colonoscopy (congrats for hitting 45! You get a colonoscopy!) my diet doesn’t set the world on fire but I do ok. Such that eating a low fiber diet filled with white foods is really hard.
December 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
T-minus 5 days to my colonoscopy (congrats for hitting 45! You get a colonoscopy!) my diet doesn’t set the world on fire but I do ok. Such that eating a low fiber diet filled with white foods is really hard.
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12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
We just watched Noelle on Disney and hands down it’s better than Elf.
December 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
We just watched Noelle on Disney and hands down it’s better than Elf.
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An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...
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“Never in a million years did I think I would have to prove I was a United States citizen when I was born here in Ohio”
Merry Christmas, Ohioans.
Merry Christmas, Ohioans.
ICE Sweeps Into Ohio, Stirring Fear Among Somalis and Other Immigrants
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“Never in a million years did I think I would have to prove I was a United States citizen when I was born here in Ohio”
Merry Christmas, Ohioans.
Merry Christmas, Ohioans.
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Career technical is the latest buzzword but it tends to come at the expense of problem solving, artistic expression, and literacy.
Instead of doing employee training for companies, we need to teach kids how to become adults who can think and problem solve and take care of themselves.
Instead of doing employee training for companies, we need to teach kids how to become adults who can think and problem solve and take care of themselves.
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Career technical is the latest buzzword but it tends to come at the expense of problem solving, artistic expression, and literacy.
Instead of doing employee training for companies, we need to teach kids how to become adults who can think and problem solve and take care of themselves.
Instead of doing employee training for companies, we need to teach kids how to become adults who can think and problem solve and take care of themselves.
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I think we put too much focus on teaching kids "job skills" instead of teaching them thinking, problem solving, and life skills.
Your high school class teaching you to use the current industry software isn't going to be as valuable as your school teaching you how to research and solve a problem.
Your high school class teaching you to use the current industry software isn't going to be as valuable as your school teaching you how to research and solve a problem.
December 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I think we put too much focus on teaching kids "job skills" instead of teaching them thinking, problem solving, and life skills.
Your high school class teaching you to use the current industry software isn't going to be as valuable as your school teaching you how to research and solve a problem.
Your high school class teaching you to use the current industry software isn't going to be as valuable as your school teaching you how to research and solve a problem.
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Investors Warn of ‘Rot in Private Equity’ as Funds Strike Circular Deals
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Santa Claus is Coming to Town is so dark. It also feels extra relevant right now.
December 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Santa Claus is Coming to Town is so dark. It also feels extra relevant right now.
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EVEN IF you agree romantasy is nothing but feelings and escapism — (shoves you toward Tasha Suri and Sarah Rees Brennan who among others are doing fantastic metafictional things in romantasy) — I beg you to have a little empathy for the twenty-somethings who are romantasy’s biggest readership.
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
EVEN IF you agree romantasy is nothing but feelings and escapism — (shoves you toward Tasha Suri and Sarah Rees Brennan who among others are doing fantastic metafictional things in romantasy) — I beg you to have a little empathy for the twenty-somethings who are romantasy’s biggest readership.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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People must grasp the idea of “media capture.”
It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account.
It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power.
In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.
It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account.
It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power.
In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
People must grasp the idea of “media capture.”
It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account.
It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power.
In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.
It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account.
It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power.
In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.
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Let’s keep Sunday Funday going
ALL!
NIGHT!
LONG!!!!
ALL!
NIGHT!
LONG!!!!
December 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Let’s keep Sunday Funday going
ALL!
NIGHT!
LONG!!!!
ALL!
NIGHT!
LONG!!!!
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This part. Wherever my books have sold well in translation, it has been because the translators have been gifted writers in their own right, who have brought my words to life in their own language. I am grateful for their talent and their craft.
As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This part. Wherever my books have sold well in translation, it has been because the translators have been gifted writers in their own right, who have brought my words to life in their own language. I am grateful for their talent and their craft.
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None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
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I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.
December 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.