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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 7d

There are a bunch of scientific papers I edited in there, but I'm not sure that exactly counts.

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 7d

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

an illustration that shows a caterpillar, then a moth, then The Mothman

text: GIVE YOURSELF TIMEA

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 7d

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

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Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · 7d

DOL employees got the same email in yet another Hatch Act violation. We encourage every federal employee who was told to blame Democrats in their OOO message to submit a complaint to the Office of Special Counsel. Here's how ⬇️

WIRED @wired.com · 7d

SCOOP: At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration (SBA) received a template from human resources for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown

Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

www.wired.com

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 9d

I've watched feral dogs behave in just this fashion.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 9d

Trump’s ICE agents tried to kidnap a food delivery worker in Chicago - but the guy was too fast for them.

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, there is where I am, too, as someone half a lifetime now away from them. The institution does an *incredible* amount of harm on every level from the individual to the world. The people are people, and many of them are genuinely good. For the people I want freedom and safety and happiness.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20d

the list of conditions that qualify you is fairly extensive, but may I suggest a simpler route: lying

seriously, I just checked the “I’m eligible” box online when scheduling and the pharmacist didn’t ask me shit, they just gave me the shot

Sean Meredith @seanmeredith.bsky.social · 20d

How are under-65s getting COVID boosters? I want one!

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 20d

All this to say--today I bought myself seven yards of dark green taffeta.

Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 20d

It was one of the things that my mother ensured I lost when I was disowned after graduating high school. I have missed it terribly for twenty years. In my dreams, frequently I am still wearing it.

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 20d

I loved everything about that skirt. The swooshiness! I sounded like a sailing ship, taffeta grabs the air hard. It was wonderful for dancing in, and willing to be kilted up for tree-climbing. It spun beautifully. It washed easily. It put up with lolling in the grass without complaint.

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 20d

usually adding a pair of belled anklets, and various necklaces and bracelets. I would generally either leave my hair down, or else split it into two braids and then wind those up around my head and pin them, maybe braiding in some ribbons or adding flowers.

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 20d

I was quite small, so I had to take it in, which I made less obvious with a quantity of lace-edged green velvet ribbon. I wore it with a trim green lace waistcoat, a man's shirt with the sleeves rolled, and a rotating cast of boots (shiny calf-height, matching green suede knee-highs, stomping boots)

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 20d

In 1997 I found this dress at a Goodwill in Cottonwood, Arizona. It cost six dollars. I wore it and a peacock-feather mask for Halloween, then I cut off the sleeves and the top of the bodice, and proceeded to wear it at least twice a month until graduating high school in 2001.

A dark green 1980's taffeta prom dress. It has very puffy sleeves that go to the elbow, and a skirt that is nearly to the ankles in the back, and a few inches higher in the front.

The same green dress, slightly from the side, showing off the very puffy-shouldered sleeves.

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 22d

A bit lost in Bath in 2002, my then-boyfriend tapped Anthony Stewart Head on the shoulder, and when he turned asked him if he could point us to a McDonald's. He said no and smiled knowingly at me (*I* recognized him; boyfriend didn't).

R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 24d

Mori-nu tofu has lost more than an ounce per package!

Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 24d

Re: the shrinkflation convo, it's REALLY striking if you haven't been a box food cook for a while. I stopped making rice dishes from boxes cuz I have a rice cooker and boullion. I can roni my own rice. But I just got some cuz I missed it, and these things are tiny now?!

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 24d

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27d

This has the same energy as the Boston Marathon Bombing investigation on Reddit.

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · 27d

Wincing (right-side) sympathy.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 27d

A lot of people currently calling for civility saw Kirk's violence as harmless because they weren't the primary target. The fact that being lower on the list is seen as safety is wild to me.

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · Sep 8

Lucked into 44lbs of whole chickens, 75% off at Chef Store today. Twenty bucks for fourteen chickens makes it *very* worth it to do the work of breaking them down--but it's so much work!
Thirteen chickens portioned out; one held aside for the oven, and roasted with garlic and thyme and white pepper.

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm supremely mad and I'm going to rant about it.

I have a podcast. It's hosted by ACast. They do dynamic insertion ads prior to the show, which I've enabled. These are basically the commercials you might hear before the show starts.

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · Aug 24

Ew?

Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · Aug 23

You really shouldn't have had to!

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · Aug 23

She was otherwise perfectly nice! But yeah, it did rather color our relationship.

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Genevra Hsu (currently in Solavellan hell) @rememberkoomvalley.bsky.social · Aug 23

My name was mispronounced at my high school graduation, too--and I did not then bear this surname. Nearly everyone I've ever met diminutizes my name. A boyfriend's mother told me I had the ugliest name she'd ever heard.

Only one person I have ever met asked what I *wanted* to be called.

Grigory Lukin ✨️is on sub✨️ @grigorylukin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"

grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...

#Worldcon

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