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Riley Silverman

@rileysilverman.bsky.social

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Writer: Doctor Who, Star Wars, D&D Beyond, Nerdist. Troubled Waters Podcast. VO actor. TTRPG player. Chaotic Femme. Repped by KT Literary

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · Apr 15

Out now!! Six brand new Doctor Who audio adventures from @bentedds42.bsky.social, @cimulation.bsky.social, @pbooth81.bsky.social, @magslhalliday.bsky.social, @dan.nerdcubed.co.uk, and me! Use the link in the post from @bigfinish.bsky.social to snag Tales from the Vortex!!

Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · Apr 15

🚨 OUT NOW! 🚨 #DoctorWho – Short Trips: Tales from the Vortex: bgfn.sh/dwst13 and here's your first listen to the six exciting new audio adventures...

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Doctor Who – Short Trips: Tales from the Vortex (Trailer)

FIND OUT MORE AT THE BIG FINISH WEBSITE: https://bgfn.sh/2pm An audiobook anthology of six new Doctor Who short stories. Dark Watchers of California by Riley Silverman (A Twelfth Doctor and Bill ad

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 11h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, like she literally was comfortable doing it while she knew she was being recorded. Imagine how she is when she’s not?

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Good Chaotic @goodchaotic.com · 14h

Ep. 23.5 - XP Extra: We answer a Fleetmember question about Trip's addiction. Plus, Dan's sci-fi recommendation!

Listen now: www.patreon.com/posts/23-5-x...

23.5 - XP Extra | Good Chaotic

Get more from Good Chaotic on Patreon

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 1d

I love how in OG Tron the macguffin is proof that Flynn’s ideas were stolen and then when he gets the proof it’s like a three line note that just basically says “yeah totes”

Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Just popped open my Kindle app to make sure I had reading tracked for today and there’s @kiricallaghan.com waiting for me!

The cover of the Hearth Witch’s Guide to Magic & Murder

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Revisiting Agatha All Along this year for spooky season and I just realized that the lyrics for the first episode True Crime version of the Ballad of the Witches' Road song are "winding road" instead of witches' road, which is Nicky's original version that wasn't revealed till the end. Genius.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 2d

And they’d be factually inaccurate since the south seceded because of his election and the war began when the Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

gonna go to my grave muttering about how this charlatan unironically cited an "Official Antifa" Twitter account in the NYT bsky.app/profile/jame...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 3d

Will this be the first time a civil war was initiated by the government in power?

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jessica BONEStown @midnightmasseffect.bsky.social · 3d

"Thatsmy Purse! Idon't Know You!l

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 3d

Feels to me like this would be easy for a bot to break just by having it randomly press arrows until it lands in the right spot

Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 4d

When the LA Haunted Hayride collides with my @bigfinish.bsky.social Doctor Who story, Dark Watchers of California

A t-shirt reads California Cryptids, Los Angeles Haunted Hayride and displays images of the Lone Pine Mountain Devil, Tahoe Tessie, Riverside Bridge Monster, Cactus Cat, and Dark Watcher.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4d

This is assault.
This is fascism.
This is evil.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 5d

ok this really is awful, and she's going to do catastrophically bad things (srsly tell people now to stop trusting CBS as a news source), but i did laugh very hard at someone comping her to Michael Scott

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

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CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.the-independent.com

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 7d

the Curiouser & Curiouser anthology is live on Kickstarter! back it and get a buncha stories from cool people, and the first ever prose story @susanlbridges.bsky.social and i have written!

🦈 Liz, shark queen 👑 @thesharkqueen.com · 7d

Back Curiouser & Curiouser, and be among the first to read Susan & Tilly's original short story!
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@susanlbridges.bsky.social @tillybridges.bsky.social

illustration of two of my favorite people, Tilly, a tall femme with long golden auburn hair, signature cute red heart-shaped glasses, and a red dress, and Susan, a petite femme with short blonde hair, thin wire-framed glasses, wearing a cardigan.

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Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 6d

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 6d

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 6d

Last year, when @propublica.org published 14 hours of Project 2025 training videos, Trump was still denying any connection to PJ2025.

But we pointed out that 29 of the 36 speakers in these clips had already worked for Trump in some capacity:

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Eric Jacobson @ejacobson.bsky.social · 7d

Been saying [some version of] this at least since Michael articulated it so well on You're Wrong About... Excluding bigots from cultural and political influence because of their behavior is fundamentally different than bigots excluding people because of their identities and physical attributes...

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d

Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.

“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 7d

One time I went to the Ren Faire with My friend and another lady a few cars down said it, and my friend looked at me and said “is that your wife now?”

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 7d

I’m incapable of getting out of a car in a big parking lot/structure without saying “remember kids, we’re parked in the Itchy Lot”

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 7d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Ella - or PJ if you like #VoteYesOnCAProp50 @ellaorpj.bsky.social · 9d

Did you want to write to @gavinnewsom.bsky.social in support of trans rights bills
AB 82
AB 1084
SB 497
SB 418
SB 59
Okay
Governor Gavin Newsom
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
Or call - (916) 445-2841
Or search "contact gov newsom" and fill out the form

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 8d

Welcome to #TransTuesday!

It’s less than a week until my birthday! They can be weird for lots of people, but for some trans people like me, they’re extra strange. As is how they've changed with transition.

So let’s talk: TRANS BIRTHDAYS (and a letter to little Tilly).

TRANS BIRTHDAYS - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! It’s less than a week until my birthday (seems I keep having them every year and thank goodness). Birthdays can be weird for lots of people, but for some trans people like me...

www.tillystranstuesdays.com

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