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Sherilyn Connelly

@sherilyn.bsky.social

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Author of Ponyville Confidential (2017), The First Star Trek Movie (2019), Presenting Persis Khambatta (2021), Beautiful Ghosts (2021), and The Names Below the Title (2027). San Francisco 6 / Fresno 8 / BMI 21.6

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 3h

…and damn proud of it.

Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, and the program which is blocked? Democracy, obviously. That shit is gone and ain’t comin’ back anytime soon.

Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 4h

This isn’t a misplaced apostrophe per se; I’m just bugged by the use of the contraction. I mean, there is plenty of space to write “This program is blocked in your area.” WHY DOES EVERYTHING SUCK RIGHT NOW???

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 5h

Good god he’s going Tetsuo Mode

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h

Trump: plans to incorporate deceased individuals

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 8h

Los Angeles Mirror, October 8, 1956. Rick Nelson used to troll his parents Ozzie and Harriet by putting on an Elvis record and then leaving the room! Well done.

"Elvis Presley," says Ozzie, sagely, "represents everything that your mother has told you not to do."

Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 8h

Cleveland Plain Dearler, October 8, 1956. "You've swooned to his singing! Thrilled to his dancing and guitar playing! Now, be the first to wear the ELVIS PRESLEY Head Scarfs, with his pictures and signatures, and excerpts from his latest records. And it's budget priced! Get yours today!"

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 9h

Weird how Antifa never asks me for money. Everyone else does, but Antifa is very quiet.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 9h

the part of peacemaker where he sees the little swastika america flag

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 10h

Everything I did made Cally angry, but few things made her angrier than when I suggested she learn how to do something for herself. When she first moved across the country into my home in SF in 1999, she devolved into a tantrum when I suggested that she should learn how to get around SF on her own.

Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 10h

I used to host a lot of open mics, which my abusive partner Cally disliked because she didn't want me to leave the house at all, let alone for something fun. After I broke up with her in March 2005 she started attending my shows, and once berated me over chat because of how I adjusted a microphone.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

Dems can just clip the "we took the freedom of speech away" and make an ad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 10h

That's a point for LOST IN SPACE, for sure!

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 10h

And not just because the women are distracting Spock's boyfriend, but that certainly enters into it.

Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 10h

St. Joseph News-Press, October 8, 1966. "William Shatner (standing) and Leonard Nimoy, as Capt. Kirk & Mr. Spock, intercept a disabled spacecraft and turn up a cargo of beautiful women on NBC-TV's Star Trek colorcast Thursday evening at 7:30." I feel Spock's look of disdain in this picture so much.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 10h

Zanesville Times-Recorder, October 8, 1966. I'm sure this episode description took an unexpected turn for most people.

"8:30 PM *STAR TREK -- Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock discover that the pilot of a disabled space ship is running an interplanetary mail-order bride business."

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, and this is from their 2024 Active Shooter Incidents Report, which was published in June 2025. I guess they hadn't yet gotten the memo from Ch*rl*e K*rk about his make-believe rampage of transgender shooters.

Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 11h

I did a word-specific search through DuckDuckGo and got a bunch of results, but I checked those pages and none none of them include the word "transgender." Not even as spamdexing in the source code! Curiouser and curiouser.

Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 11h

I spend far more time looking at eff bee eye dot gov than is probably wise for a transgender woman in 2025--here's to hoping NordVPN helps!--but my curiosity gets the better of me because surely by now they've started posting stuff about how dangerous trans people are, right? But they haven't.

Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 12h

New York Daily News, January 23, 1966. For comparison's sake, the original Sam Norkin caricature of Gwen Verdon ("in the role of a Times Square taxi dancer") in Sweet Charity.

Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago Tribune, October 8, 1967. Chita Rivera even got her own Sam Norkin caricature for the role, which is pretty great.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago Tribune, October 8, 1967. Chita Rivera in the lead role of Sweet Charity at the Shubert in Chicago!

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 13h

Deseret News, October 8, 1971. Space-Age Grandmothers: They Just Love Bowling!

Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 13h

The popcorn bucket was pressed into service as a tip jar, as recently as my time as a KJ in mid-2024.