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@15thcgossipgirl

Explorer of books, lover of words. Developmental editor and grant-writer by day, humorist by night. Substacking at Page by Page.

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There are so many great lines in this masterpiece. Nearly expired from laughing at ‘Operation Velvet Rage or Whatever’.

07.03.2026 17:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ye gods, will no one save the GOP group chat from these attacking slurs?!

06.03.2026 21:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘Operation Epic Fury’ sounds like the fifth installment in a GI Joe series nobody asked for.

06.03.2026 21:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ArQuives Job Alert

Development Officer

The Development Officer will drive fundraising initiatives and activities for The ArQuives, including implementing the annual giving campaign, cultivating and maintaining relationships with new and existing donors and supporters, and collaborating on future plans for a Capital Campaign aligned with our Strategic Plan. 

Full-time
37.5 hours per week
$60,000/year + health benefits

Apply by 29 March 2026.

ArQuives Job Alert Development Officer The Development Officer will drive fundraising initiatives and activities for The ArQuives, including implementing the annual giving campaign, cultivating and maintaining relationships with new and existing donors and supporters, and collaborating on future plans for a Capital Campaign aligned with our Strategic Plan. Full-time 37.5 hours per week $60,000/year + health benefits Apply by 29 March 2026.

Job posting for a Development Officer at @arquives.ca, one of the largest 2SLGBTQIA+ archives in the world.

Hours: 37.5h/week
Salary: $60 000/year + health benefits

Deadline: 29 March
Start date: 27 April

More info: arquives.ca/job-posting-...

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈🗃️ (please reshare!)

06.03.2026 20:52 👍 11 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0

Killing people is entertainment to the sociopaths in the White House. Decency demands that we resist this.

06.03.2026 12:22 👍 762 🔁 280 💬 66 📌 11

Virginia proposes a law to teach facts in schools

06.03.2026 13:22 👍 135 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 0

Oh my gosh you’re at Annie Wright?? My mom went there!

05.03.2026 22:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I like the history of late 14thc England for the same reason I like nachos: it’s a hot, delicious mess.

05.03.2026 10:16 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

05.03.2026 01:32 👍 1875 🔁 984 💬 38 📌 69
04.03.2026 21:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I Am Fighting Back Against the Trump Administration by Moving to Portugal “More people moved out of the U.S. last year than moved in for the first time since the Great Depression as a record number of citizens moved abroa...

Such a delight to see my fellow comedy writer Elizabeth Simone (and fellow attendee of @lukevburns.bsky.social’s wonderful workshops) in @mcsweeneys.net today!

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...

04.03.2026 17:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

03.03.2026 14:56 👍 599 🔁 293 💬 21 📌 39

📢 TOEBI Conference Grants 2026 #medievalsky ‼️
💻We are now accepting applications from #TOEBI members who are graduate students or recent PhDs without a full-time post to support presentations at conferences.
‼️ Deadline: 5pm on the 31st March 2026.
📲 Details: www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g....

26.02.2026 14:01 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

So we’re all going to Spain, right? Who’s in for the biggest anti-Trump protest in the world, and the mother of all fiestas?

04.03.2026 09:09 👍 44 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

What it is Like to Accidentally be Trapped in a Country at War

By Zack Davisson

Hey! You seen on the news of evacuation orders for Americans whose vacation was suddenly disrupted by a little war as a treat? Well, it happened to me too.

Gather round for story time! Destination, EGYPT!!!

(1)

03.03.2026 20:08 👍 275 🔁 122 💬 8 📌 19

Read the headline too quickly and thought it said “Meet the three scientists who said no to Epstein.”

03.03.2026 16:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I’m honoured and delighted to have been invited to chair the upcoming online launch of @lukaempf.bsky.social’s book on Thurs 19 March 4.30-5.30pm CET.

Info is in the attached flyer—please share widely, and join us!

03.03.2026 14:52 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

02.03.2026 03:14 👍 3437 🔁 813 💬 55 📌 13

Now that he’s started a war, I’ve completely forgotten that he’s a pedophile.

28.02.2026 12:31 👍 1345 🔁 309 💬 17 📌 7

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

28.02.2026 08:30 👍 19211 🔁 3950 💬 317 📌 118

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

28.02.2026 20:22 👍 6373 🔁 1999 💬 219 📌 73

One disgusting aspect of all this is Trump fundamentally doesn’t care about it at all. He barely knows where any of these places are. He likes cash in brown envelopes and being on TV as Mr Big Important Guy. He’s just willing to pull any lever he thinks might keep that stuff flowing indefinitely.

28.02.2026 19:41 👍 2216 🔁 481 💬 24 📌 9

Drumpf Life Principle (ed. lying Sexual Predator and Convicted Felon does have several principles; unfortunately none translate into morals) 😑

28.02.2026 20:27 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

28.02.2026 18:53 👍 23564 🔁 5962 💬 141 📌 66
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

28.02.2026 19:50 👍 1437 🔁 327 💬 33 📌 41

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

27.02.2026 21:06 👍 19202 🔁 4334 💬 1074 📌 170
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This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

27.02.2026 17:49 👍 37006 🔁 11953 💬 498 📌 800

Really struggle to understand even floating this when you can look directly across the Irish Sea and see how this approach has been disastrous in every single place it's been tried.

27.02.2026 10:05 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Alexander Graham Bell’s Historic First Phone Call to Thomas Watson, or My 11-Year-Old’s Attempt to… Equally important milestones, of course

My latest for @frazzledhumor.bsky.social:

‘Alexander Graham Bell’s Historic First Phone Call to Thomas Watson, or My 11-Year-Old’s Attempt to Call a Friend With My iPhone?’

medium.com/p/591156e0f68b

26.02.2026 14:05 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The year is 2046: A group of masked TrumpCorp officials shoot protestors at the health casino. A reporter from FreePressWithCBS asks Don Jr's VP for life JD Vance about the shooting:
"Unfortunately, this, is a problem we inherited from the Biden administration"

26.02.2026 21:31 👍 1682 🔁 320 💬 55 📌 7