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lytagold.bsky.social
writer, editor, sometime podcaster. DANGEROUS FICTIONS—about book bans, moral panics, & more—now available everywhere: https://bookshop.org/p/books/dangerous-fictions-the-fear-of-fantasy-and-the-invention-of-reality-lyta-gold/20737332?ean=9781593767709
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A lot of people desperately need to learn that you don’t have to post on a 100% public social media website about *every single thing you do*, and indeed, you really, really shouldn’t

submitted 23 hours ago • 48 comments

the thing about elon musk’s drug habit is that he needs to start taking the kinds of drugs it’s easy to OD on

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Elon Musk’s lethal assault on foreign aid has already killed 300,000 people, mostly children, and will kill many more in the coming years. An unfathomable loss of life. How many other individuals have been personally responsible for so much mass death? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

everything sucks so bad lol, Business Insider actually did some great reporting variety.com/2025/digital...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

a fun thing about being even a little famous online is that you will have at least 1 person hell-bent on destroying you, like the woman who has written a novella-length screed & (today I found out) also a condensed version explaining how me & my coworkers, fired 4 yrs ago, were secretly the villains

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

the entire internet/news media apparatus is so broken lol. I heard rumors that another musk rocket exploded so I googled “rocket explosion”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

look I know it doesn't matter and the entire enterprise is poisoned and sucks anyway and ALL THAT ASIDE snape is a frankly outrageous character to make black given his whole, yknow, entire deal

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

lol TIL there are people who are opposed to “that” and semicolons, my two basic food groups

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I read an unbelievably snobby thing about zombie films? in the year of our lord al gore’s internet two thousand and twenty five? so i had some thoughts on snobbery and what it says about the snobber open.substack.com/pub/lytagold...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

the problem with social media is that it’s Bad by nature, so any debate over whether a given site is “good” or not is doomed. all social media platforms are varying levels of bad. this is not a positive form of human communication

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Asking homeowners for permission would kill the break-in industry

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

some young men love running headfirst into walls. the democrats said hey maybe don’t do that. trump gave them a thumbs up. obviously running into walls is cool & smart

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Brianna Rennix and @lytagold.bsky.social are amazing in this—funny and progressive! One of my favorite pieces of internet culture that I wanted to share. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/09...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

at the risk of sounding unpopular, my blame lies partly with the readers. the kinds of genre readers who demanded the same tropes over & over and who insisted on writers pumping out sequels + moar books at an ever-increasing & unhealthy pace: you got what you paid for futurism.com/fantasy-nove...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

the moral of andor is: have a cool killbot friend

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

seeing posts about how Gen Z “looks older” than they should, and as with all things Gen Z i think the problem is that they dress like shit, and are nazis

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I need to stop trying to engage with misogynists who get mad at my newsletter posts, lol, lmao

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

been mostly offline, but I understand conservatives are mad that two cool hotties are dating

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment