@helenzaltzman.bsky.social
Podcaster from The Allusionist, Answer Me This and Veronica Mars Investigations. Pronouns she/they (TBH I think 'they' should be the default and we opt in to gendered pronouns/gender). linktr.ee/helenzaltzman
new episode of #AnswerMeThis #AnswerUsBack is out answermethispodcast.com/aub-rubbergl...
Reading the spinoff cookbook made my arteries fur up. "Oh phew, a salad!" I thought, then saw it contained a pint of cream
Paul Baker's book about Polari is very very good
GREG!!!! Aw, good to see you again!
THE AGE OF BOBOT IS UPON US (consensually)
love to hear it!
Created for a live episode of #MaterialGirls podcast featuring both of us, which is out now lnns.co/0X6ahl5C84N
it is very VERY important that you watch @martinaustwick.bsky.social's new video, containing an absolute electrobanger of a song about the word 'Daddy' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikiw...
The government can spend money on concentration camps but not on housing. It really is this obscene.
theallusionist.org/cosmic-hairb... if you need this in your day
they're all off swigging the space milk, I assume
it really is. I've noticed that Patreon has been making moves to get them to move there
ha I forgot about that, but it is TRUE
This isn't new news, Substack has been known-shitty for years. But, worth shouting for the people at the back www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
But the launch of GB News and Talk TV coincided with Ofcom's leadership drastically watering down enforcement of its "broadcasting code", and giving these channels a free pass to spread climate falsehoods with impunity... /2
action.goodlawproject.org/tell-ofcom-s...
this was great!!
oh Steven, so sorry! I'm just bad at email. Heading to my inbox now
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And all because of 1, just 1 debunked paper.
A million deaths is not enough for Andrew Wakefield.
we had more people* in that time @martinaustwick.bsky.social and I performed @allusionistshow.bsky.social live in a non-Freemasons fraternal lodge's haunted bowling alley in Dallas TX. *Living people, not just the ghosts
I keep expecting the question mark in this title to shift into an exclamation mark at some point www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
oh cool!!
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
in chicago, dibs is a real street law and you might end up in a scary situation disregarding it…
I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
NEW:
Within minutes of Alex Pretti being shot and killed, the Trump administration began rewriting the narrative, labelling the victim as a "lunatic" and a "terrorist" contradicting all available evidence
www.wired.com/story/the-in...
Entries are absurdly unbalanced, to favour US govt false statements, in a scenario where "sharply contested" both sides reporting would be highly inadequate
BBC are here being a real time conduit of the misinformation that they say their mission is to verify+counter
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...