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Auston Habershaw

@aahabershaw.bsky.social

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Science Fiction/Fantasy author and English professor; shorts in Analog, F&SF, BCS, and elsewhere. Author of The Saga of the Redeemed and If Wishes Were Retail and also Faceless Galaxy; website aahabershaw.com Repped by @awfulagent.bsky.social He/Him

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · Jul 8

Get IF WISHES WERE RETAIL!
A heartwarming comedy about a genie selling wishes in a failing mall! On sale now!

Amazon: a.co/d/7Ft53dI
Barnes and Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/if-wishes-...
Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
Tachyon (publisher): tachyonpublications.com/product/if-w...

The cover of the novel IF WISHES WERE RETAIL by Auston Habershaw, showing an imposing genie hovering over a harried female cashier who is trying to make sense of his scroll of wishes. Gnomes peek out from the corners.

It has the following blurb from bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst: "Irresistibly Fun and Funny!"

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 4h

Unsolicited Tick Pic

The Tick, animated version, giving us a big thumbs-up, chum!

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 14h

Barrow Guard, first attempt

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 20h

Why is there protein in everything now

Why would you put protein in a soda

Stop doing this, just eat an egg or some peanuts or something, protein is not hard to come by

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 19h

You cannot use moral reasoning against fascists, because moral reasoning does not motivate them. You cannot argue against the law against them because they do not care about the law. What they care about is violence, and what they use is power. They will only respond to a superior display of power.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 22h

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

“If your government is for sale to any billionaire willing to pay, you do not have a democracy… arbitrary power is arbitrary power, whether it belongs to a king of England or a prince of Silicon Valley… Billionaires are dangerous. We shld tax them until they aren’t.” @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 1d

MIT’s reply to Trumps shocking attack on education is a master class in deft rhetorical communication and positioning. It refutes without ceding ground. It negates without naming the charge. It accuses and rejects while sounding compliant. What a breath of fresh air after endless disappointments

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Home Alone

Charles Hildebrandt @cghildebrandt.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Remains of the Day.

James Hodden @jameshodden.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Part of being a college professor (or teacher more broadly) is the fact that being gaslighted by students lying about their actions is a consistent part of the job.

Not to be grandiose, but there are times I feel like this:

a close up of a man 's face with a bald head and a beard .

Alt: Captain Picard after enduring weeks of psychological torture insisting desperately that there are four lights.

media.tenor.com

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Big "guy who doesn't understand science talks science" energy here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Michael Salerno @mikenjd.bsky.social · 2d

I was right. It’s now almost 7am and they still haven’t mentioned “we took freedom of speech away”

Michael Salerno @mikenjd.bsky.social · 2d

There is quite a large part of my thinking that suggests Trump announced the Israel-Hamas “deal” (such as it is) tonight because of his “we took freedom of speech away” admission.

I guarantee #MorningJoe is leading off with the former and not the latter tomorrow.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be that guy but the democrats should have had the foresight to see this coming when Obama did this exact same thing (including to US citizens!) and they did nothing. It’s not as if they weren’t warned by the ACLU and many others! Bipartisan “war on terror” foolishness delivered this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 2d

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 2d

Changing the user interface on cell phones (for no reason) is actively cruel to old people.

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 2d

My 12yo and 15yo daughters have been watching Brave New Worlds with me and they are both *aggressively* anti Nurse Chapel.

It's hilarious.

a woman says we 're in love and i 'm sorry

Alt: a woman says we 're in love and i 'm sorry

media.tenor.com

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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 2d

Normally I'd tell you to block people instead of fighting, but I'm sick and tired of settling for the lesser of two evils. I'm sick and tired of losing to appease monsters. Now I'm going to fight you in the marketplace of ideas or the 99 Bar and Grill parking lot. Your choice.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 2d

My publisher, Tachyon Publications, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. To celebrate, myself and a bunch of Tachyon authors did some short readings of our books. I'm around the 32 minute mark, but listen to all of it if you've time--they're all great!

youtu.be/gVaU9F1OtBg?...

Tachyon's 30th Anniverary Reading and Q&A

YouTube video by CSECooney

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, I've hit a 1000 followers!

This is how it works, right? I get 1-2 followers every couple days or so until I have 50K, right?

(looks at other randome, non-famous people's profiles with 70K)
What the...hell?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2d

sooner or later we are going to have to get to grips with cognitive decline, and start taking seriously the idea that lots of old people need as much or more protection young people, in both cases whether they want it or not.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 3d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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