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Kay Orchison

@kayorchison.bsky.social

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Former visual artist. Occasionally still a musician. Mostly writing SF/horror these days, with excursions into amnesiac memoirs. Disabled, keen indoorsman, BLOCKS WITH GAY ABANDON. You were warned. He/him www.amnesiana.com

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · Aug 23

Facial ID has arrived in the UK and is coming to Australia in November, so I'm putting my Signal contact here for anyone who's lost DMs.

Here I block on vibes. On Signal if you're not someone I already know you're gonna have to work pretty hard not to get blocked.

Try me here first

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 18m

I have often asked myself what precisely it is that comes out of a grave-cold 400 year old dick, and then promptly wished death on myself for asking

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 1h

Theres a REASON that shit ain't automated.

Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1h

if only people had to sew a t-shirt in home ec in high school... let 'em figure out for themselves how simple it is.

Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 1h

Bit of a creepy age difference there, but I suppose Van Helsing’s in his 60s, he’s not a child anymore

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 1h

Very, VERY well deserved

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 5h

Crying right now. This is my first ever award, and I am so honored. <3

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 5h

@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social's WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Short Story
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

2025 Winner Outstanding Short Story: WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ by Caroline M. Yoachim

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 1h

I always go too hard on pumpkins and never finish during the first session
I put a bunch of details into the iris and you can't even see them lmao

Two pumpkins lit up. One on top has a burger carved into it. The other has an eye carved into it.

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 10h

And since his grievances always broadcast his intentions, expect lots of Kash Patel's undercover agitators at No Kings.

Jonathan Casey @jonathantcasey.bsky.social · 12h

Trump forgot that he was President on Jan. 6th. 2021.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 10h

Unbeatable

Nyx The Bat @nyxthebat.vtubers.social · 1d

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11h

Conservation of Hagia Sophia mosaics, Istanbul, 1931-1964. Study of Light, 1948

archive.org/details/tete...

light streaming in from the openings on the dome of a huge mosque

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 11h

“All the walls secrete in this place, grime pulsing and sloughing away like so much sunburnt skin. Clements’ prose is a fishhook laced cleanly through the thick flesh of the thumb—an old pain made unreal and vivid in the sputtering, intermittent, blue-lit blight of now."
—Andrew F. Sullivan

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 2d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 11h

This rings true.

It's also true, however, that the sonar ping of "How are you?" can be terribly isolating when a true answer would be anything other than "Fine, and you?"

I've been homeless, broke, suicidal and terribly ill and said "Yeh good mate, how's yourself?"

Never felt more alone than that

Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 11h

Applying For Disability

Written by stephen king

directed by qeuntin tarantino

soundtrack by yoko ono

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 11h

Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can feed her family. Her Bluesky accounts are constantly deleted, like many of the very real Gaza civilians here. But their plight is not over.

And find and help others if you can. We’re their only voice and means of survival. ❤️ 🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 11h

[appears at my gaff]
[looks around]
"Oof. I'm so sorry."
[vanishes]

Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 11h

And yes she very much is, isn't she

Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 11h

There was that moment in The Witcher where he got his kit off to bathe and uh

o_0

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 11h

Isn't it fucking GOOD though. Arsehole. How dare.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 12h

Bastard.

You can't look like THAT, act, sing and write songs like THAT, and now fucking write like THIS?!

Stop it. Stop it at once. It's unfair. Leave something for the rest of us. Next thing you know he'll be winning the bloody Turner prize or something. Prick.

YES I WILL BE BUYING THE BOOK 😤

Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social · 13h

New review @strangehorizons.bsky.social!

An obscure folk band is thrust into fame in a horror novel about the perils of social media. How do you preserve creative joy in a world that commodifies art and feeds obsession?

Thanks to @danhartland.bsky.social for taming this monster of a review.

Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 2d

One for the weekend at SH today: @hanacarolina.bsky.social doing some proper thinking about Joey Batey’s It’s Not A Cult (@bloomsburyraven.bsky.social).

She argues that the novel’s particular “aesthetic approach … challenges the romanticisation of artists … and sensationalisation of relationships.”

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13h

The Long Neolithic lives as a sense of wonder. It sits in distant fields and summons us to not only witness its stone persistence, but to engage with its slow release of mystery. Its power bends not only the landscape, but our sense of story. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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South Dakota Department of Propaganda @southdakota.bsky.social · 1d

A simple four panel comic with a round character. Top caption reads Before you leave the house, check you have. Panel 1 shows keys with a banana keychain, labeled Keys. Panel 2 shows a green wallet, labeled Wallet. Panel 3 shows a blue phone, labeled Phone. Panel 4 shows the character holding a colorful tangled scribble, labeled The vague sense that you have forgotten something. A playful take on the keys wallet phone routine.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

#Frog #Pratchett

Even its plagues were half-hearted. All self-respecting river kingdoms have vast supernatural plagues, but the best the Old Kingdom had been able to achieve in the last hundred years was the Plague of the Frog*.

*It was quite a big frog, however, and got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks.

‘Pyramids’- Terry Pratchett

The Portland Frog, a person in a frog costume facing a mass of ICE agents in comvat gear.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 12h

When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift
reviewed by Paul March-Russell

The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott
reviewed by Electra Pritchett

It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey
reviewed by Hana Carolina

Link to the latest issue in our bio!

#fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #horror #sff #bookreviews

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cover of When There are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift featuring a wolf with young sparse trees growing in front of it.

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"In the current context of ultra-right-wing politics masquerading as patriotism and social media-fuelled conspiracy theories parading as truth, Swift’s liberal, democratic, multicultural, and inclusive politics strike this reader as radical."
reviewer: Paul March-Russell

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cover of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott featuring two small figures walking down a road lined with large humanoid animal stature on each side leading to a large fortress with three huge spires.

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"Dense but never overwhelming, compact but never too brief, richly detailed and imaginatively constructed, queer-inclusive and sensitive to the ways in which society masks and justifies injustices along other lines, this novel makes a thrilling read..."
reviewer: Electra Pritchett

6 October 2025
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cover of It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey featuring a red double keyboard piano on fire with solid yellow smoke rising from it with strange symbols and markings at the edges.

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"Readers expecting a traditional genre experience may be thrown off—but for those attuned to its wavelength, it’s a striking, generous, and at times exhilarating act of cultural resistance."
reviewer: Hana Carolina

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 12h

My most recent interview with @locusmag.bsky.social was in February this year. You can read a sizeable extract on their website.

locusmag.com/feature/gare...

Gareth L. Powell: Big Universe

GARETH LYN POWELL was born September 3, 1970 in Clifton, Bristol, England; he grew up in Bristol, and lives there still. He studied humanities and creative writing at the University of Glamorgan (l…

locusmag.com

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