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Trans/genderqueer SFF author of the #NeoG series | AND THE MIGHTY WILL FALL is out now! Agent Stacey Kondla @ The Rights Factory #Helldivers2 nerd \ Avalanche hockey fan \ (they/them) Don't forget that Art is Joy kbwagers.com

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · Nov 26

Space opera standalones for everybody! A little bit of hope, a little bit of sports, a whole lot of competence, and even more queer shenanigans.

They said write your own if you don't see yourself in what you read. So I did. Come join the #NeoG, hopeful spacepunk for difficult times.

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Cover of A Pale Light in the Black by K.B. Wagers, white NeoG ships flying away from Jupiter against the black/star background of space.

Cover of Hold Fast Through the Fire by K.B. Wagers, two white spacesuited NeoG crew members in space above Jupiter watching a station explode in the background.

Cover of the PB edition of The Ghosts of Trappist by K.B. Wagers, a rainbowed nebula with a spaceship flying vertically out of it and a planet in the background right side.

Cover of And the Mighty Will Fall by K.B. Wagers, a space station orbiting Mars against a star-filled background

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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 37m

Dear Mr. Altman:

Unlike you, I make a product that turns a *profit.* That people pay *actual money* for. That doesn't have to be shoved into their web searches and office suites.

That encourages people to think with their own brains.

Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 1h

Sam Altman is a farmer of plastic display fruit

“If you’re, like, farming, you’re doing something people really need,” Altman explained. “You’re making them food, you’re keeping them alive. This is real work.” But the farmer would see our modern jobs as “playing a game to fill your time,” and therefore not a “real job.”

“It’s very possible that if we could see those jobs of the future,” Altman said, we’d think “maybe our jobs were not as real as a farmer’s job, but it’s a lot more real than this game you’re playing to entertain yourself.”

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 1h

I will always treasure the time that I got to tell the Ancient Near East specialist in the classics & near east department that Ea-Nasir was not only known to randos outside of her field, but had a fanbase and memes.

(She was baffled but pleased, and corrected my pronunciation of his name.)

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 5h

K1: so we need to learn this lesson about writing
Me: ok ok
We talk about the Sumerians, cuneiform etc
K1/ they really wrote on clay?
Me: yep. Entire complaint letter sometimes
K1: ?
Me: let me introduce you to our local main character, Ea-Nasir...

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the double bi @ladysummoner.bsky.social · 27m

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

And remember:

A picture of a Native woman smiling and holding up a middle finger to the camera. The caption reads: 'Fuck Christopher Columbus.'

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

not your dad either, but: you also do not have to argue with old accounts that have avatars and many followers, it is much nicer online when you don’t

yes, even when they’re wrong on the internet

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 6h

Guys I don't want to sound like your da but we all do have to get much better about not arguing with newly created accounts with no avatar or followers.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

when we talk about political theatre sometimes being Good, Actually™️, this is what we mean. the trads are the reason Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament came back in fashion in the youth ministry world (where I learned about it). they take it REALLY seriously. this priest weaponized that so adroitly

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

Honestly great game all considered. The winner would have been nice but I'll take the point.

#GoAvsGo

K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

Damn Nuke. 👀
#GoAvsGo

K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

That's how you DO IT!
#GoAvsGo

K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

Good stick Lehky!
#GoAvsGo

K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

Link.

SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 1d

Link.

🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 1d

Link

K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

It makes me less salty at him for his constant penalties. 😅

K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

🤣

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Athenaena @athenaena.bsky.social · 1d

Josh Manson making saves like it’s game 6 vs. the Blues

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

Josh Manson, honorary goalie. 🤣

#GoAvsGo

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

Look at that rookie goal! 😍 Brindley!

#GoAvsGo

K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

We fightin' this season!
#GoAvsGo

K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

Nachoooooos!
#GoAvsGo

K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

Right?

K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

#GoAvsGo

a man in a suit and tie with the word and on the bottom

Alt: Heath Ledger Joker 'and here we go' gif

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

The way people react to my “in-between-ness”—the biromanticism, the asexuality, and being genderqueer in a not very cut and dry way—lead me to feel out of place in queer communities a lot of times. I don’t feel safe with (or relate to) the straights, either.

My challenge to you:

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

Red's turkey sausage breakfast burritos. (It's only got eggs, sausage, and cheese which is one of many reasons it works for me. Most of them have either potato or bell pepper or both.)

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 1d

When a low effort, reliable breakfast food that doesn't set off your food issues suddenly vanishes from the grocery shelf.

a cartoon girl in shorts and a pink shirt is standing in a room

Alt: Nani pillow scream GIF a cartoon girl in shorts and a pink shirt is standing in a room screaming into a pillow

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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That BG Dork @thatbgdork.bsky.social · 3d

Ahh. The reactionary mindset in a nutshell "secretly, everyone is afraid to agree with me that this selfish thing is Good Actually™️™️™️, so I'm going to just do it bc then I'm actually doing what everyone is doing & am not REALLY selfish".

it's why the RW tilts at "voter fraud" windmills so much.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

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