Tom Marcinko
@tommarcinko.bsky.social
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He/him. Stories in Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
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tommarcinko.bsky.social
Re-posted to fix typo:

Prompt: "Write an erotic vampire story."

Me: "I claim to be a fantasy writer; I ought to be able to do that..."

@ceciliatan.com
published it &
@cynthiaward.bsky.social
made this edition happen.

(It's also on Kobo)

www.amazon.com/Temperence-C...
Temperence (Cynthia Ward Presents)
Amazon.com: Temperence (Cynthia Ward Presents) eBook : Marcinko, Tom : Books
www.amazon.com
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angierasmussen.bsky.social
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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drjenadjacent.bsky.social
2/2 It’s great that you wrote this. But there is no need to balance it out with other perspectives when those other perspectives regularly can’t pass a fact or logic check.
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suitti.bsky.social
I miss the good old days when if you needed an extra egg you just had to put some chicken in the microwave, connect it to the VCR and hit rewind.
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rickperlstein.bsky.social
Follow up with the guy, and he'll tell you that, if everyone were as honest and courageous as he, 80% of Americans would admit they agree with him. I call this the right's "epistemological narcissism." It is the meaning of Goldwater's dogwhistling slogan, "In your heart, you know he's right."
tommarcinko.bsky.social
We should assume he will use them to attack domestic targets.
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"he deal Hegseth announced on Friday is unusual in that Qatar will be constructing a new air force facility from the ground up.
Even close U.S. allies typically don't have such military facilities in the U.S." www.axios.com/2025/10/10/q...
Qatar to build air force facility on U.S. base in Idaho
Laura Loomer and other MAGA figures expressed shock and outrage, but the deal was long in the making.
www.axios.com
tommarcinko.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing, really.
tommarcinko.bsky.social
"We used to call you Flapjack Charlie."

Line from an episode of The Prisoner, "The Schizoid Man."
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
We are realizing that we have no idea what British people think a “flapjack” is.
tommarcinko.bsky.social
"We used to call you Flapjack Charlie."

Line from an episode of The Prisoner, "The Schizoid Man."
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
We are realizing that we have no idea what British people think a “flapjack” is.
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whatashrinkthinks.com
They do not care.
adamkeiper.com
You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.
sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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gregpak.net
Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.
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gregpak.net
2025 is full of moments like this - learning about some awesomely good and important thing the government did that this evil administration is killing
sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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clmerle.bsky.social
They want to kill as many people as possible.
sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
tommarcinko.bsky.social
Democratic leadership, what's the plan for getting back everything that's been stolen from us?
tommarcinko.bsky.social
Reading about these gleeful and probably illegal layoffs is giving me DOGE flashbacks.

A reminder that we've all been traumatized.

It's a natural reaction to having been mugged.
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jkavanagh.bsky.social
Rise up, America, says Illinois governor JB Pritzker (echoing “Hamilton”), before it’s too late:
“I'm past patiently waitin'.
I'm passionately smashin’ every expectation.
Every action's an act of creation!
We're gonna rise up…”
Don’t throw away this shot.
gregsargent.bsky.social
By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...
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microsff.com
An alien fleet appeared in Earth's orbit, and broadcast a message:

"Having studied you furtively, we now seek formal contact, and want to meet your greatest thinkers..."

A long list followed.

"How do we tell them?" world leaders wondered.

Topping the list were the names Calvin and Calvin's Dad.
tommarcinko.bsky.social
Reading about these gleeful and probably illegal layoffs is giving me DOGE flashbacks.

A reminder that we've all been traumatized.

It's a natural reaction to having been mugged.
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vscharff.bsky.social
I am a historian and a patriot and I’m here to remind you that Americans have a long tradition of affirming #NoKings
schooley.bsky.social
Democrats need to go as hard branding protest as patriotism as Republicans are labeling it all insurrection.
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byharryconnolly.bsky.social
Kavanaugh Stop
thebulwark.com
George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
thebulwark.com
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
whatever's in the epstein files must be *really* nasty news for R's
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
nothing says "we want to end the shutdown" like shutting down Congress for an extra week
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Be right back, gotta go become a powerful warlock to hex this dumb timeline into being that cool one
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billcorbett.bsky.social
It would be great, wouldn’t it? But this is an alternate universe version of the Democratic party.
atrupar.com
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
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jkavanagh.bsky.social
“When societies are descending into fascism, it can be hard to notice it in real time. We are noticing: When Congress, controlled by the president’s party, refuses to do a thing about his rancid, dictator-level corruption, and when the SC has sold its soul to this barbarity, it’s no longer America.”