Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰
@brackenmacleod.bsky.social
Recovering lawyer. Author of STRANDED, COME TO DUST, & CLOSING COSTS. A new collection, LET NOT YOUR SORROW DIE, out NOW from Bad Hand Books! Represented by Howard Morhaim at http://morhaimliterary.com He/Him
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"Sometimes surprising, often upsetting, always beautifully imagined, this is without doubt one of the year's best collections."
@brackenmacleod.bsky.social's LET NOT YOUR SORROW DIE is available everywhere.
– @timlebbon.bsky.social, Dead Red and Razor
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@brackenmacleod.bsky.social's LET NOT YOUR SORROW DIE is available everywhere.
– @timlebbon.bsky.social, Dead Red and Razor
www.amazon.com/Let-Not-Your...
Let Not Your Sorrow Die
Let Not Your Sorrow Die [MacLeod, Bracken] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Let Not Your Sorrow Die
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Out NOW! COME GET SOME!
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They say nothing good comes from hate, but when I see artists hating on AI, it makes me immediately like them and want to check out their work.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
They say nothing good comes from hate, but when I see artists hating on AI, it makes me immediately like them and want to check out their work.
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Good morning. In the past 24 hours, more Americans have Googled “felching” than have searched for “turkey recipes”
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Good morning. In the past 24 hours, more Americans have Googled “felching” than have searched for “turkey recipes”
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Data journalism is not dead: @cingraham.bsky.social’s felching charts are in here for the quant minded.
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Data journalism is not dead: @cingraham.bsky.social’s felching charts are in here for the quant minded.
Evergreen
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Evergreen
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We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
![A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd.
counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain
[High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h
Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.]
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every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2ssvkga34xug334b66hvrje/bafkreigp2f33rtfu62kqjygnsxhg3jxxs6udwuyisipmyqrh5ew4c6kbyi@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
@mollytanzer.bsky.social, they're playing your tune!
I think "class traitors" is up there with "idea landlords" on the reality disconnect scale.
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
@mollytanzer.bsky.social, they're playing your tune!
Again, people have forgotten what it's like to get punched in the mouth for talking shit.
Class traitor, my ass! We were just talking about how none of us can fully afford to pay our bills with our labor, but now you want to deny artists that little bit too. Fuck all the way off!
Artwork is WORK!
Class traitor, my ass! We were just talking about how none of us can fully afford to pay our bills with our labor, but now you want to deny artists that little bit too. Fuck all the way off!
Artwork is WORK!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Again, people have forgotten what it's like to get punched in the mouth for talking shit.
Class traitor, my ass! We were just talking about how none of us can fully afford to pay our bills with our labor, but now you want to deny artists that little bit too. Fuck all the way off!
Artwork is WORK!
Class traitor, my ass! We were just talking about how none of us can fully afford to pay our bills with our labor, but now you want to deny artists that little bit too. Fuck all the way off!
Artwork is WORK!
Folks telling on themselves.
(I suppose Novo's desired effect was also achieved.)
(I suppose Novo's desired effect was also achieved.)
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Folks telling on themselves.
(I suppose Novo's desired effect was also achieved.)
(I suppose Novo's desired effect was also achieved.)
There are few words in English that get my blood agitated more than "Doorbuster." It's a foul compound that should've never been birthed!
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
There are few words in English that get my blood agitated more than "Doorbuster." It's a foul compound that should've never been birthed!
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Available December 9! Pre-orders on sale now, a six novella collection with a "secret society" horror theme. I chose to kill a lot of Nazis. Like, A LOT.
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Sinister Societies: Six Novellas of Secrets and Horrors - Ruadán Books
“We are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.” --President John F. Kennedy Are you one of us? From the esoteric to the pragmat...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Available December 9! Pre-orders on sale now, a six novella collection with a "secret society" horror theme. I chose to kill a lot of Nazis. Like, A LOT.
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It's absurd and frustrating that my kid's pediatrician's office felt the need to send this.
The providers at [City] Pediatrics support the clear statements from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the American Academy of Pediatrics that there "is no link between vaccines and autism."
The providers at [City] Pediatrics support the clear statements from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the American Academy of Pediatrics that there "is no link between vaccines and autism."
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It's absurd and frustrating that my kid's pediatrician's office felt the need to send this.
The providers at [City] Pediatrics support the clear statements from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the American Academy of Pediatrics that there "is no link between vaccines and autism."
The providers at [City] Pediatrics support the clear statements from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the American Academy of Pediatrics that there "is no link between vaccines and autism."
I always seem to run across these things weeks after they're out, at the end of the relevant observation, but hey, it's never too late to read good books, amirite?
@sonorataylor.bsky.social and I have another list for you over on Fright Girl Summer!
20 books across genres to keep you reading ALL year round!
Read and support Indigenous writers!
frightgirlsummer.com/2025/11/06/r...
20 books across genres to keep you reading ALL year round!
Read and support Indigenous writers!
frightgirlsummer.com/2025/11/06/r...
Recommended Indigenous Reads for National Native American Heritage Month
Happy November! In the United States, November is National Native American Heritage Month. As we always say, you should be reading Indigenous authors all year long! But to kick off November, we put…
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November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I always seem to run across these things weeks after they're out, at the end of the relevant observation, but hey, it's never too late to read good books, amirite?
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when the AI bubble bursts, remember your worth and how little regard they had for you when they let you go to save money.
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
when the AI bubble bursts, remember your worth and how little regard they had for you when they let you go to save money.
I can't quote skeet @prisonculture.bsky.social's post, but when my first novel was published, the figure I heard was that 6% of working writers are able to support themselves through writing. Everyone else has a day job. Six books later I'm not at all surprised to hear that number has likely shrunk.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I can't quote skeet @prisonculture.bsky.social's post, but when my first novel was published, the figure I heard was that 6% of working writers are able to support themselves through writing. Everyone else has a day job. Six books later I'm not at all surprised to hear that number has likely shrunk.
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
DISBAR! THEM!
Prosecutors in California used A.I. to argue that a 57-year-old man should be held without bail, his lawyers say, filing a brief that included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. nyti.ms/3M1bVye
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
The case is among the first in which a prosecutor is accused of filing court papers marred by A.I.-generated mistakes.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
DISBAR! THEM!
Seeing the picture of RFK Jr. on the cover of The Atlantic, reminded me that news broke he authored some "erotic" "poetry". And now I am reminded that my curiosity does not align with my mental health at all times.
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Seeing the picture of RFK Jr. on the cover of The Atlantic, reminded me that news broke he authored some "erotic" "poetry". And now I am reminded that my curiosity does not align with my mental health at all times.
The Atlantic's cover editor as they slip into their comedically oversized clownshoes: "He should definitely be holding a rosary to really sell the science angle, don't you think?"
Editor in Chief: "Oh absolutely!" before squeezing his red ball nose and honking a bicycle horn.
Editor in Chief: "Oh absolutely!" before squeezing his red ball nose and honking a bicycle horn.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Atlantic's cover editor as they slip into their comedically oversized clownshoes: "He should definitely be holding a rosary to really sell the science angle, don't you think?"
Editor in Chief: "Oh absolutely!" before squeezing his red ball nose and honking a bicycle horn.
Editor in Chief: "Oh absolutely!" before squeezing his red ball nose and honking a bicycle horn.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Still haven't gotten NINJA BORG? Dafuq? Alright, well we are at least going to make it a little easier on your pocketbook with the Cool Guys Wear Black sale this weekend. #NINJABORG #cutenessoverload #piratessuck
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If you are part of MTG's apology tour, get out of my feed. She's repugnant beyond belief.
Hollywood lied to you.
Not all villains get redemption arcs.
Hollywood lied to you.
Not all villains get redemption arcs.
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If you are part of MTG's apology tour, get out of my feed. She's repugnant beyond belief.
Hollywood lied to you.
Not all villains get redemption arcs.
Hollywood lied to you.
Not all villains get redemption arcs.
As a constituent in your district, I am embarrassed for you, @whipkclark.bsky.social. That Seth Moulton voted for this is completely unsurprising, but I expect more from you, Madam Whip.
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
As a constituent in your district, I am embarrassed for you, @whipkclark.bsky.social. That Seth Moulton voted for this is completely unsurprising, but I expect more from you, Madam Whip.
"We live in an era where personal expression is saturated by digital filters, hivemind thinking is promoted through endless algorithms and academic freedom itself is under assault by the weakest minds among us. AI has only made this worse. It is a crisis."
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.yahoo.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"We live in an era where personal expression is saturated by digital filters, hivemind thinking is promoted through endless algorithms and academic freedom itself is under assault by the weakest minds among us. AI has only made this worse. It is a crisis."
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