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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 13h

YES. and as an appreciator of art who uh does better making word pictures lol -- part of what is so amazing and life-affirming about art is knowing a *person* poured time, thought, energy, emotion, and so many CHOICES into the work. a glimpse at another human experience! that's the whole thing!

Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 14h

telling stories, making art: they're release valves for the churning gyre that is a human emotional experience. like, NO, good GOD, of course i don't want to have a machine do that FOR me. you want me to LIVE in here like that? with the gyre ever-churning? horrifying! grotesque! why even say it

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

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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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 2d

all the high level, most senior expert world leading computational linguists whose work i admire as scientists are absolutely united in thinking that ai is bullshit. i just think you should know that

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d

CLUE is, in many ways, one of our best games about how we’d all like any excuse to wander around other people’s houses checking for weird shit.

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 2d

like just. across the board. setting aside the absurdity of the idea that anyone's self determination is up for 'debate' -- the stuff they monger the fear with just. isn't real. it isn't true. all these points have been roundly disproven time and again. that's enough dream yelling

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 2d

the whole thing genuinely feels like someone bursting into your house screaming "I HAD A DREAM YOU DID CRIMES!! YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE HEALTHCARE OR BE ABLE TO USE BATHROOMS ANYMORE!!" and then everyone's like "well there are good points on both sides" instead of "ummmmm what???"

Rust Momster @cambrianera.radical.town · 2d

The trans debate is crazy when you've read any of the papers. Like, it's one thing to know because it's my own lived experience but it's always possible you're an outlier, right? So I've tried to keep up with things this whole time and it's just... nah, man, we're right? We know ourselves.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 3d

I am very excited that ALL OF US MURDERERS has been picked as one of Kobo's Best of the Month!

It's out everywhere today, in e at all platforms, in print at all good bookshops (it's the BA Indie Book of the Month!) and in audio read by Sonny Archer. Have at it!

books2read.com/u/mloE7q

Flyer with ALL OFUS MURDERERS cover and text saying 'One of Kobo's Best of the Month'

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s’more of babylon @smoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 21d

it’s so important, now more than ever, that we remember: there’s a cowboy with a big knife in Dracula, because Dracula takes place in cowboy times.

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 3d

do i think this is a time in american history where we will, as a nation, be making rational common sense decisions for the betterment of all? sadly, it's a cold and it's a broken lmao on that one. but if we WERE to improve our society somewhat, better public transit might be a good call

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 3d

"how do we build a society where people can affordably get where they're going? how do we build a society where car access isn't critical? how do we reduce general car footprint, both physical and environmental?" CAN I INTRODUCE TO MY FRIEND RAIL TRAVEL. OTHER NATIONS KNOW HIM WELL

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 3d

like many so problems in the united states: this is complex issue that requires a multi-pronged solution, but SURELY one of those prongs is "for the love of god BUILD MORE TRAINS"

Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 4d

We invented graduated drivers licenses for teens. They worked. But we leave 80-year-olds to “see how it goes.” Every family suffers on their own. But this is a shared social problem, not a personal one. We need conditional licenses for older drivers. Daylight. Local. Annual medical check-ins.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Apr 30

It's 1925. I'm leanin' against this lamppost on the lookout for dames who are lookin for trouble. I start flipping a quarter. I catch her eye. I fumble the quarter and it rolls into a sewer grate. I have lost the equivalent of thirty thousand dollars.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18d

In Those Years
Adrienne Rich

In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to I
and the whole thing became
silly, ironic, terrible:
we were trying to live a personal life
and yes, that was the only life
we could bear witness to

But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove
along the shore, through the rags of fog
where we stood, saying I

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6d

Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique.

If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you.

Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously

when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint

the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

Far Side cartoon with a female chimpanzee grooming a male chimpanzee

“Well, well - another blond hair. … Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 8d

"There is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It’s a very blurry line, and it’s getting more blurry all the time."

A tremendous loss. 💔

NPR @npr.org · 8d

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

n.pr

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 8d

Bumping for people looking for Halloween reads: don't forget to read weird collections by Black authors

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · Feb 11

Feeling very grumpy about the void here so l've channeled that into a list of weird or weird-ish or weird-adjacent or theoretically-weird collections by Black authors (some of which I’ve read and too many of which I have not)

Text reading

Linda Addison - How to Recognize a Demon
Has Become Your Friend
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Friday Black
'Pemi Aguda - Ghostroots
Lesley Nneka Akrimah - What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky
Paula D. Ashe - We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
Eugen Bacon - A Place Between Waking and Forgetting; Chasing Whispers; etc
Andre Bagoo - The Dreaming
DeMisty D. Bellinger - All Daughters Are
Awesome Everywhere
Chesya Burke - Let's Play White
Octavia Butler - Bloodchild
Elwin Cotman - Weird Black Girls; Dance on
Saturday
Kwame Dawes - A Place to Hide Samuel R. Delany - Aye, and Gomorrah Tananarive Due - Ghost Summer; The Wishing Pool
Henry Dumas - Ark of Bones
Danielle Evans - The Office of Historical
Corrections
Dare Segun Falowo - Caged Ocean Dub

Text reading

Curdella Forbes - A Permanent Freedom
Craig Laurance Gidney - The Nectar of Nightmares; Sea, Swallow Me
Nalo Hopkinson - Skin Folk; Falling in Love With Hominids
Alex Jennings - Here I Come
Alaya Dawn Johnson - Reconstruction
Stories
Cherie Jones - The Burning Bush Women & Other Stories
RJ Joseph - Hell Hath No Sorrow Like A Woman Haunted
John Keene - Counternarratives
Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River
Breanne Mc Ivor - Where There Are
Monsters
Mo Moshaty - Love the Sinner Kenya Moss-Dyme - Daymares
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu - Drinking from
Graveyard Wells
Tobi Ogundiran - Jackal, Jackal Ben Okri - Stars of the New Curfew; A Prayer for the Living
Nuzo Onoh - The Reluctant Dead
Vanessa Onwuemezi - Dark Neighbourhood

Text reading

Helen Oyeyemi - What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Suzan Palumbo - Skin Thief
Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway
Eden Royce - Who Lost, I Found Sofia Samatar - Tender
Sumiko Saulson - The Void Between
Emotions; Things That Go Bump in my Head Rion Amilcar Scott - The World Doesn't Require You; Insurrections
Tamika Thompson - Unshod, Cackling, and Naked
Gianni Washington - Flowers from the Void
L. Marie Wood - The Unholy Trinity

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 9d

thank you pal 😭😭💜

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Aneelin @aneelin.bsky.social · 9d

At the risk of sounding flippant about Current Times (which I assure you I do not “lol”) I’m here to say! After a long day doing your little best to stem the rising tide if fascism, what better to try & soothe your soul to regroup tomorrow than a lovely book that believes in the best of us.

Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 9d

does being trans in the US Right Now, w/ a queer romcom out in 2 weeks, feel like inching closer to a woodchipper in a clown costume? SURE. does this make it impossible to write promo posts? YES! am i forcing myself to throw my preorder link here before i 🧵 about this? BARELY: geni.us/1204-al-aut-am

COMING 16 OCTOBER 2025 [Image of blue book cover, Recipe for Trouble by Dylan Morrison, featuring two men cooking against a green backdrop with sparkles.]

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 9d

i can't tell you whether or not you'll like recipe for trouble. but i like it, & i wrote it to entertain and heal, to show a world where queer people can be messy and complicated and funny and free, loved for the specific person they are. if you think that might improve morale, preorders are open 💜🍳

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 9d

i don't know what to do. but i do know i'm here to tell stories, and i guess i'll even climb back into my ol' clown costume and say that i believe deeply in the power of stories. and that i think there is real merit to tales of kindness and softness in harsh times especially.

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 9d

and to be clear it IS amazing, it IS incredible, i am so grateful every day. but the cognative dissonance of clutching that gratitude to my chest while things escalate and the vice tightens is hard both to experience and to explain. and trying to navigate it? it's like seeing through mud.

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 9d

i got a 3 book deal in february; i wrote those books in 10 months after a lifetime of struggle with finishing anything; the first came out in june and people have found it entertaining and healing to read! the next one comes out oct 16! mid-halloween season! this should be the best year of my life!

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