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skElly Bangs 💀

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Author of the apocalyptic cyberpunk novel UNITY, available in bookstores and libraries near you. Short fiction and more at elbangs.com. Queer and trans. Loneliness elemental. (She/her)

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · Oct 20

I wrote this novel about a remorse-stricken master assassin who takes one last job guiding the last surviving fragment of a collective consciousness across the post-apocalyptic American West under the looming specter of a final world war. I hope you like it.

Unity - Tachyon Publications

“Unity is an astonishing debut, twisty and startling . . . an absorbing, thrilling ride.” —New York Times In a desperate escape, Danae and her lover Naoto hire the enigmatic ex-mercenary Alexei to gui...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

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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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 24d

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 11h

Not saying you're wrong about the ego massage, but I'm curious why the car companies would want to spend so much money doing it.

skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 12h

Huh. Like... to stop them from returning it? Can a car even be returned? Or is the idea that it makes them boastful around their friends?

skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 13h

"You know, I wasn't GOING to shell out $60,000 for a Ford Superduty... but since you burst into my home uninvited and interrupted the show I was trying to watch with images of it flailing around in dust and rocks on five thousand separate occasions... I guess I will!"

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 13h

On a fundamental level I've never understood why seeing an ad would incline someone to actually buy the thing being advertised instead of inclining them against that out of spite.

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 1d

I can only hear this text in my head in his voice. Nice, pithy, reasonably optimistic.

skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 1d

(And the only reason I have a Roku is so that I can restrain my TV from ever getting online in case *it* decides to brick itself! A lot cheaper and easier to deal with a bricked Roku than a bricked TV.)

skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 1d

This skeet brought to you by Roku™

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooof 😢

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed! And only short-term corporate gains followed by a spectacular pan-economic corporate implosion when the bubble pops!

skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 1d

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 2d

This is the way.

skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 2d

In a more civilized age, if somebody wanted to break your stuff, they had to care enough to come into your home and do it by hand.

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing I'm nostalgic for about the 90s is that there were no software updates. Altering the code running on a user's device, remotely and without their knowledge or consent, is a responsibility of which software makers have again and again proved themselves manifestly and grossly unworthy.

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 2d

Legal experts warn Pope may be Catholic

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angrytaco @angrytaco2.bsky.social · 2d

Jay got caught newly following a fucking transphobe after her “WAFFLES” incident; her team forcibly removed Link for calling her out and now nearly a week later the labeler is getting shut down. Fucking shameful behavior by everyone on the BlueSky team.

😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 2d

so bluesky finally got some thiel money huh

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 2d

Men I've written this year:

1. Grumpy guy who must come out to himself as a shapeshifter during the apocalypse
2. Aromantic scientist who was maybe about to save the world but got badly murdered first
3. Abusive ex-wizard who kills his own doppelganger
4. Cheery young trans man of the wasteland

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Men I’ve written this year:

1. Unnamed goons
2. Trans man bestie to ghoul girls
3. Ace dude who helps magical cephalopods do ecoterrorism
4. Male magical cephalopod who <redacted positive gender related thing>

Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 2d

Men I've written this year:

1. watches his not-male coworker promoted past him
2. exiled and never heard from again
3. dead
4. forced to join a priesthood

skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 2d

It's normal to die at least twice in your 30s

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody only dies once. Most of us die many times over the course of our lives. The first time it happens it's devastating, but by the third or fourth time you begin to understand it's normal and expected.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, zero impact here too

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 2d

You should support trans authors for many reasons, but one is that trans authors are doing things with their stories that aren't being done in cis mainstream books, including taking old tropes & examining them in new, unique ways. So if you're bored with what the big 5 are constantly pushing...

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

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skElly Bangs 💀 @ellybangs.bsky.social · 2d

No.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?