Elly Bangs
@ellybangs.bsky.social
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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Elly Bangs
@ellybangs.bsky.social
· Oct 20
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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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.
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Deadlands fiction subs open in December.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Deadlands fiction subs open in December.
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"Give everyone a box that tells them whatever they most want to hear" turns out to be a doomsday plot so stunningly effective, yet so elegant in its simplicity, that it almost makes me want to believe in the devil.
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"Give everyone a box that tells them whatever they most want to hear" turns out to be a doomsday plot so stunningly effective, yet so elegant in its simplicity, that it almost makes me want to believe in the devil.
Somebody should put together a convention of potagers offering lots of very small free samples and call it
Soupcon
Soupcon
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Somebody should put together a convention of potagers offering lots of very small free samples and call it
Soupcon
Soupcon
Lobsters are known for their tendency to lobst.
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Lobsters are known for their tendency to lobst.
Stop trying to make Dyson Spheres happen. They're not going to happen.
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Stop trying to make Dyson Spheres happen. They're not going to happen.
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Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
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this. turns out it's not great to just decide a huge portion of the population is expendable just so you can do brunch! people have gotten more and more unwilling to sit with any kind of discomfort or make even the most insignificant sacrifices and it's got a lot to do with why we're where we are
If it feels to you like since 2020 and the start of the pandemic everyone has just gotten a whole lot meaner, and that that meanness has not receded, you’re not insane. 1/
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
this. turns out it's not great to just decide a huge portion of the population is expendable just so you can do brunch! people have gotten more and more unwilling to sit with any kind of discomfort or make even the most insignificant sacrifices and it's got a lot to do with why we're where we are
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
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"we are planning to kill people" --waymo
![Pop Crave & @PopCrave • 12h
Waymo co-CEO warns fatal crashes in self-driving cars are coming, and the company is already planning for them:
"We don't say "whether.' We say 'when.' And we plan for [fatal crashes]."
WAYMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ymipjgi2ebiptelhrw6zezas/bafkreicjmclzthikst76hsm4ntxz5qc44ixfgkbjlkteua4ld4clmethly@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
"we are planning to kill people" --waymo
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"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
I really appreciate people who are taller than me. It's such a bone-deep comfort, just to know you're out there, somewhere on this earth. Sending my love to all four of you.
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I really appreciate people who are taller than me. It's such a bone-deep comfort, just to know you're out there, somewhere on this earth. Sending my love to all four of you.
If I had a nickel for every time Oscar Isaac has played a deeply troubled scientific mastermind who creates artificial life but then immediately becomes so disillusioned with his own creation that he locks it in a room and leaves it to die, only to have it escape and seek bloody vengeance--
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If I had a nickel for every time Oscar Isaac has played a deeply troubled scientific mastermind who creates artificial life but then immediately becomes so disillusioned with his own creation that he locks it in a room and leaves it to die, only to have it escape and seek bloody vengeance--
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Google Gemini is a reliable source on health and health related affairs
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Google Gemini is a reliable source on health and health related affairs
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It's hard to trust molecules that have too many atoms.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It's hard to trust molecules that have too many atoms.
I wonder if a similar arms race might be driving headlight brightness. You need your headlights to be so bright that you can make out some basic shapes even through the retinal bleaching inflicted by oncoming cars.
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I wonder if a similar arms race might be driving headlight brightness. You need your headlights to be so bright that you can make out some basic shapes even through the retinal bleaching inflicted by oncoming cars.
Hive minds are cool.
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hive minds are cool.
"Hey guys we invented a bullshitting machine. What should we use it for?"
"How about this task where the margin of error is vanishingly small and any mistake or inaccuracy poses a risk of mass human casualties?"
"How about this task where the margin of error is vanishingly small and any mistake or inaccuracy poses a risk of mass human casualties?"
New from 404 Media: Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States.
"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech
www.404media.co/power-compan...
"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech
www.404media.co/power-compan...
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"Hey guys we invented a bullshitting machine. What should we use it for?"
"How about this task where the margin of error is vanishingly small and any mistake or inaccuracy poses a risk of mass human casualties?"
"How about this task where the margin of error is vanishingly small and any mistake or inaccuracy poses a risk of mass human casualties?"
Abolish police.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Abolish police.
In dreams I float above the earth and observe entire continents where no person has ever yet been
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 AM
In dreams I float above the earth and observe entire continents where no person has ever yet been
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transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.
Treat yourself before you defeat yourself.
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Treat yourself before you defeat yourself.