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.
Crucial thread.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Crucial thread.
Whenever people get too rich they inevitably evolve into supervillains, a process called Luthorization
January 22, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Whenever people get too rich they inevitably evolve into supervillains, a process called Luthorization
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Now listen everybody, this thing could turn into a sunk cost fallacy unless we keep pouring more money into it forever.
Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out?
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
January 20, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Now listen everybody, this thing could turn into a sunk cost fallacy unless we keep pouring more money into it forever.
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Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!
October 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!
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What they don't tell you about the Time of Monsters is how long the Time of Monsters actually is. I'd like my new world to be born already.
January 15, 2026 at 7:46 AM
What they don't tell you about the Time of Monsters is how long the Time of Monsters actually is. I'd like my new world to be born already.
Look, Trump may *try* to cancel all future elections, crown himself god-emperor, suspend the constitution, and invade Europe -- but he'll surely back down when Congressional Dems consider convening a committee to explore the possibility of writing a sternly-worded letter telling him that's illegal.
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Look, Trump may *try* to cancel all future elections, crown himself god-emperor, suspend the constitution, and invade Europe -- but he'll surely back down when Congressional Dems consider convening a committee to explore the possibility of writing a sternly-worded letter telling him that's illegal.
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"Defense Technologies, an imprint of Pennsylvania-based security equipment manufacturer Safariland, markets the HC canisters as “military-style” smokers, even though the U.S. military actually stopped using HC in grenades in the 1990s due to its extreme toxicity."
January 15, 2026 at 12:06 PM
"Defense Technologies, an imprint of Pennsylvania-based security equipment manufacturer Safariland, markets the HC canisters as “military-style” smokers, even though the U.S. military actually stopped using HC in grenades in the 1990s due to its extreme toxicity."
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NYT ran 11 stories on trans athletes in 2 days including one about brett kavanaugh’s special POV as a girls’ basketball coach. they sent 6 people to scotus to write up their victory lap & meanwhile this is how far you needed to scroll yesterday to find coverage of ICE in MN.
stop giving them money.
stop giving them money.
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
NYT ran 11 stories on trans athletes in 2 days including one about brett kavanaugh’s special POV as a girls’ basketball coach. they sent 6 people to scotus to write up their victory lap & meanwhile this is how far you needed to scroll yesterday to find coverage of ICE in MN.
stop giving them money.
stop giving them money.
Except he's going to make believe that everyone gave it to him whether or not anyone actually did. That's his entire thing.
State investigators have been on the scene in North Minneapolis.
I know you’re angry. I’m angry. What Donald Trump wants is violence in the streets.
But Minnesota will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace.
Don’t give him what he wants.
I know you’re angry. I’m angry. What Donald Trump wants is violence in the streets.
But Minnesota will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace.
Don’t give him what he wants.
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Except he's going to make believe that everyone gave it to him whether or not anyone actually did. That's his entire thing.
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The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
Ocean heat content increased by 23 billion trillion joules, which was around 39 times greater than global primary energy use this year. This is the largest rise in OHC since 2017; overall OHC has increased by over 500 zettajoules since the 1940s.
January 14, 2026 at 9:05 PM
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
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In a nutshell
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 14, 2026 at 4:40 PM
In a nutshell
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
Computers are getting worse at an exponential rate. All human technology is rotting away before our eyes.
January 13, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Computers are getting worse at an exponential rate. All human technology is rotting away before our eyes.
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Again, all polls show that abolishing ICE is an incredibly popular position, completely in the mainstream center of American politics. "Centerism" has nothing to do with what's in the center, but is instead an absolute and radical stance against the idea of change
ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."
January 13, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Again, all polls show that abolishing ICE is an incredibly popular position, completely in the mainstream center of American politics. "Centerism" has nothing to do with what's in the center, but is instead an absolute and radical stance against the idea of change
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Maybe this is wishful thinking, but I suspect the Trump administration is taking a risk by turning the whole news apparatus into state media.
The media was normalizing every fascist escalation. But the gap in coverage around ICE has radicalized a whole city who are shocked it got so bad so fast.
The media was normalizing every fascist escalation. But the gap in coverage around ICE has radicalized a whole city who are shocked it got so bad so fast.
I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder.
Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.
Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.
January 13, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Maybe this is wishful thinking, but I suspect the Trump administration is taking a risk by turning the whole news apparatus into state media.
The media was normalizing every fascist escalation. But the gap in coverage around ICE has radicalized a whole city who are shocked it got so bad so fast.
The media was normalizing every fascist escalation. But the gap in coverage around ICE has radicalized a whole city who are shocked it got so bad so fast.
Abolish ICE and prosecute them for crimes against humanity.
January 10, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Abolish ICE and prosecute them for crimes against humanity.
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This is why the US has not, at all, acknowledged covid as a mass death event, and part of why it refuses to acknowledge it is also an ongoing mass disabling event (with millions more grieving for the futures it made impossible to them)
THE OPEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRIEF IS A POLITICAL ACT.
One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.
January 10, 2026 at 5:03 AM
This is why the US has not, at all, acknowledged covid as a mass death event, and part of why it refuses to acknowledge it is also an ongoing mass disabling event (with millions more grieving for the futures it made impossible to them)
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The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
Snatching Maduro was all about the spectacle
Kidnapping a world leader for online clout
www.theverge.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
We're going to need a general strike.
January 8, 2026 at 5:15 PM
We're going to need a general strike.
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we’re never returning to “normal “
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
January 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
we’re never returning to “normal “
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
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"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
January 8, 2026 at 1:38 AM
"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
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Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
January 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
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I can't help but notice that like half the replies here are from disabled/chronically ill people who have been pushed out of organizing spaces by groups that refuse to wear masks or take other covid precautions. 😭
Sincere question and I hope we can make a safe place for this discussion, are there people out there who feel like they don't know how to get involved and make a difference?
What do you feel like the barriers are for you getting involved in organizing?
Have you tried and failed?
What do you feel like the barriers are for you getting involved in organizing?
Have you tried and failed?
January 6, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I can't help but notice that like half the replies here are from disabled/chronically ill people who have been pushed out of organizing spaces by groups that refuse to wear masks or take other covid precautions. 😭
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