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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
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Putting the hater in creator. Stories in Strange Horizons, BCS, khōreo, more. Host of @podside-picnic.bsky.social. He/Him
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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 2d
NEW STORY DAY

Glad that @wolfbridge.bsky.social loved this on so much that we both agreed to publish it sooner rather than wait for the upcoming @typebarmagazine.bsky.social revamp

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/12/05/b...
Blanquitos - Typebar Magazine
Fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez.
www.typebarmagazine.com
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apexmag.bsky.social
Nominations for ECO25 are OPEN 🌍🌱✨ We look forward to reading your best 2025 ecofiction!

Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️

Full guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

Submission Portal: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Nominations for ECO25 Now Open!
ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction is an annual showcase of some of the most compelling and thought-provoking ecofiction published every year. If you published speculative ecofiction in 2025 ...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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davsot.bsky.social
San Juan de noche 🌙

Distrito del Centro de Convenciones

En el eje central hay un gran parque y espacio público sin verjas, ejemplo de lo que tenía Riviera (Río Bayamón) antes de ser convertido en una urbanización de acceso controlado. Se perdió ese activo del Tren Urbano.
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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tommarcinko.bsky.social
For anybody's consideration, the one story of mine that got into print this year. (Sorry about the @futurenatures.bsky.social paywall)

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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armormodekeeg.blacksky.app
real ones know
December 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
kjy1066.bsky.social
It's not simply "Choo Choo motherucker" but also uttered in that gravelly voice all macaws have
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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megapolisomancy.bsky.social
Happy new year from Arthur Machen
the fire. When his friend sat one evening in that very chair, and told his story, Clarke had interrupted him at a point a little subsequent to this, had cut short his words in a paroxysm of horror. "My God!" he had exclaimed, "think, think what you are saying. It is too incredible, too monstrous; such things can never be in this quiet world, where men and women live and die, and struggle, and conquer, or maybe fail, and fall down under sorrow, and grieve and suffer strange fortunes for many a year; but not this, Phillips, not such things as this. There must be some explanation, some way out of the terror. Why, man, if such a case were possible, our earth would be a nightmare."
January 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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megapolisomancy.bsky.social
“Window Boy” ( @thomasha.bsky.social, 2023)
It was one of Dad's cartoons—a show from when he was Jakey's age that was still running all these years later. On the television, Jakey saw a Mailman in a powersuit, pointing at the sky, at a black shape, like a "T," flying up in the air and cawing. That was usually as much as they dared to depict the grackles in shows like these. Anything more than those "T" shapes and they tended to get complaints from families and local churches that the grackles were too frightening for kids.
December 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that. @yaboyni Take a moment And and realize the moment You took has already passed Thank you See you next time
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
kjy1066.bsky.social
FOR THE LAST TIME FRANKINCENSE WAS THE NAME OF THE MAGI
December 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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undertow.bsky.social
Hi Friends! Our 2025 issues are both great. Please consider grabbing them. Seasonal shipping is taking up to 4 weeks. Alternatively, we have eBook versions.

undertowpublications.com/shop
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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cafenowhere.bsky.social
Archita is in a really desperate, heartrending situation and working so hard to keep her household afloat. Please donate if you can or boost the signal. gofund.me/a06f68a15
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
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October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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innerworlds.bsky.social
So here's a fun (?) new thing. Perhaps unsurprisingly I think a lot about speculative fiction and mental health (my day job is at a mental health charity) and I thought I'd have a go at putting some of my thoughts down in writing in the form of a conference paper about Inner Worlds.
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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innerworlds.bsky.social
Calling all Inner Worlds writers and readers: please tell me your thoughts about mental health and speculative fiction! 🧠❤️
innerworlds.bsky.social Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 1d
I've made a short survey with some prompt questions. If you have time and inclination to add any answers I would be very grateful indeed. Here's the link! www.cognitoforms.com/InnerWorlds1...
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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pippinacious.bsky.social
Right now is hard. Right now is scary. For many, right now is downright bad. But you're not alone. Join us next Saturday at 7 PM EST to fight horror with horror and raise money for the American Civil Liberties Union. Please help spread the word by sharing!

Where: www.youtube.com/@Pippinacious
pippinacious.bsky.social S.H. Cooper @pippinacious.bsky.social · 21h
ONE WEEK until LIVING THE SCREAM!

Dec. 13th @ 7 PM EST

Join me, @laurelhightower.bsky.social, & @briankeene.bsky.social as we host an evening of stories, laughter, and some of the best voices in horror to support the ACLU!

Here's a glimpse of last year to give you an idea of what you're in for.
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
tis the season
[Tumblr] vigilantsycamore Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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brackenmacleod.bsky.social
This picture gets worse the longer you look at it. Is that a Labubu on a necklace? Why is the stuffed toy in his hand also wearing a Labubu around its neck? Why does he have a watch on each wrist? If he's rich why does he buy shirts from Temu? Is that person with him above the age of consent?
Honestly, I don't know how to describe everything going on in this image, but I'll give it a shot. A dude in a bootleg Metallica shirt, wearing a Labubu about his neck, holding a stuffed toy for no reason I can imagine... I guess he's into stuffies... standing in front of an xmas tree with oversized balls - definitely not a statement - and a hired model who presents at once as underaged and also more physically and emotionally developed than this babyman with a look on his face that would inspire a Tibetan lama to smash him in the mouth with a brick. Oh and he's captioned it thusly: "43 years old, no kids, crypto millionaire, smoking hot girlfriend. Name anyone having a better Christmas than me" I can only imagine the reason this homunculus is not painfully lonely is because, like the toy he clutches, he experiences no mental interiority whatsoever.
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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It’s official: indie booksellers can’t stop talking about Novel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT—now a December Indie Next pick! 🤩

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, this kaleidoscopic novel hits shelves on 12/2. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740347...
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Polish #SFinTranslation!
riverheadbooks.bsky.social Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social · Nov 6
It’s official: indie booksellers can’t stop talking about Novel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT—now a December Indie Next pick! 🤩

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, this kaleidoscopic novel hits shelves on 12/2. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740347...
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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stephenrbissette.bsky.social
Keeping this vintage collaborative illustration board jam with Jim Lawson in reach in the studio. If I can find a large piece of vellum, may take a shot at inking it this winter for shits & giggles. Circa 1990 or '91, I think; planned as a double-spread cover for TALES OF THE TMNT I scripted.
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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martin65.bsky.social
apologies for stating what's already obvious, but the wide circulation of that AI-generated video of ICE agents being "arrested" by police is a.) probably being furthered by bots with no good intent and b.) meant to make people think _they_ don't have to get involved in community witness etc.
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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megapolisomancy.bsky.social
So I interpreted the weird as the hyperobject of climate change, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of Cthulhu on 'em. Gimme Cthulhus for a Cthulhucene, you'd say.
December 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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miseryvulture.bsky.social
"Hey, did you get those decorations for the Christmas market?"

"Sure did, boss, three sections from the Berlin wall. Real fuckin ominous, just like you asked."
A portion of the Berlin wall at the Christmas market.
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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seanbirnie.bsky.social
I’ve had one, possibly two dreams recently where I had some ornately elaborated working version of our family Amiga from the early 90s. Would absolutely love to have such a thing (and the space for it).
retrocomps.bsky.social Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 8h
Word processors used to be an appliance. (Source.)
A magazine ad showing the Hyper7. It's a dedicated word processor all-in-one, with a PS/2 keyboard, a monochrome backlit LCD monitor device left, twin vertically mounted 3.5" floppies device right, and a thermal printer device rear. The screen on the device shows a multi-application operating system, including word processor, spreadsheet, rolodex, drawing program, graphing program, disk utility, telecommunications terminal, and tutorial. The only thing it's lacking is a way to program on the thing.
December 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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garethwatkins.bsky.social
IT FEELS THAT WAY DOES IT ROSS? I WONDER WHY THAT IS.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h
In Opinion

The Trump administration “has offered a lot of general rhetoric about the value of Christianity to American civilization,” Ross Douthat says. “But in the absence of religious-informed policymaking, this sometimes feels more like a performance of a Christian politics than a full reality.”
Opinion | The Trump Administration Needs More Christianity in Its Nationalism
Not too much religious moralism in the administration, but too little.
nyti.ms
December 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM