Nino Cipri
@ninocipri.bsky.social
Writer, cat dad, wife guy, cryptid. Author of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM (2024), DEFEKT (2021), FINNA (2020), and HOMESICK (2019).
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Nino Cipri
@ninocipri.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Happy paperback day to Dead Girls Don’t Dream! Now with a bonus playlist in the back, which are all songs I both listened to incessantly while writing this, and songs that are thematically or vibe-ally resonant. Available wherever books are sold, and signed copies thru @astoriabookshop.bsky.social
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Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
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What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
Puerto Rico's electricity crisis
In this episode, lawyer and activist Ruth Santiago discusses Puerto Rico's latest electricity crisis, as the island struggles to restore power in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. In the wake of Hurricane ...
www.volts.wtf
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
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And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
February 8, 2026 at 9:39 PM
We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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Good morning! I’m drawing a Neolithic pig cauldron
February 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Good morning! I’m drawing a Neolithic pig cauldron
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The best birthday present I can imagine would be for you to check out these amazing stories I discovered in 2025, including lots that are from authors completely new to me, and to consider them for any awards ballots you might be working on!!
2025 was a nightmare... & an amazing year for short fiction.
On my newsletter, I rounded up the stories I think you need - for your soul, & your award ballots
(mine are there, but it's mostly from others)
I'll shout them out here, as well!
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-life-in-f...
On my newsletter, I rounded up the stories I think you need - for your soul, & your award ballots
(mine are there, but it's mostly from others)
I'll shout them out here, as well!
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-life-in-f...
February 8, 2026 at 5:14 PM
The best birthday present I can imagine would be for you to check out these amazing stories I discovered in 2025, including lots that are from authors completely new to me, and to consider them for any awards ballots you might be working on!!
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This is why I moved off Substack to Ghost. The Nazis will migrate to any big platform but when a platform actively promotes them, that is a choice
for the terminally online this is *far* from a revalation and also, i *really* hope that it will push more people to jump to another platform. there are places that will help you migrate your newsletter and don't profit off hate speech.
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
This is why I moved off Substack to Ghost. The Nazis will migrate to any big platform but when a platform actively promotes them, that is a choice
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Here’s some sketches exploring one of my ideas for the creature from “The Terror” by Dan Simmons, and how I imagined it could work as a supernatural element while still able to be mistaken for a polar bear at a glance or in the distance~
February 8, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Here’s some sketches exploring one of my ideas for the creature from “The Terror” by Dan Simmons, and how I imagined it could work as a supernatural element while still able to be mistaken for a polar bear at a glance or in the distance~
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Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
lataco.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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FUCK ICE!
We’re running a fundraiser to benefit The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and The Food Group MN. 100% of proceeds from our sale will be donated, split 50/50.
www.novaandmali.com/shop
We’re running a fundraiser to benefit The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and The Food Group MN. 100% of proceeds from our sale will be donated, split 50/50.
www.novaandmali.com/shop
February 7, 2026 at 5:52 PM
FUCK ICE!
We’re running a fundraiser to benefit The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and The Food Group MN. 100% of proceeds from our sale will be donated, split 50/50.
www.novaandmali.com/shop
We’re running a fundraiser to benefit The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and The Food Group MN. 100% of proceeds from our sale will be donated, split 50/50.
www.novaandmali.com/shop
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I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
lataco.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
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an elder in Boston spent his life building a one-of-a-kind radical library, but he's aging and it needs a new home. Cooperation Jackson has agreed to take it, but they need help shipping it all there.
blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-b...
blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-b...
My beloved Lantern Library | willowbl00
blog.bl00cyb.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
an elder in Boston spent his life building a one-of-a-kind radical library, but he's aging and it needs a new home. Cooperation Jackson has agreed to take it, but they need help shipping it all there.
blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-b...
blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-b...
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Thank you, Rochita! The story in question is free to read over at @strangehorizons.bsky.social.
Rochita is helping me with my fundraiser for my medical needs. If you liked the story and feel so inclined, my fundraiser is linked below:
gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...
Rochita is helping me with my fundraiser for my medical needs. If you liked the story and feel so inclined, my fundraiser is linked below:
gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...
February 7, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Thank you, Rochita! The story in question is free to read over at @strangehorizons.bsky.social.
Rochita is helping me with my fundraiser for my medical needs. If you liked the story and feel so inclined, my fundraiser is linked below:
gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...
Rochita is helping me with my fundraiser for my medical needs. If you liked the story and feel so inclined, my fundraiser is linked below:
gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...
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I am in the middle of reading this right now, and it is so good. Drew and Ellis are fantastically characterized, and tbh "nothing bad happens" belies how deep it digs into the hard, messy work of being a recovering asshole. Whether that be an asshole to yourself, others, the world.
My book is out!! Read about Drew and Ellis, a recovering workaholic and a recovering asshole who find love at a community volunteer group! It's got queers, it's got disability, it's got immigrants, and they spend the book working together and slowly becoming happier. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKXFRXD5
Kind: A Romance Where Nothing Bad Happens
Kind: A Romance Where Nothing Bad Happens - Kindle edition by Leigh, Hannah. Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
www.amazon.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:22 PM
I am in the middle of reading this right now, and it is so good. Drew and Ellis are fantastically characterized, and tbh "nothing bad happens" belies how deep it digs into the hard, messy work of being a recovering asshole. Whether that be an asshole to yourself, others, the world.
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The update here left me weepy with how full of love it is. If you can help with end of life expenses, here's where and how.
February 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The update here left me weepy with how full of love it is. If you can help with end of life expenses, here's where and how.
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I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams.
brunodias.dev/bio
brunodias.dev/bio
Bio
Bruno Dias is a game designer and writer. Previous credits include Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, Neo Cab, and Pathologic 2.
brunodias.dev
February 6, 2026 at 1:30 AM
I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams.
brunodias.dev/bio
brunodias.dev/bio
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This is an actual real friend of mine doing real cat rescue, and this is a vetted need.
This cost almost $400 that I don’t have so if anyone would like to donate to our found cat, here’s my info.
We named her Saja, after KPop Demon Hunters. It means ‘lion.’
venmo.com/u/pixiedane
We named her Saja, after KPop Demon Hunters. It means ‘lion.’
venmo.com/u/pixiedane
February 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
This is an actual real friend of mine doing real cat rescue, and this is a vetted need.
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Worse than other platforms. All other stores allow vanilla erotica outside the library system. This is the only store that won't accept erotica.
February 6, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Worse than other platforms. All other stores allow vanilla erotica outside the library system. This is the only store that won't accept erotica.
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As a writer and a bookseller, I'm really disappointed to see @bookshop.org engaging in the same stupid censorship against erotica as other platforms.
It turns out that some restrictions come with the new D2D/Bookshop.org collaboration
Worth noting that this deal has led to the explicit banning of erotica on D2D, so self-publishing smut has gained a new roadblock.
bsky.app/profile/jmke...
bsky.app/profile/jmke...
February 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM
As a writer and a bookseller, I'm really disappointed to see @bookshop.org engaging in the same stupid censorship against erotica as other platforms.
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I am here going to suggest you get Dil or No Dil, the short story collection, because it contains the best romance short I have ever read (Jesse's Girl, a stone cold classic riff on Jolene) and IMO Suleikha is the best short-form romance writer working today.
goodreads.com/book/show/41...
goodreads.com/book/show/41...
February 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I am here going to suggest you get Dil or No Dil, the short story collection, because it contains the best romance short I have ever read (Jesse's Girl, a stone cold classic riff on Jolene) and IMO Suleikha is the best short-form romance writer working today.
goodreads.com/book/show/41...
goodreads.com/book/show/41...
Adding the link probably would help here: www.patreon.com/posts/monthl... My cat is cute and happily NOT dying!
February 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Adding the link probably would help here: www.patreon.com/posts/monthl... My cat is cute and happily NOT dying!
As a writer and a bookseller, I'm really disappointed to see @bookshop.org engaging in the same stupid censorship against erotica as other platforms.
It turns out that some restrictions come with the new D2D/Bookshop.org collaboration
Worth noting that this deal has led to the explicit banning of erotica on D2D, so self-publishing smut has gained a new roadblock.
bsky.app/profile/jmke...
bsky.app/profile/jmke...
February 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM
As a writer and a bookseller, I'm really disappointed to see @bookshop.org engaging in the same stupid censorship against erotica as other platforms.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue