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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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
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gooooood morning! I have rents between $1018 and $2030 available for adoption today. Let's keep on keeping people out of eviction court!
You can dm me on signal asiniiwiikwe.72 if you would like to pay someone's rent.
You can dm me on signal asiniiwiikwe.72 if you would like to pay someone's rent.
tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
today's report:
our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children
this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children
this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
February 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
gooooood morning! I have rents between $1018 and $2030 available for adoption today. Let's keep on keeping people out of eviction court!
You can dm me on signal asiniiwiikwe.72 if you would like to pay someone's rent.
You can dm me on signal asiniiwiikwe.72 if you would like to pay someone's rent.
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tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
today's report:
our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children
this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children
this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
February 5, 2026 at 6:42 AM
tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
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Thread. I've seen a lot of people be more sympathetic to Julie Le.
The correct thing to do, in her situation, is not to say "I'm trying, I'm using my 24 point font."
It is to speak with candor to the court and, if you are unable to comply with your ethical duties, to withdraw from representation.
The correct thing to do, in her situation, is not to say "I'm trying, I'm using my 24 point font."
It is to speak with candor to the court and, if you are unable to comply with your ethical duties, to withdraw from representation.
I encourage people to read through the transcript with this context in mind. A further thought.
Even if (IF) she sincerely believed that she was resisting evil from within, the transcript makes clear why she was naive. The judge‘s responses to her efforts to blame the system are worth studying.
Even if (IF) she sincerely believed that she was resisting evil from within, the transcript makes clear why she was naive. The judge‘s responses to her efforts to blame the system are worth studying.
A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.
February 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Thread. I've seen a lot of people be more sympathetic to Julie Le.
The correct thing to do, in her situation, is not to say "I'm trying, I'm using my 24 point font."
It is to speak with candor to the court and, if you are unable to comply with your ethical duties, to withdraw from representation.
The correct thing to do, in her situation, is not to say "I'm trying, I'm using my 24 point font."
It is to speak with candor to the court and, if you are unable to comply with your ethical duties, to withdraw from representation.
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Publishers, if you want to make some quick easy money, start printing country fact books and general nonfiction (not narrative or bio) for the high school level again. Release updates every couple years. School libraries will auto-buy that shit. Guaranteed profit.
February 5, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Publishers, if you want to make some quick easy money, start printing country fact books and general nonfiction (not narrative or bio) for the high school level again. Release updates every couple years. School libraries will auto-buy that shit. Guaranteed profit.
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Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
February 5, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
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2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 - Reactor
Here are some of the speculative fiction gems that may have flown under the radar in 2025...
reactormag.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
New Patreon post up today! Cat pics with a Morty heath update (he's fine, just gave us a scare this month), and a writing update on zines and Every Room a Hunger
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
New Patreon post up today! Cat pics with a Morty heath update (he's fine, just gave us a scare this month), and a writing update on zines and Every Room a Hunger