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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 4h

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

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Inflatable frog costume in kid and adult sizes, $54

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 6h

Log Lady [calmly stroking log]: One day the sadness will end.

Log Lady [spinning donuts on your lawn in a Camaro]: But not today bitch

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Pope of Spooky Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 6h

This is way more threatening than it needs to be

A paywall notice that says “You’ve read your last free article.”

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 6h

the new york times has helpfully clarified that buildings in oregon are made out of modern construction materials.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 7h

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks to MASSIVE public demand, the Torment Nexus zine is now available in packs of 10. So you can leave them on co-workers’ desks, and on your boss’ windshield. www.mulebooks.com/store/pack-o...

Pack of 10 Torment Nexus zines — MULE BOOKS

It’s a wee 3×5 zine with an essay about AI (boo) and some fun collages. You want it. You want more than one. In fact, you want ten, which is what this page is selling. A pack of ten. That way you can ...

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 9h

This is how many tech products sold themselves too. What? Set a FIRE in my house and put a dead animal near it? Now I drink Soylent? Sweat onto cloth and keep it, filthy, in my home to later pour hot water on it? No, new shirt every day (or laundry app)! etc etc

SuperChill @frozzbot.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn't believe my ears when that music AI guy said nobody actually enjoys making music. That ranks as one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Anybody who knows how to make music enjoys making music. Why would they have ever learned to do it if it didn't bring them joy?

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SuperChill @frozzbot.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn't believe my ears when that music AI guy said nobody actually enjoys making music. That ranks as one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Anybody who knows how to make music enjoys making music. Why would they have ever learned to do it if it didn't bring them joy?

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 10h

The slop machines have taught me one thing--and credit where due, it is an important thing: I'd rather die than surrender that which makes me human.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 17h

KALIVAS! Or, Another Tempest by NICK MAMATAS via @clashbooks.bsky.social is a well-thought-through riff on "The Tempest" set in post human times. #Booksky #scifisky
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KALIVAS! Or, Another Tempest, well-thought-through retelling

KALIVAS! Or, Another Tempest NICK MAMATAS CLASH Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.99 ebook, available now Rating: 4.25* o...

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h

you can tell these whiny losers are not having fun even as they finally get the mendacious anti-constitutional government attempting to quell their political enemies they've always wanted because they're frustrated that people still hate their guts about it and i think that's beautiful

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 11h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

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Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 13h

You know what else would be great? If you would buy Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest via my local independent bookstore!

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 13h

I met my long-lost cousin from Australia. (This is not a joke. That branch of the family had changed their surname from Mamatas to Maras after leaving the Congo for Oz, and then vanished, two generations prior.)

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 13h

This skeet made me search for the name "Stephen Hicks" here on Bluesky. Turns out that there is an erotic photographer of the same name, and combined with the cultural norms of nudity, alt text, and proper credit for photos on this website, I'm much happier than I'd be had I found the other Hicks.

Broke Boy Eccentric @ NearZone @nearzone.bsky.social · 13h

I just stumbled across this Stephen Hicks guy, immediately put off by him, turns out he's a favorite of the anti-woke crowd who fancy themselves a bit more philosophical than the hoi polloi. But he sucks.

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Nicholas Diak @nickdiak.com · 14h

Mail goodies!

A copy of the graphic novel collection of short comic stories, "Perfect Crime Party". Got a Nick Mamatas / @nmamatas.bsky.social autograph in this bad boy!

#Comics #Comicbook #IndieComic #SequentialArt #Crime

Cover of Perfect Crime Party. It shoes a dog detective looking over an outline of where a body was. Looking on is a board, a... beaver?, a poodle, and a cat. The cat is guilty because they are holding a bone behind their back they used to bonk the victim.

page 1 of the 21 foot rule, signed by Nick Mamatas.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 14h

A dream come true!

Once again, I don't mean a wish or a hope; this is just the sort of thing I'd have a dream about.

Pat Mackenzie @patmak.bsky.social · 15h

@nmamatas.bsky.social If you haven't seen this yet, I think you might find it interesting.

"A[n] unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as 'a lost chapter of the On the Road saga' has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years."

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

www.theguardian.com

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 15h

Whoa! I've not seen that!

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 15h

Guys, they've been saying this about every protest for a decade. Don't let it get into your heads.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17h

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

Bullettime ebook is FIFTY CENTS across all ebook platforms

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 16h

At @locusmag.bsky.social @mondyboy74.bsky.social reviews KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST.

Be persuaded!

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Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest by Nick Mamatas: Review by Ian Mond

Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest, Nick Mamatas (CLASH 978-1-96098-879-9, $17.95, 230pp, tp) September 2025. Any year – no matter how miserable – that sees the release of a novel by Nick Mamatas is wort…

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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 1d

KALIVAS! Or, Another Tempest by NICK MAMATAS via @clashbooks.bsky.social is a well-thought-through riff on "The Tempest" set in post human times. #Booksky #scifisky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/10/kali...

KALIVAS! Or, Another Tempest, well-thought-through retelling

KALIVAS! Or, Another Tempest NICK MAMATAS CLASH Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.99 ebook, available now Rating: 4.25* o...

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