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Hansa

@worldstobuild.bsky.social

Here for #sci-fi #fantasy #booksky and hell, even some hot throbbing romantasy.

I have a Substack all things imagined in books and on screen called Worlds to Build. Check it out!

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Marc Fischer

@marc-fischer.bsky.social

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

January 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM

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Kat Abughazaleh

@katmabu.bsky.social

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM

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Mikki Kendall

@karnythia.bsky.social

So is this where I tell you that cops have been doing this to Black activists for decades and you're only now realizing it is a problem because it happened to a young white woman or nah?

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10d

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

January 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM

Hansa

@worldstobuild.bsky.social

What do people think of the fantasy author Robin Hobb

November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM

Hansa

@worldstobuild.bsky.social

Like a beat poet moonlighting as a science fiction writer. #booksky #books #sci-fi

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Swamp Men By the Bucketful

Review: Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer

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March 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM

Hansa

@worldstobuild.bsky.social

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Absolution took me deeper into the swamp than I was ready for. open.substack.com/pub/worldsto...

Swamp Men By the Bucketful

Review: Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer

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March 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM

Hansa

@worldstobuild.bsky.social

A timely sci-fi fantasy book about the long fallout of epistemological shock - a look at City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett open.substack.com/pub/worldsto...

When Gods Die

City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett

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February 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM

Hansa

@worldstobuild.bsky.social

Found at my local grocery store yesterday yet it feels like the opening pages of dystopian fiction from the 90s and early aughts. This story begins with grocery rationing. Limit 2. #booksky #sci-fi #fantasy

February 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM

Hansa

@worldstobuild.bsky.social

One of the strangest voices in fantasy you’ll never forget is the narrator of @annleckie.com ‘s book The Raven Tower. open.substack.com/pub/worldsto...