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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃

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Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Last book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. Newest book: DEVOURING TOMORROW

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · May 28

“DEVOURING TOMORROW: Fiction From The Future Of Food” is an anthology I co-edited with @jeffdupuis.bsky.social

“How will we feed ourselves in the future?”

The authors knocked this premise out of the park!

DEVOURING TOMORROW is Available Now!

www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

#booksky 💙📚👀

The front and back cover of DEVOURING TOMORROW. The front cover is light green with a yellow title font and a “glitchy” apple dripping fluorescent yellow slime.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 2h

*Well, I don't ghost a lot of lyrics work for L.A. metal bands, but given all that smog in their town, they needed the morale-boost

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 2h

"She's got a smile that it seems to me / Reminds me of childhood memories / Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky." --Bruce Sterling, Sweet Child o'Mine

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 3h

"A screaming comes across the sky." "Bruce Sterling, Gravity's Rainbow

*I totally dig that sky thing, okay? First line sky-riffing, it's the sign of a great book

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 2h

"The sky was chock-full of carbon-dioxide, but on all the televisions the AIs made the sky look just fine."

*I've been working on that one for a while, but it needs to get a little punchier and more memorable before I ship it to my agent

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 13h

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h

It is amazing how much the brain does when you tell it to take a break and go on a walk.

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 9h

When I struggled with something writing-wise I take a walk. And 100% of the time I end up figuring out the solution. I would never, ever, ever, ask a machine to do that for me. Wtf.

ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 10h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 6d

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210"

It reads:

"Dear Joel:

I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country.

I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.

Sincerely yours,

Charles M. Schulz"

At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 9h

Bart, Milhouse and Nelson are looking at trading cards. Altered caption: “Whoa! A Linda Ronstadt rookie card.”

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Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social · 15h

Please please please get your Covid shot if you can. You will be protecting yourself, and you will be protecting people who can’t get their shots because of absurd HHS policies.

#VaccinesWork, save lives, and protect autistic kids’ & adults’ health too.

selfie of me, wearing a black facemask with a circular bandage over a shot site on my freckled tattooed shoulder. Overlay text at the bottom, reads, “please get your Covid shot if you can.”

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 12h

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to lofi hip hop radio beats to relax/study to

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 9h

Every single editor I’ve ever worked with (except for one early on in my career, who turned out to be a crack addict) has made my work better in some way. I’m always grateful to get to work with good editors!

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 11h

The President of The United States has lost touch with reality.

It’s time for The Cabinet to act.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-...

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve been thinking about this song a lot recently, too. For some reason

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 2d

“What’s so civil about war, anyway?”

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Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 14h

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 16h

Pritzker is fighting the abuse of Presidential Power.Today the president called for the elected governor of Illinois and the mayor of the third largest city in America to be jailed. This is textbook authoritarianism.
bsky.app/profile/jbpr...

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 16h

COVID outbreaks, hospitalizations on the rise across Canada https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/covid-19-cases-are-increasing-data-shows-heres-what-canadians-should-know/

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

A pharmacist holds a COVID-19 vaccine shot in Portland, Ore., on April 24, 2025.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 17h

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16h

Had Omar sign a couple of copies last night at Literary Arts, of his phenomenal One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. A finalist for the National Book Award. I hope it wins.

Red cover of One Day, Everyone Eill Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad with silhouette of missile/bomb hurtling toward silhouette of a child.

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𝑲𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒂𝑺𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 @kassandraseven.bsky.social · 17h

Every single American needs to see this video of a peaceful religious man pleading for humanity and getting shot in the head for it.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12d

Premium newsletter: Based on my estimates and analysis, OpenAI needs one trillion dollars in the next four years to build 17GW of data centers and other commitments, with at least $500 billion needed for company operations. There is not enough capital to do this.

www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

OpenAI Needs A Trillion Dollars In The Next Four Years

Shortly before publishing this newsletter, I spoke with analyst Gil Luria, Managing Director and Analyst at D.A. Davidson, and asked him whether the capital was there to build the 17 Gigawatts of capa...

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 19h

Bookshop.org (the best Amazon alternative) is having an anti-prime sale today. Free shipping on books including mine :P bookshop.org/a/88357/9781...

The Anti-Prime Sale at bookshop.org. 17 more hours.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Aug 2

So many billions spent on the build out of infrastructure for a product that hardly anyone is willing to pay to use.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 19h

Mark Carney put hack journalist and art fraudster Evan Solomon in charge of facilitating this scam here, putting our economy in the same jeopardy as the US and UK 😡

OpenAI wants to be part of Canada’s sovereign AI play - The Logic

The U.S. tech giant says it can be a “constructive partner” in building the country’s digital infrastructure and kickstarting economic growth

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House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social · 19h

🪲 “As the Earth Dreams offers a distinctly Canadian vision of Black life that is as lush and expansive as it is tender and rooted.” —The Walrus

🌀 AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

A stack of the book AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES sits on a wooden bookshelf beside a standing copy that displays the cover. The cover features bold blue text with a vibrant illustrated bug on a black background.

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Courtney 🐙 Lovecraftian 🐙 Actually @hexadecibelle.fyi · 1d

the blair witch project manager

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 1d

i know what you did last quarter

m-m-m-mike☺︎!👻 @m1keonl1ne.bsky.social · 1d

the texas chain email massacre

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