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Cliff Jones Jr.

@cliffjones.bsky.social

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Neurodivergent author/editor of dreampunk: DRECK (2023), MIRRORMAZE (2020), SOMNISCOPE (2024), THE LASTING LANDS (DM me). Software developer, linguist, visual/martial artist, INFP-T, 4w5, Scorpio, he/him. 💚

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · Aug 18

Good call! I've had three books published so far, each with a real human artist.

Mirrormaze: Gemma Martínez (of Spain, not sure about her socials)
Dreck: Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social (me)
Somniscope: Brent Houzenga @houzenga.bsky.social

#books #booksky #sf #sff #sffh #art #artists #noAI

The cover of Mirrormaze: A Dreampunk Anthology, edited by Cliff Jones Jr. An ambiguously gendered punk with rings of pink clouds around their head is hovering over a green labyrinth like a ghost. It says, "We find ourselves in a very strange place."

The cover of Dreck, by Cliff Jones Jr. A dark blue/purple ant with glowing pink eyes stares at you from a green background with visible brush strokes. A quote from Jeff Noon reads: "A brilliant exploration of technology's strange new borderlands."

The cover of Somniscope: A Dreampunk Convergence, edited by Cliff Jones Jr. An negative-image pink and yellow skull on a purplish background, looking like tie-dye.

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2h

The No Kings stuff is anti-monarchy, so I guess he's thinking of "Antimo."

Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2h

Wow, she finally drew the line, eh? Her love of fascism wasn't quite strong enough to overpower her hatred of Arabs.

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Old Dog ❌👑 @olddogmjh.bsky.social · 13h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS NYC: Activism through Art” - sign up now to join the opposition with me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS NYC: Activism through Art · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

www.mobilize.us

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erikalynne @erikalynne.bsky.social · 13h

I’ll remind everyone that Turning point funded actual insurrectionist buses to the attack the capitol in DC on January 6.

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 2d

He just said it. 100% unironically and unmistakably.

“We took the freedom of speech away.”

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, Fox News' "credibility"! 🙄

Zeb Ulon @ampshade.bsky.social · 2d

also the guy who says he killed Osama bin Laden. very illustrious career!

Fox News has faced ridicule online for repeatedly interviewing masked "guests" - supposedly a "former Antifa member," an "ex-gang member, and others - who all appear to have the same build, eyes, and voice, leading viewers to suspect it's the same man each time.
Internet sleuths recently compared screenshots and suggested the mystery guest resembles Robert J. O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who claims to have fired the kill shot on Osama bin Laden.
O'Neill, who's been a frequent Fox News contributor and commentator for years, has a long history of appearances on the network. The recurring use of masked figures resembling him has sparked fresh criticism of Fox's credibility and its penchant for sensational, poorly vetted segments.

Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2d

They've finally gone and said it. Trump's goons will execute without trial anyone who stands against fascism (who is anti-fascist, in other words: "antifa").

They can try, but we all know how this goes in the end. Humanity wins.

Stay punk, my friends. ✊

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw season 2 episode 6 of The Last of Us: "The Price."

It literally had me bawling. I think a lot of that is because I have two daughters and a dead dad.

This was a damn good epidode. So glad I decided to watch season 2 even though I wasn't particularly hyped for it.

#tv #streaming #hbo

Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, what a year for a tour like this. Remember last year when flying on a plane was just... normal?

God, I'm sick of this regime.

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 5d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2d

It was a great read! Gave me a new appreciation for these Kubrick classics.

Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2d

I would not have guessed an earthworm typically lives longer than a fox. 😳

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2d

On the subject of interesting overlaps, Philip K. Dick was 8 years old when The Hobbit was published.

By the time The Lord of the Rings was fully out in 1955, PKD's first published novel Solar Lottery was also coming out (after several earlier novels had been rejected).

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2d

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2d

This would have been 1997 or 1998 since I remember Peter Frampton was part of the group.

Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 2d

My first concert was at Astroworld in Houston seeing Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band! I still have the T-shirt.

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 3d

It's so easy to step from each one of these stages to the next. We're in stage 3 in the US. I'm holding my portable telescreen right now.

Can you imagine a near future where your national ID is on your phone, which must be carried at all times? Seems pretty likely to me.

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like Orwell's idea of a government-issued "telescreen" that always watches you and can never be turned off is plausible, but it doesn't just happen one day from zero.

First, you have to sell the device as a luxury item, then make it cheap, then required for work, and then legally mandated.

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 3d

Right?! Where are all the "Antifa members" breaking into federal buildings with weapons and zip ties?

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Butch O'Blivion @fivemanjob.bsky.social · 3d

Weird how an insurrection was "just free speech"
and now free speech is an "insurrection"

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 3d

Frank Herbert's take on AI seems to have been similar to Philip K. Dick's: The authentic human is good; the reflex machine is evil.

"We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do." 🖕🤖

dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butleri... #Dune #sffh

Butlerian Jihad

"We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate progr...

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 3d

If you make this choice, then you either know what these monsters are and are just as evil as them, or you are too ignorant to be taken seriously. I don't see a third possibility.

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 3d

If an author or artist is friendly to generative AI at this stage of the game, then how can we ever trust them again?

No matter what they say, it may just be a chatbot.

The same goes for a political leader who's friendly to, say, Putin or Netanyahu.

You can never believe a word they say again.

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Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social · 3d

It really looks like the @bsky.app community is hostile to the AI sloppifying of civilization.

Take note, corporations! There is a strong correlation between AI techbro garbage and fascism. Make your choice.