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Rachel A. Rosen

@darkerthanvanta.bsky.social

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Purveyor of bleak climate fantasy and, apparently, cookbooks. Newsletter at https://nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter/. https://rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet. Order my newest book, Blight, here: https://books2read.com/u/mYVl9P

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · Jun 15

Blight is OUT! You should be able to buy it and order it for your local bookstores and libraries in both paperback and ebook.
Amazon: mybook.to/blight
Other online retailers: books2read.com/u/mYVl9P
Direct from the publisher: bppress.ca/shop/ 🧵

Two versions of Blight by Rachel A. Rosen, one on ebook, one on paperback. Both feature bone tentacles and a tiny sub that's a light in the darkness.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 11h

I made this thing.

a close up of a white woman in a black shirt with a red octopus necklace.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Three spooky canning jars in a trenchcoat 𓅃 @lids.bsky.social · 2d

Great analysis.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 2d

2) Understand that you are greasing the wheels of a rhetorical machine that has led to the ICE Gestapo/child sex trafficking ring busting down people's doors and carting off zip-tied naked children in the middle of the night.
3) Shut the actual fuck up and don't speak until you've fixed your heart.

Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 2d

1) Take a moment to reflect on where you're getting your information and why you suddenly have such strong opinions about this when before you were happy to benefit from the cultural and economic contributions of immigrants and you are almost certainly the descendant of immigrants yourself.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 2d

If you're saying "Canada has too many immigrants" or "immigration is out of control" or "I'm in favour of legal immigration but we have to be *reasonable*," please do the following: 🧵

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

Not all heroes wear capes, although if you look closely, this one does.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

My excitement about this panel is only matched by my disappointment in myself for not supplying an icon like Antonia's, Victoria's, and Laura's.

Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

Hellllloooo!

Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

It's *very* big on the inside.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

@unpopulara.bsky.social has done it!

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg's activism is based on a moral clarity and courage the likes of which most people, neurotypical or not, do not have, but desperately need. We should all be more like her.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

If you want reading lists, this is a good place to start.

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 3d

Finished the shortlist, and it's a fantastic selection of books. So glad to have gotten the chance to read them all.

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Jun 18

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · Sep 7

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Q. look, if we throw *mean names* at the AI grifters fucking up everything around us, doesn’t that make us as bad as them? if you really *think* about it.

A. lol no, the fuck is this dumb bullshit, get the fuck out

Q. but

A. no, we need more shame here. much more.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

Brecht and Weill would have fought these bastards in the streets.

Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 4d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

Those of you who know me IRL know that I'm constantly spouting off book recommendations. Picking a top three is a challenge. Nevertheless, Shepherd asked and I delivered:
shepherd.com/bboy/my-3-fa...

shepherd.com

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 5d

I refuse to treat an AI generated avatar as a human while people who are very definitely human in every way are not being treated like humans.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 4d

Hells yeah.

Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 5d

The hypocrisy is the point. Still. Harper's Letter people, you listening?

ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 8d

Note that you will need to update the letter because while Carney has replaced Trudeau, nothing else has changed for Grassy Narrows.

Mercury Justice for Grassy Narrows

I just signed the Grassy Narrows petition calling on Justin Trudeau to honour his treaty obligations and commitment to reconciliation. Join me in signing here https://you.leadnow.ca/org/petitions/merc...

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 8d

Ah yes, it is Truth and Reconciliation Day, the day where politicians make somber faces while continuing to pass laws allowing them to shirk treaty responsibilities and steal and despoil Indigenous land and communities.

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 10d

reminder:

Tropes invented by Herman melville
weird guy
Something in the natural world is a symbol weird animal
Only one bed at the inn!
Love triangle
Workplace romance
Interesting details
The sea

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