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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 59m

Forget reading sci-fi and thinking it's good, these guys read about how IBM counting machines helped facilitate the Holocaust and thought "and look, 80 years later it's still a major profitable corporation!"

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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jonl @weblogsky.com · 1h

Here's the conversation we had about A Natural History of Empty Lots when it was first released: plutopia.io/christopher-...

Christopher Brown: A Natural History of Empty Lots - Plutopia News Network

Christopher Brown discusses his latest book, "A Natural History of Empty Lots," which blends nature writing, memoir, and nonfiction.

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Craig @abasketofcraig.bsky.social · 1h

Highschool reunions and the stubborn insistence that someone exists who you don't at all remember, that's the subject of today's story. OLD FRIENDS, out in the new issue of Farewell Transmission.

OLD FRIENDS - Farewell Transmission

By Craig Rodgers The postcard comes first. Basic cardstock, a tourist find. Photo of a beach somewhere. Old, coverall swimsuits decades out of fashion. A single boat sails in the distance. Bertrum hol...

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 1h

‘An unkind film’: letters reveal rift between director and writer of The Wicker Man

Exclusive: Documents show ‘hostile’ director and ‘self-indulgent’ writer were at loggerheads during production of 1973 cult horror film

www.theguardian.com

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 2h

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Cass Andra, Yaldabaoth's Favorite Child, Part-Time Ghost @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 3h

I ought to do a more complete review at some point, but, folks, it's good.

Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 4h

the free shipping bookshop dot org sale is a good time to buy my collection of original weird fiction which i guarantee you'll love
bookshop.org/p/books/toad...

Toadstones

Check out Toadstones - <p>Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star's lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper's final job for her late employer. An exhumation to ...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Nosferatu's John Thomas @karanthir.bsky.social · 4h

I can vouch for the excellence of this collection. Some of best weird fiction you'll ever read!

Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 4h

the free shipping bookshop dot org sale is a good time to buy my collection of original weird fiction which i guarantee you'll love
bookshop.org/p/books/toad...

Toadstones

Check out Toadstones - <p>Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star's lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper's final job for her late employer. An exhumation to ...

bookshop.org

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 3h

important to lock in those inflection points in one's path!

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 4h

mil gracias for the kind words, comrade!

Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 4h

sorry fucked up the copy paste
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Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation

With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert...

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 4h

there's actually a sale over at paradise editions (the publisher) right now!
go.bsky.app/redirect?u=https%3A%2F%2Fparadiseeditions.net%2Fproducts%2Fnight-fears-weird-tales-in-translation

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 4h

right now it's just Toadstones and Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation...been rackin' up rejections for a second collection of short stories at various presses, but maybe one day!

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 4h

my favorite hodgson, extremely weird and haunting! hope you dig it!

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 4h

the free shipping bookshop dot org sale is a good time to buy my collection of original weird fiction which i guarantee you'll love
bookshop.org/p/books/toad...

Toadstones

Check out Toadstones - <p>Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star's lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper's final job for her late employer. An exhumation to ...

bookshop.org

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Kris Straub (كريس)📍PAX Aus @krisstraub.com · 19h

study shows 99.999% of earth’s water and energy—that could be used to advance AI—is being squandered by people who haven’t developed a single LLM

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 1d

The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press @hachetteus.bsky.social! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚

Paperback editions of A Natural History of Empty Lots in a box

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 18h

serves 12 to 14!? christ, cookie puss is fucking huge

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 19h

Signing up for the 2026 Malarkey Book Club won’t save the publishing industry or the world but it will bring good mail to your house next year.

malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...

2026 Book Club — Malarkey

Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 20h

My mom and my cousin read it and said they really enjoyed it! Order The Barre Incidents today and you can tell me if they’re only saying that bc they are my family! You can even tell me to eat shit if you don’t like it.*

*jk don’t, I’m as sensitive as a wet blade of grass at an outdoor festival

Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 7d

Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Cover for The Barre Incidents by me (Lauren Bolger). A statue’s face with a graveyard superimposed behind it. Cover art is by Matt Revert!

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 21h

every time i'm forced to think about bari weiss i have to confront the fact that a person can become so vile and twisted that they are functionally a different species from me. impossible to imagine what the inside of her head must be like, an alien morality centered purely around greed and hate

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 21h

zeppo hemsworth looks/sounds terrible as geralt, btw, truly baffling casting

Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 21h

first two seasons were excellent, probably the best fantasy on teevee ever. third season was bad, and it's gonna suck for two more, apparently. real shame!

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 21h

just saw that Witcher Season 4 trailer and, gotta say

they should've paid Henry Cavill whatever the fuck it took to get him to come back

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trans people are experiencing genocide in the US and UK @oh-that-amy.bsky.social · 22h

and there we have it. Gavin Newsom is exactly who we told you he was.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 22h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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