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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 19h

If you missed the livestream with @thomasha.bsky.social last night talking about writing and Uncertain Sons, you can watch the whole thing on YouTube. It was such a fun conversation. Give it a listen and be sure to also check out his story collection for yourself.

Writers and Readers - with Thomas Ha

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 2d

Tomorrow!

Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 16d

Mark your calendars!

I'll be going live on YouTube with @thomasha.bsky.social in a couple weeks to discuss Uncertain Sons and Other Stories from @undertow.bsky.social.

I'm very excited and would love to have you join us live or replay the event afterwards on YouTube.

Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 5d

I always look forward to your posts when we get a new release

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 5d

Yeah they're like opposite ends of the spectrum for scope and identity, which I don't dislike but it's a listening leap going from something as expansive as TTPD to as intimate as TLOAS

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 5d

I might move a couple around, but would have a pretty similar list. I wouldn't say I dislike Wood but that is a wild track to just drop into this album

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 5d

I can see the similar sound between those two

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 5d

Eldest Daughter and Fate of Ophelia in the top two spots right now.

The entire first section really is a vibe, Opalite included, I confess.

Ruin the Friendship and its Nashville setting.

And the last track really does tie it all off nicely

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 5d

Absolutely agree on those song picks

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 5d

I'm liking the whole album more with each listen. I had been curious what it would end up being about beyond the aesthetic

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 6d

Just in case anyone else got hit with a windows 11 update and want to bonk the bad program: www.tomsguide.com/computing/so...

How to disable Copilot in Windows 11

Completely disable Copilot in Windows 11

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 16d

Mark your calendars!

I'll be going live on YouTube with @thomasha.bsky.social in a couple weeks to discuss Uncertain Sons and Other Stories from @undertow.bsky.social.

I'm very excited and would love to have you join us live or replay the event afterwards on YouTube.

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 18d

Some Saturdays just call for watching Weird Al play the local amphitheater

A photo of Weird Al from a concert where he is playing the accordion

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 18d

Nashville life is walking somewhere downtown and ending up next to the same screaming tavern on wheels at every intersection for 5 blocks.

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · 18d

Hot damn this is excellent

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 18d

"Look at the fucking thing. Really look. See the horns, claws, that festering skin, all those yellow fangs, those fucked-up eyes?

Big fucking deal."

Read 'What to Do When A Demon is Talking Shit at You' by @cindyphanauthor.com

inner-worlds.ghost.io/what-to-do-w...

What to Do When A Demon is Talking Shit at You by Cindy Phan

The demon rears on its splayed legs and slaps its naked thighs, leering as it talks shit at you with its long, forked tongue. So listen, and listen good:

inner-worlds.ghost.io

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 20d

This is staggering.
Dismantling the right wing propaganda machine is imo one of the biggest and most vital obstacles to the future of this country.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 20d

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 21d

No - this is not the latest satirical headline at @theonion.com This is reality for the 49,000+ students who attend Lamar Consolidated ISD schools.

www.txftrp.org/pinkalicious...

Pinkalicious and 700+ other titles removed from Lamar Consolidated ISD, near Houston

No - this is not the latest satirical headline at The Onion. This is reality for the 49,000+ students who attend LCISD schools.

www.txftrp.org

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21d

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control.

It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 21d

This is such a lovely livestream conversation. The book is going straight into my cart, and such a good reminder of why I love the writing community. Especially these days.

Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 21d

"I wanted to write a character who, on my worst days, could inspire me to at least try."
-Martin Cahill talking about Audition for the Fox and stories about what it means to keep moving when the world feels terrible.

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Josh Gauthier @jgwriter.joshgauthierwriter.com · 23d

"Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"

An image of Large Marge from Pee-wee's big adventure, face distorted with giant eyes and a gaping mouth. They're old special effects but enough to scare an unsuspecting child all the same.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 27d

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 26d

Remember how scary it was for the 36 hours where it felt like the Right could explode into violence as a repercussion of an assassination? That's what our trans brothers & sisters feel like every fucking day

We have to protect them at all costs. They are our line in the sand; not a bargaining chip.

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Rep. Gloria Johnson @votegloriaj.bsky.social · 27d

🚨🚨🚨 I need to talk about censoring of info in TN at the K-12 and college level. It seems Tre Hargett’s 1984 Ministry of Truth has arrived.

There is a data base for students nationally called Opposing Viewpoints. It provides reputable sources to both sides of an issue for students for research.

a piece of paper with the words censorship education is denying education written on it

ALT: a piece of paper with the words censorship education is denying education written on it

media.tenor.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 28d

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Text mounted on a screen reads as follows:

WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION?

1. DOESN'T MATTER
2. WHO CARES
3. MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S PROBLEM
4. NOT YOURS

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28d

I love how the second part of Banksy's newest mural, which is a comment on censorship and oppression, was done by the very people he is critiquing.

Their response was predictable, and relied upon, and imho has created a masterpiece.

Mural on a greyish white wall. Nearby iron railings painted black. A depiction of a judge beating a person who is on the ground holding, I think, the scales of justice. It has been painted over, but a dark grey shadow remains. They look ghostly, or like shadows burned into the wall

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