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Kay Vaindal

@kayv.bsky.social

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weird fiction writer 🏆 | scientist by day | find me at the bottom of the Chesapeake | newest story pinned | find all my stories at link below: https://kayvaindal.com/

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · Aug 16

Issue 13 is out now! Check out my story about Chesapeake mermaids and fuckboy literature translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 5d

There could be a song where you get attacked by a shearwater who wants your wasabi peas

Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 5d

When’s swift gonna write an album about the era where you sit on an industrial pier and/or dredge and eat wasabi peas until your nose bleeds

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 7d

Flight attendant comes thru to ask me what I want to drink and I unstick my face from the window, eyes rimmed with red, verklempt at the beauty of the Chesapeake, to sniffle and say, “Diet Coke”

Eastern shore of Maryland, focused on Kent Narrows, from the wing of a southwest flight. Lots of farmland, lots of visible erosion

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 9d

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 10d

Every time I’m in an elevator I hope for it

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 10d

"Implicit in the 'let people enjoy things' mindset is the argument that people need mindless pleasure and distraction during terrible times. But what if those terrible times were a product of our dumbed-down, money-fixated culture in the first place?"

Orlando B ✍️ @sarkastiklover.bsky.social · 10d

Joke's on you, I never left it behind...

In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?

The lowbrow dominates culture and anyone who questions the status quo is dismissed as an elitist killjoy. But with bland algorithmic content on the rise, perhaps we consumers should start taking our a...

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 10d

Oh my God you're living out my dream

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10d

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

www.nytimes.com

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 10d

My shadow on a Sunday morning 🥲

Two barges. One with teal framing. Bright yellow rope and bollard. My shadow is tall and nice.

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 14d

Nothing pleases me more like a kudzu-covered telephone pole on a foggy day

Kudzu-covered telephone pole at a stoplight in Cecil county, MDx looks like a creature

And another! Harford county, MD. This one looks more Wispy and the vegetation is dead

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 14d

Nothing pleases me more like a kudzu-covered telephone pole on a foggy day

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 14d

omg, ECO24 got a starred Publisher's Weekly review!
"23 stellar tales"
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High-five to all the authors who make this collection so wonderful!
And an extra high-five to @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and @louisevans.bsky.social, whose stories are highlighted in this review as standouts 👀🫶

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 14d

"[ECO24] is a triumph. Every entry is equal parts thought-provoking, insightful, and impactful." ⭐

Thank you so much to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the starred review of ECO24! 💜🍄

Read the full review here: www.publishersweekly.com/9781955765404

Preorder your copy of ECO24 FOR 30% OFF below!⬇️

ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction

Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 11/18/25 A must-read annual showcase of the best nature-based science fiction and fantasy short stories published around the world every year. Speculative ecofictio...

www.apexbookcompany.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

$In truth, neither Congress nor the executive can claim to represent the undivided will of the American people. It is arguable whether such a thing even exists in the American system, as the public is not a single entity but an ever-shifting set of groups and interests. Congress represents the American people in their diverse and fractious unity, and the president represents a will of some of the people, briefly assembled for a fleeting purpose, to dissipate until it forms anew in the next election. It is simply a conceptual error to think of democratic legitimacy as a grant embedded in a single person. It’s better to see it as a relationship between our political institutions and the publics they serve, each responsive to the other as they work together to do the business of government.$

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 14d

As well as accepting submissions, don't forget that Translunar Travelers Lounge published Issue 13 in August - have you read it yet? translunartravelerslounge.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16d

Drill baby drill.

brennan @brennan.computer · 16d

huh, the entire alberta energy grid was free for 16 hours yesterday

wind power was overproducing, so it just... goes to zero apparently

For 16 hours on Sunday, Sept. 21, the entirety of power generation in Alberta, from Zama to Taber, and from Lloydminster to Edson, went for a price at less than one singular Timbit.

That’s right – the entire province (except for there they may be a side deal or two), every pumpjack, streetlight, factory, hospital, hard-wired welder, refinery, LRT, air conditioner, computer and hair dryer was powered at a cost of precisely zero dollars for two-thirds of the day.

That’s because during that time, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) pool price was $0 per megawatt-hour. And one Timbit at least costs something.

AESO pool price on Sept 21. AESO

Some people have questioned why Pipeline Online doesn’t report a lot about the times when wind power generation does well. The reality is there aren’t many days when wind output exceeds 50 per cent. but when it does, such as on Sunday, Sept. 21, there are other impacts. Wind did exceptionally well in Alberta throughout most of the day. And as a result, all power generators on the Alberta grid who received the pool price got paid precisely zero for 16 hours (and counting at time of writing.)

At 8:44 a.m., the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) declared a supply surplus in effect, but it ended at 10:12 a.m. Another supply surplus was declared at 10:14 p.m. It ended at 12:08 a.m.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19d

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away.

We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19d

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 22d

At least for me it’s like if I’m reading/writing nonstop, my output is gonna be dull. If I’m out at sea working some 12 h shift with a bunch of fuckos, then come home to frantically write in the single free hour I’ve got, that’s stuff that’s in conversation with the world instead of just other lit

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 22d

whoa somehow a whole-ass fortnight has gone by and i still havent shared the August newsletter here where i talk about stuff from @kayv.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social and more
buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

a collage of images related to the three short story publications discussed in this month's edition of Short Story Rex

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22d

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 23d

Judith Butler responds to Berkeley's sending names: "When Universities Become Informants: A Practice from the McCarthy Era Makes an Ugly Return"

www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Opinion | When Universities Become Informants

A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

www.chronicle.com

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 25d

I was inspired to begin my first painting in like 4 years

Museum placard. Man with foreparts of a pig - Greek (Poloponnese?), early 5th century BC.

Tiny sculpture of a man with the fore parts of a pig

My WIP watercolor painting of a man with the foreparts of a pig

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 28d

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Reuters @reuters.com · 28d

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l

Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28d

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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