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Kurella De'vil is in the Details

@kurellian.bsky.social

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Nebula and Sturgeon Award Finalist. Wrote I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY (Lethe Press), WHEN I WAS LOST (Trepidatio), and THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS (Lethe Press). Got more stories, essays, and poems at JordanKurella.com. He/Him. GenAI is right out.

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 24d

gosh, what a wonderful thing to see when i wake up. if you want to listen to Premee (you do), you can get THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS at this link here:

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Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 13d

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 10h

happiest of book birthdays!!!!!

Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Book Birthday to @dmbeucler.bsky.social 🥳 It is always so exciting to see your words making it out into the world! Congratulations Denise!!! 💙 #debut2025 #bloodmagic @booksfromscotland.bsky.social

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 16h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder for UK readers: the ebook of Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale for just 99p this month at every online retailer!

Snap it up now at
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Wooing-Witch...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
and Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wooi...

#romancelandia

An open e-reader shows the gorgeous UK cover of Wooing the Witch Queen in color on its screen. The e-reader is set on a white sheet beside a rose gold-colored tray wiht a cup of either very dark coffee or hot chocolate inside. Two ivy branches trail around the tray.

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 1d

REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books!

You can request a copy here:

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I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

Get an e-ARC of SONG OF SPORES!

This is for reviewers to request a copy (epub, pdf) of the weird trans, intersex space opera book Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, Broken Eye Books (upcoming Nov 4 2025). Please do not self-reject :) I ...

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Lara Elena Donnelly @larazontally.bsky.social · 1d

There's a lot of stupid shit happening in the world but we still decided to start a small press. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

Homeward Books: The home for books without a home

Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.

www.kickstarter.com

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 22h

Exciting news! My novel Plague Birds, which was a finalist for the Nebula & Philip K. Dick Awards, will be rereleased by Apex Books @apexmag.bsky.social in an new edition with extra content in June 2026. And a sequel will be published by Apex in Oct. 2026. 1/
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

Cover of Plague Birds by Jason Sanford, which was a finalist for the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Bookshop has free shipping today and tomorrow! It's a great time to pick up my latest, Wearing The Lion! (But only if you want to see Heracles adopting every monster in Ancient Greece.)

Wearing the Lion

Check out Wearing the Lion - <b>"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. <i>Wearing the Lion</i> establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantas...

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 18h

Samuel Beckett was neighbors with Andre the Giant when Andre was a child, and would sometimes give him a ride to school

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 19h

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 23h

a screenshot of Danny DeVito from Twitter, June 24, 2022

"Supreme Court my ass"

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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 2d

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

Sam grinning and holding up a huge board version of the Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text

Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 23h

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 23h

ah yes!! the (all) genders

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LORD OF THE LOST x KÄÄRIJÄ - Raveyard (Official Video) | Napalm Records

YouTube video by Napalm Records

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 1d

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 1d

welcome to your 40s!!!
i've been having a great time 🖤

Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 1d

i dont care if Monday's blue

a photo of a white man sitting in a blue room with a blue LED sign behind him that says "when i was lost." his hands are curled in front of him, elbows leaning on thighs. he is wearing dark jeans and a black camp shirt with blue bugs on it. grey hair messy and sticking up on his head. he is looking off to the right of frame with a goofy grin.

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 1d

I pushed for this, but we ended up wording ours as "preference to human created materials" because "but what if an AI book gets really popular?" (it won't) or "what if it's just the pictures that are AI?" (still bad). But at least we addressed it.

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm genuinely starting to think that the people who say they want to see American's really fight back are really saying they want a specific kind of visible, stereotypical depiction of protest, and have zero zero tolerance for the kind of groundwork it takes to make change happen.

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 1d

For some reason missing the second image of this, but the full text of Williams' quote, including "you are taking in the Human Centipede of content", is in the alt text of this image.

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 1d

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.
And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 1d

oh gosh, Chloe!!!!

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 1d

sloptagging mod lists are frankly the only reason this website is even readable

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 1d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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