Mase An Hamberlin
@masonhamberlin.bsky.social
writer / Iowa City / professional amateur / nonfiction, comics, & Vispo / a sliced ham covered in glitter / (they)
https://allmylinks.com/mase-ham
https://allmylinks.com/mase-ham
Okay, actually going to attempt to use this account to promote my writing
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Okay, actually going to attempt to use this account to promote my writing
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No War on Chicago
No War Anywhere
No War Anywhere
No War on Chicago; No War Anywhere!
“The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to ga...
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
No War on Chicago
No War Anywhere
No War Anywhere
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Due to a new bill signed by NC Governor Josh Stein (a Democrat), the moratorium on our state's death penalties has been ended and may now proceed via *any* method. Welcome back, barbarity.
In the book, my essay “The False Evolution of Execution Methods” will be accompanied by a new essay by Lyle May. May interrogates capital punishment from his singular perspective; he has been incarcerated on North Carolina’s death row for over twenty years.
THEY LET ME WRITE ANOTHER BOOK
"You’re Not Overthinking It" is available for pre-order right now. It collects the most meaningful essays of my career alongside hundreds of new annotations on each piece’s creation, background, and legacy. Far more details below: www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking
"You’re Not Overthinking It" is available for pre-order right now. It collects the most meaningful essays of my career alongside hundreds of new annotations on each piece’s creation, background, and legacy. Far more details below: www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking
October 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Due to a new bill signed by NC Governor Josh Stein (a Democrat), the moratorium on our state's death penalties has been ended and may now proceed via *any* method. Welcome back, barbarity.
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
Really proud to have coordinated this reveal:)
🚨Cover reveal alert!🚨 "What Mennonite Girls Are Good For" by Jennifer Sears is coming from the University of Iowa Press on November 25, 2025. Read more about the book, and how the cover, designed by Trudi Gershinov, came to be on our website.
July 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Really proud to have coordinated this reveal:)
@worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
I love my horrible ink demon boys
I love my horrible ink demon boys
July 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
I love my horrible ink demon boys
I love my horrible ink demon boys
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I've been in TTRPGs for ten years, and I haven't made any money but I have made several lifelong enemies
June 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I've been in TTRPGs for ten years, and I haven't made any money but I have made several lifelong enemies
If you’re in Iowa City, plz come to this exhibition I put together with Simone. It’s v cool:)
March 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
If you’re in Iowa City, plz come to this exhibition I put together with Simone. It’s v cool:)
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don’t meet your heros. i finally saw the critters from redwall irl and they don’t even talk. they’re just pissing and shitting everywhere.
February 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
don’t meet your heros. i finally saw the critters from redwall irl and they don’t even talk. they’re just pissing and shitting everywhere.
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It's crazy that my zillion hours on the internet has left me with a simple, unshakeable belief:
If I see a product being advertised online, it is poor quality and should be avoided.
If I see a product being advertised online, it is poor quality and should be avoided.
January 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It's crazy that my zillion hours on the internet has left me with a simple, unshakeable belief:
If I see a product being advertised online, it is poor quality and should be avoided.
If I see a product being advertised online, it is poor quality and should be avoided.
Deeply enraged & holding on by my lil games! 🥳🫠 [where’s the emoji for cla*s warf*re?]
January 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Deeply enraged & holding on by my lil games! 🥳🫠 [where’s the emoji for cla*s warf*re?]
Help fund the next generation of bold, sharp, & unrelentingly talented writers:)
The NY Game Awards is for @nyvgcc.bsky.social, which helps mentor underserved and unhoused NYC kids and forge pathways for them to get narrative, game dev, and journalism jobs in this space.
Donate and support the cause! nygamecritics.com/donate/
Donate and support the cause! nygamecritics.com/donate/
January 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Help fund the next generation of bold, sharp, & unrelentingly talented writers:)
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TO MY CIS COMRADES: IT IS TIME TO STAND WITH YOUR TRANS SIBLINGS.
TO MY TRANS SIBLINGS: I LOVE YOU.
TO MY TRANS SIBLINGS: I LOVE YOU.
January 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
TO MY CIS COMRADES: IT IS TIME TO STAND WITH YOUR TRANS SIBLINGS.
TO MY TRANS SIBLINGS: I LOVE YOU.
TO MY TRANS SIBLINGS: I LOVE YOU.
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I wish I knew who made this so I could give credit, but it makes me laugh every time I see it
January 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I wish I knew who made this so I could give credit, but it makes me laugh every time I see it
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i’m terrible at math/with numbers in general (can barely remember my own phone number), so of course i decided to write a love poem in the form of a mathematical formula. here’s my other new poem in Quarterly West, “Formula for a Day”—
January 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
i’m terrible at math/with numbers in general (can barely remember my own phone number), so of course i decided to write a love poem in the form of a mathematical formula. here’s my other new poem in Quarterly West, “Formula for a Day”—
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the funniest thing about bluesky is that eventually, you're going to run into somebody who claims that they know all 26 letters of the alphabet. i'm sorry to burst your bubble, but: no. you don't. nobody does
January 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
the funniest thing about bluesky is that eventually, you're going to run into somebody who claims that they know all 26 letters of the alphabet. i'm sorry to burst your bubble, but: no. you don't. nobody does
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god do i love a blazer with elbow patches. just so sensual
January 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
god do i love a blazer with elbow patches. just so sensual
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PRE-ORDER NOW!
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Available everywhere February 11
Pre-order now from your favorite local bookstore, or here: www.bookshop.org/a/1039/97988...
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Available everywhere February 11
Pre-order now from your favorite local bookstore, or here: www.bookshop.org/a/1039/97988...
January 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
PRE-ORDER NOW!
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Available everywhere February 11
Pre-order now from your favorite local bookstore, or here: www.bookshop.org/a/1039/97988...
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Available everywhere February 11
Pre-order now from your favorite local bookstore, or here: www.bookshop.org/a/1039/97988...
Interviewed for a University of Iowa job today, and they referred to the Iowa AWP booth as “the Death Star.”
January 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Interviewed for a University of Iowa job today, and they referred to the Iowa AWP booth as “the Death Star.”
Zoloft: activates in my bloodstream.
My brain: time to tweet.
My brain: time to tweet.
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Zoloft: activates in my bloodstream.
My brain: time to tweet.
My brain: time to tweet.
Support yr local libraries! Even if all books disappeared (plz keep the books), most of my day-to-day as a library worker is helping folks w/ two-factor authentication. It ~sounds~ good but stops lots of folks from accessing rental apps, legal docs, contact w/ loved ones abroad, & more
#libraries
#libraries
January 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Support yr local libraries! Even if all books disappeared (plz keep the books), most of my day-to-day as a library worker is helping folks w/ two-factor authentication. It ~sounds~ good but stops lots of folks from accessing rental apps, legal docs, contact w/ loved ones abroad, & more
#libraries
#libraries
My unhinged video game review / rant / interactive map got shortlisted for a journalism award???? Losing my mind ❤️
Here's your short list for the 2024 (and 10th annual!) Games Journalism Award. Winner to be announced at the NY Game Awards show, 1/21:
nygamecritics.com/the-games-jo...
nygamecritics.com/the-games-jo...
The Games Journalism Award
By Nick Capozzoli, NYVGCC Journalism Chair The Games Journalism Award is given to one journalist or critic for distinguished contributions to the field during the voting year. The selected journali…
nygamecritics.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
My unhinged video game review / rant / interactive map got shortlisted for a journalism award???? Losing my mind ❤️
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idk man the ‘difficult’ language in ‘difficult’ books is part of the point. don’t you WANT to learn to parse out interesting language and complex ideas? it’s all i wanted when i was a kid! i was so impatient for it!
January 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
idk man the ‘difficult’ language in ‘difficult’ books is part of the point. don’t you WANT to learn to parse out interesting language and complex ideas? it’s all i wanted when i was a kid! i was so impatient for it!
Sooooo Squid Game 2.
It was quite 2024. And 2025 and 2020. And 2016 and so on and so forth.
Was it…an allegory? 🤯
It was quite 2024. And 2025 and 2020. And 2016 and so on and so forth.
Was it…an allegory? 🤯
December 28, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Sooooo Squid Game 2.
It was quite 2024. And 2025 and 2020. And 2016 and so on and so forth.
Was it…an allegory? 🤯
It was quite 2024. And 2025 and 2020. And 2016 and so on and so forth.
Was it…an allegory? 🤯