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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 8h

Did you know @nightmare-magazine.com turned 13 this month??!?
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

Editorial: October 2025 - Nightmare Magazine

We always try to pull out the stops in our birthday issues, and this year is no different. There’s no real theme this month---although regret and reparation loom large---but every single piece is out ...

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 6d

Hello all, my story "Enselfening" is now live in the new issue of The Dark!
I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏
www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/

Enselfening - The Dark Magazine

For several years, Winnie had been living on the north side of a town where nobody oriented themselves in terms of north, south, east, or west but rather in relation to the sea, the hills, and two riv...

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI i talked about stories by Carolyn Zhao @strangehorizons.bsky.social @suplexicon.bsky.social y.social @bruisermag.com @johnchrostek.com @hexliterary.bsky.social and Samanta Schweblin, plus songs by Stereolab, but not Goodnight Moon which I had nothing to say about buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

SHORT STORY REX Sept 2025

1. “The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet”, Carolyn Zhao Got sucked in by this one’s sort-of free-associating whimsy, its deceptively naif je-ne-sais-quoi....

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loarider @loarider.bsky.social · 1d

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future.' AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. 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."

Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

I agree a lot with this and it gets to an older understanding of liberalism I've mentioned before. It is more primal and "no kings" is actually a great slogan for it. The problem is "a king can do whatever he wants to you."

Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat https://theonion.com/u-s-military-carries-out-strike-on-scuffy-the-tugboat/

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat
Pentagon Claims Little Red Vessel Working With ‘Narco-Terrorists’

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 1d

This review for Goodnight Moon is a fucking masterpiece.

Margaret Wise Brown's nihilistic classic is a howling renunciation of God, here depicted as a "quiet old lady whispering 'hush'." There is no afterlife here, no reward, no release from the crushing mundanity of life. There is only the bowl of pathetic mush, the forlorn mittens, the abandoned balloon, the telephone that never rings. We live our lives in a "great green room", but at the end we accumulate nothing but the discarded trappings of our childhoods. Even love cannot offer solace: where are our families when the end comes? "Goodnight nobody," we call into the blackness.

There is no hope in the world without us. We know what will happen, when we close our eyes, to the young mouse left alone with two kittens. They will toy with him; they will torture him and leave his decapitated body on our pillow. But we will never awake to see its guts splayed out near our heads. "Goodnight air," the poem ends. "Goodnight noises everywhere." We fall, silently, into the void.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/900911702

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 1d

@sashabrown.bsky.social is a genius (and found this thanks to @nmwhitley.bsky.social's fantastic short story recs)

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to NM Whitley's kickass newsletter, which I also subscribe to! Subscribe here!

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Short Story Rex

where short stories are king and i recommend them a promotional vehicle of one NM Whitley

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Howdy Doomsday @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 1d

Let's do the fucking news.

Classic 1980s news screen "Now It's Everyone's Problem"

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

been ages since i heard it! honestly SC is up there as well as the ones people usually rate like Fishscale and Apollo Kids but one i think a lot of people incomprehensibly sleep on is The Pretty Tony Album

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI i talked about stories by Carolyn Zhao @strangehorizons.bsky.social @suplexicon.bsky.social y.social @bruisermag.com @johnchrostek.com @hexliterary.bsky.social and Samanta Schweblin, plus songs by Stereolab, but not Goodnight Moon which I had nothing to say about buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

SHORT STORY REX Sept 2025

1. “The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet”, Carolyn Zhao Got sucked in by this one’s sort-of free-associating whimsy, its deceptively naif je-ne-sais-quoi....

buttondown.com

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

RSS is, and I say this without hyperbole, an incredibly useful tool for psychological independence in the current environment. Newsblur, as Vajra suggests, is good, I use Feedbin, there are others. Most remarkably easy to set up.

Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 2d

Speaking of the well-deserved death of social media, I've started using Newsblur as my new RSS reader (had to clean up a depressingly large number of dead links, including to sites that still publish but no longer have RSS feeds) and that does still in fact provide a source of good internet

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

Ooohh yeah Liquid Swords also has a v hiigh quotient of all-timer tracks

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah SC is not even the best Ghostface record
(ftr I m either a Cuban Linx or a Return to the 36 Chambers guy depending in the day and my mood)

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Rando Chrontendo @randochrontendo.famiconsumer.com · 2d

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

random allusions to whales

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Steve Rasnic Tem @stevetem.bsky.social · 3d

I highly recommend this new collection by Thomas Ha from Undertow Books. Ha is one of the most exciting writers of short fantastic fiction to come along in years. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

Uncertain Sons and Other Stories — Undertow Publications

Sept. 2025 Cover art by Ove Tøpfer Trade paperback (284 pages) Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; ...

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 3d

Michael Lutz's classic tweet:

AMERICAN FASCIST: Your going to the camps
AMERICAN LIBERAL, CHUCKLING: *You're

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dataphreak 🇵🇸 @whyareyoubuyingclothesatthesoup.store · 4d

tonight's AI discourse lightning round:

1. LLMs are not people and do not have rights; many real people's rights are being violated in the development and deployment of LLMs

2. if you're really attached to using fake slurs for robots you might want to examine why that is

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 3d

if someone believes that ai chatbots are persons, they should be shunned into unbeing.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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