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A godforsaken author (He/Him). Fantasy-horror novella THE MYSTERY OF THE PALE KING, first half of the DEADLIGHTS DUOLOGY, out now via Timber Ghost Press. Sequel DWELLER IN DARKNESS out Q4 2026: https://linktr.ee/samflynn7
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@timberghostpress.bsky.social) is one of @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social's Best Reads of 2024. Grimdark is a bucket list publication for me and to be recognized by them is surreal and incredible.
@timberghostpress.bsky.social) is one of @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social's Best Reads of 2024. Grimdark is a bucket list publication for me and to be recognized by them is surreal and incredible.
In the newest DC Absolute comics it's the Joker and a bunch of other villains who form the Justice League. Life imitates art and all that
January 22, 2026 at 12:07 PM
In the newest DC Absolute comics it's the Joker and a bunch of other villains who form the Justice League. Life imitates art and all that
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Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
January 22, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
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a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 AM
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
I loved the new 28 Years Later and had to write about it. TL;DR: Learn to grieve healthily or zombies will eat you
Symbolism of '28 Years Later' and 'The Bone Temple' | Sam Flynn
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January 21, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I loved the new 28 Years Later and had to write about it. TL;DR: Learn to grieve healthily or zombies will eat you
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Another secret! Book reviews don't have to be extensive and thoughtful and deep. You can give a book 5 stars and say nothing, or you can say, "Really enjoyed it!" or "Lovely worldbuilding!" or "One of my favorite authors!" No one expects a thesis. Every review helps.
January 21, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Another secret! Book reviews don't have to be extensive and thoughtful and deep. You can give a book 5 stars and say nothing, or you can say, "Really enjoyed it!" or "Lovely worldbuilding!" or "One of my favorite authors!" No one expects a thesis. Every review helps.
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Every time there’s slightly irregular news from the White House.
January 21, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Every time there’s slightly irregular news from the White House.
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You can spin "AI is amazing!" all you want. But the proof is in the pudding. Slop is called slop for a reason, hallucinations make info gathering worthless, and all for a price that isn't remotely profitable. Make a better product, Microsoft, and stop telling us to use your worthless shit. AI blows.
January 21, 2026 at 4:17 AM
You can spin "AI is amazing!" all you want. But the proof is in the pudding. Slop is called slop for a reason, hallucinations make info gathering worthless, and all for a price that isn't remotely profitable. Make a better product, Microsoft, and stop telling us to use your worthless shit. AI blows.
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In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
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"It is not mainline liberalism that has lost adherents; it’s everyone else. Across the world the center-right has disappeared, virtually overnight."
Legacy media missing this point has been so important in how they've covered politics in the past decade -- to the far-right's advantage.
Legacy media missing this point has been so important in how they've covered politics in the past decade -- to the far-right's advantage.
this isn't a 'post-liberal' world - the ideology displaced by fascism was conservatism
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:16 AM
"It is not mainline liberalism that has lost adherents; it’s everyone else. Across the world the center-right has disappeared, virtually overnight."
Legacy media missing this point has been so important in how they've covered politics in the past decade -- to the far-right's advantage.
Legacy media missing this point has been so important in how they've covered politics in the past decade -- to the far-right's advantage.
Sure, I have stories to finish, but 2,000 words on the symbolism of 28 Years Later and The Bone Temple was apparently taking up hard drive space in my brain. What am I going to do, not write it down?
January 20, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sure, I have stories to finish, but 2,000 words on the symbolism of 28 Years Later and The Bone Temple was apparently taking up hard drive space in my brain. What am I going to do, not write it down?
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I have really really bad news for you about Shakespeare, Samantha
Personally if I was Anne Boleyn I’d be far more upset that someone made a musical about my head getting cut off
January 19, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I have really really bad news for you about Shakespeare, Samantha
Onto the cover design phase for the next book!
January 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Onto the cover design phase for the next book!
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Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...
January 16, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...
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it's the big day
January 14, 2026 at 11:16 PM
it's the big day
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Elon Musk: "I'm a free speech absolutist!"
Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned."
Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?
Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned."
Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?
January 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Elon Musk: "I'm a free speech absolutist!"
Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned."
Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?
Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned."
Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?
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was not expecting the introduction section on the dilbert wikipedia to conclude quite this brutally holy SHIT
January 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
was not expecting the introduction section on the dilbert wikipedia to conclude quite this brutally holy SHIT
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“Be not afraid.”
January 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
“Be not afraid.”
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The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 AM
The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.
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"organized gangs of wine moms us[ing] Antifa tactics" should be a genre
this could be the next heated rivalry
this could be the next heated rivalry
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
"organized gangs of wine moms us[ing] Antifa tactics" should be a genre
this could be the next heated rivalry
this could be the next heated rivalry
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you’re already ahead. stay with it. minneapolis stripped these forces of legitimacy (a battle other cities won’t have to repeat). remember they are completely outmanned. their only real advantage is their organizational capacity. out-organize them & the illusion of control will collapse.
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 9:03 PM
you’re already ahead. stay with it. minneapolis stripped these forces of legitimacy (a battle other cities won’t have to repeat). remember they are completely outmanned. their only real advantage is their organizational capacity. out-organize them & the illusion of control will collapse.
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At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
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Timeline cleanse: Mamdani governing like Fred Rogers (compliment).
Notice it’s two of the people in American public life who risked the most to support Palestine who are out here exemplifying kindness and joy and love with kids more than just about any other American politician ever could.
Notice it’s two of the people in American public life who risked the most to support Palestine who are out here exemplifying kindness and joy and love with kids more than just about any other American politician ever could.
January 9, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Timeline cleanse: Mamdani governing like Fred Rogers (compliment).
Notice it’s two of the people in American public life who risked the most to support Palestine who are out here exemplifying kindness and joy and love with kids more than just about any other American politician ever could.
Notice it’s two of the people in American public life who risked the most to support Palestine who are out here exemplifying kindness and joy and love with kids more than just about any other American politician ever could.
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Trump’s secret police thought she was a “fucking bitch” so she had to be put down, that’s what they and the ruling party believe. Most of them are too cowardly to say it that bluntly
January 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Trump’s secret police thought she was a “fucking bitch” so she had to be put down, that’s what they and the ruling party believe. Most of them are too cowardly to say it that bluntly
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This is all so fucking absurd. Oh yeah the kindly sweet poet and mother with a glovebox full of stuffed animals just decided to commit vehicular homicide. Are you out of your fucking mind
January 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
This is all so fucking absurd. Oh yeah the kindly sweet poet and mother with a glovebox full of stuffed animals just decided to commit vehicular homicide. Are you out of your fucking mind
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you know how if you try and make LLMs more racist, they also end up more sexist and pro-genocide? this is the human example of that. evil isn't a single thing, if you start down one path you keep ending up at the same destination.
January 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
you know how if you try and make LLMs more racist, they also end up more sexist and pro-genocide? this is the human example of that. evil isn't a single thing, if you start down one path you keep ending up at the same destination.