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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos

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Writer, space explorer. Sazón with a little Opa! Sci-fi, sensual & literary. Janus Point Press #WatchOutForWormholes Now on Kickstarter: To Love Like Venus stephanieninapitsirilos.com, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theninagalaxy/to-love-like-venus

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 23d

And we're live!

Tx backer #1.

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To Love Like Venus is a literary novel in a near-future cyberpunk setting that’s all about love, relationships and how we cope with its heights and disappointments, whether partner, ideals or the symbols that become our children.

To Love Like Venus

Alita’s a whiz at helping AI extract marketable trends from human sex behavior datasets. How good is she at love? Literary Cyberpunk

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 12h

6 is associated with Venus. 6 days is what we have left on our Kickstarter for this novel that is literary fiction, literary romance at its core. Too early for reviews, but how about this on how I write? One more backer will breaks us into a new number.

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

In solidarity with @kickstarterunited.org .
@kickstarter.com Fred Wilson please work with your loveable employees who make projects we back and create happen. I 💚 Kickstarter. And I 💚 Union.

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Tuba horns pots and pans, and my homemade sign, are ready for the @kickstarterunited.org rally!

Help @kickstarter.com employees reach their goal!

Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Where:

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See you there today 12pm NYC!! Show love back to the employees who show love to our creative projects. Rep

Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 6d

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Kickstarter United is on strike!
We are not asking for a boycott! Creators & Allies: Please continue to support & use the platform
swipe for ways to show your solidarity

Why We're Striking
A codified 4-day work week.
We simply want to protect the way we've been working for over 3.5 years. The 4dww has proven benefits, such as increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction. It's part of what makes Kickstarter a special, innovative place to work.
Fair pay for our lowest-paid workers.
We're fighting for livable minimum salaries for roles that are undervalued by the market but crucial to keeping Kickstarter running. We believe none of our workers should struggle to make ends meet.

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

This book requires a trip to Venus, which means risk of immense heat, crushing pressure, and the risk of getting burned. Did we mention this is the planet of love?

Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Lucky 7 Days left to pick up an early copy of this literary romance set in a near-future: To Love Like Venus. (also $7 away from 700). Triple 7. Kickstart my heart by becoming a new backer!

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WBUR @wbur.org · 1d

In 2020, the folk musician Jake Blount launched into national awareness with the release of his debut album, “Spider Tales.” His reclamation of Black and Indigenous mountain music spoke to the nation’s racial reckoning, and led him to invent a new genre: Afrofuturist folk.

Jake Blount's dystopian folk music is an omen for the present

The Providence musician released his first album of Black mountain music during America’s racial reckoning. Amid Trump’s DEI purge and environmental collapse, his Afrofuturist folk hits different.

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Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social · 2d

The federal government is at war with Chicago. If we are ever to restore stability and justice, then those responsible deserve to be tried at The Hague.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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PLUGO @plugo.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know if you’ve heard but I’ve been adding additional swag to all physical rewards going out to the first 55 backers of UKGK.site - 42 of them have gotten us to 87% of our goal so there’s room for more people to get their own official UKGK sticker! #UKGK #kickstarter #comic

Hand holding a square stickers with rounded corners. White text in a black background reads UNDEAD KU MG FU GHOST KILLER.

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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.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Štěpánka Jislová and the Graphic Mundi team for Heartcore being included as a best comic of 2025 by New York Public Library. And congratulations to all the other artist teams listed in here. Good reading!

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Best New Comics of 2025 for Adults

Our expert comics committee read more than 300 titles to select their top 50 comics and graphic novels published in 2025. There’s something for everyone—whether you’re a first-time comics reader or a ...

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

My zines and chapbooks penned under ANDROMEDA are now available for purchase at NYC's Word Up Bookshop! www.stephanieninapitsirilos.com/2025/10/01/n...

Coming soon there too: the recent anthologies I have stories in.

Now available at Word Up Bookstore - Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos

Get your ANDROMEDA zines and chapbooks on, now available at Word Up Bookstore! Excited that they now have my works. Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria2113 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10032 The Zine Menu How to Talk to Welli About Goya: A Broken Pencil Zine Award finalist at Canzine 2021! If you have a cursing grandma

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Charlie Stickney @charliestickney.bsky.social · 3d

The Comic Shop has a bit of road left to travel. But the story of the fiction shop from some of the best non-fictional talent in comics including @josephpillidge.bsky.social @tiredsai.bsky.social @comicuno.bsky.social deserves more attention. So let's give it some www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

The Comic Shop Anthology: A Hit TV Show Tie-In!

The Comic Shop is a TV comedy about a quirky crew who will do anything to save their shop - including: starring in their own comic!

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 4d

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 4d

And some of you are apparently Venusian Dandies. As in you are picking up the reward tier that doesn't include the man himself, but acknowledges your own gifting and donation ways. Comes with lots of goodies, including a free Event Horizon ebook.

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 4d

let's share some materialism and glamor. Reward tiers!
Cyrus hand makes these book clutches. Like Charlie Brown with his kite, he's often cursing the jammed sewing machine. Limited Book Clutches with gold sea shell, in Aegean Blue Silk or Black Satin. Holds this 5.5 X 8.5 book & also 6 X 9

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 5d

That red brick building is Funston Elementary. They are gassing kids in their classrooms

Michael Roche @michaelroche.bsky.social · 5d

ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 6d

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 5d

I am so so close to earning out on this one. Like finish line in sight and not many books to sell. It could really help me at this juncture in my career.
Grab a copy 🙌🏽🙌🏽 it’s still Latinx Heritage Month and perfect for Halloween.

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Thx @gabino.bsky.social

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 5d

In case you're wondering whether the TRUST Act will protect anyone: Border patrol just attacked press and protesters inside ISP's designated "free speech zone" and the state police reacted by immediately establishing a protective perimeter for the feds

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 5d

moments ago: pandemonium.

a huge mass of border patrol agents, led by greg bovino, pushed the crowd of protesters and started grabbing people at random.

leading up to this, folks were just calmly standing in the grass, following isp’s orders.

multiple people detained. no clue how many.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

Yikes

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 6d

They also have a rally in Seattle, click the link above to learn more

Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social · 6d

I'm hoping they get a contract before, but if not: let's Kickstart for Kickstarter employees.
@kickstarter.com

kickstarterunited.org#what-you-can...

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