Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now
@understatesmen.bsky.social
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Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social Sign up for my newsletter at: https://the-trying-times.ghost.io/
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understatesmen.bsky.social
yo you should read my books, if The Locked Tomb is a goth girl they're her punk friend who reeks of tobacco

www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-E...
The cover of The Dawnhounds, showing a fungal city, and a ship sailing into the dawn mist. "Intensely humane and beautiful ... Stronach makes the impossible look easy ... I loved it" -- Tamsyn Muir The cover of The Sunforge, showing three figures in silhouette, standing on a hillside above a burning city. "A feverish cosmic knot ... absolutely compelling" -- Seth Dickinson
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vyriadurav.bsky.social
Hey if you want a romantasy about a dragon lady stealing away a prince from an abusive father to help her figure out she's always been a princess and then together they shatter the throne, you should buy my book. You want dragon dykes? I give you dragon dykes in a short n sweet package
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understatesmen.bsky.social
how tf is this guy one of the most evil men in the world, he looks like an uncle who keeps sending you NPR articles, coexist bumper sticker-lookin ass, taika waititi stump double who won't stop talking about vitamin water
Alex Karp, head of Palantir, a middle-aged man in a suit jacket and red cravat
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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takahemagazine.bsky.social
If you’ve ever been published in takahē, we want to add you to our starter pack! Leave us a comment or DM 🖤

go.bsky.app/MEWV1RM
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banalplay.bsky.social
When your custom character appears in a cut scene
The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots
understatesmen.bsky.social
my bluesky experience has been remarkably free of harassment and abuse, and I attribute that to moderation lists making sure MAGA/TERFs etc never get to see me in the first place. Is it against the rules to make a list of TERFs now?
understatesmen.bsky.social
the ONLY reason bluesky is bearable with this many followers is the existence of lists that let me filter out people I don't want around. if that's going away, I am too
understatesmen.bsky.social
part of the whole promise of bluesky, the reason we put up with lax moderation, was that we could moderate ourselves, and choose what we wanted and didn't want to see, and apparently that's a problem now that we don't want to see silicon valley's latest worthless garbage
carrion.bsky.social
just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I feel like that is important to remember. Because one day a lot of people will distance themselves from this very obvious, very much on the record monopsony and authoritarianism and claim it was all a conservative boogeyman.
understatesmen.bsky.social
yeah I started making it lunchtime yesterday and I STILL gotta wait another four hours? 😭

(did an overnight marinade in the braising liquid)
understatesmen.bsky.social
(not that he's a good man even when he's cogent, it's just that he's fundamentally a crook trying to strip the copper out of America's walls, he doesn't give a shit about anything that doesn't feed his ego or his bank account, whereas Miller and his goons actively want to kill)
understatesmen.bsky.social
it's been in around 20 minutes and the smell is already incredible
understatesmen.bsky.social
something less grim today, I suppose: on my journey to learn kosher cooking for my girlfriend, and I just put my first-ever brisket in the oven. Nervous about this one, but fingers crossed.
understatesmen.bsky.social
yeeeeah the obvious genuine confusion over Portland as well, definitely getting flashbacks to grandparents sundowning. Which honestly scares me more than regular Trump, because the Stephen Millers etc can lead him around like a dog.
understatesmen.bsky.social
look, Taylor has to release a dogshit album every so often, we don't get Lover or Folklore without a Reputation. This is the deal I have accepted, in my heart
understatesmen.bsky.social
You're so proud of your masculinity? You want to show everybody what a Real Man looks like? Now's the time to stand the fuck up, be brave, fight for something that matters. a Real Man wouldn't whine that it didn't work out like he planned, he'd knuckle down and fix it.
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“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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ziibiing.com
good. now they need to start the quest to find a shred of decency and the courage to use their platforms to stop him.
rollingstone.com
“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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chibdm.bsky.social
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
understatesmen.bsky.social
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pairofclaws.bsky.social
Everyone should go buy trans books before I get disappeared for bringing up the Trust and Safety gooning incident.
pairofclaws.bsky.social
On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
pairofclaws.bsky.social
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
understatesmen.bsky.social
Blood Angels is the funniest part of this to me. Oh yeah man they're macho, they'd love Trump, their lore is that they dream every night of their twunk daddy and the more they dream of him the more they feel the dark urge to sink their teeth into other men. They wear angel wings everywhere.
kierongillen.bsky.social
Statistically Backed Stereotypes for Each 40k Faction. Astounding. Motion for Deathwatch to be renamed to Hotwifewatch.

www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/c...
Text tong to fit - it's a list of subreddit memberships for each of the 40k factions. Here's a sample...

r/AdeptusCustodes: gundam (19.71), airforce (19.20), daytrading (16.56), sandersforpresident (9.82), centrist (6.93). Conclusion: Ex-military guys with schizophrenic politics.

r/AdeptusMechanicus: pathfinder_rpg (14.05), adhdmeme (7.27), dankleft (6.07), theowlhouse (5.88), kerbalspaceprogram (5.39). Conclusion: Current stereotypes are pretty much correct.

r/BloodAngels: preppers (15.98), airforce (15.74), menslib (9.04), asktrp (9.01), asktrumpsupporters (8.45). Conclusion: Black Templars got nothing on these guys.
understatesmen.bsky.social
it really does seem like they're out there starting fights trying to get pretense to start bigger fights
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kierongillen.bsky.social
Statistically Backed Stereotypes for Each 40k Faction. Astounding. Motion for Deathwatch to be renamed to Hotwifewatch.

www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/c...
Text tong to fit - it's a list of subreddit memberships for each of the 40k factions. Here's a sample...

r/AdeptusCustodes: gundam (19.71), airforce (19.20), daytrading (16.56), sandersforpresident (9.82), centrist (6.93). Conclusion: Ex-military guys with schizophrenic politics.

r/AdeptusMechanicus: pathfinder_rpg (14.05), adhdmeme (7.27), dankleft (6.07), theowlhouse (5.88), kerbalspaceprogram (5.39). Conclusion: Current stereotypes are pretty much correct.

r/BloodAngels: preppers (15.98), airforce (15.74), menslib (9.04), asktrp (9.01), asktrumpsupporters (8.45). Conclusion: Black Templars got nothing on these guys.