Wilhelm 'Ducky' Drake
@wilhelmdrake.bsky.social
six diagnoses in a denim jacket.
writer. ND. Special Warfare vet.
always punch N@zis.
https://duckymonsterbaby.substack.com
writer. ND. Special Warfare vet.
always punch N@zis.
https://duckymonsterbaby.substack.com
Pinned
The US Navy has a DEI Problem
The Firing of the US Navy's first Female CNO
open.substack.com
I have one thing to say, Pete Hegseth and anyone else who says Admiral Lisa Franchetti was a DEI hire. Who says she didn’t deserve the position, that she was a terrible leader: You’re a shitstain on the American Flag. Fuck. You.
open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...
open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...
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Happy pub day to our brilliant Ubergroup author @angieellis.bsky.social !
October 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Happy pub day to our brilliant Ubergroup author @angieellis.bsky.social !
Congrats!
My story "His Soul Lives in the Air" is live on MetaStellar! I originally wrote this for a Writing Battle competition back in January.
read it: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
& my blog post: www.scmills-books.com/blog/open-vein
Thank you @metastellar.bsky.social & @writingbattle.bsky.social!
read it: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
& my blog post: www.scmills-books.com/blog/open-vein
Thank you @metastellar.bsky.social & @writingbattle.bsky.social!
His Soul Lives in the Air
Racing to see her dying grandmother, Rebecca confronts her fear of flying only to discover that some passengers carry more than just luggage from the past.
www.metastellar.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Congrats!
"Yes, you're one of the white men allowed to fetishize me," - things that probably weren't on McCloskey's bingo card
New book review: David McCloskey's "Damascus Station", from 2023.
"The coolest thing I noticed about David McCloskey's ‘Damascus Station’ is how he handles the POVs of the middle eastern characters..."
@swiftpress.bsky.social
#ubergroup
#bookreview
newbooks.substack.com/p/damascus-s...
"The coolest thing I noticed about David McCloskey's ‘Damascus Station’ is how he handles the POVs of the middle eastern characters..."
@swiftpress.bsky.social
#ubergroup
#bookreview
newbooks.substack.com/p/damascus-s...
Damascus Station
Book by David McCloskey (2023)
open.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Yes, you're one of the white men allowed to fetishize me," - things that probably weren't on McCloskey's bingo card
The Brits are funny.
New book review: Charles Beaumont's debut novel "A Spy Alone", from 2022.
"The coolest thing I noticed about Charles Beaumont's 2022 debut ‘A Spy Alone’ is..."
newbooks.substack.com/p/a-spy-alone
@canelobooks.bsky.social
@aspyalone.bsky.social
@netgalley.bsky.social
#ubergroup
#bookreview
"The coolest thing I noticed about Charles Beaumont's 2022 debut ‘A Spy Alone’ is..."
newbooks.substack.com/p/a-spy-alone
@canelobooks.bsky.social
@aspyalone.bsky.social
@netgalley.bsky.social
#ubergroup
#bookreview
A Spy Alone
Book by Charles Beaumont (2022)
open.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Brits are funny.
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Still reeling, but thrilled to share—I’ve won the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award!
This story is personal, and having it find a home at @baenbooks.bsky.social means the world to me. Eternal thanks to the judges and everyone who believed in it. 🐉⚔️✨
www.baen.com/pr-2025-fant...
This story is personal, and having it find a home at @baenbooks.bsky.social means the world to me. Eternal thanks to the judges and everyone who believed in it. 🐉⚔️✨
www.baen.com/pr-2025-fant...
Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award
Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award
www.baen.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Still reeling, but thrilled to share—I’ve won the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award!
This story is personal, and having it find a home at @baenbooks.bsky.social means the world to me. Eternal thanks to the judges and everyone who believed in it. 🐉⚔️✨
www.baen.com/pr-2025-fant...
This story is personal, and having it find a home at @baenbooks.bsky.social means the world to me. Eternal thanks to the judges and everyone who believed in it. 🐉⚔️✨
www.baen.com/pr-2025-fant...
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Beyond the 60 Minutes payoff & Colbert cancelation, an unprecedented capitulation: as part of merger agreement, new parent company agrees to install an official to "monitor bias" at CBS’s news division. CBS news will essentially be state controlled media.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
July 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Beyond the 60 Minutes payoff & Colbert cancelation, an unprecedented capitulation: as part of merger agreement, new parent company agrees to install an official to "monitor bias" at CBS’s news division. CBS news will essentially be state controlled media.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
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Colbert’s social media posts have long dragged behind those of Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, his late-night competitors.
Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation Monologue Nears 10 Million On YouTube—His Most-Watched Video In 6 Years
Colbert’s social media posts have long dragged behind those of Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, his late-night competitors.
www.forbes.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Colbert’s social media posts have long dragged behind those of Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, his late-night competitors.
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ICE has detained multiple U.S. citizens under new rules.
Brian Gavidia was questioned by ICE. They returned his phone, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗗.
“I stated I was American. He still attacked me. We are not safe, guys, not safe in America today.”
Citizens are not safe.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/u...
Brian Gavidia was questioned by ICE. They returned his phone, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗗.
“I stated I was American. He still attacked me. We are not safe, guys, not safe in America today.”
Citizens are not safe.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/u...
‘We are not safe in America today:’ These American citizens say they were detained by ICE | CNN
Elzon Lemus is always on the road for work, traveling to one job site from another. But since his brief encounter with federal immigration officers, he’s been on high alert.
www.cnn.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
ICE has detained multiple U.S. citizens under new rules.
Brian Gavidia was questioned by ICE. They returned his phone, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗗.
“I stated I was American. He still attacked me. We are not safe, guys, not safe in America today.”
Citizens are not safe.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/u...
Brian Gavidia was questioned by ICE. They returned his phone, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗗.
“I stated I was American. He still attacked me. We are not safe, guys, not safe in America today.”
Citizens are not safe.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/u...
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“It was a nightmare.”
“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”
“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”
Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.
Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...
“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”
“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”
Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.
Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...
‘It was a nightmare’: Venezuelans deported from US describe conditions in Salvadoran prison | CNN
For months, they say, they were beaten by prison guards, shot with pellets, deprived of adequate medical care and denied any due process inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement.
www.cnn.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“It was a nightmare.”
“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”
“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”
Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.
Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...
“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”
“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”
Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.
Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...
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No matter how much of a literary snob you think you are, your favorite classic was popular with someone or it wouldn't be a classic.
open.substack.com/pub/kcraybou...
open.substack.com/pub/kcraybou...
Failed Writer's Journey: Classics are Popular
The Mona Lisa is a shit painting.
open.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
No matter how much of a literary snob you think you are, your favorite classic was popular with someone or it wouldn't be a classic.
open.substack.com/pub/kcraybou...
open.substack.com/pub/kcraybou...
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I got a lovely review for Bitter over Sweet (@sfwp.bsky.social) from @libraryjournal.bsky.social! Thank you so much!
www.libraryjournal.com/story/Hawaii...
www.libraryjournal.com/story/Hawaii...
Hawaiian Tales | Short Story Collections
Two story collections offer powerful slice-of-life tales set in Hawai‘i.
www.libraryjournal.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I got a lovely review for Bitter over Sweet (@sfwp.bsky.social) from @libraryjournal.bsky.social! Thank you so much!
www.libraryjournal.com/story/Hawaii...
www.libraryjournal.com/story/Hawaii...
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Super proud to say that Ubergroup writer @lumchanmfa.bsky.social SOLD OUT all copies of her book this weekend! Rock on, Melissa!
March 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Super proud to say that Ubergroup writer @lumchanmfa.bsky.social SOLD OUT all copies of her book this weekend! Rock on, Melissa!
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Ubergroup writer @kcraybould.bsky.social shares mostly nonfiction musings (for now, he's got big things in the works we're excited to share with you soon) But they're very interesting. Check it out!
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Ubergroup writer @kcraybould.bsky.social shares mostly nonfiction musings (for now, he's got big things in the works we're excited to share with you soon) But they're very interesting. Check it out!
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Is everyone following this awesome podcast by Ubergroup writer @laurenferebee.bsky.social ? You should be!
Hi everyone in the world! Thrilled to be launching FEMME FUTURE PERFECT, a sci-fi/horror anthology podcast, in January 2025 with two amazing co-creators. We love followers, sharers, donaters... anyone who loves genre with a femme lens! #fictionpodcasts #audiodrama
Femme Future Perfect Podcast - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark
If you ever thought to yourself that what the world is missing is a scripted podcast series with a trippy, twisted, often feminist take on sci-fi and horror that follows in the footsteps of series lik...
seedandspark.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Is everyone following this awesome podcast by Ubergroup writer @laurenferebee.bsky.social ? You should be!
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Has everyone read these awesome stories by Ubergroup writer @aniking.bsky.social ? They're brilliant.
Absolutely stoked to have these three fire-themed stories up at Flash Boulevard today! And you can subscribe to get incredible stories in your inbox every week:
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/a...
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/a...
ANI KING: DELINQUENT
Flash fiction by Ani King Delinquent I am blowing white clouds from my mouth like rings of smoke and puffing more clouds through those rings and my teeth are ash-soft and everything comes out…
flashboulevard.wordpress.com
March 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Has everyone read these awesome stories by Ubergroup writer @aniking.bsky.social ? They're brilliant.
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Hi Folks,
I’m thrilled to be able to officially launch Dark Swarm Publishing today.
This is a project I’ve been working on behind the scenes since September last year, with the goal of providing a press which has bases in America, England and Austria.
A Thread:
I’m thrilled to be able to officially launch Dark Swarm Publishing today.
This is a project I’ve been working on behind the scenes since September last year, with the goal of providing a press which has bases in America, England and Austria.
A Thread:
March 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Hi Folks,
I’m thrilled to be able to officially launch Dark Swarm Publishing today.
This is a project I’ve been working on behind the scenes since September last year, with the goal of providing a press which has bases in America, England and Austria.
A Thread:
I’m thrilled to be able to officially launch Dark Swarm Publishing today.
This is a project I’ve been working on behind the scenes since September last year, with the goal of providing a press which has bases in America, England and Austria.
A Thread:
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(explaining having bluesky followers to Offline folks) imagine a lot of people on their phones, getting mad, at the same time
February 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
(explaining having bluesky followers to Offline folks) imagine a lot of people on their phones, getting mad, at the same time
I have one thing to say, Pete Hegseth and anyone else who says Admiral Lisa Franchetti was a DEI hire. Who says she didn’t deserve the position, that she was a terrible leader: You’re a shitstain on the American Flag. Fuck. You.
open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...
open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...
The US Navy has a DEI Problem
The Firing of the US Navy's first Female CNO
open.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I have one thing to say, Pete Hegseth and anyone else who says Admiral Lisa Franchetti was a DEI hire. Who says she didn’t deserve the position, that she was a terrible leader: You’re a shitstain on the American Flag. Fuck. You.
open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...
open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...
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Trump 'sucking Elon Musk's toes' AI clip playing on screens at Washington's Department of Housing in apparent hacking.
msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Screens at the HUD were hacked, with the bizarre message "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING" & an AI-generated video of Trump toe-sucking Elon Musk in the background.
msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Screens at the HUD were hacked, with the bizarre message "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING" & an AI-generated video of Trump toe-sucking Elon Musk in the background.
February 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Trump 'sucking Elon Musk's toes' AI clip playing on screens at Washington's Department of Housing in apparent hacking.
msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Screens at the HUD were hacked, with the bizarre message "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING" & an AI-generated video of Trump toe-sucking Elon Musk in the background.
msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Screens at the HUD were hacked, with the bizarre message "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING" & an AI-generated video of Trump toe-sucking Elon Musk in the background.
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CNN: The Office of Personnel Management formally notified agencies this afternoon that the “What did you do last week” email sent over the weekend is voluntary and failure to respond will not equate to a resignation, according to an email obtained by CNN.
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
February 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
CNN: The Office of Personnel Management formally notified agencies this afternoon that the “What did you do last week” email sent over the weekend is voluntary and failure to respond will not equate to a resignation, according to an email obtained by CNN.
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I have one thing to say, Pete Hegseth and anyone else who says Admiral Lisa Franchetti was a DEI hire. Who says she didn’t deserve the position, that she was a terrible leader: You’re a shitstain on the American Flag. Fuck. You.
open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...
open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...
Under MAGA, Good is a DEI Hire
The Firing of the US Navy's first Female CNO
open.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I have one thing to say, Pete Hegseth and anyone else who says Admiral Lisa Franchetti was a DEI hire. Who says she didn’t deserve the position, that she was a terrible leader: You’re a shitstain on the American Flag. Fuck. You.
open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...
open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...