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@abivasquez.bsky.social
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vocalist of UNDERDARK//co-founder of FIXER OPTIONAL//author of DEPRESSING SCI FI

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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Oh yeah since I remembered my password: These books make great Christmas presents for the cynical paranoiac in your life fixeroptional.itch.io
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Fixer Optional
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Overheard a great interaction between the guys renovating the flat next to mine. "You have never pet a cat? You must try, it's so good."
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BG Hilton - Author @bghilton.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I do not like ChatGPT, Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free. I will not use it for a thing, Especially not for referencing. It cannot help me with email, It’s law advice can lead to jail. It cannot bring back my late Nan, I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The further we stray from DIY gigs, the more we run into people who's idea of being "alternative" is just replicating the same plastic celebrity worship bullshit as mainstream culture, just in a black t shirt
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Ben Sellers @mrbensellers.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The government's climbdown on day one rights against unfair dismissal was sold to us as a way out of the impasse on the Employment Rights Bill. Pragmatism, eh? Well guess what? The business lobby (via the Lords) isn’t giving up & is pushing for more concessions. Funny that. 🤔
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Every young generation explores retro technology because it’s cheap and plentiful and exotic but it’s more alluring when current technology gets actively shittier, more evil and invasive.
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seven @handle.invalid · 08/12/2025
The harder they try to make AI useful the less useful it is…
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Gammon Four Lions should ne a thing. There's like a million and one hard-hitting dramas like This is England and American History X that portray neo-nazis as variously dangerous and/or full of tragic pathos; I want one that portrays them as bumbling dipshit facebook dads and coked up lads on tour.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
There were also a group of men (landlords and company directors) who had a good laugh by burning an effigy of Grenfell, and I can't imagine that in China these men would continue to live upper middle-class lives. People genuinely get 'cancelled' there, and sometimes that's for the best.
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
What a great headline
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
You are now picturing a 2017 sad Bart Simpson edit
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Actual artists have a community, genAI users just have a fistful of hot dogshit an Epstein associate is losing billions of dollars on.
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Fuck off all stores I don't care if it's black friday Stop emailing me
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
There are entire books about this! And the answer is “bragging to journalists about how cleverly they had shitehoused their own party to defeat”, “sending Times journos pissy WhatsApps” and “fretting in case someone shouted ‘LOL you suckup wankers’ when they unveiled the sixty foot Union flag”.
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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
at Fixer Optional we do negotiate with Terrorists. And by terrorists we mean @abivasquez.bsky.social 's laptop
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hey everyone, please consider checking out my novella, it's really good and only £3.99. Support the punx, buy a book etc
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 17/11/2025
Donald Trump is the planted flag of every crook and rapist. He is the lost cause of the south. He is the vice of the slave master, the shadow that clouds his superego at all hours, the sweat on his brow that makes him never end in his gluttony, lust, and greed. He is spiritual excrement incarnate.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 16/11/2025
The rise of AI-as-everything and the rise of violent-extremism-as-politics are two sides of the same coin, and not because of any actual intersection between the people making AI and the people doing extremist politics—they are just the same abdication of doing the work to have an actual society.
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Starmers entire project is one of profound pessimism and borderline irrational hatred of idealism as a corbynite value. He (or mcsweeney or whatever) basically has the entire country trapped in a doom spiral because he thinks thats a mature decision
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Feels very 21:00 for 16:00. Winter enjoyers, defend this
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
When a big media company uses genai slop instead of human made art, it is not just taking a job away from one artist to make that thing but *multiple* artists involved in all the things. The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
If I was a journalist right now I would deadass ask donny if he spits or swallows
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know." Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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SJ Klapecki (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 18/08/2025
"I supplied everyone but the typewriter factory. I sold AI generated essays to students, AI detectors to teachers. I even sold image generators to the chuds when they were memeing on my fellow techbros. Never sold to Peter Thiel - not on any moral grounds, in those days his checks always bounced."
Photo of Nicolas Cage smoking a cigar on a bullet-strewn, smokey battlefield, from the movie "Lord of War"
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
okay see this has made me want to destroy palantir now. i did not think palantir was up to any good before, but this guy? talking like this? i think palantir should be destroyed and I'm reconsidering my opinion on involuntary committal
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Sorry Elon, the figure you needed to earn to make your family talk to you was actually two trillion. Good luck earning the rest
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Sorry to use terms like 'Libidinal Economy' on the app for weird radlibs and distressing Furry art, but the mechanism here is building structures in which a person can have fun - posting botched surgery pics at trans people, gabbing with your TERF gal-pals, proximity to JK Rowling...
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Pls considering buying my sci fi horror novella
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
When Have A Nice Life said "arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads" I felt that
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
NEW BOOK OUT This one's got: - forced disfigurement surgery - wrench beatings - revenge plots - a suspiciously friendly cult - fashionistas This one was fun to write, check it out if you're into Rant era Palahniuk, violent revenge dramas, or Cannibal Corpse fixeroptional.itch.io/nils-shroud
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Nil's Shroud by Fixer Optional
Second cyberpunk novella from Abi Vasquez.
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Yer da calls it X now
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The USSR produced some of the best cinema I've seen in my life, to be quite honest, and it's partly *because* of the system it was produced under. Imagine trying to get Stalker made in the Hollywood ecosystem
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Doing yoga to the most underproduced lo-fi chaotic sk0rm they got on Deezer like I'm trying to achieve inner peace via overstimulation
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Tbh if you've even seen an advert in the last year, that's on you. Skill issue
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Chatgpt dissolves your mind into sludge the same way being a billionaire does, but the difference is *you* will face consequences for it in a way no billionaire will. Any random billionaire can afford to happily keep rotting their mind into absolute slush in a way you can't.
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I survived 2012 UKHC bruh of course I know what a rat king is
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Sam Altman is a an incestuous rapist and I feel like not enough people talk about it
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tante @tante.cc · 28/10/2025
We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Chatgpt is not only the exact opposite of a disability aid, not only does it *induce* the very disability its evangelists claim it helps, but this is very extremely obvious to everyone else.
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Happy Halloween from the "good" "folks" at Fixer Optional itch.io/s/165717/spo...
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VIRTUA POP | Spooky-ass sale or whatever by Fixer Optional
A sale by Fixer Optional, 50% off VIRTUA POP
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Been saying this about the net for years now www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnQX...
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Single Point of Failure (The Amazon Disaster)
YouTube video by Upper Echelon
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
New story announcement! You won't want to miss this if you like wrench beatings fixeroptional.co.uk/2025/10/21/n...
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New Release, next month read this
Our second release, Nil’s Shroud by Abi Vasquez, will be hitting general release early November. Hit the link below for more details, including how you can get early access, and a legitimate greent…
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Fantastically written article here, although it's a bit on the heavy side (maybe give it a miss if you're feeling fragile) www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
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Guidance from EHRC should be challenged by the Labour government
I WRITE as a feminist and
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Maybe not everything should be online. Maybe not everything should be controlled by one company. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
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Still 'significant errors' for some services after outage, Amazon says, but underlying problem fixed - live updates
More than 1,000 companies have had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Keir Starmer being outflanked on the left by Israeli police was, in fact, on a lot of people's bingo sheet. A remarkable mind.
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Just spent five minutes talking about "horse croquet' because I forgot the word 'polo'
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Blocked nose got me talking like a 80s anime dub
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
7 is a lot of times to date someone who turned out to be evil. I think Ramona Flowers might be caught in a destructive pattern she should address
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Abi @abivasquez.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Trying out "Taylor swift is drake for boys" discourse. Going pretty well so far (12 death threats)
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