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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 17h

I wouldn't ever describe my anticipation of this movie as looking forward to watching it, but Daniel Maté's description towards the end of this segment sounds like this film is everything that it should be. The Zone of Interest comparison is what I wanted to hear.

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Everyone Should Watch Naza

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Albanese's proposal to water down Australian copyright to appease AI companies is a "terrible betrayal", writes Richard Flanagan in a blistering piece. "A government that doesn’t understand its nation’s culture is a government incapable of leading the nation." www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...

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The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan

Australians should be furious that Anthony Albanese has opened the floodgates to American AI companies

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saw the documentary NAZA, made in secret, with interviews of members of Israel’s intelligence services testifying and showing how they created a system to perpetrate genocide in Gaza. The filmmakers and their families have been threatened by Netanyahu himself. I wrote my thoughts here boxd.it/gvDEIR

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A ★★★★★ review of NAZA (2026)

Merely a film. A film that has led Netanyahu himself to threaten the citizenship and safety of its Israeli filmmakers and even their families, simply for the act of filming veterans of Israel’s intell...

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What's that word for being repulsed by thousands of Jews

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It’s difficult to put in to words how genuinely repulsive this is. Which is why they do it - to horrify and intimidate the Jewish community.
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lot of people have ossified thoughts about Chapo and what they were ten years ago, but I remain adamant that they have been EXCELLENT covering the genocide in Gaza (mostly Will and Felix) and the protests movements here. And this is proof that shit absolutely does matter to Palestine. Great job Will

Muhmmed Project - @ProjectMuhmmed
My dear brother William @willmenaker
Today, we did not send you an ordinary message of gratitude. Instead, we decided to write our gratitude on the walls of Gaza itself.
The young members of Project Mohammed painted your portrait on one of the walls still standing amid the destruction, because your voice has never been merely distant words to us.
Here, your voice has become water for thirsty children, bread for hungry families, and meals for people exhausted by hunger.
The war may have destroyed the buildings around us, but it could never erase the gratitude in our hearts. We wanted your portrait to remain here, among the people you stood beside during the most difficult days of their lives.
When the children saw the mural, we told them:
"This is William—a man who may be far away, but whose heart is very close to Gaza. His voice

When the children saw the mural, we told them:
"This is William—a man who may be far away, but whose heart is very close to Gaza. His voice helped bring you water and bread."
This is not simply a portrait on a shattered wall. It is a message from Gaza to you:
You did not witness our suffering and remain silent.
You helped the world see and hear us.
Because of you, our team has been able to give thousands of families a measure of hope and life.
From the children of Gaza, the young members of Project Mohammed, and the depths of our hearts: thank you, brother. You have become part of the story of this place, and your impact will remain engraved in our hearts—even if these walls disappear one day.
Support Project Mohammed directly:
chuffed.org/project/171225

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Whoaaa, how did I not know there was a new Susanna Clarke book coming until it was nearly upon us?

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

We have gotten three mandatory Birth of a Nations per year every year since 9/11 what the hell are you taking about

The poster for Daily Wire Run Hide Fight: Infidels, a film in which Jonathan Majors portrays a thinly veiled surrogate to Ben Shapiro, who of course fantasizes about being a large Black marine. He is a speaker at a colleges & has to kill Muslims

The poster for Uwe Boll’s Citizen Vigilante in which Uwe Boll plays a white American immigrant in Europe that is enacting vigilante justice on immigrants for being brown

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Whether you're left or right we can all agree that it rocks to mass murder Iranian schoolgirls

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Oliver Brackenbury @obrackenbury.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really enjoyed writing up our journey from just being a magazine to building our novella series with their character-driven focus, "Stand Alone, Fit Together" style continuity, and those gorgeous, gorgeous covers!

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

and everybody knows that if trans posters encourage the moderators to "enjoy" being rounded up, starved, beaten, raped, tortured and exterminated, there'll be a 100% hit rate on banning them, because the nicest thing you can say about those who run this site is they're indistinguishable from bigots

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Resident Evil was great. Really great. Most fun I've had in a packed cinema in years. Lots and lots of goo and slithering things.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I sincerely believe in my heart of hearts that reality TV holds us back as a species. more than that, it is an active regression

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Erin Savage @erinsavage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ms. Rachel making Ed Sheeran look like a little bitch

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Honestly it's been a killer year for books in general. In just the last couple of months I've knocked out Engines of Reason, A Plagued Sea, Fortune's Wake, The Demon Star, The Castle and the Cloister, Suplex & Sorcery, The End of Everything... and my stupid backlog has doubled in spite of that

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Man. Scott Hawkin's Blacktail is my feel bad book of the year, well worth the decade wait after Mt Char.

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

you will never, in your entire life, make as much money as the people who are incapable of coming up with ideas like "Miss Piggy flirts with Ryan Gosling" or "Pedro Pascal tries not to laugh at Fozzy's dumb jokes" make in a year

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 11/09/2026

I love books and archival research so goddamn much

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Questioning Jewish people about their credentials to work out if they are the 'the right kind of Jewish' is antisemitic, this is basic fucking stuff guys.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So while authors and publishers are arguing about divvying up the settlement money, Anthropic have got away with mass theft. Whatever they pay out is simply a cost of business. The shit machine they built with that theft still exists despite a complete lack of consent and blatant law-breaking.

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

ACAB includes the toxic lesbian exes on Bust Up, but it's still a very fun procedural and it makes me miss visiting the Paihia/Waitangi/Russel triangle and Aotearoa in general. It kind of gives me the same vibes as Deadloch, but more fuckups and less slapstick.

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have spruiked these guys before, but again, one of the better voices in genre, especially in an era where mass market paperbacks and shorter works of fiction are both struggling. It's consistently like finding new twists on well-loved comfort food.

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Stayed up til 2am beating FFVII:Rebirth. Really impressed with the whole game, more than I thought I'd be. It wrung a shocking amount of pathos out of a game where you get interrupted by a talking animatronic cat on the reg, and it brought me back to being a 13 year old again in a bit way.

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daria argento @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

sex isnt real. sex was invented by Trent Nails to promote Nine Inch Nails hit 1994 single "Closer"

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good news, I found the missing sad boy lit,

A massive stack of 67 Warhammer: The Horus Heresy paperbacks

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

'Just as Sauron concentrated his power in the One Ring, Morgoth dispersed his power into the very matter of Arda, thus the whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring' except it's about Rod Dreher's psychosexual hangups infecting everything somehow

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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Art preview for ✪†𓎩⚚ zine for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM by Goran Gligović (@gorangligovic.bsky.social)

A guard stops adventurers and demands more taxes

A wizard clutches a spellbook to his chest

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"oh aaron you're just exaggerating" no you do not know the weird joy that comes from old Italian dudes trying to show that they know more yiddish than you do while you're all waiting in line together at gray's papaya, you can never know it, I'm sorry

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I do not want Curtis Sliwa anywhere near a lever of power but god he has that certain NYC Guy energy that makes me sincerely miss living there. doubled over lmao at the chosen people back and forth and Adam keying in with the dead mom comment like he's just spotted the flashing red weak spot.

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CURTIS SLIWA Talks Violence, Vigilantism, Jewish

YouTube video by The Adam Friedland Show

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Too much modern culture only understands politics as a form of performance art and not as a form of individual and/or collective action, even though the latter is what politics actually is.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy,” Jane Fonda writes about her friend Dolly Parton. “That’s something of hers she’d want us all to take with us.” "To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you.” www.justjared.com/2026/08/25/j...

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Jane Fonda Pays Tribute to '9 to 5' Co-Star Dolly Parton, Sends Message to Her 'Gay & Trans Fans'

Jane Fonda is mourning the loss of her 9 to 5 co-star Dolly Parton. The 88-year-old actress released a statement moments ago after learning of the news of

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