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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Had to play to show how fucking old I am. I learned to read because I wanted to play Ultima Underworld and FF2 so bad. my9games.com/en

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And for the last three days? With a short story. I’m so easy. I don’t feel good about myself, but it does feel good.

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Tessa Yang ~THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM~ @theptessadactyl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good moment to say: People keep telling me my novel has Widow's Bay vibes! ☑️ Eerie New England island setting ☑️ The locals have Something To Hide ☑️ Scary and funny ☑️ [Redacted for spoilers] but this plot point overlap kind of blows my mind 🤯

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The Jellyfish Problem

A marine biologist makes the discovery of a lifetime when called to rescue the inhabitants of a small Maine island being menaced by a giant, glowing jellyfish in this richly imagined, wholly original ...

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jfc I’m only forty, why do I feel like I’m going to die of bittersweet nostalgia? Is this the sickness that deranged the boomers?

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Patrick Kindig @pdkindig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The first review of 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘱𝘦 is in & it is really lovely! & don't forget--there's still plenty of time to preorder your own copy: shorturl.at/Tr4Bk!

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Agape

Patrick Kindig's Alma Award-winning second poetry collection, Agape, is a frank meditation on queer love and desire. A kind of erotic Bildungsroman in verse, it charts the development of a single gay ...

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Was reminded recently that calling Israel’s actions against Palestinians ethnic cleansing or attempted genocide will still derail a career in academia.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Three episodes into Furious and the most skin-crawling, horrifying thing that’s happened on-screen so far was a character massaging raw chicken with her hands and then handling her phone. I could not watch the screen.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here I am, already cheating on this novel with the next one.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In college, I had a SV techbro type as a teacher once. We had to write papers but I was an English major and he loathed English, said all it did was confuse people. He went through my papers and marked me down for every sentence that wasn’t simple declarative or compound with only one clause added.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Su, playing Assassin’s Creed Black Flag: “I UNDERSTAND NOW! I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU HAD TO SACRIFICE YOUR CHILD FOR FAVORABLE WINDS”

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RULE OF THREES RULE OF THREES RULE OF THREES

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Somehow never heard of Half-Blood Blues before, which is atrocious since it’s all my sweet spots—Weimar and jazz and the achey nostalgia of moving back and forth across vast stretches of time. Love it so far.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reading Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy for the first time since my early twenties and realizing just how closely my first attempts at writing aped his style. And then revising this novel and realizing how twenty years later I’ve mastered none of the techniques that comprise that style.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Full first draft of first novel done. Now I have to, like, make it good or whatever? How long could that take? A week or two? A month? Haha kidding, I’m crying preemptively.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In n Out and Culver’s both got their recognition and broke out of their regions, but when will the nation realize it craves a drive through for hot meat and cabbage bread and finally give Runza their due?

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Patrick Kindig @pdkindig.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Is this how you do an unboxing video?? My collection 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘱𝘦 doesn't officially come out until October, but you can preorder your own copy here: tinyurl.com/yvnu9as9!

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Can’t quite explain it, but I think my fiction has aesthetic overlap with Slayyyter lol

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Tessa Yang ~THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM~ @theptessadactyl.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM comes out June 2, and I would be beyond grateful if you'd preorder a copy! I spent four years writing my genre-blurring sea monster adventure. I can't wait for you to read it.

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The Jellyfish Problem

Check out The Jellyfish Problem - <b>A marine biologist makes the discovery of a lifetime when called to rescue the inhabitants of a small Maine island being menaced by a giant, glowing jellyfish in t...

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Obviously we can’t rely on elephants and orcas to solve our sociopathic oligarch problem, but I say we do whatever we can to give them the opportunity.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Feeling betrayed that all the potheads at the frozen-in-the-70s hippie university I did undergrad at never played Mahavishnu Orchestra for me. Now I’m afraid I’ll never be stoned enough for it.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Reading a Miles Davis bio and just remembered I got in trouble at work (gas station) for playing Bitches Brew on the stereo. Boss thought it was a prank to scare off the customers but when he made me turn it off the customer was indignant: “you can’t make him turn that off! That’s ~jazz~, man!”

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Working through etymologies so I can be sure to pick the right words for my fantasy novel, and found out the origin of ”admiral” is actually Arabic!

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

As I get older, I’m better able to trick myself into thinking I’m not anxious, but then my body betrays me. Talked with a writer I admire today, not for the first time, but this time my legs shook so badly I could barely stand. Like, jfc, do I need therapy to keep my knees from giving out on me?

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“Bomb them into the Stone Age” is what the 15 year olds in my high school (on a military base) used to scream/laugh/cry about Iraq/Afghanistan. Makes me very sad to look back and realize those guys are in charge now.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

You remember those last seasons of GoT, where the writing got so bad, it was capable of surprising you again because you couldn’t tell what was misdirection and what was just thin plotting? That‘s this whole fucking war.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Still get contact humiliation when I try to listen to Drake

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Black Arts comes out on September 8th. It's a short story collection that has shipwrecks, exploding husbands, a Bluebeard retelling, spirits, and Black women trying to understand themselves as artists. You can get a 25% off pre-order right now at Barnes & Noble www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-arts...

The cover of Black Arts. It features Stacey Abe Gillian's The Sitting 1 as its cover art.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I’m a little late to this, but Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat is mind-blowing. It’s not the kind of documentary designed to impart new knowledge so much as a powerfully affecting resurrection of its historical subject (Congo independence, to oversimplify). It feels like a lyric essay.

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Cherae @clclarkwrites.com · 24/03/2026

Yesterday, The Unbroken turned 5! So I shared a few (okay, 5) thoughts I had. There’s also a giveaway in there. ;) So often, when people say publishing a book changed their life, it feels like it has to be a “six figure deal” or hit lists or win awards. The Unbroken did none of that.

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The Unbroken is 5 Years Old!

the unbroken goes to kindergarten! and a birthday giveaway!

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Injured my jaw eating. Injured my ass sitting. Injured my back sleeping. This is forty.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Met so many famous writers over the last week and didn’t nervous vomit on any of them. It’s gonna be a good year.

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

first pass is always weird for me but I still like this page (and if you like this page, this short story collection comes out in September!!)

header: Megan Giddings (image is a full page from first pass of Black Arts)
"I thought you were only going to date white guys named Liam for the rest of your life." Lyn rolls her eyes. She's done that only twice, and each time it ended up being such a monumentally poor decision that she has a strict anti-Liam rule. Her dad had referred to her last Liam as a real Ashton Kutcher type until Liz taught him the word "himbo." But she also likes Liams, you don't have to know them because they don't want to be known. You don't have to feel bad if things go wrong. They are the type of men who barely want to be people; they are bags of memes and broccoli head haircuts and their big revelations are always a white dad who thought it would be soft to say I love you or having really taken it too far during frat recruitment.
"How can you live a full and interesting romantic life if you're not dating people different from you? We were put on this Earth to experience many people. You are too old to have only experienced white dick," Liz says. She takes a long sip from her mug. The screen is clear and despite how annoying Liz is, Lyn can't help but notice how beautiful her older sister is.
As always when Liz says a devastating truth wrapped in a joke, Lyn freezes. Liz is terrifying to disagree with, she has a brain that seems to use a vast amount of its processing power to remember every weird or problematic thing anyone has ever said. She is hilarious, too, and mostly kind. To say only white men are ever interested in Lyn would make Liz laugh so hard it would be heard around the world.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

MEDICAL UPDATE: after apologizing profusely and “retiring” the first bp cuff, the second prompted a very grave doctor to compare my heart to the titan submersible

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Oh man did I love this game. Didn't have an OS yet, so I remember painstakingly pecking out DOS commands to initialize it when I was like six.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Depressed to find that after a slight delay, the predicted enshittification of Pitchfork is in full swing. RIP

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Guys, what the fuck am I going to do with all these Tulip bulbs.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

What *is* Lionel Shriver up to these days?

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The historical accounts from occupied Boston are worth it on their own, but this is also a pretty exhaustive gathering of documentary evidence of fed abuses in Minneapolis.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I can’t stop thinking about how we don’t even know how many people ICE has murdered off-camera. We know it’s not zero, but what’s the upper bound? Every death and disappearance is a potential execution when they seem to believe no killing is unjustified.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Evil evil evil—unsubtle, unsophisticated, unambiguous evil. What a failure of a society we are.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I see the polling, but the Trump voter in my life who told me my dire (and accurate) predictions for the 2nd term were because of my mental illness has not yet seen anything they don’t like.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The bleak outlook here seems, unfortunately, very plausible. Geopolitical fracturing, major wars between aspiring empires, liberalism and democracy waning worldwide. And us, a populace that couldn’t handle COVID or the resulting inflation without a tantrum, wholly unprepared for any of it.

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Do repeated Botox and lip filler injections spoil the taste you think?

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a r correale @arcology.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This has been going around and it is seriously worth reading—so many great quotes in here. A model for our moment (and someone I’m adding as inspiration for a novel I’ve been cooking for a long time that was inspired by a similar but unsuccessful life story).

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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

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