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Ash Howell

@ash-howell.com
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Writing about magic, queers, tech ethics, and the evils of capitalism. Work in Astrolabe, All Worlds Wayfarer, Baffling Mag, & Lightspeed | #vp2023 They/them. www.ash-howell.com

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Chris Barnes @chrisbarnes5000.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
OlyWa Cc: @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social
Paste up on a light pole Text says fuck ice all my homies hate ice. Picture is sailor moon giving the middle finger.
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 12/02/2026
The daily existence of millennials is laughing while crying. On special occasions, we alternate screams of laughter and despair.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 11/02/2026
I've just realized. Banks used to be big imposing high street buildings because it gave people confidence they had money and weren't fly by night. A big elaborate website was the internet equivalent: proving someone had invested £ and was here to stay. You can't trust that any more.
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Dogpatch Press @dogpatch.press · 01/02/2026
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After the Boston Massacre, the soldiers responsible were arrested and received fair trials. King George recalled the regiment to England, and then American leaders were like “good, that was enough, we’ll remain your loyal subjects forever…” wait, that’s not right…
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-s...
I can’t speak for everyone, but my mind tends to treat writing an article, making a video, writing a song, cooking a meal, drawing an image, and, apparently, designing software the same way. It’s not a matter of just “generating” something perfect from my head, but exploring the tension that exists between what I’m imagining and the limitations of my stupid meat body. That’s actually the exciting part. It also lets me figure out if something has turned out wrong or just resulted in a happy accident. Vibe coding, like every new trend coming out of Silicon Valley, turns this process — the entire act of creativity, itself — into a slot machine. One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won’t understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you’ve done, but maybe you’ll have something. Just a few more dollars for some more tokens. C’mon, just pay a bit more.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!
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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Also, if you’re having trouble concentrating you’re not alone. BOSS, THE FASCISM
A tumblr post from user nitrwrighter on March 26 last year:

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
#the current horrors 2025 edition
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/01/2026
So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
A satirical website for HiltonICE.com: "Experience Compliance at Its Finest."About Us
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Hilton ICE is a premium hospitality experience built on discretion, compliance, and selective compassion. Located wherever federal enforcement requires dependable accommodations, we deliver polished rooms, streamlined coordination, and an operating environment free from unnecessary complications.

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Our properties provide the full range of services expected of a global hospitality brand, including thoughtfully designed accommodations, attentive service, and a formal commitment to cooperation. By aligning comfort with authority, we support continuity of operations and ensure expectations are met without interruption.

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At Hilton ICE, hospitality is not a reflection of values. It is an operational standard.Unauthorized Use of Hilton
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To the Owner and Operator of the Website
https://www.hiltonice.com/,
Please be advised that the use of the Hilton name, including its incorporation within your domain name and its use in connection with a hotel-branded website, constitutes unauthorized use of a protected trademark and raises significant legal concerns.Thank you for your note.

The use of the Hilton name on HiltonICE.com is intentional and expressive. The website is a work of political commentary and parody addressing Hilton's publicly reported cooperation with ICE, presented in the visual language of a hotel brand to critique that decision. No affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement by Hilton is claimed or implied.

The site does not offer lodging, accept reservations, or engage in commercial activity, and is protected as expressive speech. The purpose is commentary, not confusion.

That said, I appreciate you reaching out and will review your concerns with counsel (a Ouija board and the ghost of the First Amendment).

Dog Bless,

Tobes
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.
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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 31/12/2025
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a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man is asking " both "
Alt: “Both? Both. Both is good.”
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15/12/2025
we are in this constant artistic conversation that is coated in years of fingerprints and patina from being handled by artists and being shaped by our senses and our bodies and our gravity and physics and how sound carries in the air, and that is such a precious, beautiful thing
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 11/12/2025
Breaking news: US military has seized oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Leadership making foghorn noises and insisting they are now “friends with all the octopus. All of them.”
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Shen Tao @dragons.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
They are giving away 50 copies of my debut, The Poet Empress, on goodreads! I hope you'll enter 🥰 #booksky #ThePoetEmpress
50 physical copy giveaway of The Poet Empress by Shen Tao on Goodreads, until November 3
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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 13/11/2025
Fearless earnestness is the next cultural phase.
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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
a screen grab of a tweet about ocean spray cranberry jelly: **Buy my BOO-k** Emily J. Edwards…. 1d i should take a moment to remind you that Ocean Spray is actually a cranberry growers collective and by supporting the superlative
"goo in a can" name-brand cranberry sauce, you're supporting workers and small farmers
oatmeal influencer 
**Buy my BOO-k** Emily J. Edwards .. 1d: so many reasons to love Superlative Canned Goo this holiday season
Lindsey Becker @lcatebecker • 1d
Replying to @MsEmilyEdwards
Plus, their manufacturing plants are
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 17/11/2025
“Art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.” I’m not Catholic, but Chicago pope spittin’ bars
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Hey Charlotte folks-Compare Foods has waived delivery fees for groceries, so if you know anyone who'd like to get groceries delivered rather than go out to the store while the nazis are in town, spread the word
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"Love your neighbors more than your government" Sticker spotted in Savannah, Georgia
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 17/11/2025
“necromancer-for-hire”?
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a baby is looking out of a window with the words take my money .
Alt: A toddler throws cash out of a window (which is actually an apt encapsulation of what my bank account thinks toddlers do), captioned “TAKE MY MONEY!!!”
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caylen @caylen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
a “Space Force”, if you will
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 06/11/2025
The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.
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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
YOU THERE BOY, WHAT DAY IS IT
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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Just get Dropout instead
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I truly can’t imagine the person I would be, the art I would’ve made, the choices I might’ve made, the wide-open vistas that might exist in my brain if the constant anxious horror of the last 10 years in America wasn’t just 24/7 squatting its horrible carcass on every cell of it.
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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
For anyone who can, a GoFundMe has been set up to help Rob's wife and their young daughter. Sending tons and tons of love and deepest condolences to Rob's family and friends. www.gofundme.com/f/family-of-...
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Donate to Family of Robert Wieland, organized by Vickie ONeill
Friends of Robert Wieland have requested that we set up goFundMe page for the benefit of his f… Vickie ONeill needs your support for Family of Robert Wieland
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 13/10/2025
I'm gutted. Rob Wieland was one of my first friends when I moved to Milwaukee. He was one of the kindest and most generous people I've ever known, and his joy was as infectious as his creativity. He was a brilliant writer and a stalwart friend. We'll miss you, Rob, more than I can say.
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 11/10/2025
“A good main character lies at an odd angle against the plane of the world.” 🔥🔥🔥 Even better if they are garbage at introspective trigonometry.
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 09/10/2025
😭 you are both too much!!
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 08/10/2025
I didn't know how much I needed this until I read the pitch. GOOD LUCK! I need this book yesterday.
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a cat is sitting on a couch with its mouth open and looking at the camera .
ALT: a cat is sitting on a couch with its mouth open and looking at the camera .
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 08/10/2025
A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC x HOUSE M.D. 🏥 Blood magic, medical degree required 🎓 Graduate? In *this* economy? ✊ Best friend is a secret rebel 💰 Capitalist conspiracies 🗡️ That lesbian tried to stab me, and I think I liked it #DVpit #F #A #LGBTQ
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 08/10/2025
👀 👀 👀
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...
bookshop.org
Banned Books
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 08/10/2025
💖 thank you friend!!
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 08/10/2025
VP 2023 lets gooooooooooo
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 08/10/2025
A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC x HOUSE M.D. Days before graduation, blood-magic medical student Nettle accidentally girlbosses herself into the middle of a murderous conspiracy. Her best friend has been hiding his radical political activism. And worst of all, she’s *really* broke. #DVpit #F #A #LGBTQ
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 24/09/2025
Writers with kids face many extra challenges to our schedules/productivity/sanity. But also, they will just randomly drop the most banger story prompts.
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 24/09/2025
This is an incredible friend
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 23/09/2025
This is SO gorgeous!! I love it, I've shared it with all of my creative friends.
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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 18/09/2025
who up strokin' they sword while lamenting the social realities
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Joe Sparrow @torpordust.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
a comic about fishing (1/7)
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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 10/09/2025
Absolutely chuffed, so proud of my neighbors down the coast.
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Here’s to actual good news:
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