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Kyle Aisteach

@badwriter.bsky.social
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Speculative fiction writer, occasional editor, and part-time educator. All opinions my own, unless they're someone else's.

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The Future Fire @thefuturefire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Time Travel Triad” by Kyle Aisteach, a time-travel paradox novelette with a progressive twist. futurefire.net/2026.77/fict... #freescifi #butterflyeffect #sciencefiction
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Time Travel Triad, Kyle Aisteach
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
First reads for Longer Worlds are complete. If you submitted and did not get a response (acceptance, hold, or rejection) please query, because either the submission or the response are lost.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In this economy, I'm not balling, I'm bawling.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026
hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...
the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickersmy story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Longer Worlds Update: Life knocked me for a bit of a loop and I let the slushing slide, but I'm back at it. Anything submitted on or before May 12 should have a response (acceptance, rejection, or hold notice). I'm currently reading May 13 submissions.
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Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New from Hell Itself, @rachiea.bsky.social brings us "Lilting at Windmills," a bittersweet story of finding your way home. hellitself.com/lilting-at-w...
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Lilting at Windmills – Hell Itself
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Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Writers, if you have a hard-to-sell speculative Christmas / Winter Holiday story (more speculative than simply "Santa exists," please), we're love to consider it. hellitself.com/submission-g...
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Submission Guidelines – Hell Itself
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my colleagues at the college was killed on her way to class in a terrible car accident. She and her husband are both (vastly underpaid) adjuncts (like me) and a loss like this is devastating financially as well as emotionally. If you can help, please do.
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Donate to For the Love of Christina Burbano-Jeffrey, organized by Julie Cancio Harper
Services information listed below. My name is Julie Cancio Harper, a… Julie Cancio Harper needs your support for For the Love of Christina Burbano-Jeffrey
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/09/2026
Amazing. Also--you never know what will make an impact, no matter how small it seems.
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Huh. We actually do have a "lizard brain."
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey pals… A good friend and coworker was recently diagnosed with cancer and is out of work for treatment. It really sucks. His brother has started a GoFundMe to help (because American unaffordable healthcare), and I’d appreciate any shares if you could www.gofundme.com/f/support-cj...
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Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already
Alt: Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The scuttlebutt I'm hearing is that we need to be bracing for massive layoffs throughout the sector, because Paramount/W.B. competitors are looking at layoffs of their own but waiting to see how this plays out before making strategic decisions. Once this settles, pink slips everywhere.
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Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Excellent article via @sarahhans.bsky.social: softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm very pleased that this story is available again. It's truly one of my favorites, and it looks like it's sharing pages with some other great stories.
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So, apparently there's this meme where you're supposed to use AI to generate a picture of yourself in the '80s. Child, this is yet another place where the real thing will always be superior to AI slop.
Photo of a 12-year-old Kyle sitting next to an orange cat in front of Star Wars wallpaper.
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Remember how every time you ratted out a sibling you were actually training your parents how to catch you? Every time you use A.I. you train the A.I. to replace you.
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OK, everyone, let's play "See If You Can Spot Kyle in the Crowd at Puppet Up"!
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In today's edition of "new diets lead to strange cravings" I'm toying with inventing a new dish I call "Banana Split and Biscuits."
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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ok y'all -- I have a GIFT MEMBERSHIP for one year of poetry review awesomeness up for grabs! Want a chance to win it? Comment below. I'll choose a winner on Monday at noon Eastern.
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Arthur Robert Tracy IV @arttracy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is a challenging piece for me. As a reader, I don't like the choices Sam makes. As a person, I recognize that I (like all of us) have made those same choices. Good fiction makes us think, even when it's uncomfortable. And this is good fiction.
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Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today from Hell Itself, a story about finding your hero's flaws. "The Super Man's Burden" by Eric J. Juneau hellitself.com/the-super-ma...
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The Super Man’s Burden – Hell Itself
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So, can I share a hot take about the low-sodium diet? I don't resent it. Obviously, it's annoying. Adapting to it is challenging. I need to learn how much sodium is in what. But unlike other diet changes that have been prescribed for me, this doctor didn't look at my weight. 🧵
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Milk has a surprisingly high sodium content. Who knew cows were so salty?
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Continuing my "reprint in @gavagai.com" experiment, here is "Things I Learned Today:" -- a Daily Science Fiction story from 2021.
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Things I Learned Today:
1. Any toddler who manages to pick up a full gasoline can and turn it upside down immediately gains the power to run at the speed of light and to pass through walls. 2. A stray cat with a burning rag ...
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Talked to my doctor yesterday about my latest lab results. They want me on an extreme low-sodium diet. Unfortunately a grain is ALL the salt I'm allowed to take this with.
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is pure poetry.
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Elle Cordova on Instagram: "Rough Draft vs Final Draft"
77K likes, 2,101 comments - ellecordova on September 3, 2026: "Rough Draft vs Final Draft".
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Very sorry to hear about the recent death of geologist and poet David C. Kopaska-Merkel. For those who don't know, David published, at his own expense, the long running DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES, which focused on speculative poetry. Well, I should say CELEBRATE speculative poetry.
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I Me Mine-lo @hawgle.bird.gay · 02/09/2026
500 yrs from now scientists are gonna use the gradual shift from full fursuits to poodling to just fursuiting with the head as a sign of economic decline exactly like the Roman Empire's
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 01/09/2026
It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am, actually, seriously asking this question. Google is in the business of data. If their data can be changed with the stroke of a pen from the administration, their data is suspect. ALL their data is suspect. Who's doing better?
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Google maps has been fucking up directions *a lot* lately, and now I see this? Has Apple Maps fixed its issues yet, or am I downloading the MapQuest app?
Google Maps image with Lake Ontario mislabeled.
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Congratulations to all the winners at @thehugoawards.bsky.social last night!
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's best if you don't tell them that you pirated it.
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Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Today from Hell Itself, a lighthearted take on working together: "No Pie" by Floyd Largent. hellitself.com/no-pie/
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No Pie – Hell Itself
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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JULY 2024🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 stories by @spacevalkyries.bsky.social @jelliclejay.bsky.social @rfdwrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @remedy.bsky.social @spocksbrain.bsky.social @christinehanolsy.com @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...
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Some Queer Short SFF - July 2026 | Charles Payseur
Well, July marked another huge month for queer spec fic, led by Baffling Magazine and a news trans SFF anthology. But even without those the
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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
David Kopaska-Merkel (1957-2026) file770.com/david-kopask...
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The ones who are amazing who didn't pass away today? Tell them. RIP to a legend.
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Because I should be doing dayjob stuff, I instead republished one of my all-time favorite short stories on Gavagai. "Coming Around Again" is a heartbreaking space pirate story set in the dirt on Mars. Yes, you can quote me on that.
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Coming Around Again
Kat Malone appeared in the sky while I was up to my elbows in red Martian mud. Her aerobraking shield had a distinct heart shape. This far north, this early in the inbound season, it couldn't have bee...
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I do wish there was a better option than "everyone must take the training that someone needs."
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I would like to congratulate the Democratic fundraising apparatus on finding the formula that ensures I will never, ever donate to a political candidate ever again.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On Earth, life may have emerged not once, but twice. A new study pinpoints ancient genetic differences between our planet’s earliest organisms, bacteria and archaea, which hint at a common origin from a single, deep-sea source that was itself not yet truly alive.
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Life’s ‘last universal common ancestor’ may predate life itself
A groundbreaking study hints at a hazy boundary between “life” and “non-life,” as well as two distinct origins of biology on Earth
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hi, I am discovered a peanut allergy while home alone eating peanut butter directly out of the jar with a spoon.
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Arthur Robert Tracy IV @arttracy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Not surprisingly, I get a lot of submissions about hell. The ones I publish need to be extraordinary. This one stood out immediately for making straight-up terrible people so much fun.
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Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New from Hell Itself, when the gates of Hell opened, some people got new coworkers. "Hell is Open for Business" by Sarah Skinner:
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Hell is Open for Business – Hell Itself
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yes.
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Geology Building
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My key takeaways from yesterday's batch of primaries are nothing new: 1) All races are local 2) The candidate and the campaign matter a hell of a lot more than trends, endorsements, and generic ballots 3) If you have strong opinions about who should or should not win, you need to get involved
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I *loved* this story!
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We are definitely into "cartoon supervillain" territory now:
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ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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