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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 4h

I see the Krirruk in the distance…

Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 9h

What I think is saddest of all is how little imagination these tech fuckers have. They are so satisfied by the most basic functions. It's like thinking the Rube Goldberg machine that makes breakfast for Pee-Wee Herman is the pinnacle of technological advancement. Non-dreaming-ass bitches.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 10h

So I have a small amount of UK hardbacks of THE SHIP OF DEATH that are available. $28+shipping. I’ll do a quaint doodle inside, sign it, and slip a sticker in there. Again, not a lot of these, so first come, etc. DM me here or on Instagram.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15h

If my publisher were to hand me LLM back cover copy I would definitely be looking to move.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 09/10/2026

In honor of Guillermo del Toro's birthday, here is a picture of him circa age 9, "pretending to suck blood out of his sister, Susana."

An old photograph of Guillermo del Toro, age nine, perched atop his sister, Susana like a vampire. He's wearing what appears to be one of those "ugly kits" that you could order from the back of comic books - staring eyes and vampire fangs.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 17h

Nothing exists in itself.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 22h

Reduction woodblock print by Gordon Louis Mortensen. ‘Autumn, Frick Park’ Printed in 25 colours. Size 19 x 26”

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Void Hermit @zomduckie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just finished THE SHIP OF DEATH by @bleakhousing.bsky.social and immediately told my partner @sentientpotato.bsky.social that they needed to read it. It's a fever dream of a read and I already want to reread it!

Cover of THE SHIP OF DEATH by Kyle Winkler

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trying to cut through the noise of publicity as a reviewer, bookseller, librarian etc is already gargantuan; flooding us with anti-human PR copy sounds, to me, like a real diminishing returns situation.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The split's already there & with books feels particularly stark—who is the book *consumer* AI-using publishers are envisioning? The reader who doesn't care if humas made it? But a big percentage of publishing is basically reading-irrelevant; do they think that's big enough to float the ship?

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Aside from all the top-level concerns, I wonder if this is accelerating some kind of real speciation event in art—things made by & for humans for various "art" reasons, and media bought for other reasons.

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Very grateful to see these publishers getting named and shamed. If this stuff is going to happen, and we all know it is, I'd rather see it happen with bright shining klieg lights instead of in darkness and secrecy. We should know that it's happening, and act accordingly.

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wish a circus would run away and join me.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Politics is the conservative's D&D.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Deny deny deny and then grow up and deny others while you secretly indulge in another room. All because of moral ghosts.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Contemporary conservatism is the end state of repressing banal inherent desires under the guise of metaphysical panopticism and neoplatonism.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The funny thing is thinking that They will even care about our response. So long as they’re stimulated.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Ultimate Stimulus Meets the Mega Response in tonight’s big showdown that you’re obligated to watch b/c there’s nothing else in existence except this!” We’ve boiled it down! Raw dopamine hits for them & raw sewage for us!

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Does anyone ever actually end up being remiss?

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Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We got some very action-packed book mail! Galleys are in for Devouring Gods by @jedediahberry.bsky.social, a sword and sorcery heist and the sequel to Kill All Wizards! 🐸⚔️

Someone holding up a copy of Devouring Gods by Jedediah Berry in front of a wall with pink, yellow, and teal stripes and circles on it.

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

KILL ALL WIZARDS is OUT and reportedly GADDING ABOUT TOWN, sword in hand. If you encounter this knave, consider yourself FOREWARNED: 🫖 Highly caffeinated 💀 The cut direct 📖 Opinionated narrator ⚔️ Fits of barbaric rage Wizards especially should approach with caution. thirdarchive.net#killallwizards

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Jedediah Berry

Author of Kill All Wizards, The Naming Song, The Family Arcana, and The Manual of Detection. Co-creator of the Wildendrem tabletop adventure game setting.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Euphony covers a multitude of sins.

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Euphony covers a multitude of sins.

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DR LUKANSTEIN'S MONSTER ⚧️ @beastcutter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just sought this out on project Gutenberg and my god.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Someone needs to take the Stephen King keys away from MF for a while.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you had that one just lying around…I mean, part of me would believe it.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Definitely up yr alley. The guy only published three stories. All quite strange.

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

scumbag country

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What irritates me is that I’ll never write anything as good as H.F. Arnold’s story “The Night Wire.”

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Void Hermit @zomduckie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My pre-order came from @bookshop.org, THE SHIP OF DEATH by @bleakhousing.bsky.social! Im so excited to read this one 🙌

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Perhaps that was the discovery, simply that life brings revelations, supplies all the material we need. And if it does not supply it in the right order, then we must simply wait for more to come to light." My post on Anita Brookner's LATECOMERS. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/l...

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hey! I’ll be signing books at Amethyst and Ink Books on Saturday, Oct 10th from 1pm to 4pm in Lawton! I got Halloween reading for kids and grownups, people!

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jamie. Now I have to buy this. *sigh* This looks like a good time. Damn.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Which game are the astronauts for? Mothership or something similar?

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Shit. I may have to write a novel about milk dealers now.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These are brilliant. I just got into painting minis. So I'm not still up on drybrushing yet. But I love seeing how ppl approach painting different size minis and textures.

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was looking for a Brian Evenson book that @megapolisomancy.bsky.social posted just now and somehow ended up here on Google Books. "International Milk Dealer." Don't ask. Or--ask the right question...

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