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Christopher Farnsworth

@chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social
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Writer. Author of THE PRESIDENT’S VAMPIRE, KILLFILE, FLASHMOB. Books, journalism, screenplays, comics. Married to @goldenpurl.bsky.social. ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT out now.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14h
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 14h
Also: bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 15h
This is already a blackjack and poker strategy and it bankrupts players 100 percent of the time.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 15h
Look, I want to stay overnight at the Lunar Hilton as much as any red-blooded American boy who grew up reading Tom Swift, but it's not going to happen, and for good reasons. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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Why we'll never live in space
Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21h
Hey, it’s my birthday today if you have been needing a reason to buy one of my books (or leave a review of one you've read) :P bookshop.org/a/88357/9781...
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Metallic Realms: A Novel
Fantastic universes and personal dramas collide as a group of friends blur the line between real life and fiction with delightfully disastrous results in this “absolute blast” (Chicago Tribune) from t...
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 15h
Every time I see something like this I can only hear the Bob and David sketch. youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA?...
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Mr. Show - Blow Up the Moon
YouTube video by Laser Time
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 16h
Scorpio was Nick Fury's younger brother Jake, who worked against him in the rival spy organization Zodiac. Nick later took his place and went undercover in Zodiac to bring down the organization from within. So if I had to guess, something like that. Maybe they get Samuel L. Jackson for Fury again.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 20h
As we used to say when I was a business reporter, $20 billion here, $20 billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 20h
You can literally see it happen on the chart when the news breaks.
The NASDAQ composite dropping more than one percent at 9:41 AM today.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 20h
Los Angeles could be -- and should be -- a dazzling city of the future, a beacon that shines a way into a better tomorrow. But that means planning for it, which is not exactly our strong suit.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 20h
Haven't even mentioned the airport.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 20h
A big part of the problem is that LA has been deferring maintenance on public infrastructure for decades: streets and sidewalks unrepaired, inaccessible curbs, bus shelters converted to make it harder to sit down or rest, no shade, no trees, years-long backlogs in basic service requests, etc. etc.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 21h
(Heard about this first on @harryshearer.bsky.social's Le Show, one of the only people paying attention consistently to the Olympics.)
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 21h
Unless something drastic changes, the whole world is going to see a massive clusterfuck when the Olympics comes to LA. "L.A. Metro asked for $379 million for Olympics-related transportation projects in the just-completed legislative session. It got only $20 million." apple.news/ATL7yJjw_RSK...
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L.A. struggling to get Olympics transit money from Sacramento — Los Angeles Times
L.A. Metro asked the Legislature for $379 million for Olympics-related capital projects, and got just $20 million.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
congratulations to my close personal friend* Anne Carson on her richly deserved Nobel *the poet I begged for a selfie at the national Book Awards
A man and a woman in formal wear. One is the poet Anne Carson, her hair grey and white, her topcoat ash grey, her TIE red. The other one is a guy with a goatee and a black tie.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026
Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Honestly don’t know what we pay those guys for lately.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Only going to be 83 in LA on this side of town so I won’t have to apply for a refund from the California Fair Weather Commission.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey, you can enter the giveaway for @elizabethhand.bsky.social's new novel, UNSPEAKABLE THINGS, from Little, Brown. Or you can eliminate the element of chance and just order it right now. www.hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/litt...
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Little, Brown Book Club Hub
Visit the post for more.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026
I'm sure the NY Times tomorrow will have another story about Hasan Piker, and not a mention of the VP's "intellectual guru" saying this...
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions (Gift Article)
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Guess who did it again? mollyknight.substack.com/p/all-hail-k...
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All hail king Yoshi
Plus, the Padres stay alive. We’ve got four elimination games today!
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*doubt “doubt its accidental nature…”
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And another package has gone missing too. "The cur did it again today... The frequency of this occurrence has made me begin to question its accidental nature."
Far Side cartoon: Tensions mount on the Lewis and Clark expedition. "The cur did it again today... The frequency of this occurrence has made me begin to question its accidental nature."
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
😂
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Basically me, reading Spy in Idaho in the 90s.
A three-panel comic from The Simpsons.
Hillbilly: We were going to pick up the new Spy magazine.
Lisa: They don't publish that anymore.
Hillbilly (looking bereft): The world I grewed up in is gone.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I really miss Spy magazine. This helps.
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Same as he ever was. Today’s Spy At 40 installment on Substack, #3 in a series. Subscribe! substack.com/@spymagazine...
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow. Wow wow wow. For me, this would be like growing up in Tom Swift's house.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Aaaaaand the Post Office has AGAIN sent the package to the wrong zip code. The same one, in fact, that rejected it yesterday. Because it's the wrong zip code.
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Ralph Wiggum: Package Delivered!
Alt: Ralph Wiggum: Package Delivered! Ralph from The Simpsons smiles and laughs as he puts the flag up on on mailbox, and sighs and cries as he puts it down, over and over, for eternity.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow. That sounds extraordinary.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Also, am I reading you right that your mom designed this? That’s incredibly cool.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is amazing and now a life goal.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Way to go, Dodgers. Mookie and Freddie remain the Dynamic Duo.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
how i arrived on bluesky:
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Daffy Duck's Yoiks Pointless Crash
Alt: Daffy Duck's Yoiks and away, repeatedly crashing into trees as he tries to swing from rope as Robin Hood.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Huh. Absolute Batman was right.
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 07/10/2026
werewolf transformation, but instead of being activated by a full moon you're activated by any guy taking a loud personal call at the coffee shop
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Point of Impact Publishing @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Literally posted this the other day. I am an action junkie, but the train station shootout from Brian De Palma's The Untouchables is pretty close to perfection in my eye. youtu.be/oxc0FiwY5dY?...
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The Untouchables (1987): Train Station Stairs Shooting Full Scene
YouTube video by Binge Society
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
KIKÉ!
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here’s the Zillow listing. If anyone wants to buy it. (I would really like to buy it.) www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gift link: Do You Miss Spy Magazine? For One Month, It’s Back. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...
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Do You Miss Spy Magazine? For One Month, It’s Back. (Gift Article)
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first issue, the long-defunct satirical monthly is resurfacing vintage articles about Trump on Substack.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“It’s not possible, after all, to bribe history.” — Charles McCarry, THE TEARS OF AUTUMN
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've already preordered. You should too.
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Liz Hand @elizabethhand.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My new novel is out a week from today — tough timing because of the election & uh, you know, the world. With book reviews an extinct species, it's hard to get the word out. So tell your friends! Meanwhile, I've started the next one, folkish horror set in a bog at a remote Maine hunting camp. Onward!
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not for nothing, but the last time I pitched a show, they needed me to game out five seasons in advance just to get in the room.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
😂
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That’s someone who has a very forgiving family therapist.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh, I love that book. The sequel is even better.
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