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Mo Drammeh 🦇

@curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social
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They/them. Horror writer. Author of WHERE THE CRYPTIDS FLED. 2022 Maine Person of the Year. Telling Room alum. 2024 Maine Lit Fest Fellow. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Link to my stuff here: linktr.ee/MLDrammeh

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Holly Green @winnersusedrugs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"What to do about Jacob Geller" I dunno, move on? A single person's work is not so integral and sacred that we need to wring our hands about what to do with it. There are a lot of people whose work you could be reading or listening to. Stop making icons out of random dudes. is that so hard
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
like babe we can all believe in growth, that doesn’t mean we have to be gullible and take people’s words over their actions. his actual actions are disqualifying.
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There was just no good to be done in putting this out there. I don't know why you chose this route. I am terrified at the moral apathy.
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People argue that the interclass collaboration between working class and bourgeois men to excuse and downplay rape is proof of the irrelevance of the distinction, but I feel that mystifies the severity of the situation. Even as it is ultimately in the interest of the former to call out the latter...
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 22/09/2026
Damn right it is bookshop.org/p/books/inva...
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Invaginies
The Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author returns with a new collection of literary horror and weird fiction that glitters with startling prose and tortured souls. Invaginies is an invasion, it is a ...
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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Can we help here?
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The problem is that "calling Democrats out" doesn't do anything. The actions of the Democratic Party are not mediated by the sentiments of Bluesky posts. If you want someone with power to do something, you need to leverage your own power through collective action. This can include not voting. Sorry.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Democrats throwing trans people under the bus to win elections* is just a replay of them throwing Palestinians, leftists, black people, unions, immigrants, Latinos, anti-war activists, poor people, etc., etc., under the bus in previous election cycles *They frequently do not win those elections
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A spectre haunts all Western environmental science departments; the spectre of XKCD
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It is worth noting this is not unrelated to the recent discussions about Steinem, who repeatedly boosted Morgan's career (as she did that of a lot of terfs) following her vicious attacks on trans women, eventually into the editor's role at Ms. and as a co-founder of the Women's Media Center
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So, so, *so* good
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 29/08/2026
the rest of us can only do what we always do: make our own decisions on who to trust and how to best spend what money we can spare in this one lifetime we spend in this hell world. for instance, you could set up a recurring monthly donation to the Sameer Project today. chuffed.org/project/help...
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Food & Water x The Sameer Project
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Do you know the worst part? Everyone's gotten used to Gaza being bombed; it's become normal, something we're associated with. I want to tell you that every time we see and hear the bombing, we relive the same terror and panic, our hearts leaping from our chests. I don’t wanna anything Just know
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Louise Weard @weard.moe · 23/08/2026
'Will the woman he loves love the woman he wants to be?' coming to cinemas this fall. a heartwarming story about lives in transition. youtu.be/m4bMbH_9XZU
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Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage (Trailer)
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The TERF movement is a white supremacist one; that the subtext is made into text is hardly surprising
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Beginning of a tweet authored by "Watto Allen/@Java_jigga"
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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
How does observing the already accurately reported role of privilege in the creative industries relate to the margin-frame? What do a half-dozen white 'authors' admitting to AI in their 'craft' really reveal about the ways Blackness, queerness, disability, and more are framed in literary culture, other than the usual tragedies?

I would argue that the tragedies we know are vital to the issue. The margin-frame is, at its core, about what 'The Marginalised' are able to get away with — about policing the amounts of curiosity or confrontation is allowed from them, but also about policing how empowered they are to transgress in the same ways as their peers. As we've learned, when an author of colour is assumed to break the taboo of authenticity, they either lose opportunities or witness the entire spaces they've creatively occupied crumble under the weight of their misbehaviour. A white author simply locks their comments and moves on without another thought, confident that either the future will absolve them or there is still enough incentive in the present to ignore the consequences. It is useful, then, to observe what the mechanically 'unframed' can get away with, and how they do, and by what means.But there is more to the colony of the unframed that is outside of our witness. If the purpose of the margin-frame is to allow the industry to tell us what is true about ourselves, and these machines have simply been empowered to regurgitate those biases back to us, then what is happening outside of that box that we are not allowed to see? What else are we not being permitted or excused to do?

In the more saccharine sense: we are not excused to experience the curiosity inherent to our efforts. Not only as creators, but as othered persons, we are not free to see further than the edge of our bodies — than the frame itself. In its own way, these tools create a paradox where racialised, gendered, and other othered bodies are expected to imagine, to care, to prove that we are capable of imagining above our station but caring deeply only about that station, and yet paradoxically imagining or caring too much, about too many other things — about bodies and lives and truths and worlds that are not our own, about things that can crack the seams of the frame — is not something the structure has made room for. If one of the curses of the margin-frame is that the creative world isn't actually curious what other stories or imaginations The Marginalised have in them other than the ones that the frame can hold, then it also matters that dozens of majority creators are significantly empowered to imagine and care as little as possible, and less with each new and empowering technology, to not even think about what the plot of their story is or the interiority of their characters, to not even look at it until a machine has been through it every time.One reason why the industry loves catering to the margin-frame is because even (and often especially) if the text itself needs work, they can care as little as possible about the editing, practice, or other effort required to get the text there if they can sell the seasoning of it. One easy way to do so is to market the work as the effort of an unrecognised savant, someone unpractised and unpolished who nevertheless has a work of staggering genius on their hands. If that agent or that editor works the story, then they get to say they're the gatekeeper who found the David waiting underneath all that marble and chipped away everything that wasn't the novel. But if they don't, then the story is even strangely sweeter — the story of a delicacy of a novel, so allegedly perfect even while raw that they dare not risk overcooking it instead. You get Richard Wright's Black Boy, or you get Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard. Nothing in between.

The alleged proliferation of generative AI in the industry then makes for a very convenient scapegoat. When things are going well, apparent dozens of readers and professionals have no problem giving the work their stamp of approval, and are infinitely curious about what may be so daring about the manuscript. As soon as external suspicion may affect their own reputation, though, suddenly they always had doubts, and those doubts were always serious enough to warrant pulling out. They were perfectly fine selling seemingly flat prose, cliché or off-kilter similes, or rough sentence structure when it was part of the inter-industry story of plucking a diamond-in-the-rough Black author out of obscurity and giving them the spotlight they deserve. When the heat is on, they go right back to having no room on the roster for them — especially if the alternative was to actually do the work to steward that writer's craft.
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wealth needs to be understood as the power to direct human labor toward your own aims. Billionaires can put thousands of people to work doing almost anything they want whenever they want, and they do. That’s near dictatorial power over a population.
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Given that he constantly gets accused of not being radical I think it's really funny that F.D. Signifier is lowkey a Gabriel Rockhill appreciator
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Image of New York rapper Westside Gunn with a speech bubble
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This kind of take always baffles me. Nolan's film is the biggest movie around, racking in money, and getting glowing reviews (including from academics). If the biggest most popular works can't get critical debate, then what can? Frankly Nolan is probably delighted. It helps the film to have debate
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Bombs fall, the ruins of the city burn, and Sama'a's daughters fall asleep hungry. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's so awesome to write a polemic about The Gatekeepers and then publish it in the HWA newsletter
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is for a couple of friends of mine, I personally witnessed some of the events described. Both women are in a pretty shit situation as a result of this bullshit and could really do with some help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-diana...
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Donate to Help Diana and Yuri recover from state violence, organized by Sarah Clarke
Diana and Yuri are two trans woman sharing a house in Merseyside who have… Sarah Clarke needs your support for Help Diana and Yuri recover from state violence
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Lower quality items aren't cheaper"
Image captioned "niggas just lie for no reason" and the base image is a guy on Dr. Phil claiming to be a cyborg from 2050
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just happy to be here @gingermophobia.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Liberals trying to make pro-trans arguments
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Watched The Drama. If I was Charlie I would've just been chill about all that
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hey, guys. For the last few years I've been using the phrase "you're new" to denote when someone's acting wild ("you're new" as in a new type of specimen within the genus Homo entirely) but no one ever gets it because that's not a thing people say. Can y'all start saying this? Thanks - Mo
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/08/2026
An infuriating charge given how much transmisogyny is pushed by those fixated on preserving and retrenching patriarchal social structures, and venerating the most vile and reactionary of men.
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I wrote a late essay about the bizarreness of the Emily Wilson discourse and the nature of discourse itself on social media.
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The Take Industrial Complex
Mo Drammeh This essay is not about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. I have not seen the film and do not particularly care to. Naturally, this puts me in a...
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
You ever think about how crazy it is that for like 40 pages of Pale Fire, Nabokov was just like "you wanna see my Robert Frost impression" and it worked
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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
after a great deal of struggling and belt-tightening i wound up able to pay rent and left with $6 and bills still to pay, so if you have anything spare anything would be appreciated. thank u all.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
please help if you can!!
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You're not supposed to say this but... the purpose of Uncommitted was to force the Democratic Party to the left on Palestine... and then Uncommitted """caused""" the Dems to lose in 2024... and then pro-Palestine candidates started winning all across the country... you see where I'm going here?
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
please help ahmed
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Very good read
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Actually conservative coded fast food: Taco Bell Five Guys Burger King McDonald's Chick-Fil-A Actually liberal coded fast food: Jollibee Arby's Chipotle Raising Cane's Panda Express
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
List is fucked. Taco Bell should absolutely be with the neocons and Arby's should be with the liberals. Waffle House self-IDs as "centrist" and is completely ideologically incoherent. Starbucks says they're "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" and are the most evil person you'll ever meet
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Just a reminder that this is not hyperbole. At least seven black leaders who came to prominence during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement have been killed or died, their deaths ruled a suicide, since. blurredbylines.com/blog/ferguso...
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The Lives of Ferguson & Black Lives Matter Activists Cut Short
From Darren Seals to Amber Evans, Edward Crawford to Danye Jones, many young Black activists have died since the 2014 Ferguson protests sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Cynthia Gómez packs a lot into MUÑECA … It’s the kind of book I already want to reread.” @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews new work from @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
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Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: Review by Alex Brown - Locus
Muñeca, Cynthia Gómez (Putnam 978-8-21704-757-4, $29.00 176pp, hc) June 2026. I'm going to try to keep my review of Cynthia Gómez's debut novel Muñeca to a manageable length, but I could write an entire PhD dissertation on this book. It hits many of my niche interests and academic passions. For those who don't know, I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area, and for many years worked as an archivist and …Read More
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
They were wrong about one thing -- they should've said "abolish"
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
bleak to have everyone cheer at this video in which he says he is powerless to have a war criminal apprehended even if he was doing fortnite dances on his doorstep. do it anyway!
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Would love if this gets subsequently screenshotted and mocked after I am proven wrong, but there seems to be a strong feeling that Mamdani will try to arrest Netanyahu arising from the video where he explains he doesn't have the legal authority and that it'd fall to the federal government
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
People are going on and on about how important it is to point out their hypocrisy, apparently without grasping that their political project isn't one built on logic, and thus cannot be refuted by pointing out logical inconsistencies.
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Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
(Tagged for spoilers.) Catching up on TVL. I find it unverisimilitudinous that any Pitchfork reviewer would be allowed to put out a review that is this beast about an artist as popular as TVL (the band) are in this universe
In-universe Pitchfork review of the fictional album The Vampire Lestat by the band of the same name from the show of the same name. The reviewer, "Minerva Aldridge," gives the album a 3.1, and writes: "Beau Riddley should be in prison. He also saved us from a second album from The Vampire Lestat."
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 19/07/2026
I feel like I shouldn't need to explain why insulting a sex trafficker and rapist by calling him fruity is a world-historic skill issue
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