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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 7h

Check out the winners, honorable mentions, and longlist for our second "an ordinary contest!" foofaraw.press/some-ordinar...

First place: Beyond Anywhere by MM Schreier; Second place: A Cold Day in Hell and Other Graveyard Shift Problems by JA Logwood; Third place: Frayed Threads by En Crewell-Fuerst

Ellen’s Final Foster Child by Jane Stecyk Left Door, Right Door by Kat Albrecht Rubis by Corrie Haldane The Fun is in the Searching by David K. Mitchell The Yolk’s On You by Moira Richardson

Lick by Anthea Jones New Management at the Western Trails Motel by Jonathan Tolstedt Overheard by SPQM Slam Click by Meriwether Falk Stitches of Time by Leow Jinn Jyh The Memory Thief by Angela Benham The Scritching by Sam James

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're working our trashy butts off for award season 🦝 Congrats to our Trash Family nominees for @genrepunkmag.bsky.social awards. Links to their amazing stories are in the comments 💜 1/4

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2/4 Nominations for Genrepunk Editor's Choice Awards Tracie Renee @tracierenee.bsky.social & trashcatlit.com/dinners-with... David K Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social & trashcatlit.com/mulch/ Madeleine Armstrong @madeleinewrite.bsky.social & trashcatlit.com/friday-night...

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Godfather languishing behind The Fast and the Furious benchmarks.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"And while I'm at it, Capello did a hell of a job at Juve in 05 & 06, right lads? ... lads?"

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do the Germans have a word for that brief window between payday and all your bills going out?

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tried to look up Bif Naked - Lucky, earlier. (Great song from an early season of Buffy) Between autocorrect and slightly misremembering the title, my google history now shows a search for "Big Naked lucky ones".

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

read it - did they get the same things from it that I did? If they didnt, that's even better. Lets learn, challenge ourselves, grow. Fucking fragile dudes who need to feel like the world revolves around them shouldn't have this much power.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't want bespoke music, art, or film just for me. Even if AI stuff was good and ethical (monumentally large if) I don't want to be the only person experiencing it. 10% of my joy is in the consuming, 90% is in chatting about it. Even if a book is bad I LOVE speaking to a friend whose also...

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don't be outsourced by machines. Produce your own ethical, free range slop.

A slop monster drawn in permanent marker and coloured with highlighters

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No way? The dude who used to work for Google, ensuring they paid no tax in the UK, is a dickhead with bad taste? Consider me shocked.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Silly sunflower worships a false god.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hear its a sex scene and explicit full frontal nudity. 🦎🍆

News headline about Godzilla Minus One being R-rated

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are no gods in Cornwall, just silly pagan heathens.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am smashed on a Sunday. Pray for Monday David, all of you. He'll need it.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Surely you wouldn't scream that at either? But also, you wouldn't call your adult son a "naughty boy" if they'd done something worth yelling about?

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone on my street was screaming, like, proper aggro screaming. Couldn't resist being nosey and poked my head to the window to see a middle aged man aggressively shout into a car, "I never wanna fucking see you in my house again. You're a naughty boy." The naughty boy is sending me. Kid? Dog?

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bull's barely registers. Sure, Solas wants to sort of destroy the world, but I kinda get it. I'd still be willing to get hammered and argue about morality and philosophy with him.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fair. He's full of crap, but the character he's playing wants to do good - I'll let him crack on. (He's too boring to ever make the travelling party anyway)

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oooooh, okay. Why? Because the stuff he did was beyond redemption, or something else? I struggle with Sera. No moral issues... just find her fucking annoying.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haha touche. Yeah, that's fair. I didn’t really engage with any of the advisors in DA:I tbh, as I was anti-templar, somehow missed Leliana in my DA:O playthrough, and Josephine felt a bit Tory.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you've made Cullen continue to take his lyrium, I will have you reported. Im not sure who to, but someone is getting told. I've got pathetic good boy energy in games. I've never managed an evil/renegade/sith playthrough.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Still can't be trusted 👀 Some things arent worth the xbox/PS points. 😂

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Or if you chose Ashley over Kaiden in ME1, while we're on Bioware stuff.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We can't be mates if you sided with the Templars in any of the Dragon Age games, soz.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not gonna lie gang, the idea of shaving a moustache in is calling to me like the Green Goblin mask. 36 and I've never tried one properly. Surely, its time?

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I think this line's mostly filler." Still gets a smile from me, every time, 20 odd years later.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My dissertation, Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares, was over 15k words... and therefore is still my longest peice of (finished) written work.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Gosh, he's really good friends with this Tommy chap..."

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Irrational, it's 100% my problem, low-key annoyance: I keep seeing references to "book birthdays" and people mean launch/release. A book birthday should surely be an anniversary of when a book was released. At a push, I'd consider allowing book birth day.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Are you the sort of person who wants to shout "Ryan McGowan!!! Ryan McGowan!!" while you're on your morning dog walk? Well, do I have a podcast for you.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The only small boats you need to worry about are the pleasure yachts moored in tax havens, lads. And fuck the beeb for reporting on these guys like they're anything other than dangerous extremists.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Are there any books that have genuinely scared people? Sleeping with the lights on stuff? I've never been close, but I'd love to be. I find horrors thrilling or smart or poetic etc.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hahah, ah, fuck sake. In a Cornwall 'community together' newsletter they've posted out, theyve got a spot the difference thing... Problem is theyve used AI, so theres the intentional differences and then loads of other ones, where its not generated the exact same image. Its laugh or cry stuff.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apparently it's #hobbitday and my computer is taking an age to import this batch of invoices, so here's everyone's best boy, in permanent marker

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Guys, DCC is fun. Its silly, easy reading that gives us laughs and lovely little regular dopamine hits. Why am I seeing people claim that it's rebellious and punk and anti-capitalistic? There's a toy range and a Seth Macfarlane TV show coming.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That Let's Save Water ad on TV genuinely pisses me off. Acknowledges that there might be a daily deficit of billions of litres of water in our lifetime, and the suggestions are short showers and use watering cans? Fuck all the way off. I'm not expecting, "consider eco terrorism" but come on.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In Cornwall we play the Ventongimps Variation. It's basically the same game but the hooker is allowed to touch the googly every other over.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have a few jokes about Mass Effect, but Samara better than others.

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not to brag, but I captained my Uni full contact scrumby team...

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Late 00s: What if we had TV without adverts that you could access anytime and anywhere!? Late 20s: What if we had TV with adverts and you pay, also seasons are only 8 episodes, you need 15 subscriptions to watch everything, oh, and we cancel anything that doesnt 'trend' after one season.

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