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Elijah Kinch Spector

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Novelist. Dandy. British Fantasy Award finalist. Bay Area counterculture kid, now New Yorker. he/him linktr.ee/elijahkinchspector

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
read and adored both kalyna books by @elijahkinchspector.com this weekend. also appreciated the inclusion of bibliographies and how interesting some of the works cited sound
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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 24/08/2026
Better late than never: my Worldcon schedule. Programming is all on Friday, but I'll be around throughout the con!
Elijah Kinch Spector at Worldcon 

Writing Between Worlds: Diasporic Influence in SFF - Friday, 12:00 - 259 ACC North 

Signing - Friday, 1:30pm - Kensington Table, Dealer's Room 

Fashion and Frippery in Fantasy - Friday, 3:00pm - 259 ACC North
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
To conclude my self-indulgent first week of January best-of-palooza, here are a dozen of my favourite things I read in 2025. 11 from 2025 (and the last 6 weeks of 2024), and one re-read project that had a huge impact on me. Ranging from big-pub bestsellers to the most low fi of self-pub efforts.
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Favourite books of 2025
Tough year, some great books
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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 12/08/2025
Come say hi if you're at Worldcon! And/or ConCurrent!
Elijah Kinch Spector
Worldcon Schedule
Aug 13-17, 2025

Wed 12PM: Table Talk
Room 430

Thu: I'll be at ConCurrent!
                         
Fri 10:30AM: Queering History
Room 423-424

Sat 6PM: Signing
Garden Lounge (3F)
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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 12/08/2025
Come say hi if you're at Worldcon! And/or ConCurrent!
Elijah Kinch Spector
Worldcon Schedule
Aug 13-17, 2025

Wed 12PM: Table Talk
Room 430

Thu: I'll be at ConCurrent!
                         
Fri 10:30AM: Queering History
Room 423-424

Sat 6PM: Signing
Garden Lounge (3F)
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We are delighted to reveal the cover for @victormanibo.com's The Villa, Once Beloved, a haunting gothic about folklore, family, and postcolonial vengeance in the Philippines... reactormag.com/cover-reveal...
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Revealing The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo - Reactor
A dark history is unearthed amid crumbling façades in a new gothic horror arriving November 2025
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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 29/07/2025
Simplicity is so goddamn beautiful, and smart, and funny, and hot! You need to read it
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” ~ Omar El Akkad cc: the democratic party in USA
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/07/2025
AI shaming | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: MATTIE is talking to a MAN as they walk on the street. The MAN is typing on his phone.
MATTIE: What do you wanna do tonight?
MAN: Hmm…!
MAN: What…do…I…want…to…do…tonight?

PANEL 2: MATTIE rolls her eyes. The phone pipes up as well.
MATTIE: Are you asking a chatbot? Come on.
PHONE: SEEING FRIENDS IS ALWAYS A GREAT WAY TO SEE YOUR FRIENDS.
MAN: Oh, are you A.I. SHAMING ME? Wow. I didn't think you were a bigot.

PANEL 3: MATTIE, arms spread wide. The MAN strokes his chin.
MATTIE: What? Nobody was doing this a year ago. It's completely unnecessary!
MAN: Huh, that's true. I wonder why that happened.

PANEL 4: The MAN types on his phone, brow furrowed.
MAN: Why…am…I…doing…this
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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Not a music review think piece (ew), but I wrote about how Tyler, The Creator's Don't Tap The Glass is the type of fun dance album that dares to tell folks to put the keyboard down and shake some ass. aftermath.site/tyler-the-cr...
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We Should All Outgrow Our Heroes Like Tyler, The Creator - Aftermath
I want to give Tyler, The Creator his flowers as an artist who has remained committed to outgrowing his heroes.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
According to Cuomo, Mamdani won the Jewish vote in NYC. If so, this would upend every narrative on Jewish politics, Zionism and left the bourgeoisie would have us believe
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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
A tweet from Ori Goldberg who has been consistently critical of the Palestinian Genocide.
The reports from Gaza indicate that the final point of no return has been crossed. A broad consensus of scholars predicted that mass hunger will began to exact its deathly toll just about now. It is. All was known. Nothing surprised anyone.

There is no need to refer to the Gaza Holocaust. Every genocide is unique. Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people is unprecedented in its lack of secrecy, in its length, in the overt dismissal of Palestinian humanity on Israel's part. The egregiousness of all these is such that there can be no quarter for the leaders, the executors and the
enablers. This, ultimately, is what negates the need for official "orders". Israel is putting its heart into the liquidation of the Palestinians. How much more intent can there be?
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Big Show Ripping Darts @homunculusdick.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
GET THESE THINGS OUT OF YOUR FUCKING HOMES
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sam @samthielman.com · 19/07/2025
Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran
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Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC
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Published July 19, 2025, 3:31 p.m. ET
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Who could have foreseen
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/07/2025
A hugely underdiscussed effect of the creeping fascism of ICE is that debt collectors and landlords are filing more cases against immigrants, even when they're inflated or outright falsified, because they know immigrants are too fearful of deportation to show up to court to fight them.
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ConCurrent Seattle @concurrentseattle.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Panelists page is now live, as well as the other events page, where you'll find a link to Writers with Drinks Seattle. ConCurrent is now 415 USD away from fully funding! We are so very close. If you can, please send us some coins and/or register to attend. concurrentseattle.weebly.com/funding.html
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Funding
No convention is put on for free, and ConCurrent is no exception. Luckily, our costs are low because of our single-day program. Below is a breakdown of what we'll need to get this off the ground.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
New from me at my newsletter: Jews are the justification for almost every repressive policy the Right is pushing right now. But then why are actual living Jews overwhelmingly opposed to every one of these attacks on democracy? Jews are everywhere in politics. Unless you actually want to talk to us.
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How We Talk About Jews Without Actually Talking to Jews
Jews are everywhere in American political discourse. The problem is no one actually asked us what we think.
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Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Future's DS2 turns 10 today. I revisited it over at @stereogum.bsky.social. it remains some of the strangest, bleakest, most potent trap ever made www.stereogum.com/2315476/futu...
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Future's 'DS2' Turns 10
“Best thing I ever did was fall out of love,” Future says near the end of DS2. It’s a quintessential Future line, plainspoken but subliminal, steely but wounded, a flex that’s obviously spin — especia...
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 16/07/2025
literally fox news yesterday
Gutfeld: We need to learn from the blacks. The way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it. So from now on it's, What up my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey what's hanging my Nazi?"

Kennedy: Nazi please!

Gutfeld: Thank God you did a hard 'i' there.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights." the article:
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
finally one stop shopping to discredit labor, insult intellectuals, rob artists, AND rake praise from a girlfriend who won't talk back
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 15/07/2025
We need to make admitting this embarrassing
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
So the secret police have secret lawyers now, cool cool cool.
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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 15/07/2025
Oh my God, Lakeside had the best covers The Robin Hood one? Are you kidding me???
The cover of Lakeside's album Untouchables, which is a painting of the band as gangsters.The cover of Lakeside's Fantastic Voyage, which is a painting of the band as pirates.Lakeside's Shot of Love, which shows them as Robin Hood's Merry Men. (No one is clearly Robin Hood)Lakeside's Party Patrol, where they're, like, on motorcycles and in a jeep, in uniforms of some kind. One of them is surfing. It might be copaganda?
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”
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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 12/07/2025
Just finished @elianeboey.bsky.social's excellent, and vividly described, Club Contango! (I didn't mean to coordinate my drink order and my hand fan with the cover, but I'll take it)
Club Contango by Eliane Boey on a table between a hand fan and a matcha latte, all in similar greens and golds. (Part of my hand is there too.)
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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Lmao
Pusha T reacts to Ye saying he “missed” their friendship 👀

“I don't care about that at all. It's fine. I would miss me, too. I really would.”
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2025
barnes and noble is having their big pre-sale sale and you can get SIMPLICITY for 25% off with the code PREORDER25 wow! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/simplicity...
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Simplicity: A Novel|Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of horror sensation Boys Weekend, a vibrant new graphic novel about a timid academic sent out from the walled dystopian security territory of New York City to investigate a c...
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Victor Manibo @victormanibo.com · 11/07/2025
Sneak peek at the epigraph for THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED—yeah, it’s on the long side, but this eerie tidbit from the historical record was so on point for a postcolonial gothic set in Leyte that takes place during a governor’s funeral. The vibe is pitch perfect
THEY PRACTICE THE FOLLOWING CEREMONIES when one of their chiefs dies. First, all the chief women of the place go to the house of the deceased. The deceased is placed in the middle of the house in a box. Ropes are placed about the box in the manner of a palisade, to which many branches of trees are attached. In the middle of each branch hangs a cotton cloth like a curtained canopy. The most principal women sit under those hangings, and are all covered with white cotton cloth, each one by a girl who fans her with a palm-leaf fan. The other women sit about the room sadly.
There are many porcelain jars containing fire about the room, and myrrh, storax, and benzoin, which make a strong odor through the house, are put on the fire. They keep the body in the house for five or six days during those ceremonies.
Every night about midnight in that city, a jet black bird as large as a crow was wont to come, and no sooner had it thus reached the houses than it began to screech, so that all the dogs began to howl; and that screeching and howling would last for four or five hours, but those people would never tell us the reason of it.
-from the accounts of Antonio Pigafetta, chronicler of Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation, a month after landing in the Visayan islands including Leyte and Samar, April 1521
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
798 people have been murdered at 'aid' sites in Gaza in just six weeks. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
GENEVA, July 11 (Reuters) - The U.N. rights office said on Friday it had recorded at least 798 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and near convoys run by other relief groups.
The GHF uses private U.S. security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely bypassing a U.N.-led system that Israel alleges has let Hamas-led militants loot aid shipments intended for civilians. Hamas denies the allegation.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do." www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
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When Moderation Becomes Appeasement
If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/07/2025
Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’
Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’
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🏴‍☠️Øracle 671⚓️🌻 @ssnbubblehead.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I encourage you to read this great reporting by Ken Klippenstein on the buffoonery which took place in Los Angeles today. Even the "military" participants (if that's what they actually are) appear embarrassed to be participating in such a massive failure.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 07/07/2025
The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!
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ConCurrent Seattle @concurrentseattle.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
And one last thing: We're less than 1300 USD away from fully funding, so please, please, PLEASE spread the word, tell your friends 'n 'em, and help us reach our goal of (only) 5000 USD to run this whole thing. www.paypal.com/donate/?camp... /end
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Let's get ConCurrent funded!
Help ConCurrent Seattle reach their goal by donating or sharing with your friends.
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Project Shema—which uses progressive language in its trainings while emphasizing the importance of Zionism to Jews—has caught the eye of university administrators balancing demands from protestors, pro-Israel groups, and Trump. Emily Wilder reports: jewishcurrents.org/inside-the-n...
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Inside the New Group Giving Antisemitism Trainings at Harvard
Project Shema, increasingly a presence on university campuses, uses progressive language while foregrounding the "harm" of anti-Zionism.
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 01/07/2025
Zohran Mamdani received more first-round votes (432,305) than Andrew Cuomo received total votes after ranked choice voting (428,530). That means more people ranked Zohran first than ranked Cuomo anywhere on their ballot (without ranking Zohran above him).
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
If you approach a brown, Arab, Palestinian, and/or Muslim person and demand they confirm they aren't antisemitic and won't harm Jews - you are a racist.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I think Zohran Mamdani demonstrated pretty handily that he’ll protect Jewish New Yorkers when the seniormost Jewish elected official in the city was detained by jackbooted thugs and he was on the scene demanding his release in minutes
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
as a jew, i feel relieved and vindicated that cynical fearmongering about israel did not win this election for a sex creep and grandma killer, a win which would have been declared ‘on my behalf’ and which i and most of my fellow jews did not want
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Max Rivlin-Nadler @maxrn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Ladies and gentleman, the F train
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Today would be such a great day for AOC to finally text Jessica Ramos back
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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Kendrick Lamar “Say Drake” smiling meme from the Super Bowl halftime show
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