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Elly "Enormity" Bangs

@ellybangs.bsky.social
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Author of the apocalyptic cyberpunk novel UNITY, available in bookstores and libraries near you. Short fiction and more at elbangs.com. Queer and trans. (She/her)

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 13h
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 5h
I think it's a mistake to assume this president won't nuke a major American city himself. It's not as if he experiences empathy or remorse.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The worse everything gets, the harder it becomes to honestly know which vice you're succumbing to.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ultimately we may be forced to fall back to the original Vulgar Latin pronunciation and call it oo-RAHN-uice
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's an entire planet in this star system that we don't talk about because we're not really mature enough
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nothing but respect and appreciation for sword lesbians but I am a bow lesbian through and through.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something that sucks about this is that it gives us cognitive biases towards *both* willfully ignorant wishful thinking *and* excessive catastrophizing. Either mindset produces feelings of control.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
hermann gottleib in pacific rim, in front of a completely full array of huge blackboards, explaining to stacker pentacost how the kaiju events have been getting closer together and they could soon see a double event
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026
The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026
waking up every day in 2026 like:
a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On a clover, if alive, erupts a vast, pure evil: a fire volcano.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New four-word philosophy of life just dropped
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All these so-called "experts" may tell you *not* to eat sand -- but have you tried asking the very wise sock puppet who lives at the end of my arm??
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The bubble can't burst soon enough.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe? Like an umbrella term equivalent to LGBT+ except broadened so far beyond that as to encompass... uh, Kinsey-0 heterosexuals who just like to tag along at bars? I keep looking for some way for her original post to be a joke but if it is it goes too far over my head to even show up on radar
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh fuck. I'm so sorry.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am so bewildered by the combination of statements and self-identities she has presented here.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the way.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Or that people like me will still be legally permitted to write them, etc.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The hardest part of starting work on a new book is having to operate on the questionable assumption that books will still exist by the time it has a chance to go to print.
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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 28/09/2026
The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026
in the age of AI, making art is a radical act
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sometimes somebody says something that reveals to you that none of their opinions, neither on that particular subject nor any other, will ever offer you any useful insight into anything. On such an occasion the block button is a marvelous friend.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Buddy you couldn't even get into the bar you were sent to write about so you padded out the story by vamping about how people who mask on the subway have personality defects
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I try to be scrupulously fair, to seek out a variety of voices and opinions, and to take the time to understand the points of view of the people I write about. I keep my word and protect my sources. I
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think a bit about how we've been subjected to a couple of years of "actually everyone is secretly using AI and just denying it" pieces and how this sort of projection based propaganda depends on an alienation to society to the point of theory of mind collapse by the authors.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Classic style
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's like a heartfelt flash mob marriage proposal from someone you thought was just your best friend
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cautiously optimistic that I've dodged viral fame once again
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
• The owner of our paper has invested billions in AI and in completely unrelated news you will literally die if you don't start using AI for everything right this instant
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ty🙏
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a heartwrenching object. Its telos is too strong. I've never smoked but I know that in its presence I would smoke like a chimney: it would offer me a cigarette with such pure and delicate care and hopeful love that if I were to decline its offer I would bawl in fear I'd hurt its feelings.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just want to get nebulated for a Nomina someday
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And I believe learning and teaching that lesson is how Petrov would want us to honor his memory. He didn't want hero worship, though he earned it. He wanted nobody else to ever have to make the choice he made.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We've all been saved several times by several people. Vasili Arkhipov, the cooler heads in the room during the Training Tape Incident, et al. We have built a world where the sun rises each day only because the right person was in the right place at the right time. Luck is not an infinite resource.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stanislav Petrov made a very narrow snap decision that is, in all likelihood, the only reason the human race survived beyond 1983. As we give thanks to his memory, we must remember that nuclear weapons remain an existential threat to humankind and must be abolished if any of us are to survive.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every headline now: • Polls show Gen Z foolishly believes it's acceptable to blink during the workday • Wealthy socialite you've never heard of says eating sand is the key to happiness • Trump abolishes legislative and judicial branches, raising eyebrows among some constitutional scholars
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Huh?!?!?
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think it's just called a palindromic sentence ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Creepy Old Evil Witch from Snow White
Alt: The witch from the old animated Snow White, cackling as she descends into the floor and closes a trap door behind her
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Reviled did I live," said I, "as evil I did deliver."
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is it weird how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how weird it is?
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Holy smokes
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh dang. I've got to check it out.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Burn Gorman
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shout out to bisexual women in particular, who for some totally inexplicable reason were the only women who were ever remotely interested in me before I came out.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bisexual people are so great.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is it weird that a lifetime of watching Brad Dourif play creepy, unhinged villains has filled me with an unquenchable thirst to see him cast, just once, in the role of a fairly normal friendly guy
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