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Charlie Sherpa

@fobhaiku.bsky.social
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Read my books: amzn.to/36pzbf9 Freelance editor, writer, poet, humorist. OEF veteran by way of BFE. Admin: The Aiming Circle. Opinions & jokes my own. linktr.ee/randysherpabrown

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.
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Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 5h
'The Midwest is often thought of as the last bastion of home affordability in the US. Now, Chicago, Milwaukee and Kansas City are among the major metro areas where list prices are rising despite a moribund US housing market, eroding the region’s status as a refuge.'
Midwestern Cities Become Unaffordable
Percent of local median income required to own a home in each metro area

(Charts for Chicago, Columbus, Kansas City, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Toledo)

Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Home Ownership Affordability Monitor
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Bc I am old this stuff gets more engagement on FB but I thought I’d repost here
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
shoutout to the guest artists for my new book, including Sarah's Scribbles! Get the book HERE ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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Force Ghost™ @fieldmontgomery.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trevor Noah recently made an excellent point. Truth sits behind a pay wall. You want honest reporting and analysis? Pull out your wallet. But misinformation and disinformation and downright lies? That's free. No pay wall. Any media expert wants to explain why that is?
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just like one of those shithole countries you keep hearing about.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
DOJ “has hastily hired a new crop of 130 people -- some w/ criminal records, minimal experience, tarnished work histories, hyperpartisanship and downright bizarre public statements.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Victor De Anda @victordeanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
IT'S ALIVE! The SDA is here. Take it from @vlatinalondon.bsky.social and order today: bit.ly/4tpEXbT. Proud to be part of this antho, big thanks to Matthew David Goodwin @richienarvaez.bsky.social and @diversionbooks.bsky.social for pubbing! #speculative #detective #cryptid #supernatural
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The New York Public Library is making a selection of 25 new horror books available to borrow with no wait through October 31st!! How many have you read?
NYPL Recommends Best New Horror for Adults
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love.” Tim O'Brien, born on this day in 1946
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's October🎃 which means, SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5! **This is our yearly Best-Of Weird Fiction anthology, only eligible REPRINTS will be considered** Get the full submissions details here, and check out the full cover reveal! tinyurl.com/4474xej6
THE CALL OF THE WEIRD
All October, Tenebrous Press is accepting submissions for the Fifth Volume of our Weird Fiction Award anthology, BRAVE NEW WEIRD. 
This is a reprint anthology. Only works published between 10/31/25-10/31/26 will be considered.
Full details at www.tenebrouspress.comCover art by Matt Blairstone.
Beneath a swirling tile mosaic sea filled with fish and squid, two mountain giants surround a rural village who are burning a wicker man in their honor. 
One of the giants eats the worshippers, while the other digs what they're throwin' down.
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Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Out today! Join some of the best editors in the business as we demystify the arcane process of anthology curation. Or join us at the official launch at Fantasycon this Saturday!
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 07/10/2026
Big tech and AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves. Big tech and AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves. Big tech and AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves. abcnews.com/amp/Politics...
abcnews.com
Former FTC Chair Khan dismisses 'constitution' signed by AI leaders to self-police
On "This Week," former FTC Chair Lina Khan called on Congress to help regulate AI.
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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you're in the Iowa-Illinois Quad-Cities this Saturday, stop by and say hello!!!
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A bit surprised and disappointed that @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social TV doesn't carry NOVA, a discovery admittedly prompted by the selfish reason that I will be an expert on tonight's episode, but more generally NOVA is such a good show! WGBH Boston carries of course but we can't pick that up.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
deets! layered the oil pastel up, scratched into it and then cut further layers our digitally and piled up the colours and textures. this was really fun!
cacadaemon details evil eye
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🍁🍂 🎃 Diva for the Season 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Starting my list of ideas for my MA Military Ethics and International Law course in January. Now is your chance! What's on your mind? #MilitaryEthics #Profession
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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Don't want to buy via the Big River Algorithm Co.? Want to support an indie bookstore of your choice? Buy @middlewestpress.bsky.social titles via Bookshop.org !!! bookshop.org/lists/anthol...
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I rather think Pete Hegseth is a bit of a disaster and should be impeached if I'm gonna be fr with you guys. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-weak-d...
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The Weak Department
Send Me! (Somewhere I can get a Lobotomy)
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/10/2026
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs. www.wired.com/story/muse-c...
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Looks like techs & mechs is back on the menu! What rhymes with "Pacific Rim"? Asking for a war-poet friend ...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 30/09/2026
Airmen criticize Air Force’s use of AI in suicide prevention training as ‘uncomfortable and odd’ trib.al/KAYPs8X
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Airmen criticize Air Force's use of AI in suicide prevention training as 'uncomfortable and odd'
The Air Force says incorporating AI-generated imagery standardizes the training, but some airmen criticize it as being “cold and unnatural.”
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My latest is a hard reality check about the absolute abyss between the gentry-marketed "recovered" Asheville and the actual, struggling city most of us live in. Evictions restarted before the water was even back on and city hall's far more obsessed with spying on locals than aiding them.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026
I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Check out the latest opportunities and markets in "veterans-lit" and mil-writing!!!
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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My military career involved loading/unloading vehicles and traveling in order to write while sitting in tents. My civilian career has evolved to now include loading/unloading vehicles and traveling in order to sell my writing while sitting in tents. Time is a flat circle, and you are here.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A pope from Chicago is the real Blues Brothers sequel.
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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As a "veterans lit" bonus, the Van Meter Visitor Festival was held at the Van Meter (Iowa) American Legion reception hall! Met a few writer-veterans who also share an interest in monstrous fiction and creative non-fiction!!!
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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On Final Order Cut-Off right now! DOG TAG #6! By @manruss.bsky.social, @pauljholden.com, @bertacious.bsky.social, Jon Moisan and me! OUR FINAL ISSUE! Very surreal to have finished all the colour work for this series. So goddamn rewarding to work on, especially with this team PRE-ORDER IT NOW!
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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Come hang out with me and my cryptid fiends Saturday at the Van Meter (Iowa) Veterans Reception Center!!!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
The reason they keep running the same play is they keep getting exactly what they want.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
en.wikipedia.org
Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Which means "AI" systems don't "go rogue". Careless people who don't give a damn about anyone but themselves build rubbish, dangerous systems and use them harm people and infrastructure.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
NEW: For decades, the Smithsonian Institution, which draws some 15 million visitors every year to its assemblage of 21 museums, has managed to stay mostly above the political fray. But that institutional exceptionalism is now imperiled as never before.
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How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War
The Smithsonian — particularly its National Museum of American History — has faced withering pressure from the Trump administration. It’s the culmination of decades of criticism by conservatives and o...
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
a look back at when I used to schlep heavy cartons
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Physical Books
The first book Belt (then called Rust Belt Chic Press) published was basically self-published; I taught myself how to do it as I went.
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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Looking forward to meeting up with other vendors & attendees this Saturday in Central Iowa! #vanmetervisitor #middlewestpress #cryptids #horrorpoetry #microflash
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
New in PN: Why Trump’s “ban on the free press” will go down in flames "This one isn’t hard at all. The govt disfavoring or restricting speech simply because it is critical of the govt is pretty much the sort of example they use in ninth-grade civics class as a textbook First Amendment violation."
publicnotice.co
Why Trump’s “ban on the free press” will go down in flames
Very illegal and very not cool.
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Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn” Vol. 2—now featured as a Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) September 2026 new release! @clmporg.bsky.social More info here: www.clmp.org/news/books-l... #middlewestpress #horrorpoetry #cryptids #midwestmonsters #scifipoetry #microflash #clmp
Slide text: "Featured on CLMP's list of new releases!" / "Books launching in September"

"Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" book cover image: Against a purple sky, a giant glowing red-orange moth attacks the Ferris wheel at Chicago's Navy Pier.
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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 21/09/2026
We've reached 40% of our funding goal & we added a bunch of new add-on rewards, including signed books by Chuck Wendig, Daniel H. Wilson, Ken Liu, Paul Tremblay, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, Veronica Roth, Victor LaValle, Olivie Blake, P. Djèlí Clark, Seanan McGuire & Martha Wells.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 21/09/2026
Nicknamed the “lake killer," starry stonewort is a fast-growing algae that can form dense mats that choke out native plants and tangle around boat motors and swimmers’ legs. There’s still no long-term fix, but early detection and quick action can prevent a catastrophe and contain the species.
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A Minnesota ‘lake killer’ surfaced 11 years ago. There’s still no long-term fix.
If caught early, starry stonewort is no longer considered a death sentence for lakes. Still, a decade after it was first discovered in Minnesota, it remains a costly problem with no permanent cure.
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
By @gregorydaddis.bsky.social and worth your consideration. www.salon.com/2026/09/20/p...
salon.com
Pete Hegseth declares war — on his own troops
The defense secretary's crusade is inflicting damage unlike any in history
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Holy heck! You can get the 300 page hardback of my action/buddy comedy graphic novel BAD KARMA for just $6 on Amazon right now!!! Grab it: a.co/d/0aD7hQLa
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Brandon Hundt @brandonhundt.com · 19/09/2026
I never noticed the Bathrobe Lady that February morning. A friend recently asked me, with State Fair Crop Art on his mind, if I had a photo of the photographer taking the photo. It turns out I was taking a video at the exact moment the iconic photo was taken by @leilanavidi.bsky.social 1/3
A screenshot from a video of a photographer taking a now iconic photo. In the foreground are observers wearing winter jackets and holding phones while filming ICE activity. An ICE agent walks through the middle wearing full combat gear with a rifle. There's a hint of a blue bathroom in the foreground.
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Bopeep-Burton 💙🐓🏝🐈🏡🏖 🦋🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌎 @bopeep-burton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We need more of this!!💙
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