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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the fact that i need to spend any amount of my one precious life on insurance companies' phone trees is yet another sign of a profoundly sick society

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

this is the best way anyone has ever described anything i've written

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Celebrate Bastille Day and International Non-Binary People's Day in one swift blow by transing the guillotine 🔪 This messy-queer time-traveler retelling of “The Green Ribbon” by @goosemixtapes.bsky.social suggests the “T” in “LGBT” may stand for Terreur: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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Guillotine

The guillotine was conceived as swifter, painless, more humane. You touch your throat. You wonder.

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

new story of mine came out today, just in time for Bastille Day :3c tune in if you like dimension-hopping, weird dyke sex, martyrdom, insanity, charles dickens' a tale of two cities, etc, strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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Guillotine

The guillotine was conceived as swifter, painless, more humane. You touch your throat. You wonder.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

ancient greek bard: in my story i invented the labyrinth as a cautionary tale ancient greek bard (after i explain sam altman’s whole deal to him): ok you can put that guy in there

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

what kind of shit is this. no one‘s dunking any donuts in here at all. drinking coffee mainly

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

ifwhen behind the bastards ever does a nixon series it’s gonna be my coachella

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

ISSUE 2 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Tiger princesses! Cyborgs! Spacefaring scientists and sword-wielding students! Our second issue is warm, tender, hopeful, and sometimes horrifying in the best way. It was a joy to assemble, and we hope you enjoy it too🪐🗡️🌈 othersidespec.com/issues/issue-2/

OTHERSIDE Issue 2 cover on the left, with text on the right that says ISSUE 2: nine stories, six poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now! www.othersidespec.com

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 15/05/2026

I need to make sure you all heard that right because this did not make enough noise the first time around—THE Crawford, Stoker, World Fantasy and British Fantasy award winning Usman T. Malik, who has published incredible short fiction for over twenty years, will have a DEBUT NOVEL out NEXT YEAR

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

i cannot promise a liveblog of estro junkies idk if i have that livetweet dog in me but as inspired by helsi: i'm really into the way the prologue sets up katherine being a hazard, especially to kaal. in rcbg it seems like nichole is neglecting housework equally but here we have katherine as--

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𝔈𝔡𝔢𝔫 𝔒𝔣 𝔅𝔬𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔲𝔵 @helsinore.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Seeing some Estro Junkies livereads rn & I just want to say…if you’re not going to mention race at all? Completely glossing over Rashmi (A MAIN POV CHARACTER!) Ru, Tahani, & heck, even Laura’s struggles? Read the damn book over again. This is a book about racism. Internalize that.

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C.Z. Tacks @cztacks.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

through gritted teeth, sweating blood: we stay silly

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

so true from JCO

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

this story has been longlisted for the british science fiction awards! consider checking it out if you have voting powers, or if you don't have voting powers, or whatever, i'm not the boss of you! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

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Vote for the BSFA Awards

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Late to the celebration, but congrats to everyone on the @bsfa.bsky.social longlist and most especially all FOUR of my @clarionwest.bsky.social students on the list: @champwongs.bsky.social @somtoihezue.bsky.social @goosemixtapes.bsky.social Rutendo Chidzodzo!

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 24/01/2026

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Again, what ICE does EVERY DAY is devastate relationships and destroy people. This is their job. Rage for Renee needs to not mark her murder as especially egregious because of her citizenship status. Rather, this was an escalation of force in the defense of a massive project of ethnic cleansing.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/01/2026

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

if ice agents don't like this i have a suggestion about the "rest of their lives" bit

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ceej @ceej.online · 07/01/2026

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Since the year's winding down, my 2025 award eligibility and the stories I had published: Links and story info in the thread below, as well as on my site at adrianwardwrites.wordpress.com/work/ Thank you for your consideration!

A list of Adrian Ward's 2025 award eligible stories: Alien Girl On the Balcony, a 2000 word literary fiction story available in Windhover volume 59, All That I Am, A Failed Dream, a 275 word fantasy piece available on Apex's blog, and My Sincere Apologies For the Demon, an 1800 word fantasy piece available in Beneath Ceaseless Skies issue 443. Ward is also in his first year of eligibility for the Astounding award and other new writer awards. Thank you for your consideration!

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

realizing belatedly i should make an awards eligibility post. it's literally just dead dog. nominate my story about being a dead dog in a human body for an award and you will win: my undying loyalty

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

One of the better interviews with me you’re likely to read. They gotta send me more grad student interviewers

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view.
And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone.

"When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

i have something to confess and i understand if people lose respect for me. i think imagine dragons is pretty good actually

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B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

my beloved "sad man tries to crack dream-Mary Renault's egg and she says no" story from 2024's @strangehorizons.bsky.social just got a lovely podcast treatment, produced by the excellent @darthj.uno and read absolutely beautifully by @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Opening of "The Spindle of Necessity" on Strange Horizons: "Andrew was convinced the writer had been trans. By this point his friends were tired of hearing about it, but he had no one else to tell besides the internet, and he was too smart for that. That would be asking for it."

cover of Mary Renault's The Charioteer, a young white man with reddish hair in a green coat

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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/11/2025

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-a…

Claim: Mamdani is a communist.

False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I was walking in an antique land late one night When my eyes beheld such an eerie sight Two vast and trunkless legs began to rise Near them on the sand a shattered visage lies (Ozymandi-AS) OzyMANdias (Ozymandi-AS) He was a graveyard smash (Ozymandi-AS) No thing beside remains (Ozymandi-AS) Ozyman-

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peppermintlark 🖌️ @peppermintlark.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

ko-fi.com/peppermintla... Hello everybody! As some of you may know, my partner and I are planning a pretty big move. Without going into too much detail, this move will be the beginning of a much needed healing journey for both of us.

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

if anyone was thinking about fucking with me you should know i got the duvet back into its skin on the second try today

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

CHOTINER: And when was that? MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a- MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish- CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

If Isaac Chotiner asks you about your friendship with Henry Kissinger, you are already dead.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 10/09/2025

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Text mounted on a screen reads as follows:

WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION?

1. DOESN'T MATTER
2. WHO CARES
3. MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S PROBLEM
4. NOT YOURS

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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Sévérine Cox
@severinecox.bsky.social
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

2ND ROUND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

ZOOM INTERVIEW WITH THE TEAM WITH THE VAMPIRE

WE HAVE DECIDED TO PURSUE ANOTHER CANDIDATE BUT WILL KEEP YOU IN MIND IF FUTURE POSITIONS
OPEN UP WITH THE VAMPIRE
September 16, 2024 at 8:57 PM

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

watching the us house floor proceedings about banning the pride flag. guy just called republicans triggered and said "the pride flag did not make me gay and it will not make you gay either." people in the back shuffling around on their phones. we will see how much of this i can take

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

EVERYBODY READ CHAMP'S STORY HIS PROSE AND CONCEPTS ARE INSANE AND YOU WANT TO ENTER HIS WORLD OF BEAUTIFUL HORRORS!

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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I guess a taxi ghost story is my debut into professional publishing! I hope you enjoy the notorious scandal twist and the Southeast Asian noir flavour. Read the story here! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto... (1/5)

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isaac 🫃🏻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

fuck every single person who gets angry at trans people for criticizing people like Gavin Newsom and claiming that we're doing purity politics. the anti-trans movement is THE issue leading the fascist charge. if you are unable to hold an extremely hard line on this, you lose literally everything.

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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

i hope everybody is having fun at worldcon without me :(

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

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