Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialHarry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Possibly for a goat. 613213
ishmaelwinter.bsky.social @ishmaelwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dangerous Times is out today! I celebrated with a hike. ninestarpress.com/product/dang...ninestarpress.comDangerous TimesReviled for their parasitic nature, the Augment are a cybernetic species that require organic tissues to process food into usable fuel. Now, their Empire tears itself apart in civil war as the cruel King Taen attempts to put down the rebellion of Lord Mavren, who seeks to end the brutal inequality of the Empire’s social… 100
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialTekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Voyager, walking on those tiny legs. 13868742180
ishmaelwinter.bsky.social @ishmaelwinter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026BUT! putting together this website also meant I got to use the GORGEOUS cover art I just got from @ninestarpress.bsky.social, designed by @jayceedelorenzo.bsky.social It's wonderful, and the perfect cover to usher Dangerous Times back into the world! 021
ishmaelwinter.bsky.social @ishmaelwinter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Anyway behold the results of a goodly period of headbeating and deep concerns about my own basic computer literacy. Thank you wordpress for justifying every moment I spent procrastinating on this task, and for trying to make me doxx myself about five times before launch. ishmaelwinter.comishmaelwinter.comIshmael Winter 100
ishmaelwinter.bsky.social @ishmaelwinter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026either getting a phd actively made me stupider or wordpress has gotten more unusable 000
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895453543
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialBethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Dudes love a podcast that claims it's telling you about how to attract women based on like, EVOLUTION. But not a single one of them are giving the real mating advice that I have seen in the scientific literature! Not a single dude has ever rolled me up a ball of dung at a bar and it shows. 41748123
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialPremillennial Decompensationalist @smollusk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026the best part is most of the "wait, there might be reasonable exceptions" posts are about the human skin book 251695447
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialEthel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Tapping the sign 147271
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialWeird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It's time again! Cis allies: if you can, please consider being chaff for us. Toilet hobbycops think like 10% of people are trans, and to overturn our segregation we need respectable cis people causing trouble on our behalf. Please wear a trans flag pin. Get in good trouble, as John Lewis put it. 12538256
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialDr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I stand with Dr. Anthony Fauci …because I value EVIDENCE over conspiracy, DATA over rumors, and SCIENCE over politics. No public official is beyond criticism, but there’s a difference between honest scientific guidance and misinformation. I’ll choose evidence EVERY time. #medsky #publichealth 457207125673
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialThe Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century. 4182943409
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialDavid Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Just want to say that @jaketapper.bsky.social wrote a book on the wrong candidate’s dementia and that should be obvious to every American. 270100891968
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialstate song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026i had no idea this would become so literal 105108582327
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialDanielle Froom 🏳️🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026JK Rowling has used her wealth to stoke the fires of a worldwide pogrom against trans people to where she's silenced a Holocaust scholar after JK engaged in Holocaust denial & now done the same to Amnesty International for their warning about trans eradication, but keep buying your Harry Potter crap 1836481578
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026That means TODAY! Do it! It's not that hard and science will love you for it (and the love of science is a glorious thing). 4210142
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialRJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Were I an incredibly rich author I would simply live my life in a way that meant I did not have to send legal threats to Amnesty International. 122233497
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/06/2026A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too 6450771542
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialDax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 12/06/2026I wrote a very long blog post with my feelings about @ellipsus.com Emboss, Disability, Surveillance, and the futility of trying to prove humanity. dreaming.daxmurray.com/ellipsus-emb...dreaming.daxmurray.comEllipsus Emboss, Disability, Surveillance, and Proving Humanity.Let's put authors in the panopticon and let all their haters invade their privacy! 39165
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated. 5223591056
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/06/2026These doctors swore an OATH to protect patients, while MAHA and RFK Jr. are putting millions of lives at risk. We applaud AMA for taking a stand to put people over profits. 18935305
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialNadya Voynich @nadyavoynich.com · 05/06/2026To avoid burnout, use this 30/30 rule: After 30 min of work, quit and disappear into the mountains for 30 years. Happy Friday! #buildinpublic #startuplife #hiking #mountains #nature #productivity 1376316730
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialClay Nobles @claynobles.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I want to encourage everyone to vote in EVERY. SINGLE. ELECTION. We are seeing the effects of poor voter turnout everyday. The easiest way is by encouraging others to participate in democracy. Talk to your friends and neighbors. Share information with others. It is important to elect good candidates 801466453
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialAletheia S.R. @aletheia225.bsky.social · 29/05/2026ICE was "supposedly" created to protect the country from terrorism, and it turns out that ICE is the terrorists. Foreign interference, and ICE must end. It's a corrupt institution. 18856481456
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialFreedom to Read Project @freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 29/05/2026What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...bookriot.comQueer Books and Authors are at a Breaking PointAuthors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship. 3387232
ishmaelwinter.bsky.social @ishmaelwinter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026After first REI's union busting and now @patagonia.com's attack on a climate and LGBTQIA+ activist, I'm feeling pretty burned about companies who say they're progressive. Walk the fucking walk or shut up. 000
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialMarian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 29/05/2026maybe it's women using AI less because we're already good to go on the experience of rich men stealing our ideas, taking the credit, not paying us for them, and selling us the results at rapidly increasing prices 321767
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026authors getting paid a living wage 7498116
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialWendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland. 3158451863
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters 163184375684
ishmaelwinter.bsky.social @ishmaelwinter.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Every so often, our standoffish, semi-feral cat gets a hankering for love and attaches himself like velcro to one of us. I’m sitting here listening to him purr maniacally as he becomes a furry rug on my wife’s chest. Feral, yeah, we believe you buddy. 020
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialshort Huey/Long jacket @robertanalog.bsky.social · 27/04/2026 072
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/04/2026Ah shit, Gerry Conway died. He created the punisher & was very outspoken in saying "if you're a cop who wears a punisher logo, frank castle fucking HATES you." He said the punisher only existed because of a fatally flawed system, & so those most harmed by that system have more claim to the symbol:theguardian.comHow do you stop the far-right using the Punisher skull? Make it a Black Lives Matter symbolGerry Conway, co-creator of the popular Marvel outlaw, has been appalled to see his iconography appropriated by white supremacists - and aims to turn the tables 1837451379
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialEthan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I have a book on submission right now, pray for me 9798103
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/04/2026The funniest thing about people who say that chromosomes are determinative of sex and gender is that 99.9% of them have no idea what their own chromosomes actually are and if they had them tested, a good number of them would suddenly have a problem. 🤷🫠 271636360
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 26/04/2026Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization 8892122126
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialThe Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 26/04/2026ICYMI: The Authors Guild in the US has warned editors not to not upload submitted manuscripts to consumer-facing AI systems 👇 #BookSky ebx.shEditors should not upload manuscripts to AI without permission, says Authors Guild 27029
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialHarry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Uranium glass ain't nothin'. They had... 28392110
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialSharon "Screams in Perimenopause" Z @sharonz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The original “now with AI!” 9713349
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialOlivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 26/04/2026The rest of the world when there’s news coming from the US 025932
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind 2254701668
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialTamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 26/04/2026Hey, cis people: When you claim to be a trans ally but give transphobes a platform, what you're saying is that transphobia isn't a hard line for you. That means your "allyship" is meaningless. It's not enough just to not actively wish trans people harm. You have to actually DO stuff to protect us. 36918
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialDropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 26/04/2026remember: everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. you are being being excluded from the battle. we think you’re a loser. 4498114
ishmaelwinter.bsky.social @ishmaelwinter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026The reason I’m immediately posting political shit on my author account is being trans right now is inescapably political, and writing trans stories, more so. The policy PhD is probably a factor too. 😅 000
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialRobert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 24/04/2026If you squint real hard you can see the exact moment when our cat jumped on the bed and meowed directly into my ear last night 294094584
Reposted by ishmaelwinter.bsky.socialPestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings. 411220324589