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John Kuempel

@johnkuempel.bsky.social
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I just backed Apex Magazine 2026 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A photograph of Noam Chomsky sitting in front of a desk covered in stacks of books. Below is a quote:
I don't know what word in the English language --I can't find one-- applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets. 

The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it. 

- Noam Chomsky
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E.L. Redwine @elredwine.com · 16/07/2025
💔 @cailleachan.bsky.social @poetisabella.bsky.social @cindyread.bsky.social @dkellogglewis.bsky.social @katenauthor.bsky.social @carladodd.bsky.social @johnkuempel.bsky.social @talentedasiangf.bsky.social @authormichaeloka.bsky.social
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Social media post from @ryanaboyd:
It's sure weird how depression and anxiety are huge problems for young people in a society where everything costs more every year and every single human act gets monetized, on a planet that is boiling alive, must be a coincidence
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I know I'm a nerd, 'cause this cracked my shit up
An image of a large monster with tentacles and a person, looking very small by comparison. Below is the following text: 

Surging from the sea, Cthulhu grabs you with the smallest of his gargantuan tentacles, holds you to his hideously huge maw and whispers: 

Its pronounced "Choo-Choo-Loy," cause I like trains.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I agree it's gotten a bit ridiculous lately www.pastemagazine.com/books/publis...
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Sprayed Edges Are Everywhere and I Hate Them
The trend of spayed edges is everywhere in publishing right now, particularly in the world of fantasy. Here's why that's not a great thing.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Social media post from @gramscifancam:
The human body evolved over hundreds of thousands of years so u can sit at a desk in a sterile cubicle and look at fake lights in a box and pretend u dont want to kill urself and if u can't focus on doing that for 9 hours a day 5 days a week that's a mental disorder
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A poster of Pip-Boy from the Fallout game series kicking the Monopoly Man with the following text: 
Refugees 
didn't take away affordable housing
Rich
Landlords
And greedy
Politicians DID
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A penguin wears a sandwich board, which reads:
BILLIONS IN PROFITS WHILE YOUR WORKERS CAN'T AFFORD HOUSING OR GROCERIES ISN'T SUCCESS, THAT'S CALLED EXPLORATION
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A person wearing a T-shirt with a space marine holding a mini-gun that reads: 
TRANS PEOPLE EXISTING DOES NOTHING NEGATIVE TO YOUR LIFE YOU CRYBABY BITCH
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/06/2025
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
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Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
WASHINGTON—Despite polls that show the American public overwhelmingly supports keeping the ancient burial chamber sealed, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday to pry open the evil tomb of Batibat, a ven...
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A camel in the desert being threaded through a large needle. A caption reads: 
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven."
- Some fucking communist
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Another entry in "who the hell asked for this?" solreader.com
solreader.com
Sol | Illuminate Your Mind
Sol is a reading technology company making tools to illuminate the mind.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
No kings- New York City! Phenomenal! #nokings #nyc #Newyork
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is amazing! news.mit.edu/2025/window-...
news.mit.edu
Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water
MIT engineers developed an atmospheric water harvester that captures water vapor and produces safe drinking water across a range of relative humidities, including dry desert air.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Comic of an older-looking, masc-presenting person pulling the waste band of the shorts of a younger-looking, fem-presenting person, looking down into the shorts and saying, "I'm inspecting your genitals to protect you from abuse."

There is a caption at the bottom that reads, "Republican anti-trans logic"
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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
If elected officials don't get on board with a general strike, If celebrities don't get on board with a general strike, If influencers don't get on board with a general strike, If folks with wealth and power and fame don't get on board with a general strike... WE DO IT ANYWAY.
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✨BelleChere✨🡲 Ragged Coast Pottery @bellechere.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I couldn't NOT do this.
A tabby cat that's meowing or yawning and reaching out towards the camera, looking generally surprised, has been photoshopped into the still from Die Hard where Hans Gruber is falling off Nakatomi Tower.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Wandering eye boyfriend meme:
The woman walking away is labeled, "Profit"
The boyfriend is labeled with a US flag.
The girlfriend is labeled, "People's fucking lives"
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Headline from The Onion for Monday, June 9, 2025:
Protestors Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Well, there goes the Fuck ICE and ACAB… *squints* …Cybertruck? www.tiktok.com/@lukecchueh/...
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
A sign on a window reads, "DO NOT OPEN THE WINDOW MORE THAN A CRACK (GEESE TRYING TO ENTER)".
The head of a Canada goose peeps up from the bottom.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Closeup: A real crab appears to hold a lit cigarette to its mouth while resting upon a steel pier. Above is is the following text:
ah, ze weekénd
she is beautiful, no? 
and yet, she can never be yours
for when you feel zat she will stay with you forever
alas, she is already gone~
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
A meme using a scene from Futurama. There are two cells, one on top of the other.

In the top cell is a man with bushy eyebrows in a brown suit with a red tie standing in what appears to be a park. He's saying, "Do you really want girls to compete against trans athletes for scholarships?"

In the bottom cell, Lela wears a gray baseball uniform with a mitt on her left hand. A baseball diamond is behind her. She responds, "Of course not! Education should be free."
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I'm noticing a pattern in voting blocs 🤔
A map of the United States with the percentage of union membership in each state for the year 2023.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
❤️
Social post from @melatoninlau:
western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.
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⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Harvest Time #Art by Molly Has a Chainsaw
Reaper in a field
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is bananas 🍌
Two photos of a handheld crossbow from different angles. It looks like a pistol with a small, backwards bow welded onto the barrel and a steel arrow sticking out of the barrel. 
At the top of the image is the following text: 
The "Little Joe" crossbow, was used by British Commandos during WWII for missions where even a suppressed pistol was too loud.
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Here are some actionable suggestions if publishers want to actually help Black and Brown writers (rather than some publicity stunt that helps one or two people, gives a pat on the head to the publisher, and does nothing for anybody else). 1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Headline from The Onion that reads: Lack Of Media Interest Makes Genocide Cover-Up Unnecessary. Published September 13, 2011.
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E.L. Redwine @elredwine.com · 01/05/2025
How long before they come for you?
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Cédric Mas @cedricmas.eurosky.social · 30/04/2025
Good Night World
Un immense livre en train d’être brûlé par des petits personnages avec marqué « I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books »
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
On a wood panel background is a white, dotted line in the shape of an upside down egg. Inside the egg is white text that reads: TRUMP TAKE EGG.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Always. I don't know how he has so much energy at his age. And he's got arthritis? Yeah, right.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is my 15-year-old mini poodle, Duffy, hopping like a bunny at least half his age.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A photograph of a younger Noam Chomsky speaking with the following quote overlay:
Solidarity is quite dangerous; from the point of view of the masters, you're only supposed to care about yourself (and not other people).
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Remember: nothing is ever perfect except your delusions of grandeur. ... Until we meet again! reachyourapex.com/the-art-of-f...
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The Art of Finishing: Perfectionism  - REACH YOUR APEX
Strategies for tackling one of the four basic things that cause you to stop working on your projects.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
An image of Goldilocks eating porridge with the caption, "The first example of white privilege you learn about". Above is a comment with the image, posted by user @soulPhoodie: "And we were taught to be on her side like the bears were wrong for defending their home"
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Principia Discordia @principiadiscordia.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
PART FIVE: THE GOLDEN SECRET NONSENSE AS SALVATION The human race will begin solving it's problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously. "Automatic Collapse" from Holy Nonsense by Queen Gojira Pennyworth qgpennyworth.com/portfolio_ca...
The good guys do not automatically win. The evil empire does not magically collapse when their misdeeds are broadcast to the public. Things do not get better on their own. You have to work. Background: a pattern of black line optical illusion cubes fills the back of the page, with a large inky splatter or explosion at the center. A white rectangle contains the text, but the explosion is still faintly visible behind the words
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Elon Musk crying after dying of dysentery while playing Oregon Trail
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Her Majesty The Empress, Adria the First @starshipadria.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
What will it take for his staff to tell him enough is enough? Secret service? Chiefs of Staff? SOMEONE stop him already!
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I love this guy's newsletter. He's spot on about so the slop we have to suffer through everyday slate.com/technology/2...
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Think Chatbots Are Bad Now? You Have No Idea What’s Coming Next.
Ed Zitron is worried about the “future that tech’s elite wants to build,” and thinks you should be too.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
generalstrikeus.com
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The General Strike
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Unfortunately, most of them are either "true believers" or willing to do whatever it takes to get close to power themselves. He's purposely surrounded himself with "loyalists" this time around, and Congress refuses to check him.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Long, but Ed is always worth the read www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fi...
wheresyoured.at
What We're Fighting For
Soundtrack: Bad Religion — The Resist Stance A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the end of the world — watching as the growth-at-all-costs, hyper-financialized Rot Economy seemingly ta...
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"Oh? So you think you can write? NO. PETS. NOW."
Clyde, a black cat, glares at me from my lap because I'm trying to write instead of pet him.
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John Kuempel @johnkuempel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Daily Quote - February 03, 2025 When you think about citizen as a verb, it opens every action that we take to contribute to our ability to live together better. Baratunde Thurston @baratunde.com
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